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Plot Summary:
A German ornithologist casually discovers some old tapes on which a psychologist has recorded the mysterious doings happened into those isolated walls. So he learns about a gloomy story of incestuous loves and trivial betrayals that will lead to a bloodbath orchestrated by an unexpected crazy character.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, art house
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So Sweet... So Perverse (1969)
Plot Summary:
Industrialist Jean is living a jet set life in late sixties Paris. Things are not so well at home with his frigid wife Danielle. He meets their new neighbour, Nicole, and they become lovers. But she has a sadistic ex-boyfriend, Klaus, which keeps showing up. It soon transpires that Danielle and Nicole are conspiring against Jean, Klaus being the hitman hired to murder him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, slasher, cult film
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The Unwanted (2014)
Plot Summary:
Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local girl, with whom she becomes romantically involved. Their relationship ignites the wrath of the girl's father, who holds the key to the dreadful truth Carmilla is seeking. Inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's famed Gothic novella.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, bleak, psychotronic, dark drama, southern gothic
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Crazy Desires of a Murderer (1977)
Plot Summary:
A group of hip friends gather at a Gothic castle owned by a wheelchair- bound older relative of one of the girls. One couple in the group, unbeknownst to the others, is smuggling heroin in some Chinese artifacts the protagonist has brought back from the Orient to give to her elderly relative. Meanwhile the deranged uncle of the protagonist, who supposedly killed the protagonist's mother (his own sister) and cut out her eyes, is wandering the catacombs spying on everyone. When one of the guests is murdered and her eyes subsequently disappear, suspicion naturally falls on the mad uncle. But is he being set up?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Sex of the Witch (1973)
Plot Summary:
An old man dies and as his relatives await their dosh they start getting killed, sort of by a witch!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: naughty, gothic, sexploitation film
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Eyes Behind the Wall (1977)
Plot Summary:
The movie starts with a scene of a young man raping and murdering a woman on a train. Later he rents a room from an elderly wheelchair-bound voyeur and his much younger wife. The elderly man enjoys watching the younger man through the a hole in the wall where he has set up a periscope-like device. The first thing he sees, for instance, is the younger man get forcibly raped by a big black guy he has picked up at a cheesy disco. Then he sends his wife over to seduce the young man, and its eventually revealed the true nature of the couple's relationship and how he came to be in the wheelchair.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, gothic horror, classic horror
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Bizarre (1987)
Plot Summary:
A wife escapes her pressure-filled marriage only to have her husband haunt her literally and figuratively.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Hyena (1997)
Plot Summary:
An ex-model gets caught up in lust, murder and betrayal when a gun-wielding man pays her a visit.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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A Whisper in the Dark (1976)
Plot Summary:
Martino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. His parents assume it is just a game, but strange things start to happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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
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Death Smiles on a Murderer (1973)
Plot Summary:
A man discovers an ancient Incan formula for raising the dead, and uses it for a series of revenge murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, slasher, scary, psychological, suspenseful, rough, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Olga O's Strange Story (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Olga Roli returns to her birthplace after a nervous breakdown, it quickly becomes much worse for her. Anonymous, threatening phone calls to deal with her as Olga O, her stage name from her time working in a local strip club, soon followed by a near miss with a murderous motorcyclist.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, independent film, sexploitation film
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The Adored (2012)
Plot Summary:
Photographer Francesca builds Maia's confidence while having to control her own obsessive and sexual desires towards Maia. As they spend more time together, Maia becomes the object of her obsession and things slowly spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, queer horror, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, twisted
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Between the Lies (1997)
Plot Summary:
A private detective has an affair with an obsessed client. She then starts putting ideas into his head that his wife is cheating on him with her dance partner hoping he will leave his wife for her. The private detective then thinks that his wife is actually having an affair and starts spying on her and ends up having an affair with his client again thinking it is OK because his wife is cheating on him when she is actually completely innocent.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, detective, hot
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Sinful (2006)
Plot Summary:
An unhappily married young woman plots to steal the unborn baby of her single and pregnant next door neighbor by befriending her and waiting for the right time to act. Lilith is a young woman who longs for having a family and the perfect child. But that all changes when Lilith strikes a new friendship with her pregnant next door neighbor Aisha which transforms her maternal instinct into madness. As her psychological world quickly comes crashing down, Lilith lets her twisted jealousy of Aisha's perfect life consume her leading to a shocking climax.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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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
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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
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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
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The Sister of Ursula (1978)
Plot Summary:
While searching for their estranged mother, two beautiful sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, arrive at a luxurious seaside hotel. At the same time, a mysterious killer starts murdering promiscuous women in the area.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, slasher, cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Amuck! (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young American girl arrives on an island near Venice to begin her new job as secretary to famous novelist Richard Stuart. However, it turns out that her predecessor disappeared without a trace.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, sexy, slasher, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, independent film, cult 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 Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy surgeon Andreas Valenti accidentally kills one of his lovers, Daniella, with an unusual objet d'arte and covers it up by dismembering and disposing of the body never realizing he's being watched by a stalker the entire time. Daniella's half-sister, Evelyne, knows he is somehow responsible for the girl's disappearance and enlists the aid of Inspector Garrano to help prove it. They discover the good doctor had a rich young wife who went insane on her wedding night and was committed to a lunatic asylum; later pronounced cured, she had vanished upon release. Andreas, now being blackmailed with photos of his cover-up crime, also finds himself framed when the flower with petals of steel that did Daniella in is used to murder Evelyne. Having fallen for the dead woman, the Insector won't stop until he gets to the bottom of the disappearances and deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, cult film
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Veronica (2017)
Plot Summary:
A female Psychologist who has stopped practicing medicine, decides to take the case of Veronica de la Serna, a young woman whose previous therapist has mysteriously disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, gothic, gothic horror, black and white, suspense
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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
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The House of the Laughing Windows (1976)
Plot Summary:
Stefano, a young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano. The fresco painter was Legnani, and the fresco is his last work. Legnani apparently was mentally disturbed. He was used to paint people close to die or in agony. These facts together with the strange atmosphere that surround this village near Ferrara, in the north of Italy, contribute to put Stefano in a nightmare reality. Soon reality will change into horror.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, scary, tense, serious, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, gothic, slasher
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The Lodgers (2017)
Plot Summary:
1920, rural Ireland. Anglo-Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence (The Lodgers) which enforces three rules upon the twins: they must be in bed by midnight; they may not permit an outsider past the threshold; and if one attempts to escape, the life of the other is placed in jeopardy. When troubled war veteran Sean returns to the nearby village, he is immediately drawn to the mysterious Rachel, who in turn begins to break the rules set out by The Lodgers. The consequences pull Rachel into a deadly confrontation with her brother - and with the curse that haunts them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, spooky, scary, dark, thrilling, psychotronic
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Naples in Veils (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, touching, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic
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Byleth (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young man becomes obsessed with Byleth, the demon of incest, and it leads to an unhealthy infatuation with his sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, naughty
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Crimson Peak (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 156000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, gothic horror, atmospheric, suspense, dark, twist ending, suspenseful, scary, fairy tale
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The Skin I Live In (2011)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, sexy, clever, surreal, breathtaking, dark, non-linear, twist ending
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Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
Plot Summary:
A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, psychological thriller, gothic horror, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, period piece, mind bending