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Films

A Cure for Wellness

Gore Verbinski, Justin Haythe

A stockbroker unravels the terrifying secrets of a mysterious Swiss spa where guests never leave.

Psychological HorrorThrillerMystery
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Infinity Pool

Brandon Cronenberg

James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa.

Psychological ThrillerBody HorrorCrime
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Ladies First

Thea Sharrock, Eléonore Pourriat

A misogynist wakes up in a matriarchal society.

ComedySatire
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Beef

Lee Sung Jin, Hikari, Jake Schreier

Two strangers get into a road rage incident that brings chaos into their lives.

Dark ComedyPsychological Drama
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The Dinner After

Matty Crawford, Paul Carey

Angela visits her parents for a routine family dinner.

Psychological ThrillerHorror
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Books

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

The story of a proud Igbo warrior whose world is destroyed by the arrival of European colonizers.

Historical FictionPostcolonialNigerian
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Mulholland Dr.

David Lynch

After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac.

Psychological ThrillerDramaDetective
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Books

Gerald's Game

Stephen King

After the husband dies unexpectedly during a kinky game, the wife is left handcuffed to the bed frame.

Film AdaptationPsychological HorrorThriller
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Films

Wuthering Heights

Emerald Fennell

A passionate and tumultuous love story set in 18th-century England.

DramaRomanceBased on a Book
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Films

American Sweatshop

Uta Briesewitz, Matthew Nemeth

A social media moderator is tasked with purging the most offensive content from the internet.

ThrillerPsychological DramaDetective
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Films

Skin & Bone

Eli Powers

After taking a job on a farm, a drifter begins suffering from weird visions.

Folk HorrorMystery
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Films

Project Hail Mary

Phil Lord, Andy Weir

A science teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory — and slowly uncovers a mission to save the sun.

Sci-FiComedyDrama
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Films

The Drama

Kristoffer Borgli, Ari Aster

A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.

DramaComedyRomance
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Films

Other Side of the Box

Caleb Phillips, Nick Tag

A couple receives a mysterious package from an old friend.

Short MovieHorror
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Books

The Collector

John Fowles

A lonely, unpleasant young man wins the lottery — and decides to act on his secret obsession with a local girl.

FictionPsychological ThrillerCrime
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Series

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen

Haley Z. Boston

A certain atmosphere of horror is felt the week before the celebration of an unfortunate wedding.

Psychological HorrorThrillerMystery
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Films

The Bride!

Maggie Gyllenhaal

A scientist revives a murdered woman as a companion for a legendary creature. The aftermath defies all expectations.

Psychological DramaMonster HorrorDark Comedy
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Films

The Last Thing Mary Saw

Edoardo Vitaletti

The daughter in a strict religious family is interrogated after the death of her family's uncanny matriarch.

Folk HorrorThrillerMystery
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Films

The Hunt

Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm

A kindergarten teacher's world collapses around him after one of his students implies that he committed a lewd act in front of her.

Psychological Drama
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Fréwaka

Aislinn Clarke

Follow a student of nursing palliative care, who is plagued by a trauma from her past that has a disorienting effect on her present, her relationship, her career and her ability to function.

Folk HorrorPsychological Horror
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Films

Mercy

Timur Bekmambetov

Set in the near future, a detective accused of murdering his wife has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to an advanced AI judge.

Legal ThrillerActionSci-Fi
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Books

Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin

A young woman is tricked into bearing Satan's offspring, the Antichrist.

Film AdaptationSupernatural HorrorPsychological Drama
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Films

Nuremberg

James Vanderbilt, Jack El-Hai

A WWII psychiatrist evaluates Nazi leaders before the Nuremberg trials.

Historical DramaLegal Thriller
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Books

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

The husband of a missing woman becomes the main suspect in her disappearance.

Film AdaptationPsychological ThrillerCrime
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Films

The Dinner

Oren Moverman, Herman Koch

Two sets of wealthy parents meet for dinner to decide what to do about a crime their sons have committed.

DramaCrimeBased on a Book
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The Exorcist

William Friedkin, William Peter Blatty

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

HorrorPsychological DramaBased on a Book
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Films

Avatar (franchise)

James Cameron

Avatar is an American epic science fiction media franchise created by James Cameron. It currently includes three movies: Avatar (2009), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025).

Sci-FiActionFantasy
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Books

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Gregory Maguire

The untold story of Elphaba — the green-skinned girl who became the Wicked Witch of the West.

Film AdaptationFantasyDark Fiction
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Films

Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers

Emily Turner

Aileen Wuornos killed 7 men claiming self-defense against rape.

DocumentaryTrue Crime
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Films

Promising Young Woman

Emerald Fennell

An unexpected encounter gives a wickedly smart woman a chance to right the wrongs from the past.

Psychological ThrillerCrimeDrama
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Films

Bugonia

Yorgos Lanthimos, Ari Aster

Two conspiracy obsessed men kidnap the high-powered CEO.

Dark ComedyPsychological ThrillerSatire
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Books

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley

Dr. Victor Frankenstein brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment.

Film AdaptationGothicScience Fiction
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Books

All Things Cease to Appear

Elizabeth Brundage

It all begins on the winter morning when Catherine Claire died.

