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Plot Summary:
After a failed operation that leaves several cops dead or wounded Officer Fong Jing wakes up at the hospital and discovers that he can see ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: detective, surprise ending, poliziottesco
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Desire: The Vampire (1982)
Plot Summary:
A Coroner's assistant (who is also a law student) gets involved in a strange case involving his girlfriend's place of employment (a hospital) and Vampires after Milton King is drained of his blood. Strange things happen as a defrocked priest tries to thwart all efforts to solve this case.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: depressing, detective
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Woo dung saai yan si gin (2002)
Plot Summary:
Pop star Anna has been kidnapped. Kidnapper Jash uploads the video clip of Anna being tortured onto the internet, which instantly becomes the talk of Hong Kong. A week later, Jash contacts the police, asking not for a ransom but for retired police inspector Mo to be his police contact. Inspector Mo eventually discovers through a tabloid magazine that a self-proclaimed psychic named Shana had phoned a radio program on the day of the kidnapping to warn of the incident.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Night Visions (1990)
Plot Summary:
Stubborn detective Tom Mackey, assigned to a Los Angeles murder case involving a couple of serial killings, gets increasingly frustrated with the dead end leads he's following and the lack of appreciation he gets from his chief, police captain Keller. Enter Dr. Sally Powers, a fresh, clean cut psychology graduate who possesses supernatural powers. In a loose partnership the twosome gradually succeed in unraveling the killer's motive and working-pattern. This leaves only one person that would fit the profile.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: splatter, detective
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The Chasing World (2008)
Plot Summary:
Teenager is transported to a parallel world where everyone who shares his family name is being hunted down by the dictatorial government.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Train of the Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
A thief gang flees from the police and catches a night train with To, an unlucky guy who is now their hostage. There are many wealthy passengers in the train, so the thieves take advantage to rob the passengers. Oddly, when the thieves rush into the bogie, all they could see is just empty seats. Then, To is accused to be the one who told the passengers to escape from the train before they could begin to rob. Now, To has to run away before the thieves kill him. Luckily, there's a pretty girl named Rahtree comes to save him in time, and tells him the horrible story of the train. There's something mysterious about the train and the passengers that To has to confront.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Rule Number One (2008)
Plot Summary:
Rookie Sergeant Lee is injured in a shoot-out and is assigned to the dubious-sounding Miscellaneous Affairs Department (MAD). There, he is paired up with Inspector Wong, a jaded and alcoholic veteran who explains that MAD’s role is to answer supernatural calls. Wong explains MAD’s rule number one - there are no ghosts. For every seemingly inexplicable phenomenon, there is a corresponding scientific and rational explanation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Singapore, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, captivating, detective, scary, mind bending, serious, surprise ending, freeze frame
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Mad Detective (2007)
Plot Summary:
A rookie cop teams up with a former detective with a supernatural gift to hunt down a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, detective, bloody, psychological thriller, philosophical, mind bending
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Shiver (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sammi (Athena Chu) and her husband Chan (Francis Ng) try to find ways to salvage their dying marriage after Sammi is injured during a robbery. The second chance at resolving their marital issues is embraced, but it also creates a dangerous situation for Sammi as she begins to have terrifying premonitions of brutal murders. Her intuitions are helpful to Chan, who's a detective, but they also put the couple at the top of the murderer's list.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, detective, mind bending, offbeat, serious, realistic, stylized
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Possessed (1983)
Plot Summary:
An insane man is shot dead by two cops, Kung and Hsiao, after he refused to listen to them and stabbed a woman dead. After the encounter, the two cops always strange things and Hsiaos girlfriend is also haunted. To reduce the fear of hiring police a Taoist to sort out this problem.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Taxi Hunter (1993)
Plot Summary:
Kin (Anthony Wong) is a hard-working insurance salesman with a very pregnant wife. When his wife starts haemorrhaging, he calls a taxi, but it leaves when someone else offers more money. After his wife dies, Kin vows to get revenge on all taxi drivers by taking them out one at a time.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: controversial, psychological thriller, psycho film
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The Seamstress (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Seamstress was brought into being by the desperate curse of an innocent woman being tortured to death by a vigilante mob. Voracious for blood, the hideously-mutilated specter hunts a small group of friends who become trapped on the island where she died.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, suspense, demonic, awful
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The Vampire Who Admires Me (2008)
Plot Summary:
Macy, BiBi and Chelsea, are young fashion models who have signed on to shoot a commercial. To meet with the theme “Youth and Death”, the director suggests shooting the commercial at their boss, Mr King’s ancestral home on the East Dragon Island. King’s great-grandfather had once been a vampire and put under a spell in his family grave on the island. The girls are busy partying and shooting at the beach. Little do they know that the old vampire is awakened and three other people on the island had been bitten and are turning into vampires.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, freeze frame
