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Plot Summary:
A poor Filipino woman seeks money by donating a kidney to a rich Arab man. When the donation is halted due to a ban on such international transplants, she decides to wed the man instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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DR. BENDERFAX (1997)
Plot Summary:
The titular Dr. Benderfax (Nigel Hazeldine) is an esteemed researcher (read: mad scientist) willing to go the extra mile for his experiments investigating a rare psychic phenomenon known as the “Telefaximial Field.” Unfortunately for the good doctor and his lovely assistant Nurse Clench (Caroline Hazeldine), many of the “volunteers” end up in the morgue. Actually on brief reflection, it’s probably more unfortunate for the patients. After some finagling the medical duo end up in a local nuthouse and use this fresh batch of patients to further their research. Just as they’re on the verge of a major breakthrough, in saunters Dr. Andrew… Fresh out of college in 1992 Tom Hosler decided to make his “first and only feature script worthy of production.” Armed with a savings account and several credit cards, the film was shot over the course of many weekends. After multiple years of post-production, the film finally saw the light of day in 1997. (Write up via Spectacle Theater).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, dark comedy
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Impulse (1984)
Plot Summary:
After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre, violent and self-destructive behavior.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense thriller, independent film, scary, tense, mind bending, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense
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Deadly Web (1996)
Plot Summary:
A divorced mother (Gigi Rice) is targeted by an on-line stalker known as Cybergod, and she teams with an ex-cop (Ed Marinaro) to track down the maniac.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Mortal Fear (1994)
Plot Summary:
Based on the provocative best-selling novel, a brilliant scientist finds the hidden link that can save countless lives, but when a crazed killer uses the same information to play God, millions are at risk. Dr. Jennifer Kessler is the one person who stands in the way of ultimate medical disaster. After witnessing one, then dozens of patients at her hospital mysteriously and unexpectedly die, her search for the truth leads her through a bizarre world of intrigue, passion and controversial secret medical research. As Dr. Kessler races against the clock to find a way to stop catastrophe, she finds herself up against an imposing and terrifying conspiracy implicating the entire U.S. insurance and medical system in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Implanted (2013)
Plot Summary:
When your memory lies, how do you find the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Inoperable (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman wakes up in a seemingly evacuated hospital with a hurricane approaching that has awakened malevolent forces inside. She realizes she must escape the hospital before the hurricane passes, or she will be trapped there forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, psychotronic
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Unthinkable (2019)
Plot Summary:
When he is tasked to take care of the former US ambassador in Syria, a med student comes to learn of the devastating impact a past attack left on the ambassador's family and the dark secrets connected to it. Soon, he finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy beyond his wildest imagination.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, political, suspense, suspense thriller, twisted
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Sawbones (1995)
Plot Summary:
An edgy, terrifying tale about an intern who failed medical school... but never gave up surgery.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, cult film
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Errors of the Human Body (2012)
Plot Summary:
Canadian scientist Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at a new institute in wintry Dresden, Germany. His contribution to their most important project - a human regeneration gene-has the potential to make something miraculous out of a personal tragedy that has haunted him for years. Errors of the Human Body is about one man's quest for redemption from his own disturbing past, set within the mysterious world of genetic engineering.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, bleak, captivating, suspense, serious, independent film, weird
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False Positive (2021)
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After months of trying and failing to get pregnant, Lucy and Adrian finally find their dream fertility doctor in the illustrious Dr. Hindle. But after becoming pregnant with a healthy baby girl, Lucy begins to notice something sinister through Hindle's gleaming charm, and she sets out to uncover the unsettling truth about him, and her own "birth story." As if getting pregnant weren't complicated enough.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, dark, medical horror, psychological thriller, psychological horror
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Anatomy 2 (2003)
Plot Summary:
The doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser decides to move to Berlin and be an intern in a famous clinic, expecting to increase his knowledge and expertize, and help his handicap brother Willi Hauser. He joins a secret fraternity of doctors, under the leadership of Prof. Muller-LaRousse, who is researching the use of bionic muscles in human beings without any ethics or respect to the laws. The team is also volunteer to the experiences, and is under investigation of Paula Henning. When Jo gets close to a Filipino nurse, and becomes addicted in the drugs used in experience, he realizes the truth hidden in the methods used by the secret society in the development of science.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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The Surgeon (1995)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Julian Mater is suspended and gets his license revoked for performing experiments on dying patients in cellular regeneration. A couple of years later, he returns to the hospital that condemned his work to begin practicing his grizzly experiments once more.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, medical horror, mystical, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful
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Needlestick (2017)
Plot Summary:
A desperate doctor locks down South Union Cardiac Hospital to keep the greatest discovery in human history to himself, while a young intern races to save a dying young dancer, his ex-girlfriend, and his best friend, and stop his mentor.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: medical horror, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, medical drama
