Drama, Crime
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Rashomon
The Experiment
The Last Samurai
Trainspotting
Lost Highway
Requiem for a Dream
Die Grünstein-Variante
The King of Comedy
The Shawshank Redemption
A River Runs Through It
Ocean's Eleven
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
The Million Dollar Hotel
Brother
Once Upon a Time in the West
Bang, Boom, Bang
Jack Irish: Dead Point
The Mad Game
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
M*A*S*H
SIMILAR MOVIES
Rashomon
IMDB 8 | Aug , 1950
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.The Experiment
IMDB 7.4 | Mar , 2001
20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.The Last Samurai
IMDB 7.6 | Dec , 2003
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.Trainspotting
IMDB 8 | Feb , 1996
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.Lost Highway
IMDB 7.5 | Jan , 1997
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.Requiem for a Dream
IMDB 8 | Oct , 2000
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.Die Grünstein-Variante
IMDB 8 | Apr , 1985
The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, with which they then play against each other. Grünstein, a Polish Jew, proves to be a real talent, because although he is a beginner, he manages to defeat even the experienced player Lodeck, a German sailor, with his "Grünstein Variant".The King of Comedy
IMDB 7.8 | Dec , 1982
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.The Shawshank Redemption
IMDB 8.7 | Sep , 1994
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.A River Runs Through It
IMDB 7 | Oct , 1992
The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending much of their time fly fishing. The sons of a minister, the boys eventually part company when Norman moves east to attend college, leaving his rebellious brother to find trouble back home. When Norman finally returns, the siblings resume their fishing outings, and assess where they've been and where they're going.Ocean's Eleven
IMDB 6.4 | Aug , 1960
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
IMDB 6.8 | Mar , 2006
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.The Million Dollar Hotel
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 2000
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.Brother
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 2000
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.Once Upon a Time in the West
IMDB 8.3 | Dec , 1968
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.Bang, Boom, Bang
IMDB 7.5 | Aug , 1999
Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth.Jack Irish: Dead Point
IMDB 6.8 | Apr , 2014
Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.The Mad Game
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1933
Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the judge who sent Carson to prison, he is paroled to help in the capture.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 1969
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.M*A*S*H
IMDB 7 | Feb , 1970
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.