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MOVIE NIGHT

AKA

THE LIST OF
MOVIES THAT
I’VE YET TO SEE
AND I WOULD
LIKE TO WATCH
AGAIN
GLOSSARY

GOOD MOVIES 3

HORROR MOVIES 11

TRASHY MOVIES 15

ANIMATED MOVIES 18

TV SERIES 21
GOOD
MOVIES
MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

While in the woods near their small town two brothers and
A simple plan their friend discover a crashed plane with two things in it: no Thriller - Crime
a dead pilot, and a stash of more than four million dollars

One night in Tokyo, a self-confident young boxer and a


First Love prostitute get caught up in a drug-smuggling plot involving yes Action - Drama
organized crime, corrupt cops and a female assassin

Paige and her brother Zak get to try out for the WWE.
Fighting with
But when only Paige earns a spot in the training program, no Comedy - Sport
my Family
she must leave her loved ones behind

A young aspiring musician finds himself far out of his


Frank element after he joins an eccentric pop group led by no Comedy - Music
the enigmatic Frank, who wears a giant fake head

Jojo is a lonely German boy who discovers that his single


mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his
Jojo Rabbit no Comedy - War
imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind
nationalism as World War II continues to rage on

Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed


Parasite symbiotic relationship between the wealthy yes Comedy - Thriller
Park family and the destitute Kim clan

Decades after ending World War II by assassinating


The man who killed Adolf Hitler in an undercover operation, unsung American
no Drama - Action
Hitler and then the Bigfoot hero Calvin Barr is called upon by the government
to hunt down the fabled Bigfoot

When the woman’s head is discovered in a local river, her


I saw the devil devastated fiancé, Kim Soo-hyeon, a trained secret agent, yes Thriller - Drama
becomes obsessed with hunting down her killer

In the Old West, a sheriff , his deputy, a gunslinger, and a Drama


Bone Tomahawk cowboy embark on a mission to rescue three people no
from a savage group of cave dwellers (gory at the end)

Hoping for heaven but finding an urban hell, a homeless man


Hobo with a shotgun no Action - Thriller
takes aim at a crime boss and the man’s sadistic sons

A screen writer, struggles to adapt Orlean’s book about


Adaptation Laroche, who clones rare orchids and sells them to collectors. no Drama - Comedy
Their lives get intertwined with unpredictable results

Surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s book,


Alice (1988) Alice follows her stuffed rabbit through a portal inside yes Fantasy - Surrealism
her dresser to be whisked away to Wonderland

Chev, an assassin-for-hire, is injected with a serum that requires


Crank no Action - Comedy
him to always keep his adrenaline levels high in order to survive

Despite being caught in her imaginative world, Amelie, a young


Amelié waitress, decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to yes Comedy - Romance
spread joy leads her on a journey where she finds true love

An awkward teenager, befriends Frank, a figure in a bunny


Donnie Darko costume only he can see, who informs Donnie that the world no Sci-fi - Horror
will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds

4
MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

Patrick Bateman, a wealthy investment banker, hides his


American Psycho psychopathic ego from his friends. Later, his illogical fantasies no Dark Comedy
escalate and he submits to an uncontrollable bloodlust

A stuntman and getaway driver falls in love with Irene who is


married to a criminal. In a bid to protect her from her
Drive no Action - Crime
husband and some gangsters, he decides to cross
over to the other side of the law

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the
Enter the void point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict no Drama - Fantasy
living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda

Jerry hires men to abduct his wife and use her to extract
Fargo (1996) money from his father-in-law. Things do not go as no Crime - Dark comedy
planned and Jerry finds himself in big trouble

Raoul is a journalist who along with his lawyer head to


Fear and loathing Las Vegas to cover the mint 400 motorcycle race.
no Dark Comedy
in Las Vegas Soon pleasure overtakes work and they indulge in a
variety of recreational drugs

A sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer comes across a repressed


Itchi the killer and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain the yes Crime - Drama
enforcer can only dream about

Ray and Ken, two hitmen, get stuck in Bruges,


Belgium, after an unsuccessful mission.
In Bruges no Crime - Dark Comedy
The situation becomes complicated
when their boss asks Ken to kill Ray

In the realm of underworld, a series of incidents intertwines the


Pulp Fiction lives of two Los Angeles mobsters, a gangster’s wife, no Crime - Dark Comedy
a boxer and two small-time criminals

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife,


Naked Lunch Joan, like to get high on Bill’s pest poisons while no Sci-fi - Drama
lounging with Beat poet pals

A thief, pretending to be an actor, gets involved in a murder


Kiss Kiss Bang Bang investigation in Hollywood when he befriends a private eye. no Thriller - Mistery
He soon draws in a struggling actress in the investigation

In a dystopic and crime-infested Detroit, a terminally injured


Robocop policeman returns to the force as a potent cyborg no Action - Drama
haunted by submerged memories

Hank gets stranded on an island and decides to end his life.


