With the swimming pools, drugs, girls and parties come a bunch of spoilt young brats who seem to take their cues from 'American History X' and black inner city gangster movies. They tattoo themselves, build their bodies, call their girls bitches, sell drugs, fight and use guns. Violence, drugs, language, this movie has them in bucketloads, even sex raises its head. Plotwise; headcase Jake owes lots of drug money to drug lord's son John and John kidnaps Jake's younger brother as a hostage. Kid br find out more...

Inside this conventionally structured biopic resides an extraordinary story of an extraordinary man. William Wilberforce was the parliamentary spokesman for a group of radicalised young Evangelists (and Quakers), who despised the money politics and corruption of late 18th Century UK politics and who fought for many reformist policies, the most notable of which was the one this film annotates, the abolition of slavery, a process that took years of political skulduggery and the slow passage of find out more...

1970s; Harlem hood Frank Lucas has hijacked the New York heroin business by dealing directly with the Chinese growers in SE Asia and importing large amounts of the drug inside the caskets of soldiers killed in Vietnam. However his nemesis, flamboyant, tenacious and unbribable narcotics cop Richie Roberts, is on his tail and is determined to bring him down. find out more...

Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
High production values and a fine ensemble cast: HBO knows how to do TV.

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David Schwimmer plays the man who launched a thousand centrefolds. As ground-breaking doc Kevin Saunders, who revolutionised cosmetic surgery by inventing the silicon implant, Schwimmer starts off as a fresh-faced, if profoundly irritating, young medic with very big ideas. Three decades later he's no less irritating and has a very big coke habit. A truly terrifying tale of greed and a total lack of ethics that left thousands of women with their breasts destroyed - a caveat for private medicine. find out more...

Bobby and Marty are best friends, they have been since they can remember, and now in their teens they drift through their uneventful jobs and lives in a drug fuelled haze, but when the two lads hook up with Ali and Lisa for a date on the beach everything begins to unravel. Bobby has a visciously possessive streak that verges on the psychotic and when he sees his childhood friend becoming distracted by someone other than himself, his rage at the loss of control is a terrifying sight to behold. "B find out more...

Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women who killed for him -- Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel and Susan Atkins -- remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader. Confined to an isolated cellblock, the trio seem destined to live out the rest of their lives under the delusion that their crimes we find out more...

A down-beat story of a 13-year-old Berliner, ignored by her mother, drifting into herion addiction and consequent prostitution. A fine soundtrack by her musical hero, David Bowie, accompanies this excellent, if somewhat depressing movie. find out more...

The cocaine trade of the 70s and 80s had an indelible impact on Miami turning the once sleepy retirement community into one of the world's most glamorous and nefarious cities. In "Cocaine Cowboys" we hear from some of the dealers, killers et al about the effect Colombia's Medellin cartel's $20 billion business had on the city. In particular we hear about Griselda Blanco, the Godmother of the business, a vicious psychopath whose feats helped turn Miami into the murder capital of North America. find out more...

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