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1) Speak
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
A teen retreats into self-imposed silence after being raped. Her art and a teacher help her regain her voice and inner strength.
2) The accused
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A fiercely independent woman is gang raped, then battles the legal system twice, going after both her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assualt.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Laura Nielson, a smart and capable teacher in the middle of a breakup, is set up on a date with recently widowed surgeon Andrew Earlham. However, the day after it is apparent that something has gone wrong, and the subsequent fallout rapidly spirals out of control, exposing the power of truth, deception, and trust.
4) Naked
Series
Criterion collection volume 307
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
5) Blackmail
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A thriller about a woman fighting off a sleazy blackmailer. The film was Hitchcock's first full-length sound film and was only his second foray into the suspense genre. Grocer's daughter Alice White kills a man in self-defense when he tries to sexually assault her. Her policeman boyfriend, Detective Frank Webber, covers up for her, but she has been spotted leaving the scene by a petty criminal who starts to blackmail her.
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