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Nightmare Alley (2021)

★ 7.0 · 3,343 ratings on TMDB

Man or beast.

Nightmare Alley poster★ 7.0

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

DirectorGuillermo del Toro
CastBradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, David Strathairn, Mark Povinelli, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins
GenresCrime, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

Nightmare Alley keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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