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Plot Summary:
What would you do if you had to choose between ten years in prison and selling your soul to the Devil? Vera's biggest desire is to become a housewife and have children. Her dreams get interrupted when on Engagement night her fiancé confesses in his disloyalty. Vera gets upset and...he dies. Luckily or unfortunately her brother happens to work in criminal defense who offers her a way to "escape" conviction, after which Vera finds herself in the money laundering entertainment joint that is run by the Yakuza mafia. Although, nothing's ever what it seems to be.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, light, unusual plot structure, suspense, dark comedy
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13 Weird Stories (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this anthology of horror episodes, 13 bizarre stories are told by independent film directors of Southern Brazil. Between ghosts, serial killers and demons, they conduct their strange, very strange stories.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, lovecraft, scary, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, dark fairy tale, independent film
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The Golden Boat (1990)
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Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling the mysterious and often hilarious story of an aged street-person named Austin, a comically compulsive assassin, as he joins up with a young rock critic and philosophy student named Israel Williams. In the course of their adventures, Austin pursues his object of desire - a Mexican soap opera star - and along the way engages a host of TV characters and bit players, whose repartee range from gangsterish insults to the question of God's existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, Hong Kong
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: black comedy, parody, independent film, telenovela
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The Nymph (2014)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful flesh-eating mermaid wants to be part of the human world at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Short, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014)
Plot Summary:
A reimagining /regurgitation and re-dubbing of a classic silent horror flick! Shot in mind-shattering 2D (& 36DD), featuring T&A and epic voice-over ‘voom’, by Ms. Ilham Otaku & Pepe Chingadero! Original 1922 star Max Schreck plays (in newly tinted archive footage, mixed, with new) Count Orlock, a deviant, adulterous, shape-shifting Transylvanian vampire aristocrat & super creep, who is tearing Bremen, a new corn-hole & it's up to a 'brotha-in-a-collar' and a creole nun with a flamin' gun, to stop him, in this 'creature-feature' fang-fest! Co-Starring Canadian Scream Queen: Vivita, with new footage shot in tantalizing Watt-a-Rama & dubbed in Tex-O-Phonic Super-Sound.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: captivating, horror comedy, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy
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Snowflake (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hunting down the murderer of their families in an anarchic Berlin of the near future, the outlaws Tan and Javid find themselves trapped in the wicked fairytale of a mysterious screenplay that entangles them in a vicious circle of revenge - apparently all written by a clueless dentist.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense, realistic, avant garde
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Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins (2022)
Plot Summary:
A turf war has been raging in Oldtown for generations. On one side, The Syndicate - an evil gang of crank-head misfits, who has been set on muscling the San Diego family out of the parcel of land they own in the center of town. On the other side, the San Diego family: Tony and Johnny - twin brothers, and their sister Salsa are the last of a bloodline that stretches back for generations. Their mother, father and brothers were all brutally murdered in a violent clash with The Syndicate years earlier. With their neighborhood becoming increasingly fearful, The Syndicate puts into action another evil advance on their family's fading legacy by kidnapping Salsa - all hell breaks loose. The twins and their best friend Chuck Hank must decide whether to hand over the deed to their families land in order to save their sister or fight, the final fight!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense
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Alpha Rift (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a magic helmet thrusts Nolan Parthmore into a world of modern-day knights fighting supernatural evil, he's forced to become the hero he was destined to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Pickings (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a short-tempered mobster and his gang of thugs try to shake down a neighborhood bar, they're soon confronted with the wrath of its owner - a mysterious southern mother with a dangerous past.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, bloody, independent film
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Horror Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the book of the same title (A Sanguinary Novel) by the very individual Czech painter, typographer, author and philosopher Josef Vachal, who squeezed adventure, love, horror and other parallel episodes into, what is called, decadent reading for maids. It takes you through the history of the cinema, from silent films, to the beginning of sound and up to the very present.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, fairy tale, parody, psychotronic, expressionism, spoof, dark comedy, metafiction, horror spoof
