Movies and TvShows featuring "coping-mechanism" theme.

Patrick Melrose follows the life of a man who struggles with his traumatic childhood, drug addiction, and dysfunctional family while navigating through the upper-class society.

After his wife and daughter go missing from a hospital, a man's reality starts to unravel as he becomes trapped in a web of illusions, delusions, and conspiracies.

Dummy is a comedy TV show that follows the story of a struggling female writer who forms a deep bond with an imaginary friend, a sex doll named Barbara. Together, they navigate the challenges of life and career in Los Angeles.

A mother, Rachel, moves to Finland with her husband and son to cope with the loss of her twin son in a car accident. Her son, Elliot, discovers a wish-granting wall and begins talking to an invisible person. As Elliot exhibits disturbing behaviors claiming to be Nathan, Rachel seeks answers from the town doctor and Helen, who reveal a satanic cult in the town. Rachel takes photographs of Elliot but finds him missing in all the pictures. She is sedated, forced into a ritual, and locked in her room. Rachel escapes and confronts her husband Anthony, who reveals that Elliot is not real, and Rachel created him as a coping mechanism. Rachel accidentally kills Anthony and tries to find Elliot in a grain silo, but he is nowhere to be found. Rachel returns to New York, still delusional and believing that Nathan, Anthony, and Elliot are alive.

The Small Back Room follows the life of a bomb disposal expert in England during World War II. The expert faces various challenges, including alcoholism and the pressure to develop a top-secret weapon. As he navigates these difficulties, he must also deal with personal issues and the constant threat of danger.

Happiness is an animated short film that explores the themes of consumerism, unhappiness, and social satire. Set in a city overrun by traffic and advertisement, the film follows an anthropomorphic rat as he navigates through a maze-like cityscape, symbolizing the rat race of modern society. The story depicts the rat's coping mechanisms, such as drinking alcohol and consuming anti-depressants, as he tries to find happiness in a world dominated by consumerism. With no dialogue, the film relies on visual storytelling and metaphors to convey its message of social commentary and the detrimental effects of the constant pursuit of happiness.

Tantra and Tantri are inseparable. When they secretly steal eggs from the family’s sacrificial offering, Tantri always gets the whites and Tantra the yolks. One day, however, the yolk is missing, as is Tantra. Her brother gravely ill and in hospital, Tantri starts slipping into magical parallel worlds, approaching the inevitable farewell through costumes, body paint and dance. When at one point Tantri’s mother washes the paint from her face, it is as if tenderly to expel the illusion that things can remain as they are. In long dream sequences and against the background of the Balinese philosophy of sekala – the seen – and niskala – the unseen – Andini relates how one ten-year-old girl deals with parting and grief.

This is a Dutch documentary about the last weeks of life in a Portuguese clinic for Emma Caris, a 18 year old girl who had been suffering anorexia nervosa since she was 16 years old.