Violent aesthetics film recommendations
# Ichi the Killer
Tahun: 2001 | Negara: Japan
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As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreame
# Mad Max: Fury Road
Tahun: 2015 | Negara: AU
Sutradara: George Miller
Pemeran: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman
Sinopsis
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
# Sin City
Tahun: 2005 | Negara: US
Sutradara: Robert Rodriguez
Pemeran: Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Rutger Hauer
Sinopsis
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
# Oldboy
Tahun: 2003 | Negara: South Korea
Sutradara: Park Chan-wook
Pemeran: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jung, Kim Byeong-ok, Oh Dal-su
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With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
# The Godfather
Tahun: 1972 | Negara: United States of America
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Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his y
# City of God
Tahun: 2002 | Negara: BR
Sutradara: Fernando Meirelles
Pemeran: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen
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In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
# Scarface
Tahun: 1983 | Negara: United States of America
Sutradara: Brian De Palma
Pemeran: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia
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After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eve
# Joker
Tahun: 2019 | Negara: Canada, United States of America
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During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
# A Clockwork Orange
Tahun: 1971 | Negara: GB
Sutradara: Stanley Kubrick
Pemeran: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Carl Duering, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
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In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
# Bonnie and Clyde
Tahun: 1967 | Negara: US
Sutradara: Arthur Penn
Pemeran: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons
Sinopsis
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
# Taxi Driver
Tahun: 1976 | Negara: United States of America
Sutradara: Martin Scorsese
Pemeran: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle
Sinopsis
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.
# Once a Thief
Tahun: 1991 | Negara: Tiongkok
Sutradara: John Woo
Pemeran: Chow Yun-Fat , Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing , Cherie Chung Cho-Hung , Paul Chu Kong , Kenneth Tsang
Sinopsis
Three orphans grow up to become art thieves under the tutelage of a crime boss. Romance complicates matters when the trio are double-crossed.
# The Killer
Tahun: 2024 | Negara: CA
Sutradara: John Woo
Pemeran: Nathalie Emmanuel, Omar Sy, Sam Worthington, Diana Silvers, Saïd Taghmaoui
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Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by criminal colleagues and a determined police detective.
# A Better Tomorrow
Tahun: 1986 | Negara: Tiongkok
Sutradara: John Woo
Pemeran: Ti Lung , Chow Yun-Fat , Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing , Emily Chu Bo-Yee , Waise Lee Chi-Hung
Sinopsis
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
# The Hateful Eight
Tahun: 2015 | Negara: US
Sutradara: Quentin Tarantino
Pemeran: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir
Sinopsis
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
# Inglourious Basterds
Tahun: 2009 | Negara: France, Germany, United States of America
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In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally kill
# Pulp Fiction
Tahun: 1994 | Negara: United States of America
Sutradara: Quentin Tarantino
Pemeran: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames
Sinopsis
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that i
# Django Unchained
Tahun: 2012 | Negara: United States of America
Sutradara: Quentin Tarantino
Pemeran: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson
Sinopsis
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.