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Art Horror and the Horrific Avant-Garde

589 films

List title inspired by Joan Hawkins' book Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-Garde (but does not correspond to her…

  • 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
  • 2050
  • 8 ½ Women
  • 8MM
  • 9to5: Days in Porn

Sex Work

706 films

Depictions of sex work in narrative and documentary. Not all are positive. Need to be predominantly about sex work/workers.

  • 1408
  • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  • Alucarda
  • Amityville 1992: It's About Time
  • The Amityville Horror
  • 12 Hour Shift
  • 1920
  • 1920: Horrors of the Heart
  • 1922
  • 3 from Hell

period horror

447 films

horror taking place in the past - whether ten years back or hundreds, all are applicable

  • The 4th Man
  • The Alcove
  • All the Colors of the Dark
  • Alucarda
  • Amer
  • Abar, the First Black Superman
  • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  • Alita: Battle Angel
  • Argoman the Fantastic Superman
  • Barb Wire

towards an alternate canon of superhero films

115 films

no proper dcu/mcu titles

includes titles based on comic book IP and original properties

curated, not exhaustive

  • Decision to Leave
  • John Wick: Chapter 4
  • Evil Dead Rise
  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • No Hard Feelings

A Year In the Dark 2023

16 films

the year I went back to the movies

in screening order

  • 10 Cloverfield Lane
  • 10 Things I Hate About You
  • 101 Dalmatians
  • 12 O’Clock Boys
  • 12 Years a Slave
  • Past Lives
  • John Wick: Chapter 4
  • Happer's Comet
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  • Riddle of Fire
  • On the Waterfront
  • Metropolitan
  • The King of Comedy
  • Ms .45
  • Enemy Territory

Pre-Giuliani Dirty Old New York

1,060 films

Films made in NYC before Rudy Giuliani became mayor in 1994.

Only films predominantly set in/about NYC and not films…

  • 24 Exposures
  • 8MM
  • 8MM 2
  • The Adderall Diaries
  • The Ages of Lulu

Kink Cinema

301 films

BDSM, fetish, sexually transgressive cinema. Narratives and docs.

Not all of these are good movies or even necessarily sex positive…