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Plot Summary:
Horror anthology consisting of three episodes directed by Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall and Michal Kosakowski.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: anthology, disturbing, psychedelic, bloody, controversial
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Harvest Lake (2016)
Plot Summary:
Five friends fall under the seductive influence of a libidinous, otherworldly presence that threatens to change their lives forever in this strange and erotic new film from director Scott Schirmer (Found) and producer Brian K. Williams (Time to Kill). Starring Jason Crowe (Dead Moon Rising), Ellie Church (Headless), Tristan Risk (American Mary), Dan Nye (The Legend of Wasco), and Kevin Roach (The Confession of Fred Krueger), with special FX by The Clockwerk Creature Company.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, mystical
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Living Doll (1990)
Plot Summary:
Howard, a shy morgue worker, falls in love with a girl who ends up in the morgue, but he doesn't let that stop him. Howard has a secret - he is in love with Christine. There's only one problem, Christine is DEAD! A grave was no place for Christine, the only place for her was at Howard's side. At last she was his, his to dress, his to feed and to care for.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, independent film
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ErOddity(s) (2014)
Plot Summary:
ErOddity(s)- four exceptional short stories set in the world of erotic fantasy, including; You Belong To Me A young man, madly in love, will stop at nothing to hold on to the object of his affection. Wanted Convinced that his boyfriend is hiding something a young guy launches his own investigation in to his double life. A Christmas Unfulfilled Barely 20 but already insatiable voyeur, Zack sets his sights on his neighbours. The Heart of Man It's time for Thomas to exact his revenge- from beyond the grave.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, erotic, anthology
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Faust 5.0 (2001)
Plot Summary:
On his way to a medical convention, Dr Fausto runs into a man who claims the Doctor removed his stomach eight years ago in a surgical operation. Against all odds, he is still alive. The man turns up repeatedly and promises Fausto to make all his wishes come true. Reality starts dissolving and Fausto begins to lose control.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, surreal, disturbing, scary, spiritual, tense, serious
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Siberia (2020)
Plot Summary:
Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey where he must confront his dreams, memories, and visions, crossing the darkness into the light.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, Germany, Mexico, Greece, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surreal
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Carcinoma (2014)
Plot Summary:
A formidable descend to human decay.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing, brutal, controversial, devastating, independent film
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Thanatomorphose (2012)
Plot Summary:
Thanatomorphose is a french word meaning the visible signs of an organism's decomposition caused by death. One day, a young and beautiful girl a wakes up and finds her flesh rotting.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, brutal, surreal, controversial, avant garde
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Day-Dream (1964)
Plot Summary:
While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, experimental, disturbing, controversial, dark fantasy, weird
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Debris Documentar (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man unknowingly leads a double life.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, psychotronic, brutal, controversial, splatter, independent film
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Tears of Kali (2004)
Plot Summary:
A creepy three-part anthology which is actually constructed from a trio of German-produced independent short films that form a narrative around a mysterious cult in 1983 India as a wrap-around story. In the first story "Shakti", a reporter talks to an institutionalized cult survivor who claims to have murdered her boyfriend. In the second story "Devi", a man awakens from a therapy session to discover that he's been beaten senseless and held prisoner by his evil therapist. In the third story "Kali", a faith healer exorcises a spirit from a person only to discover that he has released it into his cellar.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, serious, scary, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Black Past (1989)
Plot Summary:
Thommy and his family move to a new place. In the attic, he finds a box surrounded with chains. He opens it. In the box, he finds a mirror and a diary.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, brutal, bloody, controversial, splatter
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Ice from the Sun (1999)
Plot Summary:
An alternate reality encased in ice, a woman who is turned into a dimension-hopping assassin, and a wizard's apprentice who is so evil he is a common enemy to the angels in heaven and the devils in hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: dark, disturbing, controversial, art house, experimental, independent film, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious
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The Angels' Melancholia (2009)
Plot Summary:
A dark secret connects Katze and Brauth, two middle aged men. Katze has the clue that his end is near. The two friends meet again after years to share their last days in the old house where everything happened a long time ago. With three women they met on their way, the atmosphere begins to recur a second time. When Heinrich, an old artist, decides to attend after all, the friends have their last chance to renew and cut with the history and to settle an old score. In the melancholy of the near end, Katze passes again all the situations in his life. In the hour of death, he’s not alone anymore. His body is gone and his soul stays back in the same place where his destiny and fulfillment occurred.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: disturbing, extreme horror, controversial, brutal, bloody, suspense, dark, surreal, perverse, disgusting
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We Are the Flesh (2016)
Plot Summary:
After wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they find a man who will make them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: avant garde, disturbing, slasher, erotic, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, brutal
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Kichiku: Banquet of the Beasts (1997)
Plot Summary:
