Tag: riot

  • White Star

    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.

  • 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.

  • On Hostile Ground

    A geologist (John Corbett) investigates a sinkhole under New Orleans that might engulf the city during Mardi Gras.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Harry Brown

    An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend’s murder by doling out his own form of justice.

  • Brighton Rock

    Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

  • 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…

  • We Are Young. We Are Strong.

    On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese men, women and children on what has since become known as “The Night of the Fire.”…

  • ’71

    A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.

  • Behind 98

    During a turning point in Indonesian history, a family must endure personal turmoil while their nation faces drastic political upheaval.

  • Hotel Artemis

    Los Angeles, June 21st, 2028. While the streets are being torn apart by riots, the Nurse, who runs a clandestine hospital for criminals in the penthouse of the Artemis, a closed old hotel, has a rough night dealing with troublemaker clients: thieves, assassins, someone from the past and the one who owns the place and…

  • The Hate U Give

    Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she’s torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

  • Thanksgiving

    After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan.

  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.

  • The French Dispatch

    The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

  • Prison Cell 211

    Caught in a prison riot, a human rights lawyer poses as an inmate to survive. As he blends in, chaos and personal loss unveil the darkness within him.

  • Megalopolis

    Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero, the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties,…