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Aaranya Kaandam (2010)
Plot Summary:
A drama that unfolds between two rival mafia gangs on a single day when a bag of cocaine gets stolen by two innocent people.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, tense, serious, experimental, disturbing, feel good, epic, suspense thriller, independent film
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Cave (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of former military elites set out to explore an uncharted abyss, not knowing their worst nightmare is waiting for them deep beneath the ground.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing
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Getaway (2020)
Plot Summary:
The thriller follows Tamara Miller as she plans a weekend lake getaway with her two best friends. When Tamara gets kidnapped by a backwoods cult, eerie and unexplained occurrences arise. Will she make it out alive or become the treasure of these deranged lunatics?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough
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Underbelly Blues (2011)
Plot Summary:
Uforic, a cowardly gangster rapper, hitches a ride with York, a redneck who takes him out to the desert to execute him for fun. But before York is able to pull the trigger, Uforic tells him about a secret transaction involving a mysterious briefcase and a large amount of cash. This sets into motion a series of events that will inevitably involve much of the L.A. underworld and may just bring down corporate America. York tells Queel, a dirty cop, who tells Lucy, a homicidal stripper and is overheard by Carl Mauve, the greasy club owner, who hires Smith and Wesson, a pair of bungling thugs, who have it stolen from them by Norman, a pickpocket with a Jewish Dominatrix mother, who brings it to Dr. Zeus, a local Meth cook, who might just be able to solve the secret of the briefcase. Meanwhile an insane, bloodthirsty hit man named Versetti, working for a large multinational corporation, will stop at nothing to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, hood, exciting
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Dolceroma (2019)
Plot Summary:
Andrea Serrano is a young aspiring writer who, to make ends meet, is forced to wash corpses in a mortuary, while struggling to finish his first novel, a story about the Camorra. Having become discouraged by his struggling career, he is waiting for the chance of a lifetime. And finally, it arrives - a major film producer decides to adapt his novel and make it into a movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious
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Witness Infection (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two rival mob families are transferred from the Witness Protection Agency by mistake to same city, Temecula, CA, and find themselves fending off a zombie outbreak.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, horror comedy
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Ghost with Driver (1996)
Plot Summary:
A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist's associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth, and they try to tell the millionaire's teenage son the identity of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Argo 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hungarian small time crook, 70 year old Tibi Balog gets out of prison after 10 years, but he didn't change a bit. When a Japanese crime syndicate hires him to acquire a Hungarian invention - the world's first floppy disc - Tibi puts his band of retarded thugs back together and the action starts. As expected, Tibi completely screws up the job and becomes the target of Japanese Assassins, a very angry Gypsie family and the entire Slovakian Army. Gags and action and no political correctness at all. The Hungarian heat is on.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hungary
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Far Out (2015)
Plot Summary:
A long time artist and recent criminal, the man known as "The Filmmaker", is forced to go undercover in order to regain his freedom. His goal is to take down a ruthless mob boss named Goldberg. In order to take Goldberg in, he has to go on a heist. When Goldberg asks him to go on three trials in order to gain a place on the heist, the Filmmaker has to go... Far Out.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hackney's Finest (2014)
Plot Summary:
A small-time drug-dealer gets into big trouble when a corrupt East London cop tries to steal a consignment meant for Welsh-Jamaican Yardies.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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The Assassination of Mattarella (2020)
Plot Summary:
January 6, 1980. President of the Sicily Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family when a young man approaches his car and shoots him in cold blood, killing him. The young Deputy Prosecutor on duty that day is Pietro Grasso, future General Anti-Mafia Prosecutor and President of the Italian Senate. His investigations are continued by Giovanni Falcone, who uncovers dangerous connections between the Mafia, the ruling Christian Democratic Party, neo-fascist terrorists, and secret services.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Young and Dangerous: Reloaded (2013)
Plot Summary:
On a dark Mongkok night, May, the cousin of Dai Tin-yee (Dominic Ho), was gang-raped to death by Med King (Deep Ng) and his men. The furious Tin-yee, together with his buddies, Ho-Nam(Him Law), Chicken (Oscar Leung), Pou-Pan (Jazz Lam) tracked down Med King to revenge May’s death. As Med King was under the wing of Ugly Kwan (Sammy Sum), a leader of the Hung Hing triad, Kwan gave orders to get rid of Ho-Nam by all means….
