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Plot Summary:
In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later disappears under mysterious circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)
Plot Summary:
Peter Glahn is released after years of incarceration as a political prisoner and is now returning to his homeland, the mythical Mandragora where the sun never sets. On board the ship home, he meets the mysterious Juliana Kossel who vanishes after stealing his heart. Once he arrives on the island, he goes to the family ostrich farm run by his sister Amelia. He finds Amelia living with a farmhand named Cain Ball who fears that Peter's return will endanger the agreement he made with Amelia that will see him inherit the farm. Amelia has since fallen for the vain Dr. Isaac Solti who controls the island and has a hold on both Zephyr Eccles, the widow of a local fisherman, and Juliana, Peter's dream girl from the ship. Solti's true obsession is a recently discovered statue of Venus that possesses strange powers. All the characters meet at Solti's lab where the sexual tensions erupt.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, experimental, avant garde, independent film, exciting, atmospheric, mind bending, offbeat, serious
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Ghost of Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing the brutal murder of an elderly lady, a man has an encounter with a bizarre woman who claims to be an old lover of his... A lover who apparently committed suicide years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy, West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Farewell to the Ark (1984)
Plot Summary:
A remote village has its own norms, rites and traditions. Sue and Sutechiki are a couple and cousins. Their sex life had been better: Sutechiki is impotent and Sue have a magical chastity belt. Themes such as time, memory, modernization and social conventions included in the story of Sue, Sutechiki, the village's mad women and rape gay men.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Black Indies (1964)
Plot Summary:
During the 1870s Scotland, mining engineer James Starr receives a letter from his old colleague Simon Ford who is living with his family in a cottage deep inside the abandoned Aberfoyle mine.Ford asks for Starr's help to solve mysterious and unexplained occurrences taking place deep inside the Dochart well of the Aberfoyle mine.Starr and Ford explore the mine and they discover a new vein of coal.The discovery revitalizes the local mining community, which has been out of work since the mine's closure.The new mining project leads to the development of a vast underground mining town built around an underground lake called Loch Malcom.However, the mysterious occurrences continue to take place and they threaten to destroy the new found prosperity of the underground mining town.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: mysterious
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Fateful Findings (2013)
Plot Summary:
A small boy discovers a mystical power as a child. He is then separated from his childhood girlfriend. He grows up to be a computer scientist who is hacking into the most secret national and international secrets, as well as being an acclaimed novel writer. His childhood 'finding' gives him amazing paranormal powers. He is reunited with the childhood girlfriend, mystically, on his hospital deathbed... as his relationship with his current drug addict girlfriend is deteriorating. The passions build between the threesome. Mystical, psychiatric and worldly forces rise to prevent him from revealing the hacked secrets. He attempts to reveal all in a Washington DC large press conference, with 'fateful' and dangerous consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: absurd, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, psychotronic, bloody, weird, bizarre, cult film
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Filip Traum (1990)
Plot Summary:
A story based on "The Mysterious Stranger" novel by Mark Twain.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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The Skin of Sorrow (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 19th-century France, a man (Thomas Coumans) magically has his wishes come true but at a price that shortens his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, philosophical, enigmatic, captivating, sad, visually appealing, mystical, psychotronic, awful
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Rappaccini's Daughter (1980)
Plot Summary:
Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni (Kristoffer Tabori) who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden. However, the strange and unearthly beauty of Beatrice (Kathleen Beller) masks a terrifying curse which Giovanni must tragically discover. Her father, the mysterious Dr. Rappaccini, has made her the subject of a diabolical experiment. In Giovanni's attempt to free Beatrice from the control of her father and to escape the poisonous effect she begins to have on him, he unwittingly destroys her. From the short story of master American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, two quintessential Hawthorne themes are explored: the sins of interfering with another's soul and the futility of trying to tamper with nature.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: gothic
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The Stolen Airship (1967)
Plot Summary:
The Stolen Airship (Czech: Ukradená vzducholod) is a 1967 live-action/animated film by Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman. The story is based loosely on Jules Verne's novels Two Years' Vacation and The Mysterious Island. The film in Art Nouveau style consists of live-action scenes, generally shot in black and white, as well as hand-drawn, stop motion, and cutout animation. Various live-action and animated elements are often composited into the same scene.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Family, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Italy, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic
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Count Dracula (1971)
Plot Summary:
Czech television production of Dracula that is very faithful to Bram Stoker's novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)
Plot Summary:
In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera. He is also an obsessed opera fan, keeps the body of his favorite diva preserved in a crypt in the castle. In order to keep away nosy visitors, the baron's mad-scientist assistant, invents all sorts of spooky phenomena in order to give the castle a creepy reputation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: surreal, gothic, gothic horror, cult classic, fairy tale, parody, psychotronic, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Door with Seven Locks (1962)
Plot Summary:
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
Plot Summary:
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
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Scarlet Samurai: Incarnation (2013)
Plot Summary:
There's something strange happening inside Buffalo Central Terminal. A group of urban explorers find more than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Valley of the Dragons (1961)
Plot Summary:
In 1881, Michael Denning, an American soldier, and Hector Servadac, a French aristocrat, are about to have a duel over a woman that they both are infatuated with. However, just as the two men are about to shoot at each other, a comet strikes the Earth and the gravitational pull draws in the two men. Michael and Hector soon deduce that this comet has been periodically landing on Earth and gathering people and animals from various eras in time, including people and dinosaurs. The two men then decide to put their differences aside and fight for survival as well as help make peace between two warring tribes of cavemen. Written by Brian Washington.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychotronic, vintage
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Captain Nemo (1975)
Plot Summary:
Based on novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Fantasy, Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 203 min
Plot tags:
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Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly been involved with Erica's just-dead mother. After taking the Count home, Paul and Erica are waylayed, and next day a listless Erica is diagnosed by their doctor as having lost a lot of blood. When she is later found feasting on the family cat the doctor becomes convinced vampirism is at work, and that its focus is Count Yorga and his large isolated house.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, gothic, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, tension, suspense
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Retro Puppet Master (1999)
Plot Summary:
Toulon runs a puppet theatre in the heart of Paris and meets the sorcerer (the mysterious Afzel). When his life is saved by the lovely Swiss Ambassador's daughter Ilsa, we bear witness to the origin of the Puppet Master.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: controversial, cult horror, terrifying, independent film, tense, serious, experimental, horror comedy, slasher, scary
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Mathias Sandorf (1963)
Plot Summary:
In 19th century Europe, Mathias Sandorf, a former rebel turned rich doctor with a new name, decides to track down and kill the informants who sold his comrades out to the government decade ago. His daughter falls for one of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
Plot Summary:
In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, fairy tale, exciting, captivating, psychotronic
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Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967)
Plot Summary:
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, captivating, semi serious, slapstick, whimsical
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Painted Skin: The Resurrection (2012)
Plot Summary:
According to demon lore, it takes hundreds of years to attain human form. Even then, lacking a human heart, a demon cannot experience the true pains and passions of existence. However, there is a legend that if a pure human heart is freely offered to a demon, it can become a mortal and experience true life. Sequel of Painted Skin (2008).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: stylized, serious, psychotronic, tense, captivating, disturbing, romantic, costume drama, exciting, epic
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Arthur the King (1983)
Plot Summary:
Classic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent out to try and retrieve the lost queen and unfortunately falls in love with her. Forbidden love, revenge, family rivalry, and magic are all prominent themes.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, arthurian, exciting, semi serious
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
Plot Summary:
After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 260000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: teen, sentimental, atmospheric, romantic, saga, gothic, psychotronic, fairy tale, mystic, mystical
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Plot Summary:
Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf. But before she knows it, she's thrust into a centuries-old conflict, and her desire to be with Edward at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 296000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, teen, atmospheric, intense, sentimental, saga, fairy tale, gothic, mystical
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Sky High (2002)
Plot Summary:
A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims and taking them with him. His victims however, are not merely random humans as thought by the police. They are in fact, the past and present guardians of the gateway of the afterlife.On the day he is to be married, Detective Kanzaki, who happens to be on the case, discovers that his fiancé Mina has been murdered with her heart also missing. He also learns that the killers are Kudo, a geneticist, and his evil secretary Rei. The two are trying to obtain six hearts from the guardians so that they may call forth a horde of demons from the Gate of Rage and have their every desire granted. Only problem is, once they open the gate the entire world will be covered in darkness.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, detective
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Plot Summary:
Harry starts his fourth year at Hogwarts, competes in the treacherous Triwizard Tournament and faces the evil Lord Voldemort. Ron and Hermione help Harry manage the pressure – but Voldemort lurks, awaiting his chance to destroy Harry and all that he stands for.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 666000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, atmospheric, saga, action packed, teen, fantasy adventure, action adventure, mystic
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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
Plot Summary:
In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who protect humanity from evil forces. After her mother disappears, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters and enters Downworld, an alternate realm filled with demons, vampires, and a host of other creatures. Clary and her companions must find and protect an ancient cup that holds the key to her mother's future.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 138000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, UK
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, dark fantasy, atmospheric, fairy tale, sexy, teen, gothic, romantic, tense, dark
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 928000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, entertaining, sad, epic, saga, stylized, action adventure, psychotronic, mystical
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Stardust (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 282000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, romantic, feel good, light, dark fantasy, captivating, atmospheric, exciting, offbeat, scenic