There will be plot developments involving kidnap, the loot as ransom and a gunfight but those are really just the action icing on the cake of what is, at heart, a character study and a dissection of friendship.
After a bullion heist, two gangsters face a test of friendship when one of them is kidnapped.
Skins star Jack O'Connell burns up the screen as an initially reprehensible chav terror, all wide-boy grimaces and in-your-face intensity, his gradual evolution into honorable pack-leader etched with care and nuance where it could have been clumsy and cli
The life and times of the last occupants of Tower Block 31.
The Town sets aside stylish thriller tropes in favour of realism, which makes the action scenes a lot more visceral and the characters rougher round the edges.
Events spiral out of control after a bank robber falls for a woman he has previously held hostage.
A Town Called Panic is a truly postmodern concoction, where, along with the village's properties, narrative norms are deconstructed brick by brick, as free associations and visual gags come thick and fast, offering a surreal jaunt through toy town.
Three friends pursue thieves to the centre of the Earth and beyond in this animated adventure.
Between its central mystery and its assault on the senses, Town In A Lake is a film that sets out to consume the viewer.
When a teenage girl is found murdered, a search begins. A local father who saw her and a friend approached there by strangers wonders whether or not he should speak up.
Although the performances are uniformly pitch-perfect Julie Depardieu (centre) shines out as Hélène.
Loosely based on the story of the director's mother who, years after being in Auschwitz decided to track down two women she had befriended in the camp.
We likewise learn little directly about the women's lives after they have finished their service, other than what they wish to tell us. And it is here that the genius of the film is most in evidence.
Candid revelations about things seen and done in the Israeli military.
Once again, Malick tackles the big themes full on – love, the nature of creation and creativity, the relationship of Man to God, and of humanity to the environment – and reaches what seems to me a pretty pessimistic conclusion.
A young couple – one French, one American – try to keep their relationship alive across two continents.
Loud, colourful, facetious and painstakingly shallow, Tragedy Girls perfectly captures the high school movie vibe.
High school seniors McKayla and Sadie are obsessed with their social media presence as authorities on crime - the only trouble is, they're the hands-on type.
O'Brien is bold in his approach and unafraid of risk-taking, choices that offer a clear-sighted window into his world for those of us lucky enough to have full health and a rallying call to others experiencing this condition from within.
One increasingly unlikely incident follows another, saddling the characters with exceptionally dumb behaviour and silly dialogue until the whole thing goes off the rails.
The landscape plays a major role in this movie, with its bleak, open spaces, adding to the feeling that the characters and their emotions are curiously incidental.
The picaresque adventures of a pregnant Italian in rural Romania.
There is anger and anarchy at the heart of Chytilová's film, which suggests the impotence of women to do anything about a male dominated society is the cruelest cut of all.
A vet exacts revenge on a pair of rapists... but all of them have to live with the consequences.
The film is a purely visceral experience, which by and large does everything it sets out to do – repel, amuse, horrify, bore – with a sickening but punk-rock panache.
A group of elderly people film themselves fornicating with the debris of society.
Too American to really succeed as a giallo, yet too European and personal to work as an American slasher in the Friday the 13th mould, Trauma is neither one thing nor the other.
Italian horror maestro Dario Argento's American venture.
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