1999 and Sierra Leone is in the midst of civil war, the rebels infamously using an army of indoctrinated children to do their genocidal work. In the midst of this bloodshed two unlikely men are drawn together, one a desperate father whose son has become a rebel soldier, the other a self-serving white Rhodesian mercenary in search of an immense uncut diamond. The two are bound together by their wildly divergent, but inextricably linked, quests and it is here that the action of the film lies as th find out more...

Chev Chelios has just run out of luck, a man of highly dubious morals his days in the LA underworld come crashing to a halt when he discovers he's been injected with a drug that results in his heart ceasing to beat. Chev's only hope, until he can find an antidote, is to keep the adrenalin thumping through his system and, to this end, he sets about becoming a one-man wrecking crew. Reminiscent of an updated 50s B-movie Crank is a remarkably twisted main stream action movie, brutal, grotesquely hu find out more...

Our hero, repeating his role as the villainous London wide boy Chev, stomps his way round LA looking for the dastardly sod who has nicked his heart and replaced it with a battery run pump that needs regular high-level external electric boosts to keep functioning. A fine, darkly comic, over-the-top, non-stop, action flick, with tongue firmly in cheek and some great set pieces. find out more...

Lucky grows up in a South African township in the post-apartheid era and is caught between the desire to go university and the lure of easy money from violent crime.
A decade on an we see him as a struggling taxi-driver before his transformation into a businessman who uses violence to reclaim inner-city Joburg tenement blocks from the drug-dealers and hookers who inhabit them and from the rich white slum landlords who own them. Thus the ambitious gangster realises an aim of the revolution find out more...

Superbly stylish thriller played out amongst the seedy Paris underworld. A pimp is forced to turn informer when the flics put the hard word on the hooker he adores. Car chases and bar room brawls abound, but it's the painfully real emotions which make this tale of love and betrayal truly outstanding. find out more...

Jack is a hit man and weapons expert who finds himself hurriedly relocating from the icy savannah of Sweden to the remote mountains of northern Italy. It is here, when he’s presented with the unexpected chance of happiness, that Jack resolves to end his morally bankrupt profession; but he has become more prey than hunter and the noose is tightening. Anton Corbijn has created a beautifully atmospheric and minimalist film, rich in a visual mood more evocative of some of the best of European cinema find out more...