So Solid Crew's Asher D plays Ricky, just released from a young offender's institution and returning home to Hackney. Though promising himself he'll go straight, Ricky hasn't bargained on his old friends and affiliations, nor indeed considered the ever growing reliance on crime within his neighbourhood. Before long he has become ensnared in an escalating cycle of violence from which there seems no escape. Ricky's adoring young brother, on the other hand, has so far avoided his idol's path, but h find out more...

Lucky grows up in a South African township in the post-apartheid era and is caught between the desire to go university and the lure of easy money from violent crime.
A decade on an we see him as a struggling taxi-driver before his transformation into a businessman who uses violence to reclaim inner-city Joburg tenement blocks from the drug-dealers and hookers who inhabit them and from the rich white slum landlords who own them. Thus the ambitious gangster realises an aim of the revolution find out more...

Eight months after a disastrous job in Kiev left him physically and mentally scarred, ex-soldier turned contract killer, Jay, is pressured by his partner, Gal, into taking a new assignment. As they descend into the dark and disturbing world of the contract, Jay begins to unravel once again, his fear and paranoia sending him deep into the heart of darkness. An find out more...

Violently powerful picture of life in a New Zealand ghetto. Long suffering Beth is struggling to hold together some sort of semblance to family life. No easy task with a brutal drunken husband, a would-be gangster son and another child in care. Harrowing but gripping tale of strength and survival. find out more...

Tsotsi is a hard-faced young hoodie with no family ties and fewer scruples, ruthlessly killing those that he robs, but when he steals a car with a baby in it his human side starts to emerge. We watch an alternative possible life emerge, his loveless past of physical abuse gradually submerged by his new found awareness of both family life around him and his own humanity. But is it too late to save him from the consequences of his past crimes and is the violence really gone? An Oscar winning film find out more...