A Most Violent Year

Movie • 2014 • Crime  

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A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

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Does a pet die?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Near the end of the movie and fairly graphic. Scene starts at 1:53:20, death at 1:55:42, body intermittently shown until 1:56:42.
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Is rape mentioned?
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A man calls his wife a "whore" during an argument and she slaps him
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone stalked?
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Addiction
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The wife smokes a lot.
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Does a cat die?
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Does an animal die?
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A deer is struck by a car injuring it, and then is shot to death to put it out of its misery
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A deer is struck by a car, and then shot to death. Its body is shown lying on the road while it is shot
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Does a horse die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there bugs?
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Are there snakes?
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Does a dragon die?
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Assault
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Passing mention of rape as violence that has been happening in the city
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Bodily Harm
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Threatened; a man holds a gun to another man's eye
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Is someone tortured?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there a hanging?
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Brief scene with a man shaving his beard with a razor using a bathroom mirror
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Children
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Family
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Is someone kidnapped?
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A character is knocked out and put in a truck. He's driven somewhere else and then released.
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Fear
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A car is driving down a road and suddenly a deer appears in a startling way.
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there clowns?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there ghosts?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Does someone have cancer?
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A man is recovering from being beaten up and is briefly in the hospital
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Yes, and it's graphic. Scene starts at 1:53:20, death at 1:55:42, body intermittently shown until 1:56:42.
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Does someone self harm?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Pregnancy
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Sex
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Is there sexual content?
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Neutral-to-positive ending, and hews closer to realism. A man dies at the end by suicide, but the main character gets everything he wants, including the ability to continue living his life by his own principles, even if those aren't strictly by the books
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A deer is suddenly struck by a car driven on an isolated road at night
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Does a car crash?
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Cars and trucks cut each other off on a highway. A car hits a deer. A tanker truck crashes and tips over, killing its driver.
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Does a plane crash?
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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People are shown with injuries like bruised faces after being beaten up. A man who dies when a car rolls over is briefly shown to have blood on him. At the end of the film, a man kills himself by shooting himself in the head. There is blood spray shown behind him, and a puddle of blood under his head when he has died
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Does someone drown?
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The film opens with a radio broadcast about police officers being shot on the subway. A child finds a gun in the yard and is playing with it. A woman shoots a deer. A man shoots at people trying to rob him. A man is chased, beaten with a gun in hand, and threatened with a gun. A man shoots himself as others watch, committing suicide.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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