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Plot Summary:
Black Journal (originally titled Gran Bollito) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on the real life events of Leonarda Cianciulli, the Italian serial killer best known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: entertaining, crying, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, pre war
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Goodbye Gemini (1970)
Plot Summary:
Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: offbeat, slasher, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, lgbt cinema, crying, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Something to Hide (1972)
Plot Summary:
A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and mixed up in violence and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film
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Miss Leslie's Dolls (1973)
Plot Summary:
Three attractive University students and their equally attractive teacher seek refuge in a house on a dark and stormy night. The house is occupied by the strange “Miss Leslie” and her strangely lifelike “dolls”.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, lgbt cinema, crying, psychotronic, independent film, weird, gay cinema, urban fantasy, campy
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Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)
Plot Summary:
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, southern gothic, independent film, rough, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, entertaining
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Office Killer (1997)
Plot Summary:
When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, black comedy, humorous, cynical, semi serious, scary, independent film, dark comedy, offbeat
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The Mad Butcher (1971)
Plot Summary:
After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills her. Fearing he will be sent back to the hospital, he grinds up her body and sells it as sausages. As friends and relatives start asking questions about her disappearance, they too start ending up in the butcher's display case.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, Austria, Monaco
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, grindhouse, scary, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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Murder in a Blue World (1973)
Plot Summary:
Set in the future, the story follows a nurse who tries to bring her own style of relief to people condemned to die. Her identity is a mystery and she may not be quite what she seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, surreal, neo noir, futuristic, controversial, crying, psychotronic, independent film, detective, freeze frame
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The Washing Machine (1993)
Plot Summary:
A police detective investigates the murder of a man found dismembered in a washing machine and is drawn into a web of deceit and murder by the dead man's lover, Vida, and her two sisters, Sissy and Ludmilla.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Hungary
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic, freeze frame, weird
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The Corpse (1971)
Plot Summary:
A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: noir, slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious
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The Killing Kind (1973)
Plot Summary:
Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem is his overbearing mother, whose boarding house he resides in and who keeps bringing him glasses of chocolate milk. One of her boarders, Lori, becomes attracted to him. However, while he was serving his prison sentence, Terry developed an interest in rough, violent sex, and gory death. Now, one by one, some of the town's women pop up dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, cult classic, classic horror, independent film, scary, tense, rough, serious
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Julie Darling (1982)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, erotic, disturbing, independent film, neo noir, crying, detective
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An Average Little Man (1977)
Plot Summary:
Giovanni Vivaldi is an average middle-aged man with a secure job as a government accountant. He wishes nothing more than to set up his only son Mario, his biggest pride in the world, with the same secure government job before he eventually retires. For this, Giovanni will stop at nothing.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, controversial, tragicomedy, ambiguous ending, crying, freeze frame, italian comedy
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Greatful Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests, many of which are abnormal.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, surreal, disturbing, crying, detective, freeze frame, dark comedy, weird
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The Baby (1973)
Plot Summary:
A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. The problem is, the baby is twenty-one years old.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, terrifying, controversial, cult classic, psychological, mind bending, clever, slasher, cult horror
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Room for Rent (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lonely widow Joyce rents out a room in her house and becomes dangerously obsessed with one of her guests.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, psychological, crying, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Third Eye (1966)
Plot Summary:
The young Count Mino live in a big, old castle together with his dominant mother and a maid. Mother does not want him to marry his fiancee Laura, which turns out to have dire consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, neo noir, crying
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So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, erotic, sexy, suspense, psychological thriller, psychotronic, independent film, freeze frame, poliziottesco
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Killing of the Dolls (1975)
Plot Summary:
Paul is the son of a gardener who works in a big mansion that has returned home with his parents after failling in his medecin degree. He is emotionally unstable. He collect dolls because he was educated as a girl because his sister died. After his arrival home murders begin to happen, is him the responsible?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, surreal, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame, slasher horror, campy
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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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The Word (2014)
Plot Summary:
Days before the end of the school year, Liliana gives Janek an ultimatum, giving him 24 hours to either prove his love for her or forget about her altogether.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, Denmark
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, realistic, gloomy, neurotic, crying
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M.F.A. (2017)
Plot Summary:
An art student taps into a rich source of creative inspiration after the accidental slaughter of her rapist. An unlikely vigilante emerges, set out to avenge college girls whose attackers walked free- all the while fueling a vivid thesis exhibition.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: crying, detective, psychological, suspense, independent film, disturbing, rough, bloody, slasher, crime drama
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Shrew's Nest (2014)
Plot Summary:
Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her youth raising. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew's nest... perhaps he'll never leave.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller, sexy, surreal, controversial, hispanic
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Bad Ronald (1974)
Plot Summary:
A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new family, with the teen still living inside.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, slasher, psychotronic, psychological thriller, disturbing, controversial
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Fade to Black (1980)
Plot Summary:
Eric Binford watches a lot of movies. He is the truest definition of a film geek. One day, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies. In doing so, he manages to involve his enemies and the scenes usually result in death.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspense, horror comedy, slasher, black comedy, cult horror, independent film, suspenseful
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The Golden Glove (2019)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, controversial, erotic, psychological, atmospheric, brutal, suspense, slasher, devastating
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10 to Midnight (1983)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police detective Leo Kessler (Charles Bronson) is convinced of Stacey’s guilt and, over the objections of his partner, plants evidence to get him behind bars. When Stacey is released on a technicality, he threatens to go after Kessler and his family, leaving Kessler to defend himself against a killer with little help from the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, detective, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, scary, psychological, retro
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Sleep Tight (2011)
Plot Summary:
Apartment concierge Cesar is a miserable person who believes he was born without the ability to be happy. As a result, he decides his mission is to make life hell for everyone around him. A majority of the tenants are easy to agitate, but Clara proves to be harder than the most. So Cesar goes to creepy extremes to make this young woman mentally break down. Things get even more complicated in this twisted relationship when her boyfriend, Marcos, shows up.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, disturbing, serious, suspense, mind twisting, mind blowing, twisted
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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Plot Summary:
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: southern gothic, gothic, atmospheric, psychological thriller, scary, suspenseful, suspense, intense, black and white, gothic horror
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, psychological thriller, brutal, dark, crime drama, action thriller
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Scorned (1993)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husband's death.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller, sexy, tense, suspense, melancholic, cult classic, sexual