Scum 1979 (TV version)
Scum 1979 (TV version)
1h 18m | Crime, Drama | 12 September 1979 (UK)
Storyline:
This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the ‘tough’ new inmate and the ‘old hands’.
Samaritan 2022
Samaritan 2022
1h 42m | Action, Drama, Fantasy | 26 August 2022 (USA)
Storyline:
Thirteen-year-old Sam Cleary (Javon “Wanna” Walton) suspects that his mysterious and reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith (Sylvester Stallone) is actually a legend hiding in plain sight. Twenty years ago, Granite City’s super-powered vigilante, Samaritan, was reported dead after a fiery warehouse battle with his rival, Nemesis. Most believe Samaritan perished in the fire, but some in the city, like Sam, have hope that he is still alive. With crime on the rise and the city on the brink of chaos, Sam makes it his mission to coax his neighbor out of hiding to save the city from ruin.
Dedalus 2018
Dedalus 2018
1h 32m | Drama | 20 October 2020 (USA)
Storyline:
DEDALUS is a fiction triptych portraying community, love, and loss. In rural Iowa, a grocery cashier watches helplessly as classmates conceal their act of sexual violence against his teenaged step-sister. Will she keep the child? A hustler tricks for food, shelter, and intimacy during a winter in New York City. A young woman takes him in, but nothing satiates his unrequited love for an older gay client. Mortality compels a father to leave his home in Los Angeles and move in with his daughter. Jonah Greenstein’s gorgeously shot feature debut laces loneliness with beauty to create a film of startling cinematic intimacy.
Lost in the Sun 2015
Lost in the Sun 2015
1h 35m | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5 November 2015 (USA)
Storyline:
The story of John, a small-time crook, who finds an unlikely accomplice in Louis, a newly-orphaned teenage boy. As their open-road adventure progresses and John drags the kid on a string of robberies, the pair forge an unexpected and powerful bond.
Exploited 2022
Exploited 2022
1h 21m | Thriller | 28 January 2022 (USA)
Storyline:
A college freshman becomes obsessed with the previous owner of his school issued laptop.
Choose Connor 2007
Choose Connor 2007
1h 49m | Drama | 12 October 2007 (USA)
Storyline:
Idealistic 15-year old Owen gets the chance of a lifetime to be the youth spokesman for U.S. Senate Candidate Lawrence Connor, only to be exploited in a fierce campaign of TV and radio ads, posters, interviews, and speaking engagements in the cut throat media-image-is-all world of American politics.
They/Them 2022
They/Them 2022
1h 44m | Horror, Thriller | 5 August 2022 (USA)
Storyline:
Whistler, a gay conversion camp, has been in operation by the same family going back generations. Currently the camp is operated by Owen Whistler and his wife, Dr. Cora Whistler, played by Kevin Bacon and Carrie Preston respectively. There’s a small staff of four, other than the Whistlers. An activities director named Amy, her gay-conversion camp alumni turned athletics director boyfriend Zane, the groundskeeper Balthazar, and Molly the camp counselor who uncovers the horrors of Whistler Camp at the bequest of camper Jordan. A fifth employee emerges as a decoy within the campers. Suddenly, employees are picked off in a murder streak by an unknown assailant.
The Black Phone 2021
The Black Phone 2021
1h 43m | Horror, Thriller | 24 June 2022 (USA)
Storyline:
Finney Blake is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of no use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead-set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
