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Plot Summary:
Discover 4 famous japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Mania (1986)
Plot Summary:
Horror anthology with segments entitled: "See No Evil", "The Intruder", "Have a Nice Day" and "The Good Samaritan".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Zero Woman (1995)
Plot Summary:
A gang of young thieves try to rob a mob boss, but their heist is interrupted by an officer of the Tokyo Police Department's elite Zero Division. They get away with the loot, but the officer, a beautiful, more-than-slightly psychotic young woman who also happens to be an excellent shot, is tracking them down. To bring the case to a successful conclusion, she must deal with rival crime gangs, small- time crooks, and the wavering loyalties of her own partner.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: manga, crime drama
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Angel Guts: Red Vertigo (1988)
Plot Summary:
Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst fleeing from the home of her unfaithful boyfriend, the driver of the car takes her as a sexual prisoner.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: erotic, pink cinema, sexploitation film
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Kyoko vs. Yuki (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two Japanese girls (one of them is a schoolgirl trained to be killer and another one is a lesbian) fighting with each other with incredibly bloody results.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: controversial
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Brain Sex (1988)
Plot Summary:
A teenage couple drive around improvising radio shows, following night stalkers and rapists or peeping on various sexual escapades, describing what they see in detail, feigning shock and screams as the attackers become more violent.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: erotic, biting, suspense
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Heads or Tails (2005)
Plot Summary:
Four interlinking stories about a benign native american legend that has been distorted throughout the years into something much darker.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense
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Torn Priestess (1977)
Plot Summary:
A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulant (trainee nun), she catches her fellow sisters engaging in lesbianism, fighting over nothing, hurling snakes at each other, and engaging in mild flesh eating.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: erotic, jidai geki, sexploitation film
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Terrorgram (1990)
Plot Summary:
Three horror stories linked by a sinister delivery boy. The stories are "Heroine Overdose", "Pandora" and "Veteran's Day".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, dark fairy tale, psychotronic
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Pleasure Kill (1987)
Plot Summary:
Prototype version of Naked Blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: extreme horror, pink cinema, sexploitation film
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The Fetist (1998)
Plot Summary:
Slightly strange Sato entry from 1998 revisting the gay pinku (a broad cinematic term used to categorize a wide variety of Japanese films with adult content) once again. A young man in a somewhat abusive gay relationship slowly loses his mind and becomes a serial killer, slashing random people in the streets. There's a next-door neighbour obsessed with capturing sounds and eavesdropping, another neighbour who has an S&M relationship with a girl that seems to unsettle and trigger violent and confusing thoughts in the young man, and there's a gay painter who becomes obsesed with the young man. Violence escalates and becomes chaotic, but none of their behaviour makes any sense.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Zero Woman: The Accused (1997)
Plot Summary:
Rei, the deadly but reluctant assassin for the Zero Division of the Tokyo Police Department, befriends a young man after she sees him cruising a gay bar looking for johns. After he gets beaten up by a group of street thugs, she takes him in to live with her. When a series of vicious murders takes place, she begins to suspect that the killer may actually be her friend taking revenge on everyone who has abused him. Will she uphold her duty to the police, or protect her only friend?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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A Woman Called Sada Abe (1975)
Plot Summary:
The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student. Sada wanders the city, becoming a geisha and eventually meeting Kichizo, a posh restaurateur who falls under her spell. Together, they embark on a week-long sexual escapade filled with dangerous obsessions. Their complete descent into each others desires culminates in a shocking crime of passion which captures the city's headlines. Based on a real event from 1936.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, sensual, biting, suspense
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New Female Prisoner Scorpion: Special Cellblock X (1977)
Plot Summary:
A nurse is framed for her involvement in the hospital murder of a politician who was threatening to expose corrupt practices. She escapes from jail but is captured and sent back, resulting in the rest of the inmates being punished, added to which of a new, tougher, head of security arrives to take up her new job.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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New Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701 (1976)
Plot Summary:
Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine is given a fifteen year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. She's sent to an all women prison where she's not exactly welcome. Her fellow inmates torture, humiliate and try to kill her; but the Scorpion prevails long enough to get some justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Sada (1998)
Plot Summary:
Nobuhiko Obayashi, director of the cult horror/comedy "House," gives his unique spin on the true story of Sada Abe, who strangled her lover and cut off his genitals as a keepsake.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual
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Angel Guts: Red Lightning (1994)
Plot Summary:
