Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.

Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basements fitted out as private domains for secrets and fetishes.

A Parisian couple decides to sell an unsanitary basement in their building. A very ordinary, nondescript man, Mr. Fonzic, shows up to buy it. Nothing unusual there, until the man moves into the cellar and makes it his permanent residence. The couple tries desperately to cancel the sale but to no avail. Worse, Mr. Fonzic becomes a threat to their family as he befriends their teenage daughter on whom he seems to exert a perverted influence.

A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.

A seemingly innocent man is abducted by a notorious L.A. serial killer, who forces his victims to switch roles with him so that he can enact his own capture, torture and murder.

It depicts the survival of a family in the basement of a detached house in Pangyo, where a nuclear bomb exploded.

In the basement of an apartement, a mother and her growing son and daughters strive to live in the middle of Cairo, and the growing ambition of the young women that led to catastrophic events.

A documentary art film.

Jacobo is fascinated by fairy tales. Convinced that a witch has appeared in the basement of his own house, he tries to destroy her, only to discover that reality is sometimes crueler than the fantasy.

In his Mangwon-dong basement art studio, a media artist Song Hojun dreams of making a satellite and shooting it out to space. He wants to make his dream real through OSSI(Open Source Satellite Initiative) movement. He tries to build a BIY satellite, and to sell 10,000 T-shirts for the 100 million won budget. His seemingly reckless and utterly ambitious project begins. Would his dream become real?

Tad, a foolish and stubborn adventurer, seeks for a disappeared cute dog and finds a mysterious basement where a terrible secret is hidden.

Movements in the Basement deals with the relationship between a woman and her house. The house is at the same time refuge and prison in which seductions and rejections are woven daily. The film is a visual answer to the book of poems: "Estancia y doméstica" by Chilean writer Mariela Malhue Moreno.

A vibrant celebration of the enduring spirit of the 68 movement in Mexico, despite its tragic ending with the state sponsored massacre of hundreds of innocent people in Tlateloco.

In 2008, Tim Ritter bought a camera to document the strange noises that kept him awake night after night. He found no logical explanation for the nocturnal sounds from the basement. When he realized that his landlady was hiding something from him, he started his own investigation into the dark past of the house. As the afflictions worsened, Tim made a momentous decision. He took his camera and spent a night in the basement ...

Role-playing and multiple narrative layers are interwoven in a complex and philosophical film about learning, life perspectives, and facing profound changes.

“While striking various poses around his apartment, [Haindl] addresses an imaginary public, his speeches ranging from defiant to contrite. Each one shows a different side of his personality, from political grumbler to poet in a slouch hat. His monologues deal with the usual prejudices, such as those against women and foreigners, and none of them can be reduced to a single coherent point of view. Commonplaces are qualified with contradictions and self-irony, and his tirades occasionally swerve in the direction of serious analysis. The state of pandemonium which characterizes the Austrian soul is depicted as a labyrinth of rhetoric.” –Dominik Kamalzadeh

A young woman runs away from her palace to investigate the disappearance of her father, who went missing under mysterious way. A lawyer appears to her claiming that he is from her fiancé and that he will help her find the investigation. He takes her to his mysterious palace, which contains a basement in which strange sounds are heard, to begin a series of investigations and an attempt to solve these mysteries.

Two boys are sitting on the street, drinking alcohol and talking.

A shy, nerdy man, Takeru finds a schoolgirl hooker Lily is unconscious in a Tokyo park, so he decides to bring her home and lock her up in a secret basement. Although Lily is afraid of him, in fact, Takeru didn't do anything to hurt her. After Lily begins to uncover a shocking episode