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Plot Summary:
In a mysterious forest in Thailand, many suicidal youths disappear and rescue teams can not find the way out even with compass. The ambitious reporter May is making sensationalist journalism exploring the deaths in the forest. Her boyfriend and botanist Shun Shu-hoi is developing a means of communication with plants. Meanwhile, Detective C. C. Ha is investigating the rape and death of a woman and the main suspect is Patrick Wong.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, mind bending, serious
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Rule Number One (2008)
Plot Summary:
Rookie Sergeant Lee is injured in a shoot-out and is assigned to the dubious-sounding Miscellaneous Affairs Department (MAD). There, he is paired up with Inspector Wong, a jaded and alcoholic veteran who explains that MAD’s role is to answer supernatural calls. Wong explains MAD’s rule number one - there are no ghosts. For every seemingly inexplicable phenomenon, there is a corresponding scientific and rational explanation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Singapore, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, captivating, detective, scary, mind bending, serious, surprise ending, freeze frame
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Hit and Run (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mary Murdock, a college student, thinks she's hit and killed a cat with her car driving home drunk from a party. She is horrified beyond words when she gets home and discovers a man's nearly dead body impaled on the bumper of her Jeep. Terrified and irrational, Mary is faced with a series of decisions that determine her fate.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller
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Storage (2009)
Plot Summary:
Working at an underground city storage facility, a young man discovers evidence of a murder and vows to bring the killer to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, interesting
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Another Heaven (2000)
Plot Summary:
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of it themselves?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, detective, creepy, scary, mind bending, surprise ending
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The Boy Next Door (2008)
Plot Summary:
A novelist (Dina Meyer) moves to a little town to write her next novel. She loves to get inspiration and as time goes by she gathers information about her neighbor, a young and wealthy guy whom she observes and picture from her window most of the time. Soon, she gets involved in a crime and most of the evidence is pointing at her due to her lonely life and life style. She needs to fight to demonstrate her innocence and that's what will be the plot of the movie till the end.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Entrance (2006)
Plot Summary:
A police detective is swept into a web of deception and, in search of the truth, finds herself in a contest with forces of the occult.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, scary, mind bending, serious, detective
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The Seamstress (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Seamstress was brought into being by the desperate curse of an innocent woman being tortured to death by a vigilante mob. Voracious for blood, the hideously-mutilated specter hunts a small group of friends who become trapped on the island where she died.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, suspense, demonic, awful
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Heroic Duo (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tough cop Ken Li (Cheng) is at the top of his game, but he's going to need some help to solve a grisly crime that the offender, a respected police officer, doesn't even remember committing. He seeks out Jack Lai (Lai), a former psychologist now in disgrace and behind bars, who has an uncanny ability to bend people to his will. Making an uneasy truce, this unconventional pair set out on a mission to find the man responsible, a master of hypnotism who will stop at nothing to get his revenge!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, heroic
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The Devil's Muse (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, gothic, mind bending, serious, realistic, experimental, art house, psychotronic
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Furnace (2007)
Plot Summary:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, detective, scary, rough, bleak, serious
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Mute Witness (1995)
Plot Summary:
Billy is mute, but it hasn't kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister's boyfriend, Andy, Billy finds herself trapped in the studio one night and is horrified to see a snuff film being made. Billy escapes and, with the help of her sister, Kate, alerts authorities about what she saw. Unfortunately, in doing so, she makes an enemy of the Russian mafia, who funded the snuff film.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, disturbing, serious, slasher, scary, psychological, stylized, mockumentary
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The Victim (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ting, an actress for murder illustration is hired to simulate a real-life murder case of Min, a former Miss Thailand who was brutally killed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, realistic, terrifying, mind bending, twisted, asian horror
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The Forest (2011)
Plot Summary:
By taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest of Mount Fuji, a sexy American cover-girl supernaturally transforms into a demonic spirit to wreak a violent revenge, one by one, upon those who helped her ex-boyfriend leave her.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Never Forget (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man (Phillips) who wakes up with amnesia also finds his supposed friend has accused him of murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, rough, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, serious
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American Crime (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young smalltown reporter, Jessie St. Claire, begins investigating a killer stalking his victims making video tapes. This might just be the career opportunity, which she has hoped for. When she herself becomes a target and suddenly disappears, the case attracts a colleague from the nationally syndicated television show "American Crime" as well. Together with Jessie's camera-man and later joined by her producer he tries to solve the mysterious case. Written by Oliver Heidelbach (IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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So Close (2002)
