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Plot Summary:
Old scientist Bashkirtsev is very surprised to discover the possible contacts with other world.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: surreal
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Mister Designer (1987)
Plot Summary:
A famous artist strives to find the secret of eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: surreal, slasher, art house, visual, mystical, psychological, sinister, mystic, esoteric, weird
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The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (1991)
Plot Summary:
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surreal, grindhouse, silent, silent film
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The Bricklayers (1976)
Plot Summary:
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 122 min
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Lighter Fluid (2016)
Plot Summary:
An experimental look into the lives of teens and young adults in a dysfunctional town.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: experimental
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As Good as Dead (1995)
Plot Summary:
Susan switches identities with her new friend Nicole, so that Nicole can pay for her medical bills with Susan's insurance. Then Susan finds herself trapped in her new identity when Nicole ends up dead under questionable circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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13 Summers Underwater (2017)
Plot Summary:
Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate through visions, memories and reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, Brazil
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: surreal
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Red Herring (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Las Vegas homicide detective investigating his best friend uncovers a professional assassin.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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Promised Heaven (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min
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Turnabout (2016)
Plot Summary:
A troubled man survives a suicide attempt. He calls an old friend to rescue him in the middle of the night. Their journey is just beginning, and by daybreak, a tragedy will surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tragic
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Indecent Behavior II (1994)
Plot Summary:
Reporter Shoshona Reed is about to expose a number of people who have a lot to lose. Unfortunately, her cunning ways of getting stories by blackmailing people gets her killed.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, hot, sexploitation film
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Heads or Tails (1980)
Plot Summary:
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the suspicious death of Madame Morlaix who, according to her husband Edouard (Michel Serrault), fell from an upstairs window. Curious to find out more, Baroni begins his inquiry.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Guard (1990)
Plot Summary:
Young soldiers of the Soviet Internal Troops are brutally bullied during their time of Dedovshchina(hazing). The plot unfolds mostly on board of a prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The Great Hypnotist (2014)
Plot Summary:
The famous psychologist Xu Ruining has a raising career, when he met the troublesome patient Ren Xiaoyan. The meeting is not easy as feeble-looking Ren is point by point against him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, enigmatic, mind blowing, rough, neo noir, suspense, entertaining, disturbing, mystical
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Guilt & Sentence (2010)
Plot Summary:
The storyline is a thought-provoking drama of two lost and troubled individuals who are forever entwined after a traumatic event occurs. Janis, a twenty-year-old woman who is struggling with depression, takes the blame for Peter, who works as a social worker hiding a troubled past. This film will explore different sides of human nature and what paranoia, suspicion, and especially the weight of guilt and its consequences. The story explores the idea of soul-searching and shows the power of true redemption. This film has elements of surrealism, with a shocking and thrilling storyline. The weight of guilt can eat away at an individual, and this is just what happens to Peter Ackerman. The title of this film pays homage to Dostoevsky's 'Crime & Punishment' and some of the plot line follows with that classic novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, suspense, independent film
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City Zero (1988)
Plot Summary:
An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, a group of people take the engineer as a rock & roll player, etc) and, in addition, this man is witness of a suicide, so he is trapped inside the town.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, heartfelt, atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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The Radiant One (2016)
Plot Summary:
A troubled man turns himself in, believing he's harmed others but is at war with himself over the facts surrounding his quest for clarity and a brush with supernatural phenomena.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, bleak, light, surprise ending, detective
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The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel that was burning to the ground where a lot of strange people had been living.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, enigmatic, melancholic, captivating, surreal, detective, stylized, lyrical, independent film
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The Lucifer Killings (2016)
Plot Summary:
The hunt for one of the most prolific serial killer begins.
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Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, serious, realistic
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Collective: Unconscious (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, captivating, suspense, surreal, disturbing, mumblecore, dark fairy tale
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Lapse (2010)
Plot Summary:
Renee wakes up one morning in the middle of the desert with blood on her hands. She cannot remember why she is there, how she got there or with whom she came. Her quest to uncover forgotten events leads her on a journey of discovery where reality and memory collide and people are not what they seem.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: surreal, suspense, experimental, avant garde, surprise ending, independent film, cult film, low-budget
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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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The 4th Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic writer begins having visions apparently warning him of impending danger. After he delivers a lecture, he begins an affair with a woman from the audience. The visions intensify, however, and begin to threaten his relationship with the woman, since it may be her the visions are warning against.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, surreal, psychosexual thriller, neo noir, controversial, disturbing, sexual, psychological thriller, dark comedy, psychological
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Ten Little Indians (1987)
Plot Summary:
A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, tension, suspenseful, realistic, tense, bleak, scary, fairy tale
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Mulholland Dr. (1999)
Plot Summary:
Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which had approved the script, but chose not even to air the pilot once it was done in 1999, despite Lynch's labours to cut the project to their liking. It was left in limbo until 18 month later French company Studio Canal Plus (also producer of 'The Straight Story') agreed to pay ABC $7 million for the pilot, and budget a few million more to turn the pilot into a two-hour, 27-minute movie. The cost of the film doubled to $14 million as sets had to be reconstructed and actors recalled.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, parody, dark, mind blowing
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The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
Plot Summary:
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black and white, cerebral, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, fairy tale, inspirational, philosophical
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213 (2009)
Plot Summary:
A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage. Fighting to keep buried the trauma of his childhood, he must confront the all too-familiar flesh masks that the killer leaves on the faces of his victims. He must face his own demons along with the killer to save his small eroding existence.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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White Orchid (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shy and reserved, Claire Decker, 30ish, is a part-time investigator for Social Services. Typically, she solves cases where senior citizens have died alone, leaving no indication of who must handle their estate. This time however, Claire is reluctantly drawn into a puzzling murder case. The local police have been unable to solve the horrific crime, or even decipher the victim's true identity. A beautiful and enigmatic young blond, known only as "The White Orchid," has been brutally murdered. As Claire is drawn deeper and more intimately into the dead woman's life, she finds herself taking dangerous chances and pushing personal and professional boundaries. As she gets closer to the truth, Claire must effectively become the charismatic "White Orchid" in order to solve the mysterious crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense
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Mulholland Drive (2001)
Plot Summary:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 377000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, art house, neo noir, atmospheric, mind bending, disturbing, cerebral, surprise ending, enigmatic
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Enemy (2013)
Plot Summary:
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 209000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, non-linear, twist ending, mind bending, atmospheric, mindfuck, suspense, disturbing, tense
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Stay (2005)
Plot Summary:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 85000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, gloomy, mindfuck, suspense, mind blowing, mind bending