Coining the new term 'action noir' in Korea, director Kim Ji-woon follows up his extraordinary features A Quiet Family and A Tale Of Two Sisters with this blackly comic thriller. Lee Byeong-heon stars as sartorially elegant Sun-woo, a unique character with a curious lifestyle - he's not only the proprietor of a hotel bar but also the right-hand man to the powerful gang leader, Mr Kang. When Kang suspects that his beautiful young mistress Hee-soo might be messing around with another man, he enlis find out more...

Precinct 13 is facing its last night as an active police station, only a skeleton staff is kept on, but then nobody is expecting any trouble, and as a blizzard rages outside everyone settles down for an uneventful evening. A prison bus, no longer able to cope with the weather conditions pulls up to the precinct, and discharges a motley selection of prisoners, one of them a recently convicted high profile ganglord. What follows is a lethally one sided siege, convicts and cops forced into an uneas find out more...

When carrying out a hit, assassin Joe always makes use of the knowledge of the local population. On arriving in Bangkok he meets street-kid Kong, who becomes his primary aide. But when Kong is nearly killed, the young lad asks the killer to train him up in the deadly arts, and so, for the first time, Joe finds himself as mentor rather than murderer - an uncharacteristic act of compassion that may well cost him his life. A Hollywood remake of the superior Thai actioner, this is yet another film t find out more...

Season 2 finds Lucas, having escaped detection after being interrogated by FBI agent Jim Racine, with his hands fuller than ever as sheriff, dealing with the murder of a Kinaho tribe girl, the continuing escalation of tensions between Amish overlord Kai Proctor and Kinaho tribe leader Alex Longshadow, as well as the unwelcome appearance of a surprise visitor: the reprobate son of the real Lucas Hood.

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Pam Grier displays the charms that made her a 70s icon of the blaxploitation movie. When Foxy Brown's undercover drug squad boyfriend is murdered after her bad-ass brother reveals his identity, she poses as a hooker to take revenge on The Man. Cue bucketloads of gratuitous sex and violence. Brilliant (say some)! find out more...

A hard-boiled private dick is hired to retrieve a suitcase, but the pick-up turns nasty and a lot of gangsters get killed. He is then left with little option but violence as he is pursued by a bunch of gun-wielding crims. A pop-pop you're dead who's next violent actioner. find out more...

Masamichi Toyama owes the Yakuza, when they come to collect he has nothing to give so instead they deal out a beating and then proceed to rape his wife. Insane with rage and the desire for revenge Masamichi sets out, sword in hand, to find the bloody end of justice, but five women who share his need to cause the Yakuza pain save him from a swift and certain death. Gonin 2 follows very much in the same vein as its predecessor, a stylish, brutal, blood fest. find out more...

Irish Sicilian Henry Hill always wanted to be a gangster and from running errands as a small boy, he graduates to becoming a trusted member of the "family". A stunning, violent and essential portrait of the Mafia's intimate details. An award winning film, superbly crafted by Scorsese. find out more...

A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin (Josh Hartnett) into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's rival crime lords: The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman).To add to his woe, Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci) as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat (Bruce Willis). Slevin's only hope of survival is to turn the tables and he sets about devising a cunning plan to get them before they get him! Lucky Number Slev find out more...

A posse of upstart homeboys with ill-fitting trousers are brought to book when the town's "original gangstas" (a bevy of '70's blaxploitation stars) join forces, after fifteen years of respectability, to clean up the streets and sort out the men from the boys. Tongue-in-cheek ghetto actioner. find out more...