Watchlists - OBSCURAE

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BFI Flare 2026 | Best of Fest

Our amazing Flare Editorial Team gives you the scoop on the next 12 months of indie cinema you should keep an eye on

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40th Goya Awards: Highlights from the "Spanish Oscars"

My personal highlights among the top winners of a truly wonderful year in Spanish cinema.

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BFI Flare 2026 | Our Most Anticipated

Once again, we've assembled a diverse team of contributors to cover the festival far and wide this year, bringing you the best and most interesting Queer Cinema of the year!

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UMNIA’s definitive and complete Academy Awards Best Picture Ranking, with reasons and apologies.

It is time to put a proper button on the last circuit, in order for us to usher in the spring anew.

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SXSW 2026

Preview: Our SXSW 2026 picks

A color-blocked crime caper, an action-packed ballet thriller, a reality-warping romance, and a witchy satire on toxic female friendship make up just a few of our most anticipated festival watches.

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Creators that will make you smarter in 2026

Editor's Note: This is a soft-pilot test of "Offline Algorithm", a new (separate) newsletter we're putting together at OBSCURAE to keep you updated and informed without the doomscroll. It may be a teensy bit more overtly political than you're used to us

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The best films of 2026 (that we saw in 2025)

Watchlists at the ready, aficionados!

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8 Films we think will dominate 2025

Come get your bets in early for bragging rights in December!

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The Definitive Multi-Purpose Valentine’s Watchlist

OBSCURAE brings you a resource you can really use - a veritable Swiss Knife of Valentine’s Recommendations for all of your cinematic needs, for all eventuality and level of existence. Well, almost all. If you’re single and happy about it Hit Man (2023) All that Jazz (1979) Kiss

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Mini Watchlist: If you liked ‘Challengers’

Luca and Justin gave us the most iconic Ambitious Horny Queers in cinema history this year. Here’s three films to keep the vibes going. A Bigger Splash Luca’s earlier work, a little straighter here than Challengers, but filled with horny ambitious people, for sure. A ton of drama,

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Mini Watchlist: If you liked ‘Babygirl’.

Halina gave us a 2024 version of a 90’s erotic thriller unlike anything we could have hoped for, and here’s to way more of that in the New Year. In the meantime - here’s some films that harmonise with ‘Babygirl’. Nightbitch A feral look at womanhood, motherhood,

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Mini Watchlist: If you liked ‘Anora’

Anora made us soar before it made us cry, and left us feeling alive. Here are three films that can help you recapture the magic. We Live in Time Whirlwind romance, with a bittersweet ending - and a woman empowered to make the choices that she wants for her own