A clean-cut synth artist in Germany hopes to turn his career around with the help of a washed-up, erratic, publicity-crazed American manager.
Tag: riot
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The Trigger Effect
A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questionable, in order to survive in a predatory environment.
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On Hostile Ground
A geologist (John Corbett) investigates a sinkhole under New Orleans that might engulf the city during Mardi Gras.
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Hey Ram
Saketh Ram’s wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country. He sets out to kill him.
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Dark Blue
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
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The Third Wave
Johan Falk hasn’t been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.
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Across the Universe
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.
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Harry Brown
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend’s murder by doling out his own form of justice.
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Brighton Rock
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
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King of Devil’s Island
Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, determined to escape from the island. After a tragic incident, he ends up leading the boys in a violent uprising. When the boys manage to take over the island, 150 soldiers are sent in to restore order.