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Plot Summary:
A group of shape-shifting werewolves descend upon a small town in search of a girl who is re-born once every 2000 years. She holds the key to their survival and all will die who stand in their way.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating
Best tv shows and movies like Dark Moon Rising (2015):
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Alien: Reign of Man (2017)
Plot Summary:
Stranded on a distant planet, a team must fight aliens and activate a machine meant to restore Earth to a time before its downfall.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 77%
Verbo (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sara is a young woman who fails to understand the world she lives in. Trying to find meaning in life she would come to a mysterious place to undertake an adventure: it is a parallel universe, dark and fantastic, where life and death hang in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 912
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing
Similar in 85%
Slice (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a spooky small town, when a slew of pizza delivery boys are slain on the job, two daring survivors set out to catch the culprits behind the cryptic crime spree.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, captivating, tense, enigmatic, surreal, slasher, art house, grindhouse, perverse, weird
Similar in 87%
The Dwarves of Demrel (2018)
Plot Summary:
In this steampunk fantasy adventure, a collapse imprisons three dwarven miners who must now work collectively to combat starvation, despair, and a mysterious creature.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 85%
Red Venom Kills (2017)
Plot Summary:
Alluring young Scarlet Silk is a vengeful hooker gone crazy after her parents murder, and being stabbed several times. The audacious naughty teen changes her destiny near death by discovering a mysterious crate from the Amazon jungle left behind by her mother that has two mystical bottles of red venom; one that heals, and the other that poisons. Scarlet then transcends herself into becoming the deadliest predator in the jungle, as her mission is to inject her poisonous venom into the diabolical underworld queen Dark Widow.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, grindhouse, comic
Similar in 88%
Werewolf Castle (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a pack of werewolves attack a medieval village, Thorfinn, whose lover perished in the attack, joins knights Thomas, Osmund, Hamelin, and Hal Skullsplitter as they lead the fight back against the vicious lycanthropes.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 78%
Wolf Girl (2001)
Plot Summary:
Tara Talbot is afflicted with the rare genetic condition hypertrichosis: she is covered head to toe in hair. She lives her life in Harley Dune's Travelling Freak Show, on display as the 'Terrifying Wolf Girl', but underneath she is just a teenage girl who longs to be normal.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Romania
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, suspense, disturbing, queer horror, offbeat
Similar in 82%
Kung Fu Monster (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the waning years of the Ming Dynasty, the Bruneian Empire offers a rare creature to the nation as a gift. Ocean, a member of the Imperial Secret Police, has been tasked to tame the beast. Though the furry beast appears ferocious on the outside, Ocean discovers that it is kind by nature. Not wanting to turn the beast into a killing machine on the battlefield, Ocean secretly releases the beast into the wild and elopes with Frigid, the daughter of a man executed on false charges.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Action, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, psychotronic
Similar in 85%
Red: Werewolf Hunter (2010)
Plot Summary:
The modern-day descendant of Little Red Riding Hood brings her fiancé home to meet her family and reveal their occupation as werewolf hunters, but after he is bitten by a werewolf, she must protect him from her own family.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, fairy tale, exciting, captivating
Similar in 85%
Monsterwolf (2010)
Plot Summary:
A creature of ancient legend manifests, bound to protect the ecological balance of the land and killing anyone that threatens it. This elusive guardian is initially both feared and celebrated by the locals, but when a deadly curse affects them all, they must unite and recapture the monster wolf’s spirit or face their ultimate doom.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, psychotronic, computer animated
Similar in 76%
The House On Hooter Hill (2007)
Plot Summary:
A house haunted by the sensual spirit of its drop-dead gorgeous, recently deceased owner becomes the setting for paranormal activity and ultra-erotic sensations that are out of this world. Young, philandering married couple Sue and Ryan, three busty babes, and a voluptuous psychic who senses danger arrive at the secluded house for a reading of the horny homeowner's videotaped will.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, hot, sexploitation film
Similar in 84%
Paradox (2018)
Plot Summary:
A loud poem. A whimsical western tale of music and love.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: surreal, mystical, tense, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, cerebral
Similar in 77%
Firebite (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a remote South-Australian desert mining town — a hive for the last vampire stronghold — two Indigenous Australian hunters embark on a quest to battle the last colony of vampires.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Fantasy
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, gothic, neo western
Similar in 75%
Gathering of Heroes: Legend of the Seven Swords (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the mystical realm of Ryntia, the forces of the underworld are aligning to unleash a plague of evil upon the surface. The deadly bat-like Blood Reavers, the Saurian Maurauders, the Orcish Warmongers and the feline Shadow-cat mercenaries have pledged their respective clans to the service of Bre'Gwen, queen of the deep elves. Together they seek to destroy the human and Elven kingdoms and rule all of Ryntia in the name of evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, mystical, entertaining
