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Plot Summary:
Angela is a young hairdresser thrown out of home by her puritantical mother after too many nights out. She quickly falls in with the modeling crowd and does some modeling work herself, while it seems she is being stalked by a mysterious figure driving an ice-cream van.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, psychological, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Dangerous Game (1988)
Plot Summary:
A game becomes deadly serious! An insane cop hunts down five students in a shopping mall after closing time. His life is ruined as he was dishonorably discharged from the police force because of these people. Armed with a Rambo knife and a crossbow, he initially only wants to scare them off, but when he accidentally injures one of the boys deadly, there is no turning back. The witnesses to the murder must be eliminated! So begins a relentless hunt through the mall at night….
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Out of the Body (1989)
Plot Summary:
An invisible force is killing women in Sydney and stealing their eyes.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tragic ending, independent film
Similar in 87%
Whirlpool (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sex-thriller about a pornographic photographer, his aunt and an innocent English girl who becomes their victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: controversial
Similar in 83%
Goodbye Gemini (1970)
Plot Summary:
Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: offbeat, slasher, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, lgbt cinema, crying, psychotronic, independent film, detective
Similar in 87%
Double Exposure (1982)
Plot Summary:
A photographer for a men's magazine is haunted by disturbing dreams, in which he slaughters his models. When he learns that these models are dying in real life as they did in his dreams, he begins to go insane.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, independent film, scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher horror
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Mr Wrong (1984)
Plot Summary:
Meg moves out of her parents' home and buys a beautiful old Jaguar in a bid for independence. She begins to get strange feelings about the car. It seems to have a presence beyond the usual "personality" attributed to eccentric old cars. Slowly she uncovers the shocking history of the car's previous owner, but not before the car exerts some tragic influence in her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Patrick (1978)
Plot Summary:
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills though his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: medical horror, grindhouse, mystical, slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)
Plot Summary:
Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, surprise ending, suspense, mind twisting, gothic, psychological thriller, erotic, psychedelic, slasher
Similar in 78%
Lisa (1990)
Plot Summary:
Because her overprotective mother (Cheryl Ladd) won't allow her to date, 14-year-old Lisa (Staci Keanan) creates a rich fantasy life. She calls random men and seduces them anonymously. But now she may have picked the wrong man. Richard (D.W. Moffett) is Lisa's most charming target yet, but he's also the Candlelight Killer, who murders beautiful young women. Jeffrey Tambor co-stars in this seductive thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, neo noir, slasher, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Razorback (1984)
Plot Summary:
In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: natural horror, anamorphic, retro, suspense, grindhouse, horror comedy, cult classic, cult horror, independent film, scary
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Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
Plot Summary:
Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward spiral into ruin.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Demented (1980)
Plot Summary:
A woman is gang-raped in a horse's stable, and even though the rapists are caught and imprisoned, she is harassed many moons later by ghastly visions of her tormentors, while her husband philanders and every little thing frightens her out of her wits.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, grindhouse, crying, independent film
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Tattoo (1981)
Plot Summary:
Karl Kinsky, an unbalanced tattoo artist, becomes obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he is hired to body-paint several women for a photo shoot, making the women look like they have large tattoos. As Kinsky grows more obsessed with Maddy, he becomes increasingly determined that Maddy should bear his "mark" -- forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, neo noir, slasher, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Thirst (1979)
Plot Summary:
The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, slasher, retro, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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Pin (1988)
Plot Summary:
A doctor has a lifelike, anatomically-correct medical dummy, with muscles and organs visible through its clear skin, named Pin (after Pinocchio). Via ventriloquism, Pin explains bodily functions in a way kids can relate to. When the over-strict doctor and his wife are killed in a car crash, his son (Leon) transfers his alter-ego into Pin, whom he always believed was alive. He starts using Pin as an excuse to over-protect his sister (Ursula) from admirers and deflect unwanted intrusions, even to the extent of committing murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, surprise ending, sexy, suspense, slasher, surreal, controversial, psychotronic
Similar in 80%
The Fan (1981)
Plot Summary:
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen (Lauren Bacall). However when his letters are rejected, the fan strikes out at the actresses friends, then at her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir, bloody, horror comedy, serious
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Killing of the Dolls (1975)
Plot Summary:
Paul is the son of a gardener who works in a big mansion that has returned home with his parents after failling in his medecin degree. He is emotionally unstable. He collect dolls because he was educated as a girl because his sister died. After his arrival home murders begin to happen, is him the responsible?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, surreal, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame, slasher horror, campy
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Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)
Plot Summary:
A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale, a young psychologist, by calling her on a radio call-in show to describe his sexual hang-ups and misogynistic ways, while a local police detective, Lt. McCable, is always two steps behind in trying to catch the psycho.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, scary, psychological, suspenseful, detective, cult classic, bloody, independent film
Similar in 84%
Dark (2015)
Plot Summary:
A disturbed young woman must confront her worst fears when she finds herself trapped alone in a New York City loft during the 2003 blackout.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, scary, dark drama
Similar in 77%
Last Night in Soho (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 168000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, China
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspense, psychological, slasher, neo noir, psychological horror, mind bending, spooky, enigmatic
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Irresistible (2006)
Plot Summary:
A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful, slasher, surprise ending, crying
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The Neon Demon (2016)
Plot Summary:
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Belgium, Denmark, France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, neo noir, disturbing, dark, surreal, suspense, sexy, visually appealing, colorful
Similar in 77%
The Driller Killer (1979)
Plot Summary:
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, terrifying, bloody, controversial
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The Roommate (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Sara, a young design student from Iowa, arrives for college in Los Angeles, she is eager to fit in and get to know the big city. Her wealthy roommate, Rebecca, is more than eager to take Sara under her wing and show her the ropes. The two become close, but when Sara begins to branch out and make more friends on campus, Rebecca becomes resentful. Alarmed, Sara moves in with her new boyfriend, causing Rebecca's behavior to take a violent turn.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, intense, harsh, serious, teen, dark
Similar in 79%
The Canyons (2013)
Plot Summary:
The discovery of an illicit love affair leads two young Angelenos on a violent, sexually charged tour through the dark side of human nature.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, sensual, neo noir, erotic, slasher, psychological, captivating, suspense, dark, controversial
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Long Weekend (1978)
Plot Summary:
When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, natural horror, retro, atmospheric, depressing, surreal, disturbing, splatter, art house
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Bug (2006)
Plot Summary:
A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again - until the first bugs arrive.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense, scary, creepy, psychological thriller, cerebral, cult classic
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Pearl (2022)
Plot Summary:
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations and repressions collide.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, bloody, suspense
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Shadow (1982)
Plot Summary:
An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, dark, grindhouse, disturbing, creepy, bloody, surreal, erotic
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Sister My Sister (1994)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on a true incident in Le Mans, France in 1933 called the Papin murder case, where two sisters brutally murdered their employer and her daughter. The murder shocked the country, and there was much speculation about the sisters, including allegations that they were having an incestous lesbian affair with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, sexy, gothic, depressing, controversial, period piece