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Eastern Promises

Eastern Promises

David Cronenberg 2007 1h 40m 8.0

A girl walks in to a shop and asks for help. When the shopkeeper tells her to leave, she starts bleeding and faints. In the hospital she dies while giving birth to a girl. The nurse wants to find out who her family is and gets stuck in the world of Russian crime.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Lasse Hallström 2011 1h 47m 6.5

A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embark son an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Bharat Nalluri 2008 1h 32m 6.1

Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.

Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock

Rowan Joffé 2010 1h 51m 7.0

Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

Spooks: The Greater Good

Spooks: The Greater Good

Bharat Nalluri 2015 1h 44m 4.7

During a handover to the head of counter-terrorism of MI5 Harry Pearce, terrorist Adam Qasim escapes from MI5 custody. When Harry disappears soon after, his protégé Will Crombie is tasked with finding out what happened as an impending attack on London looms. Crombie eventually uncovers a deadly conspiracy.

Meeting People Is Easy

Meeting People Is Easy

Grant Gee 1998 1h 35m 8.0

Meeting People Is Easy takes place during the promotion of Radiohead's 1997 release OK Computer, containing a collage of video clips, sound bites, and dialogue going behind the scenes with the band on their world tour, showing the eventual burn-out of the group as the world tour progresses.

Pure

Pure

Gillies MacKinnon 2002 1h 36m

A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.