Forget doomscrolling, we still take great pleasure in disappearing down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. So here’s a list of 10 films to inspire your next hyperlink trip.

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1. The Lighthouse (2019) – Lighthouse Keepers

One search leads to isolation, shipwrecks, sea folklore and the bizarre history of men living alone at sea.

2. Parasite (2019) – Semi-Basements

A seemingly ordinary architectural detail opens up South Korea’s housing crisis, urban inequality and the meaning of living below street level.

3. The Northman (2022) – Berserkers

Viking warriors, battle trances, animal skins and the possibility that berserkers actually fought in altered states.

4. Oppenheimer (2023) – The Trinity Test

A three-word search becomes an afternoon of nuclear physics, desert laboratories and the birth of the atomic age.

5. The Menu (2022) – El Bulli

One fictional restaurant sends you into Ferran Adrià, molecular gastronomy and the moment cooking became conceptual art.

6. The Prestige (2006) – Nikola Tesla

A rivalry between Victorian magicians leads unexpectedly to electricity, invention and one of history’s most eccentric scientists.

7. The Social Network (2010) – Harvard Final Clubs

A film about Facebook becomes a rabbit hole about secret societies, elite universities and centuries-old initiation rituals.

8. Marie Antoinette (2006) – The Affair of the Diamond Necklace

A scandal involving a stolen necklace, impostors and a fake royal signature helped damage the reputation of France’s most famous queen.

9. Jaws (1975) – The USS Indianapolis

The real maritime disaster that inspired one of the film’s most chilling monologues is almost as horrifying as the fictional story.

10. The Shining (1980) – The Stanley Hotel

A Colorado hotel, ghost stories, Stephen King and the real building that helped inspire the Overlook.

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