Films and media
Documentaries, films and series, with one sentence on what each covers.
Alice Diop · Film · 2022
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.
Justine Triet · Film · 2023
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.
Asghar Farhadi · Film · 2011
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.
Andrew Jarecki · Documentary · 2003
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.
Todd Solondz · Film · 1996
An awkward, unpopular eleven-year-old endures cruelty at school and neglect at home, where her prettier siblings get all the attention.
Jonathan Demme · Film · 2008
Kym leaves rehab to attend her sister Rachel's wedding, and her return reopens old wounds around a family tragedy she caused.
Nora Fingscheidt · Film · 2019
Benni, a fierce nine year old, cycles through foster homes and institutions as her rage defeats every adult trying to care for her.
Alessandra Lacorazza · Film · 2024
Across four summers, two sisters visit their loving but addicted father, and each stay revises what they can expect of him.
Debra Granik · Film · 2018
A traumatised war veteran and his teenage daughter live hidden in an Oregon forest until they are found and pulled into ordinary society.
Craig Johnson · Film · 2014
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.
Robert Altman · Film · 1993
Over a few days in Los Angeles, the lives of many loosely connected people intersect around infidelity, grief, and quiet cruelty.
Hirokazu Kore-eda · Film · 2023
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.
Mike Figgis · Film · 1995
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.
Todd Field · Film · 2006
In a New England suburb, two unhappy married parents drift into an affair while the neighbourhood fixates on a paroled sex offender.
Todd Solondz · Film · 1998
Across an extended New Jersey family, several lonely people pursue desire and fantasy, including a psychiatrist father hiding a terrible compulsion.
Park Chan-wook · Film · 2016
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.
Patrice Chereau · Film · 2001
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.
Philip Kaufman · Film · 1988
In 1968 Prague, a womanising surgeon, his devoted wife, and his free spirited lover navigate desire and fidelity as Soviet tanks roll in.
Lorenzo Vigas · Film · 2015
A solitary older man in Caracas pays young men only to watch them, until a violent street youth draws him into a dangerous closeness.
Audrey Diwan · Film · 2021
In 1960s France, a bright university student seeking an illegal abortion is met with silence and risk from everyone she turns to.