Movie

Don't Come Upstairs
2025 · 44 min
A quiet, uneasy excavation of family secrets through home videos, pulling you into the tension between love and buried truth.
- Directed by
- Mike Lobel
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Mike Lobel, Melanie Lobel, Elliot Lobel
- Tagline
- “We understood one thing: never ask Dad what he does for work.”
- Overview
- A filmmaker explores his family's 30-year hidden secret through home videos, despite risks to everyone's safety. Based on Mike Lobel's investigation into what his parents kept from him and his siblings.
- How it feels
- Tense, melancholic, earnest and dark. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Family, deception, memory, identity
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Mike Lobel
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Mike Lobel, Melanie Lobel, Elliot Lobel

