Police Brutality Movies

1995. On the outskirts of Abidjan, the largest city in Ivory Coast, a policeman is murdered. Shot outside his vehicle, while his fiancée sits...

A Southern Indiana man endures a fatal night of torture after being arrested for a routine traffic stop.

Four teenagers in South Central Los Angeles plan a robbery - as people take to the streets protesting police brutality - and find unexpected...

College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the...

Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for...

A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.

Outwardly a chilling portrait of the aimless lives of unemployed inner city youths living on society's fringe, the underlying message of this...

After a series of ever more daring raids on laboratories and farms to rescue what they believe are mistreated animals, a radical commune of animal...

Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.

An ex-graffer, now security guard warns his brother about the dangers of joining riots against police brutality. Although each brother walks a...

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he...

Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as...

Purushan, a student on his way to Delhi, becomes obsessed with the tragic suicide of a young drummer. He collects many people to go with him to tell...

Years ago, the young Five Fingers fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, Tau, one...

TLMEA tells the story of two undercover cops, caught in a dream during a drug raid in which they descend into the 9th level of hell - the Ptolomea.

This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island...

February 1980, young Abdelkader Lareiche was shot in the head by a building guard in a housing estate in Vitry. In a context marked by several racist...

When an inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by Detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of misconduct and possibly revenge.

Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of...