THEME EXPLORATION

reformatory brutality

20 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Clash
Clash
2016 · Mohamed Diab
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
2018 · Radu Jude
8 Million Ways to Die
8 Million Ways to Die
1986 · Hal Ashby
Dogboys
Dogboys
1998 · Ken Russell
First Blood
First Blood
1982 · Ted Kotcheff
Le Deuxième souffle
Le Deuxième souffle
1966 · Jean-Pierre Melville
Nada
Nada
1974 · Claude Chabrol
Strike
Strike
1925 · Sergei Eisenstein
Duvar
Duvar
1983 · Yílmaz Güney
Memories of Prison
Memories of Prison
1984 · Nelson Pereira dos Santos
The Hunger
The Hunger
1983 · Tony Scott
Carandiru
Carandiru
2003 · Héctor Babenco
Hunger
Hunger
2008 · Steve McQueen
Valhalla Rising
Valhalla Rising
2009 · Nicolas Winding Refn
The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
2015 · Tom Six
Bodycam
Bodycam
2026 · Brandon Christensen
Caligula and Messalina
Caligula and Messalina
1981 · Frank Miller
If You Were Young: Rage
If You Were Young: Rage
1970 · Kinji Fukasaku
Olimpius Inferno
Olimpius Inferno
2009 · Igor Voloshin
Veteran
Veteran
2015 · Ryoo Seung-wan
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Vittorio De Sica Italy

His neorealist films like 'Shoeshine' expose the brutal institutional systems that destroy vulnerable children and youth.

 Miloš Forman Czech Republic/USA

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a seminal critique of institutional dehumanization and authoritarian control in reformatory settings.