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Plot Summary:
The wife of a wealthy industrialist finds herself caught-up in a web of intrigue & murder which was created by her own deceit. When she tries to escape the results of her actions, she too falls victim to deception.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 869
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, detective, neo noir, erotic, independent film
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Body Puzzle (1992)
Plot Summary:
A police officer makes a terrible discovery during the investigation of a series of murders: Each victim has a transplanted organ from the same man.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective, surprise ending, slasher, suspense, independent film
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Don't Go Into the House by the Woods (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young man goes to his parents house over the weekend and is scared to death when he starts to receive phone calls from a psycho who might be inside the house.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country:
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, twist ending, slasher, surprise ending, road movie, independent film, detective, spoof, hispanic
Similar in 76%
Death will return (1961)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from Nikos Foskolos’ theatrical play. On a terribly stormy night, in a secluded hotel, the owner, Brigadier Norton, is murdered. Prime suspects: his daughter Elena, his second wife Liza, Liza’s niece and her fiancé, Norton’s physician, and the hotel staff. Inspector Fox and his assistant, policeman Petridis, are assigned the investigation of the crime. While the suspects’ questioning is under way, some more people arrive at the hotel: detective Tilemachos Christofis with his assistant Aliki, and lieutenant Karalis, a sworn enemy of the victim, complicating things even more.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, suspense
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Olivia (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nightmares of the past haunt the beautiful, mysterious Olivia (Suzanna Love), a London resident who begins a passionate affair with American businessman Mike (Easy Rider's Robert Walker, Jr.). Trapped in a loveless marriage and traumatized by memories of her mother's brutal murder, Olivia hopes her lover will offer a chance at a new life. However, ghostly voices and brutal murders ignite a fiendish, twist-filled story of double identities, deception, and erotic terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, captivating, dark, surprise ending, neo noir, psycho sexual, independent film
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Evil Judgment (1984)
Plot Summary:
A girl starts her own investigation after the police fail to catch a local serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, independent film
Similar in 82%
Zipperface (1992)
Plot Summary:
Lisa Ryder is a young policewoman recently promoted to detective when she has her first case in tracking down and identifying a serial killer in her small California town.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, erotic, independent film
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The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (1971)
Plot Summary:
In Dublin, a young woman is brutally murdered in her home by a maniac that throws acid in her face and then slits her throat with a razor. Her mangled body is later discovered in the boot of a limousine owned by the Swiss Ambassador Sobiesky. The Ambassador, who was the dead woman's lover, refuses to cooperate with the police due to his diplomatic immunity. John Norton, an ex-cop famed for his brutal working methods, is brought in to help and gets too deeply involved when he stars an affair with the Ambassador's beautiful step-daughter, Helen. Meanwhile, the brutal killings continue.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Switzerland, Ireland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic, psychological thriller, surprise ending, independent film, detective, cult film
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The New York Butcher (2016)
Plot Summary:
For rookie cop Linda Blair and serial killer Clive Barker, the biggest challenge they'll both face, is looking in the mirror.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, rough, detective, surprise ending, neo noir, cult movie cast
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Out of the Dark (1988)
Plot Summary:
An employee at a telephone fantasy service helps hunt for the killer preying on her silken-voiced colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, rough, neo noir, erotic, independent film, scary, serious
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Massacre County (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a hideous crime in a mansion by the forest, where a group of young people was found murdered, a suspicious clown tries to prove his innocence to the investigator that found him covered in blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
Similar in 77%
A Black Veil for Lisa (1968)
Plot Summary:
When a narcotics officer suspects that his beautiful wife, who is a former criminal, is having an affair, he becomes so obsessed with this that he has major problems to manage their work. In the end, his obsession with devastating consequences when he captures the assassin he hunts.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, psychological thriller, independent film
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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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The Lady in Red Kills Seven Times (1972)
Plot Summary:
The film starts out incredibly in a beautiful Gothic castle in Germany. As little girls, Kitty Wildenbrück and her sister Evelyn have been fighting when their grandfather tells them the story behind an incredibly uncanny painting: Legend has it that a fiendish Red Lady is to return to the castle every hundred years and kill seven people. Fourteen years later, Kitty (Barbara Bouchet) has become a successful fashion photographer. Suddenly, people begin to get murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological thriller, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, exciting, psychotronic, erotic, retro
