Films and media

Documentaries, films and series, with one sentence on what each covers.

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The Celebration
Thomas VinterbergFilm1998
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.
Precious
Lee DanielsFilm2009
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.
Room
Lenny AbrahamsonFilm2015
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.
Hereditary
Ari AsterFilm2018
After two devastating losses, a family already strained by inherited mental illness comes apart as the mother's grief turns toward something darker.
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Sean DurkinFilm2011
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.
Grbavica
Jasmila ZbanicFilm2006
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.
Get Out
Jordan PeeleFilm2017
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.
A Real Pain
Jesse EisenbergFilm2024
Two mismatched cousins take a Holocaust heritage tour of Poland to honour their late grandmother, their old closeness rubbing against everything unspoken between them.
Cache
Michael HanekeFilm2005
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.
The White Ribbon
Michael HanekeFilm2009
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.
The Zone of Interest
Jonathan GlazerFilm2023
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.
Volver
Pedro AlmodóvarFilm2006
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.
Elle
Paul VerhoevenFilm2016
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.
Monsoon Wedding
Mira NairFilm2001
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.
Atonement
Joe WrightFilm2007
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.
Fight Club
David FincherFilm1999
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.
American Psycho
Mary HarronFilm2000
Patrick Bateman, a wealthy 1980s Manhattan investment banker, narrates a double life of designer obsession and escalating murder that may be real or delusion.
The Believer
Henry BeanFilm2001
Danny, a young New York Jew, becomes a violent neo-Nazi skinhead, tormented by the faith and identity he is trying to destroy.
Titane
Julia DucournauFilm2021
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.
The Wrestler
Darren AronofskyFilm2008
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.