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
Music Videos
- All Alone in an Empty House, by Lost in the Trees: warning for abuse, suicide imagery
- Woman, by Little Simz feat. Cleo Sol
- girlfriend, by hemlocke springs
- Revolution, by SPELLLING
- Lemonade, by CocoRosie
- Three Futures, by Torres: warning for sexual content
- Losing All Sense, by Grizzly Bear
- Cruel, by St. Vincent: warning for kidnapping, live burial
- Labyrinth, by MONDO GROSSO
- Many Moons, by Janelle Monae
- July Flame, by Laura Veirs
- Left Handed Kisses, by Andrew Bird feat. Fiona Apple