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Plot Summary:
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, bloody, dark, scary, atmospheric, stylized, sensual, bleak, slasher
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The Woman (2011)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher, twisted, controversial, psychological thriller, bloody
Similar in 75%
Carrie (2013)
Plot Summary:
A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 147000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, rough, slasher, teen, scary, psychological, bloody, splatter, intense
Similar in 78%
Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971)
Plot Summary:
Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on the nuns, they set aside their communion wafers; they make a pact of devotion.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, realistic, suspenseful, sensual, serious, satanic, controversial, erotic, romantic
Similar in 84%
Frontier(s) (2007)
Plot Summary:
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, disturbing, brutal, slasher, bloody, splatter, suspense
Similar in 78%
Santa Sangre (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, dark, atmospheric, psychological, art house, mindfuck, creepy, cult classic
Similar in 79%
Contracted (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young girl contracts what she thinks is a sexually-transmitted disease - but is actually something much worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing, bleak, serious, rough, controversial, slasher
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Hatching (2022)
Plot Summary:
12 year old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, surreal, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, psychological, intellectual
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Alena (2015)
Plot Summary:
Alena’s life is far from simple. When she arrives at her new elite boarding school, Filippa and the other girls start to harass her. But Alena’s best friend Josefin won’t let her take anymore beating. If she won’t strike back, Josefin will do it for her. Hard.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, ambiguous ending, scary, brutal, suspenseful, teen
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High Tension (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, slaughters Alexia's family--including their dog--and kidnaps Alexia. Marie hides from the criminal and tries to help the hysterical and frightened Alexia, chase the maniac, and disclose his identity in the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, intense
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Climax (2018)
Plot Summary:
Young dancers gather in a remote and empty school building to rehearse on a cold and wintry night. The all-night celebration soon turns into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn that their sangria is laced with LSD.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sexy, atmospheric, art house, erotic, mind bending, psychedelic, suspense, surreal, independent film
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Titane (2021)
Plot Summary:
Following a series of unexplained crimes, a former firefighter is reunited with his son who has been missing for 10 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, surreal, cerebral, scary, dark, art house, captivating, suspenseful, erotic
Similar in 80%
Mother! (2017)
Plot Summary:
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 244000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, suspense, mysterious, surreal, mindfuck, art house, scary, controversial, twisted
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You're Next (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, psychological, twist ending, suspense, rough, disturbing, intense, dark comedy
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Martyrs (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: disturbing, brutal, splatter, scary, bloody, dark, suspense, sinister, creepy, controversial
Similar in 77%
Excision (2012)
Plot Summary:
Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon - that is, if she doesn't go insane first.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, surreal, scary, tense, dark comedy, erotic, funny, slasher, controversial
Similar in 78%
Inside (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: disturbing, christmas horror, suspense, slasher, brutal, bloody, dark, splatter, tense, psychological
Similar in 82%
Audition (1999)
Plot Summary:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, scary, disturbing, tense, dark, bloody, surreal, controversial, suspenseful, suspense
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Dead Ringers (1988)
Plot Summary:
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, atmospheric, disturbing, dark, psychological thriller, suspenseful, surreal, sexy, art house
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American Mary (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young med student struggling with her tuition fees is drawn into the shady world of underground body modification.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, sexy, dark, slasher, brutal, suspense, rough, bloody, atmospheric
Similar in 76%
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 231000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, surreal, suspenseful, gothic, cult classic, psychological horror, disturbing, scary, suspense
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The Ordeal (2004)
Plot Summary:
A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège, his van conked out. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog leads Marc to a shuttered inn.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, psychological, christmas horror, atmospheric, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Three... Extremes (2004)
Plot Summary:
“Three” is an anthology of three horror shorts from three different Asian countries.In "Dumplings" an aging actress wishing to reclaim her youth goes to a woman who makes dumplings that supposedly have regenerative properties; however, they contain a gruesome secret ingredient. In "Box" a soft spoken young woman has a bizarre recurring nightmare about being buried in a box in the snow. Searching for her long lost sister, she realizes her dreams and reality may possibly be connected. In "The Cut" a successful film director and his wife are kidnapped by an extra, who forces the director to play his sadistic games. If he fails, his wife’s fingers will be chopped off one by one every five minutes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, creepy, surreal, rough, controversial
Similar in 86%
Possession (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary, creepy, grindhouse, controversial
Similar in 75%
May (2002)
Plot Summary:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful, dark comedy, suspense, creepy
Similar in 77%
In My Skin (2002)
Plot Summary:
Esther, a self-conscious young woman who works for a public relations firm. One night at a party with her friend Sandrine, Esther wanders into the backyard and stumbles, scratching her leg on a piece of scrap metal. She goes back to the party, and later realizes that her injury is much more severe than she had thought. There's a huge, ugly gouge all the way up her shin, and she's bleeding profusely. She goes to a doctor, who patches her up and tells her she might need a skin graft. But Esther becomes obsessed with the wound. She won't let it heal, sneaking away during work to cut herself. As her leg becomes an ugly scarred mass, she begins to notice a problem with her arm. Before long, she's alienated Vincent and jeopardized her job with her compulsive, self-destructive behavior. But she continues on her grotesque downward spiral.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful, sexy, heartbreaking, bloody, suspense, sentimental
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The Fly (1986)
Plot Summary:
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 198000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing, suspenseful, cerebral, rough, psychological thriller, bloody
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The Hunger (1983)
Plot Summary:
Miriam and John are an elegant couple with a dark secret: they are vampires. Feeding on human blood, Miriam has lived for over 2000 years. She gave her lover the gift of eternal life and together they hunt. But John begins aging rapidly, he seeks the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts. Miriam is immediately drawn to Sarah, desiring her as her next immortal companion.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark, erotic, scary, cult classic, atmospheric, visually stunning, queer horror, visually appealing, visual
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Let the Right One In (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 225000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, captivating, dark, dark fantasy, creepy, disturbing, suspense, splatter, cult classic
Similar in 87%
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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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Plot Summary:
A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Greece, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, artsy, melancholic, philosophical, offbeat, gloomy, romantic, art house, surreal