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Plot Summary:
About the incestuous obsession of a retired policeman Dadong Carandang (Silayan) for his daughter Mila (Santos). When she tells her father that she wishes to marry her boyfriend Noel (Ilagan) because she is pregnant, the news unleashes a series of abnormal events that inevitably lead to the family's doom.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 696
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Execution of P (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Philippines, Netherlands, Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, brutal, depressing, controversial, neorealism, gloomy, disgusting
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Tiyanak (1988)
Plot Summary:
Julie begins to suspect that an abandoned baby she takes in may be a demon in disguise.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: mystic
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Bliss (2017)
Plot Summary:
"Bliss" tells the story of actress Jane Ciego. Though successful and desirable to many, Jane, now in her 30’s, has become tired of the usual projects she’s been getting. She decides to produce her own film to win respect in the industry. But things do not go as planned. A terrible accident on the set leaves her temporarily crippled, trapped in a house filled with bizarre phenomena, and under the care of her unloving husband and a strange, obsessive nurse. With the horrors and madness escalating each day, Jane’s simple dream turns into an endless nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, clever, weird
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Sister Stella L. (1984)
Plot Summary:
A nun who acts as a counselor in a home for unwed mother undergoes political awakening when her friend and namesake belonging to the same congregation as hers inspires her to get involved in the struggle for justice and freedom of striking workers in a cooking oil company.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: political
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The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1994 Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home by whom most believe to be O.J Simpson. But what role did Glen Rogers, also known as the Casanova Killer play in their death?.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense
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Ang Pagsanib kay Leah Dela Cruz (2017)
Plot Summary:
A lady cop who moves into a small town gets drawn to a case that involves a girl that's possessed by an evil spirit.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, disturbing, psychological, bleak, psychological horror, religious horror, christian horror, asian horror
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Dream Lock (2022)
Plot Summary:
A middle aged man Rohan Roy is a Doctor, not happy in his married life embarks on an extra marital affair with his neighbor Jennifer. He soon realizes his mistake and tries to get rid of the girl, but she seems nowhere to compromise and gets psychotic about Rohan. After a few days Jennifer disappears without a trace and Rohan dreams that he kills Jennifer, when he wakes up; he discovers blood stains on his cloths and suspects it was real. A day later Rohan finds Jennifer's dead body in his car. Rohan seeks the help of his friend Vijay, a detective, to solve the puzzling mystery of Jennifer's death and Rohan's dreams. As Vijay unravels the mystery, dangerous new truths come to light.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Shake, Rattle & Roll II (1990)
Plot Summary:
Shake, Rattle & Roll II is the second installment of the Shake Rattle & Roll franchise. It was distributed by Regal Films. It is directed by Peque Gallaga & Lore Reyes. This film is an entry of the 1990 Metro Manila Film Festival. It is the first starring role of Manilyn Reynes before the following sequels.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, terrifying, suspense
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Down by the Riverside (2007)
Plot Summary:
An intertwining story of murder and mystery across two decades. In the early twentieth century, several pregnant girls meet in a country house, where they have been sent to give birth and have their children adopted. The girls are never seen by outsiders again. Almost twenty years later, two historians return to the house to research the case, and when the disturbing truth is revealed, the dark story continues.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: neo noir, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, scary, exciting, tense, disturbing, independent film, detective
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The Mudboy (2007)
Plot Summary:
Police try to hunt down a serial killer in 1912 Buenos Aires.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, bleak, mind bending, detective, serious, realistic
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Hide & Seek (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a tragedy, a family moves to an isolated house where strange apparitions appear.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, sinister
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Feng Shui 2 (2014)
Plot Summary:
It focuses on Lester who, upon getting the cursed bagua, starts to get all the luck and prosperity he could get in his life, but with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, sinister
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Las Poquianchis (1976)
Plot Summary:
In the middle 70's in the mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground, the corpses were from murdered prostitutes. the suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis" The sisters were very religious but were the owners of brothels and recruited poor girls with the false promises of jobs, instead they were forced to prostitution, and some were killed.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, period drama
