We follow the everyday travails of a group of WW2 French resistance fighters in Marseille, including their engineer leader and a middle-aged woman who sets up anti-German attacks without telling her husband or daughter, as they do battle against the occupying Nazis, collaborators and traitors in their own camp. This tense and atmospheric classic, based partly on Joseph Kessel's novel and partly on Melville's own experiences as a resistance fighter who later escaped France to join the Free French find out more...

A crackingly realised biog of a man who relentlessly dodged death with a cocky ambivalence that frankly defies credulity. 'Mesrine' is stylishly shot, smoothly directed and perfectly, charmingly, sociopathically performed by Cassell. A tight, pacey thriller considerably enhanced by the fact that it's based in, well…fact. This first film takes us from his brutal initiation as a soldier during the horrors of Algeria's fight for liberation to the end of the 1960s via France and French Canada. find out more...

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A powerful dramatisation of Stan 'Tookie' Williams, the leader of infamous find out more...

On her 21st birthday, Treasure is transferred from a youth correctional facility to the state penitentiary. A gang member who's been in trouble with the law for most of her life, Treasure is prepared to tough out the brutal regime inside because it's her dearest wish to meet her mother, Brownie, a lifer on Unit A. Stranger Inside is a powerful, occasionally disturbing, but also powerful human drama. find out more...

A drama of a man, whose coldblooded ruthlessness and brilliance has earned him the nickname 'The Professor', who, while in prison for murder, sets out to take control of all the extortion rackets in Naples. A harsh, gritty and brutal thriller. The story is vaguely inspired by Raffaele Cutolo, boss of the Camorra's bosses. find out more...