Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Fear X (2003)

Fear X poster
Directed by
Nicolas Winding Refn
Genre
drama film, thriller film, mystery film
Country
Brazil, United Kingdom, Denmark, Canada
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 202 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man investigates his wife's murder, obsessively trying to piece together the truth. His search leads him through a maze of paranoia and dangerous encounters.

slow-burntensemelancholicunsettlingcerebralbleakatmosphericcontemplative

What happens

Fear X is a 2003 psychological thriller film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn in his English-language debut. The first film to be produced from one of Hubert Selby Jr.'s original screenplays, its eventual box-office failure would force Refn's production company Jang Go Star into bankruptcy. Refn's financial recovery was documented in the 2006 documentary Gambler. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?