
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie. Read More »
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Narrow Margin (1990) Peter Hyams, Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James Sikking

A woman secretly witnesses the murder of her blind date for the evening by a top Mafia boss. Read More »
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) Edward L. Cahn, Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding

In 1973, the first manned expedition to Mars is marooned; by the time a rescue mission arrives Read More »
The Iceman Cometh / Ji dong qi xia (1989) Clarence Yiu-leung Fok, Maggie Cheung, Biao Yuen, Wah Yuen

A frozen Ming Dynasty royal guard and the equally frigid rapist-killer he’s tracking are thawed out in modern-day Hong Kong. Read More »
Les yeux sans visage / Eyes Without a Face (1960) Georges Franju, Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel

After causing an accident that left his daughter Christiane severely disfigured, the brilliant surgeon Dr. Génessier Read More »
I, Daniel Blake (2016) Ken Loach, Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy

After surviving a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight bureaucratic Read More »
Mr. Wong, Detective (1938) William Nigh, Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Maxine Jennings

When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. Read More »
Lost Hearts (1973) Lawrence Gordon Clark, Simon Gipps-Kent, Joseph O’Conor, James Mellor

A young orphan, Stephen, is sent to go and live with his strange, much older cousin Read More »
Morvern Callar (2002) Lynne Ramsay, Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Linda McGuire

Following her boyfriend’s suicide, supermarket clerk Morvern Callar passes off his unpublished novel as her own. Read More »
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) Norman Jewison, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke

Four men pull off a daring daytime robbery at a bank, dump the money in a trash can and go their separate ways. Read More »