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Memento (2000)
Plot Summary:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby snaps Polaroids of people and places, jotting down contextual notes on the backs of photos to aid in his search and jog his memory. He even tattoos his own body in a desperate bid to remember
Duration: 113 min
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10
IMDB Votes: 13000000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: memory loss, amnesia, plot twist, vengeance, twists and turns, memory, murder, revenge, psychology, paranoia, whodunit, haunted by the past, investigation, trippy, photograph, uncover truth, hidden truth, life is a bitch, murder mystery, identity, insanity, existentialism, great ending, mental disorder, life changing
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Plot Summary:
This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus tent, which is put up in the main square, to see — as the outcome of their wait — the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighboring settlings, even from quite far away parts of the country. They are following this clumsy monster as a dumb, faceless, rag-wearing crowd. This strange state of affairs — the appearance of the foreigners, the extreme frost — disturbs the order of the small town. Ambitious personages of the story feel they can take advantage of this situation. The tension growing to the unbearable is brought to explosion by the figure of the Prince, who is pretending facelessness. Even his mere appearance is enough to break loose destructive emotions
Duration: 145 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Italy, Germany, France
Plot tags: surrealism, circus, delusion, musician, magic realism, philosophy, social relations, village life, danger, small town life, european, small town, husband wife relationship, violence, politics, god, mental disorder, art, faith, underground, family relations, spirituality, minimalism, changing lives, moving
Frequency (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time
Duration: 118 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: time travel, radio, father son relationship, investigation, parallel universe, butterfly effect, altering history, murder, serial killer, changing the past or future, time, rescue, sent to the past, race against time, police detective, psychopath, murder mystery, haunted by the past, supernatural, firefighter, memory, family relations, fire, alternate history, alternate reality
The Princess and the Warrior (2000)
Plot Summary:
Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes an accident in which he provides first aid, Sissi wonders if he may be the man of her dreams. But when she finds him weeks later she is rejected, as Bodo is stuck somewhere between a traumatic past and a criminal future
Duration: 135 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany
Plot tags: love story, destiny, opposites attract, obsession, heist, bank robbery, coincidence, relationships, love and romance, fall in love, criminal heroes, couples, haunted by the past, destructive relationship, hopes, mental illness, bittersweet, death of brother, ex soldier, pursuit, romantic relationship, in love, chance meeting, ex military, love affair
Unbreakable (2000)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead – and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass
Duration: 106 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 435000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: superhero, plot twist, invulnerability, twists and turns, villain, self discovery, father son relationship, train crash, comic book, supernatural power, a vision, good versus evil, supernatural, supernatural ability, psychic, conflict, child with gun, psychology, existentialism, heroes, swimming pool, disability, home invasion, obsession, security guard
Common Wealth (2000)
Plot Summary:
Julia finds 300 million pesetas hidden in a dead man's house while selling an apartment. She's a 40-ish real estate agent now forced to face the wrath of a very peculiar community (of neighbors), headed by an unscrupulous administrator. Black humor gives way to suspense, closely followed by horror that doesn't take long in coming to a head in undisguised pandemonium
Duration: 110 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Plot tags: real estate agent, greed, stolen money, neighbor, murder, fish out of water, dishonesty, conflict, dark humor, conspiracy, female protagonist, money, violence, psychology, psycho, satire, retreat, unfaithful wife, native, nothing goes right, disorder, siblings relations, survival, strong female lead, fight
With a Friend Like Harry... (2000)
Plot Summary:
Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel's life... and things take a sinister turn
Duration: 117 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Plot tags: obsession, serial killer, murder, friendship, investigation, violence, imagination, family relations, writers, couple relations, darkness, parents and children, poet, family life, couples, macabre, psychology, eccentricity, dark humor, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, psychopath, betrayal, mother son relationship, hotel
Under the Sand (2000)
Plot Summary:
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional
Duration: 92 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Plot tags: death, love, relationships, obsession, disappearance, delusion, tourist, coping, love and romance, haunted by the past, couple relations, mentally unstable, female masturbation, sadness, beach, melancholy, husband wife relationship, tragic event, male nudity, marriage, missing person, women, mysticism, weirdo, countryside
The Crimson Rivers (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings
Duration: 106 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Plot tags: serial killer, murder, investigation, police investigation, demon, police detective, whodunit, twists and turns, police officer, murder mystery, ritual, plot twist, faked death, mountain, eugenics, chase, genetics, nun, secret society, winter, snow, misfit, student life, law enforcement, disorder
The Gift (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the arrest of an abusive husband, but did he really do it?
