Movies like Sanctuary

“Sanctuary (2023) is a 2020s French-influenced psychological-thriller that stages a claustrophobic power duel inside a single hotel room. It frames an heir’s attempt to break an instrumental intimate bond through high-contrast chiaroscuro, tight depth staging, and restrained handheld kinetics to emphasize control and entrapment. Sanctuary argues that intimate coercion functions as social architecture, making the film a culturally resonant study of dependence and agency.”