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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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Goodbye Gemini (1970)
Plot Summary:
Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: offbeat, slasher, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, lgbt cinema, crying, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Horror Stories (2012)
Plot Summary:
The opening film of the 16th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival(PiFan) is HORROR STORY, the horror omnibus film of four episodes by five filmmakers including Jeong Bum Shik(EPITAPH), Kim Gok and Kim Sun(WHITE), Hong Ji Young(THE NAKED KITCHEN), Yim Dae Woong(MY TEACHER) and Min Gyu Dong(MEMENTO MORI, ANTIQUE), who finished the bridge cuts connecting all episodes. All four episodes are combined in a film-in-film structure provided by a story of a young girl who is kidnapped by a serial killer who cannot sleep until he listens to a story horrifying to death.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, scary, rough, slasher, psychological, dark fantasy, dark fairy tale, crying, detective
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Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)
Plot Summary:
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, southern gothic, independent film, rough, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, entertaining
Similar in 79%
Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971)
Plot Summary:
Ultra-low-budget Florida cult film featuring a transvestite fugitive criminal and his homosexual (and mentally unstable) lover on the lam in a Miami suburb.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, lgbt cinema, crying, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema, campy
Similar in 81%
Black Journal (1977)
Plot Summary:
Black Journal (originally titled Gran Bollito) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on the real life events of Leonarda Cianciulli, the Italian serial killer best known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: entertaining, crying, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, pre war
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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 New Kids (1985)
Plot Summary:
A brother and sister arrive in a small town to help their relatives run an amusement park, and they find the town is terrorized by a local street gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, tense, rough, captivating, retro, christmas horror, perverse, psychological, serious
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The Washing Machine (1993)
Plot Summary:
A police detective investigates the murder of a man found dismembered in a washing machine and is drawn into a web of deceit and murder by the dead man's lover, Vida, and her two sisters, Sissy and Ludmilla.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Hungary
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic, freeze frame, weird
Similar in 78%
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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Hotel Fear (1978)
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
Similar in 83%
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 Corpse (1971)
Plot Summary:
A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: noir, slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious
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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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 Grissom Gang (1971)
Plot Summary:
The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his prisoner, which results in a bloody breakdown of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang and the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were inspired by the best-seller by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase's original ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, tense, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, biting, crying
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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
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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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Like.Share.Follow. (2017)
Plot Summary:
Garrett is a rising YouTube star. Shell is a deeply emotional fan. When they begin a romantic relationship, he's forced to question whether opening your life to strangers online is an invitation to community and rescue... or to stalking, obsession and madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: cyber, realistic, mind bending, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, smart, thrilling, crying
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Dismissed (2017)
Plot Summary:
A straight-edged teacher finds trouble when an honors student is willing to do anything to get an A.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, scary, suspense, dark, realistic, mumblecore, controversial
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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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Macabre (2009)
Plot Summary:
Macabre, international title for Rumah Dara (Indonesian title), and in Singapore titled Darah) is an Indonesian horror/slasher film in 2010. The movie tells about a group who attempt to escape from a house that owned by mysterious lady named Dara and her family. We later discover the family are killers and cannibals attempting to gain immortality. The film is based on the short film Dara. Before the film was screened in Indonesia, it was screened at several festivals in 2009. Rumah Dara was released in Singapore where it gained an M18 rating (for Gore and Violence).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Singapore
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, serious, psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, bloody, suspense
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The Word (2014)
Plot Summary:
Days before the end of the school year, Liliana gives Janek an ultimatum, giving him 24 hours to either prove his love for her or forget about her altogether.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, Denmark
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, realistic, gloomy, neurotic, crying
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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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Shrew's Nest (2014)
Plot Summary:
Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her youth raising. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew's nest... perhaps he'll never leave.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller, sexy, surreal, controversial, hispanic
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Freeway (1996)
Plot Summary:
Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, suspenseful, bloody, black comedy, road movie, cult classic, teen, clever, controversial
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10 to Midnight (1983)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police detective Leo Kessler (Charles Bronson) is convinced of Stacey’s guilt and, over the objections of his partner, plants evidence to get him behind bars. When Stacey is released on a technicality, he threatens to go after Kessler and his family, leaving Kessler to defend himself against a killer with little help from the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, detective, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, scary, psychological, retro
Similar in 87%
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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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