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Plot Summary:
A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases.'.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse (1972)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute (including female staff members) in order to complete his own evil mind-control ray. Dr. Mabuse has this impressive and horribly scarred man-monster that kills for him while the entire police force desperately tries to catch him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco
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Night Visions (1990)
Plot Summary:
Stubborn detective Tom Mackey, assigned to a Los Angeles murder case involving a couple of serial killings, gets increasingly frustrated with the dead end leads he's following and the lack of appreciation he gets from his chief, police captain Keller. Enter Dr. Sally Powers, a fresh, clean cut psychology graduate who possesses supernatural powers. In a loose partnership the twosome gradually succeed in unraveling the killer's motive and working-pattern. This leaves only one person that would fit the profile.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: splatter, detective
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The Mad Executioners (1963)
Plot Summary:
A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a subplot about another murderer. Surprise ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963)
Plot Summary:
A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror
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The Puzzle of the Red Orchid (1962)
Plot Summary:
Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Don't Go Into the House by the Woods (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young man goes to his parents house over the weekend and is scared to death when he starts to receive phone calls from a psycho who might be inside the house.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country:
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, twist ending, slasher, surprise ending, road movie, independent film, detective, spoof, hispanic
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Night of the Assassins (1974)
Plot Summary:
Horror mystery about the residents of a Louisiana castle who are being murdered by a masked killer. When the family arrives for the reading of Marion's will, his wife is strapped to the face of a cliff and drowned by the tide. More murders follow, and as Inspector Bore investigates, he discovers some dark secrets in the family's past.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, perverse, classic horror, twisted, odd
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The Monster of Blackwood Castle (1968)
Plot Summary:
Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher
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The Cater Street Hangman (1998)
Plot Summary:
With the help of a feisty aristocratic woman, a working-class Scotland Yard inspector hunts for a serial killer of young women in Victorian London.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, period drama
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Sawney: Flesh of Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
Religious psychopath Sawney stalks Scotland abducting unholy souls for his communion of sacrifices. With his insane family of inbred killers, Sawney tortures and eats their victims saving the best morsels for a chained-up figure in their cavernous Highlands lair. As the Missing Persons list rises investigative crime journalist Hamish MacDonald writes sensational and damming headlines against the police, due to their incompetence in handling the case. After his fiancée is kidnapped by the cannibal clan Hamish investigates the heinous crimes on his own with disastrous results. For there’s something he doesn’t know about the case that’s crucial to solving it….
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, crying
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The Door with Seven Locks (1962)
Plot Summary:
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Squeaker (1963)
Plot Summary:
Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Zodiac Killer (1971)
Plot Summary:
The San Francisco area is beset by a series of seemingly random murders without motive or pattern. The police are taunted by phone calls and letters. Could the maniac be the violent, truck driver, or the seemingly mild-mannered mailman, or even a cop?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, weird, cult film
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Seven Murders for Scotland Yard (1972)
Plot Summary:
Several murders have taken place in London. All the victims are prostitutes and the murderer is using the same techniques as Jack the Ripper. Peter Dockerman, an ex-acrobat and husband of one of the victims is the prime suspect. But whoever the killer is has cannibalistic tendencies and if Scotland Yard doesn't solve the murders quickly the evidence just might be eaten!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, detective, cult film
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The Phantom of Sojo (1964)
Plot Summary:
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, art house, psychotronic
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The Mysterious Magician (1964)
Plot Summary:
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if The Hexer may get away yet again.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, black and white
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A Killer in Prague (2012)
Plot Summary:
The little town of Petrovice has been terrorized by a serial killer who is murdering the students of the local school. The police are searching for the killer, but cannot find any lead. There is every indication that the masked murderer has been gunning for Karin Tomecková whose parents were brutally killed 8 months ago. The murders are piling up and so are the suspects. The police are trying hard to catch the murderer, but it might be even late. The killer can be anywhere.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, surprise ending, independent film, slasher horror
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Nothing But the Night (1973)
Plot Summary:
Already three trustees of the Van Traylen fund have died during the last months, looking like suicides. However after a mysterious accident of a bus with the last three trustees and 30 orphan kids in it, police colonel Bingham starts investigating. First question is, how came that the dead bus driver is burnt when there was no fire during the accident? Dr. Ashley uses hypnosis to find the truth about the mysterious happenings.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, detective, classic horror, terrifying, independent film, scary, mind bending, gothic, serious, suspenseful
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Dead Eyes of London (1961)
Plot Summary:
A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: detective, gothic, suspense, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, art house
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Reaper (2000)
Plot Summary:
Horror novelist Luke Sinclair retreats to a small town to finish writing his latest book. A young woman is murdered in the woods nearby, in circumstances similar to those in his bestselling novel, "Reaper". Faced with increasing pressure from a suspicious local sheriff, as well as the advances of a female FBI investigator, he must uncover the killer before he or she strikes again, further implicating him in the crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film
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Death Walks on High Heels (1971)
Plot Summary:
Exotic dancer Nicole finds herself terrorized by a black-clad assailant determined on procuring her murdered father's stolen gems. Fleeing Paris in hopes of evading her knife-wielding pursuer, Nicole arrives in England only to discover that death stalks her at every corner.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, erotic, surprise ending, cult classic, psychological thriller, crying, independent film, detective, black comedy
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Close Your Eyes (2002)
Plot Summary:
While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. The escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer, the girl has become mute, and Michael is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds in order to catch a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, surreal, esoteric, psychological horror, action thriller
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Madhouse (1974)
Plot Summary:
A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychotronic, grindhouse, psychological, psychological thriller, mind bending, gothic, surreal, gothic horror, cult classic
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The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
Plot Summary:
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, serious, suspenseful, dark, mind bending, realistic, tragic ending, independent film, clever
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Jack Rises (2013)
Plot Summary:
A London detective tracking a serial killer finds the killers "truth or die" methods take him to New York to solve the case.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, detective
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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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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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Jack the Ripper (1976)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic, retro, detective, period piece
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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
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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