However, he notices a body at the shore and goes
Swiss Army Man no Dark comedy - Drama
to investigate. Eventually, he befriends the dead body and
the two embark on an adventure

Amelia, a girl in hiding, hires Healy to put March,


a detective seeking her, in his place. After two hitmen
Nice Guys no Crime - Comedy
try to get Healy to reveal her whereabouts,
he concernedly pairs with March to find her

Old and decrepit Krank has lost his capacity for dreaming and is
City of lost children yes Fantasy - Sci-fi
attempting to fight death by stealing the dreams of children

A bridge engineer joins forces with an experienced hunter


The ghost and the darkness to track down and kill two lions responsible for no Adventure - Drama
attacks on local labourers

5
MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

John, a wolf hunter, is one of eight survivors in a plane crash. He


The grey must fight off a pack of hungry wolves, mortal injuries and the icy no Drama - Action
elements to get himself and the survivors back to safety

When an archaeologist couple's son finds the Bracelet of Anubis,


Mummy Returns it locks onto his wrist. A cult resurrects Imhotep, an evil Egyptian no Adventure - Action
high priest, who needs the bracelet to defeat the Scorpion King

Two goons mistake ‘the Dude’ Lebowski for a millionaire


Lebowski and urinate on his rug. Trying to recompense
The big Lebowski no Comedy - Mistery
his rug from the wealthy Lebowski, he gets entwined
in an intricate kidnapping case

Smith runs into a pregnant woman being pursued by killers.


With the woman dead and the killers in pursuit, he fights
Shoot em’ up no Action - Dark Comedy
to keep the newborn alive with the help of a prostitute
and discovers a grim plot.

A hard-luck limo driver struggles to go straight and pay off a


debt to his bookie. He takes on a job with a crazed
Stretch no Comedy - Action
passenger, whose sought-after ledger implicates
some seriously dangerous criminals.

A serial killer begins murdering people according to the seven


Seven deadly sins. Two detectives, one new to the city and the other no Crime - Drama
about to retire, are tasked with apprehending the criminal.

DescriptionSet in 1941, an intellectual New York playwright


Barton Fink accepts an offer to write movie scripts in L.A.
Barton Fink no Comedy - Drama
He finds himself with writer’s block when required
to do a B-movie script

Marty, an aspiring screenwriter working on a screenplay,


Seven Psychophats unwillingly gets involved in an underworld crime when his no Dark Comedy
strange friends abduct a dangerous hoodlum’s pet.

Nick Naylor, a lobbyist for the cigarette business, struggles


Thank you for smoking to explain the nature of his work to his 12-year-old son no Dark comdey - Drama
while trying to be a role model to him

Herbert ‘Hi’ and Edwina ‘Ed’ McDunnough are childless


and cannot adopt because of Hi’s criminal past.
Raising Arizona no Comedy - Drama
Their yearning for a child leads them to kidnap one
of the quintuplets of a rich businessman

A caper involving a boxing promoter who is introduced to match


Snatch fixing by a ruthless, pig-breeding gangster. Thrust into the fray no Heist - Crime
are a street fighting gypsy and his family, and a vicious pitbull

Chaos strikes when a courier (Michaël Youn) must make a


Coursier yes Comedy - Action
delivery and attend a wedding on the same day

Ulysses Everett McGill and his companions


Oh Brother, where art thou? Delmar and Pete, escape from prison to find a treasure no Crime - Comedy
Ulysses had buried before getting caught

Two gym employees chance upon a CD containing the memoirs


Burn after reading of a CIA agent. They then decide to sell it back to him, failing no Comedy - Crime
which they plan to sell it to the Russian embassy

In a futuristic, totalitarian Britain, a freedom fighter known simply


V for Vendetta as V, uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. Evey no Action - Thriller
aids him in his mission to bring down the government

