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The 2023 Watcher

In no particular favorable order, here are some worthwhile movie recommendations watched in 2023.

  • Above the Shadows poster

    Above the Shadows

    Release Year
    2019
    Summary
    A young woman who has faded to the point of becoming invisible must find her way back with the help of the one man who can see her.
    • #Fantasy
    • #Romance
  • American Satan poster

    American Satan

    Release Year
    2017
    Summary
    A young rock band, half from England and half from the US, drop out of college and move to the Sunset Strip to chase their dreams.
    • #Thriller
    • #Drama
    • #Music
  • Asteroid City poster

    Asteroid City

    Release Year
    2023
    Summary
    In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
    • #Comedy
    • #Drama
  • Babylon poster

    Babylon

    Release Year
    2022
    Summary
    A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
    • #Drama
    • #Comedy
  • Barbarian poster

    Barbarian

    Release Year
    2022
    Summary
    In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.
    • #Horror
    • #Mystery
  • Black Bear poster

    Black Bear

    Release Year
    2020
    Summary
    At a remote lake house in the Adirondack Mountains, a couple entertains an out-of-town guest looking for inspiration in her filmmaking. The group quickly falls into a calculated game of desire, manipulation, and jealousy, unaware of how dangerously intertwined their lives will soon become.
    • #Drama
    • #Thriller
  • Bloody Hell poster

    Bloody Hell

    Release Year
    2020
    Summary
    A man with a mysterious past flees the country to escape his own personal hell... only to arrive somewhere much worse. In an effort to survive this new horror, he turns to his personified conscience.
    • #Horror
    • #Comedy
  • Bones and All poster

    Bones and All

    Release Year
    2022
    Summary
    Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
    • #Drama
    • #Horror
    • #Romance
  • Brawl in Cell Block 99 poster

    Brawl in Cell Block 99

    Release Year
    2017
    Summary
    After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
    • #Action
    • #Crime
    • #Thriller
  • Burn poster

    Burn

    Release Year
    2019
    Summary
    Lonely, unstable gas station attendant Melinda is tired of being overshadowed by her more confident, outgoing co-worker Sheila. When the gas station is held up at gunpoint by Billy, a desperate man in need of quick cash, Melinda finds an opportunity to make a connection with the robber, regardless of who gets hurt.
    • #Thriller
    • #Crime
    • #Action
  • Cocaine Bear poster

    Cocaine Bear

    Release Year
    2023
    Summary
    Inspired by a true story, an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
    • #Thriller
    • #Comedy
    • #Crime
  • Copshop poster

    Copshop

    Release Year
    2021
    Summary
    On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station. However, when the hit man turns up at the precinct, an unsuspecting rookie cop finds herself caught in the crosshairs.
    • #Thriller
    • #Crime
    • #Action
  • Detour poster

    Detour

    Release Year
    2017
    Summary
    A young law student, grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether he should kill his unfaithful step-father.
    • #Thriller
    • #Action
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves poster
    Summary
    A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
    • #Adventure
    • #Fantasy
    • #Comedy
  • Fighting with My Family poster

    Fighting with My Family

    Release Year
    2019
    Summary
    Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for the WWE. But when only Paige earns a spot in the competitive training program, she must leave her loved ones behind and face this new cutthroat world alone. Paige's journey pushes her to dig deep and ultimately prove to the world that what makes her different is the very thing that can make her a star.
    • #Comedy
  • I Think We're Alone Now poster

    I Think We're Alone Now

    Release Year
    2018
    Summary
    After a catastrophe destroys most of humanity, recluse Del lives in his small, empty town, content with the utopia he has methodically created for himself, until an interloper, young Grace, disrupts his solitude.
    • #Drama
    • #Science Fiction
    • #Mystery
  • Knock at the Cabin poster

    Knock at the Cabin

    Release Year
    2023
    Summary
    While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
    • #Thriller
    • #Mystery
    • #Horror
  • Nope poster

    Nope

    Release Year
    2022
    Summary
    Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
    • #Horror
    • #Mystery
    • #Science Fiction
  • Old Dads poster

    Old Dads

    Release Year
    2023
    Summary
    A cranky middle-aged dad and his two best friends find themselves out of step in a changing world of millennial CEOs and powerful preschool principals.
    • #Comedy
  • Pain Hustlers poster

