Movies and TvShows featuring "guilt-complex" theme.

While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict—or free—the accused killer.

In Spellbound, a man with amnesia is accused of murder and falls in love with a female psychiatrist who helps him uncover his past. As they delve deeper into his memories and guilt, they must face the truth and find redemption.

Bringing Out the Dead tells the story of a paramedic named Frank Pierce who works the graveyard shift in New York City. Haunted by his past and plagued by insomnia, Frank finds himself on a never-ending journey through the city's night life and encounters a series of disturbing and challenging situations. As he battles his own demons, Frank tries to find redemption and purpose in a world filled with chaos and despair.

In a dystopian society, a man is falsely accused of a crime he knows nothing about. He goes through a surreal trial where he encounters bizarre characters and experiences a waking nightmare. As the trial progresses, the man's guilt complex intensifies and he begins to question his own sanity. The trial becomes a reflection of the oppressive power relations and ambiguity of the judicial system.

In 'The Country Girl,' an alcoholic stage actor named Frank Elgin struggles to overcome his addiction and personal demons as he tries to revive his fading career. With the help of his supportive wife, Georgie, Frank must confront his lack of self-confidence, stage fright, and traumatic memories. The film explores themes of depression, grief, guilt, and the power of redemption.

In Sarah's Key, a journalist in New York City, named Julia, is researching for an article about the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup during the Holocaust in 1942. Through her research, she discovers a disturbing secret about her husband's family and their connection to a young Jewish girl named Sarah. As Julia digs deeper into Sarah's story, she is confronted with the horrifying truth and the guilt that comes with it.

After the death of their mother, a family moves to Genova, where they experience love, guilt, and secrets.

When a man is charged with embezzlement, his wife must confront the truth about his actions and her own feelings of guilt and betrayal.

In 'The Last Hungry Cat,' Sylvester the cat becomes increasingly paranoid and develops a guilt complex after mistakenly assuming he has killed Tweety Bird. This leads to insomnia and a desperate search for a sleeping pill. In a surreal twist, Sylvester encounters a narrator who interacts with him, further fueling his paranoia. Ultimately, Sylvester's guilty conscience leads him to believe he is being pursued by a giant birdcage, and he becomes determined to right his perceived wrong.

A woman living in a quiet neighborhood witnesses a murder on a cargo ship. She becomes the silent eyewitness and her guilt and fear torment her as she struggles to decide whether to testify against the killer. Based on a novel, this dramatic movie explores themes of cowardice, guilt, and moral choices.

Tokoramo, a Japanese diplomat on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with Helene, a chorus girl, who subsequently rejects her American fiancé, Richard Bernisky. When the Japanese discover the affair, they try to force Tokoramo to end it, but Helene refuses to stop visiting him. One night, during one of her visits, Bernisky comes to Tokoramo's apartment and, while Helene hides, rebukes her to her lover. After Bernisky leaves, Tokoramo orders Helene out, but when he realizes his love for her, he calls her back. Suddenly, she rejects and insults him to the point that he strangles her. Tokoramo wants to confess his crime, but he must complete his work, and so his countrymen sacrifice a boy, Hironari, who pleads guilty to the murder and eventually is guillotined. In the end, Tokoramo also dies and his colleagues burn his valuable papers in order to protect Japan. -From the TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.

Schoßgebete is a movie that explores the themes of love, death, and infidelity. It follows the story of a neurotic woman who discovers her husband's infidelity and embarks on a journey of self-discovery and forgiveness. Along the way, she explores her own desires and sexuality, leading to unexpected encounters and revelations. The movie delves into the complex nature of relationships and the choices we make in the face of loss and betrayal.

Anna hasn’t seen her family for a decade. When her grandmother dies, she returns home to take care of her grandfather. In the week leading up to the funeral, nothing goes as expected, and Anna is forced to reconsider how she lives her life.

Ichigo no kakera deals with a female manga artist Ichigo Nekoda (Miyazawa), whose career is heading into a downward spiral as she can't reinvent the success of her 12 year old hit the Cherry Road. Now in her early 30's she's become quite fond of alcohol and egoism to some annoyance of her loyal manager Tomoko (Kajiwara), who isn't willing to leave her side even though the financial strains of her client are also becoming her personal burdens. Ichigo still gets greeted by her female fans and willingly signs autographs, but getting praised for work that she's done over a decade ago doesn't digest as smoothly as one would assume. Her on and off man, who happens to also be her editor steers toward the off days more than usual as he also grows tired of Ichigo's uninspired ways. But when the going gets tough, Ichigo heads down to a transvestite bar where she's more than welcomed with words of wisdom and a few hard drinks.

Heaven on Earth follows the journey of a single mother, Anna, as she navigates the challenges of raising her child in a small, close-knit community in northern Sweden. Anna finds solace and purpose in her involvement with the local church choir, led by a charismatic but troubled alcoholic priest. As Anna's story unfolds, she must confront her guilt complex and the loss of a loved one while discovering the healing power of music and the strength of the human spirit.

Late at night, the psychologist Eliane Hess is called to the hospital to take care of Yves, an eight-year-old boy, who just has lost his parents and siblings in a car accident. Eliane is both shocked and curiously drawn to the traumatized boy. As time goes by, she loses the professional distance to the patient, and when Yves' relatives begin a heavy dispute about the boy's future, Eliane makes an unorthodox decision, that throws her life off track.

Jean, the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost childhood, the overwhelming need to love a woman of his dreams (someone he has invented), and a struggle with his latent bisexuality. Jean finds some photos inside an automatic photo station that look like his mother who died soon after he was born. He starts to fantasize about the woman, giving her a name and identity and waiting for her to appear. During this time, he meets Carole and has an affair with her, all the while pretending he has this other relationship with the woman in the photo. Significantly, the couple who introduce him to Carole is childless, and they eventually split up - perhaps a comment on the importance of childhood to the adult world. In the end, Carole discovers that Jean's "other woman" has no real existence, causing a crisis that finds a symbolic expression as the last scenes close on the story.