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...

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...

Scales is a tense, claustrophobic drama that spends one evening with four characters, who are trapped in a combustable boiling pot of an apartment. ...

Tommy Kirk leads his fellow Martians to Earth on an interplanetary quest for females. Kirk proves that Martians have impeccable taste when one of his...

A series of vignettes brought to life through "red flag" post-it notes, following a couple’s descent from subtle psychological control and...

A man wakes. Is he alone?

A bad night out just got a fair bit worse, it's the end of the world! Something terrible has happened, the undead are out in force; roaming the...

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,...

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,...

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

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.

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

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

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

Three female friends, who haven't seen each other in a long time, are invited to get together at the suggestion of one of them, but this meeting will...

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...

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

A teenage babysitter takes care of little Maya while her parents aren't home. However, the girl's imaginary friend will make way more company than...