Infanticide Movies, Infanticide List Movies

The Ballad of Narayama 1983

7.8 /10

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse he or she would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.

Run Time: . MMPA: 18 . Release: Apr 29, 1983

Director: Director: Shôhei Imamura,

Stars: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari,

Medea 1970

6.9 /10

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

Run Time: 118 Min . MMPA: 11 . Release: Jan 28, 1970

Director: Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini,

Stars: Mara Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile, Margareth Clmenti,

Rabid 1977

6.3 /10

After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood—the only nourishment that will now sustain her.

Run Time: 91 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Apr 08, 1977

Director: Director: David Cronenberg,

Stars: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver, Howard Ryshpan, Patricia Gage,

The Giver 2014

6.4 /10

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

Run Time: 97 Min . MMPA: 11 . Release: Aug 13, 2014

Director: Director: Phillip Noyce,

Stars: Brenton Thwaites, Odeya Rush, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes,

Trauma 1993

5.8 /10

An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when it rains. The orphaned young woman and her new lover launch their own investigation and are endangered when a link is discovered with the victims and a particular operation performed years before.

Run Time: 106 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Mar 12, 1993

Director: Director: Dario Argento,

Stars: Christopher Rydell, Asia Argento, Piper Laurie, Frederic Forrest, Laura Johnson,

Bad Tales 2020

6.4 /10

In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque façade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.

Run Time: 98 Min . MMPA: 13 . Release: Jun 15, 2020

Director: Director: Damiano DInnocenzo, Fabio DInnocenzo,

Stars: Elio Germano, Tommaso Di Cola, Giulietta Rebeggiani, Gabriel Montesi, Justin Alexander Korovkin,

Last Cannibal World 1977

6 /10

An oil prospector escapes from capture by a primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippine rain forest and heads out to locate his missing companion and their plane to return home.

Run Time: 88 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Feb 08, 1977

Director: Director: Ruggero Deodato,

Stars: Massimo Foschi, Me Me Lai, Ivan Rassimov, Sheik Razak Shikur, Judy Rosly,

Love on the Run 1979

7 /10

Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his his wife. It being the first "no-fault" divorce in France, a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about his new love with a store clerk, he impulsively takes off with an old flame.

Run Time: 93 Min . MMPA: 11 . Release: Jan 24, 1979

Director: Director: Franois Truffaut,

Stars: JeanPierre Laud, MarieFrance Pisier, Claude Jade, Dani, Dorothe,

Shoot 'Em Up 2007

6.6 /10

A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.

Run Time: 86 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Jul 26, 2007

Director: Director: Michael Davis,

Stars: Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci, Paul Giamatti, Stephen McHattie, Greg Bryk,

Avatar 2009

7.8 /10

In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.

Run Time: 162 Min . MMPA: 13 . Release: Dec 10, 2009

Director: Director: James Cameron,

Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez,

Dogville 2003

8 /10

A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth their effort, so Grace works hard under the employ of various townspeople to win their favor. Tensions flare, however, and Grace's status as a helpless outsider provokes vicious contempt and abuse from the citizens of Dogville.

Run Time: 178 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: May 19, 2003

Director: Director: Lars von Trier,

Stars: Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, JeanMarc Barr, Paul Bettany,