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Plot Summary:
Valerie Graves, a misanthropic, disillusioned woman in her mid-twenties, is haunted by sadistic urges that she has struggled to repress since childhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, tense, suspense, independent film, neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy
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Bullets, Fangs and Dinner at 8 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A vampire posing as a priest creates a cult of blood thirsty humans and is responsible for a number of killings beginning with a massacre at a church.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark comedy, independent film, experimental, black comedy
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Bloodline (2018)
Plot Summary:
Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: bloody, suspense, dark, neo noir, slasher, suspenseful, psychological thriller, twist ending, independent film, slasher horror
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Hellhounds (2013)
Plot Summary:
A first person account of Ross Graves, an alcoholic drifter who is constantly hunted by demonic bounty hunters and a spiritual being to whom he sold his soul.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: neo noir, ambiguous ending, scary, captivating, suspense, contemplative, experimental, independent film, biting
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Revenge Ride (2020)
Plot Summary:
Maggie becomes a strong and ruthless member of the all-female Dark Moon gang led by the merciless Trigga, and the all-female motorcycle gang look after each other as they patrol the streets in the small town.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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One Must Fall (2018)
Plot Summary:
A horror-comedy slasher set in the '80s about a woman wrongfully fired from her office job and forced to take on a temporary job on a crime scene clean-up crew. With a maniacal serial killer on the loose leaving them lots of work, did he ever leave the scene of the crime?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, horror comedy
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Sound of Violence (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young girl recovers her hearing and gains synesthetic abilities during the brutal murder of her family. Finding solace in the sounds of bodily harm, as an adult, she pursues a career in music composing her masterpiece through gruesome murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Finland, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective, scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, stylized, queer horror
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The Craving (2011)
Plot Summary:
Leading a double life, Chef Ronnie spends her days as a charming celebrity chef who thrives and shines as owner of a trendy Spanish tapas restaurant in San Francisco, and spends her nights in ways too gruesome to fathom. As Chef Ronnie's reputation scorches up the culinary scene, San Francisco's murder count hits a record high. Haunted by her past in the form a vengeful lover, and caught in the seductive cross fire of an increasingly serious relationship; Chef Ronnie has bitten off more than she can chew.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, dark comedy
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Blue Call (2021)
Plot Summary:
Haylee, a local EMT suffering from PTSD, spends her days making split second decisions with lives that hang in the balance. One night on a routine call, she is faced with a moral decision, taking matters into her own hands and mercy kills a young woman. Now, falling deeper into a rabbit hole, she gets caught up in a world of underground drugs and a sadistic killer who’s made her his next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, slasher, psychotronic, psychological, medical horror
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Sacrament (2014)
Plot Summary:
Leaving the city behind for a weekend of booze, bud and bonding at the coast, seven friends find themselves stranded en route to South Padre Island when a big storm interferes with their plans. The town of Middle Spring is more than happy to welcome them with open arms, however; located in the rhinestone buckle of the Bible Belt, Middle Spring is smack-dab in the middle of a big barbecue and tent revival and there’s always room at their table for a few more warm bodies. Unfortunately, no one in Middle Spring is exactly who they seem to be— this town takes the Bible quite literally, and the friends have to stick together as time begins to run out and they realize that what’s on the menu may be closer to home than they suspected.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
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Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young woman, muted after a sexual assault as a child, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who have wronged her after being kidnapped and forced to work as a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, grindhouse, controversial, serious, sexual, suspense, slasher, cult classic, philosophical, psychedelic
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Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young reporter (Lucy Liu) wakes up and realises that she is not alive anymore. She goes on a personal vendetta for a group a cultists that are responsible for her death.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, slasher, bloody, suspense, anime, perverse, cult classic, queer horror
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Avenge the Crows (2017)
Plot Summary:
A former gang member and her young cousin become embroiled in a vendetta between L.A. gangs, as rivals seek revenge for old crimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crime drama
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Miami Blues (1990)
Plot Summary:
When Fred gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student Susie. Opposing Fred is Sgt Hoke Moseley, a cop who is getting a bit old for the job, especially since the job of cop in 1980's Miami is getting crazier all the time.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, harsh, bloody, witty, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, cult classic
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M.F.A. (2017)
Plot Summary:
An art student taps into a rich source of creative inspiration after the accidental slaughter of her rapist. An unlikely vigilante emerges, set out to avenge college girls whose attackers walked free- all the while fueling a vivid thesis exhibition.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: crying, detective, psychological, suspense, independent film, disturbing, rough, bloody, slasher, crime drama