6
MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

Tom Stall, a diner owner, becomes a local hero after he foils an


A history of Violence attempted robbery. When he tries to return to normalcy, Carl no Thriller - Drama
Fogarty, a gangster, alleges that Tom has wronged him

Hanna Heller, a 16-year-old raised to be the perfect assassin,


Hanna is sent on a mission, which takes her across Europe. She is no Action - Thriller
shadowed by an intelligence agent and her team

A real-estate scam worth millions grabs the attention of the city’s


Rock n Rolla delinquents. A trio called the Wild Bunch try to steal the cash, no Action - Crime
while an unexpected man too tries to get his share of the loot.

When a teenage girl goes missing, a jaded, brutal enforcer


You were never
attempts a rescue mission. He uncovers corruption and no Drama - Thriller
really here
abuse of power along his way

Curtis, a construction manager, lives in Ohio with his family.


Take shelter The happiness of his family is at stake when he begins to have no Thriller - Drama
nightmares which gradually turn into hallucinations

Hoping that a global apocalypse is on the horizon, best friends


Bellflower (Evan Glodell, Tyler Dawson) spend all their free time building no Romance - Drama
imaginative weapons of mass destruction

Gustave H, a concierge, is wrongly framed for murder at the


The Grand
Grand Budapest Hotel. In the process of proving his innocence, no Comedy - Drama
Budapest Hotel
he befriends a lobby boy.

Shaun (Thomas Turgoose), who lost his father in the Falklands


War, earns the respect of skinheads when he stand up to their
This is England no Drama - History
teasing. He becomes part of the gang and enjoys hanging out
with his new friends

Daniel Plainview is a ruthless oil prospector who goes on a


There will be blood relentless pursuit to become the most powerful oil tycoon. For no Drama - History
this, he even resorts to manipulating and using his adopted son.

Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin (Jason Statham) lives


what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean,
The transporter no Action - Thriller
hiring himself out as a mercenary transporter who moves goods
- human or otherwise - from one place to another

When the sheriff of a small town is killed, Bart is appointed


the first black sheriff of all-white Rock Ridge
Blazing Saddles no Comedy - Western
by the evil Hedley Lamarr, who hopes this will chase
the townspeople from their homes

William ‘D-Fens’ Foster is an unemployed and divorced


Falling Down engineer whose increasing frustration levels lead him to act no Drama - Action
out violently and commit several crimes

In 2027, 18 years of human infertility have left society on


Children of men the verge of extinction. When one woman miraculously gets no Sci-fi - Thriller
pregnant, Theo, a bureaucrat, must transport her to safety.

In order to escape the prison labour, McMurphy, a prisoner,


One flew over fakes insanity and is shifted to the special ward for
no Drama - Comedy
cuckoo’s nest the mentally unstable. In this ward, he must rise up
against a cruel nurse, Ratched

During the Civil War, two men, Blondie and Tuco, form an
The good, the bad uncomfortable alliance while looking for treasure.
no Western
and the ugly They must also outwit Angel Eyes, an outlaw who wants
to plunder the riches for himself

7
MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

Young Henry Hill, with his friends Jimmy and Tommy, begins
Goodfellas the climb from being a petty criminal to a gangster no Crime - Drama
on the mean streets of New York.

Unemployed Antonio Ricci is elated when he finally finds work


hanging posters around war-torn Rome. His wife, Maria, sells
Bicycle Thieves yes Drama
the family’s bed linens to retrieve Antonio’s bicycle from the
pawnshop so he can take the job.

Young Salvatore Di Vita (Salvatore Cascio) discovers the perfect


escape from life in his war-torn Sicilian village: the Cinema
Cinema Paradiso yes Drama
Paradiso movie house, where projectionist Alfredo (Philippe
Noiret) instills in the boy a deep love of films

A few Jewish soldiers are on an undercover mission to


bring down the Nazi government and put an end to the war.
Inglorius Basterds no Comedy - Action
Meanwhile, a woman wants to avenge the death of her family
from a German officer.

A fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman and her


one true love. He must find her after a long separation and save
The princess’ bride no Adventure
her. They must battle the evils of the mythical kingdom of Florin
to be reunited with each other

Forrest Gump, a man with a low IQ, joins the army for service
where he meets Dan and Bubba. However, he cannot stop
Forrest Gump no Comedy - Drama
thinking about his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran, whose
life is messed up

When 12-year-old Mathilda’s family is killed, her neighbour Leon,


Leon: The professional who is a professional assassin, reluctantly takes her under his no Action - Drama
wing and teaches her the secrets of his trade.

