Movies about losers ... whatever this means

[Slacker]

Post unconventional movies about Losers and their live

it doesn't matter if the loser becomes a winner in the end or not.

it doesn´t matter if it´s a drama or comedy or whatever.

It doesn't matter if it is about addiction, poverty, helplessness or just bad luck....

Plz... no youtube trailers... because lag....

Movie Covers .... Links... short descritptions are allowed.
(oh and post the title first cause picture links will disappear in the future...)

I´ll start...

 

[Slacker]

The Florida Project

"The Florida Project tells the story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times."

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_florida_project

 

[Slacker]

The People VS. Larry Flynt

"True story tale of Hustler magazine's creator Larry Flynt and his fight against the system when censorship mongors attempt to shut him down. Makes for good drama with excellent performances from Harrelson and Love."

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/people_vs_larry_flynt/

 

[Slacker]

Dallas Buyers Club

Matthew McConaughey stars in DALLAS BUYERS CLUB as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. These were the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and the U.S. was divided over how to combat the virus. Ron, now shunned and ostracized by many of his old friends, and bereft of government-approved effective medicines, decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, the entrepreneurial Woodroof joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts - who he once would have shunned - and established a hugely successful "buyers' club." Their shared struggle for dignity and acceptance is a uniquely American story of the transformative power of resilience.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dallas_buyers_club_2013

 

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[Slacker]

Coup De Torchon (English title = ?)

"In a little town in French West Africa in 1938, Lucien Cordier is the only policeman. Unable or unwilling to impose his authority, he is treated with scorn by everybody. His sexy wife Huguette has brought a lover, Nono, to live openly with them, claiming he is her brother. Cordier fancies the mischievous young bride Rose, but lets her brutal husband beat her in the street unchallenged. The head of the timber company, Vanderbrouck, daily insults him for all to see. And the bane of his life is a pair of slimy pimps, who flout the law and enjoy humiliating him."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_de_Torchon

 

[Caustic Cardinals]

 

[Slacker]

Kingpin

"Roy Munson was raised to be the best bowler in the world (trained early on by his father). But a fellow bowler, Ernie McCracken and a misunderstanding with some rough punks, leaves poor Roy with the loss of his bowling hand! Not to let this get him down, he gets a prosthetic hand and becomes a travelling sales man. But it's really all down hill for him from that night on until ..."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116778/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

 

[akosineenee]

Nightcrawler (2014)

"Los Angeles denizen Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) survives by scavenging and petty theft. He stumbles into a new career as a cameraman and -- armed with a camcorder and police scanner -- begins nocturnal forays across the city in search of shocking and grisly crimes. When he catches the eye of a shopworn news director (Rene Russo) who welcomes the chance to raise her station's ratings, Louis goes to increasingly greater lengths to catch the 'money shot.'"

 

[Slacker]

Men & Chicken

David Dencik and Mads Mikkelsen play estranged brothers Gabriel and Elias, respectively, in writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen's bizarre "Men & Chicken." The two men are thrown together when, after their father's death, some family secrets come to light. The comedy in "Men & Chicken" sometimes tips into Keystone Cops territory, with people running around in the background like chickens (of course) with their heads cut off. "Men & Chicken" is a bizarre family psychodrama as well as a mad-scientist movie, complete with a crazy spooky lab full of terrifying objects. How seriously should any of it be taken? It's hard to tell, but the film has a dry eccentricity that is entertaining and absurd. You don't know what will happen next. If the hundreds of chickens clucking around in the movie revealed themselves as sentient beings with the power of speech it wouldn't be a surprise at all. In the world of "Men & Chicken," all manner of ridiculous things seem possible.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3877674/?ref=m_nv_sr_1

 

[whatmattersmost]

Birdman.

 

[whatmattersmost]

Creep.
Creep 2.

 

[Slacker]

A Fantastic Fear Of Everything

A crimenovelist, whose research on Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, must confront his worst fears, when a film executive takes a sudden interest in his movie script.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2006040/

 

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Ghost world

With only the plan of moving in together after high school, two unusually devious friends seek direction in life. As a mere gag, they respond to a man's newspaper ad for a date, only to find it will greatly complicate their lives.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162346/

 

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The Shittiness of Things (De helaasheid der dingen) (The Misfortunates)

A boy growing up with a family of Flemish slobs learns more than his elders imagined they were capable of teaching in this purposefully rude comedy-drama. Gunther Strobbe (Kenneth Vanbaeden) is thirteen years old and living with his father Marcel (Koen De Graeve), his three uncles (Bert Haelvoet, Johan Heldenbergh and Wouter Hendrickx) and his grandmother (Gilda De Bal). You would think that Gunther has more than enough adult role models in his life, but the Strobbes are not an ordinary family; Marcel works part-time as a letter carrier, though the fact there are several bars on his route makes getting the work done a challenge, while his brothers are booze-addled layabouts who sponge off their mother, who is too sweet to deny them her meager pension. Gunther loves his family, but they often seem more like seedy playmates than authority figures, as the men in the house spend their days gulping down beer and sausage, breaking things, playing rude pranks on others and chasing women, often with hilarious but embarrassing consequences. Years later, Gunther has launched a career as a writer, is married and is expecting a son; suddenly frightened by the new responsibilities that await him, Gunther seeks out Marcel and his brothers for some advice on fatherhood, a subject one might not imagine is one of their strong suits.

https://www.amazon.com/Shittiness-Things-helaasheid-dingen-Misfortunates/dp/B003I1DZPA

 

