Films and media
Documentaries, films and series, with one sentence on what each covers.
Ang Lee · Film · 1993
A gay Taiwanese man in New York stages a marriage of convenience to satisfy his traditional parents, who then arrive to throw an elaborate wedding banquet.
Pedro Almodovar · Film · 2019
An ageing film director in physical and creative decline revisits his childhood, his first desires, his mother and his past loves as he confronts his own mortality.
Yorgos Lanthimos · Film · 2023
A woman revived by a scientist with the brain of an infant sets off across the world, discovering sex, freedom and her own mind as she rapidly matures.
Lee Chang-dong · Film · 2018
A young man reconnects with a childhood acquaintance, then grows obsessed and suspicious of the wealthy stranger she introduces after she suddenly disappears.
Ron Howard · Film · 2001
A brilliant mathematician builds his career while a hidden world of people who are not there slowly takes it apart.
Darren Aronofsky · Film · 2010
A ballerina cast in Swan Lake comes apart under the demand to be perfect and the double she begins to see everywhere.
Scott Hicks · Film · 1996
A gifted Australian pianist, crushed by a domineering father, suffers a breakdown and years later rebuilds his life and his playing with the help of those around him.
James Mangold · Film · 1999
After a suspected overdose, a young woman is admitted to a 1960s psychiatric hospital, where she is diagnosed as borderline and drawn to a charismatic fellow patient.
Darren Aronofsky · Film · 2000
Over one year, a widow hooked on diet pills and three young heroin users chase their dreams as addiction pulls each of them into ruin.
Darren Aronofsky · Film · 1998
A reclusive mathematician convinced that a single number underlies all of nature is hunted by others for his discovery as his obsession destroys his mind.
Jeff Nichols · Film · 2011
A rural Ohio husband and father, plagued by apocalyptic visions and dreams, builds a storm shelter as he fears he is developing the mental illness that afflicts his mother.
Lars von Trier · Film · 2011
As a rogue planet drifts toward a collision with Earth, a severely depressed bride grows strangely calm while her composed sister falls apart.
Todd Phillips · Film · 2019
A mentally ill, isolated party clown in a decaying city is failed by every system around him and descends into violence, becoming a symbol of chaos.
Peter Mullan · Film · 2002
In 1960s Ireland, three young women judged to have sinned are confined to a Magdalene laundry run by nuns, where they endure abuse and plan escape.
Penny Marshall · Film · 1990
A shy neurologist revives patients frozen for decades by an encephalitis epidemic, giving one man a brief return to a full waking life before the drug fails.
Michael Cimino · Film · 1978
Three friends from a Pennsylvania steel town go to Vietnam, are captured and forced to play Russian roulette, and return home unable to leave the war behind.
Alan J. Pakula · Film · 1982
A Polish Auschwitz survivor living in postwar Brooklyn draws a young writer into her turbulent romance while the secret of an impossible wartime choice destroys her.
Ari Folman · Documentary · 2008
An Israeli veteran, unable to remember his part in the 1982 Lebanon war, interviews old comrades in an animated attempt to recover the massacre his mind has erased.
Roman Polanski · Film · 2002
A Jewish pianist in occupied Warsaw survives the ghetto and years of hiding alone, clinging to bare existence as the city and his family are destroyed around him.
Park Chan-wook · Film · 2003
A man imprisoned in a room for fifteen years without explanation is suddenly released and given days to discover who took him and why.