Library / Feelings

For when you feel

Unsettled by Art / Moral Discomfort

When something you watched, read or heard leaves you uneasy, conflicted or implicated: true crime, public shaming, justice as entertainment, and art that disturbs the comfortable.

31 picks matched to this feeling

Films

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  Nightcrawler
  Film · 2014
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  Network
  Film · 1976
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  The Hunt
  Film · 2012
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  Spotlight
  Film · 2015
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  Experimenter
  Film · 2015
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  The Zone of Interest
  Film · 2023
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  The Square
  Film · 2017
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  The Truman Show
  Film · 1998
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  Force Majeure
  Film · 2014
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  Rear Window
  Film · 1954
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  Nope
  Film · 2022

TV shows

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  Terrace House
  TV · 2012–2020
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  American Vandal
  TV · 2017–2018
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  The Rehearsal
  TV · 2022–2025
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  Only Murders in the Building
  TV · 2021

Documentaries

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  Capturing the Friedmans
  Documentary · 2003
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  The Act of Killing
  Documentary · 2012
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  Blackfish
  Documentary · 2013
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  Catfish
  Documentary · 2010
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  The Imposter
  Documentary · 2012

Books

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  So You've Been Publicly Shamed
  Book · 2015
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  Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
  Book · 2023
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  Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
  Book · 1963
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  The Journalist and the Murderer
  Book · 1990
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  Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
  Book · 2019

Games

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  This War of Mine
  Game · 2014
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  Papers, Please
  Game · 2013
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  Shadow of the Colossus
  Game · 2005

Podcast

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  Serial
  Podcast · 2014

Video

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  The price of shame | Monica Lewinsky | TED
  Video · 2015

Book chapter

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  The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
  Book chapter · 1973