On a philosophical level, violence is rather difficult to define and violence can have connotations reflective of temperament and psychical states. Any sense of disturbance or perturbation may be said to be violent, however artfully rendered.
Slavoj Žižek argues that there are distinguishable types of violence, namely subjective and objective violence. Subjective violence which is manifestly apparent as it seems to emerge from an agent and is directed toward agents. Looting, murder and terrorist attacks are subjective forms of violence. Objective violence is the political and economic structures that generate much of what we deem to be subjective violence.
The films on this list may in some sense deal with a sort of violence, but depict very little subjective violence
