Violence – MovieLog

Millers Crossing (1990)

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A highly styled ‘genre’ film which can perhaps be seen as a pastiche of all gangster movies. Tom Reagan is the laconic anti-hero of this amoral tale which is also, paradoxically, a look at morals within the criminal underworld of the 1930s. Two rival gangs vie for control of a city where the police are pawns, and the periodic busts of illicit drinking establishments are no more than a way for one gang to get back at the other. Black humour and shocking violence compete for screen time as we question whether or not Tom, right-hand man of the Irish mob leader, really has a heart.

Millers Crossing

Up is down, black is white, and nothing is what it seems.

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

USA

7.9

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Tesis (1996)

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Why is death and violence so fascinating? Is it morally correct to show violence in movies? If so, is there a limit to what we should show? That’s the subject of Ángela’s examination paper. She is a young student at a film school in Madrid. Together with the student Chema (who is totally obsessed with violent movies) they find a snuff movie in which a young girl is tortured and killed. Soon they discover that the girl was a former student at their school…

Tesis

Snuff, hesis, nuff-Movie

My name is Angela. They’re going to kill me.

Alejandro Amenábar

Spain

7.5

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L.A. Confidential (1997)

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1950’s Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.

L.A. Confidential

Everything is suspect…everyone is for sale…and nothing is what it seems.

Curtis Hanson

USA

8.4

IMDb

Harsh Times (2005)

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Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.

Harsh Times

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David Ayer

USA

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Solomon Kane (2009)

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Once a mercenary of Queen Elizabeth I fighting Spaniards in Africa, Solomon met the Devil’s Reaper and discovered he was bound for hell. Barely escaping, he soon renounced violence to atone for his past sins, seeking out redemption in a life of peace. That is until the followers of sorcerer Malachi kidnap a Puritan girl, Meredith Crowthorn, and brutally slaughter her family before his very eyes, forcing Solomon to take up arms and return to his violent ways once more to rescue her.

Solomon Kane

Соломон Кейн, azador de demonios, azador de demonios: Solomon Kane, olomon Kane – O Caçador de Demônios, olomon Kejn

Fight evil… With evil.

Michael J. Bassett

France, Czech Republic, UK

6.1

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Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (2002)

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In Seoul, Ryu, a deaf worker has a sister who needs a kidney transplant. He tries to donate his own kidney to his sister, but his blood type is not compatible with hers. When Ryu is fired from Ilshin Electronics, he meets illegal dealers of organs, and the criminals propose that he give them his kidney plus ten millions Won to obtain a kidney suitable for his sister. Ryu accepts the trade, but he does not have money to pay for the surgery. His anarchist revolutionary girlfriend Cha Young-mi convinces him to kidnap Yossun, the daughter of his former employer Park, who owns Ilshin Electronics. However, a tragedy happens, generating revenge and a series of acts of violence.

Boksuneun Naui Geot

Revenge Was Never This Sweet

Chan-wook Park

South Korea

7.8

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Once Were Warriors (1994)

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Set in urban Auckland (New Zealand) this movie tells the story of the Heke family. Jake Heke is a violent man who beats his wife frequently when drunk, and yet obviously loves both her and his family. The movie follows a period of several weeks in the family’s life showing Jake’s frequent outburst of violence and the effect that this has on his family. The youngest son is in trouble with the police and may be put into a foster home while the elder son is about to join a street gang. Jake’s daughter has her own serious problems which are a key element in the plot.

Once Were Warriors

A family in crisis, a life in chaos… Nothing is more powerful than a mother’s love.

Lee Tamahori

New Zealand

7.9

IMDb

Arena (2011)

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David Lord finds himself forced into the savage world of a modern gladiatorial arena, where men fight to the death for the entertainment of the online masses.

Arena

Jonah Loop

USA

4.9

IMDb

Ghosts… Of The Civil Dead (1988)

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The inmates and guards of a modern, clean and efficient maximum security wing are slowly and increasingly brutalised until they erupt in violence. Dark and macabre, and based in truth, the story is told in a traditional dramatic style combined with telephone interviews and narration.

Ghosts… Of The Civil Dead

John Hillcoat

Australia

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Funny Games U.S. (2007)

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In this English-language remake of a deconstruction in the way violence is portrayed in the media, a family settles into its vacation home, which happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood.—–In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, a middle-class family submits both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their vacation retreat near a lake.

Funny Games U.S.

Funny Game U.S.A.

The rules are simple. Pick a family and make them play

Michael Haneke

USA, France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy

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