Movies

These are all available free legally online. Many of them are from the internet archive. Only including things I watched and enjoyed! Heed the ratings and content warnings.

Feature-length

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920): Not rated, 51 minutes. Surrealist horror/mystery. Very gothic, not very graphic.
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926): Not rated, 1 hour 6 minutes. Known as the oldest surviving feature-length animated film. Fairy tale based on elements of One Thousand and One Nights.
• Rebecca (1940): Not rated, 2 hours 10 minutes. Mystery drama with thriller elements. It's noir and features discussion of murder, suicide. Based on the Daphne du Maurier novel.
• Beauty and the Beast (1946): Not rated, 1 hour 36 minutes. Fantasy gothic romance. This is the French black and white version, which has a lovely dramatic and theatrical tone.
• Throne of Blood (1957): Not rated, 1 hour 49 minutes. Historical war drama. Kurosawa's adaptation of Macbeth set in feudal Japan. Warning for violence, blood.
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1960): Not rated, 1 hour 19 minutes. Historical horror drama. Based on the short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe.
• Eyes Without A Face (1960): Not rated, 1 hour 28 minutes. Horror drama thriller. The origin of the phrase that became the song! Warning for blood and gore.
• The Innocents (1961): Not rated, 1 hour 40 minutes. Historical horror drama. Sex and suicide are discussed, some child abuse is shown. Based on the Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
• The Wicker Man (1973): R, 1 hour 24 minutes. Folk horror musical. Warning for sexual content, nudity.
• The Great Gatsby (1974): PG, 2 hours 24 minutes. Historical drama.
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975): PG, 1 hour 55 minutes. Historical mystery drama. Subtextually deals with colonialism and women's struggles in early 1900s Australia.
• Death on the Nile (1978): PG, 2 hours 20 minutes. Historical mystery drama. Warning for murder, suicide, blood, some cultural insensitivity.
• Strictly Ballroom (1992): PG, 1 hour 34 minutes. Romance comedy.
• Noroi: The Curse (2005): Not rated, 1 hour 55 minutes. "Found footage" horror. Warning for animal death, child death, suicide, various other horror topics.

Short Films

• Double King, by Felix Colgrave: warning for cartoon violence

Music Videos

• Left Handed Kisses, by Andrew Bird feat. Fiona Apple
• Lemonade, by CocoRosie
• Old Ocean, by Cosmo Sheldrake
• Losing All Sense, by Grizzly Bear
• Neighbors, by Grizzly Bear
• girlfriend, by hemlocke springs
• sever the blight, by hemlocke springs
• Many Moons, by Janelle Monae
• Little Flaws, by Lady Lamb
• July Flame, by Laura Veirs
• Gorilla, by Little Simz
• Point and Kill, by Little Simz feat. Obongjayar
• Woman, by Little Simz feat. Cleo Sol
• All Alone in an Empty House, by Lost in the Trees: warning for abuse, suicide imagery
• Labyrinth, by MONDO GROSSO
• Revolution, by SPELLLING
• Broken Man, by St. Vincent
• Cruel, by St. Vincent: warning for kidnapping, live burial
• Three Futures, by Torres: warning for sexual content
• Them Changes, by Thundercat

AMVs

• Silent Dreamer: Esmeralda, a dark spirit, can imitate the look of others; she appears to them in dreams as their loved ones, deceives, seduces, and curses them. Her plans go awry when preying upon Alice, who summons a unicorn to expose and destroy the demon Esmeralda--but when the spirit dies, the power lives on--so Alice, tragic, inherits her role.
• Illuminated: Flashing lights warning. Jane falls for Captain Amelia during an expedition through the stars, but their happiness is cut short by an attack from her past, in the form of nefarious pirate Thrax.
• Coming Home: When Odette's feelings for Marina are rejected, she makes a deal with the villainous Hook for a second chance, as a man. Only when John Smith lays down his life to protect her does Marina truly understand.
• A Casual Affair: Servant Cinderella seduces Ariel away from husband Eric, but even banishment cannot keep these two fated lovers apart.
• Kamikaze: What if Quasimodo was a lesbian? Cinderella almost gets to marry her love Esmeralda, but when Frollo brings down the weight of the church against them, they choose to die together rather than live apart.
• She Wolf: Esmeralda gets in trouble with the leader of her wolf pack, Lady Tremaine, for socializing too closely with human Belle. When Tremaine attacks, Belle has to nurse Esmeralda back to health.

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