Why watch?

Julia Ducournau made something genuinely unsettling — half-human creatures evolving in real time, and it's unclear if you're watching horror or biological romance. Mélissa Boros transforms physically in ways that are visceral and unflinching. It sticks with you long after it ends because you're never quite sure what you just witnessed.

Who is it for?

This is for viewers who want something intense and hard to pin down in the evening — Ducournau always makes adult cinema that demands attention. If you watched Titane or High Life and wanted more in that direction, you'll find it here. The film has violence and adult content, don't bring kids.

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If you were drawn to Alpha for its tense, unrelenting atmosphere and the visceral body horror Ducournau creates, check out Titane or Raw — they have that same unsettling blend of physical transformation, desire and dread but fewer easy answers. Suspiria hits differently because the setting and movement matter as much as the threat itself.

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Plakat — Alpha

Alpha

2025 · 2h 8min6.4R
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Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

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Alpha is a 13-year-old girl living alone with her mother in a world that's already falling apart, and then she comes home from school with a tattoo on her shoulder that neither of them remember her getting. Julia Ducournau, the director behind Titane and Raw, builds something deeply unsettling from that simple premise — the kind of film where you're never quite sure what's real or what's happening to Alpha's body. Mélissa Boros plays her with an unsettling blankness that makes every scene feel like it's about to snap. If you were into the body-horror weirdness of Hereditary or the claustrophobic family dread of Ari Aster's films, this operates in that same territory.

Why watch?

Julia Ducournau made something genuinely unsettling — half-human creatures evolving in real time, and it's unclear if you're watching horror or biological romance. Mélissa Boros tr…

Who is it for?

This is for viewers who want something intense and hard to pin down in the evening — Ducournau always makes adult cinema that demands attention. If you watched Titane or High Life…

Similar titles

If you were drawn to Alpha for its tense, unrelenting atmosphere and the visceral body horror Ducournau creates, check out Titane or Raw — they have that same unsettling blend of p…

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