Beau Is Afraid
An anxious man learns of the death of his mother under mysterious circumstances and upon traveling home makes an alarming discovery about his past. During his journey, he runs into various crazy supernatural threats.
Ari Aster
Director
Casts & Crew
Joaquin Phoenix
Beau
Also Directed by Ari Aster
A vibrant Pixar-inspired montage (think the marriage sequence in Up) in which a mother, unable to confront the heartbreak of her son leaving for college, delays his departure by making him sick. Unfortunately, she goes too far, is helpless to reverse what she set in motion, and is forced to face the unfathomable consequences of her selfishness.
A dark domestic melodrama/satire about the ties that bind and the ties that really bind.
An intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.
A neurotic middle-aged man's trip (to visit his mother) is delayed indefinitely when his keys are mysteriously taken from his door. He is subsequently haunted by an increasingly sinister chain of upsetting events. (Although it is not made apparent in the film, it should be said that Beau once used a Ouija board.)
Contemporary ensemble western-noir dark comedy, set in New Mexico.
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A fake advert for "Tino's Dick Fart" device.
A bright but acid-tongued young actress walks the viewer through the drudgeries of her privileged life in a series of clinical tableaus.
An aging, hilariously slimy detective (with a taste for womanizing) is distracted from the case of his career when he starts developing a mysterious medical condition.
In a series of clinical tableau comprising a sort of apocalyptic travelogue of the LA streets, an aggressive homeless man berates the viewer regarding the circumstances of his life and the wrongness of everything.
