Recent chains
The Face Is the First Casualty
8 films
feverish · clinical · tragic · moonlit
From Gotham's newest monster to silent Hollywood's phantom and Cronenberg's surgical twins, a chain about bodies rebuilt by the industries that broke them.
The prestige is the trick you never see coming
8 films
theatrical · deceptive · obsessive · uncanny
A chain of films about magicians, mediums and con artists, tracing the moment cinema learned to lie to us and we learned to love it.
The Melodrama They Never Let Us Keep
8 films
aching · lush · autumnal · tender
Rachel Morrison's Love of Your Life arrives as a reminder: the woman's picture was never a lesser form. It was grief, desire and colour, and the Europeans knew it first.
Second Chances
8 films
introspective · craft · obsessive · time-bound
From Hitchcock to Mann, a journey through films where directors revisit their own earlier work, refining obsession into art.
The Writer's Fight
8 films
defiant · reflective · politically charged
From Spartacus to the shadows of the blacklist, a chain of films that honours the courage of Hollywood's silenced screenwriters.
The Bogeyman Never Dies
8 films
nostalgic · meta · blood-soaked · playful
From Elm Street to Halloween, Scream to Candyman, horror icons keep returning in new forms. Freddy's Dead marked a strange end that became a beginning.
Remakes That Missed but Matter
8 films
provocative · revisionist · haunting
From Neil LaBute's Wicker Man to Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria, a journey through remakes that stumbled yet reveal why we keep returning to the classics.
Storming the Deck
7 films
uneasy · nocturnal · mythic
From the Bounty to the Caine, mutiny films have always been about more than shipboard insurrection. This chain charts how cinematic rebellions at sea reflect the anxieties of their times.
The Price of Devotion
8 films
charismatic menace · moral decay · spiritual dread
From the riverbank to the desert, a journey through American cinema's darkest portraits of faith, charisma, and the corruption that follows.
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