Filth
A drug-addled, manipulative misanthrope (James McAvoy) begins to experience increasingly severe hallucinations as he tries to solve the murder of a Japanese student. But when he solves the case and wins the promotion, his wife will return to him.
1958, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
August1982, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1981, Malaysia
1971, Brent, London, England, UK
28 August 1943, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 June 1968, Stepney, London, England, UK
23 August 1980, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
22 January 1965, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
June 06, 2016
Filth is a flawed but ultimately engaging and harrowing bit of moral theater.
November 27, 2015
Walks on a thin line between grotesque entertainment, perversion and the inestability of its main character, in a middle point between a dark comedy and a masoquistic fantasy. [Full review in Spanish]
May 30, 2014
I'm not sure I can recommend the movie, but this actor and this performance are something to behold.
December 24, 2014
This is one of those movies where much of the non-Scottish audience would need subtitles and a Scottish slang dictionary. It is brimming with profanity and explicit sex scenes and an amazing performance by James McAvoy.
May 30, 2014
"Filth" demonstrates that contemporary filmmakers would do well to fine new ways of getting their hands dirty.
May 30, 2014
Credit the filmmakers with descending persuasively into the swampy squalor of a diseased mind. If you're in the mood to go there with them, Filth offers an indecently bracing wallow.
May 29, 2014
Unlike Jude Law's similarly offensive title character in Dom Hemingway, McAvoy is given a far better story to work from.
May 30, 2014
Viewers hungry for a catch-all dose of Welshian sardonicism would be better served checking out Trainspotting. Better soundtrack, for one.
March 04, 2016
After all is said and done, the director and main actor still manage to create a measure of sympathy for this almost-Machiavellian character because we've also caught a glimpse of the man underneath the coke-snorting, whisky-drinking bigot.
December 12, 2014
Crude comedy.
June 05, 2014
"Filth" lives up to its title and then some, but a no-holds performance by James McAvoy is reason enough to watch.
November 26, 2015
Captures perfectly and expands on the colorful but pessimist junkie pop lover style set by Fight Club and Trainspotting in a modern time. [Full review in Spanish]
