When it comes to great entertainment, it’s all about the scenes that grip both your attentiion and emotions with full force. Whether you’re into suspenseful thrillers or emotional dramas, we’ve rounded up the best intense movies and shows to stream.
From the creators of HBO’s Mare of Easttown comes Task, a gritty crime drama that follows two men —one cop…
Depicting the horrifying cycle of abuse in the state’s prison system, The Alabama Solution is tough to watch. It was…
There is nothing quite like The Substance right now. It’s unsubtle, it’s provocative, and its satirical humor can be a…
How do you make sense of Resurrection? This dreamlike feature seems rather inscrutable, but there’s no denying how breathtaking it…
You can probably predict from the title that an accident starts this thriller but what happens after is totally unexpected.…
When a girls soccer team is left stranded in the wilderness, things quickly descend from worrisome to outright, delightful, and…
After the only war the Americans have lost, American post-Vietnam war portrayals tend to lean as patriotic revenge fantasies or…
If you’re expecting the sleek, playful, and totally over-the-top spy shenanigans of 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, you’re not going…
The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a limited series depicting World War II in the eyes of an…
There’s a degree of removal in Perpetrator which some viewers may find jarring: most visibly, in the performances, whose heightened…
Taking the violence and offbeat comedy of the original movie and adding constantly expanding narratives on top of it, Noah…
Black Snow has the sleek style of a modern murder mystery, but its concern with Australia’s colonial past that sets…
Given the original real-life story behind it, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that The Girl with the Needle was so…
It’s easy to feel like you’ll know exactly what you’ll get once you see stills from Guy Ritchie’s MobLand, which…
Just a few minutes in, you can already feel the immensity of The Brutalist. The rousing score stirs you. The…
From Ground Zero doesn’t have the most number of shorts within an anthology film, though it comes pretty close with…
On the one hand, How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a tense thriller—an excellently set-up heist that makes you…
For the longest time, land was where people formed strength in community, where people were born, lived, died, and was…
After being promoted as a project lead, Ron falls down due to his office chair breaking. At first he tries…
Between its maximalist production design and increasingly dark comedic set pieces, the most striking thing about Damien Chazelle’s critically misunderstood…
South African director John Trengove follows-up his debut The Wound with another take on masculinity, this time set in the…
As a crime thriller, Holy Spider is taut and terrifying, a modern noir that manages to unnerve despite the familiar…
In this documentary about John Allen Chau — the American Christian missionary reportedly killed when he tried to preach the…
Disproving the notion that American animation is only for kids, the latest project from Genndy Tartakovsky (most known for Dexter’s…
While not its only cause, the increase of conflict and civil wars has spurred a global refugee crisis. Millions of…
Set in a small town in Romania, R.M.N. is a challenging slow-burn that explores what happens to an insular community…
This Oscar-nominated drama tells the story of the events leading up to the Srebrenica massacre, in which 8372 Bosnian Muslims…
Often deemed as South Asian John Wick, Monkey Man, of course, has plenty of the stylish action that’s been captivating…
In films made about celebrities befriending normal people, we’ve seen the dynamic play out romantically or tragically in the end.…
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