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You can stream I Live in Fear (1955) on Criterion Channel with a subscription.

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared incompetent, a family-court counselor witnesses his obsession slide into ruin—and asks whether ignoring the atomic threat is any saner.

A frantic, wide-eyed terror radiates from the screen as a foundry owner spirals into paranoia over the threat of nuclear war. This psychological breakdown forces a quiet observer to question if madness is truly worse than the looming end of the world.