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Plot Summary:
An artist is plagued by nightmares of a love triangle and murder. A psychic says the dream figure is his brother, a "troubled soul" from an ancient past life. Nearly born as his twin but miscarried, this past life rival now breaks through in nightmares in attempt to repeat history.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Night Corridor (2003)
Plot Summary:
When Sam searches for answers in the mysterious accident that has befallen his twin, he soon wonders if anyone close to him can be trusted.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema
Similar in 78%
Nurse Jill (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jill Danvers is trying to put her life back together after her divorce. But someone is watching her; following her every move.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychological
Similar in 81%
Midnight Blue (1997)
Plot Summary:
Shortly before he moves from New York to Los Angeles a banker visits his Atlanta branch. One evening he is propositioned, apparently by a high-class call girl. Their night of passion leaves him besotted but he is unable to find her again even with the help of a private investigator. In L.A. he is introduced to his boss's wife and is sure she is his lady of the night. But she insists she isn't. Meanwhile, many millions are missing from the bank.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 81%
Dying to Remember (1993)
Plot Summary:
A woman goes to a psychiatrist because she is plagued by recurring nightmares. The psychiatrist tells her that she was involved in a murder in San Francisco in a past life, and the nightmares are related to that crime. She enlists the help of two San Francisco police officers to help solve the old murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: microfilm
Similar in 83%
The Twin (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jocelyn's boyfriend is perfect--except for his dangerous identical twin brother, Derek, who just escaped from a mental institution. When Derek unspools a twisted plan of revenge with Jocelyn in his crosshairs, her mother Ashley must act fast before she falls victim to a psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, confusing, suspenseful
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The Keeper (1976)
Plot Summary:
The Keeper of Underwood Asylum has the mental patients of the wealthiest families in British Columbia. The rest of the family members have been dying under mysterious circumstances, so Biggs hires private investigator Richard Driver, who puts his assistant, Maybelline, in the asylum pretending she is his cousin and that they came from a family where the parents were all first cousins to each other and they decided to keep their love platonic for genetic reasons. Then he tries to get Inspector Clarke to check him in as a narcoleptic who didn't wake up with his body. They all know what the keeper has been doing, but it is a matter of proving it, and avoiding the hypnotized Biggs twins and Danny, who he is able to keep catatonic with his machine. Inspector Clarke gives driver a lot of trouble, and the kid giving shoe shines looks down on everybody, knowing more.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, detective, spoof, parody
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Disconnected (1984)
Plot Summary:
Twin sisters are implicated in a series of slasher murders. The question is, did one of them do it, did both of them do it, or did neither of them do it?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, retro, tragic ending, independent film, cult film
Similar in 89%
Delusion (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three years after the death of Frank's wife a mysterious woman appears. As their attraction grows Frank struggles with reality and his loss. He tries to start over not knowing his choices could lead him to his own downfall.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spiritual, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, cult classic, neo noir, neorealism, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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After Darkness (1985)
Plot Summary:
To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency through one on one contact. Free of the institution he continues to be haunted by dreams of a lost twin and chants the eerie phrase "Do I stand before the king?" It is the elder brother that seems doomed to lose himself in his brother's insanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Ballet Blanc (2019)
Plot Summary:
An innocent-looking young boy mysteriously appears in a nondescript small town as some fear he's set to unleash his reign of terror.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, psychotronic
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Carnival of Souls (1998)
Plot Summary:
Alex Grant is a troubled young woman, 20 years ago, she witnessed her mother get murdered by a carnival clown. She has nightmares of the clown - Louis Seagram. First a kind man then turned bad and also tried to rape Alex's mother. Alex fears for her life, worrying that Louis might come after her and her younger sister. One day Louis returns after being released from prison for murdering Alex's mother and tries to kill Alex. Alex dries the car that she and Louis are in into the river, then she begins to have hallucinations, she begins to lose her mind.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, scary, psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, dark, independent film
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Buried Secrets (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young woman moves with her mother to her mother's hometown and is haunted by the ghost of a dead teenager.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
Plot Summary:
A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, lovecraft, black and white, silent, stylized, suspenseful, surreal, visual, creepy
