Films like Borstal Boy
Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, Eng...
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Prick Up Your Ears
Film · 1987 · also dramaWhen the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Ort...
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The Crying Game
Film · 1992 · also dramaIrish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Ma...
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The Inspection
Film · 2022 · also dramaEllis French is a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a s...
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Cracks
Film · 2009 · also dramaJealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
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My Friend Dahmer
Film · 2017 · also dramaJeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy. During his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he was to become.
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Bloody Sunday
Film · 2002 · also dramaThe dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
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Kidulthood
Film · 2006 · also dramaA day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
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The Lords of Discipline
Film · 1983 · also dramaWill arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked...
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In the Name of the Father
Film · 1993 · also dramaA small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to p...
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Across the Tracks
Film · 1991 · also dramaWhen Billy returns from reform school he has to attend a different high school at the other side of town. He tries to start with a clean slate but his old rival doesn't m...
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