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Plot Summary:
A nameless country is in a state of chaos as natural disasters, corruption, and street justice rise. Part of the people grow more violent, the other part hope for the arrival of a promised leader.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Samurai (2014)
Plot Summary:
A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated German village. Jakob the young local police officer is onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. What he finds is a man, it seems, wild eyed, of wiry build, in a dress. He carries a katana, a Samurai sword. When the Samurai invites Jakob to follow him on his crusade towards the village, it becomes Jakob's mission to pursue the lunatic to end this wanton destruction. At the end of the night Jakob has experienced too much, is too far from whom he once was. Something hidden has been unleashed to meet the first rays of daylight.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, surreal, detective, grindhouse, dark drama
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Terror at London Bridge (1985)
Plot Summary:
London Bridge, London, England, 1888: Jack the Ripper dies in the Thames river. London Bridge, Lake Havasu, Arizona, 1985: the last original stone used to rebuild London Bridge is laid and all the city is happy...but then some strange murders start happening. Policeman Don Gregory has some suspects, but when he develops a theory that Jack the Ripper has been resurrected, no one believes him.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective, slasher horror
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The Ghosts (2018)
Plot Summary:
Nicolas Wolf, an Austrian who's just inherited his grandmother's Parisian flat, is shaken with fear as an unexpected nightly visitor refuses to leave. But no-one but Nicolas seems to be able to see the menacing stranger.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, unusual plot structure, psychological, suspense, psychotronic
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Discreet (2017)
Plot Summary:
After years in hiding and struggling to control his demons, an eccentric drifter returns home and discovers that his childhood abuser, the center of his pain, is still alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, queer cinema
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Bear Creek (2017)
Plot Summary:
A pack of friends in Denver's gay bear community go for the camping trip of a life time filled with fun, laughs and a hot encounter. It all seems innocent enough until a rampaging sociopath joins them ensuring a trip they'll never forget.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Edgar Allan Poe's Darkness (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a group of young actors adapt an Edgar Allan Poe tale into a theater production, the line between truth and fiction becomes terrifyingly blurred as elements from the harrowing story begin to bleed over into reality. The ensemble soon comes to the horrifying realization that life has begun to imitate art, and their collective descent into madness has reached a point of no return.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, low-budget
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Order of Death (1983)
Plot Summary:
A New York policeman imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, psychological thriller, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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Seeding of a Ghost (1983)
Plot Summary:
A Hong Kong taxi driver suffers after being cursed by a sorcerer he accidentally hit with his cab. After the driver's wife is raped and killed by teenage hooligans, he pleads with the sorcerer to lift the hex and restore his wife to the land of the living. Otherworldly zombie chaos ensues.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: retro, atmospheric, controversial, poliziottesco, cult film
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Nightmare (2000)
Plot Summary:
Hye-jin's homecoming should have been a joyous occasion. She was especially happy to see her childhood friend again, the shy Eun-ju. However, when a secret is revealed, harsh words are exchanged. These words deeply affect Eun-ju and,in the next scene, we see her plummeting from a 30-story building. In a flashback provided by Seon-ae, we learn that the ghost of Eun-ju is hunting down all of Hye-jin's friends and killing them. Is this possible or is a more worldly force at work? What is this mysterious tape that everyone is asking about?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, bleak, disturbing, slasher, bloody, queer horror, psychotronic
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Semum (2008)
Plot Summary:
Director Hasan Karacadag argues that he tried to create a model of a Turkish-Islamic horror film and that he would make the world recognize this model, of which he sees "Semum" as the first example. "Semum" stars Ayça inci, Burak Hakki and Cem Kurtoglu in the lead roles and recounts the true story of a woman who lives in Izmir. "Semum" will be compared with "The Exorcist" and inci will be compared with Linda Blair, the director says, noting that the Turkish horror films made so far have been far from satisfactory.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, satanic, demonic, surprise ending, neo noir, folk tale
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Fiksi. (2008)
Plot Summary:
Alisha (Ladya Cheryl) never feel comfortable staying in her cool and spacious home until one day she meets Barry (Donny Alamsyah) who introduces her the meaning of love.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disgusting
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Hellbent (2004)
Plot Summary:
Halloween in West Hollywood, two guys making out in a park are interrupted by a serial killer. Later that night, a group of gay kids decide to visit to the site of the murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, queer horror, bloody, dark, controversial, homoerotic
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Soul Looting (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nefeli (Nefeli Papaioannou) moves to her boyfriend's (Iraklis Savvopoulos) flat. After a while she discovers that strange hallucinations invade her life. Being afraid of her boyfriend's reaction to the bad news, she decides not to let him know about that situation. But after a while, she gets to know why those hallucinations became a part of her being.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Ju-on: White Ghost (2009)
Plot Summary:
Akane begins seeing visions of a female ghost wearing the same yellow hat and red satchel she wore as a school child.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: suspense, spooky, asian horror
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Forest of Death (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a mysterious forest in Thailand, many suicidal youths disappear and rescue teams can not find the way out even with compass. The ambitious reporter May is making sensationalist journalism exploring the deaths in the forest. Her boyfriend and botanist Shun Shu-hoi is developing a means of communication with plants. Meanwhile, Detective C. C. Ha is investigating the rape and death of a woman and the main suspect is Patrick Wong.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, mind bending, serious
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Cold Blood Canyon (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Mr. and Mrs. Myers move into their highly coveted Beverly Hills home, they wonder why the price tag is too good to be true. Their daughter, Danielle, discovers the truth when a neighbor tells her one of the previous owners was murdered there years ago. When Danielle falls prey to the hauntings of the ghostly victim who lived there, Danni's dream home turns into the house from hell after she is tortured and attacked by the evil apparition. After Danielle's cries go unheard by her oblivious parents, she realizes she must get out of the house as quickly as possible or she is going to be the next victim of an even greater threat.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious
