La purge est devenue une tradition américaine. Une fois par année, pendant 12 heures, la population est invitée à libérer ses pulsions violentes et meurtrières sans aucunes représailles de l'État. Leo est bien armé et il roule dans la nuit à la quête de sa cible. Eva et sa fille Cali se sont barricadées dans leur maison, mais un événement inattendu les oblige à fuir dans les rues dangereuses. Puis il y a ce couple en instance de séparation qui panique lorsque leur véhicule tombe en panne au milieu de nulle part. Leurs chemins vont bientôt se croiser...
Victime de torture dans son enfance, une jeune femme tente de refaire sa vie après quinze ans d'internement. Persuadée d'avoir retrouvé ses tortionnaires, elle les abat. Une amie venue à son secours est séquestrée et soumise à d'atroces souffrances.
Faite prisonnière à Compiègne, Jeanne d'Arc comparaît à Rouen devant un tribunal ecclésiastique. Ses juges cherchent à la compromettre par des questions insidieuses et par diverses formes de torture morale. Condamnée, Jeanne est brûlée vive en place publique. La foule se révolte à ce spectacle, ce qui entraîne une répression rapide par les troupes anglaises.
A woman and her childhood friend seek out revenge on those who victimized and abused them.
Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's "Acts": early fear, the renewal of Pentecost, Saul's conversion, the decision to baptize pagans, and the Apostles' dispersal. In the second half, an aged Peter goes to Rome to join Paul, arriving on the day of Paul's arrest. Paul's death brings a crisis to Rome's Christians and to Peter; lessons from Jesus's teachings guide his decision to stay. Events within the fictive household of Persius, a Roman aristocrat, capture the upheaval that Christian teachings bring to the Eternal City.
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Utilizing the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the epic Indian tale of exiled prince Ramayana and his bride Sita is mirrored by a spurned woman's contemporary personal life, and light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets.
The life of the virgin and martyr Santa Maria Goretti
The film is based on the true story of the Great Catholic Christian Massacre of nearly 700 Christians that took place in 1544 in Mannar and the chain of events related to the same massacre that took place in 1560.
A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.
In 1970s Indonesia, a devotee of the nation’s deposed ruler meets his idol’s reincarnation and receives His revelations - but at what cost?
The Last Days of Winter is an Iranian television documentary series directed and written by Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian, which aired on IRIB TV1 from 28 September to 6 December 2012 for 10 episodes.
This is the story of one of the brave Torchlighters who lost his life that fateful day. Jim Elliot spent his youth preparing to share the Gospel with those who'd never heard it. But nothing could have prepared him for the dangers and challenges he would face in the jungles of Ecuador. The remote Auca tribe was suspicious and antagonistic toward even the friendliest gestures from outsiders.
A faithful recounting of the ministry, trial and martyrdom of the fifteenth century Bohemian priest John Hus, who built on the reforms of John Wycliffe, taught the Bible in the vernacular and who influenced Martin Luther a century later.
The bravery of the Martyr Police Constable Tukaram Ombale during the terrorist attack in Mumbai.
The life of St. George the hero prince of martyrdoms and the Saint of all ages
The movie is based on a true story about Kashmiri militant, Burhan Wani, who fought against Indian forces before he was killed in combat.
A man who controls small airplanes to detect Iraq's front line, is put in danger not being able to return.
The First Tale, "Goodbye Friend": Years after the Iran-Iraq war, a midnight, Moslem, a chemically poisoned veteran, decides to go to the Behesht-e Zahra. In Behesh-e Zahra, Moslem meets his martyred friends and rides around the city on a motorcycle with them. In the morning, his mother finds the Moslem’s dead body on his bed. The Second Tale, "The Momentary Rainbow": A film crew is filming the memorials of the war. Suddenly two Basij members demand the crew to listen to their memories of the war. The crew made an appointment for tomorrow but they don’t show up. The crew goes on a search to find them. They were martyrs. The Third Tale, "The Glass Flower": A young girl spends hours in the train station with a lantern and a bouquet of flowers. She is waiting to hand the flowers to one of the soldiers on their way to the war. Later, everyone finds out that she only hands her flowers to a soldier that will soon become a martyr.
Martyrs of the Inquisition