Films and media

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

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Saint Omer
Alice DiopFilm2022
A pregnant novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of leaving her infant daughter to drown, and finds the case stirring her own hidden fears.
Anatomy of a Fall
Justine TrietFilm2023
When a man falls to his death at their mountain home, his wife stands trial for murder while their partially sighted son must judge what he can believe.
A Separation
Asghar FarhadiFilm2011
A Tehran couple's divorce collides with the care of the husband's father, who has dementia, drawing two families into a spiral of accusation and guilt.
Capturing the Friedmans
Andrew JareckiDocumentary2003
A suburban family is torn apart when the father and a son face child abuse charges, told through the home movies the family filmed as it collapsed.
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Todd SolondzFilm1996
An awkward, unpopular eleven-year-old endures cruelty at school and neglect at home, where her prettier siblings get all the attention.
Rachel Getting Married
Jonathan DemmeFilm2008
Kym leaves rehab to attend her sister Rachel's wedding, and her return reopens old wounds around a family tragedy she caused.
System Crasher
Nora FingscheidtFilm2019
Benni, a fierce nine year old, cycles through foster homes and institutions as her rage defeats every adult trying to care for her.
In the Summers
Alessandra LacorazzaFilm2024
Across four summers, two sisters visit their loving but addicted father, and each stay revises what they can expect of him.
Leave No Trace
Debra GranikFilm2018
A traumatised war veteran and his teenage daughter live hidden in an Oregon forest until they are found and pulled into ordinary society.
The Skeleton Twins
Craig JohnsonFilm2014
Estranged twins Milo and Maggie reunite after both attempt suicide on the same day and try to repair a bond marked by their father's death.
Short Cuts
Robert AltmanFilm1993
Over a few days in Los Angeles, the lives of many loosely connected people intersect around infidelity, grief, and quiet cruelty.
Monster
Hirokazu Kore-edaFilm2023
When a mother suspects her son's teacher of hurting him, the same events are retold from three viewpoints, revealing a hidden truth between two boys.
Leaving Las Vegas
Mike FiggisFilm1995
A screenwriter moves to Las Vegas to drink himself to death and begins a relationship with a sex worker who accepts him without trying to save him.
Little Children
Todd FieldFilm2006
In a New England suburb, two unhappy married parents drift into an affair while the neighbourhood fixates on a paroled sex offender.
Happiness
Todd SolondzFilm1998
Across an extended New Jersey family, several lonely people pursue desire and fantasy, including a psychiatrist father hiding a terrible compulsion.
The Handmaiden
Park Chan-wookFilm2016
A young thief is planted as a maid to a Japanese heiress in a con to steal her fortune, but the two women's growing desire upends the plot.
Intimacy
Patrice ChereauFilm2001
A man and a woman meet every week for anonymous sex, until he begins to follow her and the rest of their lives forces its way in.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Philip KaufmanFilm1988
In 1968 Prague, a womanising surgeon, his devoted wife, and his free spirited lover navigate desire and fidelity as Soviet tanks roll in.
From Afar
Lorenzo VigasFilm2015
A solitary older man in Caracas pays young men only to watch them, until a violent street youth draws him into a dangerous closeness.
Happening
Audrey DiwanFilm2021
In 1960s France, a bright university student seeking an illegal abortion is met with silence and risk from everyone she turns to.