Movies: Witness to a crime

When a Black man is viciously assaulted by police right outside their window, all of the guests at a dinner party seem to consider the attack unremarkable except for one....

The author Stefan König has writer's block. This changes when he witnesses the murder of a prostitute. He doesn't alert the police because he sets out to hunt down the murderer himself. The closer he gets to the killer, the more crimes he observes, w...

A man gets attacked in broad daylight after getting some lunch for his younger brother....

A psychopath narrates the tale of a tiger and hunter, foreshadowing danger. Two robbers, Alex and Vincent, nearly botch a heist but impulsively decide to rob a nearby house. Unbeknownst to them, the psychopath lurks inside, ready for confrontation....

A New York City street artist witnesses a crime and resolves to redeem his earlier inaction. A silent film in pantomime, this early work by director Charles Lane brings a unique deftness and grace to its social realist narrative. He would later revi...

Gus and Elmo while away pumping gas on the night shift. A bumbling cop and Elmo's delinquent cousin inspire the duo to parlay the local bakery's robbery into the same action at the bank....

A young woman witnesses the attack of a hooded murderer in La Plata....

Between January 1st and 31 December 2017, 768 people died as a result of murder or manslaughter in Britain - approximately 14 people a week. This powerful and original film tells the stories of some of those cases, exploring the human cost of murder ...