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Apocalypse Now(1979)

2h 27min | Drama, War
4.1/5 (with 3,606 votes)

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Cruel Intentions(1999)

R
| 1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 1,499 votes)

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession.

Traffic(2000)

R
| 2h 27min | Thriller, Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 941 votes)

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.

Casino(1995)

R
| 2h 59min | Crime, Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 2,559 votes)

In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con-artist ex Lester Diamond and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger.

A View to a Kill(1985)

PG
| 2h 11min | Adventure, Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 837 votes)

A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.

Rocketman(2019)

R
| 2h 1min | Music, Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 2,083 votes)

The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.

The Place Beyond the Pines(2013)

R
| 2h 20min | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 2,285 votes)

A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

Moonlight(2016)

R
| 1h 51min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 3,217 votes)

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

Climax(2018)

R
| 1h 37min | Horror, Music
3.6/5 (with 893 votes)

Young dancers gather in a remote and empty school building to rehearse on a cold and wintry night. The all-night celebration soon turns into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn that their sangria is laced with LSD.

Directed by Gaspar Noé - With Sofia Boutella, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Giselle Palmer

Kids(1995)

NC-17
| 1h 31min | Drama, Crime
3.4/5 (with 471 votes)

A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.

Live Flesh(1997)

R
| 1h 43min | Drama, Thriller, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 280 votes)

A scorned ex-convict forces himself into the lives of the couple who put him behind bars.

Pain and Glory(2019)

1h 54min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 794 votes)

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

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Bad Education(2004)

NC-17
| 1h 46min | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 403 votes)

Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.

All About My Mother(1999)

R
| 1h 41min | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 796 votes)

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

Judy(2019)

1h 58min | Drama, History, Music
3.4/5 (with 517 votes)

Thirty years after starring in "The Wizard of Oz," beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in London to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of the Town nightclub. While there, she reminisces with friends and fans and begins a whirlwind romance with musician Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband.

Bullet(1996)

R
| 1h 40min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 49 votes)

A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.

Drugstore Cowboy(1989)

R
| 1h 38min | Drama, Crime
3.6/5 (with 220 votes)

Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, who skillfully steal from drugstores and hospital medicine cabinets in order to appease their insatiable need for drugs. But neither fun nor luck last forever.

Sick of Myself(2022)

NR
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 29 votes)

Signe and Thomas are in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when Thomas suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist. In response, Signe makes a desperate attempt to regain her status by creating a new persona hell-bent on attracting attention and sympathy.

Directed by Kristoffer Borgli - With Kristine Kujath Thorp, Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen, Anders Danielsen Lie, Sarah Francesca Brænne, Ingrid Vollan, Henrik Mestad, ...

Tell No One(2006)

NR
| 2h 11min | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 605 votes)

A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

Bug(2006)

R
| 1h 38min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 223 votes)

In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.

It's a Wonderful Binge(2022)

1h 38min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 46 votes)

Like the original film, the sequel is set in a near future where all drinking and drugs are banned except for on one glorious day known as The Binge. This year, that day happens to miraculously land on Christmas.

The Cooler(2003)

R
| 1h 41min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.4/5 (with 146 votes)

Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow, is happy with the arrangement. But Bernie finds unexpected happiness when he begins dating attractive waitress Natalie Belisario.

The Drug King(2018)

2h 19min | Crime, Action, Drama
3.1/5 (with 56 votes)

Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.

Killing Zoe(1993)

R
| 1h 36min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 142 votes)

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his services, Zed soon finds himself trapped in a situation beyond his control when heroin abuse, poor planning and a call-girl named Zoe all conspire to turn the robbery into a very bloody siege.

Dead Presidents(1995)

R
| 1h 59min | Action, Drama, Crime, War
3.4/5 (with 119 votes)

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!

Trauma(1993)

R
| 1h 46min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 87 votes)

An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when it rains. The orphaned young woman and her new lover launch their own investigation and are endangered when a link is discovered with the victims and a particular operation performed years before.

Head-On(2004)

R
| 2h 1min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 231 votes)

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

The Brown Bunny(2004)

NR
| 1h 33min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 91 votes)

Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.

Basquiat(1996)

1h 48min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 125 votes)

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

Berlin Calling(2008)

1h 45min | Comedy, Drama, Music
3.4/5 (with 147 votes)

A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.

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