7.6

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1998, USA

• Actors: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey, Christina Ricci, Mark Harmon, Cameron Diaz, Katherine Helmond, Michael Jeter, Penn Jillette, Craig Bierko, Lyle Lovett, Flea, Laraine Newman, Harry Dean Stanton, Tim Thomerson, Michael Lee Gogin, Larry Cedar, Brian Le Baron, Michael Warwick, Tyde Kierney, Richard Riehle, Ransom Gates, Frank Romano, Gil Boccaccio, Gary Bruno, Richard Portnow, Steve Schirripa, Verne Troyer
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy
• Director(s): Terry Gilliam
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... they were helped in large part by the huge amount of drugs and alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark.

  8.4

L.A. Confidential

1996, USA

• Actors: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, David Strathairn, Ron Rifkin, Matt McCoy, Paul Guilfoyle, Paolo Seganti, Elisabeth Granli, Sandra Taylor, Steve Rankin, Graham Beckel, Allan Graf, Precious Chong, Symba Smith, Bob Clendenin, Lennie Loftin, Will Zahrn, Amber Smith, Darrell Sandeen, Michael Warwick, Simon Baker, Shawnee Free Jones, Matthew Allen Bretz, Thomas Rosales Jr., Shane Dixon, Norman Howell
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Curtis Hanson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

1950's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.

  6.2

Newsies

1991, USA

• Actors: Christian Bale, David Moscow, Luke Edwards, Max Casella, Gabriel Damon, Marty Belafsky, Arvie Lowe Jr., Aaron Lohr, Trey Parker, Dee Caspary, Joseph Conrad, Dominic Maldonado, Matthew Schoenfeld, Mark David, Ivan Dudynsky, Robert Feeney, Michael A. Goorjian, Dominic Lucero, David Sidoni, Kevin Alexander Stea, Bill Pullman, Ann-Margret, Ele Keats, Jeffrey DeMunn, Deborra-Lee Furness, Marc Lawrence, Kevin Smets, Sylvia Short, Melody Santangello, Lois Young
• Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
• Director(s): Kenny Ortega
• Available languages:
  • English English.

July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Christian Bale) organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs (David Moscow) as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful.