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Plot Summary:
After hitting a breaking point, Hannah’s inner thought’s physicalize into a monstrous creature that threatens to upend her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Fresh Air (2006)
Plot Summary:
A mother with an affection to air-refreshers, a daughter looking down on her mothers job.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Platonic Sex (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Aoi is gang-raped by her classmates and kicked out of her home by her own parents she sees no reason to continue living. Before she commits suicide, however, she receives an email on her cellphone from a man named Toshi addressed to a girl named Ai. The message simply thanks the girl for being alive, but this specific message has an effect on Aoi and she decides to keep on living. Without many options, Aoi resorts to everything from paid dating to porn to earn money and meets a lot of less than reputable characters. Throughout it all though she looks toward Toshi as her hope for happiness and the two form a relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sad
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Perpetrator (2023)
Plot Summary:
Jonny Baptiste is a reckless teen sent to live with her estranged Aunt Hildie. On the event of her eighteenth birthday, she experiences a radical metamorphosis: a family spell that redefines her called Forevering. When several teen girls go missing at her new school, a mythically feral Jonny goes after the Perpetrator.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, teen horror
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Rage (2009)
Plot Summary:
A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident on the runway becomes a murder investigation, and denial leads to devastation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Two Girls for a Madman (1968)
Plot Summary:
Two young girls in New York City studying to be ballet dancers are chosen by a crazed sex fiend to be his next victims. He rapes one of them at gunpoint and then proceeds to stalk and terrorize both of them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds (1965)
Plot Summary:
Johnson, an agent for the Liquor Control Department, comes across the remote Cuckoo Bird Inn after escaping from a band of cut-throat moonshiners and a mysterious killer. He realizes there that he must discover the identity of the killer before it, or the inn's demented occupants turn him into another display in the grotesque Chapel of the Dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, psychotronic
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Bits and Pieces (1985)
Plot Summary:
A psychopath with a mother fixation terrorizes a city, picking out young beautiful women as his victims.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film
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Nanny (2022)
Plot Summary:
Senegalese immigrant Aisha lands a job as a nanny for a wealthy Manhattan couple. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in Senegal, a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and her reality, threatening to destroy the American Dream she is painstakingly piecing together.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, independent film
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Anguish (2015)
Plot Summary:
A new girl in a quiet town, Tess tries to manage her psychosis while adjusting to her new life with her mom. After stumbling upon the shrine of Lucy, a hit and run victim, Tess finds herself overwhelmed by hallucinations of the dead girl and starts to question her sanity again. When the spirit possesses Tess’s mind and soul, mother and daughter are at a loss for where to turn next for salvation: religion or medicine? Both institutions have failed them to date but faith leads them to the house of Sarah, Lucy’s mother, who has been despondent since the accident. All together with time working against them, Sarah is desperate to believe that Lucy is still alive in Tess but neither parent wants to give up on their daughter. Now that she understands what is happening to her, ultimately Tess must decide whether she wants to keep fighting or succumb to her affliction.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film
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Conjuring: The Beyond (2022)
Plot Summary:
A sleep study goes awry when participants start to go missing.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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I Zombie: The Chronicles of Pain (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young man, while out on a field trip, gets bitten by an ill looking person. When he comes back home he starts getting sick and a slow but steady degeneration begins in his body. He is turning into a zombie. He leaves his girlfriend and moves into his own place. In order to survive he needs to eat human flesh. Against his own consciense, he kills people and eats them in his living room. But things start getting worse as his degeneration progresses.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: depressing, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Two Ways Home (2019)
Plot Summary:
Soul-touching and moving, TWO WAYS HOME compassionately follows Kathy (Tanna Frederick), a woman newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder who is released from prison on good behavior and returns to her country home in Iowa to reconnect with her estranged 12-year-old daughter (Rylie Behr) and her cantankerous elderly grandfather (Tom Bower). Her return home is turbulent and a rough, unwelcome transition in which Kathy must come to terms with her diagnosis and its implications on her identity, while also realizing that her family was happier when she was gone. Conflict with her family intensifies as she struggles to keep her head above water, putting her self-worth and well-being to the ultimate test.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, inspirational, sincere, touching, heartbreaking
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Pretty Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
After killing and cannibalizing several men and being found unfit for trial, Regina Stevens desperately tried to convince her psychiatric caregivers that she wasn't mentally ill, but was in fact slowly becoming a real life zombie.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, weird
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The Free Fall (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sara wakes from a coma to a life she doesn't remember; a fragile, slippery reality that spirals into a nightmare where nothing is as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, black and white
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My Little Girl (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and tries to help them, but only gets herself into trouble with her parents and supervisor.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lisa (1990)
Plot Summary:
Because her overprotective mother (Cheryl Ladd) won't allow her to date, 14-year-old Lisa (Staci Keanan) creates a rich fantasy life. She calls random men and seduces them anonymously. But now she may have picked the wrong man. Richard (D.W. Moffett) is Lisa's most charming target yet, but he's also the Candlelight Killer, who murders beautiful young women. Jeffrey Tambor co-stars in this seductive thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, neo noir, slasher, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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The Mad Room (1969)
Plot Summary:
This compelling remake of the classic 'Ladies In Retirement (1941)' stars Stella Stevens as Ellen, a woman living as a companion to her future mother-in-law, wealthy and very irascible widow Mrs. Armstrong (Shelley Winters). Soon after, Ellen's younger brother and sister, one of whom murdered their parents (they can't remember which one of them did it), are released from an asylum and come to live with them. And thus begins a chilling mystery loaded with twists and thrills, as director Bernard Girard (Dead Heat On A Merry-Go-Round) keeps tightening the screws brilliantly.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Naked Witch (1967)
Plot Summary:
College student Stephen accidently awakens Beth, a witch put to death back in the 1800's who begins a wave of killing as well as terrorizing him.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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Unearth (2020)
Plot Summary:
The relationship between two neighboring farm families are strained when one of them chooses to lease their land to an oil and gas company. In the midst of growing tension, the land is drilled, and something long dormant and terrifying, deep beneath the earth's surface is released. "Unearth" is about the horrifying repercussions sown by short-sighted decisions, and what our children reap from our actions.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, natural horror, wild
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Repentance (2013)
Plot Summary:
An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez, who delves into Thomas' teachings and uses his spiritual messages of Karma - action and reaction (Vipaka), against him to terrorize him and his family for their past sins.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, action thriller, realistic, independent film, black cinema
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Cove Road (2012)
Plot Summary:
While an unseen serial killer stalks the imaginary town of Bluefish, New York, the accidental vehicular homicide of a young vandal by a local drug dealer leads to a case of mistaken identity that precipitates a cycle of violence and death among a house full of partying teenagers who have reunited for the first time since graduating from high school the previous year.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Ruby (1977)
Plot Summary:
Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Martyrs Lane (2021)
Plot Summary:
Leah, 10, has terrible nightmares. Her mother seems distant somehow, lost in her thoughts. A small, nightly visitor brings Leah comfort, but soon Leah will realize that her little visitor offers knowledge that might be very, very dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, mystical, disturbing, atmospheric
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The Witch in the Window (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Simon brings his twelve year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make - she's getting stronger.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, psychological horror, spooky, psychotronic, cult film
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Magic (1978)
Plot Summary:
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, classic horror, psychological thriller, emotional
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The Stylist (2020)
Plot Summary:
Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style her hair for her wedding, she becomes dangerously obsessed, and her sanity starts to slip away with bloody consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, tense, psychotronic, slasher, atmospheric, disturbing, neo noir, weird
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The Gabby Petito Story (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows Gabby's tragic murder. Centering in her complicated relationship with her fiancé Brian Laundrie and what may have gone wrong during their cross-country trip. The disappearance of Gabby Petito captured America’s attention, setting off a nationwide search for the 22-year-old travel blogger after her parents reported her missing in September 2021, when she failed to return home following her cross country “van-life” trip with her fiancé Brian Laundrie. Non-stop coverage on the news drove amateur sleuths to dissect Gabby’s social media posts for clues about what happened to her during her trip, leading to the eventual discovery of her body in Wyoming. As the one-year anniversary of her tragic death approaches, the movie will bring to life Gabby and Brian’s doomed love story, including the warning signs that Gabby’s life was in danger, the ensuing search for her, the eventual discovery of her murder and ultimately, Brian’s suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (2004)
Plot Summary:
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 231000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, surreal, suspenseful, gothic, cult classic, psychological horror, disturbing, scary, suspense
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May (2002)
Plot Summary:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful, dark comedy, suspense, creepy