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Crimes (1982)
Character: Bill
2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, four convicts tell of the ‘crimes’ they have committed, some seemingly innocuous by today’s standards… at least, at first.
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Smack and Thistle (1991)
Character: Ariel
With a drug-addled lifestyle and a prison sentence firmly behind him, Abel is determined to go straight and stay clean... as soon as he's seen to one final heist. In the house that he burgles he comes across Elizabeth - rich, desperate, hopelessly addicted to a heroin and unconscious. Saving her from the clutched of an overdose, Abel stays out of compassion which eventually evolves into attraction. But when Abel takes on Elizabeth he also takes on her family. His resolution to go straight has to go on the back burner while he struggles against a drugs conspiracy that stretched from the slums of the East End to the Houses of Parliament.
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Shoreleave (1987)
Character: Patsy
Inspired by true events. Billy (Phil Daniels) comes home on shore leave from the Royal Navy, and discovers that his brother Michael has died two weeks prior to his leave. Trying to piece together what happened, Billy becomes enamoured with Myra (Joanne Whalley), a nightclub singer.
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Simulation Exercise (1984)
Character: Dave Rogers
'They're no trouble', says the head-master, 'just give them something simple and undemanding to do - just keep their heads down'. It was better advice then he knew.
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Goodie-Two-Shoes (1984)
Character: Spicer
Goodie-Two-Shoes is a 1984 British short film written and directed by Ian Emes. A teacher volunteers a group of misfit students to take a new dance class including a goodie-two-shoes and his bully. Awkwardness, friendship, competition, and romance follows. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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Mercy (2004)
Character: Terry
A young boy, Ben, lost in a vortex of poverty, is bullied at achool and neglected at home. He takes control of his life and rids himself forever of his aggressors.
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The Last Yellow (1999)
Character: Graham
Two losers try to lift themselves out of the mire by letting their fantasy world take over their lives.
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Thacker (1992)
Character: Dennie Faulkner
A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.
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Skulduggery (1991)
Character: Sweeny
Four lads decide to meet up and do a robbery planned by Sweeny, an angry, agressive but small young man who is like a time bomb waiting to go off. The robbery never happens because the boys soon realise Sweeny hasn't put enough thought into the job. His closest friend Tel has a more gentle side to him and falls for a girl at a party called Kak. Gombo is released from a young offenders, and along with Tony finds Sweeny to give him a kicking which actually ends up with Sweeny giving Gombo a kicking! In the end they find an empty house where the owners are away on holiday so they decide to break in. This doesn't quite go to plan either.
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A Mother Like Him (1982)
Character: Jason
A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different homes. What will happen if the eldest is officially made their foster parent?
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Jack of Diamonds (2001)
Character: Hughes
Two jewel thieves take refuge in a remote village where, unbeknownst to them, the government is about to unleash a virus that turns people into savage killers.
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I.D. (1995)
Character: Vinny
Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .
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Contact (1985)
Character: Smith
A platoon of British paratroopers on border patrol in South Armagh face a series of tense encounters.
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Beyond the Rave (2008)
Character: Tooley
An English soldier must find and win back his girlfriend from the clutches of a mysterious group of hardcore ravers before he flies to Iraq in the morning.
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Character: Plank
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
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The Firm (1989)
Character: JT
A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans.
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Nil by Mouth (1997)
Character: Danny
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.
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Schadenfreude (2025)
Character: Little Piss Head
Jeremy O'Reilly, the self-important presenter of a TV news show, returns to a clueless East End community where a prank leads to the murder of a beautiful local actress and a savage Press that demands to know, "Who killed Paige Boston?"
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Staggered (1994)
Character: Nutter
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?
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Made in Britain (1983)
Character: Job Centre Youth
After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo.
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Face (1997)
Character: Weasel
Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one bank job too many. The gang dissolves in a murderous flurry of recriminations.
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Stars of the Roller State Disco (1984)
Character: N/A
Unemployed youngsters spend their days at the roller disco, circling round and round, before being called to take up low-paid jobs as they become available. For others, it's a subsistence existence of vending machine food, video games, with sex and drugs freely available as distractions.
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Beautiful People (1999)
Character: Jim
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.
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