Films and media
Documentaries, films and series, with one sentence on what each covers.
Thomas Vinterberg · Film · 1998
At a father's sixtieth birthday gathering, the eldest son stands to give a toast and calmly accuses him of the childhood sexual abuse the family has buried.
Lee Daniels · Film · 2009
An abused, illiterate Harlem teenager pregnant by her father finds a way toward a self through an alternative school and the teacher who believes in her.
Lenny Abrahamson · Film · 2015
A young woman held captive for years raises her five-year-old son in a single locked room, then must help him meet the vast outside world once they escape.
Ari Aster · Film · 2018
After two devastating losses, a family already strained by inherited mental illness comes apart as the mother's grief turns toward something darker.
Sean Durkin · Film · 2011
A young woman who has fled an abusive rural cult takes refuge with her sister, but cannot tell the past from the present or trust that she is safe.
Jasmila Zbanic · Film · 2006
A single mother in postwar Sarajevo struggles to hide from her twelve-year-old daughter the truth that the girl was conceived in a wartime rape.
Jordan Peele · Film · 2017
A young Black photographer visits his white girlfriend's family for the weekend and discovers that their unsettling warmth conceals a monstrous design on him.
Jesse Eisenberg · Film · 2024
Two mismatched cousins take a Holocaust heritage tour of Poland to honour their late grandmother, their old closeness rubbing against everything unspoken between them.
Michael Haneke · Film · 2005
A Paris television host receives anonymous videotapes of his own home, and the surveillance forces him back to a cruelty he inflicted as a child.
Michael Haneke · Film · 2009
In a north German village on the eve of the First World War, a series of unexplained cruelties unsettles a community ruled by strict discipline and shame.
Jonathan Glazer · Film · 2023
The commandant of Auschwitz and his wife build a comfortable family home just outside the camp wall, their domestic idyll running alongside the horror next door.
Pedro Almodovar · Film · 2006
In a Spanish village, Raimunda hides a body and holds her family together while her supposedly dead mother returns, unearthing an old secret of abuse.
Paul Verhoeven · Film · 2016
Michele, a Paris games-company boss, is raped in her home and, refusing the role of victim, tracks and toys with her attacker as an old family horror resurfaces.
Mira Nair · Film · 2001
As a Punjabi family gathers in Delhi for an arranged marriage, romances and tensions unfold and a hidden history of child abuse by a trusted uncle comes to light.
Joe Wright · Film · 2007
In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony wrongly accuses her sister's lover of a crime, a lie that shatters three lives and haunts her into old age.
David Fincher · Film · 1999
A sleepless office worker and a charismatic soap salesman start an underground fight club that grows into a movement, until the narrator learns who Tyler really is.
Mary Harron · Film · 2000
Patrick Bateman, a wealthy 1980s Manhattan investment banker, narrates a double life of designer obsession and escalating murder that may be real or delusion.
Henry Bean · Film · 2001
Danny, a young New York Jew, becomes a violent neo-Nazi skinhead, tormented by the faith and identity he is trying to destroy.
Julia Ducournau · Film · 2021
After a childhood car crash leaves her with a metal plate in her skull, Alexia commits murders and, on the run, poses as a fire captain's long-missing son.
Darren Aronofsky · Film · 2008
Randy, an ageing professional wrestler with a failing heart, tries to leave the ring, mend ties with his estranged daughter, and start over, but is pulled back to the fight.