Spoilers ahead: for the puzzle and the movies/games
This page reveals all categories and answers for this puzzle. It also discusses plot details, story endings, and other spoilers for some of the movies/games shown.
easy
Heist movies
Heat · Rififi · Inside Man · Logan Lucky
Each film is built around the planning, execution, or cleanup of a major robbery. The fun comes from watching professionals, or amateurs pretending to be professionals, treat theft like a logistics problem.
medium
Stop-motion animated features
Coraline · Fantastic Mr. Fox · Kubo and the Two Strings · Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
These films make tactile craft part of the pleasure. Fur, fabric, fingerprints, and miniature sets never disappear into the illusion, which is exactly why the worlds feel handmade and alive.
hard
Amnesia drives the plot
Spellbound · The Bourne Identity · Before I Go to Sleep · Unknown
Each story turns missing memory into the engine of suspense. The lead is forced to investigate their own life from the outside, because the usual tool for understanding a thriller, personal recall, has gone missing.
tricky
The afterlife has rules, clerks, or caseworkers
A Matter of Life and Death · Defending Your Life · After Life · Coco
These films imagine death as administration. There are intake procedures, hearings, transit rules, or counselors on the other side, which makes the cosmic setup funny, unnerving, and oddly familiar.