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Yoga (2009)
Plot Summary:
Once taken her job because of her appearance, a confident and enthusiastic woman, Hyo-jung visits a mysterious yoga institute run by an ex-actress where her radically changed friend told her to go. At the intensive training course, a young yoga master, nani explains to Hyo-jung and four other girls that only one person who masters the course most successfully can get the secret of ultimate and immortal beauty. there are five rules for them to follow during the one week course: 1. do not eat, 2. do not take showers within an hour after the class, 3. do not look at the mirror, 4. do not go out of the building, 5. do not call anyone. As the training goes on, girls get tempted to break the rules caused by hidden craving of each girl’s and Hyo-jung starts to sense there is something about this institute and an actress who doesn’t get old.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological, sinister, tension, dark fantasy, asian horror
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The Queen of Black Magic (2019)
Plot Summary:
Families were terrorized at the orphanage. Someone wants them dead, apparently with black magic that is very deadly. She has a grudge and she was also born because of the sins of the orphans who formed her into the queen of black magic.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: bloody, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, dark fantasy, creepy
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The Haunting of Alice D (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the late 1890s the Davenport House was a famous and successful brothel, until a young prostitute named Alice killed herself there. After her death, the brothel became haunted by Alice's ghost, and was eventually abandoned. More than a century later, the old structure is renovated into a beautiful mansion. It is still rumored to inhabit the ghost of Alice. Despite this, the new owner; the rich and arrogant heir to the Davenport fortune, decides to throw a wild party for his first night in the house.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Exit (2020)
Plot Summary:
Events take a sinister turn one night in London, when two very different couples arrive at a double-booked apartment. Actions have consequences and not all debts are paid for with money. Leaving, it's harder than you think.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, tense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological thriller, psychedelic, neo noir, surreal
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Banshee Blacktop, an Irish Ghost Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
A drifter is picked up by police in connection with the disappearance of a young couple on a remote, windswept island months before. But the drifter turns the table on their investigation and relates a tale of madness and the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, folk tale, detective
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Impetigore (2019)
Plot Summary:
Enticed by a promise of inheritance, a young woman returns to the village of her birth. Unbeknownst to her, the villagers hide a sinister plan -- one that may require her very own death.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, South Korea, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sexy, clever, dark fantasy
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The Forbidden Door (2009)
Plot Summary:
Gambir is an artist whose success masks a dark and shameful secret. which may be nothing compared to the sordid details of the past that his wife keeps hidden behind a mysterious door in their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological thriller, mind twisting, mind bending, dark, surreal, psychological horror, enigmatic, captivating, suspense
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Macabre (2009)
Plot Summary:
Macabre, international title for Rumah Dara (Indonesian title), and in Singapore titled Darah) is an Indonesian horror/slasher film in 2010. The movie tells about a group who attempt to escape from a house that owned by mysterious lady named Dara and her family. We later discover the family are killers and cannibals attempting to gain immortality. The film is based on the short film Dara. Before the film was screened in Indonesia, it was screened at several festivals in 2009. Rumah Dara was released in Singapore where it gained an M18 rating (for Gore and Violence).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Singapore
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, serious, psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, bloody, suspense
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Kiss Me, Kill Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
While confronting his unfaithful boyfriend, Dusty blacks-out. When he comes to, his boyfriend has been murdered and he's the prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, queer cinema
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Shock to the System (2006)
Plot Summary:
A gay detective tries to solve the murder of a college student.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective, sexual, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, sexy
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Feardotcom (2002)
Plot Summary:
With four corpses on his hands, New York City gumshoe Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) teams with Department of Health worker Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) to track down a homicidal sadist who telecasts shocking acts of torture on the Internet. But they have their work cut out: It seems the victims' only link is that they all went toes up 48 hours after logging on a site known as feardotcom.com. Stephen Rea also stars in this gruesome thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg, USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, dark, slasher, neo noir, detective
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Deliver Us from Evil (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when renegade Jesuit priest, Mendoza convinces him that demonic possession may be to blame for the gruesome murders. Together, they wage a valiant supernatural struggle to rid the city of an otherworldly evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: scary, demonic, rough, suspense, serious, suspenseful, detective, mystical, neo noir, satanic
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The Hollow (2004)
Plot Summary:
Restless spirits stir this Hollow's Eve, beckoning Ian Cranston, the last blood relative of Ichabod Crane, back to Sleepy Hollow. Thundering hooves unleash a wave of bone-chilling screams as the ghost of the Headless Horseman rides again! Ian must try to save the town and his girlfriend, Karen and determine whether the sword-wielding stalker is their clownish classmate, Brody in costume, or the dark rider himself. If it's truly the Headless Horseman... how do you kill what's already dead?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, gothic horror, tense, suspense, scary, mockbuster, horror comedy, surprise ending
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Suzzana: Buried Alive (2018)
Plot Summary:
Satria's employees intend to rob his house when he is out of the country but their robbery turns into murder when they find Suzzanna in the house as they bury her body in the backyard.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing