Focusing on a more serious theme, this list brings ten films about the dark side of humanity for you to watch. Covering various eras, with options ranging from the 1970s to the year 2019, the films cited bring something beyond the ordinary, with fascinating characters exposed to extreme situations. The plot of the films are also of the most diverse, such as the particular hell of the life of an Australian teacher who finds himself trapped in a small town, the struggle of a husband to find his missing wife, the obsession of a man for his work and so on. Let’s go to the list!
10ยบ – Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)
A teacher from a small Australian town decides to spend his holidays in Sydney. However, in the middle of his trip to the city, he decides to make a stop to rest in another unknown small town, called Bundanyabba, known by its happy inhabitants as Yabba. In the place – always under an intense and relentless heat – the man ends up getting involved with gambling in a bar, losing all his money that he would use to arrive and live in Sydney. Well, it is from that moment that we will follow the ordeal of the character who finds himself trapped in Yabba, a place seen as heaven for its inhabitants, but faced as worse than hell by the poor teacher. A supreme masterpiece of Australian cinema in the 1970s, ‘Wake in Fright’ is a film nightmare, exploring one of the most cruel and terrifying journeys of a character ever seen in the seventh art. A film to be tasted in all its strangeness during its 109 minutes of projection.
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