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Plot Summary:
A young girl loses a precious book she has borrowed from her teacher. The girl, unable to remember where and how she lost the book, is driven into depression, and taken to a psychiatrist by her best friend. As the psychiatrist helps the girl find the bag through hypnosis, she unexpectedly comes across a strange man in the hypnosis world. The door to mysterious events is pushed ajar with the mysterious man encountered during hypnosis, and an thrilling chase starts in the real world. Forgotten mysterious people and events will surface as the story enters the realms of traditional Turkish fairy-tales and the world of hypnosis.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, allegory, independent film, dark fantasy
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The Plains of Heaven (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two scientists at a remote satellite station begin to have hallucinations because of the facility's isolation. Or are they hallucinations... ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: experimental, independent film
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Gracie (2018)
Plot Summary:
2am. As 29 year old suicidal Gracie tries to get up the guts to jump off Waterloo Bridge,17 year old Ellie runs up begging for help, in fear for her life from a Man who's chasing her. Shocked out of her misery, Gracie drags the Ellie to what she believes is the safety of the back streets... But when those after Ellie snatch them both, a dark night begins which changes their lives forever, because, love and light do always conquer, and sometimes in the most surprising way, but come morning will it be enough to survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, allegory, fable
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Dying to Remember (1993)
Plot Summary:
A woman goes to a psychiatrist because she is plagued by recurring nightmares. The psychiatrist tells her that she was involved in a murder in San Francisco in a past life, and the nightmares are related to that crime. She enlists the help of two San Francisco police officers to help solve the old murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: microfilm
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The House That Swift Built (1982)
Plot Summary:
An immaculate, vivid and breathtaking implementation of Swift's romanticism.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Scarlet's Witch (2014)
Plot Summary:
A lonely girl befriend a witch in the woods who has alter motives in this adult fairy tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Undine (2020)
Plot Summary:
Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. When the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. But falling in love anew, Undine reworks the myth of the mysterious water spirit as a modern fairy-tale in a disenchanted world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, romantic, scenic, lyrical, crying, mystical, weird, urban fantasy
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Alice or the Last Escapade (1977)
Plot Summary:
One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice is forced to seek shelter in an old mansion. She is warmly welcomed but soon realises that strange things are happening. She tries to escape but it seems there's no way out.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, suspense, anthology, mind bending, bleak, serious, stylized, psychotronic, weird
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Ivy (2015)
Plot Summary:
After months without pay, the already disgruntled crew on a Turkish cargo ship arrives in an Egyptian port and learns that the Port Authority is foreclosing on them. Ordered to anchor offshore, the remaining skeleton crew has their passports seized and must maintain the vessel until its owner’s debts are paid. Tensions quickly arise between the authoritarian Cypriot captain, his devoutly religious second-in-command, an affable cook, and a trio of newcomers to the ship—a pair of druggie ne’er-do-wells and the near-mute, hulking Kurd. As months pass, food and entertainment dwindle, alliances shift, and the men take out their raw frustration on one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, rough, serious, art house, psychological, mind bending, surreal, weird
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Storm (2005)
Plot Summary:
DD is a smug fellow, almost 30 years of age, who can manage all by himself. At least that's what he thinks. However, a strange woman - Lova - enters his life, hunted by evil men who want to hurt her. Against his will, DD is forced into a series of horrific events.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, freeze frame, urban fantasy
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The Great Hypnotist (2014)
Plot Summary:
The famous psychologist Xu Ruining has a raising career, when he met the troublesome patient Ren Xiaoyan. The meeting is not easy as feeble-looking Ren is point by point against him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, enigmatic, mind blowing, rough, neo noir, suspense, entertaining, disturbing, mystical
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Malice in Wonderland (2009)
Plot Summary:
A modern take on the classic fairytale, Alice in Wonderland, set in South East England.An American law student in London. Knocked down by a black cab, she wakes with amnesia in a world that's a million miles from home - Wonderland. We follow her adventures as she's dragged through an underworld filled with twisted individuals and the lowest low-lifers, by the enigmatic cab driver, Whitey. She needs to find out who she is, where she's from and use what wits she has left to get back home in one piece. As her journey progresses she discovers nothing is what it seems, realizes that fate and life are terminally entwined, and finds true love lurking in the unlikeliest place.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, USA, Bahrain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, surreal, exciting, stylized, fairy tale, mind blowing, mind bending, semi serious, offbeat, weird
