146 Best Dark Movies To Watch - A Good Movie To Watch

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If you're ready to unleash your dark side, there are plenty of fantastic picks to enjoy, from pitch black comedy to crime thrillers and dystopian sci-fi. Here are the best and dark-themed movies and shows to stream right now.

Leave the World Behind (2023)

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8.2

A hugely entertaining, visually inventive Black Mirror-style apocalyptic thriller that nails the ending

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

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8.7

Martin Scorsese grapples with harrowing history and the limits of storytelling in this monumental masterpiece

The Lesson (2023)

7.3

Though ultimately unsatisfying, there are still intriguing highbrow patches in this psychological thriller

Nightmare Alley (2021)

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9.0

A psychological thriller of the highest quality, masked as an adult fairytale, by the great Guillermo del Toro

Master Gardener (2023)

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8.7

Yet another tortured-soul-thriller-banger by one of American indie cinema's best

Richard III (1995)

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8.7

An inspired Shakespeare update with a terrifying Ian McKellen performance at its center, this is a masterpiece of its own

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)

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8.3

The first—rather traumatic—part of Joe's epic journey from love to humiliation in search of sexual transcendence

The Killer (2023)

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8.4

A perfectly pitched crime thriller that's David Fincher's best film in a decade

Hotel Coolgardie (2016)

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8.3

An observational documentary about the everyday horrors of toxic masculinity

X (2022)

7.7

An excellent slasher homage with a strong emotional undercurrent revolving around sex and the body

Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

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8.5

Scorsese’s raw, hellish descent into modern purgatory nevertheless gleams with the possibility of salvation

After Hours (1985)

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8.5

Martin Scorsese flexes his stylistic muscles with this black comedy fever dream

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