power dynamics
14 movies and shows
Babygirl
Wed, 25 Dec 2024
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.
Challengers
Thu, 18 Apr 2024
Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.
The Piano Teacher
Wed, 05 Sep 2001
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Fair Play
Thu, 28 Sep 2023
An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel not only their recent engagement but their lives.
Sanctuary
Thu, 02 Mar 2023
Confined to a claustrophobic hotel room, the heir to a hotel empire and the dominatrix who has primed him for success become locked in a battle of wits and wills as he tries to end his relationship with her.
Where Did the Adults Go?
Invalid Date
Every year, on the anniversary of their parents’ death, Cynthia, Bryce, and Miles gather at the family summer home to reminisce and have brunch at their parents’ favorite restaurant. But the siblings have never fully gotten along, and to make matters worse, Cynthia is in a financial rut this year. When she proposes to sell the summer house, Bryce pushes back with full force. The two turn to Miles for the deciding vote, but Miles doesn’t care all that much about the house: he is hung up on the fact that his longtime girlfriend, Gabby, recently left Thus, the weekend unfolds with the siblings’ relationships unravelling into dramatic, conflicted fever dreams of self-identity, broken bonds, and repressed love.
Louise
Wed, 17 Nov 2021
Louise, ballerina at the Garnier Opera in 1895, rushes home after a show but is stopped by a friend asking for money. Louise knows what to do in order to repay her.
The Other Woman
Tue, 22 Aug 2023
A presentable man tries to break off an affair with a girl who has been damaged not only mentally, but physically.
Vertical Living
Mon, 13 May 2024
A couple's relationship is tested during a hapless night away in the country.
Samra's Dollhouse
Sat, 28 Jun 2025
A heartbroken Tunisian film director finds the perfect male lead for her new romance movie, but during rehearsals the young actor begins to suspect that his role may not be a fictitious one.
Strass
Thu, 08 Nov 2001
A documentary crew enters a drama school in Brussels to examine the controversial method of one of its teachers: the Open Door method. The great atmosphere soon disappear as ill-feelings settle.
Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
Fri, 16 Apr 2021
In this Australian premiere production, Dan Spielman and Izabella Yena embody Hannah Moscovitch’s whipsmart #MeToo-era take on the archetypal student–teacher romance.
Amor, ¿Amas?
Mon, 16 Sep 2024
A young woman seduces a man and takes him to a motel. What seems like a casual encounter quickly turns into a deadly trap, when her boyfriend arrives and reveals the dark complicity that binds them: an erotic obsession with power, submission, desire, and death.