Tesis

Madrid film school student Ángela examins violence in movies for her studies. Together with the student Chema they find a snuff movie in which a young girl is tortured and killed. Soon they discover that the girl was a former student at their school... Why is death and violence so fascinating? Is it morally correct to show violence in movies? If so, is there a limit to what we should show?

Keywords

  • Award Winning
  • film about film
  • Films Spain
  • media
  • suspense

Actors

  • Fele Martínez
  • Ana Torrent
  • Eduardo Noriega
  • Miguel Picazo

Director

  • Alejandro Amenábar

Horror, Thriller


2h 10min


16 FSK

DE

Spain
1996
Madrid film school student Ángela examins violence in movies for her studies. Together with the student Chema they find a snuff movie in which a young girl is tortured and killed.

Madrid film school student Ángela examins violence in movies for her studies. Together with the student Chema they find a snuff movie in which a young girl is tortured and killed.


Soon they discover that the girl was a former student at their school...

Why is death and violence so fascinating? Is it morally correct to show violence in movies? If so, is there a limit to what we should show?

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Cast & Crew