A remote farmhouse, a doctor with two children, and armed men riding in to settle an old score. Without Blood, Angelina Jolie's 2025 war drama, opens on that stark image and spends its lean 81 minutes asking what revenge leaves behind.
What is Without Blood about?
The setting is a frontier at the dawn of the twentieth century, a place where the law is far away and grudges travel faster than help. Gunmen arrive at an isolated farmhouse with one purpose: payback. Inside is a doctor, alone with his son and daughter, who understands immediately that no argument will turn these men around. What follows is a desperate attempt by a father to shield his children from a violence that has been coming for him for a long time. The film does not treat the raid as an action sequence so much as a rupture, the moment after which nothing in the lives of the people inside that house can be the same. Its larger interest lies in how such a night echoes across years, how the people who survive it carry it, and whether the cycle of settling scores can ever truly be closed.
About the cast
Salma Hayek Pinault and Demián Bichir headline, alongside Juan Carlos Huguenin, Juan Minujín, Andrés Delgado, Jorge Antonio Guerrero and Alfredo Herrera. It is a largely Latin American and Spanish-speaking ensemble, and the performances lean on stillness and restraint, fitting a story where the heaviest moments are often the quietest.
Context & significance
Angelina Jolie has built a directing career around stories of conflict and its aftermath, and Without Blood continues that line in a more compact, chamber-piece form. Co-produced between Italy and the United States, the film is categorised as both drama and war, though the 'war' here is less a battlefield than the private, generational kind: a feud that outlives the people who started it. Running a tight 81 minutes, it is closer to a parable than an epic, and its questions about memory, forgiveness and the price of vengeance will feel familiar to anyone who has watched a family struggle to put an old wound to rest.
Watching Without Blood on Ktime
Without Blood is available on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles. Log in with a free K-Time account to watch; the service is built for Persian speakers living outside Iran, with a Farsi interface and a catalogue curated with that audience in mind.