Films and media

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

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The Look of Silence
Joshua OppenheimerDocumentary2014
An optometrist whose brother was murdered in Indonesia's 1965 killings confronts, one by one, the ageing men who carried out the massacre.
I'm Still Here
Walter SallesFilm2024
After her husband, a former congressman, is seized and disappeared under Brazil's dictatorship, a mother of five holds her family together and pursues the truth.
Away from Her
Sarah PolleyFilm2006
A woman entering the grip of Alzheimer's moves into a care home, where she forms a tender attachment to another resident and seems to forget her husband.
Iris
Richard EyreFilm2001
The novelist Iris Murdoch's descent into dementia is cut against her spirited youth, seen through the devoted, faltering husband who cares for her.
Still Alice
Richard Glatzer and Wash WestmorelandFilm2014
A distinguished linguistics professor is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's and fights to hold on to her family, her work, and her sense of self.
The Father
Florian ZellerFilm2020
An ageing man losing his grip on memory and time refuses help, as his daughter, his flat, and even familiar faces seem to shift and rearrange around him.
Poetry
Lee Chang-dongFilm2010
An ageing grandmother beginning to lose her memory enrols in a poetry class just as she learns her grandson took part in a schoolgirl's death.
You Can Count on Me
Kenneth LonerganFilm2000
After their parents die young, a single mother and her drifting brother reunite in their small hometown and test how much they can still rely on each other.
The Hours
Stephen DaldryFilm2002
Across three eras, three women (Virginia Woolf, a 1950s housewife, and a modern New Yorker) live through a single day shadowed by the novel Mrs Dalloway.
Drive My Car
Ryusuke HamaguchiFilm2021
A theatre director grieving his wife rehearses Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima with the young woman assigned to drive his car.
Close
Lukas DhontFilm2022
Two thirteen year old boys share an intense friendship that shatters when classmates read it as romance, and the fallout ends in one boy's death and the other's grief.
Interiors
Woody AllenFilm1978
Three grown sisters cope with their father leaving their fragile, controlling mother for a warmer new wife, as the family's polished order comes apart.
Autumn Sonata
Ingmar BergmanFilm1978
A famous concert pianist visits the grown daughter she long neglected, and a single overnight reckoning brings decades of hurt and blame into the open.
Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert BentonFilm1979
When his wife leaves, a work-absorbed father learns to raise their young son alone, then faces her return and a bruising custody fight over the boy.
Terms of Endearment
James Lawrence BrooksFilm1983
Over three decades a strong-willed widow and her daughter cling to and clash with each other, until illness forces a final reckoning between them.
Sweetie
Jane CampionFilm1989
A superstitious young woman's life is upended when her volatile, grandiose sister arrives, exposing the whole family's fault lines and buried loyalties.
Dogtooth
Yorgos LanthimosFilm2009
Parents keep their three grown children imprisoned on the family estate, inventing a false language and world to seal them off from everything outside.
Like Father, Like Son
Hirokazu Kore-edaFilm2013
A successful architect learns his six-year-old son was switched at birth, and two families must decide whether blood or years of care makes a father.
Loveless
Andrey ZvyagintsevFilm2017
As a Moscow couple tear through a bitter divorce, each already moving on to someone new, their unwanted twelve-year-old son disappears.
The Lost Daughter
Maggie GyllenhaalFilm2021
A professor's solitary seaside holiday is disturbed by a young mother and child, stirring buried memories of once walking out on her own daughters.