Pusher 3 (2005), Go (1999), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), Trainspotting (1996), Nightcrawler (2014), The King of Comedy (1982), Irréversible (2002), Brick (2005) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Social Fringe movies.
Storyline: Milo (Zlatko Buric) is a drug dealer and recovering addict who's slowly coming unraveled. While trying to prepare for his daughter Milena's (Marinela Dekic) birthday party, he discovers the shipment of heroin he was expecting is actually Ecstasy. Milo gives the pills to small-fry dealer Mohammed (Ilyas Agac) and, as the party begins, starts using narcotics again. Things go from bad to worse when Mohammad doesn't return, and Milo's Albanian connection demands payment for the Ecstasy.
Plot Keywords: crime, drugs, gangster, violence, trilogy, realism, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A checkout girl covering for a co-worker (Desmond Askew) faces danger from a drug dealer she double-crosses out of desperation.
Plot Keywords: action, comedy, crime, thriller, youth, black comedy, multi-narrative ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ex-convict Henry (Michael Rooker) gets close to the sister (Tracy Arnold) of the prison buddy (Tom Towles) he teaches how to serial kill.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, horror, psychological, violence, serial killer, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them...
Plot Keywords: drugs, addiction, scotland, underground culture, punk, crime, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: NIGHTCRAWLER is a thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling - where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, dark comedy, moral dilemma, media ethics, ambition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rupert Pupkin is obsessed with becoming a comedy great. However, when he confronts his idol, talk show host Jerry Langford, with a plea to perform on the Jerry's show, he is only given the run-around. He does not give up, however, but persists in stalking Jerry until he gets what he wants. Eventually he must team up with his psychotic Langford-obsessed friend Masha to kidnap the talk show host in hopes of finally getting to perform his stand-up routine.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, crime, drama, psychological thriller, satire, celebrity culture, obsession ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything.
Plot Keywords: violence, revenge, trauma, thriller, french film, controversial, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The lonely teenager Brendan finds his former girlfriend Emily dead in the entrance of a tunnel of sewage and recalls her phone call two days ago, when she said to him that she was in trouble. Brendan, who still loved Emily, met bad elements of his high-school trying to contact her, and when he succeeded, she told him that she was OK. He hides her body in the tunnel and decides to investigate the meaning and connection of four words, including "brick" and "pin", that Emily told him to find who killed her. Using the support of his nerd friend Brain, he successively meets the small time drug dealers Kara, Dode, Brad Bramish, Laura and Tugger, to reach the teenager powerful drug dealer The Pin. Slowly, Brendan unravels the motives why Emily was killed and plots a revenge.
Plot Keywords: film noir, mystery, crime, teen, high school, detective, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Paulette (Bernadette Lafont) becomes a cannabis dealer when her pension cannot cover her expenses.
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, french film, black comedy, elderly, female protagonist, rebellion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jane White (Kim Little) is a disturbed young woman living in her own bizarre TV fantasy land. For Jane, life itself is a television program, and she dreams of becoming a star on the small screen. Convincing herself that Gerry King (David L. Lander), a popular talk show host, is her birth father, she sets out on an adventurous road trip -- aided by her equally looney boyfriend, Dick (Wil Wheaton) -- to confront her "father" on the air, and, just maybe, make a splash on reality television.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, independent film, psychological thriller, crime, violence, female protagonist, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bradley Thomas is a hard working man. After his wife's extramarital affair they admit the spark isn't there anymore and decide to have a baby. After being fired from his job, he turns to his friend who hires him as a drug dealer. A trade goes bad and he ends up in prison, the only problem is that a gang has kidnapped his wife and they will do an experimental operation on the baby unless Thomas kills one of the inmates in cell block 99. Bradley will not stop at anything until his wife is safe again.
Plot Keywords: action, crime, thriller, violence, prison, revenge, gangster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The unluckiest man in Vegas - a guy whose bad luck is contagious - is used by the last of the old time mob run casinos to kill high rollers' action. That is, until he falls in love with a cocktail waitress and gets "lady luck," which throws the situation into reverse. Things turn nasty when the casino director tries to break up the romance.
Plot Keywords: gambling, luck, romance, black comedy, las vegas, crime, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?
Plot Keywords: violence, racism, australian film, gangs, hate crime, youth culture, extremism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After Kenny accidentaly kills a cop's diabetic horse by feeding it the food he purchased from a munchie run, he is put in jail and is given a 1 million dollar bail. The rest of the group must bail Kenny out before Nasty Nate gets to him. The group decides to sell marijuana that Thurgood gets through his job as a janitor at a pharmaceutical lab. They become pals with rap star Sir Smoke-A-Lot and the rivals of dealer Samson Simpson. On the side, Thurgood seeks the love of Mary Jane, an anti-pot daughter of a dealer. What follows is typical pothead behaviour with a ton of cameos. Look carefully.
Plot Keywords: comedy, marijuana, friendship, crime, humor, drugs, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ron, who's young, slight, and privileged, is sentenced to prison on marijuana charges. For whatever reason, he brings out paternal feelings in an 18-year prison veteran, Earl Copan, who takes Ron under his wing. The film explores the nature of that relationship, Ron's part in Earl's gang, and the way Ron deals with aggressive cons intent on assault and rape. There's casual racism, too, in the prisoners and the guards, a strike called by Black prisoners, and the nearly omnipresence of hard drugs. Ron's lawyer is working on getting Ron out quickly, Earl has a shot at parole, and death seems to be waiting in the next cell. Will prison turn Ron into an animal?
Plot Keywords: prison, crime, drama, american film, gangster, violence, survival ...
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