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A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Publisher: | Lionsgate |
Genres: | suspenseful, Drama, Thriller, Crime |
Rating: | 0 |
Production Companies: | Miramax, A Band Apart, Jersey Films |
Publication Date: | September 10, 1994 |
Budget: | $8,000,000 |
Runtime: | 154 |
Tagline: | Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character. |
User Score (votes): | 8.4 / 10 (12661) |
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Publisher: | Lionsgate |
Genres: | Art House, Crime, Drama |
Rating: | NR |
Production Companies: | Artisan Entertainment |
Publication Date: | October 6, 2000 |
Budget: | $4,500,000 |
Runtime: | 102 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (3980) |
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Publisher: | Warner Bros |
Genres: | Drama - Crime, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
Production Companies: | WV Films II, Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment, Outlaw Productions (I), Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | October 5, 2001 |
Budget: | $45,000,000 |
Runtime: | 122 |
Tagline: | The only thing more dangerous than the line being crossed, is the cop who will cross it. |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (2353) |
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Genres: | Drama, Adventure, Romance, Thriller |
Production Companies: | Figment Films |
Publication Date: | February 11, 2000 |
Budget: | $40,000,000 |
Runtime: | 119 |
Tagline: | Somewhere on this planet it must exist. |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (1927) |
Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the mercy of the state and its brainwashing
Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Genres: | Drama, Crime |
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater—fronted by lead guitar Russell Hammon
Genres: | Drama, Music |
Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with h
Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Drama |
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Genres: | Action, Thriller, Crime, Romance |
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a startling di
Genre: | Drama |
A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
Genres: | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, con
Genres: | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Genres: | Drama, Crime |
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel roo
Genres: | Thriller, Horror |
Mark Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Genres: | Thriller, Horror |
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their
Genres: | Thriller, Drama, Crime |
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps rea
Genres: | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller |
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum,but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a junkie who sl
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.
Genres: | Action, Comedy |
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pe
Genre: | Comedy |
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Comedy |
Bob Hughes is the leader of a "family" of drug addicts consisting of his wife, Dianne, and another couple who feed their habit by robbing drug stores as they travel across the country.
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
Genres: | Adventure, Drama |
A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him, and lead a better life outside NYC.
Genres: | Crime, Thriller |