Movies and TvShows featuring "crime-and-punishment" theme.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
"Hero" is the worst punishment in the world. For those convicted of heinous crimes, they are sentenced to become a “Hero" and forced to enter the mandatory military service in the war against the Demon Lords. These convicts are not even allowed to die—if killed, they will be resurrected to fight another day. Hero Xylo Forbartz, former head of the Order of the Holy Knights, leads a penal unit of deplorables fighting on the front lines. It’s in these direst of circumstances that he meets Teoritta, one of the world’s the strongest weapons. "When every last enemy has been defeated, you are to shower me with praise and pat my head." In order to survive and to take revenge on those who wronged him, he makes a pact with the goddess and launches headfirst into a maelstrom of war and intrigue.
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.
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 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.
A retelling of Crime and Punishment, the famous novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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.
When Black Bill's father is murdered and his uncle kidnapped, he sets out in pursuit of the perpetrators.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.