Category
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Pulp Fiction
1994 film by Quentin Tarantino

Requiem for a Dream
2000 US film by Darren Aronofsky

Trainspotting
1996 film by Danny Boyle

Never Say Never Again
1983 film by Irvin Kershner

Ray
2004 American biographical musical drama film

The Brutalist
2024 film directed by Brady Corbet

The Basketball Diaries
1995 film by Scott Kalvert

Pain and Glory
2019 film directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Wild
2014 film by Jean-Marc Vallée

T2 Trainspotting
2017 film directed by Danny Boyle

Gia
Gia is a 1998 American biographical drama television film about the life and times of one of the first supermodels, Gia Carangi. The film stars Angelina Jolie as Gia and Faye Dunaway as Wilhelmina Cooper, with Mercedes Ruehl and Elizabeth Mitchell. It was directed by Michael Cristofer and written by Cristofer and Jay McInerney. The original music score was composed by Terence Blanchard. The film premiered on January 31, 1998, on HBO.

Evil Dead
2013 film directed by Fede Álvarez

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007 US film directed by Sidney Lumet

Riding in Cars with Boys
2001 film directed by Penny Marshall

Sid and Nancy
1986 film by Alex Cox

Christiane F.
1981 film by Uli Edel

Hillbilly Elegy
2020 film directed by Ron Howard

French Connection II
1975 film by John Frankenheimer

Bullet
1996 film directed by Julien Temple

The Panic in Needle Park
1971 film by Jerry Schatzberg

Until Death
2007 film by Simon Fellows

Drugstore Cowboy
1989 film by Gus Van Sant

The Man with the Golden Arm
1955 film directed by Otto Preminger

Candy
2006 film directed by Neil Armfield

Udta Punjab
2016 film directed by Abhishek Chaubey

The United States vs. Billie Holiday
2021 film directed by Lee Daniels

A Hatful of Rain
1957 film by Fred Zinnemann

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
1996 film by Srđan Dragojević

A Street Cat Named Bob
2016 film by Roger Spottiswoode

Submarino
Submarino is a 2010 Danish drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, starring Jakob Cedergren and Peter Plaugborg. It is based on the 2007 novel Submarino by Jonas T. Bengtsson, and focuses on two brothers on the bottom of Danish society, with lives marked by violence and drug addiction. The film was produced by Nimbus Film. As a condition from the financier TV 2, half of the cast and crew were novices, which the director enjoyed as it gave an experience similar to his earliest films.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2014 film by Ana Lily Amirpour

Things We Lost in the Fire
2007 film directed by Susanne Bier

Gridlock'd
'''''Gridlock'd''''' is a 1997 American crime black comedy drama film written and directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall (in his directorial debut film), and starring Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, Lucy Liu, and Thandiwe Newton. It follows two heroin addicts, who decide to kick the habit following the overdose of their bandmate. They confront the police and local criminals, while bureaucracy prevents them from entering a drug rehabilitation program. Curtis-Hall had a small role for the film. Shakur died four months before the film's release. The film's opening was relatively low, despite critical acclaim. It

Brokedown Palace
1999 film by Jonathan Kaplan

Sherrybaby
Sherrybaby is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Laurie Collyer. The film premiered in the Dramatic Competition at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2006 and received a limited release in the United States on September 8, 2006.

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1969 film by Barbet Schroeder

Clean
2004 film by Olivier Assayas

Born to Be Blue
2015 film by Robert Budreau

High Art
1998 film by Lisa Cholodenko

Nightwatch
1994 film directed by Ole Bornedal

The Dirt
2019 film directed by Jeff Tremaine

Protégé
2007 film by Derek Yee

Dushman Duniya Ka
1996 film by Mehmood Ali

Another Day in Paradise
1998 film directed by Larry Clark

Puppet on a Chain
1970 film by Geoffrey Reeve

El Cantante
2007 film directed by Leon Ichaso

The Souvenir
2019 film directed by Joanna Hogg

Georgia
1995 film by Ulu Grosbard

Permanent Midnight
1998 film by David Veloz

Out of the Blue
1980 film directed by Dennis Hopper

Contracted
2013 film by Eric England

American Pop
1981 animated film by Ralph Bakshi

Killer Nun
1979 film by Giulio Berruti

Trash
1970 film by Paul Morrissey

Low Down
2014 film directed by Jeff Preiss

6 Balloons
2018 film by Marja-Lewis Ryan

El pico
1983 film by Eloy de la Iglesia

Jennifer on My Mind
1971 film by Noel Black

Body Brokers
2021 film directed by John Swab

Monkey on My Back
1957 film by André de Toth