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Deadly Relations (1993)
Plot Summary:
Leonard Fagot has four daughters and loves them so much, that he usurps his control over them. He lets them know how he feels about the men they date. And if he disapproves of them, he probably will have them killed to get them out of his daughters' life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Calvento Files The Movie (1997)
Plot Summary:
This movie has two episodes depicted from investigative crime show. Each episode speaks of grotesque deaths, betrayal, and the family members of the victims’ pursuit for justice. Episode 1 : Balintuwad It is the story of an epileptic fifteen-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted and later on drowned to death by a group of unknown men. As the rape-slay case comes to close, investigation reveals that the suspects are schoolteachers, who are expected to enhance a good future for children. Episode 2: Inay, May Momo, A young mother and her daughter’s nightmare begin when the husband is man-slaughtered by the mother’s other lover. The widowed wife files criminal case to imprison to killer however instead of surrendering the murderer chases down the mother and her distraught daughter to make them drop the charges against him.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Right to Kill? (1985)
Plot Summary:
Based on true story of teens Richard and Deborah Jahnke charged in Wyoming for the killing of their abusive father.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Honor Thy Father (2015)
Plot Summary:
A pair of married white-collar swindlers run afoul of their latest victims.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, political
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Speck (2002)
Plot Summary:
Gruesome true story of murderer Richard Speck who killed eight nursing students in one night in Chicago during the late sixties. The story also follows him to his prison fate and uncovers more of his strange behavoir before his death.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The Lucifer Killings (2016)
Plot Summary:
The hunt for one of the most prolific serial killer begins.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, serious, realistic
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iMurders (2008)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious love triangle leads to a tragic shooting. Months later, eight members of a MySpace-esque chat room are being gruesomely murdered in the privacy of their own homes.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, cyber, rough, realistic, independent film
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Smile Before Death (1972)
Plot Summary:
Teenaged Nancy Thompson arrives unexpectedly at her mothers county villa. She discovers that her mom has died a violent death.The police investigate and believe the she killed herself by cutting her throat with a piece of broken of glass.Nancy meets and becomes friends with Gina who was her mothers best friend and who has a special relationship with her stepfather.Soon the older man turns his roving eye toward this young beauty as suspicion about the suicide starts to come to light.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychological thriller, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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The Road (2011)
Plot Summary:
A 12 year old cold case is reopened when three teens are missing in an old abandoned road where a gruesome murder is left undiscovered for three decades.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological, slasher, detective, creepy, terrifying, unpredictable
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Murder or Memory: A Moment of Truth Movie (1994)
Plot Summary:
A mother fights to prove her 14-year-old son is innocent of a murder he confessed to under hypnosis.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: factual
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Murder on the Cape (2017)
Plot Summary:
An out-of-work fisherman has an affair with a fashion writer wintering on the Cape. She returns two years later with his child, and when she is murdered, the fisherman is the prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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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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A Is For Acid (2002)
Plot Summary:
John George Haigh, the notorious "acid bath murderer" in 1940s England, becomes the subject of this dramatisation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Cyrus (2010)
Plot Summary:
A small independent news crew investigates a series of unexplained disappearances in a small Midwestern county. They find themselves interviewing a man who possesses an all too intimate knowledge of the details of "The County Line Cannibal" - Cyrus. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, serious, slasher, grindhouse, psychological horror, mockumentary, scary, tense
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Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's" Leatherface, the story of real life serial killer Ed Gein is told once again. Nicknamed "The Butcher Of Plainfield," Gein was responsible for a rash of gory murders that sent shock waves through his rural Wisconsin town, and across America, in the late 1950's. Prepare to enter the evil mind and twisted world of "The Butcher Of Plainfield.".
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
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Sorrow (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple of depraved killers find themselves in a different situation when the survivor takes matters into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Zodiac (2005)
Plot Summary:
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: rough, psychological, bleak, scary, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, detective, independent film, realistic