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Film · 10 connectionsA story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
Directed byShane Meadows
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2004 · 90 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller
A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.
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2000 · 90 min · Comedy · Drama
Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him pursue Romeo's beautiful elder sister. He gradually becomes more violent after she rejects him.
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2007 · 99 min · Drama · TV Movie
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2006 · 109 min · Drama
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
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2008 · 96 min · Drama · History
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
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After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
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2006 · 91 min · Drama
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
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2022 · 114 min · Comedy · Drama
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
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1992 · 95 min · Drama · Mystery
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