Duration: 112 min
IMDB Rating: 6.7/10
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Plot tags: psychic, mental illness, investigation, clairvoyant, small town, extrasensory perception, murder, psychic power, tarot card, fortune teller, violence, macabre, foreknowledge, adultery, missing person, abusive husband, murder mystery, supernatural, violence against women, wife abuse, ghost, premonition, child abuse, backwoods, widow
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Plot Summary:
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire investigates, she discovers that the man she loves might know more than he's letting on
Duration: 130 min
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: ghost, haunted house, adultery, couple relations, haunted by the past, supernatural horror, losing-it hero, infidelity, supernatural, woman in danger, danger, spiritualism, haunting, betrayal, panic, murder, psychology, couples, murder mystery, secret, scientist, revenge, investigation, lake, missing person
Ring 0: Birthday (2000)
Plot Summary:
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit
Duration: 99 min
IMDB Rating: 6.0/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Plot tags: supernatural, split personality, ghost, curse, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, twists and turns, mental illness, danger, a vision, curses spells and rituals, gory, extreme, murder, tragedy, post apocalypse, children, journalist, technology, evil child, bad kids, good versus evil, killer, parapsychology, theatre group
Gossip (2000)
Plot Summary:
On a beautiful college campus, something ugly is about to be spread around. A bit of gossip that was told is starting to take a frightening turn. Who could it have offended and how far will the person on the other side of the gossip handle the embarrassing situation
Duration: 90 min
IMDB Rating: 5.9/10
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: college, gossip, psychology, rumor, investigation, secrets, manipulation, adaptation, teenage life, false accusation, college life, dishonesty, women, murder, drinking alcohol, swindle, sex, rape, suicide, teenager, high school, mind game, campus, sex crime, trouble
The 6th Day (2000)
Plot Summary:
Futuristic action about a man who meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world
Duration: 123 min
IMDB Rating: 5.9/10
IMDB Votes: 127000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: cyberpunk, lookalikes, cloning, conspiracy, genetic engineering, dystopia, murder, danger, clone, rivalry, apocalypse, dishonesty, one against many, mistaken identity, father daughter relationship, megacorporation, alternate reality, back from the dead, supernatural, consciousness, doppelganger, space, twins, car chase, genetics
The Weight of Water (2000)
Plot Summary:
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness
Duration: 114 min
IMDB Rating: 5.8/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Plot tags: investigation, murder, infidelity, incest, dangerous attraction, women, amateur detective, sexual relations, couples, isolation, family problems, photograph, sailing, brother sister incest, serial killer, photography, destiny, ocean, photographer, male nudity, sexuality, nude, mafia, erotica, criminal
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
Duration: 122 min
IMDB Rating: 5.7/10
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Plot tags: hotel, investigation, murder, private detective, friendship, mentally challenged, suicide, love, insanity, death, mental disorder, deception, moving, motel, platonic, satire, coming of age, prostitute, misfit, painting, junkie, fbi, confidence, hollywood, profanity
Drowning Mona (2000)
Plot Summary:
The recently deceased Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) was many things: an abusive wife, a domineering mother, a loud-mouthed neighbor and a violent malcontent. So when her car and corpse are discovered in the Hudson River, police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito) immediately suspects murder rather than an accident. But, since the whole community of Verplanck, N.Y., shares a deep hatred for this unceasingly spiteful woman, Rash finds his murder investigation overwhelmed with potential suspects
Duration: 96 min
IMDB Rating: 5.7/10
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Plot tags: murder, small town, investigation, murder mystery, sarcasm, suspect, waitress, family problems, social relations, disorder, goofy hero, drowning, small town life, dark humor, death, dysfunctional family, suburbs, suspicion, wedding, car, mysticism, moving, fetish, basement, meme
Scream 3 (2000)
Plot Summary:
A murdering spree begins to happen again, this time its targeted toward the original Woodsboro survivors and those associated with the movie inside a movie, 'Stab 3'. Sydney must face the demons of her past to stop the killer
Duration: 116 min
IMDB Rating: 5.6/10
