Crime Scene brings together six brand new films exploring the gritty underbelly of human society. This is a cinematic world of spectacular heists, unsolved murders and daring kidnappings, of crimes of passion and crimes of hate, jet black comedies and slow burning dramas.
BULLHEAD(Belgium, 129 min) A box office hit in Belgium, the crime drama Bullhead takes us on a disturbing journey into the darkened soul of a broken man. In the expanses of the farmlands of Flanders, the hulking Jacky tries to live a quiet existence on his family's cattle ranch. Haunted by a horrific childhood tragedy, Jacky's previous life is brought back into violent relief when the family becomes embroiled in the growth hormone black market. More > |
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ELITE SQUAD: THE ENEMY WITHIN(Brazil, 116 min) Explosive, political and unforgiving, The Enemy Within breaks new ground and box office records in Brazilian cinema. On the heels of his award-winning Elite Squad, filmmaker José Padilha (Bus 174, Garapa) follows up with what proved to be the most successful film in Brazilian history - Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (co-written with City of God's Braulio Mantovani), an incendiary thriller that packs a punch even for audiences new to the franchise. More > |
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA(Turkey/Bosnia Herzegovina, 157 min) "A deep and haunting work that lingers in the memory." - Hollywood Reporter As they drive through the Anatolian countryside looking for the body of a dead man, a policeman, a prosecutor and the two men who have confessed to the killing talk and joke with each other, gradually revealing the strands of a much greater mystery. More > |
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POLISSE(France, 129 min) "Filmmaker-star Maïwenn's socially-minded film is packed with raw, visceral performances from an accomplished cast." - Hollywood Reporter Compelling and occasionally a little disturbing, Polisse follows the trials of Paris's Juvenile Protection Unit, as they are faced on a daily basis with the best and worst of human behaviour, taking the knocks as they come, whatever the cost to their personal lives. More > |
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A STOKER(Russia, 83 min) "A bracingly fast-paced, broad-brush allegorical satire of 1990s Russia as a near-lawless dystopia of greedy immorality." - Hollywood Reporter Once a Soviet war hero, 'The Major' now spends his days quietly in a St. Petersburg boiler room, shovelling coal and working on his novel. But coal isn't the only thing stoking the flames of his furnace - a local hitman stops by regularly to drop off the grisly by-product of his trade: human bodies. More > |
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VIVA RIVA!(Democratic Republic of Congo/France/Belgium, 96 min) Violent, kinetic and sexy, crime thriller Viva Riva! stares down the barrel of Kinshasa's savage criminal underworld, shattering staid preconceptions of African filmmaking. Cocky small-time gangster Riva steals a priceless truckload of petrol; flush with illicit cash, he embarks on a hedonistic spree, even as he flees from his Angolan ex-boss through a seamy underworld of teeming streets and steamy nightclubs, rampant greed and corrupt authorities. More > |