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Plot Summary:
In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and help the police in the investigation, while the serial killer stalks Julia and him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, twist ending, slasher, grindhouse, tense, suspense, rough, erotic, surreal
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
Plot Summary:
Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, mind bending, grindhouse, creepy, surprise ending, suspense, erotic, psychological thriller, psychedelic, bloody
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The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful young model Jennifer Lansbury and her goofy friend Marilyn Ricci move into a swanky high-rise apartment after the previous tenant gets brutally murdered. Pretty soon Jennifer is being stalked by the mysterious killer. Probable suspects include a predatory lesbian neighbor, a weird old woman and her deformed son, and even the building's handsome architect who suffers from a severe blood phobia.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, grindhouse, stylized
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The Psychic (1977)
Plot Summary:
A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, creepy, surprise ending, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, cult classic, classic horror, suspense thriller
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The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971)
Plot Summary:
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail begins with the mysterious death of a millionaire and spirals into the murder of his suddenly rich wife, which draws the attention of a dogged investigator, who follows a trail of blood to the bitter end.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, erotic, detective, grindhouse, poliziottesco, cult classic, suspense thriller, twisted, scary
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The House of the Laughing Windows (1976)
Plot Summary:
Stefano, a young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano. The fresco painter was Legnani, and the fresco is his last work. Legnani apparently was mentally disturbed. He was used to paint people close to die or in agony. These facts together with the strange atmosphere that surround this village near Ferrara, in the north of Italy, contribute to put Stefano in a nightmare reality. Soon reality will change into horror.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, scary, tense, serious, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, gothic, slasher
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974)
Plot Summary:
Police investigate apparent suicide of teen girl and uncover details of a teenage prostitution racket. They go on the hunt for a motorcycle riding killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, poliziottesco, psychological thriller, sadistic, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, creepy, erotic
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Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, psychotronic, erotic, suspense, detective, light, disturbing, creepy, perverse
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What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
Plot Summary:
After several coeds are murdered at a college, a professor (Fabio Testi) who is involved with a student becomes a suspect, along with several other male and female teachers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, grindhouse, suspense, surreal, controversial, deep, creepy, cult classic, dark drama
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Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975)
Plot Summary:
When a fashion model dies during an abortion, a series of murders begins, starting with her doctor. The next victims are connected to the modeling agency where she worked, Albatross, run by a hard edged and jealous bi-sexual, Gisella, married to a Farouk-like dissolute. One suspect is Carlo, a playboy photographer who has a hot temper and refuses to share information with the police. He becomes the lover of Magda, another photographer at the agency, who's probably in danger. The murderer wears a black motorcycle outfit and helmet. Will anyone discover the murderer's identity before the entire agency dies?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, suspense, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, sensual, scary, tense, atmospheric
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Bloodstained Shadow (1978)
Plot Summary:
A murder mystery set on an island near Venice. A schoolgirl was murdered seven years ago, and the case was never solved; now, the murderer seems to be back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, surprise ending, suspense, cult classic, scary, tense, atmospheric, rough, mind bending
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A Blade in the Dark (1983)
Plot Summary:
A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, metafiction, creepy, cult classic, horror musical, serious, realistic
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Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Sylvester is assigned to investigate the violent murder of a fashion house model Isabella, by a masked assailant. As the investigation proceeds all of the house’s various sins, including corruption, abortions, blackmail and drug addiction, begin to come to light. It turns out that Isabella had kept a diary detailing these vices, and now almost every employee becomes nervous.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, psychosexual thriller, suspense, gothic, psychotronic, erotic, neo noir
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The Card Player (2003)
Plot Summary:
Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John Brennan to find out the identity of the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, psychological, rough, disturbing, suspense, detective, grindhouse, cult horror, scary
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Opera (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, suspense, scary, bloody, creepy, grindhouse, atmospheric, surreal, controversial
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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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The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
Plot Summary:
A reporter and a blind retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, rough, serious, cult classic, atmospheric, stylized
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Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Plot Summary:
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that's rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, suspense, disturbing, erotic, surprise ending
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The New York Ripper (1982)
Plot Summary:
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, detective, dark, suspenseful, scary, bloody, controversial, suspense
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Blade of the Ripper (1971)
Plot Summary:
Newly married to an older man, Julie returns to Vienna, where a razor wielding slasher is killing women. Jean, her cruel and sadistic former lover, immediately contacts her, certain that only he can satisfy her strange vice. But she rejects him. She also meets George, the handsome cousin of her friend Carol; both are newly rich, thanks to an uncle's death. Julie's husband Neil is away frequently, so George pours on the charm. Meanwhile, it seems that the slasher is now focused on Julie. Bodies pile up, other murders are barely avoided, and George invites her to go away with him. Can it end happily?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, erotic, sexual, grindhouse, psychological, suspense
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Pieces (1982)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, disturbing, surprise ending, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller, bloody
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Deep Red (1975)
Plot Summary:
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, gothic, disturbing, slasher, scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse, tense
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The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, surreal, dark, disturbing, grindhouse, neo noir, stylized, suspense, creepy
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The Bodies Presented Traces of Carnal Violence (1973)
Plot Summary:
A series of sex murders shock a college campus, and four beautiful young girlfriends head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the hands - and blade - of the lecherous maniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending, sensual, erotic
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Maniac (2012)
Plot Summary:
As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, sadistic, psychological, suspenseful, dark, rough, psychological thriller, splatter
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Scream (2022)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 153000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, slasher horror, scary, psychotronic, bloody, dark, suspenseful, psychological, entertaining
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Friday the 13th (1980)
Plot Summary:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 155000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, bloody, grindhouse, cult classic, brutal, splatter
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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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Sleepless (2001)
Plot Summary:
An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, slasher, scary, psychological, rough, suspense, detective, bloody, disturbing
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Black Christmas (1974)
Plot Summary:
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, atmospheric, bloody, grindhouse, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, sexy
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From Hell (2001)
Plot Summary:
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, tense, gothic horror, serious, twist ending, psychological