Geylang

Apr 6, 2023

1h 27m

★ 5.0

Unable to Escape the Cage

Overview

Lust, shame, passion, lies and violence - the lives of individuals intertwine in an unyielding web under the red lights of Geylang. A desperate doctor searching for an organ for his daughter, a tormented prostitute paying off her lover's debt, a social worker with political inclinations willing to cross the line, and a ruthless pimp with a dark secret. Nothing is quite what it seems as a long night awaits.

Genres

Thriller

Action

Crime

Production Companies

MM2 Entertainment

J Team Productions

Geylang Trailers

Cast

Fatty

Mark Lee

Dr. Sun

Shane Mardjuki

Celine

Sheila Sim

Shangri-La

Patricia Lin

Fatty's Father

Steven Woon

Clinic Granny

Lily Siew Lin Ong

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.

3.7

Madigan's Millions

May 30, 1968

When a deported gangster dies in Italy, the U.S. Treasury Department is very interested in the one million dollars Madigan owed the government, but managed to take to Italy with him. They send Agent Jason Phister over to Italy to nose out the million. His criteria for the job is that no one would ever guess he's an agent of the United States government.

0.0

Alega Gang: Public Enemy No.1 of Cebu

Jul 1, 1988

In 1985, jeepney driver Ulysses "Boboy" Alega loses his vehicle just as he needed money to pay his rent and buy medications for his child. After he accidentally shoots and kills a person during a fight, Boboy is then imprisoned and tortured by the police. With his release from prison, Boboy eventually joins a group involved in arms smuggling, and after some time its members come to consider him as their leader.

5.9

The Sweet and the Bitter

Sep 4, 2007

Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor".

6.6

Black Rain

Sep 22, 1989

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.

6.1

Blondie Johnson

Feb 25, 1933

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

6.5

Shoot 'Em Up

Jul 26, 2007

A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.

6.9

Dirty Pretty Things

Sep 5, 2002

An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.

6.5

Gang War in Milan

Feb 21, 1973

A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.

5.8

The Proposal

Jan 8, 2001

An undercover cop lets his job get personal while on an underground assignment.

7.9

A Bronx Tale

Oct 1, 1993

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.

6.1

The 51st State

Dec 7, 2001

An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.

6.3

The Way of the Gun

Sep 8, 2000

Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.

6.6

Lemming

May 11, 2005

After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased...

6.0

Angel

Apr 19, 1984

Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers.

8.2

The Departed

Oct 4, 2006

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

7.4

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Sep 13, 2006

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.