A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.

Wicker Park

2004

English

6.9

♡ 50

27%

Paul McGuigan Director

Rose Byrne as Alex

Mark Camacho as Bartender

Matthew Lillard as Luke

Mary Morter as Old Lady

Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day.

Gangster No. 1

2000

English

6.7

♡ 16

71%

Paul McGuigan Director

Johnny Harris as Derek

David Thewlis as Freddie Mays

João Costa Menezes as Witness

Paul Bettany as Young Gangster

An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.

The Reckoning

2003

English

6.4

♡ 6

Action

based on novel or book

Paul McGuigan Director

Vincent Cassel as Lord De Guise

Willem Dafoe as Martin

Paul Bettany as Nicholas

Tom Hardy as Straw

In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors now stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

2017

English

6.7

♡ 17

81%

68%

1970s

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

Paul McGuigan Director

Julie Walters as Bella Turner

Gloria Grahame as Herself

Stephen Graham as Joe Turner, jr.

Jamie Bell as Peter Turner

Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.

Lucky Number Slevin

2006

English

7.7

♡ 119

52%

Paul McGuigan Director

Peter Outerbridge as Dumbrowski

Lucy Liu as Lindsey

Bruce Willis as Mr. Goodkat

Morgan Freeman as The Boss

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.

Push

2009

English

6.1

♡ 159

23%

secret government organization

Thriller

Paul McGuigan Director

Dakota Fanning as Cassie Holmes

Ming-Na Wen as Emily Wu

Chris Evans as Nick Gant

Joel Gretsch as Nick's Father

After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.