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King of the Ants (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young drifter, struggling to makes ends meet, accepts a job to kill a prominent accountant. When he isn't paid for the hit, revenge is now his path.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, rough, serious, scary, suspenseful, heartbreaking, bleak, suspense
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Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999)
Plot Summary:
After escaping from jail, two teens flee to Tijuana and stay with one's childhood protector, a man masquerading as a nun.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, intense, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Babysitter Massacre (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of young women teamed together in their youth to run a babysitting business, when one of their friends died suddenly the group fell apart. Now years later they are all going their separate ways as college approaches, but on Halloween night someone is torturing and killing every member of the babysitter club.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, tense, suspense, scary, sexy, serious, realistic
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Fade to Black (1980)
Plot Summary:
Eric Binford watches a lot of movies. He is the truest definition of a film geek. One day, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies. In doing so, he manages to involve his enemies and the scenes usually result in death.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspense, horror comedy, slasher, black comedy, cult horror, independent film, suspenseful
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Illegal Tender (2007)
Plot Summary:
After the gangsters who killed his father come to settle a score, a teenage boy and his mother turn the tables on the killers - one Latino family's quest for honor and revenge as the hunted become the hunters.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Cheap Thrills (2013)
Plot Summary:
Recently fired and facing eviction, a new dad has his life turned upside down when he meets a wealthy couple who offer a path to financial security... but at a price.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, tense, independent film, psychological, stylized, black comedy, humorous, horror comedy, scary
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The Tax Collector (2020)
Plot Summary:
David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city with his partner Creeper making sure people pay up or will see retaliation. An old threat returns to Los Angeles that puts everything David loves in harm’s way.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, ambiguous ending, tense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, suspense, grindhouse, perverse, neo noir
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Craig (2008)
Plot Summary:
CRAIG is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from losing his parents in a big fire. Besides a friend from childhood, in one go he looses everyone he cares about. The friend, Cliff, isn't of much use either. He has his own problems to deal with, he's not a bad guy, he's just in over his head as it is with his own problems. Craig has suffered some severe trauma and takes Lithium on a daily basis, but when he loses his pills, things slowly, but safely, starts taking a turn for the worse and the voices inside his head is getting louder and louder.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, realistic, slasher, detective, cult film
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Blood Prism (2017)
Plot Summary:
A successful art gallery coordinator, living a double life as a serial killer, preys on the hopeless as she attempts to find meaning behind the voices she hears. When she believes she is falling in love with a depressed comic book artist; she struggles between what her heart is telling her to do about him... and what the voices are telling her to do about him.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy, independent film
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The Devil's Rejects (2005)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to House of 1000 Corpses – the Firefly family are ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men guns blazing – yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding out in a backwater motel, the wanted siblings wait to rendezvous with their errant father, Captain Spaulding, killing whoever happens to stand in their way.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 105000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: creepy, scary, bloody, grindhouse, suspense, splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, ambiguous ending
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The Juror (1996)
Plot Summary:
With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verdict, implying that he'll kill her son Oliver if she fails. She manages to do this, but, when it becomes clear that the mobsters might want to silence her for good, she sends Oliver abroad and tries to gather evidence of the plot against her, setting up a final showdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, surprise ending, intense, realistic, serious, psychological thriller, educational, anamorphic
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Blue Ruin (2013)
Plot Summary:
The quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, atmospheric, tense, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, brutal, melancholic
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Wild at Heart (1990)
Plot Summary:
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: surreal, road movie, black comedy, avant garde, dark comedy, sexy, atmospheric, erotic, art house, mindfuck
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American Psycho (2000)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 690000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, surreal, brutal, stylized, disturbing, twist ending, neo noir, dark, mind twisting
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Proud Mary (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, retro, hood, surprise ending, neo noir, black cinema
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No Country for Old Men (2007)
Plot Summary:
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, atmospheric, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, neo western, gloomy, rough