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Nightmare Street (1998)
Plot Summary:
After saving her daughter from an accident Joanna wakes up in the hospital in an alternate world where nothing is as it should be. Someone else lives in her house, her daughter is gone and everyone calls her Sarah. The problem is Sarah is suspected of murdering her son. The only person to believe her is her doctor who has fallen for her. With his help she tries to unravel the mystery and get back to her own life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, surprise ending, detective
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Hansel and Gretel (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Eun-soo gets lost in a country road, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairytale ike house in the middle of the forest. There, Eun-soo is trapped with the girl and her siblings who never age. Eun-soo finally discovers a way out which is written on a fairy tale book. But the book tells a story of none other than himself!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychological, suspense, gothic, disturbing, christmas horror, scary, mind bending, folk tale, dark fantasy
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The Sea of Trees (2015)
Plot Summary:
A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, touching, psychological, sad, surreal, twist ending, apocalyptic
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She Dies Tomorrow (2020)
Plot Summary:
Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her sceptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, ambiguous ending, psychological, psychological thriller, philosophical, dark, mumblecore, cult classic, lovecraft
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Plot Summary:
Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side - the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman's face - an intriguing picture... Later that day, Camille's mother, Ariane, meets up with her son in the park. The boy appears perturbed. He is leaning against a tree, eyes cast down. He says that now he wants to return to his "real home" and his "real mother.".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, talky
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The Last Wave (1977)
Plot Summary:
White Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of aborigines charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of water, slowly realizes danger may come from his own involvement with the aborigines and their prophecies.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surreal, cerebral, lovecraft, psychological, atmospheric, philosophical, mind bending, disturbing, dark fantasy, psychedelic
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Queen of Earth (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, tense, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, slasher, mumblecore, minimal cast, deep, cerebral
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Lost River (2014)
Plot Summary:
A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, surreal, enigmatic, neo noir, captivating, tense, suspenseful, dark, artsy, art house
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Franklyn (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of four souls, whose lives are intertwined by fate, romance and tragedy. As these worlds collide, a single bullet determines the destiny of these four characters.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, philosophical, surreal, mind twisting, fairy tale, clever, surprise ending, mind bending, twisted
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Lady in the Water (2006)
Plot Summary:
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 103000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, melancholic, stylized, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, visual, touching, mystical
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Premonition (2007)
Plot Summary:
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, confusing, suspense thriller
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The Nines (2007)
Plot Summary:
A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, confusing, mindfuck, thought provoking, surreal, cerebral, mind bending, psychological thriller, mind blowing
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Inland Empire (2006)
Plot Summary:
An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, enigmatic, atmospheric, experimental, psychedelic, serious, mindfuck, mind bending, confusing
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Plot Summary:
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb's End.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, atmospheric, gothic, neo noir, suspense, lovecraft, scary, suspenseful, dark
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Mirrormask (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: stylized, atmospheric, surreal, offbeat, visually stunning, mindfuck, visually appealing, cerebral, visual, cult classic
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Neverwas (2005)
Plot Summary:
Zach Riley (Aaron Eckhart) is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, 'Millwood'. What he doesnt reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson (Nick Nolte), spent many years of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, visual, fairy tale, crying, whimsical
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Enemy (2013)
Plot Summary:
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 209000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, non-linear, twist ending, mind bending, atmospheric, mindfuck, suspense, disturbing, tense
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The Lovely Bones (2009)
Plot Summary:
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: emotional, dark, psychological, suspense, surreal, serious, tense, scary, visual, visually stunning
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Stay (2005)
Plot Summary:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 85000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, gloomy, mindfuck, suspense, mind blowing, mind bending