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Plot Summary:
Three mercenaries extracting a druglord out of Guinea-Bissau are forced to hide in the mystical region of Saloum, Senegal.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Senegal, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: supernatural thriller, spooky
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Attila (2013)
Plot Summary:
When American soldiers inadvertently steal Attila the Hun's secret riches, the wrath of the barbarian is awakened; the mummified warrior will stop at nothing to kill the intruders.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, rough, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mockbuster
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Ayan (2009)
Plot Summary:
Deva (Surya Sivakumar) arrives at the Chennai International Airport after running an errand for Arumuga Dass (Prabhu Ganesan) of smuggling pre-release pirated movies on DVD. The two leave for their hideout and instruct Dilli (Karunas), a hearing-impaired assistant of Dass, to make copies of the DVD. Just when police crews arrive into their vicinity, Dass informs Deva and the rest to leave. Deva tells the others to leave while he quickly sets up the burning process. Deva also leaves the hideout just in time. However, the police officers arrive at the hideout, only to see the burning process of the DVDs complete. The police then seize the DVDs and computers. The inspector, who was a friend of Dass, tells him that he can close the case if one of Dass's men agrees to the crime. Deva attempts to go, but another man, Chitti (Jegan), who had no affiliation to them volunteers, takes the blame. Later, Chitti joins Dass's group.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags:
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The Stick (1988)
Plot Summary:
A squad (stick) of South African soldiers is sent into the bush to track down some rebel fighters when things take a supernatural turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Action, Horror, War
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Thunivu (2023)
Plot Summary:
A gang goes to rob a bank only to find that there's already a criminal mastermind holding it for ransom, but his identities and motives behind the heist remains mysterious. As they plan to collect the bounty and disappear without a trace, their crimes and their past slowly catches up with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags:
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The Zero Boys (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, spooky, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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Shark Killer (2015)
Plot Summary:
The services of shark killer have been engaged by his brother Jake, the head of a West Coast crime ring. The gig: kill the black-finned shark that swallowed a valuable diamond during a gang transaction.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, South Africa
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, tense, brutal, suspense, disturbing, intense, natural horror, bloody, psychotronic
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The Divine Fury (2019)
Plot Summary:
After waking up with mysterious wounds on his hands, a champion fighter finds himself in an otherworldly battle against evil forces that wreak havoc in the human world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, emotional, intense, demonic, grindhouse
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Residue (2017)
Plot Summary:
A private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives...and their eternal souls.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, suspense, scary, bleak, retro, lovecraft
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Five (2016)
Plot Summary:
Five military men from from different branches of the armed forces find themselves mysteriously locked in a room with four bullets and one gun and no clues.
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Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Evil in the Bayou (2003)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Acid Bath (2006)
Plot Summary:
A crazed murderer is on the loose and he's got the local nightlife on the run. The hooker network has organized a game plan to save themselves from their unknown killer. In a conflict between the crime syndicate and a reckless bounty hunter, their fates will all be decided in a flash.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: splatter
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Unseen (2023)
Plot Summary:
Sam receives a call from Emily, a near blind woman who is running from her murderous ex in the woods. Can she survive using Sam as her eyes via video call?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: spooky
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Fear No Evil (1969)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance discovers that the mirror is able to bring back her former boyfriend, who had been killed in a car accident, from the dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, spooky, crime thriller
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Wonder Valley (2017)
Plot Summary:
Shy, introverted Karian Edwards looks forward to a weekend at her aunt's house in the desert with her best friend, Cloudy, and their friend, Jessica. Things take a turn for the worse when Cloudy invites along a childhood friend, Sasha Mills, a down-and-out actress who is trying to escape her problems with drugs and alcohol. The four girls take datura, a powerful psychotropic drug, and things quickly turn into a nightmare as the lines between reality and hallucination blur.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, teen horror
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Full Blast (1999)
Plot Summary:
Maceo is the manager of Motown's most popular club, the Motorfly. Business is going well, but Maceo has huge game debts that entrap him in the loops of the Detroit Mafia net.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Race with the Devil (1975)
Plot Summary:
