Movies: Violence

Living in a fictional world all their own, the machines of Survival Research Laboratories act out scenarios of perpetual torment, exasperating consumption, and tragic recognition...

After a strict upbringing and the death of his beloved sister, Aro Tolbukhin leaves Hungary for Guatemala. Taken in as a political refugee at a mission, Aro grows close to Sister Carmen and becomes part of the community, but a series of misfortunes d...

A psycho serial killer is stalking potential victims that he butchers and dismembers to make his ultimate snuff film....

Slim muscular women, with bare midriffs, demonstrate kuo shu martial arts, fighting with long sticks in front of sleazy rich men. It's an art performed as entertainment; but, when violence breaks out within the troupe, Tyler (the best fighter) leaves...

A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent 6000 "unwanted" citizens of Moscow and Leningrad to a desolate Siberian island - with no food or clothes to speak of. Decades later this documentary ...

Tracking the evolution from 16mm and VHS to modern tech and thermal imaging, we shadow an army man. He treasures trophies, a family photo, boot camp moments. Yet, CCTV captures his crime, etched in digital memory....

An in-depth analysis on the 40th Anniversary of the life and untimely death of Arthur Lee McDuffie at the hands of Miami Dade police officers....

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Brought to you by Najmudeen Ouerhani and Sweet Potato Productions, Detective Pearson is on the hunt for The Maniac in this elusive physiological thriller. The catch? The detective knows where The Maniac is from the very beginning......

A decade after taking a series of photographs of skinhead members of a far-right group for his book Public Enemies, Leo Regan returns to three members of the gang to see what has happened to them in the intervening years....

Hard hitting, gritty but low budget mob drama of disgraced mobster trying to go straight but not allowed to by his "family" unit....

Mattia is 17 years old. Raised in a post-industrial province and experiencing an identity crisis, he is the son of a trade unionist and a housewife. Hypersensitive and fragile, he expresses himself through hip-hop music. The death of his older brothe...

Tom, a wannabe streamer becomes the prime suspect in a missing persons case after ordering a mystery box off the Dark Web and a series of incriminating evidence continues to be delivered to his home. Tom wants fame and notoriety but for none of the ...

In Top Hat Balloon's Liquor & Blood two thieves are on the run after their latest stick-up. Written and directed by Jordan Johnson and Max Olmsted. Music by Eric Momou. Starring Theo Olmsted, Eric Momou, and Max Olmsted. (Viewer Discretion is Advised...

A film about the dark side of existence as an individual in everyday society. A portrait of a number of people in confrontational situations. People who struggle with themselves and with life....

After everyone else has left for the weekend, detention and science club students find themselves trapped together, and when a masked gang lays siege to the school it forces the unlikely allies to unite in order to survive....

Women’s voices rise to deliver testimonies of victims of sexual violence. By reconstructing a story with these fragments of experience, a societal portrait is painted throughout the documentary. Like a mosaic, the pieces stick together to build a uni...

When his brother is kidnapped in a home invasion, Cole has no choice but to delve into his absent father's criminal past to try and bring him home, and lift his family from the criminal underworld's reach once and for all....

In the early 2000s, Lithuania undergoes a major transformation, moving away from its socialist past toward an uncertain future. Amidst this societal shift, two boys from vastly different worlds, Paulius and Glebas, unexpectedly cross paths...

Why don't we do something to ease the suffering of the poor, the excluded? Because we live in fear of "the other," the stranger. Filmed a few months before the 2004 presidential election, On the Road with Mary is a gripping view of an America living ...