When London based mid-wife Anna witnesses the death during childbirth of a young teenage mother, she resolves to find the baby's relatives. Unfortunately for all involved this unwittingly leads her into the brutal, merciless world of an Eastern European mafia, ruled with cold-hearted charm and pseudo-benevolence by restauranter Semyon, but it is the mysterious and lethal driver Nikolai, a man who will become either her saviour or her nemesis, who tantalises Anna with information. After their pre find out more...

A screwed-up runaway teenage girl accepts a lift from a Mr Nice Guy, but soon realises he's a notorious serial killer. Having left him for dead she is soon arrested and facing a lifetime in prison, escapes, only to meet the killer again. A high quality, brutally comic, thriller with attitude. Very dark and very good.

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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...

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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...

Corking, wise-cracking Cockney gangster caper set in London's sleazy underworld. Foul-mouthed in the extreme, "Lock, Stock" tells the sorry tale of Eddy (Nick Moran), a wanabee card-sharp who winds up well and truly shafted, owing half a million quid to somewhat volatile porn merchant Hatchet Harry. Roping in an assortment of dodgy cohorts, Eddy hits on a crazily cunning plan to come up with the readies before his dad (Sting) loses his livelihood. Hugely entertaining by virtue of its sheer energ find out more...

Max Payne is an NYPD police detective who has been unable to focus on a case or connect with another human being since the brutal murder of his wife and child. When Max's police ID is found next to a beautiful corpse he suddenly finds himself directly involved in the dark underworld that is somehow linked to the murder of his family. His only clues are a winged tattoo and a new and highly addictive street drug which causes terrifying and nightmarish hallucinations. The deeper Max digs, the more find out more...

Nick Tellis, a narcotics officer on suspension, is man who's become so tightly rapped in his job that his personal life is about to make a determined run for freedom before he kills it. After the death of an under- cover detective Nick is offered the chance to team up with the dead man's partner, Henry Oak, a tough on the edge copper, whose police work follows the motto "The means justify the ends". Together these two mismatched men hunt for a cop killer, but when nobody is telling the whole tru find out more...

A superb modern thriller in the ultra-hardboiled Jim Thompson mould, in which a trio of criminals, wanted for a brutally murderous drugs heist, converge on a small, quiet Arkansas township where the local cop, treated with contempt by the LA officers in charge of the case, looks forward to a High Noon-style showdown. The asides on racial and sexual inequality are made subtly and succinctly; the performances and pacing are nigh perfect; the violence is explicit, disturbing but never gratuitous; a find out more...

Mayhem-filled road movie from the director of "Accion Mutante" and "Day of the Beast". Perdita Durango (Rosie Perez) likes to live life on the edge, and that's putting it mildly. Together with her psychic drug-dealer lover Romeo, kidnapping, frenzied sex and demonic rituals are all in a day's work for the brunette bombshell. When they're hired by the Mafia to do a "delivery", there's no stopping this crazy couple in their quest to become the most over-the-top outlaws in Mexico. Completely nuts. find out more...