The Red Thread: Cults & Crime

The Red Thread is your home for true-crime and cult documentaries: every series and film, where to watch it, all in one place, with a community to watch alongside.

Stop hopping between a dozen apps to find where a documentary is streaming. The Red Thread maps 2,700+ titles to the services that carry them, kept current with a licensed availability provider, and tuned to the country you watch in.

Stop wondering which friend has seen what. The Red Thread connects you to your friends and keeps everyone updated with recommendations, ratings, and reviews.

FIND WHAT TO WATCH • Browse 2,700+ true-crime and cult documentaries, series and films • See exactly where each one streams, and whether it's included with a subscription or only available to rent or buy • Filter by subgenre: serial killers, cults, cold cases, fraud, missing persons & more • "Based on a true story" dramatizations, the scripted retellings of real cases, are in the catalog too, clearly tagged apart from documentaries • Search by title, year, and subject

TRACK & RATE • Build a watchlist and mark what you've watched • Rate how dark each title is, and see the community's take • Write reviews, with spoiler tags so nothing gets ruined • Discover top-rated and newly released documentaries

COMING SOON • A calendar of upcoming titles so you know what's about to drop • Tap "remind me" and we'll tell you the moment it's out

WATCH WITH FRIENDS • Follow friends on the Board to see what they're watching, rating, and reviewing • Suggest a title to a friend, and get a nudge when they watch and rate your pick • A feed of your circle's recent activity

MADE YOURS • Pick your favorite genres and get personalized rows on your Home screen • Get notified when a title on your list lands on a service you have

KNOW BEFORE YOU WATCH • Content warnings on every title, AI-assisted and community-sourced, so nothing blindsides you • Community tags and reports keep the catalog accurate

BUILT RIGHT • Streaming data comes from a paid, commercially-licensed provider, not scraped • A clean, dark, distraction-free design made for browsing

The Red Thread is a catalog and discovery app. It does not stream or host video; it links you to the services that do.