Leviathan (2014)

  Another day, another depressing ass feature this time courtesy of Russia.  It's rated R for "graphic nudity" but I have no idea why.  There's nothing graphic in the entire film.  Even violence is mostly alluded to, rather than shown.  The only scene that remotely involves nudity is a woman walking into frame with no underwear.  And it's roughly 30 seconds of film.  MPAA are a bunch of conservative prudes.  However, I will give a content warning for suicide and marital rape.

Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov) is involved in an ongoing legal dispute with his town's corrupt mayor (Roman Madyanov) over an eminent domain buyout that grossly undervalues his property.  The case is being stymied in the courts and Kolya's lawyer (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) resorts to blackmailing the mayor with a folder full of evidence.  The mayor retaliates, bringing the full weight of his power against Kolya.

No shit, this was depressing as fuck.  It's apparently meant to reference the Biblical story of Job, which is not great, if any of you have read that.  The whole moral is to meekly accept your lot in life and find peace with it.  Not an inspiring tale for anyone being ground down by the system.  It's not streaming anywhere, which is probably good.