Tag: punishment

  • Escape from Hell

    A women’s prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is dealt with swiftly and savagely. The camp doctor is horrified at what he sees happening, and drinks heavily to push the horror away. Finally the inmates have had had enough, and they enlist the help of the doctor to try and escape.

  • My American Uncle

    Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.

  • Swimming with Sharks

    Guy is a young film executive who’s willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman, a domineering, manipulative, coldhearted boss. When Guy also finds out that his cynical girlfriend, Dawn, has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit. Guy decides to exact revenge on Buddy by kidnapping him and subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment.

  • Hot Legs

    Tim holds Dave, the man that he loved in school when they were teenagers, captive in a motel room – the same man who as a boy betrayed and humiliated him. Tim’s aim: To understand Dave’s motivations, to humiliate, degrade and kill him… But will he be able to go through with turning his dark fantasy into reality?

  • Fortress 2

    7 years on from the original Fortress movie, Brennick and his family are still on the run. Finally, they give in, and surrender, only to find themselves imprisoned in a new, more sophisticated fortress prison in outer space. But Brennick’s not a man to give in easily, and with a 10 year old son waiting for him back on earth, he’s going to pack some serious assault on the evil corporation.

  • Dracula 2000

    When a team of techno-savvy thieves break into a high-security vault, they don’t discover priceless works of art… they find a crypt unopened for 100 years.

  • The Magdalene Sisters

    Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

  • Frailty

    A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact “demons.”

  • Dead Man’s Shoes

    A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.

  • The White Ribbon

    An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.