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21 films tagged abuse
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2014 · Drama
A first-year drummer at a competitive music school wins a seat in the top band, which is run by a conductor who teaches through humiliation. It is mostly the two of them in one room.
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2015 · Drama
The Boston Globe's investigations desk works a story about abuse in the Catholic church, and keeps finding it is bigger than the last version of it. Mostly documents, doorsteps and phone calls.
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2012 · Science fiction
Three high-school boys climb down a hole in a field and come out able to move things with their minds, and at first they mostly mess about. Shot as if one of them is filming the whole time.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2016 · Science fiction
A woman loses her job and her boyfriend, moves back to her hometown, and works out that a giant creature stomping around Seoul copies whatever she does in one particular playground. A small-town drinking story with a monster movie bolted on.
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2019 · Drama
A young television actor lives in a motel with the father who manages him, a former rodeo clown out on parole. Written by the actor it is based on, and it cuts between him as a boy and as a wrecked adult.
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2017 · Comedy
An American figure skater comes up poor and hard in a sport that wants her sweet, told through interviews with everyone who was there. Funny and mean, and the people telling it keep contradicting each other.
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2019 · Drama
Judy Garland arrives in London in 1968 for a run of sold-out shows, broke, worn out and thirty years past The Wizard of Oz. Mostly hotel rooms, dressing rooms and the stage.
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2023 · Drama
An actress spends a week with the woman she is about to play, whose relationship with a much younger boy was a tabloid story twenty years ago. Mostly two women watching each other very closely in a nice house.
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2024 · Drama
Two Black teenagers meet at a brutal Florida reform school in the early 1960s and get each other through it. It is shot almost entirely from inside their eyes, so you see what they see and little else.
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2006 · Fantasy
A girl moves with her pregnant mother to the forest post of her new stepfather, an army captain hunting rebels in 1944 Spain, and finds something living in an old maze. Fairy tale and war run side by side, and both turn violent.
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2023 · Drama
A fourteen-year-old army daughter in Germany is invited to a party at Elvis Presley's house, and spends the next decade mostly waiting for him inside Graceland. Quiet and slow, almost entirely from her side of the room.
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2020 · Thriller
A woman in her thirties who walked out of medical school spends her nights pretending to be too drunk to stand, to see what men do next. Bright colours, pop songs, and a mean sense of humour.
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2022 · Drama
Two New York Times reporters spend months trying to get women to go on the record about a film producer. Mostly phone calls, doorsteps and newsroom talk.
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2018 · Drama
A family in Tokyo living off part-time work and small thefts takes in a little girl they find alone in the cold. It is quiet and slow, and most of it is the six of them crowded into a tiny house.
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2016 · Horror
A man with many personalities takes three teenage girls and locks them in a room underground, and they have to work out which of him they are talking to. Mostly a few rooms, one actor playing most of it.
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2022 · Drama
A famous conductor at the very top of the classical world prepares a live recording in Berlin while things from her past start pressing in. Long, talky, and she is in almost every scene.
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2011 · Mystery
A disgraced journalist is hired by a rich old man to find out what happened to his niece forty years ago, and a young hacker ends up working the case with him. Long, cold, and some scenes are hard going.
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2012 · Drama
A kindergarten teacher in a small Danish town is accused by one child of something he did not do, and the town makes up its mind fast. Plain, tense, and it keeps you a step ahead of everyone in it.
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2020 · Horror
A woman escapes a controlling partner and starts over at a friend's house, then begins to feel that someone else is in the room with her. Long held shots of empty corners, tense most of the way.
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2022 · Drama
The women of an isolated religious colony meet in a hayloft over two days to decide by vote whether to stay or leave. All talk, nearly all one room, and taken from a novel.
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2018 · Thriller
A hired man who finds missing girls, and carries a hammer to work, is sent after a senator's daughter. Eighty-five minutes, barely any dialogue, and it looks away from the violence as often as at it.
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