Films and media
Documentaries, films and series, with one sentence on what each covers.
Joanna Hogg · Film · 2019
A sheltered young film student in 1980s London falls into a consuming relationship with an older man who is secretly an addict.
Wim Wenders · Film · 1987
Invisible angels drift through a divided Berlin listening to people's thoughts, until one longs to become mortal for love of a trapeze artist.
Sam Mendes · Film · 2008
Frank and April Wheeler, a young couple in 1950s suburban Connecticut, plan to start over in Paris, but their marriage collapses under disappointment and denial.
Ingmar Bergman · Film · 1976
Jenny, an accomplished psychiatrist, suffers a psychotic breakdown and a suicide attempt as hallucinations and buried childhood terror overwhelm her composure.
Graeme Clifford · Film · 1982
The actress Frances Farmer rises to Hollywood fame, then is committed to psychiatric institutions where she endures forced treatment and, it is alleged, a lobotomy.
Hans-Christian Schmid · Film · 2006
Michaela, a devout epileptic student, unravels at university, and her family comes to read her suffering as demonic possession rather than illness.
Woody Allen · Film · 2013
Jasmine, a ruined New York socialite, moves in with her working-class sister in San Francisco and slides into delusion as her old life falls apart.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Film · 1982
A fading film star in 1950s Munich depends on morphine supplied by a controlling doctor who drains her fortune while sustaining her addiction.
Antonio Campos · Film · 2016
In 1974 Florida, television reporter Christine Chubbuck grows more isolated and depressed in the weeks leading to an on air act of self-destruction.
Jonathan Caouette · Documentary · 2004
Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette assembles decades of home footage to tell the story of his life and his mother's psychiatric illness and institutionalisation.
Joshua Oppenheimer · Documentary · 2012
In Indonesia, men who led the 1960s anti-communist killings proudly re-enact their murders as scenes staged in the styles of the movies they love.
Clint Eastwood · Film · 2003
When one man's daughter is murdered in Boston, three childhood friends are drawn back together, and the abduction one of them suffered as a boy resurfaces.
Gregg Araki · Film · 2004
Two teenage boys in Kansas were abused by the same baseball coach as children; one becomes a hustler, the other believes he was abducted by aliens.
Claudia Llosa · Film · 2009
Fausta, a young Andean woman, believes she absorbed her mother's wartime rape trauma through breast milk and lives in fear as she tries to bury her mother.
Laszlo Nemes · Film · 2015
Saul, a Jewish prisoner forced to work in an Auschwitz crematorium, fixates on giving a dead boy he takes for his son a proper burial.
Agnieszka Holland · Film · 1990
A Jewish teenager survives the war by hiding his identity, ending up decorated and enrolled in a Hitler Youth school while concealing that he is a Jew.
Gus Van Sant · Film · 2003
On an ordinary day at an American high school, the camera drifts among students until two boys arrive with guns and open fire.
Jennifer Fox · Film · 2018
A woman revisits a story she wrote as a child about two adult coaches and slowly recognises the relationship it described as sexual abuse.
Jonas Poher Rasmussen · Documentary · 2021
Amin, an Afghan refugee now settled in Denmark, tells for the first time the hidden story of his flight, recounted through animation to protect him.
Chinonye Chukwu · Film · 2019
A death row prison warden carries out execution after execution while her marriage frays and her own composure quietly comes apart.