Ill Manors (2012 Ben Drew & scr)

I must say, I was hooked from hearing a rap track which samples Saint-Saëns ('I Am the Narrator'). Plan B's most inventive debut, in which he raps the characters' back stories in ultra tough inner city tales (Forest Gate) - deprived and abused childhoods seem to figure largely in characters' lives. Nasty in its depiction of violence towards women - it's a wonder they don't all group together and kill the shit scum who abuse them.

With Riz Ahmed (good as usual) and hot-headed Ed Skrein, Anouska Mond (smack hooker), Eloise Smyth (15 year old) and Natalie Press (young mother), Danielle Brent (social worker), Neil Large (fat bastard), Lee Allen (scarred), Ryan de la Cruz (teenager), Keef Coggins (dealer who gets shot), Mem Ferda (Russian) and Nick Sagar. Plan B is himself a taxi driver, not the only nod to that film (La Haine was also a big impression when he was growing up).

Shot by Gary Shaw, who began as a special effects photographer and then a director of car ads.