Several years after living down his family reputation,


Frankenstein inherits his grandfather’s castle, where he
Young Frankestein no Comedy
discovers a book full of his granddad’s experiments
and starts reworking on them.

Three detectives from LAPD investigate multiple homicides.


L.A. Confidential While unearthing the evidence and the suspects, the trail leads no Crime - Thriller
to corruption in their own department.

Tony Montana and his close friend Manny, build a strong drug
empire in Miami. However as his power begins to grow,
Scarface no Crime - Drama
so does his ego and his enemies, and his own
paranoia begins to plague his empire.

A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages


12 angry man to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear no Drama
as it seemed in court.

Sam Sotto publishes an autobiography and is about to receive


a lifetime achievement award. His daughter, Carol Solomon,
In a world... no Comedy
is a struggling vocal coach and has always been
overshadowed by her father.

A convicted felon is turned into a spy and assassin working


La femme Nikita for the government. But when she falls in love, she finds it no Action - Thriller
impossible to reconcile her new feelings with her profession

College students Candy, Faith, Brit and Cotty are short of the
cash they need for a spring-break trip, so they rob a diner and
Spring Breakers no Crime - Drama
head down to Florida. However, the police soon break up the
party and arrest them

Louis Bloom, a petty thief, realises that he can make money by


Nightcrawler capturing photographs of criminal activities and starts resorting no Thriller - Crime
to extreme tactics to get them

8
MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

Adam, a college professor, spots an actor in a movie who looks


Enemy exactly like him. Adam tracks down his doppelganger and starts no Thriller - Drama
living his life secretly, which gives birth to a complex situation

When the police take time to find Keller Dover’s daughter


and her friend, he decides to go on a search himself.
Prisoners no Thriller - Crime
His desperation leads him closer to finding the truth and
also jeopardises his own life

Scott Pilgrim Scott Pilgrim meets Ramona and instantly falls in love with her.
vs But when he meets one of her exes at a band competition, he no Action - Comedy
The World realises that he has to deal with all seven of her exes to woo her

A Jewish father and his family are surrounded by Nazi death


Life is Beautiful camps. Living in a hostile environment, he uses humor to shield yes Comedy - Drama
his young son from the grim realities of war

A terminator is set on a mission to kill Sarah’s son, John Connor.


Terminator 2 However, another cyborg, who was once after Sarah’s life, has no Action - Sci-fi
now been assigned to protect him

Harvey Pekar, a file clerk at a local hospital, gets inspired


American Splendor to write his own brand of comic book series after he meets no Comedy - Drama
Robert Crumb, an artist and music enthusiast

After receiving a frantic phone call from his ex-girlfriend, teenage


loner Brendan Frye learns that her dead body has been found.
Brick no Noir - Drama
Vowing to solve her murder himself, he must infiltrate
high-school cliques that he previously avoided

Tristan promises Victoria to get a star from the magical


kingdom of Stormhold that exists beyond the Wall.
Stardust no Adventure - Fantasy
Trying to keep his promise, Tristan ends up
having an adventure that changes his life

High school senior Lily and her three best friends live in a haze
of texts, posts, selfies and chats. Their small town gets turned
Assassination Nation no Action - Thriller
upside down when an anonymous hacker starts to reveal
personal messages and secrets of thousands of people

The amazing true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer


incarcerated in Thailand’s most notorious prison. Thrown into a
A prayer before dawn yes Action - Drama
world of drugs and violence, he finds his best chance to escape
is to fight his way out in Muay Thai tournaments

The life of a successful construction manager, Ivan Locke, takes


Locke a dramatic turn as he comes to know through a phone call that a no Drama
woman with whom he had a one-night stand is in labour

Hunted by mysterious forces, a young woman who has


supernatural abilities must go on the run when her powers are
Fast Color no Sci-fi - Drama
discovered. With nowhere else to go, she flees back to her family
and the farmhouse she abandoned long ago

Grey, a technophobe, suffers paralysis and loses his wife during


Upgrade an attack. But when a billionaire hands him a chip in his body no Sci-fi - Action
that restores his mobility, he sets out to get vengeance

