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Plot Summary:
A disgraced children’s puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological horror, suspense, psychological, phantasmagoric, psychological thriller, disturbing, post-horror, scary, tense, captivating
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The Village in the Woods (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a young couple from the wrong side of the tracks decide to take on an inheritance fraud job, little do they know that they have accepted a fate far darker then they could ever have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, dark
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Door to the Other Side (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young couple awakens a terrible force when they attempt to socialize their reclusive neighbor.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Bottom of the World (2017)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious disappearance of a young woman leads her boyfriend on a journey for truth and perhaps his own unknown reality in this dark, hypnotic mystery that transcends the limitations of traditional narrative.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, mind bending, mindfuck, twisted, weird
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Monster Portal (2022)
Plot Summary:
A cult is about to waken H.P. Lovecraft's most feared creature.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, lovecraft
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Spider Forest (2004)
Plot Summary:
A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods. KANG Min regains his consciousness 14 days after brain surgery following a mysterious accident he had in the forest. Shockingly enough, the first thing he says is that two people died in Spider Forest. Detective CHOI, KANG Min's friend, finds a couple brutally murdered at a cottage in the forest, just like KANG Min described. As the couple found dead at the cottage are identified as CHOI Jong-phil, his senior from work, and HWANG Soo-young, his girlfriend, KANG Min becomes both a witness and key suspect in the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind twisting, mind bending, disturbing, mindfuck, mind blowing, erotic, psychological thriller
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A Dark Song (2016)
Plot Summary:
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, spooky, psychological thriller, art house, religious horror, scary, atmospheric
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In the Trap (2019)
Plot Summary:
Philip, a solitary proof reader, is trapped in his apartment, too afraid to leave and tortured by an unknown evil force that has kept him prisoner for the last two years.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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The House on Pine Street (2015)
Plot Summary:
A psychological horror about a young woman coping with an unwanted pregnancy after moving into a seemingly haunted house.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, scary, creepy, independent film, weird
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Dark Water (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, intense, creepy, slasher
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Repulsion (1965)
Plot Summary:
In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, black and white, cerebral, atmospheric, psychological, scary, suspense, art house, psychological thriller
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Nightmare Cinema (2018)
Plot Summary:
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, slasher, psychological, psychological horror, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark fairy tale
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They Look Like People (2015)
Plot Summary:
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, disturbing, mumblecore, mind bending, philosophical
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Don't Look Now (1973)
Plot Summary:
After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it seems too good to be true. Perhaps it is.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, twist ending, disturbing, atmospheric, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, surreal, erotic, gothic
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Lake Mungo (2008)
Plot Summary:
16 year old Alice Palmer drowns in a local dam. When her body is recovered and, her grieving family buries her. The family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist, Ray Kemeny. Ray discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, scary, psychological, creepy, tense, suspenseful, psychological horror, suspense, disturbing, slasher
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Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, dark, spooky, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, creepy
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Baskin (2015)
Plot Summary:
Feature length version of the 2013 Turkish short film about police making a horrifying discovery in an apartment building.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, suspense, lovecraft, scary, satanic, tense, retro, brutal, captivating
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Creep (2004)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, tense, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, atmospheric, sexy, serious
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Saint Maud (2019)
Plot Summary:
Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, suspense, psychological, bleak, psychological thriller, atmospheric, slasher, art house, tense
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Sinister (2012)
Plot Summary:
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, twist ending, rough, dark, creepy, sinister
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Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, psychological, tense, serious, surreal, psychological thriller, art house, dark, slasher
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Chasing Sleep (2000)
Plot Summary:
A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, mind bending, mind twisting, surreal, dark comedy, mindfuck, mind blowing
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 103000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic, mind bending, avant garde, cerebral, scary, art house
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Amer (2009)
Plot Summary:
Searing memories and carnal desires rule the mind of Ana, a young woman in thrall to her own fantasies whose visions and obsessions draw her toward deeper eroticism -- and deeper danger, in this modern take on a Giallo.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, slasher, experimental, psychological, postmodern, disturbing, retro, mind bending, psychological thriller, sexy
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The Uninvited Guest (2004)
Plot Summary:
What if ... you let a stranger into your house to use your phone, but while you've been patiently waiting in the kitchen, he just disappears ... or does he? Félix, an architect who has just split up with his girl-friend and inhabits a huge mansion in Barcelona, finds out how many hiding places there really are in his house. But are there enough to hide another person, a strange parasite of living space? Or is Félix really going insane?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological thriller, surreal, realistic, tense, suspenseful, psychological, serious, mind twisting, suspense
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The Canal (2014)
Plot Summary:
Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself. Dripping with tension and chilling to the core, this visceral Irish ghost story is a visually arresting and genuinely shocking journey into the darkness within.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy, surreal, psychological thriller, spooky
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A Field in England (2013)
Plot Summary:
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, black and white, stylized, tense, atmospheric, psychedelic, art house, experimental, avant garde, disturbing
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Insidious (2010)
Plot Summary:
A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 334000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric, disturbing, dark, intense, tense, clever, creepy
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A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Plot Summary:
A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, scary, atmospheric, twist ending, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense, dark, surprise ending
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The Orphanage (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 162000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, gothic horror, atmospheric, disturbing, serious, suspense, dark
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Incident in a Ghostland (2018)
Plot Summary:
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, scary, rough, psychedelic, slasher