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Plot Summary:
A young woman on the frontier marries a meek farmer who has an annoying habit of going through a rather drastic change every full moon.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Horror, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film, wild, period drama
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Vanilla Flavour (2002)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic love story, taking place in the final days of the Second World War when the American Army liberated the Pilsen region of West Bohemia. Anne lives with her mother, husband and stepchildren at a solitary country farm. But her life is not what she would wish it to be. She had previously lived with her aunt in London, and the only reason why she returned to Czechoslovakia was to look after the orphaned children of her sister. She married their father, but the rural environment is alien to her, and neither does she get on very well with her husband. A group of American soldiers arrives at the farm, having strayed away from their designated route of advance. To their great surprise, they are welcomed by a young woman who speaks fluent English, and invite her to go with them to Pilsen as an interpreter. Anne long hesitates, well aware that she attracts the affection of one of the soldiers, and herself becomes fond of him, too. She feels that the trip to Pilsen could mean an.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Gardener (1974)
Plot Summary:
Carl the Gardner grows odd plants for a rich Yankee woman Ellen Bennett living in South America while exercising a mental hold over her. All his previous employers died mysteriously.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, crying, psychotronic, independent film, natural horror, urban fantasy
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Black Wood (2022)
Plot Summary:
Dowanhowee, a Native American woman, evades the notorious Dutch Wilder Gang by escaping into the uncharted Black Wood Forest. Once inside, they quickly discover they must help each other for they have unknowingly awaken an ancient ravenous creature, known as The Wendigo.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Scream Bloody Murder (1973)
Plot Summary:
A disturbed boy kills his father with his farm tractor and his arm is mangled in the process. He's taken to a mental hospital where he's outfitted with a hook to replace his lost hand and, years later, he's eventually released from the asylum. He returns home to find his mother has remarried, which sets him off on a murderous rampage.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious
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Zombie Lake (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, psychotronic, erotic, epic, suspense, grindhouse, detective
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Lycan Colony (2006)
Plot Summary:
Some small towns hold many secrets. Two siblings and a newly settled doctor's family are about to find out this town's darkest secret...the hard way. The town folk are good and evil werewolves! And all things are not as they appear.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Undead or Alive: A Zombedy (2007)
Plot Summary:
Elmer Winslow is a soldier on the run from the Union Army, and Luke Budd is a cowboy with a broken heart. When the two misfits rob the corrupt sheriff of an old west town, they have no idea that a plague of zombies is sweeping the country, or that Geronimo's sexy niece may be their only hope of survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, humorous, semi serious, scary, funny, apocalyptic, horror comedy, rough, offbeat, psychotronic
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Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989)
Plot Summary:
Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sun cream to protect themselves. A descendant of Van Helsing arrives with hilarious consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, horror comedy, funny, retro, disturbing, cult classic, independent film
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A Different Story (1978)
Plot Summary:
A gay man and a lesbian enter into a marriage of convenience in order to prevent his deportation, and then gradually fall in love with one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, crying, independent film, freeze frame, gay cinema
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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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The Rowdy Girls (2000)
Plot Summary:
A hooker, a bank robber and an innocent young woman clash over love and loot from a robbery.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, semi serious, humorous, grindhouse, realistic, romantic, hot, campy
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China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
Plot Summary:
Gunslinger Clayton Drumm (Testi) is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he will agree to murder Matthew (Oates), a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Fear No Evil (1981)
Plot Summary:
High school student turns out to be personification of Lucifer. Two archangels in human form (as women) take him on.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, serious, disturbing, slasher, satanic, homoerotic, informative, queer horror, independent film
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Paper Hearts (1993)
Plot Summary:
Western drama directed by Rod McCall. Henry deserted his family years before, Henry (James Brolin) kicks up a storm when he shows up to see his youngest daughter before her wedding. He has ulterior motives, including a divorce from wife Jenny (Sally Kirkland), but her new beau, Tom (Kris Kristofferson), throws his plans off the rails. Meanwhile, Sally's older daughter must choose between love with a cowboy and life in New York.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
Plot Summary:
TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, freeze frame, erotic, funny, light
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Deadtime Stories (1986)
Plot Summary:
A babysitting uncle tells his charges three horror stories--about a killer witch, Little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf, and a story about "Goldi Lox" and the three bears.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, fairy tale, suspense, suspenseful, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, cult classic, independent film, semi serious
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Bad Girls (1994)
Plot Summary:
