Under The Influ

Renowned film critic and television/radio personality Elvis Mitchell interviews various actors and directors to find out what has influenced them and the films they made.

A portrait of Keith Richards that takes us on a journey to discover the genesis of his sound as a songwriter, guitarist and performer.

Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises.

Emma, 14, comes under the toxic influence of her new friend Odile, a manipulative teenager, who tries to convince her that her mother killed her father to live with her new boyfriend.

Noah Talbot is a long-time alcoholic whose drinking begins to have a devastating effect not only on his personal life but on his family as well.

On a hot summer day, a man wearing a sweater coughs as he walks. He enters an underground, gruesome restaurant and orders fried rice. The restaurant owner swears to customers who leave food on their plate unfinished and he struggles to finish everything on his plate. The film takes advantage of the short film form and accentuates its merits, taking the story through a dramatic flow in a simple situation with various characters.

A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.

After 30 years Kirk is still living in the same little village with his dominant mother Ineke. His father disappeared when Kirk was just a young boy. Their sluggish life is brutally disrupted when their new eupeptic neighbor Marcus awakes Kirk and deteriorates the relationship between mother and son. Ineke doesn’t trust the intruder and begins an investigation and discovers some dark secrets.

Laura is on a vacation with her friends for the weekend in a luxurious and isolated house. The group decide to do a hallucinogenic drug and seem to become absorbed by their nature surroundings. However, after a strange encounter at night, Laura is having trouble facing reality.

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Digital artist Lex Carre documents her struggle with anxiety through work that she posts anonymously online. Her pieces capture the attention of cunning curator Andrea Caulfield, who offers mentorship in exchange for control of Lex’s career. When Lex’s mental health starts to spiral from the pressure, Andrea assumes ownership of her work—prompting Lex to plot a psychological showdown against the exploitative mentor who stole her art and nearly destroyed her mind.

Des Bishop tackles one of the great taboos of Irish society and explores the Irish relationship with alcohol and other addictive behaviors.

Gang leader sets one of his flunkies up to take the fall for a certain job; after he does his jail time, the guy goes gunning for the people who set him up. Also some stuff about fixed boxing matches.

When Casey Neistat first sat down to interview YouTube sensation, David Dobrik, neither of them knew they were about to capture one of the most precipitous rise and falls in the history of the internet... in real-time. David, protected by the belief that he’s just a kid with a camera, has constantly assumed risks. Even as a story of a sexual assault breaks, he’s busy covering up a near-lethal accident caught on film, intended to be entertainment. In the real world, these kinds of actions have life-changing consequences, but in the gold rush ecosystem of Social Media influence, the audience decides who succeeds, and who gets banished forever.

Influencer Nadia, the epitome of online perfection, is thrown into crisis when her husband seeks to end their marriage threatening her online reputation.

An honest testimony of addiction, and one woman's discovery that the only way to save herself, is to save others.

Smosh: Under The Influence was live sketch and variety show that was hosted by the Smosh Family and aired on June 30, 2022 via Kiswe, a livestreaming and live experiences platform. It is Smosh's first livestream show since Smosh Live in 2016. The livestream featured sketches and shows from across the Smosh channels with the added twist of everyone getting drunk on the show.

A young couple's life is thrown into a dangerous tailspin after the wife has a n affair while in rehab.