Movies and TvShows featuring "crime-and-punishment" theme.
Irrational Man is a 2015 movie about a philosophy professor named Abe Lucas who is going through an existential crisis. He arrives at a small town college in Rhode Island and forms a connection with two women - a student named Jill and a married professor named Rita. Abe decides to commit a morally justifiable murder to find new purpose in his life.
In the Nick of Time is a gripping political thriller set in Athens, Greece. When a prime minister is assassinated, an amateur detective finds himself caught in a web of conspiracy and cover-up. As he investigates the crime, he uncovers shocking secrets and realizes that nothing is what it seems. With the help of a guardian angel and a surprising turn of events, he must navigate a dangerous path to uncover the truth and bring the culprits to justice.
A powerful crime boss builds an empire by controlling the organized crime in Mumbai. However, his empire starts crumbling when his protégé turns against him to start his own gang. As rivalries and violence escalate, the police commissioner tries to bring them down.
A police officer becomes obsessed with a married woman and resorts to murder to have her for himself. As he delves deeper into his dark desires, he becomes entangled in a web of deceit and manipulation.
Electric City is an award-winning, animated, post-apocalyptic, science fiction, web series published through Yahoo!. Created by Tom Hanks, the series begins after the world has ended. Electric City represents peace and security in the midst of rubble. Even though it seems to be an orderly utopia, there are still secrets, back-alley dealings, daring chases and murder.
In 1892, 32-year-old Lizzie Borden is accused of brutally murdering her father and stepmother with an axe in Massachusetts. As the trial unfolds, secrets are revealed and the truth becomes increasingly elusive.
Blond bombshell Zeynep, a mute girl who lives with her aging father at a farm. One day five criminals, who just escaped from prison, invades the homes and kills the father and rapes Zeynep. Because of the shock of being raped, she regains her speech and decides to take revenge on the criminals. With the help of the friendly hobo Murat she learns to be en expert shooter, manages to take a brown belt in karate and sets out to kill them all.
A newlywed couple, Bea and Paul, travel to a remote cabin for their honeymoon. However, their blissful trip turns into a nightmare when an uninvited guest arrives and begins tormenting them. With their relationship and sanity tested, they must confront their past and fight for their survival.
In this minimalist drama, a group of people find themselves in a waiting room, where they confront boredom, betrayal, and selfishness. The film explores themes of minimalism and literature, drawing inspiration from the works of Dostoevsky. As the characters wait, tensions rise and secrets are revealed, leading to unexpected consequences. The director's improvisational style and focus on the mundane create a stark atmosphere that reflects the characters' feelings of emptiness and disconnect.
The Demi-Paradise is a comedy-drama movie that takes place in Britain during World War II. The story revolves around a Russian engineer who comes to England to build a new ship for the British Navy. Along the way, he encounters romance, political activism, and the challenges of war.
A retelling of Crime and Punishment, the famous novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When Black Bill's father is murdered and his uncle kidnapped, he sets out in pursuit of the perpetrators.
A modern adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, set in contemporary Helsinki. Raskolnikov, a struggling law student, commits a brutal murder, believing himself above the law. As guilt and paranoia consume him, he spirals into a mental and moral crisis, all while the relentless lead investigator closes in on him.
Aundrey Burno, a black youth looking down the wrong end of a murder charge -- for which a conviction could result in a lifetime in prison -- appears to be the epitome of an unrepentant thug. Speaking to viewers, he claims to have done whatever was necessary to survive on the mean streets, to earn the respect of his criminal peers. But as his case progresses and his younger brother, Kevin, faces the same choices he did -- to become a thug or not -- a very different Aundrey reveals himself.
Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more boys than men, kill a gamekeeper when they are caught illegally hunting. Panicked, they retreat into a forest that grows steadily more forbidding and deadly as their fear for the future—and guilt over their action—mounts. Loosely based on hundreds of oral folk tales and legends that haunt the woods of Czechoslovakia, Vlácil’s contemporary updating artistically underscores the relationship between man and nature, crime and punishment, isolation and society, and guilt and memory.
Young lawyer Millie has fallen madly in love with the mysterious Liz, but romance turns to betrayal when Millie, about to prosecute a vicious thug, discovers that the love of her life works for him. To make matters worse, two killers – the dangerously methodical but bookwormish Beckett and the seriously deranged Hansen — appear on the scene to forcibly extract information from Millie. Who she should trust and who is bent on murder are the overriding questions as loyalties are tested, guns are drawn and knives are flashed.
In the year 2020, a surreal and dream-like world is created where a person's guilt and conscience come alive. The protagonist is haunted by a murder and is trapped in a surrealistic musical journey as he tries to confront his guilt and find redemption.
A tale of justice, punishment, and power, Revenge tells the story of a man seeking vengeance for a crime committed against him. As he navigates through a world of violence, betrayal, and death, he must confront his own demons and question the very nature of justice.
Three different countries and one case of deadly violence each. Three men who have killed and three families who have lost a beloved one. In the common idea of guilt and punishment this makes three who get punished and three who are meant to forget. Unthinkable to imagine the two sides will ever get closer. The film tells three times the impossible story: To meet your enemy - in thoughts, in messages, in real life. A film that challenges our ideas of guilt and punishment.
Leopoldo Quintana is a lawyer who, determined to reach power and capable of anything to get what he wants, uses blackmail and shady maneuvers to be appointed congressman for the Balearic Islands, then minister, and finally President of the Council of Ministers of the Spanish Government.