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Plot Summary:
Maria Francisca, a wealthy young heiress and her friend Mariana De Castro, a young protestant widow, are accused of witchcraft and taken before the Inquisition of Lima, Peru . Maleficarum is the story of Francisca, a wealthy orphan and Mariana, her widowed protestant friend, who live surrounded by a town in which they are the center of hostile gossip. Francisco Verdugo, the Inquisitor, has his own ambitions. He has his greedy eyes on the orphan heiress's properties, but he needs a pretext. A confrontation in the street among a group of girls gives him the perfect excuse to arrest Mariana and Francisca and enchain them in the horror chambers of the Inquisition, leading them to a frightful end as they are convicted of witchcraft.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: twist ending, psychotronic, bleak, disturbing, sexy, queer horror, surprise ending
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Sex Hunter (1980)
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A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Overjoyed at the opportunity to further her career and repair her relationship with her boyfriend, she soon discovers that the academy has a much, much darker side to it--and she may not be able to escape it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: erotic
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White Slaves of Chinatown (1964)
Plot Summary:
The beautiful, brutal Olga procures prostitutes and pushes heroin for the syndicate, confining and torturing her pretty victims in a private dungeon located in New York City's sinister Chinatown.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sensual, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Woman in a Box 2 (1988)
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The manager of a ski resort kidnaps women, subjects them to various forms of sexual degradation and keeps his victims in a wooden box in the basement.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, crying
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It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You (2006)
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An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search for them that takes him through the mysterious streets of the ancient medina. He becomes obsessed with the figure of a beautiful blond woman dressed in white that he sees there. but it appears that she may have died years before.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, bleak, surreal, crying, erotic, weird, masterpiece
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A Chinese Torture Chamber Story II (1998)
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A pair of country thieves make friends with a general rising within the imperial army. After the general finds himself falling in love with the beautiful sister of one of the thieves (who is the fiancee of the other) he decides to do whatever it takes to get rid of the competition and have her for himself. Viewer discretion advised: this film contains extreme violence and sexual situations.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, crying, transgressive
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Sex and Zen III (1998)
Plot Summary:
The plot follows new prostitutes Susan (Karen Yeung), Fanny (Tung Yi), and Chinyun (Chung Chun), who are inducted into the Fragrance House brothel where they are trained in the ways of lovemaking by their veteran madam Tall Kau. Eventually all three enter circulation where Susan is crowned the top prize and becomes enamored of budding scholar Chu Chi-Ang. Fanny is jealous beyond all means and though she's bought by famous horse trader Sir Lui (Category 3 staple Tsui Kam-Kong), she still plans her revenge on Susan. Eventually the typical “torture the innocent naked girl for cheap thrills†stuff happens, while Chu learns various wacky sexual positions to get Susan back.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic
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No Reason (2010)
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Suddenly Jennifer is torn from her comfortable and non-assuming life. While planning to move, Jennifer and her husband will experience anything but an ordinary day! It all begins with a strange visit from her soon to be ex-neighbor, the postman who mentions an urgent need. Later when Jennifer comes home from grocery, she discovers an elderly neighbor, who is her son's babysitter, has disappeared. She also receives a terrifying and disturbing letter which contains a macabre death poem, plus some compromising sex photos of her husband and the missing babysitter! To get over the initial shock, she decides to take a bath, and promptly falls asleep in the bathtub. When she awakes, she finds herself on the floor of her apartment covered in blood and body parts! Center to this surreal and horrific scene is a mysterious masked man who promises to lead Jennifer on the right path toward the sacred white light . The story continues as a tale of physical and mental torture!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surprise ending, splatter, bleak, suspense, sadistic, brutal, surreal, controversial, extreme horror
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Shogun's Joys of Torture (1968)
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One of the most famous of cult director Ishii Teruo's films. A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women and brutal punished that ensued. Not for the faint of heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: anthology, bloody, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, dark fairy tale, crying, weird
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Satan's School for Lust (2002)
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Young, beautiful and naive Primula Cooper is sent to a secluded female-only private school while her father travels overseas. Diablo School For Girls is an ominous and isolated building that hides its many dark and kinky secrets from the outside world. Upon her arrival, Primula is greeted by Miss Beezle – the domineering headmistress of Diablo who has a sinister taste for the bodies and souls of blossoming young women – as well as Phoenix, a student hellion and over-sexed goth girl who becomes Primula’s all-too-willing roommate. As Primula tries to settle into her strange new environment, she begins having dreams of a devilish figure that can satisfy her deepest and hottest desires!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: erotic, scary, sexy, bleak, suspense, queer horror
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Who's Watching Oliver (2017)
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The story of a mentally unstable loner lost in a life forced upon him. By night Oliver aimlessly wanders the streets and bars on what can only be described as a truly shocking and humiliating killing spree. His only savior and possible way out of a life he is desperate to escape comes in the form of the beautiful Sophia with her sweet eccentricity and naivety to the danger she has put herself in.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: bleak, psychotronic, scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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The Conspiracy of Torture (1969)
Plot Summary:
In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci whom he keeps his daughter locked up in the dungeon of his castle and sexually abuses her as well. Beatrice then plots with her stepmother, her besotted servant Olimpio, as well as a local bandit, named Catalano, to plan Francesco’s murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, classic horror
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Wanda, the Wicked Warden (1977)
Plot Summary:
Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Switzerland, West Germany, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, grindhouse, controversial, sensual, cult classic, explicit, queer horror, independent film, rough
