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Plot Summary:
Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to build a house.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Witchcraft vs. Curse (1991)
Plot Summary:
Hung is disappointed when her man, Yuk Lung, becomes engaged to pretty Pai Lin. Hung and her scheming mother engage a sorcerer, Ko Yin Yau, to place a spell on him. Yuk Lung becomes possessed by the Adultery Ghost, and he leaves Pai Lin in the middle of having sex with her, going to Hung. Pai Lin and her friend Nancy rush to Thailand, seeking the help of another sorcerer, Simol. The title alludes to the battle of the two spell-casters, through their two hosts. Along the way, plenty of excuses are found to get all the clothes off a number of lovely young women.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
Plot tags: erotic
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Cherry Tree (2015)
Plot Summary:
Faith’s world is turned upside down after she finds out that her beloved father is dying. When the mysteriously alluring Sissy Young becomes her field hockey coach, Faith finds a compassionate spirit and much-needed mother figure. Little does she know that Sissy is the head of a centuries-old witches’ coven that uses the fruit of an ancient cherry tree in a secret ritual that restores life to the dead and dying. Offering to cure her father in exchange for a child, Sissy strikes a bargain with Faith, who suddenly finds herself pregnant with a baby that’s growing at an alarming rate. But with the clock to the child’s birth ticking down and the true intention of Sissy’s plans for humanity becoming more apparent, Faith and her father must stand together in order to save both their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic, erotic, grindhouse, sinister, dread
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Point of Terror (1971)
Plot Summary:
A nightclub singer has nightmares about being involved in adultery and murder, only to wake up and find that they may not be nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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Haunting Fear (1990)
Plot Summary:
Victoria can't sleep: she's having bad dreams about being buried alive. Her husband Terry makes her go see Dr. Carlton, who she blames for her father's death. Unable to help her, he asks Dr. Harcourt to try and unlock Victoria's mental block with hypnotism. Meanwhile Terry continues an affair with his secretary, and worries about paying off a huge gambling debt. Terry could pay off his debt and be with his secretary if he could just get his hands on Victoria's money somehow.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Erotic Ghost Story III (1992)
Plot Summary:
The once mighty Tang Dynasty is in its decline. The big land of China is being visited by famine, natural disasters and devils. Chu Chung is such a person. Everywhere he goes, beautiful Suzie follows. So they meet Wick, a monk endowed with magic powers. Chu Chung sees a picture of an exceedingly beautiful girl and falls in love with her. He begs Wick to help him cross the human-spiritual barrier to enter the picture. Chu Chung meets the girl Yi-meng. They make love. Little does Chu Chung realize he has fallen into arch demon Vixen's trap. Unwittingly, he kills the upright god of justice. Suzie helps a repentant Chu Chung escape into the human world. She herself is incarcerated. Wick and Suzie reluctantly help Chu Chung enter the spiritual world again. Righteousness prevails. Vixen loses the war. And Yi-meng is transported to the human world. Unfortunately, Suzie dies. But she may not have died after all.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Psychic (1968)
Plot Summary:
An ad executive uses psychic powers to manipulate women and competitors.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, creepy
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White Skin (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two roommates discover that the family of one of their girlfriends is populated with vampires.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing, controversial
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Shadows (2007)
Plot Summary:
A successful young doctor with a beautiful wife, a happy child, and a comfortable house finds his life suddenly changed in ways he never thought possible after being injured in a serious car accident. To the outside eye Lazar Perkov has everything -- indeed his friends and colleagues have even gone so far as to christen him with the nickname "Lucky." But appearances can sometimes be.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, suspense, erotic, sexual, crying, sexy, hot, post modern
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Deadly Sins (1995)
Plot Summary:
New area deputy Jack Gales arrives on the island to find that a girl at the local Catholic girls school has been found dead. After investigating, he finds that students have been disappearing regularly for five years, about the time Mother Bernadette passed away. Gales and the Mother Superior's secretary Cristina work together to try and unravel the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, detective, independent film
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Terroir (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy wine maker Jonathan Bragg (Keith Carradine) hires Tuscan wine detective (Gaetano Guarino) to discover the source of a mysterious bottle of wine. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Sorceress (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two friends, who both work for the same high-priced, high-powered law firm, are both married to modern day witches. Erica, the wife of Larry, believes that he is being led astray by Carol, an old flame, who also works for the same law firm. Erica decides to act and one night after a torrid sex session Larry drifts off to sleep and begins to dream. Soon the dream turns into a nightmare of sex, violence, murder and death involving himself, his friends and colleagues from the law firm which appears to be frighteningly realistic.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, psychotronic, independent film, remake of cult film, cult film
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Inugami (2001)
Plot Summary:
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, suspense, erotic, tense, serious, experimental, avant garde
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Ringer (1996)
Plot Summary:
In this thriller, a detective helps save a prostitute from a stalker. The gumshoe's investigation throws them into a world where no one is quite who they seem and where everyone has a shady past. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Driftwood (1997)
Plot Summary:
When Sarah walks alone along the desolate beach one day she find an unconscious man, who has been brought to land by the waves. When he awakens he doesn't remember anything. He has no name and no past. His dependence lies on Sarah. A role that makes her forget her loneliness and she decides to therefore lie about their situation... She says that they are situated on an island, where no one can reach them. From now, his life lies in her hands.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic
