Movies: Psychological stress

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 Japanese 'luck doll' to improve his fortunes, only for his life to unravel in disturbing ways....

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

It's 1974. Earth is about to be obliterated by a massive asteroid. Adi (Jonnie Hurn) and his young hippy wife Ange (Chloe Farnworth), haunted by memories of the death of their child a few years earlier, journey to the idyllic rural setting where he w...

A man is haunted successively by seven women who have lost their keys. He reacts to the request that he be allowed to use the toilet with increasing helplessness and despair, which is discharged in violence....

A window into the broken soul of Bruce, battling long-term depression and the culmination of events leading up to the tipping point of his bottled up shame, guilt, and self-destruction....

A portrait of new found sobriety and love unravels as a young woman moves through the motions of melancholic life in seclusion....

In the near future, John Smith takes a test that reveals the exact date of his death. How will he react when his perfectly ordered life is suddenly thrown into chaos ?...

A teenage girl spends her afternoon cooking. She is alone. Or isnt't she? A student short film shot and completed entirely from afar due to Covid19 restrictions....

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Narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker, Honorable but Broken highlights the highs and significant lows -- the emotional toll of the job, lack of mental health resources, pitiful wages and overall undervaluation -- of working in EMS, and looks for viable so...

A dinner party turns strange as two couples can't decide which memories are real or not....

Derek, a young man indebted to his sleep and schoolwork fractures his perception of reality as his association of alarm and anxiety is numbed by the repetition of his stresses....

A young man contemplates and processes the difficulties of life during his journey into becoming the man who he must soon choose to be; doing so by visiting the one place in which he feels the most solitary....

A frustrated author faces intense pressure from her editor, the internet, and her own characters as she attempts to craft a follow-up to her previous novel, a surprise success that may have been more of a curse than a blessing....

Benji is sent spiraling into a storm of self doubt after matching with a girl who is out of his league. A short film about body dysmorphia....

Cassius is a lonesome photographer who is sent over the edge when he meditates to help with the grief of his late lover....

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

Somewhere in North Kolkata, OBHYESH is an unfurling of a 28 years old boy's life, through his struggle to fall asleep during a whole night. The boy seems to be terribly tired and tries hard to get some sleep but various thoughts perpetually come and ...

The film chronicles a day in the life of a man during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, but something inside his house isn't quite right....