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Movies with claustrophobic vibe

Kill Your Darlings

1491. Kill Your Darlings

Drama Romance Thriller Historical Drama Investigation Suspense
6.4

20131h 43min

United States

Director: John Krokidas

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Themes

Academic pressure, Youth rebellion, Identity and sexuality, Confession and deposition, Creative movement influence, Anti establishment tension

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Carrie

1492. Carrie

Drama Horror Psychological Horror Coming-of-Age Drama
5.8

20131h 40min

United States

Director: Kimberly Peirce

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

Themes

Power and retaliation, Otherness and difference, Crowd cruelty and humiliation, Oppressive religious control, Social isolation and bullying, Teenage rebellion under pressure

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Anna

1493. Anna

Thriller Drama Mind Game Thriller Psychological Drama
6.4

20131h 39min

Canada, France

Director: Jorge Dorado

A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

Themes

Memory manipulation ethics, Trust under manipulation, Youth vulnerability, Deception and memory, Trauma versus agency, Institutional tension in care

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Amazon Video
Kanopy
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Metalhead

1494. Metalhead

Drama Music Coming-of-Age Drama Narrative Musical
7.0

20131h 37min

Iceland, Norway

Director: Ragnar Bragason

A young girl in 1990s Iceland is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in metal and dreams of making her own music.

Themes

Grief and creative drive, Family memory and resilience, Subculture stigma, Outsider identity in a small town, Obsession with music, Belonging and rejection

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Kanopy
History Vault
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Grand Piano

1495. Grand Piano

Thriller Mystery Mind Game Thriller Investigation Mystery
5.9

20131h 30min

Spain, United States

Director: Eugenio Mira

Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, stopped performing in public because of his stage fright. Years after a catastrophic performance, he reappears in public in a long awaited concert in Chicago. Just moments after starting his performance in the packed theater, in front of an expectant audience, Tom finds a threatening message written on the score: 'Play one wrong note and you die'. Without leaving the piano, Tom must discover the anonymous sniper's motives and look for help without anyone realizing.

Themes

Deception under pressure, Loyalty under danger, Performance pressure, Control of art, Death threats, Stage fright

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Captain Phillips

1496. Captain Phillips

Action Drama Thriller Military Action Historical Drama
7.8

20132h 14min

United States

Director: Paul Greengrass

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Themes

Poverty and desperation, Ransom negotiations under threat, Risk management in isolation, Authority and obedience under duress, Crew solidarity under pressure, Violence under encroaching danger

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Escape Plan

1497. Escape Plan

Action Thriller Epic Action Survival Thriller
6.7

20131h 55min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Mikael Håfström

Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.

Themes

Loyalty under duress, Deception as strategy, Power and accountability, Institutional secrecy, Security industry ethics, Control under surveillance

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Sweetwater

1498. Sweetwater

Western Thriller Revisionist Western Revenge Thriller
6.2

20131h 36min

United States

Director: Logan Miller

In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.

Themes

Frontier justice, Uneasy alliance, Religious fundamentalism, Coercive authority, Pursuit of vengeance, Remote isolation

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Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Video
The Roku Channel
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Curse of Chucky

1499. Curse of Chucky

Horror Thriller Supernatural Horror Mind Game Thriller
5.6

20131h 37min

United States

Director: Don Mancini

After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the mounting bloodshed and chaos.

Themes

Supernatural interference, Dysfunctional family stress, Killer toys threat, Affair-driven conflict, Grief and vulnerability, Paraplegia vulnerability

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Love turns to hate and panic breeds suspicion as two parents deal with the kidnapping of their child.

Themes

Extramarital affair consequences, Two parents under strain, Panic breeds suspicion, Kidnapping context as social rupture, Loss of trust and violence, Power dynamics and manipulation

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Amazon Video
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