Two friends and fellow magicians become bitter enemies after


a sudden tragedy. As they devote themselves to this rivalry,
The prestige no Thriller - Mistery
they make sacrifices that bring them fame but with terrible
consequences

As his last assignment, a temporal agent is tasked to travel back


Predestination in time and prevent a bomb attack in New York in 1975. The no Sci-fi - Thriller
hunt, however, turns out to be beyond the bounds of possibility

9
MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

Theodore Twombly, an introvert writer, buys an Artificial


Her Intelligence system to help him write. However, amazed by the no Sci-fi - Romance
AI’s ability to learn and adapt, he falls in love with it

A former boxer loses his job as an auto mechanic,


Brawl in and his troubled marriage is about to expire.
no Action - Thriller
cell block 99 At this crossroads in his life, he feels that he has
no better option than to work as a drug courier.

The lives of sisters Justine and Claire get entangled when


Melancholia they discover that Earth is about to collide with no Sci-fi - Drama
an enormous planet called Melancholia

Rodrigues and Garupe, two Catholic missionaries,


travel to Japan in search of their missing mentor, Ferreira,
Silence no Drama - History
who is believed to have been promoting Catholicism
by going against the law

Notorious con artist Frank Abagnale has duped people


Catch me worth millions of dollars with his masterful art of deception.
no Crime
if you can With his scams getting bolder, he is soon pursued
by FBI agent Carl Hanratty

10
HORROR
MOVIES
MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

Cloaked, cult-like figures trap a police officer (Aaron Poole),


The void no Indie - Lovecraftian
patients and staffers inside a hospital that is a gateway to evil.

Reuniting after the tragic death of their friend, four college pals
set out to hike through the Scandinavian wilderness. A wrong
The ritual no Mistery - Lovecraftian
turn leads them into the mysterious forests of Norse legend,
where an ancient evil exists and stalks them at every turn

A small, remote village in upstate Quebec is terrorised by a flesh-


Ravenous (2017) eating plague breaking down residents’ bodies and turning them yes Indie - Zombie
against their loved ones, while survivors flee for the woods.

In Santa Mira, California, Dr. Miles Bennell is baffled when all his
Invasion of
patients come to him with the same complaint: their loved ones no Sci-fi - Aliens
the body snatchers
seem to have been replaced by emotionless impostors

When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her


daughter and grandchildren begin to unravel cryptic and
Hereditary no Drama - Haunting
increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry, trying
to outrun the sinister fate they have inherited.

After a mysterious virus wreaks havoc in the United Kingdom, a


28 days later team of survivors tries to cope with the aftermath of the disaster no Drama - Zombie
and find security.

A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and


Little Monsters a kids’ show personality to protect young children from no Comedy - Zombies
a sudden outbreak of zombies.

Henry (John Nance) resides alone in a bleak apartment


surrounded by industrial gloom. When he discovers that an
Eraserhead no Indie - Body H
earlier fling with Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) left her pregnant,
he marries the expectant mother and has her move in with him

Five friends decide to spend a weekend in a remote cabin


Evil Dead (2013) located deep in the forest. When they accidentally summon a no Thriller - Haunting
dormant demon, they strive to survive its evil ploys

A film crew investigates on a government cover-up under


The Tunnel Sydney. Very quickly the group begins to realise that perhaps no Thriller - F. Footage
the cover-up was for a good reason

Suspicion leads to hysteria when rural villagers link a series of


The wailing yes Thriller - Haunting?
brutal murders to the arrival of a mysterious stranger

When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they
speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun,
Shutter (2004) yes Thriller - Haunting
a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos,
which unsettles them

7 people manage to escape death thanks to a sudden


Final Destination 1 & 2 premonition, but they will not be able to avoid their faith for long no Thriller - Haunting
as weird accidents start taking them one by one

The crew of a spacecraft, Nostromo, intercept a distress


signal from a planet and set out to investigate it.
Alien no Sci-fi - Aliens
However, to their horror, they are attacked
by an alien which later invades their ship

Yoshimi tries to make a fresh start in a new apartment, strange


Dark Water (2002) yes Drama - Haunting
occurrences in the building gradually begin to take their toll

12
MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

A dream home becomes the house from hell as evil spirits rise
Poltergeist no Thriller - Haunting
up to possess the soul of an innocent child

Billy’s father gets him a pet from China with three very specific
Gremlins instructions. However, when Billy does not follow them, it no Fantasy - Monster
unleashes a horde of monsters

An unidentified monster appears from the Han River in Seoul,


Drama
The host kills hundreds and also carries off Hyun-seo. When her family yes
Comedy - Monster
learns that she is being held captive, they resolve to save her

Sang-hyun is a Christian priest who, in order to help find a cure,


Thirst (2009) volunteers to be infected with a virus that’s devastating Africa. yes Drama - Virus
He’s left with an intense craving for blood and sex.

