Professional Drama movies

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Realistic Dry Relentless Oppressive Urban

Overview

Julie finally gets an interview for a job where she can raise her children better only to run into a national transit strike.

Themes

Economic precarity, Work-life conflict, Labor market instability, Single parent burden, Infrastructure disruption

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Realistic Intimate Claustrophobic Dry Restrained

Overview

Cassandre, 26, is a flight attendant for a low-cost airline. Based in Lanzarote, she’s always willing to take on extra hours and carries out her duties with robotic efficiency. On the side, she just goes with the flow and floats between Tinder, parties and lazy days. When she suddenly gets dismissed, she is forced to return home.

Themes

Emotional isolation, Care under pressure, Professional boundaries, Precarious employment, Grief shaping behavior, Distant relationships

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Tense Steady Intimate Claustrophobic Dry

Overview

On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

Themes

Illness and mortality, Pressure to create, Artistic integrity vs stability, Dream vs practicality, Love and friendship strain, Deadline-driven ambition

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Realistic Raw Claustrophobic Dry Fast-paced

Overview

A head chef balances multiple personal and professional crises at a popular restaurant in London.

Themes

Investor pressure sparks power struggle, Labor hierarchy drives tension, Food critic scrutiny, Influencer pressure shapes demand, Fine dining pressure, One take pacing

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Realistic Claustrophobic Dry Fast-paced Witty

Overview

Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.

Themes

Gendered double standards, Privacy vs exposure, Cancel culture pressures, Public reputation under siege, Institutional scrutiny, National conservatism critique

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Realistic Claustrophobic Dry Relentless Fast-paced

Overview

A retired contract killer goes on a bloody rampage when a young girl finds herself at the mercy of gangland human traffickers and only one man can come to her rescue, with an arsenal of weapons and years of experience in the art of killing.

Themes

Human trafficking, Revenge dynamics, Transgender presence, Hard boiled, Police intervention, Golf course investment

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Tense Dry Witty Satirical Cynical

Overview

Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.

Themes

Ambition and consequences, Greed and rapid wealth, Fraud and deception, Drug involvement and excess, Risk and instability in markets, Power and money dynamics

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Dry Relentless Stylish Witty Oppressive

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Set in the underworld of debt-collecting, homegrown hustler Peg Dahl will do anything to escape Buffalo, NY.

Themes

Class inequality, Economic precarity, Debt culture, Deception in debt market, Entrepreneurial hustle, Power and risk in urban enterprise

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Realistic Claustrophobic Dry Deliberate Clinical

Overview

A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.

Themes

Abuse of power, Gendered power dynamics, Barriers to reporting, Toxic workplace culture, Ambiguous moral climate, Corporate complicity

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Realistic Dry Deliberate Clinical Minimalist

Overview

Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven year old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. Her love is overpowering, unsettling. When Sarah is chosen to join the crew of a year-long space mission called Proxima, it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.

Themes

Career vs family conflict, Resilience under isolation, Gender bias in demanding work, Caregiver guilt and distance, Professional respect through perseverance, Single motherhood under pressure

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