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Plot Summary:
A girl is murdered in a park. The man is tried and convicted for the crime but the killings suddenly continue.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, erotic, grindhouse, perverse
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is accused of murdering her debauched neighbor after dreaming it. Was she set up, or did she really do it?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychosexual thriller, surprise ending, erotic, psychedelic, suspense, experimental, mondo, sensual
Similar in 80%
Murder 101 (1991)
Plot Summary:
Charles Lattimore, an author of a book about a famous murder trial, arranges to meet with one of his students one night. When the student is found murdered and Lattimore has no alibi, he suspects he is being framed by the subject of his book.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, crime thriller, suspense thriller, surprise ending, crying, detective
Similar in 88%
One on Top of the Other (1969)
Plot Summary:
An insurance scam lands a man on death row for murdering his wife. What everyone doesn't know is she really isn't dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, suspenseful, tense, rough, serious, slasher, surprise ending, suspense, grindhouse
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The Fifth Cord (1971)
Plot Summary:
Luigi Bazzoni (Le Orme) directed this outstanding giallo thriller starring Franco Nero as a hard-drinking newspaperman who gets involved in a string of brutal murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, erotic, scary, tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 86%
My Dear Killer (1972)
Plot Summary:
Following the mysterious decapitation of an insurance investigator, Police Inspector Peretti is put onto the case, but all the clues lead to an unsolved case of kidnapping and murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, slasher, suspense, cult classic, scary, tense, rough, mind bending, bleak, serious
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The Lady in Red Kills Seven Times (1972)
Plot Summary:
The film starts out incredibly in a beautiful Gothic castle in Germany. As little girls, Kitty Wildenbrück and her sister Evelyn have been fighting when their grandfather tells them the story behind an incredibly uncanny painting: Legend has it that a fiendish Red Lady is to return to the castle every hundred years and kill seven people. Fourteen years later, Kitty (Barbara Bouchet) has become a successful fashion photographer. Suddenly, people begin to get murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological thriller, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, exciting, psychotronic, erotic, retro
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Man Without a Memory (1974)
Plot Summary:
In London, an amnesiac is abducted and beaten by a stranger who calls him a "dirty son of a double-crosser." When a sniper's bullet kills his attacker the man flees the country with airline tickets provided by a wife he never knew he had. Arriving home, his wife calls him a "dirty rotten bastard" and he is threatened by another stranger who demands that he return a million dollars in uncut heroin - or die.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, detective, psychological thriller, suspense, independent film, cult film
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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 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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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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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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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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Murder-Rock: Dancing Death (1984)
Plot Summary:
A series of murders rock a dance academy in New York in which the mysterous directress, Candice, sets out to find the kiler, with a little assistance from a shady male model, named George, who has a hidden agenda for her as does she for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, cult classic, mind bending, serious, realistic
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A Bay of Blood (1971)
Plot Summary:
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, bloody, gothic, psychological, creepy, cult classic
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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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Fade to Black (2006)
Plot Summary:
Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, iconic filmmaker Orson Welles (Danny Huston) makes his way to Rome, where he gets pulled into a tangled political plot involving murder and mysterious motives. A beautiful actress (Paz Vega) proves a tempting distraction. But if they want to stay alive, Welles and his young Italian driver (Diego Luna) need to stay focused.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Serbia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, mind bending, freeze frame
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The Vanishing (1988)
Plot Summary:
Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on television, putting up posters and ruining his new relationship in the process. Eventually an unassuming chemistry teacher, Raymond, approaches Rex, intimating that he knows what happened.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, creepy, mind bending, grim
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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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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 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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Presumed Innocent (1990)
Plot Summary:
Life takes a nasty twist for D.A. Rusty Sabich when the woman he has been romantically involved with is murdered. He is assigned to investigate the case, but is soon charged with the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, suspense, sexy, tricky, enigmatic, talky, intense
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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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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
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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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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Zodiac (2007)
Plot Summary:
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 584000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, tense, neo noir, stylized, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, rough, detective
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Identity (2003)
Plot Summary:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 263000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, psychological thriller, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending, mind bending, twisted, tricky, serious
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Gothika (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspense, dark, twist ending