Straw Dogs (1971) (Unrated)

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In this thriller, arguably Sam Peckinpah's most controversial film, David (Dustin Hoffman), a young American mathematician, moves with his English wife, Amy (Susan George), to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah's world. Working outside the U.S. for the first time, the filmmaker airlifts the ruthlessness of the western frontier into Cornwall in Straw Dogs, pushing his characters to their breaking points as the men brutalize Amy and David discovers how far he'll go to protect his home culminating in a harrowing climax that lays out this cinematic mastermind's eloquent and bloody vision of humanity.

widely recognized as a highly controversial but brilliant film, straw dogs contains some of the most startling suspense and intense violence ever filmed. the original american theatrical release had footage cut due to its violent nature, and the film is banned in the uk to this day.
david (dustin hoffman) is a quiet american mathematician who has moved with his wife back to her hometown in rural england. the couple relocated in an attempt to flee the chaotic violence of the u.s., but there was to be no escape.
when david hires a crew of locals to repair his barn, the men begin to harass the couple - but passive david does nothing to stop them. the harassment continues and intensifies, yet david ignores it. finally, the men push him too far. the result is a once complacent, mild-mannered man lashing-out in an animalistic struggle to preserve his home and his life.