On returning home from a mental health facility, two sisters find


A tale of
that along with their stepmother, they have to find a way to deal yes Thriller - Haunting
two sisters
with their late mother’s ghost who begins to haunt them

After a mysterious apocalypse leaves the world with few


survivors, two families are forced to share a home in an uneasy
It comes at night no Mistery - Monster
alliance to keep the outside evil at bay -- only to learn that the
true horror may come from within

In the future, prisoners housed in vertical cells watch as inmates


The Platform yes Sci-fi - Psychological
in the upper cells are fed while those below starve

A widower stages a phony audition to meet a potential new


Audition (1999) partner in life. After interviewing several women, he becomes yes Thriller - Psychological
interested in a lady with VERY dark past

“Cure” is part atmospheric crime film and part philosophical


meditation. Detective Takabe is tracking a series of identical
Cure (1997) yes Thriller - Crime
murders, committed under the same bizarre circumstances.
Nothing seems to connect the murders.

Suicide Club Police officers investigate a string of mysterious suicides


yes Thriller - ???
(2001) throughout Japan.

After losing his memory from an accident, Tan tried to find his
identity. Eventually, he found something and led him back to
Take me home yes Thriller - Psychological
his home sweet home. The more he knows them, the more he
learns to fear of their secrets of his so-called family

As hordes of zombies swarm over the U.S, neither


cities nor the countryside prove safe. A group retreats to the
Dawn of the dead no Action - Zombie
haven of an enclosed shopping center to make what could be
humanity’s last stand

As the zombies take over the world, the survivors


have built a walled city to protect themselves.
Land of the dead no Action - Zombie
However, the living dead are evolving and a plan to
overthrow the city leadership is in the process.

Dutch and his team are out on a mission to rescue a group of


Predator hostages in Central America. There, they discover that they are no Action - Aliens
being targeted by an extraterrestrial warrior

In the Pacific Northwest in 1983, outsiders Red Miller and Mandy


Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their haven is
Mandy no Action - Psychological
savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand,
Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey

13
MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

Becca and Tyler plan a week-long stay at their grandparents’


The Visit place, whom they have never seen. Little do they know that their no Thriller - Psychological?
visit will be the most terrifying experience of their lives

Marion disappears after stealing money from her employer. Her


Psycho lover and sister try to find her and end up reaching the infamous no Thriller - Psychological
Bates Motel, where they meet Norman Bates

A group of strangers awaken to find themselves placed in a giant


Cube cube. Each one of them is gifted with a special skill and they no Sci-fi - Psychological
must work together to escape an endless maze of deadly traps

A young woman spends her days renovating the Victorian


mansion that she lives in with her husband in the countryside.
Mother! no Thriller - Psychological
When a stranger knocks on the door one night, he becomes an
unexpected guest in their home

After a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farm, Nathan


Color out Gardner and his family find themselves battling a mutant
no Sci-fi - Lovecraftian
of space extraterrestrial organism that infects their minds and bodies,
transforming their quiet rural life into a technicolor nightmare

After a mysterious virus wreaks havoc in the United Kingdom,


Raw a team of survivors tries to cope with the aftermath of the yes Drama - Psychological?
disaster and find security

Lena, a biologist and former soldier, joins a mission to uncover


what happened to her husband inside Area X -- a sinister
Annihilation no Sci-fi - Monster
and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding
across the American coastline

Jesse (Elle Fanning) moves to Los Angeles just after her 16th
birthday to launch a career as a model. As Jesse starts to take
The neon demon no Thriller - Psychological
the fashion world by storm, her personality changes in ways that
could help her against her cutthroat rivals

In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in


Hagazzusa yes Drama - Haunting
a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the woods

