Movies: Tension

Late at night, a brother and his sister ride in an elevator with their father. Suddenly, the lights go off, and the lift gets stuck between two floors. In the dark and unable to get any help, the father pushes his son through the narrow space between...

Scales is a tense, claustrophobic drama that spends one evening with four characters, who are trapped in a combustable boiling pot of an apartment. American boxer, Darnell, his PR manager and girlfriend, Maria, troubled entrepreneur Adam and drug de...

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Three private school students get detention. They are instructed to clean the chapel and make their penance....

The biggest boxing fight of 1960 takes an unexpected turn with the help of a powerful twin connection....

An overzealous bureaucrat invades the sanctity of a nuclear family and their beloved bomb....

A young woman is in her art studio with a long-time friend when she decides to play "Uno," to distract herself from her anxious thoughts. The game, that starts naively, becomes a true competition the moment it brings up old memories from a turbulent ...

A simple man, way over his head, transports a mysterious bag into a bus station where it seems everyone is waiting for him....

A man wakes. Is he alone?...

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance....

While attending to the details of their father's estate, long-suppressed tensions between sisters Ida and Emily boil over, witnessed by Ida's young daughters....

A husband who is unable to relax after work is advised by his wife on how to calm down. Promotional film for Pfizer tranquilizer Atarax....

A trio of friends find themselves in a "what if" situation on the road to the movies....

Cut From Cloth is a short family drama, set on the day of a funeral. After he passes away, three estranged siblings gather round their father's coffin to mourn his death and discuss their large inheritance. But when a knock sounds from within the cas...

After waking up from a coma Marc reunites with his friends, who he doesn't remember, at his late father's house....

A scene that’s at once seductive and repulsive, tender and obscene, aesthetically thrilling and grotesque. Surrounded by flowers, fruits, juices and other delicacies, Tejal Shah and Marylea Madiman, dressed in Indian traditional clothing, sit side by...

When three high school graduates supply booze for the big party, they discover their cargo isn't what they expected....

For an anxious person, being trapped on a boat with someone you don't like can be the tense. Stuck for hours afloat, nothing on the line, bad conversation, and cold winds as resentment rises. Both people chained to a rod and tackle because one won't ...

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In this short drama and intense psychological horror film, the young Arthur demonstrates that it is possible to cope with his problems in the worst possible way....