Movies and TvShows featuring "beaten-by-police" theme.

Leave No Traces is a thrilling movie based on a true story, set in 1980s communist Poland. It follows the journey of a college student who gets entangled in a web of police violence, corruption, and identity control. Faced with brutal challenges, the protagonist must navigate a world filled with danger and betrayal.

Sioux City follows a Native American man who becomes a victim of racism and corruption after his mother is murdered. He sets out on a journey to seek justice, uncovering a web of secrets and discovering his own heritage along the way.

Aurora is a young mother living in Europe, trying to balance the joys and challenges of motherhood while also dealing with her own personal struggles. As she takes care of her child, she is confronted with various obstacles that test her patience and resilience. With the enchanting backdrop of the Aurora Borealis, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery and growth.

A story of family, of dreams deferred, and of a final chance at redemption. Frustrated with his waning baseball career, David returns to his hometown and becomes obsessed with a local lovely, reaching out to her troubled son. When David is rejected, the townsfolk gossip about his relationship with the boy.

In Counsellor at Law, a lawyer named George Simon finds himself dealing with a variety of personal and professional issues. As his marriage starts to deteriorate, he becomes involved in a case with a wealthy socialite who is being accused of blackmail. As he navigates through these challenges, Simon's life takes unexpected twists and turns, leading him to question his ethics and values. Set against the backdrop of Manhattan, this pre-code comedy-drama explores themes of love, betrayal, and the complexities of the legal profession.

Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 is a documentary that explores the series of events in Los Angeles during the years 1982 to 1992, including the Los Angeles riots, racism, police brutality, and the criminal justice system.

A chronicle of the controversial 1978 Philadelphia police raid on the radical back-to-nature group MOVE and the aftermath that led to a son’s decades-long fight to free his parents. Through eyewitness accounts and archival footage of the escalating tension that resulted in the controversial confrontation between police and MOVE members, the film illuminates the story of a city grappling with racial tension and police brutality with alarming topicality and modern-day relevance.

Chris is a psychic who lives his life out of order - experiencing past, present and future as a jigsaw puzzle. But when he commits a murder in the future, he has to change his past and present in order to prevent it from happening.

Max visits a doctor who prescribes a tonic (Bordeaux of Cinchona) for him to drink every morning. Upon returning home, Max sees a large glass which was left by his wife and labeled "Souvenir de Bordeaux". He consumes it its entirety after assuming that it was his medicine. Immediately Max feels much better. Hilarity ensues as Max goes about the day in a completely drunken state.

In the wake of the shooting of five Dallas police officers, BBC Three investigates why tension is rising between America’s police forces and ethnic minorities. Shot on the streets of New York, the film follows ‘Cop Watchers’ – men and women who track the NYPD in a cat-and-mouse game to try and film arrests and possible cases of brutality. NYPD officers also speak out, alleging systemic racism and a policy of targeting ethnic minority communities in order hit their arrest quotas.

Ferguson Rises is a documentary that explores the events of the Ferguson uprising in 2014, shedding light on themes of systemic racism, police brutality, and the struggle for justice.

From suspected arson to illegal evictions, Paul Garrin’s documentary follows two years of police harassment of unsheltered people in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, as well as acts of protests and resistance in the fight for housing justice.