Carl Bessai Movies

"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media with which people communicate than by the content of the communication." -...

A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.

Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for...

An ensemble comedy about the love and dysfunction shared among four sets of siblings.

In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.

Johnny, the megalomaniac leader of a group of squeegee kids, finds a video camera and pushes his followers into "acting" out increasingly dangerous...

An exploration of two souls inhabiting bodies from 1940's Hungary, and the beginning of the digital age.

A lesbian couple contemplating marriage and a family with a gay teen son taking in an unexpected visitor from the past find their lives not so far...

Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.

A gritty mind-bending thriller about three twenty-somethings who find themselves in an impossible time labyrinth, where each day they awaken to the...

A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest...

Bad City is on the edge of falling into the hands of a madman, you dig? A strange and funky new party drug is killing kids left and right and that...

Heavenly angel Harry Mills is sent to Earth on a trial assignment to intervene in the life of a woman who needs help getting her life on track after...

Abner is trapped in the rough life of Mexico City. His escape? Boxing. Dr. Frank Irwin (Martin Sheen) and his son Jimmy, a pro boxer, come together...

A small town youth finds fulfillment and romance in a big city's creative writing course, but feels obliged to sacrifice them when his sister's home...

When a beautiful and mysterious woman bursts into the office of Leo Falloon, desperate to find her missing brother, it's just another day in the life...

Inspired by actual events. When Melissa Cooper's body is found hanging from a swing set, the 27-year-old's death is initially ruled a suicide. But...

Faced with financial ruin, an aging theater director struggling to stay relevant must cast a young action movie star in his new play. When the...

A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.

The story follows a troubled woman and her search for identity. She is given a choice between a return to the dysfunction of the past, or a new life...