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Plot Summary:
Sammi (Athena Chu) and her husband Chan (Francis Ng) try to find ways to salvage their dying marriage after Sammi is injured during a robbery. The second chance at resolving their marital issues is embraced, but it also creates a dangerous situation for Sammi as she begins to have terrifying premonitions of brutal murders. Her intuitions are helpful to Chan, who's a detective, but they also put the couple at the top of the murderer's list.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, detective, mind bending, offbeat, serious, realistic, stylized
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Best tv shows and movies like Shiver (2003):
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Mad Detective (2007)
Plot Summary:
A rookie cop teams up with a former detective with a supernatural gift to hunt down a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, detective, bloody, psychological thriller, philosophical, mind bending
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Another Heaven (2000)
Plot Summary:
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of it themselves?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, detective, creepy, scary, mind bending, surprise ending
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Dr. Lamb (1992)
Plot Summary:
An abnormal taxi driver lusts for blood every rainy night, and several young women are killed as a result. The muderer, Laiu, likes to take photos of the victims dismembered bodies as momentos. Inspector Lee is called onto the case in this bizarre thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, controversial, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, asian horror
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Unborn But Forgotten (2002)
Plot Summary:
A website is seemingly killing every woman who views it within fifteen days. While investigating the phenomenon, a female reporter begins an investigation that leads to the discovery of the site known only as The White Room.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense, detective
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Horror
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, detective, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Art of the Devil (2004)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant woman is abandoned by her lover. Enraged, she goes to a witch doctor and uses black magic to have her ex and his family killed, only for another woman claiming to be her lover's secret mistress to claim his inheritance and move into his house with her children. Not long after that, inexplicable things happen to that family and, one by one, they begin to die.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, saga, disturbing, demonic, terrifying
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Princess Aurora (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman gets killed in a department store. No one imagines this could lead to serial murders, but two days after the first murder, another homicide occurs. A woman is suffocated to death and the only evidence left at the crime scene is a sticker of the cartoon character "Princess Aurora". A veteran detective OH suspects an attractive and lively woman named JUNG Soon-jung as the murderer. However, he does not tell anyone -not even his partner- that Jung also happens to be his ex-wife. Again and again, the Princess Aurora sticker is found... each with a dead body.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, emotional, suspenseful, psychological, detective, action thriller, twisted, realistic
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The Seamstress (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Seamstress was brought into being by the desperate curse of an innocent woman being tortured to death by a vigilante mob. Voracious for blood, the hideously-mutilated specter hunts a small group of friends who become trapped on the island where she died.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, suspense, demonic, awful
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Heroic Duo (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tough cop Ken Li (Cheng) is at the top of his game, but he's going to need some help to solve a grisly crime that the offender, a respected police officer, doesn't even remember committing. He seeks out Jack Lai (Lai), a former psychologist now in disgrace and behind bars, who has an uncanny ability to bend people to his will. Making an uneasy truce, this unconventional pair set out on a mission to find the man responsible, a master of hypnotism who will stop at nothing to get his revenge!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, heroic
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Forest of Death (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a mysterious forest in Thailand, many suicidal youths disappear and rescue teams can not find the way out even with compass. The ambitious reporter May is making sensationalist journalism exploring the deaths in the forest. Her boyfriend and botanist Shun Shu-hoi is developing a means of communication with plants. Meanwhile, Detective C. C. Ha is investigating the rape and death of a woman and the main suspect is Patrick Wong.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, mind bending, serious
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Cadaver (2007)
Plot Summary:
Seon-hwa is a new student at an elite medical school, and she is initiated into a dissection class headed by Dr. Han along with five other students, including her boyfriend Ki-beom. After the first class the students all start to share the same nightmare involving a one-eyed surgeon, and one by one they start to be murdered, the victims being discovered with their hearts removed. Seon-hwa and Ki-beom are convinced that these events are related to a beautiful cadaver with a rose tattoo on her breast, and they begin an investigation to uncover her identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, rough, serious, realistic
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Double Vision (2002)
Plot Summary:
An FBI Agent pairs with a troubled Taiwan cop to hunt for a serial killer who's embedding a mysterious fungus in the brains of victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, detective, action thriller, twisted, scary, mind bending
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The Devil's Muse (2007)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, gothic, mind bending, serious, realistic, experimental, art house, psychotronic
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6th Commandment Cross (2012)
Plot Summary:
Meet Leonard, a man who will help you die with a smile on your face. A young attorney meets his client for the first time, a serial killer known as the "Smiley Face Killer", whose victims all died with a smile on their faces.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, psychological, captivating, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, slasher
