From their first encounter as teenagers in high school, Scott and Sid seem unlikely friends. Scott is a shambolic dreamer, intent on carving out his own path in life and holding up a metaphorical middle finger to anyone who tries to stop him. He is a quintessential troubled teen: on his fifth high school by the age of fifteen, alienated from his peers, crippled by recurring nightmares and disliked by his own foster parents. Sid, on the other hand, wants nothing more than to be liked. An unconfident, awkward recluse through circumstance, Sid's impoverished and dysfunctional background leave him no time for friends and no money for hobbies.

Start-Up

2019

Korean

6.5

♡ 18

Action

based on comic

based on webcomic or webtoon

Jeong-Yeol Choi Director

Dong-seok Ma as Geo-Seok

Kyung-ho Yoon as Kim Dong-Hwa

Kim Jong-soo as President Gong

Hae-In Jung as Woo Sang-Pil

Two boys are becoming real adults during a turbulent time as they experience a world that doesn't go their way.

Loan Shark

1952

English

6.4

♡ 1

15%

Seymour Friedman Director

George Raft as Joe Gargen

Paul Stewart as Lou Donelli

John Roy as Police Officer

Lawrence Dobkin as Walter Kerr

A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader and the factory owner try to recruit ex-con Joe Gargan to infiltrate to the gang. At first Joe does not want to get involved, but changes his mind when his brother-in-law dies at the hands of a savage loan shark hood. Joe works his way into the mob, but in order to keep his cover, Joe can't tell anyone what he is up to. This results in him being disowned by his sister and girl friend.

The Gambler

2014

English

6.0

♡ 88

43%

Rupert Wyatt Director

Sonya Walger as Angelina

John Goodman as Frank

Mark Wahlberg as Jim Bennett

Simon Rhee as Mister Lee's Heavy #2

Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.

Skip Tracer

1977

English

6.7

♡ 2

Zale Dalen Director

Colleen Winton as

Donald Adams as (as Don Adams)

Mark Acheson as Bob Sheldon

Stephen E. Miller as The Welder

An accomplished repo man from Vancouver takes a new hire under his wing, while their morals and limits are tested on the job.

Beasts Clawing at Straws

2020

Korean

7.0

♡ 24

94%

49%

Action

bag of money

based on novel or book

Kim Yong-Hoon Director

Shin Hyon Bin as Mi Ran

Yuh-Jung Youn as Soon-Ja

Do-yeon Jeon as Yeon-Hee

Kyung Jin as Young-Seon

A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark.

Starbuck

2011

French

♡ 5

64%

80%

Action

artificial insemination

Ken Scott Director

Daniel Desputeau as Employé #1 boucherie

Marie-France Lambert as Infirmétre intervante

Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse as Julie

Annie St-Pierre as Spécialiste #2

David Wozniak is a perpetual adolescent who discovers that, as a sperm donor, he has fathered 533 children. He is advised that more than 100 of his offspring are trying to force the fertility clinic to reveal the true identity of "Starbuck," the pseudonym he used when donating his sperm. To make matters worse, his girlfriend Valérie is pregnant with his child, but doesn't feel that he is mature enough to be a father.

Pawn

2020

Korean

7.6

♡ 21

71%

Dae-gyu Kang Director

Seong-ju Yoo as Choi Man-sik

Yoon Jong-goo as Factory manager

Yunjin Kim as Kang Ming-Ja

Ji-won Ha as Seung Yi

A debt collector who looks intimidating, but actually has a warm heart, ends up becoming the guardian of a child, who has been left behind as collateral by her illegal immigrant mother.

Breathless

2008

Korean

7.5

♡ 12

Ik-joon Yang Director

Byung-eun Park as Bar Customer

Man-sik Jeong as Man-sik

Kkobbi Kim as Yeon-hee

Hae-yeon Kil as Yeon-hee's Mother

Sang-hoon is a lowlife gangster, a debt collector exercising thuggish ways to collect his money. The recipient of nothing but anger since his childhood, he expresses himself through violence. When he finally encounters someone who can stand up to him, feisty school-girl Yoon-hee they become unlikely friends.