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Olalla (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based in the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Olalla" tells the story of a gothic and decadent family of genetic vampires who need human blood to survive, and where incest is the only way to maintain the family line.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Eugenie (1970)
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Eugenie, an innocent young woman, is taken to an island paradise where she initiated into a world of pleasure and pain controlled by the sinister Dolmance. But when she surrenders to her own forbidden fantasies, Eugenie becomes trapped in a frenzy of drugs, sadomasochism and murder. Can a frightened girl in the grip of carnal perversion find sanctuary in the orgies of the depraved?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, Spain, Liechtenstein, UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, grindhouse, retro, suspense, disturbing, controversial, perverse, cult classic
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Rome, in 73 B.C. Spartacus led the rebellion of 200 gladiators wich saw them opposed to the inhumanity which Rome had forced them into. During the riot they resisted for a long time against the roman soldiers. Few against a whole army. Some of them went crazy and started murders, rapes and violence. Spartacus punished them with dead. But in those lands, when blood gets shed, they come back.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, bleak, dark, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, controversial, splatter
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Blood Sisters (2000)
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In the vein of I Spit On Your Grave, well... if you add more intense scenes of murder and rape. A woman is raped and with the help of her friend, decides to take vengeance on everyone who was involved. This is hard-core stuff folks, not for the faint of heart.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: rough, brutal, suspense, disturbing
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Violation (2020)
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A traumatic betrayal drives a woman towards a vengeful extremity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, tense, bleak, psychotronic, slasher, transgressive, weird
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Mark (a journalist from Xice Magazine) is sent to do a premier article on Steve and John (co-creators of XBus & owners of Bang-on Entertainment). They decide to take Mark on a ride that, unbeknownst to them, turns into a vicious nightmare. Caught in a revenge plot that's been brewing for years, Mark tries to escape with his life as our mysterious Beth reigns down punishment for Steve and John's past dirty deeds. What is a "just" consequence for a couple of scum-bag's?... And how far will one go to get even?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic, surprise ending, twist ending
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Inferno of Torture (1969)
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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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Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979)
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"Beautiful Girl Hunter" by Norifumi Suzuki is based on manga by Maasaki Soto.The film portrays the life of Tatsuya,a young man of proper descent whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture.This handsome rapist seduces women,then brings them to the basement of the mansion he inherited from his well-to-do parents,where he indulges in lengthy sessions of sado-sexual violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: controversial, naughty, erotic, sexual, erotic drama, disgusting, sexy, scatology
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Mark of the Devil (1970)
Plot Summary:
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, grindhouse, slasher, satanic, bleak, dramatic, controversial, demonic, extreme horror, creepy
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Plank Face (2016)
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A man is taken captive by a feral family in the deep woods. They are determined to transform him, body and mind, into one of their own -- whether he likes it or not.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological, sexy
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Sadistic Yoga (2007)
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The female instructor Mariko gives yoga classes at a high-class club in Tokyo. She has a crush on Rika whom she gives private lessons to. When she notices bruises on Rika's body, Mariko learns that the young woman is involved in a highly abusive S&M relationship. On order to gain the affections of her student, Mariko decides to take revenge against the men in Rika's life.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Captives (2001)
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Sandy has stumbled onto a lair of torture and humiliation. She was abducted and brought to this pit of pain as the next intended victim. But Sandy overthrows her captor and kills him. Does she release the other prisoners? Does she call the police? No. Her mind snaps and she assumes control over the prisoners, taking them as her own playtoys. Naked bodies writhe in ecstasy as blood runs down the walls in this chilling tale of madness and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: sadistic, explicit, rough, retro, bloody, slasher, controversial, perverse, erotic, independent film
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Witchhammer (1970)
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A ruthless inquisitor spins the superstitions of local peasants into religious heresy, finding cause to accuse dozens of innocent men and women of witchcraft. The inquisitor targets nobles and merchants, whose property and goods are then confiscated. After suffering an array of medieval tortures, most of the accused confess–only to be burned alive at the stake as helpless villagers watch. With its bold and striking cinematography, the film captures scenes of both daring nudity and brutal torture.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, gothic, gothic horror, satanic, tense, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men is Matthew Hopkins, who tours the land offering his services as a persecutor of witches.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, gothic, rough, atmospheric, suspense, satanic, controversial, stylized
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Liberty (2019)
Plot Summary:
1774, shortly before the French Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin. Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the puritanical court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the legendary Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign. Their mission is to export libertinage, a philosophy of enlightenment founded on the rejection of moral boundaries and authorities, but moreover to find a safe place to pursue their errant games, where the quest for pleasure no longer obeys laws other than those dictated by unfulfilled desires.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Portugal, Spain, Germany
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, avant garde, scatology, queer cinema, hot
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The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, controversial, grindhouse, disturbing, romantic, thought provoking, intellectual
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The Woman (2011)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher, twisted, controversial, psychological thriller, bloody
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Caligula (1979)
Plot Summary:
The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, disturbing, controversial, art house, brutal, grindhouse, sensual, atmospheric, rough