A History of Violence

Sep 23, 2005

1h 36m

★ 7.2

Tom Stall had the perfect life...until he became a hero.

Overview

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

New Line Cinema

BenderSpink

Media I! Filmproduktion München & Company

A History of Violence Trailers

Cast

Tom Stall / Joey Cusack

Viggo Mortensen

Edie Stall

Maria Bello

Carl Fogarty

Ed Harris

Richie Cusack

William Hurt

Jack Stall

Ashton Holmes

Sheriff Sam Carney

Peter MacNeill

Leland

Stephen McHattie

Billy

Greg Bryk

Bobby

Kyle Schmid

Judy Danvers

Sumela Kay

Mick

Gerry Quigley

Charlotte

Deborah Drakeford

Naples. Present day. Giovanna, a combative 60-year-old social worker on the frontline of the daily war against pervasive criminality, is confronted, like a modern Antigone, with a moral dilemma that threatens to destroy her work and her life. Giovanna runs an after-school centre that takes care of underprivileged children; a grassroots alternative to the mafia dominance of the city. But one day, young Maria, wife of a ruthless Camorra criminal on the run, and her two children take refuge at the centre, and ask Giovanna for protection.

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0.0

The Mysterious Stranger

Jul 5, 1925

Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage surrounded by high walls. He is accompanied in this solitary life only by his young son, Paul, who, at the age of 21, has not seen anything of women or the world. One night, Paul walks in his sleep and wanders from his home. He falls into the company of his mother (whom he does not recognize), Bennett, and Bennett's beautiful ward, Helen, with whom Paul soon falls in love. After a series of thrilling adventures, Paul foils Bennett and reunites his parents; he and Helen hear wedding bells.

6.3

Secret Defense

Mar 18, 1998

After biologist Sylvie discovers her brother Paul trying to steal a gun from her lab, he explains that he wishes to avenge the death of their father whom he suspects died at the hands of his business partner.

6.5

The Adventures of Milo and Otis

Jun 27, 1986

When Milo the cat and Otis the dog are separated, they each set off on an adventurous and often perilous quest across mountains, plains, and snow-covered lands to reunite with one another.

6.6

White Dog

Jul 7, 1982

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.

5.9

The Shout

Jun 16, 1978

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

5.9

Marrying the Mafia

Sep 13, 2002

An up-and-coming lawyer wakes up next to a beautiful woman with mafia connections, but neither remembers how they got there. That's a problem.

5.5

Cousin Bette

Jun 12, 1998

In 19th century Paris, Bette Fischer, a poor and homely spinster, forms an alliance with the seductive courtesan Valerie Marneffe to orchestrate revenge on her handsome and wealthy relatives.

6.3

Ruby Gentry

Dec 25, 1952

A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.

5.1

The Best Men

Jun 14, 2007

Moments before his best friend's wedding, Peter gets one last chance to rekindle mutual feelings long suppressed, but not abandoned. Sometimes the perfect reminder of first love's passion is but a simple kiss from the best man. The Best Men explores a universal heartache that every individual has experienced - the feeling of having missed out on true love.

6.5

Naan Mahaan Alla

Aug 20, 2010

A playful young man leads a very happy life, but everything changes when his father witnesses a heinous crime.

5.0

A Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine

Jun 10, 1966

Sharon is a young office worker who sexually teases, seduces and then cries 'rape' on various men just to see them emotionally suffer for her own man-hating, twisted amusement leading to one lovestruck boyfriend being sent to prison, the financial ruin of another, and the meltdown and death of a third victim.

3.8

Deadly Weapons

Apr 5, 1974

After the mob hits a guy with a list, one of the hoods keeps the list for himself to blackmail the people on it. When the mobsters find out he's a double-crosser, they off him, which angers his busty girlfriend. She goes after them using the only two weapons she has.

3.8

The Hooked Generation

Nov 12, 1968

A trio of addicts make a move into drug smuggling with an ill-fated plan to use the Cuban Navy as their supplier that leads to kidnapping and murder.

4.8

Johnny Firecloud

Aug 1, 1975

An American Indian war veteran avenges the hanging of his grandfather by local thugs.

7.0

Climax

Sep 19, 2018

When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night—and find who's responsible—before it's too late.

4.5

Tungstênio

Jun 21, 2018

A retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do everything to end this environmental crime. But in the search for the paths that seem most correct, each one of them will go through more personal and moral conflicts.

5.4

Wrecked

Apr 1, 2010

A man awakens in a car wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff. He can't remember who he is or how he got there, but a report over the radio fills in some of the blanks, as it describes a violent bank robbery and names a perpetrator who happens to be sitting dead in the back seat.

5.6

Fry-Up

Oct 10, 2017

An intimate portrayal of what could be a family's last day together, set against the urban backdrop of North London.

6.9

Eyes of an Angel

Jul 26, 1991

John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses a wounded Doberman used for fighting, back to health. Duped by underworld types he was working as a courier for, father and daughter leave the dog and flee cross-country to Los Angeles with both canine and mobsters in pursuit.