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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspense, disturbing
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Tokyo Slaves (2014)
Plot Summary:
Brother and sister are drawn into a thrilling game of survival, in which they use a bizarre device called SCM to turn others into their slaves.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Agnes Cecilia (1991)
Plot Summary:
Nora is 15 years old. Her parents died when she was young and now she lives with Anders and Karin and their son Dag. They move into an old apartment in an old house in Enköping. Behind a wall they find some old items from people who lived there a long time ago. They also discover that their apartment is haunted by a ghost. Together with Dag, Nora tries to find out more about the people who lived there.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: retro, tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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Tikkun (2015)
Plot Summary:
Haim-Aaron is a bright, ultra-orthodox religious scholar living in Jerusalem. His talents and devotion are envied by all. One evening, following a self-imposed fast, Haim-Aaron collapses and loses consciousness. The paramedics announce his death, but his father takes over resuscitation efforts and, beyond all expectations, Haim-Aaron comes back to life. After the accident, try as he might, Haim-Aaron remains apathetic to his studies. He feels overwhelmed by a sudden awakening of his body and suspects this is God testing him. He wonders if he should stray from the prescribed path and find a way to rekindle his faith... The title means "Rectify" in Hebrew; nevertheless the movie is called Tikkun in the English-speaking world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, weird, no music
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Inspector Mom: Kidnapped in Ten Easy Steps (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman goes undercover at a dance studio to save her best friend from a kidnapper.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Carnal Innocence (2011)
Plot Summary:
A famous violinist Caroline Waverly returns to her home town. A killer is on the streets, and Caroline may be a target for murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 994
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating
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Yurigokoro (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ryosuke has a bright future. He just opened a successful restaurant and hopes to tie the knot soon with his alluring girlfriend. But then his father declares he has pancreatic cancer and his betrothed vanishes without a trace. In his father’s belongings, he discovers a secret diary, which starts with an ominous sentence: “Without remorse, I take a life …” Ryosuke is completely spellbound and reads on, discovering that the document is actually the confession of a murderer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, crying
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One and the Same (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman, Lola, is invited to a secret facility, she discovers an experiment beyond space and time. After uncovering her own past life as a teenage boy named Robbie, she embarks on a malevolent path for justice against the ex-con who killed him.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, disturbing, unusual plot structure
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Mature Woman: Wife-Hunting (2006)
Plot Summary:
Danger lurks around every corner. A psychopathic serial killer is tying up, raping and murdering Tokyo's sexy young women! Kathy is trying to divorce her husband, all the while conducting a hot affair with her divorce attorney, Sean. As she walks through the park one day, she witnesses the killer disposing of the dead body of his latest victim. The killer begins stalking her, throwing her otherwise normal life into a paranoid frenzy.Mr. Pink (Yutaka Ikejima) masterfully directs this suspenseful Pink-Film retelling of Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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We Need to Do Something (2021)
Plot Summary:
Seeking shelter from a storm, a family finds themselves trapped in a bathroom for days with no sign of rescue and untold evils lurking just beyond the walls.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, mumblecore
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The Righteous (2021)
Plot Summary:
A burdened man feels the wrath of a vengeful God after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, psychotronic, art house
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Meurtrière (2015)
Plot Summary:
Meurtrière is the second movement of a triptych by Philippe Grandrieux whose common thread is anxiety. Each movement, White Epilepsy, Meurtrière, Unrest, consists of a performance, a film and an installation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, experimental
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Truth is in Heaven (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1983 an English journalist travels to Italy to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young vatican girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Exit Plan (2019)
Plot Summary:
Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of this self-consciousness makes him more and more depressed. When he realises that his beloved wife plans to leave him, he decides to take his own life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Denmark, Norway, Germany, France, Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, dark, psychological, disturbing, suspense, surreal, weird
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Cryo (2022)
Plot Summary:
Five scientists awake from a cryogenic sleep and find themselves trapped in an underground facility. With no memory of who they are or how long they've been asleep, they begin to realize they may have been part of a scientific experiment gone wrong. After a series of strange events, the scientists find themselves being hunted. They do not know who is hunting them or for what reason, but the scientists begin to suspect that one of them may be the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, bleak, serious, bloody, captivating
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McBride: Fallen Idol (2006)
Plot Summary:
