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Plot Summary:
A young girl and her mother run a hotel during the war. When the mother dies, the girl finds herself at the mercy of her sex-crazed guests. Soon enough, a cloaked figure starts killing off everyone that tries to harm her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, expressionism, neo noir, crying, freeze frame
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)
Plot Summary:
Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, surprise ending, suspense, mind twisting, gothic, psychological thriller, erotic, psychedelic, slasher
Similar in 86%
Darkness (2009)
Plot Summary:
A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, crying, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
Murder in a Blue World (1973)
Plot Summary:
Set in the future, the story follows a nurse who tries to bring her own style of relief to people condemned to die. Her identity is a mystery and she may not be quite what she seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, surreal, neo noir, futuristic, controversial, crying, psychotronic, independent film, detective, freeze frame
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The Killer is One of Thirteen (1973)
Plot Summary:
The attractive widow of a wealthy lawyer invites to her luxurious house the thirteen best friends of her late husband, with the purpose of finding out if her husband's killer is one of them. But, over the next few days, a series of mysterious deaths takes place among the invited guests and servants.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, crying, freeze frame
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Maniac (1963)
Plot Summary:
The rape of his teenage daughter instigated a violent, maniacal retribution on the perpetrator for which Georges was incarcerated in an asylum for the insane. When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder for which he has been carefully and surreptitiously groomed to take full responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, noir, offbeat, suspense, grindhouse, neo noir, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame
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Madness (1980)
Plot Summary:
An escaped convicted murderer invades the cottage of a man, his wife and the wife's sister, whereupon he proceeds to torment this already dysfunctional trio with rape and violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, controversial, grindhouse, neo noir, crying, psychotronic, freeze frame, poliziottesco, sexploitation film
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The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young newlywed couple from America returns to Geneva to visit Marcel's home town. Once there he is informed of his former lover's suicide and in turn is subjected to threats that accuse him of being responsible for her death and further, threaten his new fiancée's life. George Hilton plays a peculiar neighbor with voyeuristic tendencies who has an obsession with Deborah.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological thriller, neo noir, psycho sexual, crying, independent film, freeze frame
Similar in 82%
The Killing Kind (1973)
Plot Summary:
Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem is his overbearing mother, whose boarding house he resides in and who keeps bringing him glasses of chocolate milk. One of her boarders, Lori, becomes attracted to him. However, while he was serving his prison sentence, Terry developed an interest in rough, violent sex, and gory death. Now, one by one, some of the town's women pop up dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, cult classic, classic horror, independent film, scary, tense, rough, serious
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Julie Darling (1982)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, erotic, disturbing, independent film, neo noir, crying, detective
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A Quiet Place to Kill (1970)
Plot Summary:
A race-car driver who's down on her luck is invited by her ex-husband's wife to stay at their plush villa. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As it turns out, though, they're not alone in plotting murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, grindhouse, surprise ending, neo noir, twist ending, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame
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The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer uses a scythe to slash his murder victims--or maybe it's *her* murder victims?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic, neo noir, crying, freeze frame, slasher horror
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Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
Plot Summary:
Oliviero is a burned-out writer, living at his estate near Venice, his dead mother dominating his imagination. He is also a degenerate: sleeps with his maid and his ex-student, hosts Bacchanalia for local hippies, and humiliates his wife Irina in front of strangers. She lives in terror. When a young woman is murdered, police suspect Oliviero. Things get complicated when his young, beautiful, and self-confident niece, Floriana, pays an unexpected visit. A silver-haired stranger observes. More women die, and thoughts of harming Irina give Oliviero new inspiration. What's Floriana's game and who's the observant stranger? Watching all is a black cat named Satan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, surprise ending, erotic, sexy, suspense, grindhouse, psychological, tense, atmospheric
Similar in 88%
The Third Eye (1966)
Plot Summary:
The young Count Mino live in a big, old castle together with his dominant mother and a maid. Mother does not want him to marry his fiancee Laura, which turns out to have dire consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, neo noir, crying
Similar in 85%
Night Warning (1981)
Plot Summary:
