Tension Movies

Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the...

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...

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...

In Appalachia during the Great Depression, a young woman bears her brother’s baby. Her brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die,...

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...

Nick investigates the recent passing of his life-long best friend as not everything is as it appears to be.

A man follows a woman home and enters her apartment; but when he is almost caught he devises a plan to meet her spontaneously without her ever...

A woman introduces her Chinese dad to her American Jewish boyfriend and manipulates their language barrier to keep everyone happy.

A man wakes. Is he alone?

An overzealous bureaucrat invades the sanctity of a nuclear family and their beloved bomb.

In this short drama and intense psychological horror film, the young Arthur demonstrates that it is possible to cope with his problems in the worst...

An aggressive battle between red and dark blue unfolds. The borderlines between the colors vibrate with tension as they fight for their lives.

Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's aborigine...

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

Reinaldo Cutipa lives with Matilde, his overprotective mother. When Reinaldo wants to go live with his girlfriend, Rosaura, Matilde is against it,...

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,...

Set against the backdrop of Lagos, Nigeria, the plot examines the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter as she meets her father for...

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.

In a country house, Armando, a proud and somewhat macho grandfather, loses his bearings when his wife falls ill. He will learn to accept help from...