Similar in 76%
The Witch Princess (2020)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, tense, captivating, suspense, stylized
Similar in 79%
The Dawnseeker (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set in the year 2245 when Earth's sun threatens to wipe out all of humanity, "The Dawnseeker" follows five hired mercenaries who travel to an uncharted planet to collect a rare mineral known as stardust to replenish the dying star. After their spaceship crashes on the alien planet, they are stalked and hunted by a creature far more advanced than anything they have ever encountered before.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, futuristic, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
Nightwatch (2015)
Plot Summary:
Meet Keelin, Vladimir and Wilko, also known as The Nightwatch, a secret covenant with only one purpose: fight the evil from the underworld.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, feel good, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative
Similar in 79%
Journey to Promethea (2010)
Plot Summary:
A tyrannical king reigns over his kingdom with an iron fist, but there is hope. A prophecy foretold long ago states that a boy will rise up against the oppressive regime and lead his people to the promised land of Promethea. This is the action-packed journey of one boy that sparks a rebellion that ignites a vicious clash of that sparks a rebellion that ignites a vicious clash of can emerge alive and victorious.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, intense
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The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the twilight of the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial court is plagued by corruption as tyrants rule over the land. With the Manchurians preying on a weakened empire, war is imminent. To save the victims from their suffering, sorceress Jade Raksha fights the soldiers that oppress people for their own gain. As payback, local government officials decide to pin the murder of Governor Zhuo Zhonglian on Jade, turning her and the members of her cult into wanted fugitives for a crime they didn't commit.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, serious, stylized, tense, disturbing, touching, surprise ending
Similar in 81%
Dragon (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a desperate attempt to save her kingdom from an advancing army of dark elves, Princess Vanir must traverse the haunted forest of Sidhe. With the help of loyal adventurers Cador and Artemir, they encounter the army of elves, a mysterious sorceress, and the powerful dragon that stands in their way.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, captivating, visually appealing, mythical, independent film
Similar in 87%
The Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye (2020)
Plot Summary:
Artemis, a tenacious podcast host, has grown tired of the fluff pieces she’s been assigned by APN, the American Podcasting Network. When she finds herself in the small mining town of Connor Creek with Paul (her producer and twin brother), the corporate corruption story they’re investigating is sure to be a bust. To the twins’ surprise, the oddballs and eccentrics of this small town are harboring a secret even darker and furrier than any political scandal: werewolves. With the future of Connor Creek at stake, the Schue-Horyn twins need to decide who to trust in order to unearth the truth and stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: light, captivating
Similar in 86%
The Watch (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of misfit cops rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe. Inspired by the characters created by Sir Terry Pratchett’s famous “Discworld” novels.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, semi serious, detective
Similar in 81%
Wolf Pack (2023)
Plot Summary:
When a raging wildfire releases a supernatural creature, four young adults find themselves drawn together under a full moon.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: anthology, spooky, teen horror
Similar in 79%
Every Witch Way: Spellbound (2014)
Plot Summary:
Every witch way like you have never seen it before all your magic comes back in this movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining
Similar in 88%
Ogre (2008)
Plot Summary:
A vicious Ogre rules over a town that has been stuck in time since the 1800's.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Wolvesbayne (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film is pretty much a "by the numbers" thriller that follows Russel Bayne (London) - who is bitten by a werewolf and quickly finds himself in the middle of a supernatural war between vampires, werewolves, and human hunters. To make matters worse, it seems the vampires are having a civil war with a clan breaking from the others in a quest to return the vampire goddess back to power.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, gothic, exciting, serious, fast
Similar in 90%
Deep Dark (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hermann considers suicide until he finds a strange talking hole in the wall that has the power to fulfill his wildest dreams, or become his worst nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, lovecraft, spooky, weird
Similar in 82%
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, gothic horror, perverse
Similar in 80%
Purgatory (1999)
Plot Summary:
An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill Hickok who must redeem themselves before gaining admittance to Heaven...or screw up and go to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, offbeat, dark fantasy, spaghetti western, wild, cult film
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Tidelands (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ex-con Cal McTeer's return to her hometown of Orphelin Bay blows the lid off a generations-long conspiracy of silence around murder, drugs and Sirens.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, enigmatic, captivating, tense, erotic, mystical