heartless britain and hoodie horrors
by soapdodgerz | created - 04 Oct 2012 | updated - 13 Jan 2014 | Publicfilms that reflect the harsh realities of life in the uk from dramas to horrors some are pure fantasy like drillbit but in this dystopian world who knows thats why there included
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1. Heartless (I) (2009)
114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Jamie Morgan, a young man with a large heart-shaped birthmark on his face, discovers that there are demons on the streets of East London.
Director: Philip Ridley | Stars: Jim Sturgess, Luke Treadaway, Clémence Poésy, Justin Salinger
Votes: 10,372 | Gross: $0.00M
a fantasy horror but firmly stuck in a grim london reality
2. Tony (I) (2009)
Unrated | 76 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A thriller centered on a serial killer in a rundown London suburb.
Director: Gerard Johnson | Stars: Peter Ferdinando, Greg Kam, Ricky Grover, Kerryann White
Votes: 3,604
this could and has happened
3. The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael (2005)
TV-MA | 96 min | Crime, Drama
Robert Carmichael, is a talented cello player in the town of Newhaven. He becomes associated with several other unsavory teenagers and he is soon tempted into the use of hard drugs like cocaine and ecstasy.
Director: Thomas Clay | Stars: Nikki Albon, Zoey Campbell, Stephanie de Whalley, Phil Deguara
Votes: 1,390
what can i say theres gangs like this in every town
4. The Disappeared (I) (2008)
96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming back to haunt him.
Director: Johnny Kevorkian | Stars: Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise, Alex Jennings, Tom Felton
Votes: 2,101
another fantasy thriller with its roots firmly in the here and now
5. Eden Lake (2008)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences.
Director: James Watkins | Stars: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Tara Ellis, Jack O'Connell
Votes: 94,735 | Gross: $0.01M
this film is bleak but yet again it could happen
6. Made in Britain (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Drama
After being sent to a detention center, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers, who want to conform him to the status quo.
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Tim Roth, Terry Richards, Bill Stewart, Eric Richard
Votes: 7,607
an oldie but the situation in britain is still as volatile
7. Wilderness (I) (2006)
R | 93 min | Action, Horror
Juvenile delinquents are sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoner's death, where they have to fight for survival.
Director: M.J. Bassett | Stars: Sean Pertwee, Alex Reid, Toby Kebbell, Stephen Wight
Votes: 10,327
borstal break outdoors
8. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
Votes: 880,567 | Gross: $6.21M
this one probably couldnt happen yet the ferocity of the youths holds true
9. Mum & Dad (2008)
Not Rated | 84 min | Horror, Thriller
Lena, a young Polish immigrant working as a cleaner at an airport, is invited to the family home of a co-worker, which turns sinister quickly as the family intend to 'adopt' her.
Director: Steven Sheil | Stars: Perry Benson, Dido Miles, Olga Fedori, Ainsley Howard
Votes: 6,463
21st century fred and rose west
10. Walter (1982 TV Movie)
70 min | Drama
A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Ian McKellen, Barbara Jefford, Arthur Whybrow, Tony Melody
Votes: 325
these institutions dont exist anymore but the clock can easily be turned backwards
11. This Is England (2006)
Not Rated | 101 min | Crime, Drama
A young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.
Director: Shane Meadows | Stars: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim
Votes: 128,665 | Gross: $0.33M
set in the past but very modern in its bleak outlook
12. Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.
Director: Shane Meadows | Stars: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Stuart Wolfenden
Votes: 58,318 | Gross: $0.01M
a tale of revenge that could only be set in the cesspools of england
13. Bronson (2008)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Tom Hardy, Kelly Adams, Luing Andrews, Katy Barker
Votes: 140,778 | Gross: $0.10M
yeah prisons are like holiday camps
14. The Football Factory (2004)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
An insight on the gritty life of a bored male, Chelsea football hooligan who lives for violence, sex, drugs & alcohol.
Director: Nick Love | Stars: Danny Dyer, Frank Harper, Tamer Hassan, Roland Manookian
Votes: 32,754
a good football violence film wow
15. Awaydays (2009)
Unrated | 105 min | Crime, Drama
In the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, also the crown years of hooliganism, the opportunities for thrill-seeking young men are what they've always been: sex, drugs, rock n' roll, fashion, football and fighting.
