Distressing Movies

A local activist and a budding young mayor clash over the best path forward for their impoverished suburb.

A suburban father gets trapped in a one-sided incestuous relationship with his abusive son.

Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, LA 92 immerses...

How far would you go to change a child the world can’t understand? One autistic artist survives a hidden system of abuse built to correct her.

Canceled in Hollywood, star Lana Cruz heads to her hometown for a comeback. Enter Polly, her fan-turned-frenemy. Can Lana dodge drama and reclaim her...

Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister, anorexic aspiring wrestler brother,...

Based on real events, Huda’s Salon is a heart-racing, entertaining feminist thriller, where two women fight for their freedom. Reem, a young...

In a world where the inconvenience of human emotion has been eradicated by a single daily vitamin, one young couple skips their dose and discovers...

A trans man and his partner travel to a remote Iranian village to face his estranged father and obtain documents that would permit them to live...

Taylor Pherry is given a mission from God Himself: to tell his family's stories and inspire his community. What he doesn't know is that the Devil has...

Alice, a young woman grieving the death of her mother, finds a friend in the older Ida, but her new friend seems to have sinister intentions.

An act of kindness met with deception leads to Layla's abduction and descent into a life of human trafficking hidden in an ordinary neighborhood.

An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.

When Sandro’s father decides to devote his life to God and leaves for a monastery, the teenage introvert finds himself deprived of the...

Hakim is a professional hacker and used to muscular interrogations. But his last encounter with the Moroccan secret service will change his life...

In an ever-expanding but nondescript North American city, Christophe, a middle-aged businessman, unexpectedly encounters Micha, a Russian acrobat...

Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and...

Elder and Daiane are a couple in the midst of an urban war: while he fights to survive, their first child is about to be born.

After her husband's close call with a heart attack, his wife feels haunted by a serial slayer and struggles to determine whether this stalker is...

After taking in an abandoned child, Teresa meets Antônio and the two begin a journey on the roads. The common past, for them, is the memories...