Disguising itself as a human female, an extraterrestrial drives


around Scotland attempting to lure unsuspecting men into her
Under the skin no Sci-fi - Alien
van. Once there, she seduces and sends them into another
dimension where they are nothing more than meat

Two mermaid sisters become caught in a love triangle when they


The lure yes Musical? - Monster
fall for the same man

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on


The lighthouse no Drama - Psychological
a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s

14
TRASHY
MOVIES
MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

Thirty years ago, serial killer Chris Fuchman (Mackenzie


Murdock), raped and murdered ten fathers, but was released on
Father’s Day no Comedy - Troma
a technicality. During the next 10 years, more father rapes and
murders were committed, but no evidence was found

A Mexican master (Alexandro Jodorowsky) leads a Christ figure


The holy mountain (Horacio Salinas) and other disciples to a mountain yes Fantasy - Drama
of immortal wise men

A car tyre comes to life with the power to make people


Rubber explode and goes on a murderous rampage through the no Horror - Comedy
Californian desert

A man armed with great fighting capabilities sets out to avenge


Kung pow! no Comedy - Action
the death of his parents who were killed by a kung fu legend

A couple met while volunteering as guinea pigs for an


experiment. The experiment is shrouded with suspicion.
Firestarter no Sci-fi - Horror
Later they marry, have a child who has strange abilities.
Is this due to the experiment?

Guests mysteriously die at a mountain inn run by a family of


The happiness of
oddballs, so - fearing bad publicity - the family bury the bodies of yes Musical - Horror
the Katakuris
their ill-fated guests themselves

Stranded friends discover that they’re being stalked


Wrong Turn no Horror - Slasher
by a horde of backwoods cannibals

Valentine and Earl, two handymen staying in Perfection,


Nevada, decide to leave the town but stumble upon the dead
Tremors no Sci-fi - Monster
body of a friend. They find that strange underground
creatures are killing people

Hell comes to When a nuclear holocaust renders most of mankind sterile,


no Sci-fi - Monster
Frog Town a drifter is recruited for a very special assignment

Hollywood Chainsaw A private eye finds a runaway working in a strip joint that is also
no Horror - Comedy?
Hookers part of a madman’s cult of chainsaw worship

In Mexico, the traumatized son (Axel Jodorowsky) of a knife-


Santa Sangre thrower (Guy Stockwell) and a trapeze artist bonds grotesquely no Thriller - Haunting?
with his now-armless mother (Blanca Guerra)

College friends find their weekend of sex and debauchery ruined


Zombeavers no Horror - Comedy
when deadly zombie beavers swarm them

A 98-pound nerd (Mark Torgl) from New Jersey lands in a vat of


The Toxic Avenger no Horror - Comedy
toxic waste and becomes a benevolent monster (Mitchell Cohen)

An army of Nazis hidden in a moon base for 70 years prepares


Iron Sky no Sci-fi - Comedy
a gigantic warship for an invasion of Earth in 2018

a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability


Velocipastor that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. Although he is horrified by yes Horror - Comedy
the new power, a hooker convinces him to use it to fight crime

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MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

Who Killed A violent and destructive war erupts between two conflicting
yes Comedy - Action
Captain Alex groups - the mafia and some soldiers.

Johnny Rico completes his graduation and joins the Mobile


Starship Troopers Infantry to serve the nation. Soon, he finds himself fighting no Sci-fi - Action
against alien bugs that are hell-bent on destroying life on Earth

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ANIMATED
MOVIES
MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

When, by executive decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City


are exiled to a vast garbage-dump called Trash Island, 12yr old
Isle of Dogs no Adventure - Comedy
Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies
across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots

Mr Fox, a family man, goes back to his ways of stealing, unable


Fantastic Mr. Fox to resist his animal instincts. However, he finds himself trapped no Adventure - Comedy
when three farmers decide to kill him and his kind

Toon Roger suspects his wife and hires a detective, Eddie


Who framed
Valiant. But when studio owner Marvin Acme is found dead, all no Mistery - Comedy
Roger Rabbit
fingers point at Roger

Mrs. Brisby (Elizabeth Hartman), a widowed mouse, must move


her children out of their home in a field before the local
The secret of Nimh no Adventure - Fantasy
farmer starts plowing. Unable to leave because her son is ill,
Mrs. Brisby seeks the help of nearby rats

A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell


Fritz the cat no Drama - Comedy
in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960’s

Giovanni must undertake paid jobs before and after school, in


Night on
order to provide food for his poor family. Suddenly, one day, an no / yes Adventure - Fantasy
the galactic railroad
intergalactic train takes him on a spiritual journey

Cruella de Vil, an evil heiress, wants to make a fur coat for


101 Dalmatians herself out of the skins of a hundred and one Dalmatian puppies. no Adventure - Drama
She makes an effort to kidnap them by hiring a group of thugs.

