Shoot the Messenger follows one man's painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his community challenged.

Medusa Deluxe

2022

English

6.1

♡ 3

72%

Thomas Hardiman Director

Luke Pasqualino as Angel

Clare Perkins as Cleve

Kae Alexander as Inez

Darrell D'Silva as Rene

Talented and cutthroat hairstylists at a competition find one of their own murdered before judging can begin. Winding through neon-lit halls, competitors unspool long-simmering resentments and lies as they search for the killer among them.

Bullet Boy

2004

English

6.5

♡ 1

72%

Action

Drama

Saul Dibb Director

Clare Perkins as Beverley

Jaime Winstone as Natalie

Louise Delamere as Probation Officer

Ashley Walters as Ricky

Ricky is just out of a young offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when he becomes involved in a street confrontation, siding with his best friend Wisdom against a local rude boy. The trouble escalates into a series of tit-for-tat incidents that threaten to spiral out of control. Ricky's 12-year-old brother Curtis, hero-worships Ricky, though he appears smart enough to know he doesn't want to follow his example. Yet, despite the stern warnings from his mother and support from her friends in the community, might Ricky's bad boy allure be too attractive for Curtis to resist?

Ladybird Ladybird

1994

English

7.4

♡ 5

80%

Ken Loach Director

Clare Perkins as Jill

Bruce Alexander as Lawyer

Ray Winstone as Simon

Terence Maynard as Social Worker

Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still haunts her.

7 Lives

2011

English

3.4

♡ 3

Fantasy

Thriller

Paul Wilkins Director

Kate Ashfield as Cynthia

Theo Barklem-Biggs as Kid

Clare Perkins as Kids Mum

Nick Brimble as Ted

A disgruntled married man called Tom believes that there is a better life for him out there somewhere. On his way home one night he gets attacked and falls into a parallel world where he lives 6 other lives including a Rock-Star, A homeless person and the 'hoody' that attacked him. These lives help him to re-evaluate his priorities and values but in order to get home he must face some of his deepest fears and desires. Will he make it home or is the grass greener on the other side?

Censor

2021

English

5.9

♡ 87

89%

56%

Action

anonymous telephone call

Prano Bailey-Bond Director

Clare Perkins as Anne

Niamh Algar as Enid Baines

Richard Glover as Gerald

Nicholas Burns as Sanderson

A screener at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films, begins to spiral out of control after viewing a low-budget horror with similarities to the disappearance of her sister.

Secrets & Lies

1996

English

8.0

♡ 41

95%

parent child relationship

reunion

secret

socially deprived family

Mike Leigh Director

Alison Steadman as Dog Owner

Clare Perkins as Hortense's Sister-in-Law

Phyllis Logan as Monica Purley

Lesley Manville as Social Worker

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.

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