Movies: Tension

Tensions run high between a dentist couple in this romantic comedy, winner of the 48 Hour Film Project Rotterdam Audience Award....

For an anxious person, being trapped on a boat with someone you don't like can be the tense. Stuck for hours afloat, nothing on the line, bad conversation, and cold winds as resentment rises. Both people chained to a rod and tackle because one won't ...

A simple man, way over his head, transports a mysterious bag into a bus station where it seems everyone is waiting for him....

While attending to the details of their father's estate, long-suppressed tensions between sisters Ida and Emily boil over, witnessed by Ida's young daughters....

A young woman is in her art studio with a long-time friend when she decides to play "Uno," to distract herself from her anxious thoughts. The game, that starts naively, becomes a true competition the moment it brings up old memories from a turbulent ...

A woman returns from the beach and ends up taking a little more home with her than she thought....

In summer 2025, the Van Drayen family gathers at their secluded estate, The Château, for their annual portrait. But as the patriarch reveals the contents of his will, simmering tensions erupt, threatening to tear the family apart....

Late at night, a brother and his sister ride in an elevator with their father. Suddenly, the lights go off, and the lift gets stuck between two floors. In the dark and unable to get any help, the father pushes his son through the narrow space between...

A man wakes. Is he alone?...

When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder....

A husband who is unable to relax after work is advised by his wife on how to calm down. Promotional film for Pfizer tranquilizer Atarax....

On Sunday December 4, 2005, 3 Cronulla lifesavers were coming off duty when they passed a group of 8 Lebanese young men. They stared at each other, a heated verbal exchange turned quickly into a violent brawl, resulting in 3 lifesavers being beaten u...

After waking up from a coma Marc reunites with his friends, who he doesn't remember, at his late father's house....

Ted, an unlikable office manager, is one day kidnapped by Jeremy, a bereaved recluse, and forced to play-act his dead brother David. Slowly gaining Jeremy's confidence, Ted discovers his captor's true intentions and makes a plan to escape....

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When three high school graduates supply booze for the big party, they discover their cargo isn't what they expected....

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He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance....

A man sniffs out a tasty treat......

After two men find the corpse of a woman in their back garden tensions rise as they debate about what exactly they should do next....