Celestine is a young mouse that lives in an undeground


Ernest and orphanage. The caretaker tells her scary stories about the
yes Adventure - Comedy
Celestine evil nature of the bears that live in the outside world, though
Celestine doubts that they are entirely true

A boy befriends an innocent alien, who resembles a gigantic


The iron giant robot. A paranoid governmental agent, however, desires no Adventure - Drama
to obliterate the alien

An Irish youth discovers that his mute sister is a selkie who


Song of the sea must find her voice and free supernatural creatures from the no Adventure - Fantasy
spell of a Celtic goddess

Elderly Frenchwoman Madame Souza gets involved in


Les Triplettes of Belleville international intrigue when her grandson, Champion, a yes Adventure - Comedy
professional cyclist, is kidnapped and taken abroad

animated movie about some creepy scary stuff,


Fear(s) of the dark no Horror
it’s an anthology of short stories

Norman Babcock is the resident of an ill-fated town that is reeling


Paranorman under a deadly curse. Norman, with his unique ability to talk to no Adventure - Horror
ghosts, and a few companions must together save the town

Eggs befriends Winnie. Together, they devise a plan to save the


The Boxtrolls Boxtrolls living beneath the streets of Cheesebridge city from the no Adventure - Fantasy
evil eyes of an exterminator

The film traces Satrapi’s growth from child to rebellious, punk-


Persepolis loving teenager in Iran. In the background are the growing yes Drama - History
tensions of the political climate in Iran in the 70s and 80s

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MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

When Victor is practising his wedding vows in the woods, he


Corpse Bride accidentally gets married to a skeleton-like creature called no Horror - Fantasy
Emily who whisks him off to the land of the dead.

Tired of living a solitary life in the Pacific Northwest, Mr Link,


who is 8 feet tall and covered in fur, recruits fearless explorer
Missing Link no Adventure - Fantasy
Sir Lionel Frost to guide him on a journey to find his
long-lost relatives in the fabled valley of Shangri-La.

Kubo, a young boy, along with Monkey and Beetle,


Kubo and
must find and wear his father’s legendary suit of armour no Adventure - Fantasy
the two strings
in order to defeat an evil spirit.

Michael Stone, a man living a dull life, is tired of his


Anomalisa monotonous routine. However, things change when no Comedy - Drama
he meets a stranger on a business trip

Icare, a young boy, is sent to an orphanage after the death of


My life as
his mother. In the orphanage, he learns to make friends and yes Drama - Adventure?
a zucchini
understands what it means to trust someone.

A massive sea turtle destroys a stranded man’s raft every time


The red turtle no Fantasy
he tries to sail away from a tropical island.

20
TV
SERIES
MOVIE TITLE PLOT SUB GENRE

Kipo, a sheltered girl, gets a crash course in survival when a


Kipo and the age of the
mutant attack sends her to the surface, far from the safety of her no Adventure - Comedy
wonderbeasts
underground home

set in a world where your homicide tendencies can be predicted,


Psycho Pass (S1) no Crime - Thriller
someone menages to act out anyway. A detective is on the case

Seeks to access the unconscious mind with its new stop-motion


The shivering truth (S1) anthology comedy that is used to tackle topics on life, no Horror - Dark Comedy
death and human nature

5 super agents have to stop Hitler and his Nazi friends, 13


Danger 5 no Comedy - Action
episodes for 2 seasons total

(Set in Upper Midwest in 1979; A young couple attempts to


cover up the hit and run and homicide of Rye Gerhardt, son of a Crime - Thriller
Fargo (S2) no
prominent crime family. A chief police officer is on the case. Action
10 episodes total

1995 american horror anthology based on R.L. Stine’s popular


Goosebumps (S1) yes Horror
books, the intro is damn iconic

Loyal but incredibly timid, Courage must regularly defend his


Courage
owners, Eustace and Muriel, from the paranormal elements that no Horror - Comedy
the cowardly dog (S1)
threaten their simple existence

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