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Plot Summary:
After the disappearance of his troubled friend, American Chris Rivers travels to the remote Welsh countryside to investigate what happened – leading him to a dark apocalyptic cult.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: lovecraft
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Kammaren (2007)
Plot Summary:
Tore Forsman is an old man, most people would call strange or even mad. He lives in an old house in the countryside. All his life he has kept something locked and sealed under his house.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration:
Plot tags: lovecraft
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Autopsy: A Love Story (2002)
Plot Summary:
The lonely Charlie Bickle works in a morgue owned by the corrupt Dr. Dale Brodsky cremating bodies and lives with his crippled wife Mary. Dr. Dale illegally sells body parts before the cremation, bribing dirty policemen. When Charlie meets the suicidal Jane Doe, he falls in love for her and dates the corpse until her twin sister comes to the morgue seeking her missing sister.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hope Eternal (2008)
Plot Summary:
After the violent death of her Welsh rugby-loving doctor boyfriend in the country's civil war, a Malagasy nurse working at a child hospice in Congo makes a pilgrimage to Wales to sprinkle his ashes on the turf of the Millennium Stadium.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Punnami Naagu (1980)
Plot Summary:
Naagulu (Chiranjeevi), a snake charmer, falls in love with Menaka, whose adopted brother Raju (Narasimha Raju) is in love with Naagulu's cousin Laxmi (Rati Agnihotri). Naagulu's father has been feeding mixing snake poison in his food since childhood, making Naagulu immune to any snake bite. Every full moon, Naagulu behaves like a cobra and searches for a woman and every woman he meets dies from his poison (Wikipedia).
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags:
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Terra Brava (2019)
Plot Summary:
To avenge his dead parents, Diogo will have to destroy his lover's mom and face his younger brother. Diogo, a decorated military officer, finds out that Eduarda is responsible for the destruction of his family. He returns to his homeland to take revenge, but falls in love with her daughter, Beatriz, who is married to Tiago, his biological brother.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Bed of Roses (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bed of Roses is an Australian comedy / drama television series which first screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 10 May 2008. It stars Kerry Armstrong and was created by Jutta Goetze and Elizabeth Coleman; produced by Mark Ruse and Stephen Luby.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags:
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Juego de niños (1994)
Plot Summary:
Mexico City is experiencing a series of child killings and through the friendship of a classmate, Lalo learns that his friend may have something that may solve these crimes, as long as the killer doesn't get to them first.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Shree (2002)
Plot Summary:
Shree is a 2002 Tamil action film directed by Pushpavasagan which stars Suriya in the title role, with Shrutika and Gayatri Jayaraman in supporting roles. The film met with a poor response, critically and made poor business at the box office.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags:
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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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The Stonebreaker (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a serious accident Giuseppe is out of work. His son Antò dreams of being an archaeologist and thinks his father's glass eye is a sign he has superpowers. It's just the two of them now, since their beloved wife and mother Angela collapsed and died while working in the fields. Now they've lost their home, too, and have taken shelter in a tent city with other seasonal workers. Through all this, Giuseppe still summons up the strength to hug his son every night and tell him a story. He's promised Antò he will have his mother back, one day, and will do anything to keep his promise.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Virupaksha (2023)
Plot Summary:
Set in a village named Rudravanam in 1990's, Surya along with his mother, visit there after a long time. Suddenly a series of mysterious deaths occur due to an unknown person's occult practice and whole village is scared. Will Surya find the person causing the deaths and save the village?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Beyond Dream's Door (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ben Dobbs is a lonely college student who has never had dreams of any kind. This all changes for Ben and he start having a series of sequential and terrifying nightmares that become true in his waking life. As he reaches out for help, he is also expanding the net his nightmare demon is spreading for new victims. Ben’s challenge is to survive this new surrealistic world Beyond Dream’s Door.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, surreal, art house, psychological horror, independent film, surprise ending, neo noir, experimental, splatter, avant garde
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Generational Sins (2017)
Plot Summary:
A dying mother, Sarah, tells her last wish to her eldest son, Drew, that he take his younger brother, Will, to the place they were born. Despite tragic family history, hope gives promise to the future.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Carcinoma (2014)
Plot Summary:
A formidable descend to human decay.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing, brutal, controversial, devastating, independent film
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The Godsend (1980)
Plot Summary:
An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children make them consider whether the little girl is more than she appears.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, slasher, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, psychotronic
