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Plot Summary:
In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to a inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: avant garde, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, tricky, psychological, brutal, costume drama, black comedy
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Coyote Lake (2019)
Plot Summary:
Coyote Lake is a reservoir on the Rio Grande along a dangerous drug smuggling route that has become synonymous with cartel violence and mysterious disappearances. It is there, on the lake, that Teresa and her seventeen-year-old daughter, Ester, run a boarding house where they routinely drug, rob and drown the unsuspecting drug-runners and human traffickers who stay the night. Teresa justifies the killings to her daughter, claiming they are ridding the world of bad people and saving the stolen money to leave Coyote Lake and start anew. But when they are taken hostage themselves by two intruding cartel gangsters, their dark routine is interrupted.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, brutal, bleak, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
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Red Devil (2019)
Plot Summary:
An intertwining tale of sex, drugs, rock and woe. Lives criss-cross and converge thanks to the most addictive drug in human history, Red Devil—which also happens to be the title of Savvas D. Michael’s tale of sex, drugs, and guns. An anonymous voice at the start of the film warns, “Once you’ve tasted the devil’s cum, everything else is dull and numb.” The current problem with the Red Devil drug is the supply has dried up. Addicts are so desperate for it they’re willing to kill for it…and they do.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea (2019)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman is miserable in the narrow-minded town she is living, while Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, biblical
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Sheep Without a Shepherd (2019)
Plot Summary:
Li Weijie, his wife Ayu and their two daughters Pingping and An-an, are a Chinese family living in northern Thailand since last 17 years. Weijie run an internet service providing shop and is a film enthusiast who likes to watch detective films and has deep knowledge on the subject. Their's is a middle-class family.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, brutal, bleak, serious, dark, suspenseful, suspense
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The Death of Dick Long (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dick died last night, and Zeke and Earl don’t want anybody finding out how. That’s too bad though, cause news travels fast in small-town Alabama.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspense, black comedy, dark comedy, funny, offbeat, twisted
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The Tie That Binds (1995)
Plot Summary:
John Netherwood and his wife Leann are fugitives who are both wanted for murder. They have a young daughter named Janie and they want her back.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, bad ending, intense, rough, serious, suspense, enigmatic, bleak, realistic
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West of Sunshine (2017)
Plot Summary:
A father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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Down Under (2016)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, it is the story of two carloads of hotheads from both sides of the fight destined to collide.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, rough, suspenseful, dark comedy, independent film, black comedy
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Psycho Raman (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in present day Mumbai the story follows the life of a serial killer Ramanna who is inspired by an infamous serial killer from the 1960s Raman Raghav. His strange obsession with Raghavan, a young Cop keeps growing as he closely follows him without his knowledge and often creates situations where both of them come face to face.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, perverse, avant garde, extraordinary
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Family Plot (1976)
Plot Summary:
Lighthearted suspense film about a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, talky, stylized, black comedy, suspense, dark comedy, tense, clever, psychotronic
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Murdered (2012)
Plot Summary:
Cathy has been preparing herself since early morning. She is about to celebrate her daughter Eva's 20th birthday. But on this very day, Cathy's life is turned upside-down with the shocking news that her daughter has been murdered. At first devastated and lost when faced with the workings of the police and the justice system, Cathy becomes determined to fight to know the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Witch (2019)
Plot Summary:
A single mother is an expert in black magic, but has never used it to do evil, until a prostitution network kidnaps her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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The Beautiful Fantasy of Final Purpose (2020)
Plot Summary:
A small town, a flower of Amancay, a topaz of the most beautiful color and a broken family.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, captivating, suspense, dark, suspenseful, independent film, student film
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Clara's Ghost (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set over the course of a single evening at the Reynolds’ family home in Connecticut, Clara, fed up with the constant ribbing from her self-absorbed showbiz family, finds solace in and guidance from the supernatural force she believes is haunting her.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
Plot Summary:
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Ainar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: surreal, black and white, avant garde, mind bending, psychedelic, suspense, dark, experimental, controversial, deep
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Pimped (2018)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of one night, Sarah meets the handsome, captivating and smooth talking Lewis, who aims to be the bait in a sick sexual trap set up by himself and his low-life, rich kid housemate Kenneth. When their ruse backfires, Lewis and Sarah are forced into an unlikely alliance with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological horror, independent film, psychological thriller
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The Innocent Sleep (1995)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the 1982 Roberto Calvi Affair in which an Italian banker was found hanging from a bridge across the River Thames, the story follows Alan, a man from Northern England who is homeless after the loss of his wife and job. One night while sleeping in a deserted building, Alan witnesses the murder of a high-profile businessman. He attempts to leave the scene unnoticed, but the killers realize that someone has seen them commit the crime. He goes to the police only to discover that one of the killers is leading the case. To stay alive, Alan recruits the help of Billie Hayman, an American journalist, to cover his story.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Swerve (2011)
Plot Summary:
Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin takes a short cut and comes across a fatal road accident. One of the drivers, Jina, is shaken but unhurt; the other has been killed instantly. Beside the dead body is a briefcase full of money, which Colin turns in to the local police. But getting out of town proves a nightmare, as Colin's good deed causes a series of bizarre events to unfold.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, rough, serious, neo noir, realistic, road movie, suspense, black comedy
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Lucky (2020)
Plot Summary:
May, a self help author with all the answers, suddenly finds herself stalked by a masked man who mysteriously reappears every night. Even when she kills him. May struggles to get help from the people around her as she fights to stay alive. Is this paranoia, or is she doomed to accept her new reality?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, mumblecore, anamorphic, thrilling, psychological, scary
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I Killed My BFF (2015)
Plot Summary:
A friendship between two young mothers results in murder when one develops an attraction to the other's boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, melancholic, satirical, stylized, intense, cult classic, funny, suspense, thrilling
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A Vigilante (2018)
Plot Summary:
A once abused woman, Sadie, devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers while hunting down the husband she must kill to truly be free.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, psychological thriller, social, crime drama
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11:14 (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14pm. The story follows the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines that all converge to tell the story of murder and deceit.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: non-linear, dark comedy, psychological, suspense, black comedy, enigmatic, bleak, cynical, humorous, suspenseful
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The Ax (2005)
Plot Summary:
A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Spain
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychological, suspense, atmospheric, black comedy, humorous, cynical, political, dark, psychological thriller
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Animal Kingdom (2010)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon discovers, this world is far larger and more menacing than he could ever imagine. J finds himself at the center of a cold-blooded revenge plot that turns the family upside down.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, realistic, neo noir, suspense, intense, visually appealing, rough
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Brighton Rock (2010)
Plot Summary:
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, rough, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, noir, neo noir, hood
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Wild at Heart (1990)
Plot Summary:
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: surreal, road movie, black comedy, avant garde, dark comedy, sexy, atmospheric, erotic, art house, mindfuck
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A Simple Plan (1998)
Plot Summary:
Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA, Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense, bleak, realistic, dark comedy, disturbing, serious
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Hounds of Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, tense, retro, christmas horror, crime drama
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Being John Malkovich (1999)
Plot Summary:
Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters it’s mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 349000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, cerebral, mind bending, offbeat, mindfuck, philosophical, dark comedy, disturbing, black comedy