Resources for keyword: Crime

A Prayer for When the Unthinkable Happens
Frederic Brussat
A prayer in response to the Aurora shootings and other unfathomable tragedies.

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Disconnect
Henry-Alex Rubin
Three compelling dramas about lives shattered by thieves using the tools of technology to steal things of great value to their victims.

The Act of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer
A poignant and powerful wake-up call to the pornography of violence and its major role in crimes against humanity.

Eden
Megan Griffiths
A compelling indie film inspired by a true story about a New Mexico woman who is kidnapped and forced into prostitution in a sex trade operation.

A Hijacking
Tobias Lindholm
A poignant and powerful drama about the hijacking of a Danish cargo ship and its seven member crew by Somali.

11 Flowers
Wang Xiaoshuai
A compelling Chinese coming-of-age drama about a young boy's initiation into the adult world of violence and mystery.

Side Effects
Steven Soderbergh
Another mesmerizing thriller from Steven Soderbergh set in the world of Big Pharma and the widespread use of antidepressant drugs.

West of Memphis
Amy Berg
A laser-sharp documentary about a grisly crime, the unjust imprisonment of three innocent young men, and the first crowd-sourced investigation in history.

Killing Them Softly
Andrew Dominik
A character-driven gangster drama exposing the shadow side of America as nothing more than a business ruled by money, power, and violence.

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Alex Gibney
A shocking and poignant documentary about the Catholic Church's cover-up of sexual abuse and the victims who heroically came forward to break their silence.

Praying the News: When the Unthinkable Happens
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A prayer in response to the Aurora shootings and other unfathomable tragedies.

Polisse
Maiwenn
A sizzling French drama about a courageous team of men and women in a Parisian Child Protection Unit who struggle to survive the daily deluge of crime and chaos.

Bernie
Richard Linklater
An inventive drama about a gregarious assistant funeral director in a small Texas town where he is widely cherished.

Breathing
Karl Markovics
Poignant story of a nineteen-year-old at a Austrian juvenile detention center who gets a probation job at a morgue and begins inching toward a new life.

The Kid with a Bike
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
A salute to the art of empathy and the need to cultivate it in our approach to troubled kids and other outsiders on the fringe of society.

An excerpt from The Cross and the Lynching Tree
James H. Cone
A theologian's incisive assessment of lynching in America and a critique of the silence of Christian communities.

The Guard
John Martin McDonagh
An impressive performance by Brendan Gleeson as an eccentric, independent and surly cop in a small Irish seaside town.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
David Fincher
A dark thriller that mines the meanings of family skeletons, power, corruption, sex, and misogyny.

Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows
Guy Richie
A sequel that betters the original by focusing on relationships and the battle between the Zen master of attention and the fiend of chaos and darkness.

J. Edgar
Clint Eastwood
A biopic about the director of the FBI for 50 years whose legacy is today's us-versus-them approach in public life.

Into the Abyss
Wernor Herzog
A documentary on capital punishment filled with small and humble human touches.



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