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Koma (2004)
Plot Summary:
A horrid crime was committed at a wedding reception and bridesmaid Chi Ching was the lone eyewitness. At the police station, she recognised the suspect, Suen Ling, in a line up. She also discovered the affair between this stranger and her lover. All of a sudden the emotional turmoil surrounding her chronic illness resurfaced and quickly grew beyond control.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, slasher, realistic, sexual, crying
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Fire of Conscience (2010)
Plot Summary:
Fire of Conscience is an 2010 Hong Kong action/thriller film directed by Dante Lam and starring Leon Lai and Richie Ren. The Chinese name is derived in one of the action scenes where Lai has to chase Ren through a street of dragon dance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, detective, suspense, crime drama, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Rainbow Eyes (2007)
Plot Summary:
Officers Kyung-yoon CHO and Eun-joo PARK are on the hunt a killer following duo of ghastly murders. The victims carry a common military past, and the secret of their past must be unraveled to find the killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, action thriller, twisted, mind bending
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Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, bleak, suspenseful, serious, suspense, noir, art house, crime drama, visual, twisted
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Death Walks on High Heels (1971)
Plot Summary:
Exotic dancer Nicole finds herself terrorized by a black-clad assailant determined on procuring her murdered father's stolen gems. Fleeing Paris in hopes of evading her knife-wielding pursuer, Nicole arrives in England only to discover that death stalks her at every corner.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, erotic, surprise ending, cult classic, psychological thriller, crying, independent film, detective, black comedy
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The Brutal Insanity of Love (1993)
Plot Summary:
The third entry in the unrelated series which began with Shiryo No Wana (1988), Toshiharu Ikeda's bloody horror film deals with a policewoman (Megumi Yokoyama) investigating the apparent suicide of a college coed. The prime suspects include the girl's professor, who may have been having an affair with her, and the professor's wife, who frequents lesbian bars. Gruesome axe murders and mutilations ensue, leading Yokoyama to a shocking discovery. Less grisly than its predecessors, this installment is perhaps the best-scripted of the three (all were written by Takashi Ishii), but all are arguably among the best Japanese horror films of the decade. Ishii is best known for the stylish Tenshi No Harawata series which began in 1978, one of which was also directed by Ikeda.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense
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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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Our Town (2007)
Plot Summary:
Kyung-ju is a struggling novelist who writes violent and gory murder mysteries. When a fierce argument with his landlady ends in her death, he stages the killing so that it looks like the act of the serial killer that has been terrorizing his village. Anxious that the police might realize the latest killing was a copycat murder, he begins his own invetstigation to track down the killer with help of his detective friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, twisted, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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B.T.K. (2008)
Plot Summary:
A story based on real-life serial killer Dennis L. Rader, who systematically tortured and killed his victims for over two decades and evaded the police for over 30 years, all while leading a seemingly normal life as a husband, father, security officer and church president.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak, bloody, grindhouse, surprise ending
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Anamorph (2007)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, bleak, realistic
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Feardotcom (2002)
Plot Summary:
With four corpses on his hands, New York City gumshoe Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) teams with Department of Health worker Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) to track down a homicidal sadist who telecasts shocking acts of torture on the Internet. But they have their work cut out: It seems the victims' only link is that they all went toes up 48 hours after logging on a site known as feardotcom.com. Stephen Rea also stars in this gruesome thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg, USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, dark, slasher, neo noir, detective
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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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The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Plot Summary:
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, splatter, scary, bloody, serious, realistic, creepy
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Jigsaw (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dead bodies begin to turn up all over the city, each meeting their demise in a variety of grisly ways. All investigations begin to point the finger at deceased killer John Kramer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, scary, psychotronic, rough, twist ending, surprise ending, psychological thriller, exciting
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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 Raven (2012)
Plot Summary:
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, psychological, gothic horror, atmospheric, psychotronic, detective, suspenseful, period piece, costume drama
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Taking Lives (2004)
Plot Summary:
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, scary, psychological, detective, tense, intense, suspenseful
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Shock Wave (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, action thriller, surprise ending, neo noir, tragic ending, independent film