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Lilya 4-ever(2002)

R
| 1h 49min | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 236 votes)

Lilja lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilja hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working as a prostitute, and later meets Andrei. He offers her a good job in Sweden, but when Lilja arrives her life quickly enters a downward spiral.

Directed by Lukas Moodysson - With Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharsky, Lyubov Agapova, Tõnu Kark, Elina Benenson, Pavel Ponomaryov, ...

Destroyer(2018)

R
| 2h 1min | Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
3.0/5 (with 308 votes)

When Erin Bell was a young cop, she was given an undercover assignment that ended badly and destroyed her life. Years later, she must face her demons in order to make peace with her past.

Directed by Karyn Kusama - With Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Stan, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Bradley Whitford, Jade Pettyjohn, ...
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Amy(2015)

R
| 2h 8min | Documentary, Music
3.8/5 (with 546 votes)

A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.

Directed by Asif Kapadia - With Amy Winehouse, Jonathan Ross, Janis Seaton, Mitch Winehouse, Bobby Womack, Mos Def, ...
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4.48(2014)

1h 28min | Drama
1.8/5 (with 6 votes)

In order to win over a tough dramatist at her next audition, a young actress turns to method acting to such an extreme that she slowly loses herself in the coveted role of a promiscuous bisexual self-destructive wild girl and starts sleeping around, provoking fights and cutting herself. Can she pull herself back from the edge of the abyss before it's too late?

Directed by Jacky Katu - With Aurélie Houguenade, Jean-Marie Galey, Ynda Rouya

The Temptation of St. Tony(2009)

1h 50min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being a good person questions his morality as he faces the challenges of middle age and loses control of his life.

Directed by Veiko Õunpuu - With Taavi Eelmaa, Denis Lavant, Katariina Unt

The Swerve(2018)

1h 36min | Thriller, Drama, Horror
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

The dark secrets of Holly's seemingly perfect life are exposed when an unwanted intruder spins her life out of control forever.

Sue(1998)

NR
| 1h 31min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

An unemployed ex-office worker searching for work floats a fragile line of sanity as she struggles to find friendship and companionship. Her tenuous grasp on reality further fluctuates when a man whom she met in a restaurant and started an affair with is called to go to India for an assignment. The final straw occurs when she is evicted and moves into a sleazy hotel. She then starts seeking casual sex in unorthodox locations just to have human contact.

Directed by Amos Kollek - With Anna Thomson, John Ventimiglia, Tahnee Welch, Tracee Ellis Ross

Murder Death Koreatown(2020)

1h 20min | Mystery, Horror, Crime
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

The bizarre found footage from an investigation into a true crime murder. An unemployed man's curiosity about his neighbor's murder warps into a conspiratorial obsession.

Sleepless Nights In Southland(2021)

18min | Drama

A young filmmaker slowly descends into madness after developing insomnia.

The Dishwasher(2023)

2h 7min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 1 vote)

Montreal, Winter 2002. Stéphane, 19 years old, fan of Metal, student in graphic design, dreams of becoming an illustrator. But for months he has been caught in a threatening spiral: he is addicted to games. Indebted, without an apartment, avoiding his friends to whom he owes money, Stéphane takes a job as a dishwasher in a restaurant in a major Italian restaurant in Montreal in order to get by. There, he will meet Bébert, a cook who burns the candle at both ends, and Greg, a waiter with disreputable actions. Will Stéphane make it through this new job or will he fall into a downward spiral of bad choices?

Directed by Francis Leclerc - With Henri Picard, Fayolle Jean Jr., Robin L'Houmeau, Marie-Ève Beauregard, Zachary Evrard, Gabrielle Côté, ...

Wheels of Fortune(2023)

10min | Comedy, Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An ageist sales manager reluctantly takes over his dismissive father's mobility scooter business. He wants to create a fancy new advert for the store but his father wants to stick to what he knows.