19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother's undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe.

City by the Sea

2002

English

6.1

♡ 13

49%

Michael Caton-Jones Director

James Franco as Joey

Linda Emond as Margery

Brian Tarantina as Snake

Robert De Niro as Vincent LaMarca

Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but then makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime.

The Souvenir

2019

English

♡ 46

90%

semi autobiographical

woman director

Joanna Hogg Director

Tom Burke as Anthony

Lydia Fox as Lydia

Tosin Cole as Phil

Tilda Swinton as Rosalind

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

Action Jackson

1988

English

5.6

♡ 47

19%

Craig R. Baxley Director

James Lew as Martial Arts Instructor

Roger Aaron Brown as Officer Lack

Sharon Stone as Patrice Dellaplane

Miguel A. Núñez Jr. as Poolroom Thug #1

Vengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

2007

English

7.3

♡ 34

89%

Sidney Lumet Director

Michael Shannon as Dex

Marisa Tomei as Gina

Ethan Hawke as Hank

Adrian Martinez as Security Guard

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.

All Is Forgiven

2007

French

6.7

♡ 2

60%

father daughter relationship

father daughter reunion

teenage girl

woman director

Mia Hansen-Løve Director

Marie-Christine Friedrich as Annette

Billie Blain as Enfant en Corrèze

Franz Buchrieser as Fritz

Olivia Ross as Gisèle

A father and daughter are reunited some 11 years after the father's drug addiction tore the family apart.

North by Current

2021

English

6.3

92%

Angelo Madsen Minax Director

Angelo Madsen Minax as

Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit. Using the audio-visual approaches of essay film, first-person cinema vérité, staged actions, and decades of home movies, Madsen navigates a town steeped in opioid addiction, economic depression, and religious fervor, while using the act of filmmaking to rebuild familial bonds and reimagine justice. Posing empathy as a tool for creating a more just world, North By Current does not seek to investigate a crime, but creates a relentless portrait of an enduring pastoral family, poised to reframe and reimagine narratives about incarceration, addiction, trans embodiment, and ruralness.

Fögi Is a Bastard

1998

French

6.5

♡ 7

Marcel Gisler Director

Mirjam Hoffmann as Daniela

Frédéric Andrau as Fögi

Michel Weder as Le vieil homme / Old man

Joseph Schätti as Tiger

15-year-old Beni falls in love with Fögi, a singer in a Rock band. As Fögi seduces him, he is only willing to follow him where ever Fögi wants to. But Fögi is a drug addict and pulls Beni deeper and deeper into the hell of drug addiction.

Alien Private Eye

1989

English

4.3

♡ 5

Vik Rubenfeld Director

Leeann Lee as Electra

Nur Nur Cummings as Rob

John Alexander as Scama

Vel Omarr as T-Bone

An alien sent to Earth to retrieve a drug that was sent here on a black disc has to fight her race's enemies, who are also on Earth to search for the drug.

High Life

2009

English

6.0

♡ 3

83%

Gary Yates Director

Rossif Sutherland as Billy

Timothy Olyphant as Dick

Joe Anderson as Donnie

Mark McKinney as Jeremy

It's 1983, and hopeless junkie Dick gets an unwelcome visit from the past - his seriously sleazy former cellmate, Bug, to be precise. Bug requires a crash course in the 80s: different music, different drugs, and machines in walls that dispense money. The latter development gives Dick an idea.

The Connection

1961

English

7.0

♡ 1

95%

Shirley Clarke Director

Garry Goodrow as Ernie

William Redfield as Jim Dunn

Roscoe Lee Browne as J. J. Burden

Barbara Winchester as Sister Salvation

A title card announces that the film is a result of found footage assembled by cameraman J.J. Burden working for the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jim Dunn, who has disappeared. Leach, a heroin addict, introduces the audience to his apartment where other heroin addicts, a mix of current and former jazz musicians, are waiting for Cowboy, their drug connection, to appear. Things go out of control as the men grow increasingly nervous and the cameraman keeps recording.

Lightning Fists of Shaolin

1984

Cn

6.5

♡ 12

56%

Chia Tang Director

Elvis Tsui as

Wah Yuen as

Tau Wan Yue as

Phillip Ko as Golden Silk Cat

A small town is protected by one of the famous Ten Tigers of Kwangtung. The town is very safe as Ti Lung and his Kung Fu students patrol for criminals. Enter the rival Kung Fu school whom Ti Lung's students have beaten in a lion dance competition and then humiliated in a brawl. The rival school is joined by an opium dealing Kung Fu master who plans to turn the town into a community of addicts!

Faya Dayi

2021

Oromo

6.8

♡ 8

97%

Jessica Beshir Director

DJ Express as

Kawa Sherif as Kawa Sherif

Murano Mlbb as Murano

Salih Sigirci as Salih

A spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar, immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for centuries for religious meditations – and Ethiopia’s most lucrative cash crop today. A tapestry of intimate stories offers a window into the dreams of youth under a repressive regime.

The Scapegoat

1959

English

6.8

♡ 3

50%

Robert Hamer Director

Bette Davis as Countess

Geoffrey Keen as Gaston

Sam Kydd as Man

Harold Kasket as (uncredited)

An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

The Girl from the Wardrobe

2012

Polish

6.7

♡ 2

Bodo Kox Director

Sebastian Stankiewicz as Andrzej

Magdalena Poplawska as Anna

Marcin Kowalczyk as Irate Man

Marcela Stanko as Weronika

This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage.

What Doesn't Kill You

2008

English

6.5

♡ 14

66%

Brian Goodman Director

Chris Palermo as Bar Patron

Mark Ruffalo as Brian Reilly

Ethan Hawke as Paulie McDougan

Amanda Peet as Stacy Reilly

Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.

Nam Pu

1984

Thai

7.5

♡ 1

Biography

Drama

drug addiction

Euthana Mukdasanit Director

Rewat Buddhinan as

Wasamon Watharodom as

Amphol Lumpoon as Nam Pu

Patravadi Mejudhon as Suwannee Sukontha

The story as told by his mother of an eighteen year old boy who falls into a life of drugs and violence and of the consequences to himself and those around him.

Real

2017

Korean

4.6

♡ 14

Action

dissociative identity disorder

Love Lee Director

IU as Awards ceremony guide

Soo-hyun Kim as Jang Tae-young

Ji Eun-seo as Secret room club addict Suzy

Suzy as Tattooist

Jang Tae-Young is a popular trouble shooter in the criminal world. He is cold and ambitious. He dreams of building a casino hotel one day. A reporter then goes to Jang Tae-Young.

A Tale of Two Sisters

2003

Korean

7.1

♡ 89

86%

Jee-woon Kim Director

Ae-ri Won as Closet Ghost / Nurse 1

Seong-Young Kim as Nurse 2

Song-i Kim as Young Soo-mi

Seo-in Park as Young Soo-yeon

Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.

Never Die Young

6.5

Pol Cruchten Director

Laurence Côte as Female

Raphaël Faramelli as La mort

Marc Gérard as L'homme nu

Nilton Martins as Un policier

An unnamed man narrates the downward trajectory of his life from beyond the grave, from delinquency to the string of fateful decisions and foolhardy moves that tied him inextricably to the opiate that was the elusive love of his life.

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