For fans of The Cure: what to watch, read & play next

A malevolent rock star kidnaps a singer to summon a demon; her band fights to stop him.

Body as commodity, rebellion against exploitative power — dark and intimate in equal measure.

A terminally ill woman abandons caution to pursue her dreams — music as final, truest self-expression.

Obsessive pursuit of a lost Robert Johnson song, chasing a legend through music's most haunted mythology.

Two boys — one with AIDS — forge fierce tender friendship while searching for a cure together.

Underground rock in Soviet Leningrad, smuggled records, and the dangerous pull of authentic art.

Creative hunger spiralling into something uncontrollable — dark desire and dissolution entwined.

A disco owner lures a New York breakdancer away from his crew — loyalty versus ambition.

Six twenty-somethings forming a pop band together and figuring out what that means.

A world where music is literally the only light remaining — and monsters want it extinguished.

Brutal, beautiful and bleak: a decaying city where identity is grafted onto the body itself.

The raw, self-destructive hustle of the music industry in 1970s New York when everything was changing.

Stripped-back acoustic performances — top artists playing songs bare, intimacy over spectacle.

Candid portraits of musicians whose lives bent under the weight of fame and artistic obsession.

Deep dives into records that defined an era — the obsession and craft behind the definitive albums.

Misfits summoned by music, forced into unlikely community by a conductor who refuses compromise.

Shredding through the decade's best guitar rock — pure nostalgic joy for the 80s obsessive.

Reality and nightmare bleeding into each other — a fractured mind fighting its way back to itself.

The world ending in heat and desolation — strange, atmospheric, and deliberately unsettling.

Playing the music live — an energetic way to experience the power of rock performance firsthand.

Co-op survival against overwhelming odds, tense atmosphere and no room for complacency.

Three friends on their last night of high school, playing through a mixtape of shared memories.

Band chemistry, ambition and shared passion — the fantasy of building something together from nothing.

A quiet love story about hurt and forgiveness — small in scale, emotionally unsparing.

Radical scepticism about the systems that claim to heal us — questioning medical authority with conviction.

A musician composing through grief and illness — art and love inseparable from mortality.

Pursuit into darkness to save someone you love, in a world changed beyond recognition.

A drug that promises the most intense week of your life — and then kills you.

Sharp essays on rock's icons — Bowie, Reed, Iggy Pop, the Clash — by a passionate critic.

Healing that comes from within — a cultural history of the mind's power over pain.

Rebels fighting a system that erases painful memories — identity as the ultimate battleground.

Obsession and mystery in deep water — a search for something long-buried and long-desired.