Film AdaptationMysteryCrime
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Films

Together

Michael Shanks

Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country.

Body HorrorPsychological HorrorDrama
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Films

The Zone of Interest

Jonathan Glazer, Martin Amis

The commandant of Auschwitz and his wife strive to build a dream life for their family in a house next to the camp.

Historical DramaBiography
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Films

Weapons

Zach Cregger

All kids from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time.

Psychological HorrorMystery
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Books

Sunrise on the Reaping

Suzanne Collins

Explores Panem, starting on the morning of the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games, where a young Haymitch Abernathy participates.

Science FictionDystopiaAction
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Films

Men

Alex Garland

A young woman goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside following the death of her ex-husband.

Psychological ThrillerFolk HorrorDrama
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Books

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

A governess of two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant and oddly silent children at a forlorn estate tries to protect them from evil.

Film AdaptationHorrorGothic
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Books

The Midnight Club

Christopher Pike

At a hospice for terminally ill young adults, 5 patients come together every night at midnight to tell each other stories.

Film AdaptationDramaYoung Adult
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Films

Companion

Drew Hancock, Zach Cregger

A weekend getaway with friends at a remote cabin turns into chaos.

ThrillerSci-Fi
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Books

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

The ancient mansion on the hill brings nothing but misfortune to its inhabitants and no one dares live there.

Film AdaptationHorrorGothic
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Adolescence

Jack Thorne, Stephen Graham

When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking what really happened.

Limited SeriesDramaPsychological
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Kinds of Kindness

Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou

It's a triptych fable, following three different stories.

Dark ComedyPsychological HorrorDrama
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Series

Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey

Rachel Dretzin, Grace McNally

The rise of Warren Jeffs in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and his criminal case.

DocumentaryTrue CrimeFLDS
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Films

The Substance

Coralie Fargeat

A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that helps her create a younger, better version of herself.

Body HorrorPsychological HorrorDark Comedy
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Books

It Ends With Us

Colleen Hoover

Lily and Ryle's relationship seems too good to be true — until she starts noticing that Ryle is not the man she thought he was.

Film AdaptationRomanceDrama
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Books

Poor Things

alasdair gray

A young woman brought back to life by an eccentric surgeon who implanted an unborn child's brain into her body. With the mind of a newborn in an adult woman's body, Bella begins to discover the world completely on her own terms.

FILM ADAPTATIONFictionSatire
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Books

Consider Her Ways

John Wyndham

A woman wakes up in a future where all men are gone.

Science FictionBritish
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Films

The 40 Year-Old Virgin

Judd Apatow, Steve Carell

Three dysfunctional co-workers embark on a mission to help their newfound friend lose his sexual innocence.

ComedyRomanceDrama
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Films

Barbarian

Zach Cregger

A woman staying at an Airbnb discovers that the house she has rented is not what it seems.

HorrorMysteryThriller
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Films

Ayla: The Daughter of War

Can Ulkay, Yigit Güralp

Sergeant Süleyman finds a little girl on a battlefield during the Korean War. He takes her and names her Ayla. Fifteen months later, Süleyman's brigade is told they will be returning to Turkey, and he is reluctant to leave her behind.

WarHistoryBiography
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Books

Nine Perfect Strangers

Liane Moriarty

Nine stressed city dwellers visit a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation.

Film AdaptationPsychological DramaComedy
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Books

People Who Are Always With Me

Narine Abgaryan

The story of several generations of one family.

Family SagaDramaAutobiography
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Books

The Stepford Wives

Ira Levin

A family moves to beautiful Stepford — too good to be true. But behind every idyllic facade lies a terrible secret.

Psychological ThrillerFeminist HorrorSatire
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Films

1922

Zak Hilditch, Stephen King

In the year 1922, a rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain and convinces his teenage son to participate.

HorrorPsychological ThrillerCrime
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Books

I'm thinking of ending things

lain Reid

A young couple visits his parents on a remote farm — but something feels off from the start. Strange behaviour, a familiar photograph on the wall, and something terrifying in the basement. Soon, things take a sinister turn.

Film AdaptationPsychological ThrillerHorror Fiction
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Series

How to Get Away with Murder

Peter Nowalk, Shonda Rhimes

A group of ambitious law students and their brilliant criminal defense professor become involved in a twisted murder plot.

CrimeLegal ThrillerDrama
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mother!

Darren Aronofsky

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

Psychological HorrorDramaMystery
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Books

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

Fredrik Backman

The story follows Elsa, a 7-year-old girl who knows she is different from other children her age.

FamilyDramaFantasy
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Books

The Companion

perihan mağden

"Chaperone needed to accompany child on long sea voyage." A newspaper job ad — and the beginning of an unlikely relationship between a daring twelve-year-old girl and a young woman who slowly managed to melt the ice in her heart.

FictionDramaProse
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Books

Kata

Steinar Bragi

Kata is a nurse who has seen plenty of pain and suffering — but always someone else's. When her daughter disappears and her killers walk free, she decides there's no point waiting for justice from God or the state.

FictionCrimeThriller