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A journalist and detective spend 30 years chasing the truth behind a charming predator's trail of failed marriages and suspicious deaths.

LA heist thriller pitting a cop against a master thief in a tense cat-and-mouse—morally gray, family-fractured crime drama from Power's creator.

A med student on a bizarre ash-eating weight-loss craze becomes literally haunted by the person she consumed—Sundance body horror now on Shudder.

An ex-detective's daughter vanished 11 years ago—now a desperate call convinces him she's alive. Raw, obsessive, five-star Aussie thriller.

A woman's sleep terrors bleed into reality when the demonic figure haunting her nightmares may be behind her best friend's disappearance.

Studio Trigger returns to Night City with an all-new crew of mercenaries in a standalone tale of redemption and revenge — trailer's out, premiere Oct 20.

An actor-turned-investigator exposes how crypto hype curdled into a fraud epidemic, complete with cult-like true believers who won't stop believing.

Atlantean prophecy meets Arthurian legend before Camelot even exists — a sprawling origin epic of visions, betrayal, and pagan-vs-divine power struggles.

A spy, an assassin, and a telepathic kid fake a family to prevent war—deadpan action-comedy with real warmth underneath.

A boys' water polo camp descends into psychological body horror as a rumored skin contagion turns friendship into paranoia. Cannes-premiered and deeply unsettling.

Guy Ritchie's operatic crime saga returns for season 2 — a crime family battling rivals and each other, with an all-timer cast chewing scenery.

A woman wakes trapped in a sealed cryo-pod with no memory and dwindling air — a claustrophobic, single-location sci-fi puzzle box on Netflix.

William Friedkin's ice-cold neo-noir about a Secret Service agent hunting a counterfeiter, with a car chase rivaling The French Connection — newly streaming for the first time.

A cult investigator and her filmmaker husband go undercover inside a polygamist sect to expose its self-proclaimed prophet — chilling access, real infiltration footage.

A wondrous anime about a girl who learns forbidden magic through hand-drawn spells — Ghibli-level whimsy with a dark, rule-bound magic system underneath.

Sam Rockwell sprints through an AI-apocalypse in Gore Verbinski's gleeful, satirical action-comedy — chaotic fun with a dark edge underneath.

Trilogy finale of the visually hallucinatory supernatural-mystery anime, exorcising a serpent curse haunting the women of a feudal inner palace.

New Netflix film tracing Ted Kaczynski's descent from Harvard prodigy to FBI's most wanted, with Russell Crowe as the psychologist who broke him.

A paranormal podcaster is haunted by eerie recordings that mirror her own life in this A24 sound-design horror debut — 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, dread built through audio, not jump scares.

A washed-up former boy-genius sleuth stumbles into his first real murder case in this darkly funny neo-noir — bleak, wry, and full of small-town rot beneath the quirk.

A family gets inexplicably sealed inside their home for years, rationing supplies while an unseen force outside defies explanation. Claustrophobic, eerie sci-fi horror new on Netflix.

A Real Housewives star's Pentecostal church gets the cult-doc treatment—leaked sermons, ex-members, and a mind-control playbook laid bare.

The biggest art forgery scandal in American history, unraveling a decades-long con that fooled the wealthiest collectors in New York.

A minimalist, $80,000 indie horror debut that turned into one of the year's biggest breakouts: four recent college grads on a night drive find themselves stuck on a road that never ends, forced into grim survival routines as the loop wears down their sanity. Shot with eerie restraint and steeped in Gen-Z existential dread, it's less about jump scares than the slow, suffocating horror of purposelessness — a Kafkaesque nightmare that critics are calling one of the smartest horror films of the year.

A shinobi teen who can talk to animals fuses with a mortally wounded demon cat and gets pulled into a covert government unit that hunts rogue spirits. From the mangaka behind Fullmetal Alchemist, it's a fresh Summer 2026 shonen action series that's been praised for sidestepping the genre's usual tropes — sharp fight choreography paired with real emotional weight in the human-spirit bond at its center.

The fifth and final chapter in Joe Berlinger's true-crime anthology just dropped, built entirely around 137 never-before-heard prison phone calls Charles Manson made to a retired detective over the last nine years of his life. Rather than rehashing the Tate-LaBianca murders as tabloid spectacle, it uses Manson's own words to unpack the psychology of cult control and media mythmaking — a chilling, cerebral true-crime watch for anyone drawn to fraud docs, cult exposés, and stories about charismatic manipulators.

