Movies: Rape

Wherever war breaks out, men with guns rape. During the decades of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo possibly hundreds of thousands of women and girls were brutally raped. In WEAPON OF WAR military perpetrators unveil what lies behind this...

Two girls take justice into their own hands after friends and counselors brush aside their accusations of sexual assault....

A young woman finds herself completely lost in a nightmare....

The architect entrusts his daughter, Lida, and his son, Taher, to an engineer before his death. The engineer goes to Ahvaz and takes Lida with him to raise her alongside his son Shahram - and the neighbors raise Taher among them. Years later, Shahram...

A man runs a commune where he imprisons, abuses and tortures women....

In personal reflections on her own experiences with sexual violence and in frank conversations with victims and (potential) perpetrators, Sunny Bergman shows how we as a society deal with sexual violence. Research shows that nearly a quarter of women...

A look at the aftermath and global impact of the docuseries `Surviving R. Kelly'...

Seventeen-year-old Lena meets 19-year-old Farid, a young Muslim. She has a clear-cut attitude towards his culture and religion: utter rejection. Despite their differences – or perhaps because of them – they fall in love....

After the death of her father, Nelia (Jaclyn Jose) goes to find her mother and discovers that she owns a whorehouse....

Partly based on a true event, the death in 1817 of a Birmingham woman, Mary Ashford, and the consequent trial of a local man, Abraham Thornton, for her rape and murder. The film is concerned with the response of her contemporaries to her behaviour on...

A young woman takes revenge on the man who just brutally raped her on the street....

A violent examination of male homosexuality in a time when it was considered taboo, where Ivano Staccioli and his lover engage in a self-destructive relationship against the background of Africa....

Abused by her family, forced into marriage, raped, pregnant at 13 then hunted down for violating her family’s honour. This is the shocking, compelling true story of Sameem’s struggle to break free from her past and fight back against her upbringing....

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The daily life of five young women living in a Paris hosting center. All haunted by their heavy past (rape, violence, abandonment...), they try to move forward... except one....

The story is about a woman who is abducted and forced to watch footage of captives getting molested. She doesn't know whether the sexual torture is amateur porn, or if these are sex crimes caught on tape. As she is exposed to more of the disturbing i...

Hüseyin's father, who is a member of the Kozanoglu tribe, dies when he does not pay the fee requested by the Bey. Upon this situation, Hüseyin takes an oath to avenge....

3 women, 1 man and a walk in the park that changed their lives....

Pinku from 1982. A studious young man and his two friends hit the town....

The victim of a violent sexual assault, Nirbhaya, fights to live despite the grave injuries inflicted on her. As details of the case become public, the issue of women's safety is questioned....