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Killer Body (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Katie Jones, a successful plastic surgeon, becomes entangled in the web of a narcissist patient whose path to perfection threatens to destroy Katie and her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Black Box (2020)
Plot Summary:
After losing his wife and memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an experimental treatment that makes him question who he really is.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, unusual plot structure, psychological thriller, enigmatic, dark, disturbing, mindfuck, weird
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Terminal (1996)
Plot Summary:
A hospital in need of funds announces a cure for a form of brain cancer, having saved several wealthy men's lives. When a young girl with the cancer dies, one doctor notices that she and all the cured men had been treated with exactly the same medicine. Investigating further, she uncovers a plot by the administration to locate wealthy men already suffering from a serious condition, and give them the cancer, which can then be treated successfully.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: mystical
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Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kojiro Himuro is a champion figure skater taking part in an upcoming world competition. Yet, he is suffering from a complicated CTEPH (chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension). Kantaro Kurosu is the director of the Cross Medical Center. He asks Michiko Daimon to perform surgery on Kojiro, but, right before his surgery some thing happened.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, medical drama
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Red 11 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A human lab rat in a sinister medical research facility tries to buy his way out of debt to the company while under the influence of experimental psychoactive drugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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Black Death (1992)
Plot Summary:
On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still on vacation, she breaks down in the middle of the street and dies shortly after in a hospital -- by the plague, as the terrified coroners find out. While trying to keep this from the public to avoid a panic, epidemic commissioner Dr. Nora Hart has to investigate Sarah's identity and find everyone who had contact with her. If she misses a single person, the plague could kill half the city in a few days!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, apocalyptic
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Virus (1995)
Plot Summary:
Who could have deliberately released a rare and deadly African plague that is now spreading uncontrollably throughout America's largest urban areas? A lone determined doctor desperately and fearlessly searches for the truth, but she soon finds herself targeted for death as well. With time running out to save human kind, Dr. Marissa Blumenthal discovers that the strange disease may have actually been unleashed by the medical establishment itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mystical, apocalyptic
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Breaking Dawn (2004)
Plot Summary:
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life on the outside tread the line between fantasy and reality as a stalker becomes known to her. She could be in danger; it could all be in her head.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, suspense
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The Lazarus Effect (2015)
Plot Summary:
Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, enigmatic, intense, creepy, surprise ending, psychological, dark
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Autopsy (2008)
Plot Summary:
Emily Johnson, her boyfriend Bobby and their friends Clare and Jude are recent college grads driving cross-country, taking a last vacation together before they face the "real" world. An accident leaves them hurt and stranded on a lonely Louisiana road. When the ambulance arrives, it whisks them to Mercy Hospital.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, disturbing, spooky, serious, psychological, bloody
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Chicago Hope (1994)
Plot Summary:
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: emotional, medical drama, touching, serious, talky, clever, realistic, neurotic, black comedy, dark comedy
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Sublime (2007)
Plot Summary:
Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than originally expected; and as his own fears begin to manifest around him, he learns that Mt. Abaddon is not a place where people come to get better... it is a place where people come to die.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, psychological, suspenseful, scary, psychological horror, medical horror, spooky, twisted, serious
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Room 6 (2006)
Plot Summary:
The school teacher Amy has been proposed by her boyfriend Nick early in the morning and she promises her answer later in the afternoon.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, medical horror, twisted
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The Mob Doctor (2012)
Plot Summary:
For most physicians, the Hippocratic oath is sacred. But for one Chicago doctor, who is indebted to the mafia, saving lives isn’t her only concern. The Mob Doctor is a fast-paced medical drama focusing on a young female surgeon caught between two worlds as she juggles her promising medical career with her family’s debt to Chicago’s Southside mob.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, emotional, realistic, medical drama
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Coma (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young medical student discovers that something sinister is going on in her hospital after routine procedures send more than a few seemingly healthy patients into comas on the operating table. Remake of Coma 1978.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspenseful, medical horror, realistic
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The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
Plot Summary:
Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, exciting, psychological thriller, apocalyptic, cult classic, scary, mind bending, serious
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The Void (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As the horror intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a hellish voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital in a desperate bid to end the nightmare before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark, lovecraft, creepy, suspense, surreal, stylized, satanic, scary, psychological, atmospheric