Films and media
Documentaries, films and series, with one sentence on what each covers.
Joshua Oppenheimer · Documentary · 2014
An optometrist whose brother was murdered in Indonesia's 1965 killings confronts, one by one, the ageing men who carried out the massacre.
Walter Salles · Film · 2024
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.
Sarah Polley · Film · 2006
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.
Richard Eyre · Film · 2001
The novelist Iris Murdoch's descent into dementia is cut against her spirited youth, seen through the devoted, faltering husband who cares for her.
Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland · Film · 2014
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.
Florian Zeller · Film · 2020
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.
Lee Chang-dong · Film · 2010
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.
Kenneth Lonergan · Film · 2000
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.
Stephen Daldry · Film · 2002
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.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi · Film · 2021
A theatre director grieving his wife rehearses Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima with the young woman assigned to drive his car.
Lukas Dhont · Film · 2022
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.
Woody Allen · Film · 1978
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.
Ingmar Bergman · Film · 1978
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.
Robert Benton · Film · 1979
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.
James L. Brooks · Film · 1983
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.
Jane Campion · Film · 1989
A superstitious young woman's life is upended when her volatile, grandiose sister arrives, exposing the whole family's fault lines and buried loyalties.
Yorgos Lanthimos · Film · 2009
Parents keep their three grown children imprisoned on the family estate, inventing a false language and world to seal them off from everything outside.
Hirokazu Kore-eda · Film · 2013
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.
Andrey Zvyagintsev · Film · 2017
As a Moscow couple tear through a bitter divorce, each already moving on to someone new, their unwanted twelve-year-old son disappears.
Maggie Gyllenhaal · Film · 2021
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.