Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?
Well-received version of an extremely familiar morality tale.

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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...

Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá, a former drug-dealer, turns social revolutionary in one of Rio de Janeiro's most feared slums. Through music, the rhythms of the street and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent life offered by the drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. But even as liberation looms trage 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...

Irish Sicilian Henry Hill always wanted to be a gangster and from running errands as a small boy, he graduates to becoming a trusted member of the "family". A stunning, violent and essential portrait of the Mafia's intimate details. An award winning film, superbly crafted by Scorsese. find out more...

Djay is a small time pimp listlessly hustling his main girl Nola and dreaming of a less ugly existence. When DJay meets an old school friend he is immediately smitten by the opportunity for escape� the chance to make his name as a rapper. With the imminent arrival of an urban music producer DJay knows his one way out is to do what he does best�make the hustle. Hustle And Flow is not an original tale but it's elevated by some tight, spare, unsentimental direction and an Oscar nominated perfor 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...

A Trenchtown variant on Robin Hood with Rasta drummer Horsemouth taking on the local minor league Mafia - but that's not what this cult Jamaican classic's about. It's Rastas, ganja and reggae, and it's still cool after all these years. With a soundtrack including Burning Spear, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Third World, Jacob Miller and The Inner Circle, The Heptones, Gregory Isaacs, Junior Murvin and the Abyssinians. find out more...

The fact that this highly successful hip movie attracted attention because the hero, and much of the cast, was black, then a ground-breaking event in American film, shouldn't distract from the fact that it was also a high quality private eye flick with a great music score from Isaac Hayes. With some of the most amazing flared trousers to ever be seen the film now looks a classic period piece. To be watched. find out more...

One of the most successful blaxploitation movies of the 70s; Priest decides to sink everything into one big deal, the one that will get him out of the urban-poverty-crime nightmare. Harlem and its people are authentically depicted and both the action sequences and Curtis Mayfield's score are excellent. find out more...