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Plot Summary:
Ellen Wheeler, a rich widow, is recovering from a nervous breakdown. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does anybody believe her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, clever, suspense, slasher, independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Best tv shows and movies like Night Watch (1973):
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Berserk (1967)
Plot Summary:
Monica Rivers, is the owner and ringmaster of a traveling circus and who'll stop at nothing to draw bigger audiences. When a series of mysterious murders begins to occur and some of her performers die gruesomely, her profits soar. She hires high-wire walker Frank Hawkins, impressed by the handsome and muscular young man. They begin an affair which arouses her previous lover Durando's jealousy. When Durando is found dead shortly afterward, the other performers begin to take alarm, as a mysterious killer is obviously loose in their midst. Many suspect Monica herself of the killings, especially Matilda, who has set her sights on Monica's new lover. At this point, Monica's unruly, sixteen-year-old daughter Angela, is expelled from school for being incorrigible and Monica is forced to take her into the circus, allowing her to become the partner of knife-thrower Gustavo. Meanwhile, the dead bodies continue to pile up.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, psychotronic, slasher, psychological thriller, suspense, grindhouse, scary, rough, mind bending, serious
Similar in 79%
The Night Walker (1964)
Plot Summary:
A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mind bending, surreal, psychedelic, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, scary, psychological, serious, realistic
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Piggy (2012)
Plot Summary:
London, modern day: Joe, a mild mannered young man is bored by his life. When his beloved brother is murdered Joe finds solace in Piggy, one of his brother's old friends. Piggy helps Joe to cope with grief, intent on saving him and helping him get justice for his brother's killing. As their friendship grows Joe finds himself in an increasing dangerous and murky world of violence and revenge. As Joe life collapses around him he starts to question who Piggy really is, and how honest he's really been with him. When Joe confronts Piggy a series of events are put in place that lead to a disastrous climax. Written by Anonymous (IMDb.com).
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, captivating
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Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is terrorized by her fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, noir, slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film, scary, psychological
Similar in 76%
Horror on Snape Island (1972)
Plot Summary:
A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, sexy, classic horror, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Homicidal (1961)
Plot Summary:
The story centers around a murderous scheme to collect a rich inheritance. The object of murder is Miriam Webster, who is to share in the inheritance with her half brother Warren, who lives with his childhood guardian Helga in the mansion where Warren and Mariam grew up. Confined to a wheelchair after recently suffering a stroke, Helga is cared for by her nurse Emily, a strange young woman who has formed a close bond with Warren.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending, black and white, suspense, twist ending, grindhouse
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Fear in the Night (1972)
Plot Summary:
It took Penny Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Penny is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, noir, pastoral, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Scream for Help (1984)
Plot Summary:
A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychological, mind bending, realistic, retro, independent film, scary
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Macabre (1980)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, gothic
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Blood of the Undead (1976)
Plot Summary:
A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic, mind bending
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Breaking Dawn (2004)
Plot Summary:
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life on the outside tread the line between fantasy and reality as a stalker becomes known to her. She could be in danger; it could all be in her head.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, suspense
Similar in 78%
White of the Eye (1987)
Plot Summary:
Evidence of mutilated housewives points to a sound expert (David Keith) living unhappily with his wife (Cathy Moriarty) in Arizona.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir
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Danika (2005)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Danika, a woman whose fears for her children are manifested in premonitions of death and disaster. Bierko plays Tomei's husband, while Hall is her psychiatrist and confidant.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, detective, scary, realistic, psychotronic
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Stalker (2010)
Plot Summary:
When novelist Paula Martin retreats to the seclusion of her family home Crows Hall she hopes to clear her mind and focus on her new book. The arrival of an assistant, Linda, should take the pressure off... but as the bodies pile up, Paula finds herself trapped in a terrifying nightmare of murder and madness.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, captivating, suspense, realistic
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And Soon the Darkness (1970)
Plot Summary:
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, slasher, grindhouse, road movie, psychological thriller, offbeat, dread, deep, creepy
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Knife of Ice (1972)
Plot Summary:
As a thirteen year old, Martha Caldwell witnessed the death of her parents in a terrible railway accident. Barely surviving the tragedy herself, Martha was struck dumb due to the shock. Now an adult, the still mute Martha lives with her uncle Ralph in the Spanish countryside. Martha's cousing Jenny arrives to be with the family but is quickly stabbed to death. It appears that a sex maniac is roaming the countryside; killing pretty young girls. The already traumatized Martha seems likely to be the next victim but the case turns out to be far more complicated than it would first seem.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, cult classic, twisted, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Horror House (1969)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers gathered in an old mansion are being murdered one by one. The survivors must discover who among them is the killer before he finishes off everybody.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, suspense, gothic horror, anthology, grindhouse, scary, serious, suspenseful, crying
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Alone (2002)
Plot Summary:
Experience the fear as you're sucked into the disturbed mind of Alex. Tormented by harrowing voices of the past Alex searches for the one girl who can silence the horror of a tortured soul. As the quest becomes darker and more sinister Alex's fear filled stalking leaves behind a trail of dead bodies. Inspector Hannah is the detective who makes a desperate attempt to piece together the mystery as he is drawn into this terrifying journey.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic
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Incubus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Stranded after a car accident, a medical school student and her friends try to find shelter - only to cross paths with a deranged killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Knife Edge (2009)
Plot Summary:
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, slasher, spooky, scary, realistic
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Autopsy (1975)
Plot Summary:
A pathology med student and a priest team up to investigate a wave of suicides blamed on sun spots and discover a number of them to be actual murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, slasher, cult classic, erotic, scary, psychological, tense, rough, mind bending
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Don't Let Him In (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, cult classic, scary, realistic, dark
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Sleuth (1972)
Plot Summary:
A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife’s lover - but things aren’t exactly as they seem.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, mind bending, atmospheric, enigmatic, minimal cast, serious, realistic
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The Darkroom (2006)
Plot Summary:
A teenage boy befriends an escapee from a mental institution who sees visions of horrible murders being committed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, psychological, suspense, teen, independent film
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Psychosis (2010)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer unleashes his blood lust at a remote environmental-camp. Years later a horror novelist relocates to rural England and is plagued to the point of madness by horrific hauntings of a massacre.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, scary, atmospheric, serious, slasher, realistic, psychotronic
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Blood Brides (1970)
Plot Summary:
A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, surreal, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, grindhouse, mind bending, psychedelic
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Psycho III (1986)
Plot Summary:
Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosey journalist comes to see him to ask questions about his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, bloody, psychological thriller, cult horror, psychological, surprise ending, scary, atmospheric, serious
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Sleepless (2001)
Plot Summary:
An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, slasher, scary, psychological, rough, suspense, detective, bloody, disturbing
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The Ward (2010)
Plot Summary:
A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, suspense, twisted, atmospheric, mind twisting
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From Hell (2001)
Plot Summary:
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, tense, gothic horror, serious, twist ending, psychological