Movies: Boredom

A Prime Minister kidnaps three comedians from Paris to make a frowning princess smile for a royal photo, all while secretly dealing with a prisoner hunger strike. The King remains unaware of his mischievous plan....

Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by...

The story of six young people addicted to heroin in Sofia, Bulgaria....

When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with awesome consequences....

Madrid, Spain, March 2020. As the merciless disease that plagues the world spreads through the increasingly deserted streets of the city, people barricades themselves in their homes and move on with their lives…...

In this award- winning film, the Filmmaker introduces his life in Berlin to us, including all his hobbies and all his friends. In a very original way he brings the city to life, with hats that weigh 10 tons and farting posters....

In Corsica, four girlfriends share the last days of an endless summer. It's hot, too hot to do anything. While they share their secrets, Camille, the youngest of them, says she's pregnant....

An experimental journey through a year in the life of the director, using his always playing playlist to cross the boundaries of fiction and documentary. Through scenes of both comedy and tragedy, realistic documentary footage and experimental sequen...

Starring Mike Brayden, Yvette Angulo and directed by Ryan Casselman. Birthdays can be tough. Often a reminder that our lives are moving at rapid speed, and while you may have aged a year older over night, you realize that not a whole lot else has cha...

Director Albert Nerenberg asks why the subject of boredom has been so religiously avoided and shows that boredom isn't what you think it is....

A woman recounts her sensual yet macabre childhood memory about the boy next door....

Rubber Duckie is the story of Jesse and Daniel, who on a blazing summer afternoon, are consumed with boredom and push their own limits and boundaries. This leaves us begging the question; is it simple boredom or insatiable innate appetite for more?...

Jack wants to know if Ollie “like likes” him. But Ollie is meditating. So, he asks a bird instead....

Antoine - a grieving loner - spends his days in a cafe on Place Clichy watching people. Every day, he sees a woman he calls Albertine get out of the subway and go to the movies. Today, he takes it upon himself to talk to her. Thus began Antoine's dow...

Robin, a bored retail employee, is tasked with training the stores new employee, a worker robot. Reluctant to work alongside this new machine at first, Robin forms an unlikely bond with it, leading her to make some life changing decisions....

A middle-aged woman battles loneliness and boredom by robbing banks on her lunch break. But after the adrenaline rush wears off, she still has to deal with her deeply unhappy life. Inspired by a true story....

A young man overwhelmed by humdrum mechanized life chooses something different....

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A tragi-comic suburban psycho-drama following a downtrodden housewife who dreams of having a better life. After swallowing too much vodka, speed and valium, she fantasizes about killing her adulterous husband and escaping her boring existence....

Life of a teenage outsider: what makes him that way and how his anger flares into violence....