Movies with anxious vibe

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Realistic Claustrophobic Relentless Oppressive Shadowy

Overview

After a mysterious global crisis, a young girl is left alone to hide from a malevolent power that stalks her home. Her parents eventually return and the struggle begins to save their daughter.

Themes

Power redefining family roles, Domestic isolation danger, Parental abandonment risk, Science against suppression, Apocalyptic outbreak anxiety, Uncontrollable power emergence

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Realistic Heartwarming Intimate Dry Documentary-style

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Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.

Themes

Illness as catalyst, Humor as coping, Family pressure, Cultural expectations, Intercultural relationship, Career vs tradition

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Bleak Dry

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Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.

Themes

Romance under pressure, Peer pressure and bullying, Self-image and belonging, Empathy and growth, Time loop repetition, Family conflict and stress

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Realistic Intimate Bleak Clinical Measured

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A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.

Themes

Peer influence and belonging, Trauma and recovery, Family obligation vs independence, Eating disorder pressures, Medical authority vs autonomy, Body image and control

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Realistic Tense Intimate Claustrophobic Dry

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Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.

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Sibling rivalry and care, Family expectations vs autonomy, Friendship strain and reconciliation, Peer acceptance and jealousy, Self-doubt and loneliness, Coming of age in high school

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Claustrophobic Brutal Dry Clinical Measured

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In Justine's family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she's a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.

Themes

Identity under pressure, Belonging and exclusion, Peer pressure rituals, Family legacy and secrecy, Ethics of consumption, Body horror and appetite

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Realistic Tense Heartwarming Steady Intimate

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A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since the death of their matriarch.

Themes

Family obligation under grief, Grief and legacy, Home as emotional anchor, Financial strain and resilience, Shelter demolition conflict, Deception and exposure in families, Generational pursuit of stability

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Realistic Intimate Claustrophobic Bleak Restrained

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A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his best friend Kat instead. When he starts to feel attracted to a mysterious new student at school, Phil is plunged into emotional turmoil only exacerbated by the trouble at home.

Themes

Family estrangement, Coming-of-age pressures, Secrecy and betrayal, Remote isolation, Adolescent romance, Self-discovery under stress

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Realistic Tense Stylish Minimalist Measured

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Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

Themes

Extramarital affair consequences, Parental pressure and ambition, Memory and distance, Trauma and retribution, Art world obsession, Ambiguity and ambivalence

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Realistic Tense Deliberate Measured Oppressive

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Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.

Themes

Loneliness and isolation, Self-determination under constraint, Land ownership and labor, House-building as ambition, Affair and professional boundaries, Female agency in a small town

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