Plot Summary:
A conflict of interest between two high-kicking assassin sisters is complicated as they're pursued by the criminals who hired them and an equally high-kicking female cop.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting, action packed, stylized, bloody, neo noir, fast, crying
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Dark Souls (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young girl, Johanna, is attacked and seemingly murdered. Her father receives a phone call from the police pronouncing her dead as he sees her walk in the front door of their house. Strange things begin to happen to Johanna; she is disorientated and becomes pale and unresponsive. Similar attacks begin to happen, and Johanna’s father takes it on himself to find out the truth. He embarks on a dark thrill ride of lost memories, conspiracy, and zombie-like symptoms. Finding the mysterious darkness within is the source of the bizarre world he has uncovered.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, cult horror, slasher, independent film
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No One Can Hear You (2001)
Plot Summary:
Families are dying and reporter Trish (Kelly McGillis) finds herself reporting on a serial killing spree. After her daughter Lisa's (Kate Elliott) best friends are killed, she fears that her family may be on the killers list. Sheriff Webster (Barry Corbin) is not listening to her concerns, which leads Trish to wonder is he or his deputy might be involved. Then Lisa, her boyfriend Ben and her sister Amy receive threats.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, independent film, tense, realistic
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Jack Rises (2013)
Plot Summary:
A London detective tracking a serial killer finds the killers "truth or die" methods take him to New York to solve the case.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, detective
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Nightmare Detective (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying turn. Keiko Kirishima is a cool, seemingly emotionless police detective, brilliant but off-putting. She's faced with two mutilated corpses who appear to have killed themselves, but she's not sure. A cell-phone number links the deaths. She calls on Akumu Tantei, a poor and suicidal young man who has the ability to enter people's dreams. He's reluctant to help. His past haunts him. A subconscious duel of terror and blood awaits the three.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, slasher, psychological thriller, inspirational, suspense, disturbing, dark fantasy
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Seconds Apart (2011)
Plot Summary:
Seth and Jonah are twins with a dangerous ability: telekinesis. Things start to spiral out of control as their classmates die in twisted and bizarre ways. Jealousy begins to divide them and soon they can no longer trust each other, leading up to a horrific battle against themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, dark, psychological, clever, twist ending, spooky
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Our Town (2007)
Plot Summary:
Kyung-ju is a struggling novelist who writes violent and gory murder mysteries. When a fierce argument with his landlady ends in her death, he stages the killing so that it looks like the act of the serial killer that has been terrorizing his village. Anxious that the police might realize the latest killing was a copycat murder, he begins his own invetstigation to track down the killer with help of his detective friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, twisted, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Curse of the Zodiac (2007)
Plot Summary:
Genre guru Ulli Lommel (THE BOOGEYMAN, BTK KILLER) directs this horror film about the infamous Zodiac killer. Though decades have passed since the multiple murderer held the state of California hostage with fear, the mystery of his identity has never been solved.
IMDB Rating: 1.3
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, psychological thriller
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Choke (2020)
Plot Summary:
The lines between reality and fiction, and good and bad blur when both a nihilistic detective and a serial killer's affairs with a mysterious girl overlap.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, detective, psychological thriller, psychological horror
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Mummy Maniac (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events, tells how a serial murderer, kidnaps and tortures then bandaging girls like mummies.
IMDB Rating: 1.3
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, slasher, psychotronic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, funny, suspense
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Confession of Pain (2006)
Plot Summary:
A detective helps a friend investigate the mysterious death of his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China, Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, neo noir, crime drama, twisted, detective
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Anamorph (2007)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, bleak, realistic
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Feardotcom (2002)
Plot Summary:
With four corpses on his hands, New York City gumshoe Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) teams with Department of Health worker Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) to track down a homicidal sadist who telecasts shocking acts of torture on the Internet. But they have their work cut out: It seems the victims' only link is that they all went toes up 48 hours after logging on a site known as feardotcom.com. Stephen Rea also stars in this gruesome thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg, USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, dark, slasher, neo noir, detective
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Kemper (2008)
Plot Summary:
A film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, scary
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Henry II: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1996)
Plot Summary:
Henry has wandered into a small town looking for work and a place to stay. He gets a job delivering and cleaning porto-potties and moves in with a co-worker until he gets his feet off of the ground. Henry and his new friend soon start to kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychological, terrifying, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful