Skupina nezadovoljnih mladih Škota okreću se heroinu u pokušaju da izbjegnu banalnu svakodnevicu. Tad počinju patiti od posljedica i otkriju da nema jednostavnih rješenja za iskonsku samoću i životnu bol.
Nakon smrti svog poslodavca i mentora, Bumpyja Johnsona, Frank Lucas osniva se kao glavni uvoznik heroina u okrugu Harlem na Manhattanu. Čini to kupnjom heroina izravno iz izvora u jugoistočnoj Aziji i dolazi do jedinstvenog načina uvoza droge u Sjedinjene Države. Djelomično se temelji na istinitoj priči.
A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
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.
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes.
Hanna is a girl completely abandoned to herself, is not at all inhibited sexually, and is attracted to the attention of unscrupulous people like Miguel, who takes advantage of Hanna, turning her to prostitution to obtain her drug fix. Until she meets Alex, a young man with a sincere affection for Hanna.
Nade i snovi četvero ambicioznih ljudi uništeni su kada njihova ovisnost o drogama počne izmicati kontroli. Pogled u ovisnost i kako ona vlada nad umom i tijelom.
A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
Stara policijska postaja 13 u predgrađu trebala bi prestati s radom dolaskom Nove godine i nekoliko njezinih službenika se okuplja na dočeku povezanom s oproštajem. Snježna oluja sprečava policijsko vozilo sa zatvorenicima među kojima je i ubojica policajca, jedan od šefova organiziranog kriminala Bishop (L. Fishburn) da nastavi put prema odredištu izvan Detroita, pa ih ostavlja u toj policijskoj stanici dok se vrijeme ne smiri. Uskoro grupa teško naoružanih ljudi napada stanicu i traži da im se preda Bishop. Policajac Roenick (E. Hawke) koji već mjesecima ne sudjeluje u akcijama, jer sam sebe krivi za smrt dvoje kolega u sukobu s gangsterima, preuzima obranu od onih za koje se u početku misli da su Bishopovi ljudi, što se pokazuje netočnim kada postaje jasno da napadači žele ubiti i Bishopa i sve u postaji, ne bi li se tako zatajila Bishopova povezanost s policijskim vrhom. Slijedi borba na život i smrt.
With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.
Christiane je trinaestogodišnja djevojka koja živi s majkom i sestrom u jednome od betonskih nebodera berlinske četvrti Gropiusstadt, četvrti u kojoj uglavnom žive ljudi s ozbiljnim socijalnim problemima, nakon što ih je napustio otac nasilnik. Ne imajući moralnu obiteljsku potporu, ona se počinje družiti s mladima iz škole koji svi konzumiraju alkohol i lake droge te izlaze u obližnju popularnu diskoteku. Ovdje upozna mladića Detleva s kojim se odmah zbliži. On, također ne skrivajući svoje osjećaje prema njoj, uvede je u svoje društvo u kojemu su svi ovisnici o heroinu. Malo pomalo i Christiane će postati dio tog svijeta...
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.
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.
A waitress confronts all the wrong turns she has made in her short life and ultimately ends up facing the biggest wrong turn of all: her dangerous ex-boyfriend who's determined to win back her love or die trying.
A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. The friendship between respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor, escalated into bitter rivalry as the Dandy Warhols garnered major international success while the Brian Jonestown Massacre imploded in a haze of drugs.