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Plot Summary:
Greece. A seaside resort struck by a heavy heat wave. Water is scarce and violence is ready to explode. Ashraf, a solitary immigrant, is looking after a villa while its owners are away. On a dusty road crushed by the sun, he is stopped by a police officer for an identity check.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Sam Was Here (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients, yet everything seems deserted.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, bleak, philosophical, mind bending, retro, road movie, ambiguous ending, minimal cast, weird
Similar in 81%
Footprints on the Moon (1975)
Plot Summary:
Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have? A haunting, beautiful and unconventional giallo.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Turkey
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, surprise ending, psychological thriller, philosophical, slasher, grindhouse, existential, spooky, avant garde, crying
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The Watcher Self (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Watcher Self is an unsettling psychosexual chiller written and directed by Matt Cruse about one woman's descent into hell. Cora (Karen French) begins her day facing the consequences of a nightmare. Struggling to maintain a normal routine, she engages in a series of emotionally detached encounters and experiences a confusing psychological connection with the strange and elusive Van (Julian Shaw). Then echoes from the past threaten to derail her tenuous state of mind, and Cora becomes increasingly dislocated from her surroundings. Is she going insane, or is it something else? The Watcher Self is about what remains when the layers of sanity are gradually stripped away... and what may or may not be real.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Damned in Venice (1978)
Plot Summary:
A blind boy receives a vision that warn him of the birth of the anti-christ.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial
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The Righteous (2021)
Plot Summary:
A burdened man feels the wrath of a vengeful God after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, psychotronic, art house
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Bruiser (2000)
Plot Summary:
Bruiser is the story of a man who has always tried to fit in. He keeps his mouth shut, follows the rules, and does what he's supposed to do. But one morning, he wakes up to find his face is gone. All the years of acquiescence have cost him the one thing he can't replace: his identity. Now he's a blank, outside as well as in, an anonymous, featureless phantom. Bent on exacting revenge, he explodes. He isn't going to follow the rules anymore.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychotronic, creepy, classic horror, serious
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The Beckoning (2009)
Plot Summary:
Francesca is a pediatrician who is dedicated to both motherhood and children, married to another physician, Pedro. Following the birth of a new child, Francesca begins to suffer from postpartum depression. Following the advice of friend and psychiatrist Jean, the couple move to a new home away from the city. But Francesca's obsession with her new baby engulfs her. Regardless of Pedro's and Jean's attempts to help her, she seems to drift dangerously close to madness. And to make matters worse, she is starting to hear and see things. Furtive figures and ghostly shadows start tormenting her. The large house in which she and her family live alone seems to hide terrible secrets. Both the cellar and the attic are locked and barred to the family, and it is from both these places that Francesca receives nocturnal visits that are slowly driving her mad.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, scary
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Castle Freak (2020)
Plot Summary:
After she’s permanently blinded in a tragic car accident, Rebecca receives some bizarre news: her long-lost mother has recently passed away, leaving her their family’s ancestral castle in rural Albania. Traveling to the estate with a group of friends, Rebecca hopes it will be an opportunity for her to reconnect with a past she never knew and a mother who seemingly left her behind. When mysterious events begin to occur and her friends begin to die, Rebecca must unravel the secrets of her family’s history before she too falls prey to the Castle Freak.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, scary, brutal, psychotronic, lovecraft
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Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps (2010)
Plot Summary:
1975, Swiss Alps: In a remote mountain village, an immesely beautiful but disturbed and dumb woman shows up. Only the village policeman Reusch takes care of the strange woman and tries to find out whoshe is. There are hints that she came from the Höhenalp Alp, where herdsmen do unthinkable things to get the company of women. Many dark truths are revealed that should better have remained hidden. A tragedy of lust, insanity and murder is brought to a seemlingly pure and perfect world. It is the beginning of a nightmare of religious insanity, hypocrisy, abuse and belief in demons, who destroys a young family and brings a whole village to destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, creepy, classic horror, rough, realistic, sexual
Similar in 81%
The Odds (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman enlists in an underground game of pain endurance in the hope of winning the million dollar prize. She soon learns the real opponent is the man who's running the game, as he employs horrific methods to manipulate and defeat her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Whispering Corridors: The Humming (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eun-hee is hired as a vice principal at her old high school, where strange things take place in the closed down washroom. High school student Ha-young and So-yeon, who used the washroom as their hideout hear humming in the empty washroom, and believe that a ghost exists inside. Ha-young discovers a flowerpot on the stairs and suspect that Eun-hee is somehow linked to the mystery. Suffering from hallucination upon her inauguration, Eun-hee finds a ghastly figured girl in the washroom mirror and begins to believe that the girl was the one who brought her back to this school….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, suspense, suspenseful, tense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, dark fantasy
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Bed of the Dead (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four twentysomethings find themselves stuck on a haunted antique bed where leaving means suffering a gruesome death. Plagued with frightening hallucinations, they must figure out the bed's secrets before they are ultimately picked off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, mystical, tense, enigmatic, psychological thriller
