Movies: Self destruction

Reeling from his sister’s death, a NYC playwright searches for fulfillment in a sex-and-drug filled odyssey. When he’s reunited with a childhood love, their shared journey of self-discovery catalyzes a profound, existential awakening....

The film charts the mysterious psychological destruction of Easton, who is driven to the edge of sanity, and possible self-harm, by those that love him most—his wife and daughter. Will Easton succumb to their increasingly traumatizing pressure, or wi...

Fifteen-year-old Cobain tries to get his pregnant mother Mia to quit her self-destructive lifestyle. When she refuses to clean up her act, Cobain takes over....

An educational film from 1967 designed to scare teenagers away from illegal drugs...

A single mother must ready her apartment overnight for a morning CPS inspection, while fighting her addiction and the temptations of a mysterious drug dealer....

In a post-pandemic world, a grieving young widow struggling with her own self-destruction, fights to save people as part of a crisis response team. Embedded with the fire department, she is battling the men who don't want her there, the clients who f...

The movie is about three brothers and a sister. The brothers include a would-be tough guy thug, a sleazy lawyer and an anarchist. The anarchist and the sister (Maria Strzelecka) have a thing for each other that is more than just sibling affection. Ea...

Documentary filmmaker Zhou Hao examines the complicated relationship between two drug addicts who become dealers over the course of three years. Shot in the city of Guangzhou, the film offers a rare look into China's unknown heroin subculture....

Gus fills the empty void in his soul with sex, drugs and gambling, he's spiraling out of control. His tendency for self-destruction becomes a quest for survival when one faithful night he's faced with unspeakable terror and is stalked by a bevy of be...

A group of young amateurs participants in chats begin a risky game, attracted by the mysterious personality of a surfer. In one of these adventures, one of them dies. Then begins a nightmare of suspicion between them....

A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path....

A surrealist perspective on self harm and the want for death....

Feith and Dallas, a married couple, are struck with news on their son’s sudden death. They are going to the morgue to recognise his remains. Meanwhile on the same road 17 years ago they find out that they might become parents. In a lonely gas tank th...

A man comes to sit alone at an isolated bus stop. Followed by a stranger. Then they both converse about how they once killed someone....

A private chauffeur drives you around, wherever you like, whenever you like, but do you even know who or what drives you?...

While peeling away the layers of pain, an onion struggles to find the line between self-preservation and self-destruction....

As a major life decision approaches, Theo finds himself yearning for what he doesn’t have in this romantic drama about the conflict between happiness and self-destruction....

Ascetic vision about a being who detests the dysfunctional social model that this society proposes and opts for the way of self-destruction. Loneliness, addiction, survival, human sacrifice and a strong ideological component, turn Roman Di Martino "B...

Something's got a hold of Jack, and it's killing his work-life balance. He's hours away from losing the last good thing he has, but can he take back control?...

Following her boyfriend Felix's attempted suicide, Katherine attempts to bring him back to his normal way of life. However, after discovering a bottle of pills in Felix's possession, a confrontation emerges, making them question whether or not they c...