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Furnace (2007)
Plot Summary:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, detective, scary, rough, bleak, serious
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The Sight (2000)
Plot Summary:
The American successful architect Michael Lewis travels to London with his partner and friend, the builder Jake, to refurbish an old hotel. Michael is having successive nightmares, and once in London, he realizes that twenty-one spirits are trying to contact him to solve murders of a serial killer. Michael, with the support of Jake, Detective Pryce and the ghosts, try to avoid the ninth crime and find the serial-killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious, spiritual, esoteric
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Tomie (1998)
Plot Summary:
Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: manga, detective, scary, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, weird
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Hunting Humans (2002)
Plot Summary:
Meet Aric Blue. He's young. He's handsome. He's successful. He's also a serial killer. He picks his victims at random, stalking them and taking advantage of the patterns in their life to kill them. He's the ultimate serial killer. But when he finds his next victim already dead, a note on the body reading: "I'VE GOT YOUR PATTERN", Aric realizes he's being stalked by a serial killer every bit his equal. When two serial killers wage war, the rules are simple: Don't Get In The Way.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, realistic, detective, independent film
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Chasing Ghosts (2005)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer targeting the city's mobsters taunts police with clues and photos left behind at the crime scenes. A veteran cop takes on a rookie partner hoping to crack one last case before retiring. As the web of deception and lies unravels, the truth slowly begins to reveal itself.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, realistic, surprise ending
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One Missed Call 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. When the owner Mr. Wang answers his daughter's mobile phone, he receives a message telling him that he would die in an accident in the kitchen. This immediately comes true.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, mind bending, slasher, surprise ending, detective
Similar in 79%
Hellraiser: Inferno (2000)
Plot Summary:
A shady police detective becomes embroiled in a strange world of murder, sadism and madness after being assigned a murder investigation against a madman known only as "The Engineer".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, detective, scary, slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, splatter, classic horror
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The Fear Chamber (2009)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic man likes to hunt down young women, then kill them and sell their organs. Detective Nick Stevens has been chasing this killer for years and has to overcome this personal demons in order to conquer this serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, rough, serious, detective
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Nightmare Detective (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying turn. Keiko Kirishima is a cool, seemingly emotionless police detective, brilliant but off-putting. She's faced with two mutilated corpses who appear to have killed themselves, but she's not sure. A cell-phone number links the deaths. She calls on Akumu Tantei, a poor and suicidal young man who has the ability to enter people's dreams. He's reluctant to help. His past haunts him. A subconscious duel of terror and blood awaits the three.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, slasher, psychological thriller, inspirational, suspense, disturbing, dark fantasy
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Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)
Plot Summary:
A woman, a survivor of a failed murder attempt by a person dubbed "The Half-Moon Killer" by the police, and her husband must find the connecting thread between herself, six other women, and the killer before the killer strikes at her again.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, atmospheric, realistic, serious, tense, disturbing, spooky, twisted, scary
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Giallo (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Torino, Celine, an American model, is abducted by a taxi driver while en route home to meet her sister Linda, visiting at her apartment. The next morning, Linda reports that Celine is missing - the sergeant in charge directs her to F.B.I. agent Inspector Enzo Avolfi. He's from the Special New York City Department investigating a serial-killer that kidnaps foreigners to destroy their beauty. When a Japanese woman is found at nearby a fountain, Enzo and Linda find that the girl is calling the abductor's skin is "Yellow" in color and Linda concludes that the guy might have jaundice. They go to the Policlinic di Torino to find the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, detective, dark, scary, slasher horror
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Our Town (2007)
Plot Summary:
Kyung-ju is a struggling novelist who writes violent and gory murder mysteries. When a fierce argument with his landlady ends in her death, he stages the killing so that it looks like the act of the serial killer that has been terrorizing his village. Anxious that the police might realize the latest killing was a copycat murder, he begins his own invetstigation to track down the killer with help of his detective friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, twisted, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Nightstalker (2002)
Plot Summary:
A stylish horror film based on the life of Richard Ramirez, aka the Nightstalker, who terrorized people in Los Angeles during the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, detective
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Thorne: Scaredycat (2010)
Plot Summary:
D.I. Tom Thorne's latest case puts him on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, crime drama, gloomy
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Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
Plot Summary:
Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, detective, intellectual, bloody, saga, splatter, slasher horror
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Suspect Zero (2004)
Plot Summary:
A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, tricky, detective, stylized, intense, suspense, scary, serious