An alphabetical list of the books, films, podcasts and series covered on the site.
0-9 & misc.
- 5 films about beauty pageants (film – various)
- 1984, by George Orwell (book – in comparison)
- Books about not fitting in (books – various)
A
- Ad Astra (film, 2019)
- Alien (film, 1979: What song does Sigourney Weaver sing at the end of the film?)
- Alien (film, 1979: The android theory)
- All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque (book)
- American Scandal (podcast)
- An Officer and a Gentleman (film, 1982)
- Annie (film, 1990 – plus others)
B
- The Breakthrough, by Daphne du Maurier (book)
- Bride Wars (film, 2009)
- The Body Snatchers, by Jack Finney (book)
- The Bone Collector (film, 1999 – plus others)
C
- Casino, by Nicholas Pileggi (book)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl (book)
- Child 44 (film, 2015)
- The Chimp Paradox, by Prof Steve Peters (book)
- Columbo (TV series, 1968 – 2003)
- Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata (book)
- The Conversation (film, 1974)
- Copycat (film, 1995 – plus others)
- The Courage To Be Disliked, by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga (book)
D
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (film, 2008)
- The Dating Game Killer (podcast)
- The Departed (film, 2006)
- Die Hard 2 (film, 1990)
- Don’t Look Now, by Daphne du Maurier (book)
- Drive, by James Sallis (book)
E
- Everyday Enlightenment, by His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa (book)
F
- Factfulness: 10 reasons we’re wrong about the world, by Hans Rosling
- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (book)
- Fatal Attraction (film, 1987)
- The Fear Bubble, by Ant Middleton (book)
- The Firm (film, 1993)
G
- Get Out (film, 2017)
- Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys (book)
- Goodbye to Berlin, by Christopher Isherwood (book)
- Goodfellas (film, 1990)
- Good Will Hunting (film, 1997)
- Greenland (film, 2020)
H
- The Happening (film, 2008)
- Happy, by Derren Brown (book)
- The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood (film)
- The Handmaid’s Tale (TV series)
- How to Own the Room, by Viv Groskop (book)
- How to be Right … In a World Gone Wrong, by James O’Brien (book)
I
- Inception (film, 2010)
- Infernal Affairs (film, 2002)
- Inheritance (TV series, 2020)
- Into the Night (TV series, 2020)
- Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer (book)
J
K
- Knowing (film, 2009)
L
- Lupin (TV series, 2021)
M
- Macbeth (play)
- The Martian, by Andy Weir (book)
- The Machine Wins, by EM Forster (short story)
N
- The Nanny (film, 1965)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell (book – in comparison)
- Nightflyers, by George R. R. Martin (book)
- Notes on Nationalism, by George Orwell (essay)
P
- Parasite (film, 2019)
- Passengers (film, 2016)
- Poltergeist (film, 1982)
- Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely (book)
- Pretty Woman (film, 1990 – plus others)
- Prometheus (film, 2012)
- Psycho, by Robert Bloch (book)
R
- Rear Window (film, 1954 – plus others)
T
- The Talented Mr Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith (book)
S
- Seven (also Se7en. Film, 1995)
- Sorry, Wrong Number (film, 1948 – plus others)
- S-Town (podcast)
- The Stepford Wives, by Ira Levin
- Split (film, 2016)
- Success, by Martin Amis (book)
U
- Unbelievable (TV series)
- Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer – book
V
- Vertigo (film, 1958)
W
- WarGames (film, 1983)
- Westworld (film, 1973)
- Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys – book
- The Driver’s Seat, by Muriel Spark (book)
- The World According to Garp, by John Irving (book)
Pic credit: Aneta Pawlik