Stylish and throbbing with raw power, Trainspotting follows the friendgroup of unemployed heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor in his breakthrough role), as they alleviate the ennui of impoverished Scottish existence with drinking, drugs and petty larceny. Despite Renton's half-hearted attempts to leave his squalid lifestyle and start again, the treacherous Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), gormless Spud and violent Begbie continue to draw him deeper into even more dangerous schemes.

Thirty years from its first impact on British filmmaking, Danny Boyle's hugely influential Trainspotting has received a restoration befitting its beautiful ugliness. Boyle's humour and style—full of wildly inventive camerawork and hallucination-tinged imagery—keeps what could be a grim piece of social realism hurtling along with energy and verve, with added propulsion from one of the greatest soundtracks of all time.

This film plays as part of our BFFs film series of best friends, frenemies, toxic bromances and so much more. Enjoy the second-hand emotions of watching people who love and love to hate each other, in allegedly platonic ways.