IMDB Votes: 161000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Plot tags: serial killer, masked killer, mystery killer, murder, filmmaking, telephone call, psychopath, mind game, hollywood, vengeance, serial murder, brutality, blood, violence, supernatural, isolation, whodunit, profanity, wannabe, nightmare, killer, strong female lead, jay and silent bob, danger, female warrior
Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jesse and Chester, two bumbling stoners, wake up one morning from a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car. They encounter a variety of people while looking for it, including their angry girlfriends, an angry street gang, a transexual stripper, a cult of alien seeking fanatics, and aliens in human form looking for a mystical device that could save or destroy the world
Duration: 83 min
IMDB Rating: 5.5/10
IMDB Votes: 144000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: alien, idiot, stoner, friendship, teenager, stupidity, obsessive quest, cannabis, dumb, buddies, memory loss, transsexual, ostrich, strip club, save the world, buddy, amnesia, road trip, bromance, nerd, chinese restaurant, bare chested male, party, college, weed
Hellraiser: Inferno (2000)
Plot Summary:
A shady police detective becomes embroiled in a strange world of murder, sadism and madness after being assigned a murder investigation against a madman known only as "The Engineer"
Duration: 99 min
IMDB Rating: 5.4/10
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: nightmare, murder, supernatural, serial killer, torture, police detective, hellraiser, chase, psychopath, escapades, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, mind game, race against time, body horror, violence, gore, psychiatrist, monster, demon, maniac, devil, pandemic, paranormal
The Watcher (2000)
Plot Summary:
FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown becomes the setting for some particularly gruesome murders--murders that could only have been committed by one man: David Allen Griffin. One of Joel's most elusive and cunning nemeses, Griffin has followed his former pursuer to Chicago in order to play a sadistic game of cat and mouse. Taunting Joel with photographs of his intended victims and leaving his crime scenes meticulously free of clues in order to keep the police at bay, Griffin derives as much pleasure out of watching Joel react to every movement as watching his victims die. But when Griffin moves into Joel's inner circle, Joel must quickly find some way to stop him before someone close to him becomes the next one to die
Duration: 97 min
IMDB Rating: 5.3/10
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Vietnam
Plot tags: serial killer, murder, fbi, psychopath, psychiatrist, obsession, serial murder, chase, mind game, race against time, police investigation, killer, terror, murder investigation, murderer, death, spy, monster, swat team, intelligence agency, mysticism, hitman, house, crime investigation, lust
The Crow: Salvation (2000)
Plot Summary:
Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to solve the murder of a young woman that he was wrongly accused of killing. Alex follows the crow into the police department's evidence room, where he discovers that Lauren was killed by a group of corrupt cops
Duration: 102 min
IMDB Rating: 4.9/10
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Plot tags: superhero, afterlife, revenge, supernatural, electric chair, tragic hero, murder, death, good versus evil, comic book, death row, brutality, violence, betrayal, vigilante, murder mystery, false accusation, law enforcement, fighting crime, danger, martial arts, love, father daughter relationship, death of father, crow
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Plot Summary:
The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country in 'Urban Legends: Final Cut', the suspenseful follow up to the smash hit 'Urban Legend'. At Alpine University, someone is determined to win the best film award at any cost - even if it means eliminating the competition. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect. 'Urban Legends: Final Cut' is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep you guessing until the shocking climax
Duration: 97 min
IMDB Rating: 4.4/10
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Plot tags: urban legend, serial killer, murder, college, teenage life, gory, halloween, college life, masked killer, multiple storylines, psychopath, filmmaking, movie business, who done it, winter, killer, campus, city life, survival, murderer, violence, snow, death, male nudity, chase
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
Plot Summary:
Young adults become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in Maryland, so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened
Duration: 90 min
IMDB Rating: 4.0/10
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: supernatural, witch, supernatural ability, surveillance, psychology, gory, danger, curses spells and rituals, mysterious death, witchcraft, human sacrifice, found footage, lesbian, paranoia, magic, occult, ghost, folk horror, black magic, devil, violence, murder, blood, supernatural horror, zombie