Movies · Curated lists
A way into a director, a familiar favorite, or a collection built around tonight’s mood. Explore the film selections and find a starting point that suits you.
Movies About Movies
The industry looking at itself, from love letter to open wound.
14 titles
Animation, Not for Kids
Drawn, and absolutely not for children. Grief, war and memory, done in a medium that can go anywhere.
13 titles
For a Bad Week
No irony, no gut-punch ending. Films to put on when the week has already been enough.
15 titles
Comfort Rewatches
Nothing to prove, nothing to endure. The ones you put on knowing exactly how they end.
16 titles
Growing Up, Badly
Awkward, furious and briefly perfect. Films about the year that changed everything.
14 titles
Trust Nobody
Grifters, forgers and very long games. Watch the hands, not the face.
12 titles
True Stories, Told Like Thrillers
Documentaries with the pacing of fiction. Several of them you will not believe are real.
12 titles
People Who Should Not
Love stories about the wrong person at the wrong time. Almost none of them end well.
15 titles
Better Than the Book
Adaptations that stopped being adaptations. Argue about it with someone who read it first.
15 titles
First Films
Directors arriving fully formed. Every one of these is somebody's first feature.
14 titles
Halloween for People Who Hate Horror
All the pumpkins, witches and graveyards, none of the lying awake afterwards.
15 titles
One Last Job
The plan, the crew, and the moment it all goes wrong. Half of these are about the getting away.
14 titles
Scared, Not Sickened
Dread, not gore. Horror that works on your nerves instead of your stomach.
16 titles
Do Not Watch Hungry
Kitchens, obsession and very good food. Have something in the fridge before you start.
12 titles
Laugh Until It Hurts
No lesson, no third-act tears. Comedies built entirely around the next laugh.
15 titles
Modern Classics
The films from this century that people will still be arguing about in fifty years.
20 titles
Turn It Up
Bands, obsessives and the noise they made. Some of it is fiction and some of it is worse.
14 titles
Rain, Neon, Bad Decisions
Cities at night and people who should have walked away. Noir after noir stopped being black and white.
13 titles
One Room, No Escape
Almost the entire film in a single space. Proof that a budget is not the same as tension.
10 titles
All in One Night
Sundown to sunrise, no time skips. Everything that matters happens before morning.
12 titles
Real Stunts, No Green Screen
People actually falling off things. Action where you can feel every hit land.
15 titles
Rainy Sunday
Slow, warm, a little melancholy. For grey afternoons when nothing needs to happen.
14 titles
Thrillers That Never Let Up
Start one of these and you are not getting up until it is finished. Do not start them late.
18 titles
Shot Beautifully
Watch these on the biggest screen you can find. Every frame is doing work.
18 titles
Something Is Wrong in This Town
Quiet places, friendly people, and a feeling that will not go away. Folk horror and rural dread.
13 titles
Out There
Vacuum, silence and very small crews. Space as a place that does not care whether you make it home.
13 titles
Where to Start With Ghibli
Ten films, roughly in the order that makes the rest of them land hardest.
10 titles
Where to Start With Hitchcock
Suspense from the man who wrote the rules for it. Start with the fun ones and work towards Vertigo.
12 titles
Where to Start With Korean Cinema
You have seen Parasite. This is what it came out of: revenge, rain and police who get it wrong.
12 titles
The Same Day, Again
Stuck, repeating, and trying to get it right. Comedies and horrors made from the same idea.
12 titles
Watch It Twice
The second viewing is a different film. Do not read anything about these first.
14 titles
Under 100 Minutes
Tight, complete, and done before you lose the evening. Every one of these is in and out fast.
18 titles
Nobody Gave Them a Chance
Sports films where the score matters less than the people. You will cheer at a screen. Let it happen.
14 titles
Watch With Your Parents
Genuinely good films with nothing in them you would have to explain across the sofa.
15 titles
Dust and Bad Men
Westerns, from the myth to the mess it left behind. Nobody in these rides away clean.
15 titles
Start Here, Not Hollywood
Subtitles are not the hard part. Ways into films made somewhere else, none of them homework.
16 titles