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Plot Summary:
A heist film unlike any you've ever seen. In his second film (following his debut Finisterrae), Sergio Caballero plays fast and loose with all the laws of genre filmmaking. The ‘distance’ in the title is the ultimate MacGuffin - the term coined by Hitchcock for the thing the characters are pursuing, but which for the audience is completely meaningless. The fact that everyone communicates by telepathy enables Caballero to ‘speak’ a lingua franca made up of many different languages: from the Russian of the dwarves and the guard, to the German of the artist and the Chinese of the guard with the brazier.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, serious, stylized, realistic, art house, offbeat, psychotronic, avant garde, mind bending
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First on the Moon (2005)
Plot Summary:
In spring 1938 in the mountains in the north of Chile a fiery UFO, later named "Chilean Sphere ", fell down. The investigation of this episode, made by a film crew, has led to a sensational discovery. It appeared that before the Second World War (in the thirties) in the USSR a secret space program had been developed. The Soviet scientists and military authorities managed to launch the first spacecraft 23 years prior to Jury Gagarin's flight! "The First on the Moon" tells about everyday life, heroic deeds and tragedy of the first group of the Soviet cosmonauts. It is the first Russian film shot in a very rare genre 'mockumentary' or 'documentary fiction'.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: semi documentary, clever, serious, realistic, surreal, avant garde, mockumentary, fake documentary, weird
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Dharma Guns (La Succession Starkov) (2010)
Plot Summary:
The film opens on a water-skiing accident - a girl (Délie) drives a speedboat and pulls a young man (Stan). They are both challenging their own limits when a crash occurs... Stan wakes up from a coma after this serious accident, to find out that genealogists are looking for an individual whose identity corresponds to his. Instead of asking himself questions about this testamentary filiation, he subscribes for Professor Starkov's legacy, and embarks for the country of Las Estrellas... Purging odyssey where intuition and telepathy accelerates the journey in time. Dharma Guns revisits the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice fighting with the tyranny of Time-God.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: contemplative, atmospheric, bleak, serious, experimental, surreal, stylized, offbeat
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Possible Worlds (2000)
Plot Summary:
The same man lives out several parallel lives in different "worlds" and in different relationships at the same time.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: stylized, atmospheric, serious, mind twisting, mindfuck, mind bending, philosophical, dark, realistic, surreal
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Memoria (2021)
Plot Summary:
A Scottish orchid farmer visiting her ill sister in Bogotá, Colombia, befriends a young musician and a French archaeologist in charge of monitoring a century-long construction project to tunnel through the Andes mountain range. Each night, she is bothered by increasingly loud bangs which prevent her from getting any sleep.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Colombia, Thailand, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar, UK, China, USA, Switzerland
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surreal, avant garde, stylized, art house
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Golem (1980)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human race. Thus, instead of doctors creating a monster, the monsters are already there as the species of the future - but one of them is suspected by the doctors of being a human being. That is Golem in reverse.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, bleak, serious, futuristic, stylized, psychotronic, eighties
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Iodine (2009)
Plot Summary:
John Clem heads north to investigate the disappearance of his estranged father. Upon arriving at the family cottage, John feels a sense of home, something he hasn't felt since he was a child. Running into Avery (Ray Wise - Twin Peaks, Reaper) his father's colleague, he receives no help on his dad's disappearance, but instead, a new set of eyes in which to view the living world around him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, contemplative, independent film, suspenseful
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Eternity (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, police detective Richard Manning is investigating the most difficult case of his career – the seemingly impossible locked room murder of a wealthy property investor. The more Richard investigates, the more complex the case seems to become. He soon realizes his own future and survival depend on him solving everything – and quickly.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal
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Fissures (2006)
Plot Summary:
Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording she made in her mother's house, Charlotte discovers a strange phenomenon, she can hear sounds from the past in her headphones. Soon she is using this ability to hear the past to piece together the last few days of her mother's life, drawing ever closer to discovering who killed her, even as the murderer returns to try and eliminate Charlotte before they are discovered.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, enigmatic, mind bending, serious, realistic, psychotronic
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Headspace (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man (Christopher Denham) must use his newfound intellect to stop a brutal series of murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, suspenseful, intellectual, suspense, disturbing, offbeat, rough, scary, slasher
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Demonia (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Canadian archaeological team in Sicily accidentally unleashes vengeful ghosts of five demonic nuns whom were murdered 500 years earlier and the ghosts now set out to kill the group and townspeople alike.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, dark, scary, atmospheric, serious, slasher, suspenseful, surreal, stylized
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Nobody (2007)
Plot Summary:
A cold-blooded killer gets caught up in a surreal game of death in this neo-noir thriller starring Costas Mandylor. The winter winds are whipping outside when the unremorseful assassin dispatches with his latest target. But this time something goes wrong. Time begins to fold in on itself when a shadowy assailant strikes out from the darkness, turning hunter into prey in the span of seconds. The mysterious pursuer seems to anticipate the killer's every move, and as events begin to repeat themselves nobody is who they seem. A sudden stranger to his friends and associates, the killer begins to question his sanity after fresh wounds vanish from his flesh without a trace. When an unexpected telephone call reveals that his intended target is still alive, he is forced to relive his actions time and again while speeding ever closer toward a confrontation with the one adversary who could bring about his downfall.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic
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The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2012)
Plot Summary:
Arriving on a deserted beach in the Mediterranean sea, in a time and a place unspecified, Kaspar Hauser is forced to confront the evil of a Grand Duchess who feels threatened by the power she exercises over the community.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, atmospheric, serious, stylized, captivating, psychedelic, realistic, aesthetic, informative
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Madrigal (2007)
Plot Summary:
Javier is an actor with an affinity for writing. When he begins his love story with Luisita, he does not know where the truth begins and ends. Fifteen years later he has converted his story into literature that relates his tragic love story in a creative way.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Cuba
