Synopsis
Ill Manors (2012) is a British crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. The directing debut of rapper Plan B stitches together six lives on the streets of East London across just a few days.
A dealer, the kid he's grooming, a sex worker fleeing her pimp, and a lad who loses his phone in the wrong postcode — their threads keep snagging on one another, where one stranger's mistake sets off the next. The whole thing is rooted in Forest Gate: tower blocks, stairwells, drugs and violence as the air every character grew up breathing. Riz Ahmed and Ed Skrein turn up here well before Hollywood came calling.
Ben Drew, aka Plan B, didn't just direct it — he wrote the score, using rap verses instead of voiceover to lay out each character's backstory. It's harsh and unromantic, made for anyone drawn to gritty social realism in the lineage of British kitchen-sink drama. Stream Ill Manors (2012) online on iFILM.
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