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Plot Summary:
An anxious young tailor dominated by his father, a master of the craft, is eager to do well with his clients; but his inadequacy in measuring leaves him frustrated and humiliated. His younger sister - an expert seamstress - arrives back in town, discovers his measuring weakness and begins a cruel reign of terror over him, humiliating him endlessly in front of customers. Pushed to the edge, the young tailor heads down the nightmarish road to insanity and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: controversial, neo noir, independent film, psychological, tense, atmospheric, clever, bleak, serious, realistic
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Phobia (2013)
Plot Summary:
In 1885, a female doctor helping a group of people with their phobias becomes embroiled in a murder mystery surrounding a patient that may or may not be a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, realistic, stylized, psychotronic
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How Awful About Allan (1970)
Plot Summary:
After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, spooky, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sleepwalker (2000)
Plot Summary:
Ulrik Hansson is 45 years old and lives a secure life in a Swedish residential district together with his wife Monika and their two children. He's got a well-paid job as an architect and builds a new detached house which the family will move to. Everything is just great. He thinks. One morning he wakes up and shockingly discovers that they're gone. The whole family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, mind bending, bleak, suspenseful, spooky, tense, serious, realistic
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White Snow (2010)
Plot Summary:
Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, realistic, neo noir
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House of Bad (2013)
Plot Summary:
Yearning to break free from their sordid pasts, three sisters unite for a simple plan: steal enough drugs to set themselves up for a new life. But when the eldest sister Teig decides they're going to hide out in their old, abandoned family house, its painful memories quickly become too real to fight off. Three sisters with a history, a suitcase full of stolen drugs, and a family house with a dark secret is the recipe for terror in House of Bad.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological, realistic
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Buried Alive II (1997)
Plot Summary:
A woman inherits a fortune, causing her husband and his lover to plot her demise by poisoning her. The only trouble is it only places her in a deep coma that resembles death. When an accident occurs in the embalmer's office he doesn't complete the embalming process, causing her to be buried alive. Awakening from the grave, she claws her way out and seeks revenge against the two who caused her supposed demise.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, nostalgic
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Cupid (1997)
Plot Summary:
A brother and sister with a past incestuous relationship have a current murderous relationship. He murders the women who reject him and she murders the women who get too close to him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher
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The Attic (2007)
Plot Summary:
Emma has a strong aversion towards her family’s new house, especially the attic. After moving in, she becomes miserable and reclusive. The rest of her family also seems unhappy and unsettled. The situation escalates one day when Emma is in the attic alone. All of a sudden someone who looks exactly like Emma attacks her viciously.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
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The Stepdaughter (2000)
Plot Summary:
After a childhood spent going from one abusive foster home to the next, Susan seeks revenge on the mother who abandoned her. Susan's search leads her to a ranch where her long-lost sister begins to suspect the beautiful drifter isn't who she claims.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, scary
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Zoom Hunting (2010)
Plot Summary:
Yang Ruyi (32), a fashion magazine photographer, lives with her elder sister Yang Ruxing (33), a rational, introverted detective fiction author. Ruyi has inadvertently photographed a couple making madly passionately love. Few days later in a shopping center not far from her home, she finds the woman already married, leading a child and is with a different man. Ruyi shares her secret with Ruxing who is suffering from writer's block. The two sisters begin to observe the couple; gradually Ruxing even writes some of her observations into her novel, without letting Ruyi knows it. Late one night, Ruyi views two people are arguing, but as she picks up her camera to photograph she can only see two vague, dark outlines wrestling one another; Ruyi calls the police but upon arriving, nothing seems out of order. Ruyi is convinced she has mistaken nothing; she enlarges the photo and discovers a third outline looks pretty much like her older sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear (1998)
Plot Summary:
A neglectful mother overhears her husband on the telephone at their workplace talking with their babysitter. She discovers they are having an affair and are going to have a baby. She concocts an evil plan to win back her husband and remove the girl and baby. Two men are hired to kill the girl and hold the son hostage in order for her to play the hero and reclaim her husband. The plan hits a snag when the criminals enter the wrong apartment.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense, ridiculous
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Choke (2001)
Plot Summary:
Henry, an uptight businessman who sometimes acts with questionable ethics, nevertheless rejects Ron, a scam artist who wants a partner. Ron won't let up and finds a lever to blackmail Henry, whose daughter Gina has killed a pedestrian in a hit-and-run car accident. To protect Gina, Henry disposes of Ron, but a murderous sociopath witnesses this crime. Henry and this stranger bond in an odd way, telling stories about their childhoods. Henry makes a deal with the stranger, helping to get rid of the body of one of the stranger's victims. Will this act seal a bargain between the two men and get Henry off the hook, or will the stranger threaten Henry and Gina?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Gemini (1999)
Plot Summary:
A successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, disturbing, controversial, mind blowing, scary, psychological, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, serious
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Wake Up (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a psychiatric doctor researches a young girls' diary to find out why she murdered her entire family, he begins to fall into the same state of insomnia and confusion that led her to lose her mind.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, surprise ending, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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The Art of Dying (2000)
