Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Fingernails (2023)

Fingernails poster
Directed by
Christos Nikou
Genre
science fiction film, romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
R
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 227 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman takes a job at a facility that uses a test to determine if couples are truly in love. She begins to question her own relationship as she works with the test's subjects.

speculativeintimatecontemplativeunderstatedmelancholicunsettlingtender

What happens

Fingernails is a 2023 science fiction romantic drama film directed and co-written by Christos Nikou. The film stars Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White, and Luke Wilson. Cate Blanchett serves as one of the film's producers. The film follows a woman who starts working at an institute that tests whether the love between two people in a couple is real. Fingernails premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and was released in limited theaters on October 27, 2023, prior to its streaming release on Apple TV+ on November 3, 2023. (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?