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, surreal, stylized, mind bending, offbeat, futuristic, talky
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Dead Still (2014)
Plot Summary:
Upon the death of his great grandfather, Brandon Davis a wedding photographer inherits an antique camera famous for taking Victorian death photography. After photographing his subjects they start to die from horrible, bizarre deaths.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, stylized, scary, gothic, mind bending, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
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Decoder (1984)
Plot Summary:
F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local "H-Burger" restaurant where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: experimental, psychedelic, retro, mind bending, realistic, surreal, tense, bleak, serious, futuristic
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A Real Friend (2006)
Plot Summary:
The lonely Estrella is an intelligent teenager and good student but is outcast in school. She spends most of her time alone in school or at home, reading horror books or watching horror movies, while her widow mother Angela works as a nurse in a hospital. Her favorite author is Stephen King and her only friends are Leatherface and Vampire. Angela has an unresolved trauma and has kink sex with strangers in the hospital or with the gatekeeper of her building. When a detective meets Angela and tells her that a man that raped her had not died as she thought, the frightening Angela gets Estrella at the bus stop and once at home she prepares a pizza for them. However, Estrella invites her friend Vampire to join them, and when Angela sees her daughter's friend, she feels scary, haunted by her past.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, surreal, suspense, grindhouse, mind bending, offbeat, serious
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Transference: Escape the Dark (2020)
Plot Summary:
Joshua must protect his twin sister, Emma, who possesses supernatural abilities and keep her safe from an unstoppable secret agent hunting them for an experiment in a classified government program.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Silk (2006)
Plot Summary:
A scientist uses his invention - the "Menger Sponge" - to capture the energy of a dead child's spirit in an old building. In trying to determine why the energy of the ghost does not dissipate, the team discovers the identity and the dramatic story of the boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, suspense, mystical, clever, surreal, disturbing, splatter
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Finisterrae (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two ghosts walk along the Camino of Santiago.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surreal, contemplative, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, road movie, mind bending, psychedelic, dark, deep
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Tatau (2015)
Plot Summary:
Tatau follows Kyle and Budgie, two twenty-something friends from London that set off to travel the world. Ahead of the journey, Kyle gets a Maori-style tattoo to celebrate their eventual destination: the Cook Islands. When snorkeling in a lagoon, Kyle finds the dead body of a local girl, Aumea, tied up underwater. Returning to the lagoon with the police, Kyle finds her corpse has disappeared. But Kyle knows what he saw. Desperate to uncover what happened, Kyle and Budgie find themselves sucked deeper and deeper into a world of Maori myths, symbols, and hallucinatory visions... until finally the full meaning of Kyle’s tattoo is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: mind bending, clever, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Scourge (2008)
Plot Summary:
An ancient pestilence called The Scourge has been set free in a small town after being entombed in a church's masonry for a century and a half. As bodies rapidly pile up, nothing stands between the spawning Scourge and the rest of the town except our young heroes Scott and Jessie who rediscover their love for each other in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, offbeat
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Children of the Damned (1964)
Plot Summary:
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, mind bending, black and white, classic horror, psychotronic, gothic horror, expressionism
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L'Immortelle (1963)
Plot Summary:
A sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly passionate relationship she disappears. The sad man is unable to locate her as all the local Turkish people pretend not to remember any such woman. He suddenly finds her again (she finds him?) and before she can explain her disappearance she is killed in a car crash while he is in the passenger seat. He replays the accident over and over in his mind trying to remember how she died if he caused the accident himself by grabbing the wheel.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy, Turkey
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, experimental, avant garde, psychological, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, realistic
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The Ring 2 (1999)
Plot Summary:
While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano (Miki Nakatani) learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, surprise ending, splatter, psychological, disturbing, art house, horror comedy, tense, atmospheric, serious
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S. Darko (2009)
Plot Summary:
S. Darko follows Samantha Darko, the younger sister of Donnie, the protagonist of Donnie Darko, and her friend Corey. On their way to California, their car breaks down, forcing them to wait in a small town until it is fixed. While there, Samantha begins to have dreams that warn her of the end of the universe.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, serious, stylized, psychological thriller, retro, suspense, dark, slasher, mindfuck
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Abduct (2016)
Plot Summary:
A Texan paranormal radio host, Ridley Kay leads a fairly ordinary existence, until a strange orphan with a tragic past comes crashing into his life. Convinced other-worldly forces are after her, Kay attempts to protect the young girl from an onslaught of deadly alien and extra-terrestrial phenomena. However, as the strange lights continue to stalk her, he discovers the world of the paranormal might be far more sinister than anyone has possibly imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Twilight Zone (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Twilight Zone is a 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone. It aired for one season on the UPN network, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host. The series was produced by New Line Television, which since 2008 is a division of Warner Bros., which released Twilight Zone: The Movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: anthology, atmospheric, serious, mind bending, stylized, surprise ending, offbeat, psychological, intellectual, dark
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Solaris (1972)
Plot Summary:
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: art house, atmospheric, cerebral, mind bending, enigmatic, psychedelic, intellectual, futuristic, surreal, psychological
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Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
Plot Summary:
Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a disturbed and beautiful girl is held captive by a doctor in search of inner peace. Her mind controlled by a sinister technology. Silently, she waits for her next session with deranged therapist Dr. Barry Nyle. If she hopes to escape, she must journey through the darkest reaches of The Institute, but Nyle wonʼt easily part with his most gifted and dangerous creation.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, atmospheric, stylized, suspense, futuristic, psychedelic, mind bending, art house, mindfuck
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Upstream Color (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, art house, mindfuck, tense, mind bending, atmospheric, cerebral, experimental, stylized