While the leader is in jail, his leftist group is controlled by his girlfriend, but her leadership lacks conviction and perspective. When the leader commits suicide in prison, despair and confusion rule the group and revenge and violence erupts in graphic way.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bloody, controversial, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, cult film
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August Underground's Penance (2007)
Plot Summary:
"August Underground's Penance" is basically the personal home video of two sociopathic killers on murder spree.Again two nameless butchers played by Fred Vogel and Cristie Whiles videotape their bloodthirsty madness,but "Penance" shows also their slow decline.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: extreme horror, disturbing, controversial, brutal, bloody, suspense, splatter, mockumentary, perverse, frightening
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The Burning Moon (1992)
Plot Summary:
The Burning Moon centers on two bedtime stories that a delinquent brother reads his kid sister. These disturbingly morbid stories focus on a serial killing blind date and a murderous, psychotic priest.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anthology, bloody, disturbing, extreme horror, slasher, brutal, controversial, dark fairy tale, perverse, terrifying
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Dard Divorce (2007)
Plot Summary:
What started with a routine divorce between Natalie Stein and her husband Tim, will soon take a turn into the unexpected and evolve into scenes of torture, bloodshed and slaughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, suspense, controversial, devastating, sadistic, splatter
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Shogun's Sadism (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1. During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as her personal slave to torment him, and tries breaking her spirit by means of rape, torture and pure sadism. After Iori refuses to participate any longer he is exiled, but vows to get her back. 2. When Sutezo is forced to serve the cruel master of a brothel to repay his debts, he becomes friends with the young girl Sato. Together, they escape and try to get by on scams and theft.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, depressing, controversial, anthology, extreme horror, transgressive, sadistic
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Subconscious Cruelty (2000)
Plot Summary:
A surrealistic anthology of horror films; four segments structured as an intense fever dream.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, brutal, anthology, bloody, suspense, experimental, controversial, extreme horror
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Der Todesking: The Death King (1990)
Plot Summary:
Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, disturbing, splatter, crying, controversial, psychological, offbeat, bloody, dark, art house
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Nails (2003)
Plot Summary:
A professional hit man retires to his colorless apartment but soon starts to suffer from horrible headaches and hears voices. In order to cure himself, he hammers a nail into his skull.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychedelic, controversial, art house, realistic
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Begotten (1989)
Plot Summary:
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: surreal, avant garde, disturbing, experimental, atmospheric, independent film, controversial, black and white, postmodern, mindfuck
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Twentynine Palms (2003)
Plot Summary:
David, an independent photographer, and Katia, an unemployed woman, leave Los Angeles, en route to the southern California desert, where they search a natural set to use as a backdrop for a magazine photo shoot. They find a motel in the town of Twentynine Palms and spend their days in their sport-utility vehicle, discovering the Joshua Tree Desert, and losing themselves on nameless roads and trails. Frantically making love all the time and almost everywhere, they regularly fight, then kiss and make up, with little else going on in their empty relationship and quite ordinary daily life--until something horrible and hideous brutally puts an end to their trip.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: disturbing, road movie, psychological, sexy, harsh, erotic, controversial, sexual, philosophical, dark
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Night Calls: The Movie (1999)
Plot Summary:
A pair of Playboy TV stars take their show on the road and encounter erotic adventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Schramm: Into the Mind of a Serial Killer (1993)
Plot Summary:
Lothar Schramm is a simple man with complex problems, yet he seems like such a nice guy. He works as a taxi driver and lives by himself where he is happy to answer his door to strangers and kill them outright. As with many shy loner types he has a problem dealing with woman so he drugs them and photographs their nude bodies for sexual stimulation. He then murders his helpless victims and so goes the life of a deranged serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, rough, suspenseful, bloody, slasher, controversial, psychological, brutal, depressing
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Tale of Tales (2015)
Plot Summary:
From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, dark fantasy, atmospheric, stylized, disturbing, surreal, anthology, dark, costume drama, tense
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Philosophy of a Knife (2008)
Plot Summary:
The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of many of the Japanese doctors from Unit 731. The facts are told, and previously unknown evidence is revealed by an eyewitness to these events, former doctor and military translator, Anatoly Protasov.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 266 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, extreme horror, rough, serious, realistic, bloody, transgressive, suspense, controversial
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Trouble Every Day (2001)
Plot Summary:
Scientist Shane Brown neglects his new bride, instead spending their honeymoon searching for an old colleague who disappeared after a research paper he had written was discredited by the medical community. It turns out that Dr. Semeneau is living in obscurity in order to protect his wife, whom he keeps prisoner in a room with boards nailed across the doorway. The narrative unfolds the dark secret that drives each party.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, scary, psychological, bloody, art house, atmospheric, rough, brutal, surreal
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American Mary (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young med student struggling with her tuition fees is drawn into the shady world of underground body modification.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, sexy, dark, slasher, brutal, suspense, rough, bloody, atmospheric