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.
the vibe
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What it feels like
slow-burndarkharrowinglayeredseriousintimatehaunting
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Movie2025·128 min
Alpha
Directed by Julia Ducournau
A horror drama film directed by Julia Ducournau.
◈ CrunchScore
Top 38%
of all movies · weighted by audience size & source agreement
★ TMDB Audience Rating
6.2/10
124 ratings
About Alpha
- Pacing
- Slow-burn (1 of 9)
- Tone
- Dark (2 of 9)
- Intensity
- Harrowing (9 of 9)
- Complexity
- Layered (6 of 9)
- Humor
- Serious (1 of 9)
- Scale
- Intimate (1 of 9)
- Spirit
- Haunting (3 of 9)
- Texture
- Unsettling, Gritty
- Story Tags
- coming of age, trauma recovery, isolation loneliness, medicine science, domestic home, small town, parent child, outsider misfit, everyman, survival, slow burn reveal, genetic bio, body horror