Science SARU (Devilman Crybaby, Inu-Oh) delivers a full ground-up retelling of Masamune Shirow's landmark cyberpunk manga, dropping Motoko Kusanagi and Public Security Section 9 back into a near-future Tokyo of hackable minds, prosthetic bodies, and existential dread over what makes a self a self. It's philosophical, gorgeously animated action sci-fi in the same lineage as Blade Runner and Evangelion — new episodes are airing weekly right now, so it's the perfect moment to jump in from episode one.

The fan-favorite dark isekai returns with its 'Recapture Arc,' picking up right where the gut-wrenching Season 3 finale left off. Subaru is racing against time to save Rem from an eternal, memory-erased sleep after the Witch of Gluttony devoured her existence — and the fallout forces him into some of the bleakest, most emotionally brutal 'death loops' of the entire series. It's less a comfort-watch isekai and more a psychological gauntlet, pairing white-knuckle time-loop suspense with genuinely inventive fantasy world-building and a soundtrack that hits as hard as the story does. If you love anime that punishes its hero as much as it empowers him, this is appointment viewing.

The long-delayed fourth film in the Madoka Magica saga finally arrives in theaters this August, picking up after the mind-bending Rebellion Story to send Homura Akemi hurtling toward a confrontation with the witch Walpurgisnacht itself. What starts as candy-colored magical-girl spectacle curdles into existential horror and cosmic-scale tragedy — shot for the first time in true widescreen for maximum visual punch. It's the kind of anime that rewards close, repeat viewing: gorgeous, devastating, and genuinely strange in ways that linger long after the credits, sitting comfortably alongside classics like Evangelion for viewers who like their genre fiction dark and thematically dense.

A twisty Swedish true-crime documentary unpacking one of the country's most audacious corporate heists — a group of financiers illegally used a public company's own money to seize control of it, siphoning off hundreds of millions before it all unraveled. The film lands its biggest coup with a rare, first-ever on-camera interview from the scheme's elusive mastermind, who orchestrated much of it from behind bars. It's a briskly paced, stranger-than-fiction ride through greed, hubris, and financial sleight of hand for anyone who devours cons, cults, and white-collar wreckage.

Just landed on Netflix: a young novice nun arrives at a serene Italian convent for what she believes is a fresh start — until an impossible pregnancy unravels into a nightmare of religious fanaticism and visceral, unrelenting terror. Director Michael Mohan builds slow-burn dread in the tradition of Hereditary and Midsommar before detonating into one of the most talked-about final ten minutes in recent horror, anchored by a fearless, go-for-broke lead performance. It's atmospheric, cerebral, and genuinely upsetting in the best way — a perfect pick for anyone who likes their horror soaked in unease and symbolism rather than jump scares alone.

A reclusive, sharp-tongued novelist is upended when she must take guardianship of her orphaned 15-year-old niece — a girl she barely knows — after a sudden family tragedy. What follows is 13 episodes of extraordinary emotional precision: no melodrama, no dramatic speeches, just the awkward, tender, slow-burn work of two wounded people learning to coexist and, eventually, trust each other. Produced by Studio Shuka with a muted, lived-in visual palette that makes every small gesture feel enormous, Journal with Witch landed as the quiet critical sensation of Winter 2026 — IndieWire called it the best anime of the season — drawing inevitable comparisons to the unhurried warmth of Frieren and Laid-Back Camp while carrying a specific literary grief all its own. Stream it on Crunchyroll and have tissues within reach by episode four.

From the creator of Tiger King comes a five-part HBO docuseries that blows open the shadowy, surprisingly ruthless world of exotic reptile smuggling — and it's wilder than anything fiction could invent. At its center are two kingpins, Hank Molt and Tommy Crutchfield, whose black-market pipeline once supplied rare species to America's biggest zoos. When a smuggling operation goes catastrophically wrong and old scores turn into something genuinely sinister, the series pivots from colorful character study into full-on crime thriller. Eric Goode embeds with traffickers, federal agents, and obsessive collectors alike, building a portrait of an illegal trade operating in plain sight — part Theranos-style hubris spiral, part Sopranos-esque rivalry, part ecological horror. It premiered at SXSW 2026 and won the Audience Award, and it just dropped on Max in early August. If you've ever wanted a prestige true-crime docuseries where the contraband is a 12-foot reticulated python, this is the one.