Films and media

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

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The Souvenir
Joanna HoggFilm2019
A sheltered young film student in 1980s London falls into a consuming relationship with an older man who is secretly an addict.
Wings of Desire
Wim WendersFilm1987
Invisible angels drift through a divided Berlin listening to people's thoughts, until one longs to become mortal for love of a trapeze artist.
Revolutionary Road
Sam MendesFilm2008
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.
Face to Face
Ingmar BergmanFilm1976
Jenny, an accomplished psychiatrist, suffers a psychotic breakdown and a suicide attempt as hallucinations and buried childhood terror overwhelm her composure.
Frances
Graeme CliffordFilm1982
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.
Requiem
Hans-Christian SchmidFilm2006
Michaela, a devout epileptic student, unravels at university, and her family comes to read her suffering as demonic possession rather than illness.
Blue Jasmine
Woody AllenFilm2013
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.
Veronika Voss
Rainer Werner FassbinderFilm1982
A fading film star in 1950s Munich depends on morphine supplied by a controlling doctor who drains her fortune while sustaining her addiction.
Christine
Antonio CamposFilm2016
In 1974 Florida, television reporter Christine Chubbuck grows more isolated and depressed in the weeks leading to an on air act of self-destruction.
Tarnation
Jonathan CaouetteDocumentary2004
Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette assembles decades of home footage to tell the story of his life and his mother's psychiatric illness and institutionalisation.
The Act of Killing
Joshua OppenheimerDocumentary2012
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.
Mystic River
Clint EastwoodFilm2003
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.
Mysterious Skin
Gregg ArakiFilm2004
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.
The Milk of Sorrow
Claudia LlosaFilm2009
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.
Son of Saul
Laszlo NemesFilm2015
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.
Europa Europa
Agnieszka HollandFilm1990
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.
Elephant
Gus Van SantFilm2003
On an ordinary day at an American high school, the camera drifts among students until two boys arrive with guns and open fire.
The Tale
Jennifer FoxFilm2018
A woman revisits a story she wrote as a child about two adult coaches and slowly recognises the relationship it described as sexual abuse.
Flee
Jonas Poher RasmussenDocumentary2021
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.
Clemency
Chinonye ChukwuFilm2019
A death row prison warden carries out execution after execution while her marriage frays and her own composure quietly comes apart.