Nami is a photographer on the set of a porn film. When photographing a rape scene between a teacher and a schoolgirl, she becomes uncomfortable, having remembered a similar incident in her own past. Muraki, the editor, notices her discomfort and attempts to comfort her. However, he looks like Nami's attacker and she flees from him. She turns to her barmaid girlfriend for support, but finds out that she has been unfaithful, so Nami goes out to get drunk. When she wakes up the next morning with no memory of the night before, she is terrified to find the dead body of a man she takes to be her one-night-stand. She runs into Muraki the next day and together they try to find out what happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Scum of the Earth (1963)
Plot Summary:
A naive and innocent teenage girl is blackmailed into modeling in the nude for a photographer who is in league with a teenage gang whose boss illegally sells photos of teenage girls being abused and degraded.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, stylized, psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Abe Sada: The Last Seven Days (2011)
Plot Summary:
In May 1936, the “Abe specific incident.” shook the entire country of Japan. It is said that Abe had a live-in maid (Yuma Asami), the owner of the restaurant’s employer Ishida (Nobuyuki Matsuda) was killed, that the cut is more localized. With respect to neither confirm nor deny the crime, frustrated by the testimony of the specific criminal Urakawa Abe (Shun Sugata). And the relentless questioning of Urakawa, we are told the circumstances leading to death and cut from the bodies of penis. Result of fierce passion between men and women debauched erratic, and saw two people … and the constant questioning after the incident, and the constant “last seven days” to depict that Katsuaki the in the here and now Abe no specific story that you have to watch it!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, pink cinema, sexploitation film
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Violated Angels (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young man breaks into a nurse's rooming house and one-by-one kills off nurses.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: scary, depressing, suspense, controversial, crying, avant garde
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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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Las Vegas Serial Killer (1986)
Plot Summary:
August 31, 1986: Dangerously unhinged serial killer Johnathan Glick gets released from the Nevada State Penitentiary on a technicality. Three days after his release Johnathan arrives in Las Vegas, Nevada. Naturally, Johnathan decides to embark on another murderous rampage that came to be known as "The Glitter Gulch Holocaust".
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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The Punishment (1973)
Plot Summary:
Britt, deluxe call-girl, is punished by the brothel owner because she was not accomodating enough to a customer. From now on, she must obey to all customers sadistic wishes, or else.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sadistic, sexploitation film
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Grindsploitation (2016)
Plot Summary:
Exploitation anthology from the twisted minds of established and up and coming directors from across the globe.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, captivating, suspense, retro, dark fairy tale, independent film, grindhouse
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Emmanuelle's Revenge (1975)
Plot Summary:
Emanuelle is out to avenge her sister, who committed suicide after escaping from her sadistic lover Carlo. So she chains Carlo up in her basement, drugs him, and forces him to watch her having sex. As Carlo begins to hallucinate all kinds of bloody horrors and cannibalistic doings, he decides he has to break free and kill Emanuelle.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, suspense, sensual, queer horror, sexploitation film
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Inferno of Torture (1969)
Plot Summary:
Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, queer horror, crying, transgressive, pink cinema, sexploitation film, cult film
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Red Room 2 (2000)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to the underground goretastic RED ROOM, RED ROOM 2 will leave you gasping for air in its grueling portrayal of what people will do for money. Another million dollars is up for grabs as four more contestants enter the RED ROOM. Locked inside, they begin to play "King", a deadly card game in which the loser must perform whatever action the winner desires. The game is played till there is a single survivor. How far will the contestants go for a little hard earned cash? How much abuse can a person handle? Can you dare watch the horror of the RED ROOM?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, controversial, psychological, tense, bloody, terrifying, sequel to cult film
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Scum of the Earth (1974)
Plot Summary:
Newlyweds Helen and Paul go to a backwoods cabin on vacation. When Paul goes back to the car for some cigarettes he's not given a chance to ponder the carcinogenic ramifications as an axe blade makes the point moot. Panic stricken, Helen runs into the woods, only to find Odie Pickett as her only savior. He takes her back to his place, where pregnant wife Emmy, thick-as-a-brick son Bo, and available-since-she-was-twelve daughter Sarah, do their best to give her a "family" welcome. While Helen's immediate danger is somewhat delayed, her newfound shelter begins showing some signs of danger as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, psycho film, awful
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Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman (2021)
Plot Summary:
Based on Aileen Wuornos’s early life, this Is the true story of America’s most notorious female serial killer, who went on a killing spree in Florida in 1989 and 1990. What few people know, is that back in 1976 a young and beautiful Aileen Wuornos arrived in Florida searching for a new life that would help her escape her tragic past, married a wealthy Yacht Club President and had the chance to start again as part of Florida’s high society….or did she?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark
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Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (1974)
Plot Summary:
A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based closely on the true story of Ed Gein.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychotronic, psychological, controversial, grindhouse, atmospheric, depressing, dark comedy
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Nightstalker (2009)
Plot Summary:
Richard Ramirez, dubbed "The Night Stalker" by the media, a serial killer who killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 souls during his reign of terror in Los Angeles back in the Eighties.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, slasher