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1979)
Plot Summary:
After a long journey, a traveller and his wife arrive at the Usher mansion. Upon arriving, however, they discover that the mansion's sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guests of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, psychotronic, lovecraft
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Boy Meets Girl (1994)
Plot Summary:
A woman picks a man up in a bar and takes him back to her place. He thinks he is going to get laid, she has over plans. She proceeds to drug him and incarcerate him in a chair in her basement before torturing him, physically and phycologically. It starts as an S&M excercise and goes to somewhere much much darker.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: controversial, sexy, independent film, erotic, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual
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Cold Water (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a female cadet goes over board during cadet training, an investigation is started.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Medusa (2020)
Plot Summary:
After being bitten by a lethal snake, a young woman experiences changes in her senses and appearance, as she sheds her old self and slowly turns into a deadly weapon.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic
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The Awakening of Lilith (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds herself in the midst of a dark mystery after the unexplained loss of a loved one. Her mind begins to unravel as her sense of reality begins to slip away.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Conjuring the Genie (2021)
Plot Summary:
After the passing of her father, Morgan is told by her course tutor she must complete an assignment on an urban legend. Morgan and her friends awake the demonic genie from an amulet. Their wishes are granted one by one. Morgan is granted the wish of her father’s life back. However, soon, the group of friends realize their wishes are about to turn deadly, and they will realize the horrors the genie can create.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Bats (2021)
Plot Summary:
Following a nuclear power plant meltdown, a nearby village known as Nosferatu Village, became radiated, and subsequently abandoned for more than a decade. The year is 1984, and the public are now permitted to return, and a small group come back to their family home to discover a radiated bat living in their attic. The family must survive the night to escape, but the monster has other plans as they soon begin to find themselves infected with a deadly plague that will kill them if the beast doesn't. Waiting for sun to rise, they must figure a way to survive the night, battling against the creature.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Agnes (2021)
Plot Summary:
Rumors of demonic possession at a religious convent prompts a church investigation into the strange goings-on among its nuns. A disaffected priest and his neophyte are confronted with temptation, bloodshed and a crisis of faith.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, bleak, psychotronic
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Dark Places (2005)
Plot Summary:
Keri Walker is a drug-addicted prostitute who ends up killing her latest john in self-defense. She finds shelter at a place run by a couple who find pleasure in others' pain. The haven house turns into a hell house and Keri must do whatever she can to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, surreal
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The Shout (1978)
Plot Summary:
A traveller by the name of Crossley, forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, mind bending, psychedelic, dark, slasher, mystic, deep, spooky
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Heks (2020)
Plot Summary:
A grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother's secrets connected to a South African witch doctor's curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister depths.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, psychotronic
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The Shed (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story of Stan, an orphaned teenager stuck living with his abusive grandfather and tasked with routinely protecting his best friend from high school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside the tool shed in his backyard, he tries to secretly battle the demon alone until his bullied friend discovers the creature and has a far more sinister plan in mind.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, scary, psychological, dark, natural horror, weird
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The Conqueror Worm (1968)
Plot Summary:
England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men is Matthew Hopkins, who tours the land offering his services as a persecutor of witches.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, gothic, rough, atmospheric, suspense, satanic, controversial, stylized
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Last Girl Standing (2015)
Plot Summary:
She survived a brutal massacre, but lost her life. What happens to the final girl once the credits have rolled? Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn, the lone survivor, has tried to make sense of the homicidal events and struggled to reclaim her shattered life. Wracked with guilt and paranoia, can Camryn ever have a normal existence again or is she destined to cope alone forever? Part slasher movie, part character study, take a penetrating and intimate look at what happens to the remaining true victim of every horror movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Plot Summary:
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry of a hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing the figure to be his master, Satan, Prospero is horrified at the revelation of his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, surreal, suspenseful, scary, grindhouse, cult classic, gothic horror, serious