The police have arrested a Latino teenager caught pawning a murdered attorney's stolen Rolex. To complicate matters, the suspect's sister wants McBride to defend her brother - despite the fact that the victim was a close friend of McBride's.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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McBride: It's Murder, Madam (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mystery drama starring John Larroquette and Marta Dubois. A cop-turned-lawyer helps an aspiring actress accused of killing a woman running a dating service.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, realistic
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Cadaver (2022)
Plot Summary:
A pathologist and a police commissioner try to solve a series of murders involving a prisoner. Their journey leads to shocking revelations!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, dramatic, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
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My Mother's Wound (2016)
Plot Summary:
Upon turning eight-teen, Salih leaves the orphanage to find his lost family and begins working in a Serbian farm. Suddenly, at the most unexpected moment he has found a home. Will he ever be able to let go of the ghosts of his past and be happy in this new life? As tension escalates disquieting secrets surface. A gripping tale of family, love and identity, My Mother's Wound follows Salih as he searches for a trail of hope amongst war-torn lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Cadaver (2007)
Plot Summary:
Seon-hwa is a new student at an elite medical school, and she is initiated into a dissection class headed by Dr. Han along with five other students, including her boyfriend Ki-beom. After the first class the students all start to share the same nightmare involving a one-eyed surgeon, and one by one they start to be murdered, the victims being discovered with their hearts removed. Seon-hwa and Ki-beom are convinced that these events are related to a beautiful cadaver with a rose tattoo on her breast, and they begin an investigation to uncover her identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, rough, serious, realistic
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Hokuto: Some Murderer's Conversion (2017)
Plot Summary:
Why did an abused solitary boy become a murderer? A sad but powerful gut-wrenching drama portraying the destiny of humans seeking love, starting up-and-coming actor Yuma Nakayama.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Redemption in Cherry Springs (2021)
Plot Summary:
After fallout from a story, reporter Melanie goes home to Cherry Springs for a break. When a friend disappears, she uses her skills to get to the truth, to the local detective's dismay.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Night's Tightrope (2016)
Plot Summary:
Yuki is a 2nd year high school student. She volunteers at a paediatrics ward for her summer vacation, because she wants to witness the moment a person dies. She got that thought after feeling envious of a transfer student's story of seeing a friend's dead body. Yuki has friend named Atsuko. She was bullied in the past and has anxiety issues. She volunteers at a nursing home for her summer vacation, hoping that she will gain courage if she sees the moment a person dies.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspense
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The Ice Princess (2007)
Plot Summary:
Errica returns to her hometown for her parents funeral and her childhood friend murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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64: Part I (2016)
Plot Summary:
1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years were over as the prefecture's police to be unsolved greatest stain, and statute of limitations approached it. In 2002, Yoshinobu Mikami, an ex-detective who was assigned as the investigator of the "Rokuyon" case 14years ago, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department against his will. As a newly assigned Public Relations Officer, he was troubled with the relation between the reporters, new case has occurred. And that new case traced "Rokuyon" case exactly.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Man in the Woods (2020)
Plot Summary:
On a snowy night in 1963 Pennsylvania, a boarding school student goes missing in the woods. Her friends, a disgraced quarterback, a shunned ex-cop, and the headmaster's wife, agree to go search for her. As they do, they confront the lies, ghost stories, and demonization that their idyllic school was built on.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Funeral Home (2020)
Plot Summary:
Bernardo is an undertaker. He runs his mortuary business in the same house where he resides. In the front, he has his clients. And in the back, his dysfunctional family lives amongst coffins, wreaths, and the mischievous but nonviolent ghosts that visit on a daily basis. But when a malevolent entity enters the scene, it wreaks havoc on the already fractured household.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Argentina
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspense, suspenseful, horror comedy
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Lemming (2005)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, psychedelic, surreal, mind twisting, psychological, realistic
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Sleeping Forest (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ballet company. The Takayanagi Ballet Company insists that the incident is a self defense case, but after an investigation there's doubts in that claim. Then, the director of the Takayanagi Ballet Company is poisoned to death. Are the cases related?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Vanished (2018)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigates the disappearance of a woman's corpse from a morgue and tries to uncover the cause of her death.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, twisted
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Midsummer's Equation (2013)
Plot Summary:
Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an oceanside town to speak on a panel. But when a man turns up dead outside the inn where he's staying, Yukawa begins to unravel the connections that tie the victim to the activist daughter of the innkeepers, and a precocious boy who first appears on a train—and keeps popping up. It's a Sherlock Holmes mystery with an environmental twist, and one that should please fans of a classic whodunnit.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective