Miriam Besson (Léa Drucker) et Antoine Besson (Denis Ménochet) ont deux enfants : une fille, Joséphine (Mathilde Auneveux) sur le point d'être majeure et un fils de onze ans, Julien (Thomas Gioria). Le couple est en plein divorce. La mère veut protéger son fils et l’éloigner de son père qu’elle accuse de commettre des actes de violence sur ses enfants. Elle demande donc, lors du jugement, la garde exclusive de l’enfant, d’autant que le fils ne veut plus revoir son père. Malgré les arguments de Miriam et son avocate ainsi qu'une lettre de Julien demandant à ne plus voir son père, la juge chargée du dossier accorde une garde partagée et contraint l’enfant à passer un week-end sur deux avec son père.
Chenaz, psychiatre voit arriver dans son service Elmas, 18 ans, retrouvée vivante aux côtés des corps de son mari et de sa belle-mère, suite à une intoxication au charbon.
Un couple part en week-end dans une maison isolée. Pour profiter de leurs ébats, le mari attache sa femme au lit avec des menottes mais soudain il a une crise cardiaque et s'effondre. Sa femme est donc livrée à elle-même toujours attachée au lit.
Le début du film commence par la rencontre entre Joséphine et Tomasz. Les deux jeunes mariés commencent par se disputer, Joséphine ne reconnaît pas Tomasz, l'homme change de comportement. Un an plus tard, nous découvrons l'évolution de leurs comportements et la réaction des parents de Joséphine.
Desmond Doss, fils d'un ancien soldat de la Première Guerre mondiale, veut apporter sa pierre à l'édifice lorsqu'éclate la guerre du Pacifique. En tant qu'objecteur de conscience, il souhaite s'engager mais refuse de tuer ou de porter une arme au combat en raison de ses croyances adventistes. Après de difficiles négociations avec l'armée, il est finalement affecté au poste d'auxiliaire sanitaire.
Successful lobbyist Leah Vaughn (Sanaa Lathan) is unhappy in her relationship with her boyfriend Dave King (Morris Chestnut), as he does not feel ready to commit to her wishes of starting a family, causing them to break up. Two months later, she ends up meeting the charming Carter Duncan (Michael Ealy), who works in IT for another company. They quickly grow close, and he manages to work his way into the hearts of her friends as well as her mother and father. On their way home from a trip to San Francisco to meet her parents, a stranger inquires Leah about Carter's Dodge Charger at a gas station. Carter viciously attacks the man before the mortified Leah, and he takes off when the station's owner orders them to leave at gunpoint. Leah decides to break up with Carter that night, distraught over his actions and his desperate attempts to apologize.
On March 11, 2005, Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) escapes from the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta, during his trial involving a rape case. In the process of the escape he murders the judge presiding over his trial, Rowland Barnes, as well as court reporter Julie Brandau. He also shoots Sergeant Hoyt Teasley while escaping from the prison, and then Special Agent David G. Wilhelm at his home. Nichols becomes the subject of a citywide manhunt. His frantic escape brings him to the apartment of Ashley Smith (Kate Mara), a single mother and recovering methamphetamine addict, whom he holds hostage. Smith gets through this time inspired by Rick Warren's best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life, while Nichols searches for redemption. As she reads aloud, Ashley and her would-be killer come to a crossroads.
Marv (Mickey Rourke) regains consciousness on a highway overlooking the Projects, surrounded by several dead young men and a crashed police car, and with no memory of how he got there. He retraces his steps, recalling that since it's Saturday, he watched Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba) dance at Kadie's Saloon. Stepping outside, he encounters four rich frat boys burning a homeless man alive. When Marv intervenes, the leader of the frat boys shoots him in the arm, calling him "Bernini Boy," which Marv mishears as "Bernie." They flee; Marv follows, stealing a Police car on the way, which he crashes into their car, leading to his blackout and memory loss. He follows the two surviving frat boys into The Projects, the neighborhood where he grew up. With the assistance of the deadly residents lurking in the shadows, he dispatches the frat boys. He questions the leader about being called "Bernini Boy" and learns that it is the brand of coat he is wearing. After slitting the boy's throat, he considers his coat and realizes he can't remember how he acquired it.
The film narrates the story of domestic violence survivors: Kit Gruelle, a domestic violence victim turned advocate who seeks justice for all violence survivors, and Deanna Walters, whose estranged husband Robbie kidnapped and beat her for four days in the cab of his truck but was not arrested for it.
L'Emprise raconte le calvaire qu'a vécu Alexandra Lange, une femme battue par son mari Marcello Guillemin pendant quatorze ans, et qu'elle a raconté dans son autobiographie Acquittée.
While on a bus with his brother, Brian, and a dozen others, Simon has a nightmare about when he fatally clubbed his abusive father, who had killed his and Brian's mother. In a nearby ghost town, the landowner meets JB, a lawyer who wants to buy the property, primarily for its museum ("The Death Factory") dedicated to serial killers Albert Fish, John Wayne Gacy, Jack the Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Gein, and the Zodiac. When the landowner refuses to sell the museum along with the rest of his property, JB stabs him, then prepares an occult ritual with a Book of the Dead, and blood samples taken from the displays in the Death Factory.
Buenos Aires. Un centre de loisirs pour enfants. À la fin de la journée, le garçon Matías paraît bien seul. Aurait-il été oublié par ses parents ? Une animatrice le reconduit vers son quartier, situé au cœur d'une cité populaire. Là, Matías découvre sa mère, Laura, à demi-inanimée et immobilisée, le corps et le visage gravement tuméfiés. Transportée en urgence vers un centre hospitalier, on apprend que Laura est également enceinte. La radiographie est cependant rassurante : les jours du futur bébé ne sont pas en danger. Plus tard, la jeune mère traumatisée est recueillie dans un refuge où sont rassemblées d'autres femmes, toutes victimes de violences conjugales. Un rendez-vous est fixé au tribunal. Le mari téléphone, émet des plaintes, s'excuse puis menace. Laura a peur et décide de fuir avec son fils.
Une femme battue (Sophie Marceau) pousse son mari par la fenêtre. Après dix ans, elle décide de se rendre à la police, où elle est entendue par la lieutenant Pontoise (Miou-Miou) qui refuse de l'arrêter. Le film est un huis clos entre les deux femmes, illustré de flash-backs en caméra subjective.
Maggie Conley has a miscarriage after an argument with her husband Chris turns physical. To save their marriage, they move to a large house in rural Virginia. There, they are met by real estate agent Rob Bradley, who explains that the house has been converted into a duplex. An quiet, elderly couple, the Andersons, rent the other half of the house. As constant storms have made public utilities prohibitively expensive, Bradley suggests that they use cell phones and a generator. After showing them the house, Bradley comes upon a locked door and offers to return in a week with the key. Later, Chris declines Maggie's offer to start the generator and insists on doing it himself. That night, Chris celebrates with mixed alcoholic drinks. Annoyed that he has resumed drinking, Maggie declines to join him in bed.