twisted films, disturbing themes
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- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsNaomi WattsTim RothMichael PittTwo psychopathic young men take a family hostage in their cabin.Scenario: A family settles into a quiet calm countryside. Two young men in white come knocking on their insisting on welcoming the family to the town.
Why is it distrurbing?
Innocent gestures of hospitality gradually darkens into a sadistic set of games. - DirectorSion SonoStarsRyo IshibashiMasatoshi NagaseMai HôshôA detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.Scenario: a phenomenon with fatal consequences becomes viral among the youth. Committing a suicide is the name of the game.
Why is it disturbing?
The whole game revolves around suicide and violence. Imagery is gory and themes are sombre and nihilistic. - DirectorSion SonoStarsMasumi MiyazakiIssei IshidaRie KuwanaThe erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.Scenario: A story of a disfunctional family where the father is abusive and the mother doesn't comprehend the traumas this causes on the child.
Why is it disturbing?
The abuse reveals itself in form of incest and sexual abuse. The protagonist is trapped in the nightmare that her parents cherish. - DirectorSion SonoStarsMitsuru FukikoshiDendenAsuka KurosawaThe lives of a bored suburban couple are changed forever when a seemingly nice old man gives their daughter a job at his fish store, and soon his gruesome hobbies are brought to light.Scenario: A family moves to a new town and try to make friends with locals. The parent's teenage is rebellious and insists working in a local aquarium shop. However, the shop owner are anything but friendly behind closed doors.
Why is it disturbing?
The shop owners have murdeous thirst and drag the family into witnessing the cruelties they commit towards others. Extremily gory. - DirectorPascal LaugierStarsMorjana AlaouiMylène JampanoïCatherine BéginA young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.Scenario: Two young women intrude a family home and massacre with cold blood everyone on sight. They have experienced years of abuse and are desperate of finding and killing those held responsible.
Why is it disturbing?
The girls suffer mentally and are extremily untouched by the violence they commit. Extremely gory and nihilistic. - DirectorAlexandre BustilloJulien MauryStarsAlysson ParadisJean-Baptiste TabourinClaude LuléFour months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.Scenario: A mother is staying alone home when suddenly a psychotic women invades the privacy of her home intending to murder the mother and her unborn child.
Why is it disturbing?
Very little is explained about the motifs of the intruder. Her blind rage towards the innocent woman presents itself in maniac attemps to end her life. Gory, sense of desparation and unforgiving on the viewer. - DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsChoi Min-sikYoo Ji-taeKang Hye-jeongAfter being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.Scenario: A man has drunk himself into a mess the day of his daugther's birthday and is kept in police station to calm down. He is realised and a mysterious persons kidnaps him. He wakes in a closed room, without knowing why is he there and for how long. After 15 years, he is released without explanation and told to find the captor in three days or else he will put back to his miserable room again.
Why is it disturbing?
The captor is motivated to have his revenge on the protaginist. He revelead the incestous relationship the captor had with his own sister. The shame led the sister to commit suicide. The antagonist hypnotizes the man and gets him to unconsciensly to sleep his own daughter whom he has not seen in last 15 years. A Bittersweet ending for the father and daughter. - DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsSong Kang-hoShin Ha-kyunBae DoonaA recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' friend's daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant.Scenario: A sister of young man is desperate to find a cure for her. He kidnaps the daughter of a wealthy in hopes of generous ransom.
Why is it disturbing?
The father is torn to pieces by the disappereance of his child. He seeks to revenge the captor through painful and unforgiving means. - DirectorNa Hong-jinStarsKim Yoon-seokHa Jung-wooSeo Yeong-hieA disgraced ex-policeman who runs a small ring of prostitutes finds himself in a race against time when one of his women goes missing.
- DirectorKim Jee-woonStarsLee Byung-hunChoi Min-sikJeon Gook-hwanA secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.Scenario: A fiancée of young man is murdered by a sadistic psychopath.He's thirsty for a bloodshed.
Why is it disturbing?
The film is a big mouse-and-cat game. The protagonist wishes to inflict as much pain and suffering to the killer but the killer knows how to deepen his pain by hurting more those he cares about. - DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJeff BridgesJennifer TillyJodelle FerlandBecause of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsAssumpta SernaAntonio BanderasNacho MartínezA matador is wounded by a bull and can no longer kill in the arena. It is just one of the problems of one of the characters that unexpectedly collide in this film.
- DirectorDanny LeeHerman YauStarsAnthony Chau-Sang WongDanny LeeEmily KwanMacau cops begin to suspect a man running a pork buns restaurant of murder, after tracing the origin of a case full of chopped up human remains that washed ashore, which leads them to him.
- DirectorHerman YauStarsAnthony Chau-Sang WongYeung-Ming WanFui-On ShingA Chinese restaurant worker wanted for murder in Hong Kong contracts Ebola in South Africa, becomes immune to it, and unknowingly spreads the virus there, then comes back to Hong Kong and continues to infect people with it.
- DirectorJason EisenerStarsRutger HauerPasha EbrahimiRobb WellsA homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun.
- DirectorGyörgy PálfiStarsCsaba CzeneIstván GyuriczaGina MorenoThree generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
- DirectorRémy BelvauxAndré BonzelBenoît PoelvoordeStarsBenoît PoelvoordeJacqueline Poelvoorde-PappaertNelly PappaertA film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.
- DirectorSam Taylor-JohnsonStarsDakota JohnsonJamie DornanJennifer EhleLiterature student Anastasia Steele's life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsMatthew McConaugheyEmile HirschJuno TempleWhen a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.
- DirectorKim Hyeong-joonStarsSul Kyung-guRyu Seung-beomHan Hye-jinDespite being nearly proven the murderer, a serial killer threatens to kill the daughter of a forensic pathologist if he doesn't get him bailed out.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsYûta SoneKimika YoshinoShohei HinoA yakuza enforcer is ordered to secretly drive his beloved colleague to be assassinated. But when the colleague unceremoniously disappears en route, the trip that follows is a twisted, surreal and horrifying experience.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsOksana AkinshinaArtyom BogucharskiyPavel PonomaryovSixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsIsabelle HuppertSandrine BonnaireJacqueline BissetA newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsIsabelle HuppertAnnie GirardotBenoît MagimelA young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
- DirectorChristopher SmithStarsFranka PotenteSean HarrisVas BlackwoodTrapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets.