Property Rites (1984)
• June 14th, 1984 • 0h 59min
Drama
Overview
Partly based on a true event, the death in 1817 of a Birmingham woman, Mary Ashford, and the consequent trial of a local man, Abraham Thornton, for her rape and murder. The film is concerned with the response of her contemporaries to her behaviour on the night before she died, and by situating this within the fictional circumstances of a modern woman, explores current attitudes to rape, and the forces and assumptions underlying them.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Summer in Berlin
Released on: 2005-09-09
Comedy, Drama
An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life...
Monster
Released on: 2003-12-24
Crime, Drama
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes...
Once Were Warriors
Released on: 1994-09-02
Drama
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H...
Juvenile Crime
Released on: 1997-07-25
Horror, Crime, Drama
In November of 1988 four young men abducted and held Junko Furuta for several weeks in the house of ...
Strange Days
Released on: 1995-10-13
Crime, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reali...
Once Upon a Time in America
Released on: 1984-05-23
Drama, Crime
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Released on: 2006-03-01
Drama, History
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
Volver
Released on: 2006-03-17
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Raimunda, a working-class woman living in Madrid, is dealing with the aftermath of a fire that kille...
Boys Don't Cry
Released on: 1999-09-02
Crime, Drama
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
Magalir Mattum
Released on: 2017-09-15
Drama, Family
A progressive-minded documentary filmmaker reunites three older women who have been separated since ...
Chinatown
Released on: 1974-06-20
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern ...
The Color Purple
Released on: 1985-12-18
Drama, History
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
Dead Man Walking
Released on: 1995-12-29
Drama
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...
Manhattan
Released on: 1979-04-25
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further ...
A Streetcar Named Desire
Released on: 1951-09-19
Drama, Thriller
A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with ...
Mae West
Released on: 1982-05-02
Drama, TV Movie
Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1...
The Coast Guard
Released on: 2002-11-22
Drama, War
A member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, Private Kang monitors a high-infiltration stretch of beach lined...
Tarnation
Released on: 2003-10-19
Documentary, Drama
Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture o...
Shanghai Express
Released on: 1932-02-12
Drama, Romance, War, Crime, History
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...
Antonia's Line
Released on: 1995-09-21
Drama, Comedy
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...