Movies (89) tagged by 'downward spiral'
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Get Over It (2001)
When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his...
I Stand Alone (1999)
Released after being imprisoned for assault, a Frenchman finds himself impoverished, alienated and angry.
When Nietzsche Wept (2007)
Viennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
Reservation Road (2007)
A powerful human story of anger, revenge and great courage, this film takes you on an intense journey that follows two fathers as their families and lives con...
Buddy Boy (2000)
The story of a pious introvert whose religious conviction begins to crumble under the weight of a cruel and strange existence, Buddy Boy is a study of faith, o...
The Innocents (1962)
In Victorian England, the uncle of orphaned niece Flora and nephew Miles hires Miss Giddens as governess to raise the children at his estate with total indepen...
La captive (2000)
An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional ...
Re-cycle (2006) (2006)
After writing three best-sellers about love story based on her own experiences, the successful writer Tsui Ting-Yin is without inspiration and having difficulti...
I Love You Too (2001)
This is the story, told in flashback, of a virtuous young law student whose eyes are opened to real life when he is seduced by a ravishingly beautiful girl. H...
The Living and the Dead (2006)
A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical trea...
The Possession of David O'Reilly (2010)
A supernatural shockumentary about a demonic presence in a young couple's home in London.
Frozen Days (2006)
Meow is a young woman roaming the streets and nightclubs of Tel Aviv. She lives in empty apartments and surfs the internet chat rooms. She decides to meet Alex,...
Secret Sunshine (2007)
Sin-ae moves with her son Jun to Miryang, the town where her dead husband was born. As she tries to come to herself and set out on new foundations, another tr...
Comforting Skin (2011)
A lonely young woman's desperate need for emotional and sexual companionship draws her into a surreal and ultimately destructive relationship with a shifting an...
Unspeakable (2000)
A brilliant and fiercely independent psychiatrist testing out a new, cutting-edge technology on death row inmates. When she discovers an innocent inmate is ab...
Survive Style 5+ (2004)
Three storylines are threaded together in this offbeat Gen Sekiguchi film. A man is left believing he is a bird when the hypnotist is murdered during his act;...
The Killing of John Lennon (2006)
A dramatization of Mark Champman's plan to murder John Lennon.
Blackwoods (2002)
Matt (Patrick Muldoon) is haunted by the death of a girl from a car accident he caused years ago. Matt was drunk and as he reached for the car radio, he struck...
Love Liza (2003)
Wilson Joel is a man in trouble. There's a searing pain in his gut that he can't tolerate and a dazed quietness to his struggle as he tries to maintain his equi...
Days of Darkness (2007)
The world watches as a comet looms over the earth for days. The masses were told there is nothing to worry about... See full synopsis »
Demons of the Mind (1974)
Baron Zorn keeps his teenaged children locked up and drugged, fearing that his insane wife passed along a congenital curse to them before her own suicidal death...
Childish Games (2012)
Dictado (aka Childish Games) tells the story of a childless couple, Daniel and Laura, both teachers... See full synopsis »
Iron Doors (2010)
A young man must escape from a mysterious locked vault before he dies of dehydration.
High Strung (1991)
Thane Furrows, an extremely cynical but unintentionally hilarious children's book writer, wakes up one morning, and, since pretty much everyone and everything a...
Removal (2010)
Gothic horror meets industrial-strength cleaning products in this spine-tingler about a pill-popping cleaning service employee and a sprawling mansion with secr...
Mad Cowgirl (2006)
A woman, who is dying of a brain disorder, begins a surreal journey which descends into violence.
Caught Inside (2010)
Surfing charters are meant to be a trip to Paradise. With six male surfers stuck on a boat, there's bound to be some friction. When two of the surf crew are rep...
The Perfect Tenant (2000)
Based on the engrossing non-fiction work by Sebastian Junger about the Andrea Gail-a commercial sword-fishing boat that was lost at sea in October 1991-Wolfga...
Early One Morning (2011)
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He...
Below Zero (2011)
Based on true events, BELOW ZERO is a thriller with a 'Fargo' feel. It is the story of 'Jack the Hack', a less than average, but once successful screenwriter wh...
Absence (2013)
Doctors are baffled when a young expectant mother wakes to find her nearly-to-term pregnancy apparently disappear overnight. The police are investigating the si...
The Antichrist (1974)
Ippolita is a paralyzed young woman with serious mental problems stemming from the death of her mother. Her crisis of faith and the intervention of a well-meani...
Cry for the Strangers (1982)
The little coastal town of Clark's Harbor seems like the perfect place for psychiatrist Brad Russell and his wife to get a little peace and spend more time with...
The President's Analyst (1967)
At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies...
The Uninvited (2001) (2003)
Drum 'n' bass music, a sort of subgenre within the larger "dance music" category, is known for its sparse minimalism riddled by asymmetrical beats. DRUM 'N' B...
Hello Herman (2012)
Set in the not so distant future, in Any Town USA, sixteen year old Herman Howards makes a fateful decision. He enters his suburban school and kills thirty nine...
