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Shyamalan's Wounded Believers

A run of Shyamalan's ordinary-people-meet-the-extraordinary parables — grief, faith, and hidden gifts surfacing in quiet Pennsylvania lives — that reward being watched in sequence as the twist-craft and the belief questions deepen from one to the next.

Crowd favorites and film-nerd touchstones at once: accessible, mostly PG-13 suspense that's easy to start on any evening, though the sleight-of-hand rewards paying close attention.

• The Sixth Sense (1999)
• Unbreakable (2000)
• Signs (2002)
• Split (2017)
• The Village (2004) — the Shyamalan you're missing between Signs and Split — another hushed Pennsylvania parable where a community's faith, grief, and a guarded secret turn on one of his signature twists, so if the others landed this is the next one to pull down