[Slacker]

The Art of negative thinking

With his coal-black comedy The Art of Negative Thinking, Norwegian director Bård Breien gleefully eviscerates the phony-baloney, "feel-good" psychoanalytic babble that is so often hurled thoughtlessly at the severely disabled. Breien's main character, National Health psychologist Tori (Kjersti Holmen), embodies this approach. All optimistic saccharine on the surface, but a steamroller underneath, she refuses to tolerate any pessimism, cynicism, depression, or anxiety from her patients. The latter include gorgeous Marta, a mountain climber almost completely paralyzed from a fall; her troubled paramour, Gard (Henrik Mestad), grappling with guilt thanks to his direct responsibility for the accident; Lillemor (Kari Simonsen), a shrill and obnoxious, sexagenarian divorcée saddled with a neck brace who constantly tossed the "sh*t bag" in therapy -- a tea cozy used as a means of disposal for her complaints; and Asbjørn (Per Schaaning), a bilious stroke victim. All of these patients can deal with Tori's irritating positivism -- more or less. But not so with Geirr (Fridtjov Saheim), a paraplegic from a traffic accident who spends his days drowning himself in booze, chain-smoking cigarettes, and listening to suicidally depressing Johnny Cash ballads. When Geirr's wife learns of Tori's methods and decides to bring the good doctor to the house to help rehabilitate her husband, it sets the stage for a take-no-prisoners battle of positive versus negative thinking, which threatens to explode into full-scale cataclysm.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_art_of_negative_thinking/

 

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Whatever Works

Woody Allen returns to New York with an offbeat comedy about a crotchety misanthrope and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south. When her uptight parents, arrive to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into wildly unexpected romantic entanglements. Everyone discovers that finding love is just a combination of lucky chance and appreciating the value of Whatever Works.

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/whatever-works

 

[Slacker]

House of Tolerance

At the dawn of the 20th century, at Madame Marie-France's elegant Parisian bordello, the Apollonide, exists a cloistered world of pleasure, pain, hope, rivalries, and most of all, slavery. Forever in debt and confined within the brothel's walls, the seemingly pampered courtesans can only dream of a better life and a client who will set them free by accepting to pay off their heavy debts. The girls of the Apollonide have signed up in their own free will; however, as desperation and danger go hand in hand in this house of tolerance, none can say there's pleasure in this profession. Not even Marie-France.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1660379/

 

[Slacker]

Didn't mean to offend anyone...

Maybe another thread-title would be better.

Losers = Real People with real problems maybe... idk...

I see myself as a loser too....

and i´m addicted to movies ;)

 

[Slacker]

Mary and Max

"Mary and Max" is a poignant story that chronicles a pen-pal relationship between two very different people which spans nearly 2 decades across 2 continents. Though living entirely different lives, the two bond over their mutual eccentricities and isolation: Mary Dinkle is a chubby, lonely eight-year-old with an unfortunate birthmark on her forehead. She lives in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, Max Horovitz is a morbidly obese, 44-year-old formerly Jewish atheist with Asperger's Syndrome who resides amidst the chaos of New York City. "Mary and Max" chronicles the lives of Mary, who grows up to become a successful writer, and Max, who grows from middle to old age. Over their years of communication, they each offer each other support, advice and the opportunity to see life in a different perspective.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978762/

 

[akosineenee]

Didn't mean to offend anyone...

Maybe another thread-title would be better.

Losers = Real People with real problems maybe... idk...

I see myself as a loser too....

and i´m addicted to movies ;)

You're not offending anyone. At least not me and I love movies too. It's just that lately I find myself lacking energy to do much of anything much less watch a movie. There's lots on here I would definitely check out. I'm a loser too.

 

[Slacker]

Spun

Comical tale focusing on the anarchic adventures of a college drop-out named Ross who has an unhealthy appetite for illegal drugs, particularly amphetamine sulphate, or speed. Having met a heavyweight dealer and drug manufacturer, Ross agrees to become his driver, a job that leads him into a series of manic and increasingly bizarre situations that distract him from his personal quest to find his errant girlfriend.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283003/

 

[akosineenee]

Trainspotting (1996)

"Heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Tommy (Kevin McKidd). He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane (Kelly Macdonald), along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows."

 

[Slacker]

Trainspotting (1996)

classic

 

[Slacker]

It's just that lately I find myself lacking energy to do much of anything much less watch a movie. There's lots on here I would definitely check out. I'm a loser too.

I know how you feel. I don´t even want to click all the sex add´s away to watch a stream...
unfortunately I deleted all my movies from my hard disk when I wanted to ctb... (and because I thought, that the police is hunting me... because whatever I did wrong in my past...)

Hope we can keep this thread alive... for a while....

 

[Slacker]

Birdman.

This one needs definitely a cover, plot, and link.
I have seen this movie 5 times. And it is just a masterpiece...

On "Birdman," director Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu and cinematographer Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki achieved something very unusual: A film that looks like one continuous shot.

 

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Birdman

BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/birdman_2014/

 

[Slacker]

if u are going to watch this movie:
remember that Michael Keaton played Batman... :)

 

[lv-gras]

know it's not a movie but the manga version of this is Octave

 

[Slacker]

Elementarteilchen
(Atomised) The Elementary Particles (2006)

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, this movie focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, while Bruno is obsessed with his sexual desires, but mostly finds his satisfaction with prostitutes. His pitiful life changes when he gets to know the experienced Christiane. In the meantime, Michael meets Annabelle, the love of his youth, again...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430051/