Similar in 84%
Retribution (1987)
Plot Summary:
A Manic depressive artist survives a suicidal fall only to be possessed by a murdered gangster, who uses the artist to seek vengeance on those that ended his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, cult classic, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, eighties, low-budget, cult film
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Stephanie (2017)
Plot Summary:
An orphaned young girl with girl with unworldly powers is taken in by a man and woman who claim to be her parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, exciting, rough, atmospheric, thrilling, psychotronic, lovecraft
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Danika (2005)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Danika, a woman whose fears for her children are manifested in premonitions of death and disaster. Bierko plays Tomei's husband, while Hall is her psychiatrist and confidant.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, detective, scary, realistic, psychotronic
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Jennifer's Shadow (2004)
Plot Summary:
Willful young Jennifer Cassi travels to South America to claim the inheritance of her recently deceased twin sister Johanna's house. While there Jennifer must contend with her eccentric grandmother Mary Ellen Cassi, who has damned the family with an ancient curse. Jennifer immediately starts to suffer from scary visions of a sinister raven every time she goes to sleep.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, serious, slasher
Similar in 75%
Dark Intruder (1965)
Plot Summary:
Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, psychotronic, suspense, detective, grindhouse, action thriller, weird
Similar in 86%
Premature Burial (1962)
Plot Summary:
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, psychological, mind bending, bleak, gothic, atmospheric, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, classic horror
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Hunting Humans (2002)
Plot Summary:
Meet Aric Blue. He's young. He's handsome. He's successful. He's also a serial killer. He picks his victims at random, stalking them and taking advantage of the patterns in their life to kill them. He's the ultimate serial killer. But when he finds his next victim already dead, a note on the body reading: "I'VE GOT YOUR PATTERN", Aric realizes he's being stalked by a serial killer every bit his equal. When two serial killers wage war, the rules are simple: Don't Get In The Way.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, realistic, detective, independent film
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The Big Bad (2011)
Plot Summary:
As a broken woman obsessed with revenge desperately searches for the monster who destroyed her family, she unexpectedly finds herself in a surreal and frightening world.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, bleak, serious, surreal, tense, captivating, suspense, offbeat
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Dark Waters (1993)
Plot Summary:
A girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, lovecraft, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, surreal, gothic horror, dark, satanic, creepy
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Absentia (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tricia's husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia.' As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house. As she begins to link it to other mysterious disappearances, it becomes clear that Daniel's presumed death might be anything but 'natural.' The ancient force at work in the tunnel might have set its sights on Callie and Tricia... and Daniel might be suffering a fate far worse than death in its grasp.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, lovecraft, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, creepy, spooky, psychological horror
Similar in 88%
The Exorcist III (1990)
Plot Summary:
Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased serial killer. It eventually leads him to a catatonic patient in a psychiatric hospital who has recently started to speak, claiming he is the The Gemini and detailing the murders, but bears a striking resemblance to Father Damien Karras.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: demonic, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, splatter, detective, cult classic, frightening, religious horror
Similar in 90%
She-Chotic (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman's alter ego emerges after years of dormancy to exact revenge on her unsuspecting boyfriend and his mistress.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, queer horror
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Chasing Sleep (2000)
Plot Summary:
A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, mind bending, mind twisting, surreal, dark comedy, mindfuck, mind blowing
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Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Plot Summary:
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful memories.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, gothic, bleak, disturbing, art house, black and white, creepy, tense, dark
Similar in 82%
Mother! (2017)
Plot Summary:
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 244000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, suspense, mysterious, surreal, mindfuck, art house, scary, controversial, twisted
Similar in 82%
Session 9 (2001)
Plot Summary:
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak, suspenseful, dark, suspense, psychological thriller, tense
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Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Plot Summary:
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surreal, twist ending, psychological, disturbing, scary, bleak, surprise ending, atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological thriller