Nightmare Alley

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

Stan (Bradley Cooper) burns down his home and takes a job as a carny with a traveling carnival. Stan is disturbed at how any man could sink to the level of performing as a geek. Clem (Willem Dafoe) explains that he seeks out alcoholic or drug-addicted men with troubled pasts, and lures them in with promises of a “temporary” job and opium-laced alcohol. He then uses their dependence until they sink into madness and depravity, thus creating a new geek. Stan also works with clairvoyant act “Madame Zeena” (Toni Collette) and her alcoholic husband, Pete (David Strathairn). He and Zeena warn Stan not to ever use these skills otherwise people get hurt. Meanwhile Stan becomes attracted to fellow performer Molly (Rooney Mara) and approaches her with an idea for a two-person act away from the carnival.

Lisatud 28.02.2022, 1 445 348 884b, YTS.MX, AKA Nightmare Alley: Vision in Darkness and Light

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