power dynamics
19 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.
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.
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?
Thu, 09 Oct 2025
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.
The Chocolate War
Fri, 18 Nov 1988
Jerry, a new student at an elite Catholic prep school, must face the hazing practices handed down by the Vigils, a group of powerful students. When teacher Brother Leon pushes the students to sell chocolates for a fundraiser, the head of the Vigils, Archie, gets Jerry to reject selling for 10 days. However, Jerry decides to keep up the refusal past the original time frame, which pits him against the Vigils and the school staff.
Vertical Living
Mon, 13 May 2024
A couple's relationship is tested during a hapless night away in the country.
Pizza Margherita
Sun, 02 Apr 2023
Despite its title, this short film explores the delicate and serious theme of sexual harassment.
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 Phone Box
Thu, 13 Jun 2024
A man walks next to a vacant, ringing phone box. Thinking of it as a coincidence at first, his conversation with the stranger takes a dark turn when he discovers the call was meant for him.
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.
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.
Traces
Sun, 07 Sep 2025
A woman seeks quiet labor as a way out of institutional power, only to encounter the same hierarchies inside the homes she cleans. Instead of open resistance, she responds through private, invisible acts, leaving behind subtle traces that insist on her presence.
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.
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.
Arena
Wed, 21 Jan 2026
ARENA is a high-octane quiz show pulsating with an unrelenting rhythm of light and percussion. In the grand finale, two opposite worlds collide: The prestigious Private Saint Papillon French College, a generational winner, and Demirtaş Külhan Vocational High School, a newcomer fighting for existence. While the scores are tied, the conditions are not. The tension peaks with the final question. What is mere academic knowledge for one student is a harsh, lived reality for the other. As the final bell rings, the boards will reveal not just a winner, but the unbridgeable socioeconomic abyss that separates their lives.