Director: Pat Holden | Stars: Nicky Bell, Liam Boyle, Stephen Graham, Oliver Lee
Votes: 3,768
another set in the past and very northwest england but if you live in that area you will get it {thats not a threat}
16. Four Lions (2010)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Four incompetent British terrorists set out to train for and commit an act of terror.
Director: Christopher Morris | Stars: Will Adamsdale, Riz Ahmed, Adeel Akhtar, Kayvan Novak
Votes: 85,224 | Gross: $0.30M
another slice of northern britain with humour
17. Harry Brown (2009)
R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
Director: Daniel Barber | Stars: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, David Bradley, Charlie Creed-Miles
Votes: 91,332 | Gross: $1.82M
the british gran torino
18. Inbred (2011)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Horror
Four young offenders and their care workers visit the remote Yorkshire village of Mortlake, which prides on keeping itself to itself. A minor incident with locals rapidly escalates into a blood-soaked, deliriously warped nightmare.
Director: Alex Chandon | Stars: Jo Hartley, James Doherty, Seamus O'Neill, James Burrows
Votes: 5,656
pure fantasy but what lurks in them hills
19. Drillbit (1992 Video)
32 min | Short, Horror
In a desolate future where humanity is overtaken by an AIDS epidemic, the son of an important scientist seeks revenge on those who killed his parents and left him mutilated.
Director: Alex Chandon | Stars: Ben Befell, Saul Brignell, Bill Corbett, Tom Cox
Votes: 113
dystopian future a society gone mad couldnt happen could it
20. Bad Karma (1991 Video)
36 min | Short, Horror
A group of people are having a barbecue party when two Krishnas appear at their doorstep, both of which transform into hideous monsters and start killing everybody in gory ways. The ... See full summary »
Director: Alex Chandon | Stars: Julius Barnet, Carmel, Lotu, M. Karapateas
Votes: 174
this one i admit will never happen but its alot of fun
21. Scum (1979)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama
An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the '70s.
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth, John Blundell
Votes: 13,066
still one of the best films about angry youth
22. Axed (2012)
R | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A strict father loosens up enough to let his children take a day off school for a trip to the countryside. But things turn darker when the family realize he is planning to make it their last outing ever.
Director: Ryan Lee Driscoll | Stars: Jonathan Hansler, Andrea Gordon, Nicola Posener, Christopher Rithin
Votes: 978
sadly this happens more and more often though this film is a black comedy
23. If.... (1968)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama
In this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.
Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan
Votes: 25,173
public school anarchy
24. Britannia Hospital (1982)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
The chaotic workings of a hospital with staff on strike.
Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: Leonard Rossiter, Malcolm McDowell, Brian Pettifer, John Moffatt
Votes: 2,923
the future of the nhs?
25. Boys from the Blackstuff (1982)
50 min | Drama
Five unemployed men would do anything just to have a job in Thatcher's Britain.
Stars: Michael Angelis, Bernard Hill, Alan Igbon, Peter Kerrigan
Votes: 1,573
things come full circle
26. 28 Days Later (2002)
R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Alex Palmer
Votes: 444,957 | Gross: $45.06M
fantasy horror but whats in a virus?
27. Jubilee (1978)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Adam Ant, Richard O'Brien, Ian Charleson, Jayne County
Votes: 3,695
opera for doomed youth
28. Piggy (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 106 min | Horror, Thriller
London, modern day: Joe, a mild mannered young man is bored by his life. When his beloved brother is murdered Joe finds solace in Piggy, one of his brother's old friends. Piggy helps Joe to... See full summary »
Director: Kieron Hawkes | Stars: Ed Skrein, Paul Anderson, Martin Compston, Neil Maskell
Votes: 1,773
depressing but a knife crime reality
29. Citadel (I) (2012)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children who committed an act of violence against his family years earlier.
Director: Ciarán Foy | Stars: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jake Wilson
Votes: 7,333
another bleak view of uk
30. Creep (I) (2004)
R | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets.
Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Franka Potente, Sean Harris, Vas Blackwood, Ken Campbell
Votes: 31,717
homeless junkies and a great villian
31. Cherry Tree Lane (2010)
TV-MA | 77 min | Horror, Thriller
A couple is terrorized by a gang who is hunting their son.
