On September the 4th, 1969, a group of Brazilian revolutionaries kidnap the U.S. ambassador. In exchange for his release, they demand that the Brazilian authorities publish a manifesto they provide, and release 15 political prisoners.

Lost short film about the death of the last Aztec Emperor.

Pinku directed by Tarō Araki

Mustaev and Minko pick up the camera in the same rush as they grab the phone to film an emergency. For self-defense, as a measure of civil defense. Or out of a burning desire to capture an extraordinary phenomenon: for example, a story about how the leadership of a theater Institute forcibly imposes a dubious ideological production of the authorship of a certain Deputy on an entire group of students.

Why do humans torture other humans? This is the question Frankfurt’s director Dieter Reifarth addresses in Die Tortur. Following along the lines of Jean Améry’s essay of the same name, he draws a picture of the author’s experiences of being a Nazi prisoner in the Belgian fort Breendonk. Archived footage and images from the present-day museum are shown to accompany the original audio recordings.

During their summer vacation, Victoria and her boyfriend Leo check out a country house and prepare it for a party. Upon arrival, they discover the facade in very poor condition and, while they organize the disorder, an intruder begins to stalk them.

When a law enforcement officer unravels the cells on the seventh floor of the prison tower, he makes a discovery that will affect politics and the judiciary, the press and the public for decades.

On March 6, 2022 during the anti-war protests in Russia more than 5000 people were detained. At the «Brateevo» police station in Moscow at least 11 girls were subjected to physical and psychological violence at the hands of an unnamed police officer dressed in all black. This documentary by BBC tells the story of how the girls were able to find their torturer and his supervisor.

Using testimonies of experts that help torture victims to recover and even some victims that talk about their experiences, Coixet travels across different places (Denmark, Sarajevo, Bosnia) trying to approach an incredibly close reality that many people think it´s past.

Documentary of the trial of the torturers of the Greek junta

This story is based on the historical record of tortures in the Samurai era of Japan.

This story is based on the historical record of tortures in the Samurai era of Japan.

A girl, whose parents were humiliated and killed by a policeman for suspected spy action during the war in China, takes revenge by torturing and then shooting him, the killer.

Arisa works as a hostess in a local city. She has been deceived by her lover and imprisoned in a foreign prison on suspicion of drug trafficking, and since she returned to Japan she has spent her lethargic days. Takashi, the vice president of a general construction company, falls in love with Arisa. Despite his enthusiasm, the two became lovers, but their happiness did not last long. Although it was a political marriage, Takashi had a wife! Knowing that she had been deceived, Arisa decided to return to her hometown to break up with Takashi.

Set in the Edo Era, the film opens with a group of women being convicted of various crimes. The rest of the film is given to graphic depiction of the tortures the women endure as part of their sentences.

Since 9/11, the US has used torture in the war on terror. But the true story started in the 50's with CIA-financed research programs on "enhanced interrogation techniques" at America's finest universities and spans to the current day on American soil. Over 70 years, the US has transformed the use of torture into state culture.

In the village, there was an old traditon of offering a virgin as a sacrifice to the Evil Spirits Orga once in a dozen years. This year, a striking beauty by the name of Alice Edingburgh was elected as a prey. She fell in love with a beautiful youngster Alphonce and engaged in an adultery. Losing her virginity and the qualification to be a sacrifice, she had to face the angered Evil Spirits Orga, who began torturing her in front of all the villagers looking on with suspicious wonder.

Crime drama where the journalist Fergusson investigate criminal activities, finding himself in dangerous situations.