Series 7: The Contenders

Jan 20, 2001

1h 27m

★ 6.2

Real People in Real Danger!

Overview

A reality TV program selects six contestants to participate in a free-for-all, no holds barred deathmatch, where they must skillfully outwit and kill each other in order to be the last person alive.

Genres

Action

Comedy

Thriller

Production Companies

October Films

Open City Films

Killer Films

Blow Up Pictures

Film4 Productions

Series 7: The Contenders Trailers

Cast

Dawn

Brooke Smith

Dairy Mart Clerk

Mark Woodbury

Tony

Michael Kaycheck

Connie

Marylouise Burke

Franklin

Richard Venture

Sheila

Donna Hanover

Lindsay

Merritt Wever

Jeff

Glenn Fitzgerald

Doria

Angelina Phillips

Dawn's Cameraman

Tom Gilroy

Michelle

Nada Despotovich

Craig

Stephen Michael Rinaldi

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4.2

Hooked Up

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0.0

Wolf of Chawl Street

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The entrepreneurial journey of a slumdog who felt inspired by Banksy.

5.5

Showtime

Mar 14, 2002

A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based T.V. cop show.

0.0

KING GAME

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5 girls and 5 guys find themselves mysteriously trapped in a room and are forced to play a psychological game of dare.

4.2

Reel Zombies

Oct 4, 2008

Three film directors make a documentary about the undead in an invested world, he filmed in a time of real zombies. The crew filmed the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse, the real zombie invasion is underway

4.3

Dance to Death

Mar 16, 2017

Deadly dance tournament is carried out in the city survived after nuclear apocalypse. Energy is extracted from the loser for the city to survive. A young guy from the street is forced to take part in the tournament and falls in love with girl who volunteered to participate in the battle. Will they survive or the arena will take their lives?

3.0

Snuff 102

Mar 1, 2007

A young Argentinian reporter is writing an article about snuff films - which depict real torture, rape and murder of people. But seeking the films and those behind them might backfire. She herself is in danger of becoming one of the suffering.

0.0

Director's Cut

Aug 13, 2015

No overview available.

6.6

Fermat's Room

Oct 7, 2007

Four mathematicians are imprisoned in a shrinking room; with the walls closing in, they must try anything to escape this fatal puzzle.

6.1

Death Race 2000

Apr 30, 1975

In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.

6.8

A Mighty Wind

Apr 16, 2003

Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.

6.4

13: Game of Death

Oct 5, 2006

After losing his job, his car and his money, Phuchit, races against time to complete 13 tasks ordered by an anonymous caller who promised 100 million Baht upon completion.

3.8

51 Degrees North

Jun 30, 2015

When Damon Miller, a talented, young London filmmaker becomes involved in the disturbing research surrounding Near-Earth Objects he stumbles onto the discovery that the Earth stands on the brink of an extraterrestrial disaster.

6.8

Babysitting

Apr 16, 2014

Looking for a baby-sitter for the night, Marc Schaudel entrusts his son Remy to the care of his employee Franck, a straight man. But the thing that Marc doesn't know, is that Franck is getting 30 years old this weekend and that his son Remy is a very capricious child. The next day, Marc and his wife Claire are awakened by a call from the police. Remy and Franck are missing, and the house is totally devastated. The police finds a camera in the leftovers. Marc, Claire and the police start watching the video that has been recorded the day before during the night and find out what happened to Franck and Remy.

4.3

#FollowMe

Jun 4, 2019

Three British women from London, consisting of a YouTuber and her two friends, go missing from a motel in California while travelling from Los Angeles to San Francisco after posting on social media using the the hashtag #followme.

0.0

The Actual Truth: Cancel Culture

Oct 18, 2022

After a YouTube video in which he claimed that Bluetooth attracts bees was blocked for misinformation, Thomas Wrinklesmooth started his investigation into censorship and cancel culture.

3.8

Ingagi

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An expedition enters an area of the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe.

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0.0

Walking to Linas

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Walking to Linas is the story of two artists, Stasha and Ada, on a pilgrimage to director Linas Phillips. This mockumentary comedy follows the hijinx of the two girls and the people that they meet along their journey. This is the feature length version of the web series The Prosaic Life of Stasha and Ada.

6.9

Best in Show

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The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.