Plot Summary:
In Spain a young artist has gone missing, and a hardened detective takes on the case. Six friends become the focus of the investigation, being pressured for their knowledge of the artist's whereabouts. They all deny involvement, and soon they have reason to fear for their lives as it appears a serial killer is hunting them all down. The one friend closest to the artist watches helplessly as his once quiet life is shattered by incrimination, suspicion and ultimately -- horrific violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, hispanic, tense, bleak, realistic, semi serious
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Duress (2009)
Plot Summary:
Haunted with nightmares of his wife's recent suicide and struggling to mend the relationship with his only daughter, Richard is caught as a witness to the violence of Abner Solvie. He finds himself at the mercy of a charismatic killer and plagued by his involvement in the city's recent murders. As Abner's new found protégé, Richard is forced to adopt the mind of his sociopathic mentor in order to protect the one he loves. Richard must decide if he's willing to kill in order to keep his daughter alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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5 Souls (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a disgraced architect awakens from a coma, he is confronted by an agent of evil with a proposition; kill five people to reconcile his life's misdeeds and live, or decline the offer and die. As he proceeds with his grim assignment and begins collecting the fifth and final soul, he learns that his pact may have eternally horrifying consequences….
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, captivating, scary, independent film
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Luster (2010)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Luster is a troubled businessman who tries to make sense of a life being driven out-of-control by a force closer to home than he first realizes. When he discovers that the man working against him is another side of his own personality he is forced to fight back against his manipulative alter-ego as murder, madness and mayhem combine to take Luster on the most bizarre and terrifying ride of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, scary, mind bending, realistic
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Nite Tales: The Movie (2008)
Plot Summary:
Actors: Flavor Flav, Dante Basco, Chico Benymon, Andrea Bogart, James Ferris.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, suspenseful, anthology, tense, psychological, scary, rough, serious, realistic
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Rough Draft (1998)
Plot Summary:
A struggling freelance writer, while investigating the transvestite night life, stumbles across a serial killer in action. The two then strike up a bizarre partnership to document the killer's motives and handiwork as a possessed detective struggling with his own personal demons tries to solve the crimes.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Two Eyes Staring (2010)
Plot Summary:
Nine-year-old Lisa discovers her sinister new friend is the ghost of the dead twin of Lisa's mother. Lisa's father also begins to suspect his wife of hiding a terrible secret, resulting in deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, dark, bleak, psychological, atmospheric, serious
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Death Ride (2006)
Plot Summary:
An American photographer has an affair with a mysterious woman (Yoshikawa), which leads him into a confrontation with the occult.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, scary, tense, disturbing, serious
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Acacia (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and horror ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense
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Darkroom (2013)
Plot Summary:
Michelle kills three of her friends in a horrific car accident while driving under the influence. After rehab, Michelle takes a job recommended by her counselor that lands her trapped in a mansion with three psychotic siblings hell bent on physical torture to purge Michelle of her sins.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, slasher, serious, realistic
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Sick Boy (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sick Boy stars Skye McCole Bartusiak as Lucy, a young woman who steps in for a friend to take a job babysitting a young boy confined to his room due to a mysterious illness. Lucy begins to suspect the child’s mother, played by horror legend Debbie Rochon, is hiding something—the truth turns out to be far worse than she could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, demonic, realistic, independent film
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XII (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, christmas horror, scary, rough, serious
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Fall Down Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
A metropolitan city is in the grip of fear when rolling blackouts bring out a serial killer dubbed The Picasso Killer. One night, in the middle of a blackout, seven strangers become trapped in an office building as the killer hunts for Christie Wallace, the woman that can identify him.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, christmas horror, bleak, tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, scary, rough, serious
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Death Factory (2014)
Plot Summary:
A bus full of strangers find themselves fighting for their lives when one of them reads from an ancient Gothic tome, bringing six dead serial killers back to life, who proceed to hunt them down one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary
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Shiver (2012)
Plot Summary:
Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, realistic, slasher, psychological, bloody, independent film, serious
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The Hollow (2004)
Plot Summary:
Restless spirits stir this Hollow's Eve, beckoning Ian Cranston, the last blood relative of Ichabod Crane, back to Sleepy Hollow. Thundering hooves unleash a wave of bone-chilling screams as the ghost of the Headless Horseman rides again! Ian must try to save the town and his girlfriend, Karen and determine whether the sword-wielding stalker is their clownish classmate, Brody in costume, or the dark rider himself. If it's truly the Headless Horseman... how do you kill what's already dead?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, gothic horror, tense, suspense, scary, mockbuster, horror comedy, surprise ending