Gritty British movies

A hardened detective in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan police. Based on the '70s UK TV show.

Brutal gangster Don Logan recruits "retired" safecracker Gal for one last job, but it goes badly for both of them.

A variety of losers in Dublin have harrowingly farcical intersecting stories of love, greed and violence.

A British soldier kidnapped by the IRA soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.

This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.

After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.

Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash.

Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.

A young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.

A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.

The story revolves around Sam who is released from prison and has to face the people he hurt on a daily basis.

Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, Shifty must out-run and out-smart a rival drug dealer intent on setting him up for a big fall. As his long time friend Chris confronts the dark past he left behind him, Shifty is forced to face up to the violent future he's hurtling towards.

An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.

The antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.

An insight on the gritty life of a bored male, Chelsea football hooligan who lives for violence, sex, drugs & alcohol.

A crime family looks to unmask the police informant in their midst who threatens to take down their business.

After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.

The lives of four drug dealers, one user, and two prostitutes are explored.

In the face of demise in his values, a socialist in England decides to form a gang and rob banks for a living.

The 1995 Rettendon triple murder: three drug dealers, Patrick Tate, Craig Rolfe, and Tony Tucker, lured under pretext of a deal, shot execution-style in their Range Rover. Depicts the case's events objectively.

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

A naïve young lad navigates the dirty squalid streets of 1973 Glasgow and the poor youth around him.

Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

An unemployed Mancunian vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.