Director: Paul Andrew Williams | Stars: Rachael Blake, Tom Butcher, Jumayn Hunter, Ashley Chin
Votes: 2,875
dire but could happen
32. A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Horror
A crime novelist whose research on Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck must confront his worst fears when a film executive takes a sudden interest in his movie script.
Directors: Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell | Stars: Simon Pegg, Paul Freeman, Amara Karan, Clare Higgins
Votes: 15,206
london thru and thru fear selfishness bad cops and punk rockers in launderettes
33. Tower Block (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Thriller
Several months after witnessing a murder, residents of Tower Block 31 find themselves being picked off by a sniper, pitting those lucky enough to be alive into a battle for survival.
Directors: David Beton, James Nunn | Stars: Sheridan Smith, Jamie Thomas King, Jack O'Connell, Ralph Brown
Votes: 5,760
murdering scumbags get there comeuppance from an unlikely source
34. Devil's Bridge (2010)
84 min | Horror, Thriller
Sean takes his two friends into the rural wilds of Wales in search of an underworld specialist who can illegally revive his failing business. Deep in alien, isolated territory, they ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Crow | Stars: Joseph Millson, Joshua Richards, Gary Mavers, Michael Jibson
Votes: 260
morbid but bloody day out
35. Before Dawn (2013)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror
An estranged couple's vacation to save their troubled relationship goes awry when they find themselves under attack from the walking dead
Director: Dominic Brunt | Stars: Joanne Mitchell, Nicky Evans, Dominic Brunt, Alan French
Votes: 864
good effort
36. Community (2012)
78 min | Horror
The Draymen Estate has become an urban legend. Amongst the sinister stories of unsavory's locals and brutal violence, several people have apparently gone missing. But even the police won't ... See full summary »
Director: Jason Ford | Stars: Jemma Dallender, Elliott Jordan, Paul McNeilly, Terry Bird
Votes: 614
if theres a council estate like this near you,stay away
37. Kill List (2011)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Harry Simpson, Michael Smiley
Votes: 45,296 | Gross: $0.03M
grim but better second time around
38. Comedown (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
Six friends who turn the deserted the tower block they lived in as kids into a pirate radio station soon learn they are not alone, as a resident psychopath begins hunting them down.
Director: Menhaj Huda | Stars: Jacob Anderson, Sophie Stuckey, Jessica Barden, Shizzio
Votes: 1,522
more youths in the wrong place wrong time
39. Spiderhole (2010)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror
They say squatting is dead - a term that takes on a sinister double meaning when four homeless art students decide to take up residence in an abandoned London House where a hidden terror lurks.
Director: Daniel Simpson | Stars: Amy Noble, Emma Griffiths Malin, George Maguire, John E. Regan
Votes: 1,095
this ones in coz it involves squatters
40. The Hide (2008)
Not Rated | 82 min | Thriller
On the windswept Suffolk mudflats creaks a bird-hide, inside which hovers Roy Tunt, a prematurely aged, mildly obsessive-compulsive birder. With one more sighting - the elusive sociable ... See full summary »
Director: Marek Losey | Stars: Alex Macqueen, Phil Campbell, Laura Hopwood, Howard Ward
Votes: 4,632
middle class meet the underclass whos the baddie?
41. Colin (2008)
Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Our hero Colin is bitten by a Zombie; he dies and returns from the dead. We follow him as he wanders through suburbia during the throes of a cadaverous apocalypse.
Director: Marc Price | Stars: Alastair Kirton, Daisy Aitkens, Leanne Pammen, Kate Alderman
Votes: 1,646
great for low budget
42. Lord of Darkness (2012)
R | 90 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean and his murderous, inbred family are responsible for over a thousand murders over the centuries.
Director: Ricky Wood | Stars: David Hayman, Samuel Feeney, Gavin Mitchell, William Houston
Votes: 1,377
43. The World's End (2013)
R | 109 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from twenty years earlier unwittingly become humanity's only hope for survival.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Rosamund Pike
Votes: 298,022 | Gross: $26.00M
44. The Devil's Business (2011)
69 min | Horror
At the house of their target, two hit men bide their time waiting for the kill, only to find death already arrived in the shape of black magic, devilish spirits and the occult.
Director: Sean Hogan | Stars: Billy Clarke, Jack Gordon, Jonathan Hansler, Harry Miller
Votes: 649
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