Psychological Stress Movies

From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood le...

A prisoner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary begins to question the purpose of the emotion-controlling drugs he's testing for a pharmaceutical genius...

Set in Argentina in 1965, the story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became lovers and ultimately ruthless bank robbers in a no...

Pushed to the breaking point by Simon, her psychologically abusive boyfriend, Alice becomes an unwitting participant in an intervention staged by her...

The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his...

Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to reta...

Maria is a student at the university of Essen, Germany, living and working in a gray, unpleasant, and anonymous environment. While she has little prob...

A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

A short film based on the short story "De Binocle" by Dutch writer Louis Couperus. It tells the story of a nervous man who on one evening while going...

An industrialist's wife tries to remember the shocking sight that made her blind.

Five friends travel to a secluded island for a purifying week-long water fast. With no food and electricity, a long forgotten hate surfaces.

Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psyc...

A struggling actress becomes entangled in an abusive relationship with her idol at a cult-like New York theatre company.

A professional wrestler struggles to reconcile his onstage and offstage personas.

Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the co...

All filmed from the warped perspective of a doll, Black Daruma is a dark-humoured psychological horror film about an unemployed man who buys a Japanes...

A single-parented girl who has to help her father who had an accident at home

After her mother comes back from an extended hospital stay, a young girl begins to envision an ominous monster lurking in her home.

The film captures the essence of Success' emotional journey, from being stuck in the past to finding the courage to move forward.

Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother,...