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32 Malasana Street (2020)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by real events, the story centers around a family in the 70s who settles in the Madrid neighborhood of Malasaña where their new house will become the worst of their nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, enigmatic, dark, splatter, crying
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Voyage to Agatis (2010)
Plot Summary:
Isabell and Rafael are going on holiday. On their trip, they pick up young Lisa, who is completely unaware of Rafael’s violent vein, and of his passion for humbling others.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, extreme horror, perverse, devastating
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Stigmata (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus received when crucified. When the Vatican gets word of Frankie's situation, a high-ranking cardinal requests that the Rev. Andrew Kiernan investigate her case. Soon Kiernan realizes that very sinister forces are at work, and tries to rescue Frankie from the entity that is plaguing her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, biblical, satanic, psychological, suspense, spiritual, bleak, intense, psychological thriller
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Haze (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he’s there, or why he’s bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally ‘zones out’ of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, clever, suspense, dark
Similar in 83%
Carrie (1976)
Plot Summary:
Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 203000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, gothic, intense, scary, suspense, dark, disturbing, atmospheric, creepy
Similar in 83%
Visitors (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of Georgia Perry, the first woman to sail around the world solo.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, tense
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The Fog (2005)
Plot Summary:
Trapped within an eerie mist, the residents of Antonio Bay have become the unwitting victims of a horrifying vengeance. One hundred years earlier, a ship carrying lepers was purposely lured onto the rocky coastline and sank, drowning all aboard. Now they're back – long-dead mariners who've waited a century for their revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, surprise ending, bloody, dark, social, splatter, grindhouse
Similar in 77%
The Changeling (1980)
Plot Summary:
A man staying at a secluded historical mansion, finds his life being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspense, gothic, suspenseful, creepy, spooky, disturbing, cerebral, cult classic
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The Woods (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her estranged parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark, psychological, gothic, suspense, creepy, slasher
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One Missed Call (2008)
Plot Summary:
Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan, Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, creepy, psychological, mind bending, dark, mind blowing, terrifying
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The Suicide Song (2007)
Plot Summary:
Original story by Yasushi AKIMOTO, writer of the mega hit movie One Missed Call (Chakushin Ari) series. As the project was in development with an idea of an "infectious song (Densen-Uta)", one of the staff called out..."There was a real Densen-Uta!" He discovers on the internet of a song back in 1933, Hungary, which caused mysterious deaths of many people. In "Densen-Uta", high school girls get mixed up in the Japanese version of this infectious song, and with the help of third rate gossip magazine reporter, tries to solve the mystery and horror behind the song. They come to know just how real, an urban legend can become.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, serious, realistic
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Psychosis (2010)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer unleashes his blood lust at a remote environmental-camp. Years later a horror novelist relocates to rural England and is plagued to the point of madness by horrific hauntings of a massacre.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, scary, atmospheric, serious, slasher, realistic, psychotronic
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Grave Encounters 2 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Tortured by the ghosts of the demonized insane asylum that killed the crew of GRAVE ENCOUNTERS, film students fight to escape death as their own paranormal investigation goes terribly wrong in this horrifying sequel.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary, dark, demonic, bleak, slasher, spooky
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Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
Just as Dan and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare. Security cameras capture the torment, making every minute horrifyingly real.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, mockumentary, creepy, frightening, stylized, psychological, bleak, serious
Similar in 84%
Silent Hill (2006)
Plot Summary:
The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric care, Rose flees with her child, heading for the abandoned town in search of answers – and ignoring the protests of her husband. It's soon clear this place is unlike anywhere she's ever been. It's smothered by fog, inhabited by a variety of strange beings and periodically overcome by a living 'darkness' that literally transforms everything it touches. As Rose searches for her little girl, she begins to learn the history of the strange town and realizes that her daughter is just a pawn in a larger game.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 241000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, surreal, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, creepy, disturbing, gothic horror, suspense
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1408 (2007)
Plot Summary:
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 289000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending, surprise ending, dark, confusing, creepy, atmospheric
Similar in 76%
The Babadook (2014)
Plot Summary:
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 243000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, dark, suspense, suspenseful, psychological horror, spooky, dark fantasy, creepy
Similar in 81%
Mirrors (2008)
Plot Summary:
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, rough, demonic, intense, psychological, creepy, suspense, twist ending