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1) She said
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New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
4) Test pattern
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Part psychological horror, part realist drama, this exhilarating debut feature from Shatara Michelle Ford is set against the backdrop of national discussions around inequitable health care and policing, the #metoo movement, and race in America. TEST PATTERN follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit....
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Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her way up to being a top criminal defense barrister against all the odds, and fights to defend those pleading not guilty. Tessa believes in the law, believes in the system. Her quick-witted cross-examinations and intelligence in the courtroom see her clocking up win after win - including securing freedom for men accused of rape and sexual assault. Innocence until proven guilty is, after all, the bedrock...
6) Elle
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Français
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Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game--a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
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A sex-addicted French financier, a fateful hotel room encounter, and a scandal that would rock the world; the mighty Gérard Depardieu gives a fearless performance in this ripped-from-the- headlines saga of sin and sleaze. Inspired by one of the most high-profile public implosions in recent memory, the film follows a prominent international banker as he spirals out of control during a drug and sex-fueled trip to America, culminating in a shocking...
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The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
9) Straw dogs
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Criterion collection volume 182
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A young American mathematician moves with his English wife, Amy, to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah's world.
10) The Accused
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"Dr. Wilma Tuttle, a beautiful psychology teacher allows a male student of hers to drive her home. While en route, he attempts to rape her but is killed when his teacher fights back. After fleeing the scene, Wilma is overcome with feelings of guilt while following the murder investigation by Homicide Lt. Dorgan and comforting her love interest, Warren Ford, who also happens to be her attacker's guardian"--Container.
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Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy and her husband and daughter are living the all-American dream. But Joy's tranquil world is shattered when her life-threatening pregnancy forces her to navigate a medical establishment unwilling to help. This impossible situation leads Joy to the 'Janes,' an underground network providing the only available alternative, helmed by fierce advocates...
13) Closure
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Driving back from a posh party at a country estate, Alice and Adam find themselves brutally assaulted by a group of hunters. Physically and emotionally devasted by the attack, the tables suddenly turn when Alice and Adam discover the identity of their attackers. Now it's time to exact the ultimate revenge.
14) The tenth circle
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Tells the powerful story that probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child. Laura Stone teaches at a local college and is married to Daniel, a comic book artist. Their idyllic lives are turned upside down when their daughter, Trixie, accuses her ex-boyfriend of raping her. When he later dies in an apparent suicide, the family finds itself in the center of a high profile investigation that rocks their community revealing just how far parents...
15) River
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In the south of Laos, an American volunteer doctor becomes a fugitive after he intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman. When the assailant's body is pulled from the Mekong River, things quickly spiral out of control.
16) She fought alone
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A popular high school girl is raped by the school's star football player. When she reports the crime he vehemently denies the charge. Suspected of lying, she becomes an outcast.
17) Five corners
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Heinz has just returned to the neighborhood after serving time for attacking Linda, who was saved by young idealist Harry. As the world around them erupts in turmoil, the neighborhood of Five Corners has a battle of its own to face when these three personalities clash, and nothing will ever be the same again.
18) Extremities
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English
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A young woman escapes a rapist, only to have him appear at her house. She fights back and turns the tables.
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"Maria Ortiz, una profesora de escuela de 19 años de edad, resulta violada y encarcelada al asumir la responsabilidad del asesinato de su violador en lugar de su madre"--Container.
Maria goes to jail after murdering her rapist. After she is released, she becomes one of the prostitutes that Veracruz is famous for.
20) Road to Paloma
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Wolf, a Native American, is being pursued by the FBI for taking the law into his own hands after his mother is raped and killed. Wolf sets out across the American West, discovering new friendships and lost loves, riding toward the Teton mountain range, where he will spread his mother's ashes.