Drama, Crime
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Maverick
Jazzed Up Hoodlums
Requiem
Conspiracy Theory
10 Sekunden
Lorna's Silence
Money Talks
Go
Buffalo '66
Cookie's Fortune
Margarete Steiff
He Got Game
Half Baked
Menace II Society
Chopper
Christiane F.
Red Heat
The Condemned
The Hustler
Sleuth
SIMILAR MOVIES
Maverick
IMDB 6.9 | May , 1994
Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game that begins in a few days, so he joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvellous southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.Jazzed Up Hoodlums
IMDB 6 | May , 2009
Two young friends, John and Paul, sell ecstasy to escape a rundown suburb under the guidance of a paranoid drug dealer, but the plan is complicated when John falls in love with Arianna.Requiem
IMDB 4.8 | Feb , 1982
When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes him into the consulting room instead. As they talk, she offers him something to eat and then notes that his manner of eating is just like that of her previous husband, who died in prison many years earlier. It turns out that the young man had been his cell mate for a year, and he tells her the story of how her husband died. She then remembers (in flashbacks) how she had helped her first husband rid himself of his sexual repression, and how she had promised him she would marry her current husband if she were widowed. It seems her doctor-husband was a man who could remain untouched through any political climate, and was much admired by her first husband. Now that her memories have been awakened by the young man's account, she ignores the repeated phone calls of her current husband and decides to rid this young man of his own sexual repressions.Conspiracy Theory
IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 1997
A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.10 Sekunden
IMDB 5 | Oct , 2008
No overview found.Lorna's Silence
IMDB 6.8 | Aug , 2008
Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship, Claudy finds the strength to detox; this presents a problem not only for Lorna, but for the criminal who brokered the deal.Money Talks
IMDB 6 | Aug , 1997
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.Go
IMDB 7 | Apr , 1999
A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.Buffalo '66
IMDB 7.1 | Jan , 1998
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.Cookie's Fortune
IMDB 6.4 | Mar , 1999
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.Margarete Steiff
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 2005
Based on the life of German toymaker Margarete Steiff, the movie shows her long way from a 10-year-old girl, confined to a wheelchair, to one of the first and most successful creators of toy stuffed animals.He Got Game
IMDB 6.7 | May , 1998
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.Half Baked
IMDB 6.3 | Jan , 1998
Three lovable party buds try to bail their friend out of jail. But just when the guys have mastered a plan, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke.Menace II Society
IMDB 7.5 | May , 1993
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.Chopper
IMDB 6.7 | Jun , 2000
The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of crime, interest in violence, drugs and prostitutes.Christiane F.
IMDB 7.3 | Apr , 1981
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.Red Heat
IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 1988
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.The Condemned
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 2013
With unprecedented access, this documentary looks into the hidden world of one of Russia's most impenetrable and remote institutions - a maximum security prison exclusively for murderers. Deep inside the land of the gulags, this is the end of the line for some of Russia's most dangerous criminals - 260 men who have collectively killed nearly 800 people. The film delves deep into the mind and soul of some of these prisoners. In brutally frank and uncensored interviews the inmates speak of their crimes, life and death, redemption and remorselessness, insanity and hope. The film tracks them though their unrelenting days over several months, lifting the veil on one of Russia's most secretive subcultures to reveal what happens when a man is locked up in a tiny cell for 23 hours every day, for life. A startling insight into inscrutable minds and the forbidding world they have been condemned to. (Storyville)The Hustler
IMDB 7.7 | Sep , 1961
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.Sleuth
IMDB 7.7 | Dec , 1972
A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife's lover – but things aren't exactly as they seem. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.