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death to anyone who comes between her and her obsession. But the investigating detective is convinced that Billy is the real killer - and determined to prove it. Madness and fanaticism work together to drag all concerned into a terrifying vortex of blood-letting that adds a nightmarish twist to the classic Oedipus story.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic, retro, bloody, homoerotic, detective, cult classic
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The Specter of Terror (1973)
Plot Summary:
Mary Preston, Iberia stewardess, lives with her friend and companion Helena O'Hara. She finds out that is followed by a mysterious character. He is Charly, an airport employee, U.S. Vietnam veteran, unhinged and with sexual disorders due to the infidelity of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: crying, psychotronic, detective, perverse
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Man Without a Memory (1974)
Plot Summary:
In London, an amnesiac is abducted and beaten by a stranger who calls him a "dirty son of a double-crosser." When a sniper's bullet kills his attacker the man flees the country with airline tickets provided by a wife he never knew he had. Arriving home, his wife calls him a "dirty rotten bastard" and he is threatened by another stranger who demands that he return a million dollars in uncut heroin - or die.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, detective, psychological thriller, suspense, independent film, cult film
Similar in 84%
So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, erotic, sexy, suspense, psychological thriller, psychotronic, independent film, freeze frame, poliziottesco
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Killing of the Dolls (1975)
Plot Summary:
Paul is the son of a gardener who works in a big mansion that has returned home with his parents after failling in his medecin degree. He is emotionally unstable. He collect dolls because he was educated as a girl because his sister died. After his arrival home murders begin to happen, is him the responsible?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, surreal, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame, slasher horror, campy
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Black Serenade (2001)
Plot Summary:
Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex, an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the killings; it seems as if the killer strikes regularly after the exams to free the campus from lousy students.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, splatter, crying, psychotronic, detective, black comedy
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M.F.A. (2017)
Plot Summary:
An art student taps into a rich source of creative inspiration after the accidental slaughter of her rapist. An unlikely vigilante emerges, set out to avenge college girls whose attackers walked free- all the while fueling a vivid thesis exhibition.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: crying, detective, psychological, suspense, independent film, disturbing, rough, bloody, slasher, crime drama
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Massacre at Central High (1976)
Plot Summary:
Maimed by bullies at a California high school, a new student (Derrel Maury) engineers acts of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, cult horror, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
Plot Summary:
After several coeds are murdered at a college, a professor (Fabio Testi) who is involved with a student becomes a suspect, along with several other male and female teachers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, grindhouse, suspense, surreal, controversial, deep, creepy, cult classic, dark drama
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A Bay of Blood (1971)
Plot Summary:
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, bloody, gothic, psychological, creepy, cult classic
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The Deserter (1970)
Plot Summary:
A soldier runs away from the horrors of war, finds love with a virgin farm girl and a mistreated housewife, and will find that it is difficult to survive the battles of sex and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Greece
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mondo, crying, freeze frame
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1922 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, enigmatic, psychological thriller, scary, emotional, dark, slasher, disturbing, splatter
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Marrowbone (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, surprise ending, tense, psychological thriller, slasher, clever, non-linear, mind blowing, post-horror
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The Bodies Presented Traces of Carnal Violence (1973)
Plot Summary:
A series of sex murders shock a college campus, and four beautiful young girlfriends head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the hands - and blade - of the lecherous maniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending, sensual, erotic
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Unsane (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution amid uncertainty as to whether her greatest fear is real or delusional.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, psychological horror, twisted, surprise ending, scary, mind bending
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Scorned (1993)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husband's death.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller, sexy, tense, suspense, melancholic, cult classic, sexual
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Ma (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own. She offers the kids the chance to avoid drinking and driving by hanging out in the basement of her home. But there are some house rules: One of the kids has to stay sober. Don’t curse. Never go upstairs. And call her “Ma.” But as Ma’s hospitality starts to curdle into obsession, what began as a teenage dream turns into a terrorizing nightmare, and Ma’s place goes from the best place in town to the worst place on earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, slasher, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, tense, psychological, bloody, perverse