Smooth Talk

6.2

1985

92 mins

DramaRomanceThriller

Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger.

Palm Trees and Power Lines

Year : 2023Rating : ⭐ 6.3

Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer break tanning in her backyard, and drifting between tiptoeing around her needy mother, and aimlessly trailing her best friend and boys from school. This monotony is interrupted by a chance encounter with Tom, a seductive man twice her age who promises an alternative to Lea's unsatisfying adolescent life.

Skin

Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 6.9

A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life, with the help of a black activist and the woman he loves.

Wicker Park

Year : 2004Rating : ⭐ 6.8

Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day.

Fire with Fire

Year : 1986Rating : ⭐ 6.2

A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison authorities, their parents and the law.

A Dry White Season

Year : 1989Rating : ⭐ 6.7

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

The Souvenir

Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 6.1

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

In a Lonely Place

Year : 1950Rating : ⭐ 7.6

A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

Blown Away

Year : 1993Rating : ⭐ 6.2

After her mother is killed by a car bomb, a 17-year-old girl lives a reckless and decadent lifestyle. She begins having sex with a boy who works at a local ski resort. He falls in love, and she tells him of her suspicions that her strict father was responsible for her mother's death and wants him to help her out of her situation. He must decide whether she's telling the truth or using him to her own ends.

Ashes in the Snow

Year : 2018Rating : ⭐ 6.4

The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her drawings.

The Souvenir: Part II

Year : 2021Rating : ⭐ 6.4

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.

Split

Year : 2016Rating : ⭐ 5.9

The story of a young woman who takes an epic journey to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young actress, working as a stripper, becomes obsessed with a mask maker, she sacrifices parts of herself and her life, piece by piece, in order to win his love. At the same time she enters a mythic journey in the theater. One that forces her to face the many abuses endured by women around that world and that blurs her performance, her dreams and her real life and results in a provocative and powerful confrontation that frees her. -- from official website

Below Her Mouth

Year : 2017Rating : ⭐ 6.8

An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.

My Fault: London

Year : 2025Rating : ⭐ 7.4

18-year-old Noah moves from America to London, with her mother who's recently fallen in love with William, a wealthy British businessman. Noah meets William’s son, bad-boy Nick, and soon discovers there is an attraction between them neither can avoid. As Noah spends the summer adjusting to her new life, her devastating past will catch up with her while falling in love for the first time.

Blue Story

Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 7.3

Blue Story is a tragic tale of a friendship between Timmy and Marco, two young boys from opposing postcodes. Timmy, a shy, smart, naive and timid young boy from Deptford, goes to school in Peckham where he strikes up a friendship with Marco, a charismatic, streetwise kid from the local area. Although from warring postcodes, the two quickly form a firm friendship until it is tested and they wind up on rival sides of a street war. Blue Story depicts elements of Rapman's own personal experiences and aspects of his childhood.

Double Daddy

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 6.9

A teen's life turns upside down when her boyfriend impregnates both her and a new student at school.

White Bird in a Blizzard

Year : 2014Rating : ⭐ 6.2

In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.

In Secret

Year : 2014Rating : ⭐ 6.1

In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences. Based on Emile Zola’s novel, Thérèse Raquin.

My Life Without Me

Year : 2003Rating : ⭐ 6.1

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

Fifty Shades of Grey

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 5.9

When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, finds himself strangely drawn to Ana, and she to him. Though sexually inexperienced, Ana plunges headlong into an affair -- and learns that Christian's true sexual proclivities push the boundaries of pain and pleasure.

Horns

Year : 2013Rating : ⭐ 6.3

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.