Hard hitting but little known movies (14 titles)
Some films that I think pack quite a punch but never quite made it to the general public
82.8% from 7 members
Series 7 - The Contenders
Even i would watch Big Brother if it was like this
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Series 7 - The Contenders
(2001)
Starring: Brooke Smith, Glenn Fitzgerald, Michael Kaycheck
Director: Daniel Minahan
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SERIES 7: THE CONTENDERS consists of six episodes of a fictional television game show called The Contenders. On the show, non-actors are given handguns, quickly explained the very basic rules (kill the other contestants) and told to "play," with a goal of winning by staying alive. Ultraviolent and ..read more »
Not currently released
60%
from 709 members
One False Move
A great thriller from the first 5 gut wrenching minutes to the final showdown
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One False Move
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Bill Paxton, Cynda Williams, Michael Beach
Director: Carl Franklin
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African-American director Carl Franklin's ONE FALSE MOVE presents itself as a crime thriller, but upon deeper inspection reveals itself to be a thought-provoking drama concerning racism and racial identity. After stealing a large stash of cocaine and brutally murdering several people in the process,..read more »
60%
from 626 members
Sonatine
'Beat' Takeshi is The Man accept no substitutes
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Sonatine
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, Ren Osugi, Susumu Terajima
Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
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In Takeshi Kitano's SONATINE, a Tokyo-based yakuza boss sends Murakawa (Kitano), one of his top men, on a peacekeeping mission to Okinawa, where two rival factions are coming to blows. Murakawa is naturally suspicious of the volatile situation and decides to lay low for a few days on a secluded ..read more »
66%
from 3,621 members
Hard Boiled
Shoot outs as choregraphed by the Royal Ballet
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Hard Boiled
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Tony Leung, Chow Yun-Fat, Philip Chan
Director: John Woo
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When a tough police officer's (Chow Yun-Fat) partner is brutally murdered, he joins forces with another loose-cannon cop (Tony Leung) to exact his own bloody revenge on the gun-smuggling gangsters responsible for his friend's death. A lot of action, guns, and violence, all masterfully rendered by ..read more »
67%
from 8,059 members
Ardh Satya
A decent policeman fights against the corruption around and with himself
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Ardh Satya
(1983)
Starring: Om Puri, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri
Director: Govind Nihalani
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Anant Welankar (Om Puri) is an ethically strait-laced Bombay police officer who reluctantly joined the force at his father's instigation. Once working in the precinct, Anant learns about bribery as it seems that Rama Shetty (Sadashiv Amrapurkar), a well-known political aspirant known to be involved ..read more »
Not currently released
62%
from 128 members
Following
Before the tricksy Memento there was this hard thriller
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Following
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell
Director: Christopher Nolan
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Bill (Jeremy Theobald) is in trouble. He's a writer who, when bored with pounding the keys on his Remington, goes into the streets to follow people. He becomes so obsessed with following them that he has set up rules--like not following them when he discovers where they live or work. Then, one day, ..read more »
63%
from 2,476 members
Internal Affairs
Richard Gere CAN act, watch this and be charmed and afraid
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Internal Affairs
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Nancy Travis
Director: Mike Figgis
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
The plot of INTERNAL AFFAIRS is simple and familiar--good guy Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia) works for the internal affairs division of the LAPD and has to take down Dennis Peck (Richard Gere), a corrupt officer. The twist is that the film is really about social change in America. Gere plays Peck as ..read more »
63%
from 1,761 member
Exotica
Only Atom Egoyan could combine a crime/romance/drama/psychological thriller based around a strip club and pull the story strands tightly together along with your heartstrings
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Exotica
Starring: Mia Kirshner, Bruce Greenwood, Arsinee Khanjian
Director: Atom Egoyan
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In a world of temptation, obsession is the deadliest desire.
Not available for rental
44%
from 2,538 members
Salvador
Oliver Stone when he had something to say
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Salvador
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: James Woods, James Belushi, John Savage
Director: Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone's first overtly political film, SALVADOR is a passionate protest against the savagery unleashed by fascist thugs in El Salvador during the early 1980s with the complicity of the U.S. government. It stars James Woods as combat photojournalist Richard Boyle, an erratic, cynical character ..read more »
68%
from 2,806 members
Man Bites Dog
A black comedy of where reality tv/documentaries will draw the line to get footage
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Man Bites Dog
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde
Director: Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde
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A documentary crew is fascinated by the charismatic, unrepentant serial killer whose crimes they set out to objectively chronicle. But as the violence escalates, they become more and more complicit in his shocking actions. A disturbingly low-key satire of the connection between violence and the media.
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from 4,630 members
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