For old friends Roger (Peter Fonda) and Frank (Warren Oates) and their wives (Lara Parker of Dark Shadows and Loretta Swit of M*A*S*H), it was supposed to be "the best damn vacation they ever had." But their RV road trip takes a deadly detour at a secluded campsite when they accidentally witness a Satanic orgy and brutal human sacrifice. Now horror hits the highway as the couples are chased by blood-crazed cultists through some of the most intense crash-and-burn mayhem of the decade and into one of the greatest twist endings in drive-in history.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, satanic, surprise ending, psychotronic, scary, depressing, bad ending, suspense, surreal
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Tribal Get Out Alive (2020)
Plot Summary:
After retiring from active duty, former elite military operative Caitlin Ross now runs a private security firm. She, however, becomes the target when her private security firm accepts a contract from a young millionaire.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blind Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
A police inspector must solve two grisly murders. The problem is that his only suspect is a blind man.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting
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Soldiers of the Damned (2015)
Plot Summary:
WWII German soldiers take an occult scientist into a haunted forest in Romania, only to be confronted by their own ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful
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Dealer (2014)
Plot Summary:
After giving up a life of cocaine trafficking, Dan is offered a chance to achieve his dream : moving to Australia with his daughter. He accepts the deal and starts a downward spiral sucking him back into 24 hours of hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense
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All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
Plot Summary:
Jane lives in London with her boyfriend Richard. Her mother was murdered when she was young, she recently lost a baby in a car crash and she's plagued by nightmares of a knife-wielding man. Richard thinks that the cure is vitamins, while Jane's sister recommends psychiatric help. But a new neighbour promises that if she participates in a Black Mass, all her fears will disappear, instead it just seems to bring her nightmares to life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, sadistic, scary, disturbing, slasher, grindhouse, surreal, suspense, demonic, art house
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Game Over (1989)
Plot Summary:
Thomas, a very intelligent and resourceful child, is left alone with his beloved and fragile granddad on Christmas Eve, when a psychopath dressed as Santa Claus breaks into their mansion and starts chasing them. Thomas will do whatever he can to save himself and his granddad, leaving much of his childhood innocence behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, bloody, suspense, scary, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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WarHunt (2022)
Plot Summary:
1945. A U.S. military cargo plane loses control and violently crashes behind enemy lines in the middle of the German black forest. Major Johnson sends a squad of his bravest soldiers on a rescue mission to retrieve the top-secret material the plane was carrying, led by Sergeants Brewer and Walsh. They soon discover hanged Nazi soldiers and other dead bodies bearing ancient, magical symbols. Suddenly their compasses fail, their perceptions twist and straying from the group leads to profound horrors as they are attacked by a powerful, supernatural force.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Stash House (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dave and Emma have found the perfect house, until they discover a stash of heroine and end up imprisoned in it by violent thugs.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, dark, serious, realistic
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After Effect (2012)
Plot Summary:
College students sign up for what seems a simple paid research study, they soon realize their lives are in danger. Unfortunately they've unknowingly volunteered their bodies as human collateral in an ongoing U.S. Military experiment.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, serious
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Rogue (2020)
Plot Summary:
Battle-hardened O’Hara leads a lively mercenary team of soldiers on a daring mission: rescue hostages from their captors in remote Africa. But as the mission goes awry and the team is stranded, O’Hara’s squad must face a bloody, brutal encounter with a gang of rebels.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, bleak, disturbing, perverse, psychological thriller, surprise ending, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Hunt (2020)
Plot Summary:
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 125000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, disturbing, horror comedy, surprise ending, bloody, slasher, controversial, scary, psychological, tense
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Redcon-1 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A squad of eight Special Forces soldiers are assigned a suicide mission to rescue a scientist from a city ruled by the undead.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic, action adventure
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Train to Busan (2016)
Plot Summary:
Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival….
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 248000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, apocalyptic, emotional, tense, bloody, psychotronic, suspenseful, dark, scary, touching
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Dog Soldiers (2002)
Plot Summary:
A squad of British soldiers on training in the lonesome Scottish wilderness find a wounded Special Forces captain and the remains of his team. As they encounter zoologist Megan, it turns out that werewolves are active in the region. They have to prepare for some action as the there will be a full moon tonight.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, serious, dark, splatter, grindhouse, creepy