Recent chains
The Mother Who Comes Back Wrong
8 films
unsettling · intimate · uncanny · feverish
A chain of films where the woman who gave you life returns as something else: a ghost, a double, a hunger with her face. Other Mommy opens the door, and the best part of a century of cinema walks through it.
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.
When a Mother's Love Turns Stranger
8 films
unsettling · claustrophobic · tender · uncanny
A chain of horror films that treat the family home as a stage for maternal dread, from Polanski's Dakota to the doubles of Jordan Peele and the uncanny Other Mommy.
The Long Way Home, and Who Pays For It
8 films
tender · unflinching · nocturnal · defiant
A chain about sex work, disability and survival that keeps its camera on the worker's face rather than the client's wallet. It begins with a lift shared between strangers and ends somewhere far less comfortable.
Growing Up Is No Picnic
8 films
unsentimental · raw · awkward · naturalistic
From the Yorkshire coalfields to the banlieues of Paris, these films capture adolescence as it truly is: messy, unglamorous, and achingly real.
The Show Must Go On
8 films
defiant · glittering · tender · rebellious
From Freddie Mercury's operatic excess to the raw defiance of punk, this chain traces how cinema captures the transformative power of self-expression.
Girlhood Reclaimed
8 films
rebellious · tender · fierce · wry
From institutionalised rebellion to the raucous freedom of the last day of school, a chain of films that lets young women be messy, angry, and gloriously themselves.
The Art of the Fall
8 films
provocative · uncomfortable · redemptive
From viral infamy to quiet vindication: a chain of films about bold artists whose audacity is mistaken for failure, tracing the same arc that turned Raygun from a punchline into a conversation.
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