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Gatao 2: Rise of the King (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ren has finally succeeded his boss as the head of the North Fort Gang. For so long, his ambitions had been held back; now, he can realize them. But the ruthless Jian returns with his own gang. Though Ren and Jian were once like brothers, Ren's position is challenged, causing tensions with Qing, his loyal captain. Now that former friends are enemies, what is the price of loyalty? What will be left of friendship when the smoke of battle clears?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Crime
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The River Thief (2016)
Plot Summary:
Diz (Joel Courtney) is a reckless teenage drifter living life on the run. Abandoned by his parents as a child, he looks out for himself and doesn't accept handouts. He takes whatever he wants and runs. Jaded and determined to answer to no one, Diz lives a life marked by thievery and abandonment. Things change for Diz when he floats into a small town on the Snake River. There he is confronted by an unflappable old man named Marty and falls for Marty's guarded granddaughter, Selah. When Diz robs a local drug-dealing crazy, he becomes the owner of a giant pile of cash and the target of two vicious killers. With more money than he knows what to do with, and criminals at his heels, Diz puts the people he's learned to care about in danger, still trying to win Selah. But some things can't be stolen or bought. The River Thief is a film about guilt, self-sacrifice, and accepting life as a gift.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, independent film
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Archenemy (2020)
Plot Summary:
Max Fist claims he’s a hero from another dimension who has somehow landed on Earth and been stripped of his powers. Instead of treating him like a powerful champion, no one believes Max’s claims — except for a teenager named Hamster and his sister Indigo. The siblings convince Max to help them take out a local drug gang, where Max’s abilities are put to a violent and harrowing test.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic, independent film
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Ancestral World (2020)
Plot Summary:
A prince must learn to be a hero. In a time of demons and Gods warring for domination, a prince is sent on a mission to rescue his brother and recover a magical armor stolen by the God of Destruction.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Action, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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The Master Plan (2015)
Plot Summary:
Charles Ingvar Jönsson gathers three criminals to take vengeance upon the people who killed his uncle.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Suburban Knights (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Nostalgia Critic and his fellow reviewers from the website That Guy with the Glasses dress up as famous fantasy characters and go searching for a magic gauntlet hidden in suburban Illinois.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, light, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating
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Nemesis (2021)
Plot Summary:
An underworld kingpin's past catches up with him when he returns to London, igniting an explosive chain of events which ends in revenge and murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, contemplative
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Killing Angels (2023)
Plot Summary:
A group of elitists recruit a freelance agent in an attempt to bring down the worlds biggest human trafficking network.
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Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bird (2020)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with the meaninglessness of her life, Samantha Flores, an unassuming and shy young woman, living in the city of Los Angeles is convinced by a friend, Juliette, a vivacious call-girl, to go out one night posing as her. What was supposed to be a night of fun and excitement for Samantha, turns into a night of sheer terror after she witnesses a brutal murder. Now stranded and wandering aimlessly along a dark road, Samantha crosses paths with Greg Vargas, a reluctant criminal talked into participating in a jewel heist that is occurring nearby. After Greg initially picks her up to get her away from the crime scene, they are suddenly attacked by unknown assailants. After barely escaping with their lives, Greg and Samantha now must not only work together to solve the mystery of who is after them, but also learn to trust each other. The only clues that can help them uncover the secrets of that night are locked away in Samantha's traumatized, fragmented memories, and they are running out.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing