Frailty 2001

Frailty 2001

Frailty 2001
R | 1h 40min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 12 April 2002 (USA)

Storyline:

FBI agent Wesley Doyle is startled by the spontaneous declaration of youngster Fenton Meiks about how his father’s delusions to have a divine mission as avenging angel required him and his brother Adam to become his ‘demon-slaying’ murder accomplices. But when Doyle accepts to be shown concealed victim graves, the plot twists in the present just as gruesomely.

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Cronicamente Inviavel 2000

Cronicamente Inviavel 2000

Cronicamente Inviavel 2000
Cronicamente Inviável (original title)
1h 41min | Crime, Drama | 10 August 2000 (Switzerland)

Storyline:

Dissection of Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political and sociological theses.

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Street Warriors 1977

Street Warriors 1977

Street Warriors 1977
Perros callejeros (original title)
1h 43min | Action, Crime, Drama | 1982 (Italy)

Storyline:

A gang of fifteen-year-old living in the suburbs of Barcelona have specialized in car theft. With that cars they are engaged in giving the “pull”, storming shops to sell goods and attack couples in secluded places in order to rob them and abuse women. Sometimes caught red-handed, they are persecuted by the police; To escape, they invade the road, circulate in the opposite direction and skip controls, sometimes resulting badly injured.

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You Can’t Escape Lithuania 2016

You Can't Escape Lithuania 2016

You Can’t Escape Lithuania 2016
Nuo Lietuvos nepabegsi (original title)
1h 20min | Crime, Drama | 18 November 2016 (Lithuania)

Storyline:

After his star actress, Indre, murders her mother, rich-kid filmmaker Romas plans her escape from Lithuania. His Mexican boyfriend Carlos helps them reluctantly. On the road, Romas begins shooting an improvised experimental film. As events take an unexpected turn, their secrets, memories and emotions make this journey wilder than any film Romas could have imagined.

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The Rebellion of Red Maria 2011

The Rebellion of Red Maria 2011

The Rebellion of Red Maria 2011
I antarsia tis kokkinis Marias (2011)
1h 35min | Crime, Drama | 3 November 2011 (Argentina)

Storyline:

In a city – with heavy metal music haunting the heroes and the voice of Maria Callas being heard, an aged man, ex-terrorist, who dresses like a woman, the “red Maria”, lives without any law and is hiding in the social shadows as a prostitute and performer, dancing in the streets, old and out-dated dances, for the passersby who give him money. In the street he meets a young boy, who lives there as a street urchin, at deaths door after a neo-fascists attack. The boy, alcohol addicted, hears the voice of Maria Callas, speaks with the dead diva, with the mother he misses. In overdose he dreams of the perfect world. “Red Maria” saves the boy and teaches him the “job”. In order to survive they invade cafes, giving performances that talk for a new, political God, for the political mistake of God, for the end of the ideology. Their world is magical, poetical. And wild. “Red Maria” teaches the boy how to survive. Together they become the magician of the tribe, the holy fool, the rebel. They live a magical personal revolution. But a number of murders will change “Red Maria” and the boy from ideologists, into serial killers.

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Tenderness of the Wolves 1973

Tenderness of the Wolves 1973

Tenderness of the Wolves 1973

Tenderness of the Wolves 1973
Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (original title)
1h 22min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 12 July 1973 (West Germany)

Storyline:

Story of a gay serial killer who murders young boys so he can serve them as dinner to his circle of fellow cannibals.

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Starred Up 2013

Starred Up 2013

Starred Up 2013
1h 46min | Crime, Drama | 21 March 2014 (UK)

Storyline:

Eric Love is a 19 year old teenager who is so violent he has been ‘Starred Up’ (Moved to Adult prison) where he finds his father Neville who Eric hasn’t seen since he was 5 (since he was put into care). Neville tries to get Eric to settle down, so Eric gets a chance to go through therapy with Oliver.

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Running on Empty 1988

Running on Empty 1988

Running on Empty 1988
1h 56min | Crime, Drama, Music | 9 September 1988 (USA)

Storyline:

The Popes are a family who haven’t been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government’s Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Today, their eldest son wants a life of his own although he is aware that would mean that his parents would either get caught or he will never see them again.

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