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Erotic Ghost Story (1990)
Plot Summary:
Three vixens have meditated for 1,000 years to able to shed their animal natures and become human. For the final month of their rigors, they have moved near a village where women pray to a god of fertility. One sister visits the god's temple and thinks lustful thoughts. As she leaves, a priest confronts her, warning of dire consequences and of demons that will try to stop the vixens' transformation. Soon, the youngest sister saves a poor scholar from bandits and becomes enamored of him. Each sister visits him, and before long, the youth has made love to all three. After they invite him to stay with them, the playfulness takes a scary turn. Where can they turn for help?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, cult classic, sexy, sex comedy, hot, cult film
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Ghost Son (2007)
Plot Summary:
"Ghost Son" takes place in South Africa. A married couple Stacey and Mark live on the farm with their black teenage maid. Mark and Stacey love each other deeply. Unfortunately Mark dies in a tragic truck accident.Stacey returns to the farm and decides to remain there since she feels close to Mark.She is also carrying Mark's baby. After delivering the baby Stacey quickly becomes sure that her infant son is possessed by Mark's spirit. The evil force tries to kill Stacey to bring her to Mark.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, South Africa, Spain, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, mystic
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Book of Blood (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based on the wraparound story penned by Clive Barker in the author's "Books of Blood" collection, the story centers on a paranormal expert who, while investigating a gruesome slaying, finds a house that is at the intersection of "highways" transporting souls to the afterlife.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, demonic, classic horror
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The Haunting of Whaley House (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film
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House of Voices (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new families. Anna, who is secretly pregnant, meets the last orphan , Judith, left behind because of her mental problems, and they become closer when Anna find that Judith also hear voices and footsteps of children.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, surprise ending, atmospheric, serious, gloomy
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A Dark Song (2016)
Plot Summary:
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, spooky, psychological thriller, art house, religious horror, scary, atmospheric
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Birth (2004)
Plot Summary:
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, controversial, sexy, enigmatic, melancholic, disturbing, artsy, art house, cerebral
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The Lodgers (2017)
Plot Summary:
1920, rural Ireland. Anglo-Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence (The Lodgers) which enforces three rules upon the twins: they must be in bed by midnight; they may not permit an outsider past the threshold; and if one attempts to escape, the life of the other is placed in jeopardy. When troubled war veteran Sean returns to the nearby village, he is immediately drawn to the mysterious Rachel, who in turn begins to break the rules set out by The Lodgers. The consequences pull Rachel into a deadly confrontation with her brother - and with the curse that haunts them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, spooky, scary, dark, thrilling, psychotronic
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The Guardian (1990)
Plot Summary:
The idyllic lives of Phil and Kate seem complete when they select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child. But the lovely young Camilla s not what she appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, creepy, atmospheric, slasher, dark, demonic, psychological
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InSearchOf (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sex is why we're all here. Power. Love. Sex. We're all looking for something. Ten characters each of whose lust sends them on a journey of discovery - sometimes decadent - spearhead the narrative threads in this unconventional American melodrama. The smart characterizations are counterbalanced by intense performances. From the virginal young man to the bored housewife a temptress and a womanizer with a dark secret In Search of Sex dramatizes situations where good people looking for short term solutions find themselves in bad circumstances with long term consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, sexy, sexual
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Don't Look Now (1973)
Plot Summary:
After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it seems too good to be true. Perhaps it is.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, twist ending, disturbing, atmospheric, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, surreal, erotic, gothic
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The Canal (2014)
Plot Summary:
Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself. Dripping with tension and chilling to the core, this visceral Irish ghost story is a visually arresting and genuinely shocking journey into the darkness within.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy, surreal, psychological thriller, spooky
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The Witch (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and crops mysteriously fail, the family turns on one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 291000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful, scary, gothic, psychological, suspense, satanic, enigmatic
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Dorian Gray (2009)
Plot Summary:
A vain London playboy offers his soul in exchange for eternal beauty in this adaptation of the chilling tale by author Oscar Wilde. Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, gothic horror, sexy, stylized, gloomy, dark fantasy, suspense, captivating, period piece
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Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Plot Summary:
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 379000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark, scary, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic horror, fairy tale, suspenseful, surreal, captivating
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways. Soon, the full scope of Martin's intent becomes menacingly clear when he confronts Steven with a long-forgotten transgression that will shatter his domestic bliss forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 173000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, art house, scary, surreal, philosophical, mind bending