Fear Me Not (2008)
A man signs up for a test trial of a new anti-depressant as a way to change his life. When the trial is called off, he continues taking the medication with vi...
Final Draft (2007)
An aspiring screenwriter trying to write a new horror script finds himself mentally breaking down after days of isolation in his apartment.
Everything Put Together (2000)
The story of a Californian couple expecting a child and their group of friends confronted with the tragedy of a big loss.
Pioneer (2013)
This conspiracy thriller is set in the early 80's, the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and th...
The Double Garden (1970)
A mad scientist uses thunder and lightning to turn carnivorous plants into man-eating creatures.
Reality (2012)
Luciano is a Neapolitan fishmonger who supplements his modest income by pulling off little scams together with his wife Maria. A likeable, entertaining guy, Luc...
Lizzie (2012)
A young woman reawakens evil forces in a house a notorious crime occurred.
Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970)
A triangle of friendship, love, sex, and, perhaps, murder. Minou is newly married to Peter, a businessman in debt as he works to bring a new product to market. ...
Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1999)
One day, a boy named Jacob Two-Two (aptly named because every phrase that he utters is repeated) decides to set out to prove himself to his parents that he can ...
Our Children (2012)
Like millions of other couples, Mounir and Murielle fall in love. Like millions of other couples, Mounir and Murielle have children. But unlike them, they accep...
Akiresu to kame (2008)
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keep...
The Hard Road (1970)
A cautionary tale. At 17, Sherman Oaks high schooler Pam Banner has a baby out of wedlock. The baby is adopted, but Pam's too embarrassed to go back to school, ...
Sue (1997)
An unemployed ex-office worker (Anna Thomson) searching for work floats a fragile line of sanity as she struggles to find friendship and companionship. Her tenu...
Martin & Orloff (2002)
This is the story of a marketing man and his shrink. A suicide attempt and a softball game; A PHD-toting stripper and a deranged Desert Storm vet; A giant spare...
Donovan's Echo (2011)
A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.
Hipnos (2004)
A woman suffers a traumatic incident as a young girl, whereas she doesn't know which reality is the real one.
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
In this film, 'Her' refers to both Paris, the character of Juliette Janson and the actress playing her, Marina Vlady. The film is a kind of dramatised documenta...
The Sentinel (1977)
A fashion model moves into a house inhabited (on the top floor) by a blind priest. She begins having strange physical problems, has trouble sleeping at night, a...
Gamunui yeonggwang (2002)
He has the perfect pedigree, the perfect resume, the perfect girlfriend; everything is perfectly perfect...
Locked In (2010)
Josh leaves his advertising career at its peak, everyone wants either to be him or to have him. A car accident will leave his daughter in a strange coma and whe...
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
An American architect arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, who is famous for his oval structures. Through the course of 9...
The Martins (2001)
Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a shabby hous...
Mysteria (2011)
A once famous, and now washed-up, Hollywood Screenwriter, fighting to finish his latest script with an unrealistic deadline. He finds himself in the center of a...
The Tenants (2005)
Harry Lesser lives in a decrepit apartment building and spends his days banging away at a typewriter in an attempt to finish his t...
The Ape (2009)
A descent into hell, Jesper Ganslandt's disturbing and suspenseful second feature begins with a man waking up in unfamiliar surroundings, only to find the life ...
The Attic Expeditions (2001)
Trevor is a young man who has been sentenced to a long stay in a mental hospital after brutally killing his girlfriend. However, the longer Trevor is in stir, t...
I Love Your Work (2003)
The film follows fictional movie star Gray Evans through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a y...
Bad Day on the Block (1997)
During a heat wave, a fireman hero/Charlie Sheen has it in for the family next door and whoever else bothers him.
Breaking Dawn (2004)
A dedicated young medical student is assigned to probe into the mind of Don Wake, a patient at a psychiatric hospital loaded with secrets. She pushes him to rev...
Heart (1999)
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
404: Error Not Found (2011)
A brilliant student starts hallucinating after moving into a room that was occupied by another who committed suicide.
Fires on the Plain (2014)
A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2.
The President's Last Bang (2005)
A look at the life of President Park Chung-hee and the events leading up to his assassination.
The Velvet Trap (1966)
Put upon greasy spoon waitress Julie gets raped by her drunken short order cook boss. After managing to escape, Julie hooks up with regular patron Brad Collins ...
My Sweet Killer (1999)
A psychotic man stops taking his medication and goes on a killing spree after having bloody visions.
Gertrud (1964)
In the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson.
Where Truth Lies (1996)
Driven to drink by his wife's death, a tormented doctor is committed to an experimental rehab.
Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (1972)
The 'dreamer' is Jacques, a young painter, who by chance runs into Marthe as she's contemplating suicide on the Pont-Neuf in Paris. They talk, an...
Saraba itoshiki daichi (1982)
The film opens with the drowning deaths of farmer Yukio's two sons. Their deaths send him on a course of self-destruction.
Pressure Point (1962)
A black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.
May 18 (2007)
The story of events leading up to the 1980 Gwangju massacre in South Korea when thousands of students and protesters were killed by armed troops during an anti-...
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