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Blood Widow (2020)
Plot Summary:
A modern telling of an ancient genre. A serial killer is terrorizing Arizona with the police in hot pursuit. What the police don't know is that a mysterious group are also pursuing the same killer to stop the killer from unleashing an evil like nothing before. From Vampires to Biblical wrath - everything comes down to one showdown.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, tense, bleak, psychotronic, detective
Similar in 77%
Goodbye Lover (1998)
Plot Summary:
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, suspenseful, witty, stylized, detective, erotic, tense, suspense, realistic
Similar in 75%
The Big Sleep (1978)
Plot Summary:
The classic Raymond Chandler tale retold with Mitchum taking over the Bogart role.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, suspense, clever, talky, cult classic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical
Similar in 81%
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971)
Plot Summary:
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail begins with the mysterious death of a millionaire and spirals into the murder of his suddenly rich wife, which draws the attention of a dogged investigator, who follows a trail of blood to the bitter end.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, erotic, detective, grindhouse, poliziottesco, cult classic, suspense thriller, twisted, scary
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974)
Plot Summary:
Police investigate apparent suicide of teen girl and uncover details of a teenage prostitution racket. They go on the hunt for a motorcycle riding killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, poliziottesco, psychological thriller, sadistic, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, creepy, erotic
Similar in 84%
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Sylvester is assigned to investigate the violent murder of a fashion house model Isabella, by a masked assailant. As the investigation proceeds all of the house’s various sins, including corruption, abortions, blackmail and drug addiction, begin to come to light. It turns out that Isabella had kept a diary detailing these vices, and now almost every employee becomes nervous.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, psychosexual thriller, suspense, gothic, psychotronic, erotic, neo noir
Similar in 85%
Creepy (2016)
Plot Summary:
After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police force and takes up a position as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. But his desire to get to the bottom of criminals’ motives remains, and he does not hesitate long when former colleague Nogami asks him to reopen an old case.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, serious, captivating, suspenseful, psychological thriller, atmospheric, thought provoking, detective, action thriller
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Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)
Plot Summary:
A woman, a survivor of a failed murder attempt by a person dubbed "The Half-Moon Killer" by the police, and her husband must find the connecting thread between herself, six other women, and the killer before the killer strikes at her again.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, atmospheric, realistic, serious, tense, disturbing, spooky, twisted, scary
Similar in 83%
Giallo (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Torino, Celine, an American model, is abducted by a taxi driver while en route home to meet her sister Linda, visiting at her apartment. The next morning, Linda reports that Celine is missing - the sergeant in charge directs her to F.B.I. agent Inspector Enzo Avolfi. He's from the Special New York City Department investigating a serial-killer that kidnaps foreigners to destroy their beauty. When a Japanese woman is found at nearby a fountain, Enzo and Linda find that the girl is calling the abductor's skin is "Yellow" in color and Linda concludes that the guy might have jaundice. They go to the Policlinic di Torino to find the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, detective, dark, scary, slasher horror
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The Vanished (2018)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigates the disappearance of a woman's corpse from a morgue and tries to uncover the cause of her death.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, twisted
Similar in 79%
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, tense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, surprise ending, noir, cult classic
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Too Scared to Scream (1984)
Plot Summary:
A killer of young women is loose in an exclusive apartment complex and a detective is out to stop him. The chief suspect is a Shakespeare-spouting doorman who lives with his invalid mother. Meanwhile, an undercover cop moves into the apartment house. This move is complicated by her relationship with the detective.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, bloody, independent film, sexy, mind bending, serious
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Tell Me Something (1999)
Plot Summary:
In Seoul, parts not matching of severed copses of three men are found in cars and bags left in public spaces.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, suspenseful, scary, psychological, serious, neo noir, suspense, psychological thriller, dark
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Shattered (1991)
Plot Summary:
Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who is supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, erotic, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, sexy, suspense, psychosexual thriller, noir
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Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
Plot Summary:
Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, detective, intellectual, bloody, saga, splatter, slasher horror
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Blink (1993)
Plot Summary:
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, suspense, neo noir, enigmatic, erotic, psychological thriller, gloomy
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The Cure (1997)
Plot Summary:
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, scary, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, surreal, detective