Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse (2017), Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), Fists in the Pocket (1965), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Terribly Happy (2008), Mouchette (1967), THX-1138 (1971), The Here After (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Oppressive Atmosphere movies.
Storyline: In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the woods.
Plot Keywords: horror, folk horror, psychological horror, medieval, supernatural, curse, isolation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A quiet Connecticut vacation home is the backdrop for domestic decline. Sensitive son Edmund (Dean Stockwell) returns home from spending time at sea to a family in a state of collapse. His father (Ralph Richardson) is an alcoholic miser. His mother, Mary (Katharine Hepburn), is addicted to morphine. His brother, Jamie (Jason Robards), is aggressive and unstable. As Edmund and his brother clash over how to help their mother, she becomes increasingly concerned about Edmund's worsening health.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, tragedy, literary adaptation, stage play adaptation, classic, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Augusto (Marino Mase) is the oldest son in a dysfunctional Italian family that includes a blind mother (Liliana Gerace), a selfish sister, Giulia (Paola Pitagora), and two epileptic brothers, Alessandro (Lou Castel) and Leone (Pier Luigi Troglio). Augusto is planning to marry Lucia (Jennie MacNeil) despite Giulia's repeated attempts to drive them apart, but cannot do so while taking care of the clan. An angry and unstable Alessandro decides to help Augusto by killing their mother and siblings.
Plot Keywords: psychological drama, family conflict, mental illness, moral dilemma, black comedy, social critique, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teacher and three schoolgirls at Appleyard College disappear in 1900.
Plot Keywords: mystery, drama, psychological thriller, historical, literary adaptation, female perspective, surrealism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following a nervous breakdown, a police officer (Jakob Cedergren) from Copenhagen pulls duty in a small town, where his big-city attitude clashes with the residents' bizarre behavior.
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, black comedy, mystery, psychological thriller, drama, danish film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young teen Mouchette (Nadine Nortier) faces hardships everywhere in her difficult life. Her father (Paul Hébert) is a cruel drunk who neglects her. Meanwhile, her mother (Marie Cardinal) lies ill, slowly dying. One day, fleeing a rainstorm, Mouchette comes across Arsène (Jean-Claude Guilbert), a poacher with a violent streak. He lets her take shelter in his cabin but then assaults her. Arsène even blackmails Mouchette to involve her in a cover-up for a crime he's committed.
Plot Keywords: french film, drama, black and white, 1960s, social marginalization, poverty, rural life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: George Lucas' nightmarish vision of a dehumanized future where mankind has been reduced to emotionless zombies.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, dystopian, human nature exploration, minimalism, identity crisis, technophobia, isolation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The classic radio show (which also inspired a novel, a TV special, and a film) is performed in front of a live audience.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, swedish film, nordic film, independent film, teen ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Diagnosed with tinnitus, a lawman (Brendan Cowell) works the night shift while a murderous gunman remains at large.
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, crime, drama, psychological, american film, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's the late 1930's Rome. It's a national holiday in Italy today for the first state visit of Adolf Hitler to the country. The occasion is being marked by a lavish parade with both Hitler and Benito Mussolini to celebrate their political friendship/alliance in the name of fascism. Most of the Roman populace will attend the parade to celebrate with their leader. Two that will not be are the following. Antonietta Taberi, who would have liked to have gone to the parade, has to stay at home to attend to her domestic chores in duty to her husband Emanuele and their six children, all who have gone to the parade without her. Gabriele is a former announcer on Italian Public Radio. Despite living in the same apartment complex (Gabriele only for the last two months) with their apartment windows facing each other across the courtyard, Antonietta and Gabriele meet for the first time today in Antonietta's need to access his apartment to retrieve her escaped myna bird. Their encounter is important to both of them if only for this one day. It takes Antonietta out of her humdrum life, where she is unappreciated and taken for granted by her family, her husband who she does not truly love. And Antonietta's arrival halts what Gabriele was contemplating doing in light of the reason behind he not wanting to go to the parade and he no longer working as a radio announcer, that act which would replace the alternative of what will be happening to him later in the day.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, fascism, 1970s cinema, housewife, loneliness, social outcasts, oppressive atmosphere ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1954, up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he thinks he's been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, mystery, crime, drama, leonardo dicaprio, mental illness, hallucination ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over Japan, but somehow he always manages to escape. He meets a woman who runs a brothel. They love each other but how long can they be together?—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: crime, violence, revenge, thriller, based on true events, serial killer, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Harry Caul is a devout Catholic and a lover of jazz music who plays his saxophone while listening to his jazz records. He is a San Francisco-based electronic surveillance expert who owns and operates his own small surveillance business. He is renowned within the profession as being the best, one who designs and constructs his own surveillance equipment. He is an intensely private and solitary man in both his personal and professional life, which especially irks Stan, his business associate who often feels shut out of what is happening with their work. This privacy, which includes not letting anyone into his apartment and always telephoning his clients from pay phones is, in part, intended to control what happens around him. His and Stan's latest job (a difficult one) is to record the private discussion of a young couple meeting in crowded and noisy Union Square. The arrangement with his client, known only to him as "the director", is to provide the audio recording of the discussion ...
Plot Keywords: thriller, suspense, drama, crime, psychological, surveillance, privacy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: College student Jeffrey Beaumont returns to his idyllic hometown of Lumberton to manage his father's hardware store while his father is hospitalized. Walking though a grassy meadow near the family home, Jeffrey finds a severed human ear. After an initial investigation, lead police Detective John Williams advises Jeffrey not to speak to anyone about the case as they investigate further. Detective Williams also tells Jeffrey that he cannot divulge any information about what the police know. Detective Williams' high school aged daughter, Sandy Williams, tells Jeffrey what she knows about the case from overhearing her father's private conversations on the matter: that it has to do with a nightclub singer named Dorothy Vallens, who lives in an older apartment building near the Beaumont home. His curiosity getting the better of him, Jeffrey, with Sandy's help, decides to find out more about the woman at the center of the case by breaking into Dorothy's apartment while he knows she's at work...
Plot Keywords: mystery, thriller, crime, film noir, psychological thriller, surrealism, horror ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious. Through interrogatory dialectic, the head of this lonely, isolated, broken-down police station tries to establish what has happened, by delving into the mind of his writer-hero, and clearing up a mysterious killing.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: suspense, drama, crime, psychological thriller, french film, film noir, interrogation ...
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