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The Brood
Why this pick
Like Possession, it turns a collapsing marriage and parental anguish into bodily horror, with an icy, confrontational intensity and emotions made terrifyingly physical.
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MOVIE1981 2h 3m FRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
Its claustrophobic apartment setting, unstable identity, and hostile urban paranoia echo Possession’s sense that domestic space has become a waking nightmare.
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Why this pick
For Possession’s cold Berlin-era alienation and espionage-adjacent unease: a sleek corporate nightmare where emotional detachment gradually gives way to disorienting menace.
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The Reflecting Skin
Why this pick
Its heightened, surreal imagery and poisoned emotional atmosphere offer a similarly feverish experience, where beautiful compositions conceal dread, cruelty, and unbearable family damage.
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Trouble Every Day
Why this pick
Claire Denis brings a similarly sensuous, disturbing fusion of desire and violence, privileging physical sensation and fractured intimacy over conventional horror explanation.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Mark is a Intelligence service who returns home to Berlin from a mysterious espionage mission to find that his wife, Anna, wants a divorce. She won't say why, but insists it's not because she's found someone else. Mark reluctantly turns the apartment and custody of their young son, Bob, over to her. After recovering from a destructive bender, he pays a visit to their apartment to find Bob alone, unkempt, and neglected. When Anna returns, he refuses to leave her alone with the child but attempts to make amends. He stays at the apartment to care for Bob but Anna leaves in the middle of the night.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Isabelle Adjani
Anna / Helen
Sam Neill
Mark
Margit Carstensen
Margit Gluckmeister
Heinz Bennent
Heinrich
Johanna Hofer
Heinrich's Mutter
Carl Duering
Detektiv
Shaun Lawton
Zimmermann
Maximilian Rüthlein
Mann mit rosa Socken