Four former harlots try to leave the wild west (Colorado, to be exact) and head north to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately someone from Cody's past won't let it happen that easily.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, spaghetti western, anime, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, light, road movie, sexy
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Vampire Boys (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jasin and his vampire brood's time is running out. In order for them to survive, Jasin needs to find a mortal to turn into a vampire to spend eternity with. Los Angeles provides plenty of young candidates. The brood has their eyes set on Tara, a young, gorgeous blond college student. Tara is open to the idea of becoming a vampire, but someone else enters the picture to disrupt the brood's plans. Caleb, a fresh face college student new to Los Angeles, keeps dreaming of a mysterious stranger. At school, Caleb meets the stranger, Jasin, and they have an instant connection. The problem is that time is short, and Jasin needs to convince Caleb that eternity as a vampire can be a very sweet life.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, homoerotic, captivating, sexy, independent film, lgbt cinema, psychotronic, gay cinema, campy
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The Burning (1981)
Plot Summary:
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidently burned him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, grindhouse, psychotronic, cult horror, classic horror, bloody, creepy, spooky, terrifying
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Big Bad Wolf (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Cameron, a group of hunters is attacked by a wild animal, and Charlie Cowley survives, but sees his brother Scott dying. Seven years later, his teenage nephew Derek Cowley steals the key of his stepfather's cabin in the isolated Fire Road 13, and travels with four classmates and his friend Sam to spend the weekend having a party with booze and sex. However, they are attacked by a Beast that kills his friends in a sadistic way. Sam and Derek survive, and they suspect that his stepfather, Mitchell Toblat, is a werewolf. When Charlie meets Derek and Sam, they decide to collect evidence to prove that Mitchell is the Beast and kill him, but Mitchell discovers their plot and chases the trio.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, semi serious, slasher, humorous, crying, horror comedy, weird, urban fantasy
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My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)
Plot Summary:
Young student finds himself being transformed to a vampire after a night with a quite attractive female vampire. First, he does not quite believe it himself, but with the help of a 300 year old teacher and the handbook "vampirism - a guide to an alternative lifestyle", he finds out that blood does not taste as bad as he expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, horror comedy, exciting, tense, captivating, dark comedy, independent film, psychotronic, freeze frame
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The Little Hours (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the middle ages.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, sexy, dark comedy, funny, humorous, psychological, romantic, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Two Evil Eyes (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two horror segments based on Edgar Allan Poe stories set in and around the city of Pittsburgh. "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" concerns a cheating wife who is trying to scam her dying husband out of millions by having her doctor/hypnotist lover hypnotize the geezer into signing his dough over to her. The old man dies while under hypnosis and is stuck in the limbo between the here and the hereafter. The door to the physical world is opened and the undead attempt to enter it. "Black Cat" is the story of Rodd Usher, an alcoholic photographer/artist, who descends into madness after he kills a stray cat that his live-in girlfriend Annabelle brings home. One murder leads to another, and the complex cover-ups begin.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, gothic, creepy, cult classic, slasher, scary, suspenseful, retro, dark fairy tale, twisted
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The Howling (1981)
Plot Summary:
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, gothic, slasher, creepy, cult classic, grindhouse, suspense, classic horror
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The Deserter (1970)
Plot Summary:
A soldier runs away from the horrors of war, finds love with a virgin farm girl and a mistreated housewife, and will find that it is difficult to survive the battles of sex and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Greece
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mondo, crying, freeze frame
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A Walk on the Moon (1999)
Plot Summary:
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, romantic, sensual, sentimental, sincere, contemplative, erotic, realistic, romantic drama
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The Claim (2000)
Plot Summary:
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, intense, serious, captivating, realistic, bleak, epic, contemplative, gloomy, erotic
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Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
Plot Summary:
The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, melancholic, heartbreaking, emotional, cult classic, visually stunning, independent film, atmospheric, stylized
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Just Married (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney fall in love and plan to get married, despite opposition from Sarah's uptight, rich family. When they do get married, and get a chance to prove Sarah's family wrong, they go on a European honeymoon and run into disaster after disaster. They have to decide whether the honeymoon from hell and a few pre-marital mistakes are worth throwing away their love and marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, romantic, sexy, romantic comedy, hilarious, semi serious, light, entertaining
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Life After Beth (2014)
Plot Summary:
Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth. When she mysteriously returns, he gets a second chance at love. Soon his whole world turns upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, horror comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, enigmatic, bloody, melancholic, surreal, romantic, stylized