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Michael Smiley
1) Tollbooth
Author
Language
English
Description
Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. When he finally gets rumbled, word of his whereabouts gets out and his enemies head west for revenge. Meanwhile, local traffic cop Catrin's investigation into a simple robbery finds her heading for the booth at exactly the wrong time.
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies and her father is institutionalized, Emily is placed in a foster home and in a new school where she is ostracized. When her father’s annual card fails to arrive on her 16th birthday, Emily knows something’s wrong. She decides to take matters into her own hands and, enlisting her only friend at school, Arden, sets off on a road trip to break her father out of the psych ward. As their journey progresses Emily and Arden become...
3) Glassland
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Living in a social housing suburb in Dublin with his mother, John ekes out a meager living as a nocturnal taxi driver. One day, he returns home to find his mother, Jean, unconscious from an alcohol overdose. With no savings or insurance, John is forced to offer his services to a petty criminal to help pay for his mother's costly rehab program. Although his mother violently rejects John's attempts to support and unite his family, John faces his challenges,...
4) Kill list
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After a hit job in Kiev left him physically and mentally scarred, an ex-soldier and present contract killer is pressured by his partner into taking a new assignment. As he enters into a bizarre and disturbing world, his fear and paranoia send him toward a point of no return.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
England during the English Civil War. A small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by two men: O'Neil and Cutler. O'Neil, an alchemist, forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure.
7) Tollbooth
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. When he finally gets rumbled, word of his whereabouts gets out and his enemies head west for revenge. Meanwhile, local traffic cop Catrin's investigation into a simple robbery finds her heading for the booth at exactly the wrong time.
8) Free Fire
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a black market arms deal goes outrageously wrong, Justine (Brie Larson) finds herself caught in the crossfire, forced to navigate a warehouse full of trigger-happy madmen all hanging on for dear life in this hilarious action comedy. Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer and Sharlto Copley round out the fantastic cast. Winner of a People's Choice Award at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Ben Wheatley was nominated for Best Director at the **British...
9) Madame
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When an American couple in Paris hosts a luxurious dinner party their plans go off the rails when their maid runs off with a wealthy guest.
10) Luther: 5
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When the moonless shadows of London give birth to a new nightmare, John Luther once again confronts the depths of human depravity. As a series of monstrous killings becomes more audacious, Luther and new recruit DS Catherine Halliday are confounded by a tangle of misdirection that seems to protect an unspeakable horror. But as the case brings him closer than ever to the nature of true evil, a reluctant Luther faces the ghosts of his own past. Striding...
11) The hallow
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a London-based conservationist is sent to Ireland to survey an area of ancient forest believed by the superstitious locals to be hallowed ground, he unwittingly disturbs a horde of terrifying beings and must fight to protect his family.
12) Kill list
Publisher
IFC Midnight
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After a hit job in Kiev left him physically and mentally scarred, an ex-soldier and present contract killer is pressured by his partner into taking a new assignment. As he enters into a bizarre and disturbing world, his fear and paranoia send him toward a point of no return.
13) Free fire
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a colorful yet gritty 1970s Boston, Justine, a mysterious American businesswoman, and her wise-cracking associate Ord, arrange a black-market weapons deal in a deserted warehouse between IRA arms buyer Chris and shifty South African gun runner Vernon. What starts as a polite if uneasy exchange soon goes south when tensions escalate and shots are fired, quickly leading to a full-on Battle Royale where it's every man (and woman) for themselves.
14) Come to daddy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A recovering alcoholic in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father.
15) Glassland
Author
Language
English
Description
A young Dublin taxi driver gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother from addiction and provide for his younger brother with Down syndrome.
17) Evie
Author
Language
English
Description
When Evie finds a cursed necklace, she unleashes a deadly water demon that wants to claim her and those she loves.