    Pain Hustlers

    Release Year
    2023
    Summary
    After losing her job, a single mom falls into a lucrative but ultimately dangerous scheme selling prescription drugs.
    • #Drama
  • Promising Young Woman poster

    Promising Young Woman

    Release Year
    2020
    Summary
    A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
    • #Thriller
    • #Crime
    • #Drama
  • Pulse poster

    Pulse

    Release Year
    2006
    Summary
    When the dead discover a means to contact the living through electronic devices, cellphones and computers become open gateways to monstrosities and destruction.
    • #Horror
    • #Science Fiction
    • #Mystery
    • #Drama
  • Renfield poster

    Renfield

    Release Year
    2023
    Summary
    Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy.
    • #Comedy
    • #Horror
  • Running Scared poster

    Running Scared

    Release Year
    2006
    Summary
    A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things spiral out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.
    • #Action
    • #Crime
    • #Drama
    • #Thriller
  • Suspiria poster

    Suspiria

    Release Year
    2018
    Summary
    Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the role of lead dancer, the woman she replaces breaks down and accuses the company's female directors of witchcraft. Meanwhile, an inquisitive psychotherapist and a member of the troupe uncover dark and sinister secrets as they probe the depths of the studio's hidden underground chambers.
    • #Horror
    • #Mystery
    • #Drama
  • Tag poster

    Tag

    Release Year
    2018
    Summary
    For one month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the ground running in a no-holds-barred game of tag they’ve been playing since the first grade. This year, the game coincides with the wedding of their only undefeated player, which should finally make him an easy target. But he knows they’re coming...and he’s ready.
    • #Comedy
    • #Action
  • The Dark poster

    The Dark

    Release Year
    2018
    Summary
    A murderous, flesh-eating undead young girl haunting the remote stretch of woods where she was murdered decades earlier, discovers a kidnapped and abused boy hiding in the trunk of one of her victim’s cars. Her decision to let the boy live throws her aggressively solitary existence into upheaval, and ultimately forces her to re-examine just how much of her humanity her murderer was able to destroy.
    • #Horror
    • #Drama
    • #Fantasy
  • The Little Things poster

    The Little Things

    Release Year
    2021
    Summary
    Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.
    • #Drama
    • #Crime
    • #Thriller
  • The Night Clerk poster

    The Night Clerk

    Release Year
    2020
    Summary
    Hotel night clerk Bart Bromley is a highly intelligent young man on the Autism spectrum. When a woman is murdered during his shift, Bart becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigation closes in, Bart makes a personal connection with a beautiful guest named Andrea, but soon realises he must stop the real murderer before she becomes the next victim.
    • #Thriller
    • #Crime
    • #Drama
  • The Promotion poster

    The Promotion

    Release Year
    2008
    Summary
    Two assistant managers of a corporate grocery store vie for a coveted promotion.
    • #Comedy
  • The Retaliators poster

    The Retaliators

    Release Year
    2022
    Summary
    An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.
    • #Horror
    • #Thriller
    • #Action
  • Thin Ice poster

    Thin Ice

    Release Year
    2012
    Summary
    A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
    • #Comedy
    • #Crime
    • #Drama
  • Three Thousand Years of Longing poster
    Summary
    A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.
    • #Drama
    • #Fantasy
    • #Romance
  • Vengeance poster

    Vengeance

    Release Year
    2022
    Summary
    A journalist and podcaster from New York City travels to West Texas in order to report on the death of a girl he was hooking up with.
    • #Comedy
    • #Mystery
    • #Thriller
  • Villains poster

    Villains

    Release Year
    2019
    Summary
    When their car breaks down, a couple on the run headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret, and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners who will do anything to keep it from getting out.
    • #Comedy
    • #Horror
    • #Thriller
  • Wild Target poster

    Wild Target

    Release Year
    2010
    Summary
    Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims. After sparing her life, he unexpectedly acquires a young apprentice. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client.
    • #Action
    • #Comedy
  • Willy's Wonderland poster

    Willy's Wonderland

    Release Year
    2021
    Summary
    When his car breaks down, a quiet loner agrees to clean an abandoned family fun center in exchange for repairs. He soon finds himself waging war against possessed animatronic mascots while trapped inside Willy's Wonderland.
    • #Action
    • #Horror
    • #Comedy