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Plot Summary:
Nilalang tackles the underbelly of corrupt Philippine cops with the Japanese 'Yakuza' and its links to a centuries’ old curse that may be responsible for the spate of serial killings happening in Manila.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, tense, suspenseful, detective, sinister, psychotronic
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Demonstone (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two U.S. Marine investigators looking into a series of grisly murders in Manila discover that the crimes are tied to an amulet with a 400-year-old curse on it that has unleashed supernatural forces.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA, Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, weird, cult film
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Svaha: The Sixth Finger (2019)
Plot Summary:
Pastor Park is head of a religious investigation center that exposes cults and cult leaders. While looking into a suspicious new religion called ‘Deer Mount,’ he slowly uncovers clues that connect this cult to a series of mysterious cases of missing teenage girls when a body is found inside a damaged tunnel beams. He begins to uncover dark secrets surrounding this cult and its enforcer Na-han.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, suspense, disturbing, scary, slasher, dark fantasy, christmas horror, perverse
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The Boundary (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story starts from pile murder, murderer exactly ten years ago, a woman was shot dead by police. A decade ago, it has not found an important clue surfaced, what old things associated with the murder a decade ago after a decade of existence in the end? All this seems to be back to square one again. Liu Ye plays Justin was forced to intervene series of investigations, throws a period spanning 10 years of disputes, he played with Chiu ??? what will happen to the story, the same two men who have lost a loved one, the final showdown, behind, relating to a shocking secret, life and death, love and hate, good and evil, black and white, good and evil, truth and lies a major reversal in.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic, psychological, enigmatic, surprise ending, sinister, detective
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Kesurupan (2008)
Plot Summary:
A College Teen Gets Possessed By Three Satanic Spirits After Retrieving A Mysterious Odd Doll,With The Help Of Her Two Friends They Must Race Against Time In Order Of What Is Something Sinister Happening To Her Before Time Runs Out.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, bleak, surprise ending, sinister, psychotronic
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Ang Pagsanib kay Leah Dela Cruz (2017)
Plot Summary:
A lady cop who moves into a small town gets drawn to a case that involves a girl that's possessed by an evil spirit.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, disturbing, psychological, bleak, psychological horror, religious horror, christian horror, asian horror
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The Healing (2012)
Plot Summary:
A community rushes to a faith healer after learning that one of them was miraculously healed from a deadly disease by the same person. They are torn apart afterwards as the healing brings them a terrible curse that wreaks harm and death.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, bleak, slasher, religious horror, spiritual, mystic, esoteric, surprise ending, gothic horror
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Writers Retreat (2015)
Plot Summary:
At a writers' retreat on an isolated island, novelist Zandra joins a group of strangers confronting their darkest secrets. But when a member of the party mysteriously disappears, they realize there's something else on the island.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Feng Shui 2 (2014)
Plot Summary:
It focuses on Lester who, upon getting the cursed bagua, starts to get all the luck and prosperity he could get in his life, but with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, sinister
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Chain Mail (2015)
Plot Summary:
A usual chain mail is forwarded to a group of people. Some pass it while others ignore. One dies and is followed by series of sudden and unexplainable deaths of others. Soon after, a revelation begins to unfold, the chain mail is cursed and so she has to find the origin and mystery behind to stop the misfortunes it may cause to anyone who fails to pass it before another life perish again. Sandra also suspects Anne is behind the tragic incidents that happened to their friends. Will she break the curse before it's too late or will she become one of the victims?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic, slasher, surprise ending, sinister, psychotronic, tension, psychological horror, psychological
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Corbin Nash (2018)
Plot Summary:
A rogue police detective in search of his parents killer is murdered and reborn the ultimate killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, captivating, suspense, scary, exciting, tense, suspenseful, queer horror, independent film
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Muslim Magnum .357 (2014)
Plot Summary:
When the Muslim princess Ameera is kidnapped by a local crime syndicate, undercover cop Lt. Jamal Razul a.k.a Magnum is given the task of getting her back. Aided by fellow officer Joselito Ibanez, Razul discovers that there’s more to the kidnapping than mere ransom.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, sinister
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The New York Butcher (2016)
Plot Summary:
For rookie cop Linda Blair and serial killer Clive Barker, the biggest challenge they'll both face, is looking in the mirror.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, rough, detective, surprise ending, neo noir, cult movie cast
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Raid (2003)
Plot Summary:
Raid is a mysterious drifter and ex-criminal who comes and goes as he pleases. He has been away from the country for an extended period of time but learns on his return that his ex-girlfriend Tarja has presumably died in a fire that he soon discovers was a larceny. He is also contacted by inspector Jansson, who he knows from the past regarding the murder of a protestor. Raid begins his investigation and soon finds that there's more to the cases than meets the eye.. This movie is a sequel to the very popular Raid TV series.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Finland, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Devil's Night: Dawn of the Nain Rouge (2020)
Plot Summary:
A military veteran who returns home, works in law enforcement and she's assigned to a supernatural case that's surrounded by urban myth and legend.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective
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The Last Exorcist (2020)
Plot Summary:
After every priest trained in exorcisms die in a terrorist attack, Joan Campbell must battle a demon from her past that, this time, possesses her sister.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Ghastly (2011)
Plot Summary:
Desperately wanting a child, Ga-hee receives help from an exorcist and kidnaps and seals a child in a jar. After she gives birth to her son Bin, Ga-hee is brutally murdered. Along with her husband Jang-hwan and her sister Yoo-rin, Sunny moves into her nephew Bin’s house to look after him. Although empathetic towards her orphan nephew, Bin’s strange behaviors give Sunny mysterious chills, and the nightmares that start haunting Sunny since moving into Bin’s house become unbearable. Sunny gets the hunch that there is something between Bin’s increasingly violent behaviors and this house with an ominous aura.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, sinister, tension
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Black Butler (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the year 2020, Shiori Genbo (Ayame Gouriki) runs the large corporation Funtom. Shiori is also a descendant of prestigious noble family Phantomhive of England. As a descendant of the noble family Phantomhive, Shiori solves difficult cases which are ordered by the queen. In order to take revenge, Shiori makes a deal with Butler Sebastian (Hiro Mizushima). Their deal involves Butler Sebastian protecting Shiori until her revenge is fulfilled and then Sebastian will consume her spirit.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, manga, anime, cult classic, gothic horror, serious, psychotronic
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Banshee Blacktop, an Irish Ghost Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
A drifter is picked up by police in connection with the disappearance of a young couple on a remote, windswept island months before. But the drifter turns the table on their investigation and relates a tale of madness and the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, folk tale, detective
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Bloodrunners (2017)
Plot Summary:
By 1933, Prohibition has proven a booming enterprise, where average citizens break the law, hide in the shadows and operate at night. The new world order has even lined the pockets of corrupt cops like Jack Malone. He collects a 'luxury tax' from every bootlegger and scofflaw in the small town he has sworn to protect. While shaking down the newest speakeasy in the local underground, Jack and his men uncover a clan of vampires hell bent on taking over the town. Now Chesterfield, an ancient vampire, and his horde must hide their secret at any cost. The bloody result leaves several bodies and innocent townsfolk taken as lambs to await the slaughter. With nowhere else to turn, Jack joins forces with a busboy and a crazy preacher to save the town and make a final stand against Chesterfield and his vampires.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective, hot, post modern
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Hollow Creek (2016)
Plot Summary:
Trying to find inspiration for his next horror novel, Blake retreats to the Appalachian Mountains with his mistress, Angelica. Upon arrival they learn about the case of several missing boys in the area. When Angelica follows a lead to one of the missing boys and disappears, Blake becomes a prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Furnace (2007)
Plot Summary:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, detective, scary, rough, bleak, serious
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Mara (2018)
Plot Summary:
Criminal psychologist Kate Fuller is assigned to the murder of a man who has seemingly been strangled in his sleep by his wife and the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. As Kate digs into the mystery of an ancient demon which kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and spirals through a chilling nightmare to save herself and Sophie before she dares fall asleep again.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, mystical, tense, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychedelic, demonic, spooky
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Eight by Ten (2009)
Plot Summary:
8X10 Tasveer is a story about young man named Jai Puri, (Akshay Kumar), who possesses supernatural powers. Jai is of Indian origin who works as a forest ranger in Canada. His life is shattered by a loss of a very important person in his life. This personal tragedy leads him to use his unique supernatural power to unravel the mystery behind the murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, suspense thriller, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, surprise ending
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Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young reporter (Lucy Liu) wakes up and realises that she is not alive anymore. She goes on a personal vendetta for a group a cultists that are responsible for her death.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, slasher, bloody, suspense, anime, perverse, cult classic, queer horror
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Corpses Are Forever (2004)
Plot Summary:
MALCOM GRANT, CIA operative has just woken up from a nightmare, only to find the Gates of Hell are open and the World is over-run with the living dead. To make matters worse, his terrifying dream is someone else's reality. With no recollection of his past, he must now help the government retrieve the memories of a dead serial killer who may have the answers that can save Humanity.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, bleak, suspense, psychological, tense, independent film, parody
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Deadly Sanctuary (2015)
Plot Summary:
Feisty, flame-haired reporter, Kendall O'Dell is drawn into an evil web of conspiracy beyond anything she could have ever imagined when she accepts a position at a small newspaper in isolated Castle Valley, Arizona. In the mix is a vanished reporter, two dead teenage girls and an attractive cowboy. Kendall's life hangs in the balance as she strives to uncover the horrifying secret.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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64 Squares (2016)
Plot Summary:
'Wazir' is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer. Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest games of their lives. But there's a mysterious, dangerous opponent lurking in the shadows, who is all set to checkmate them.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological thriller, twisted, surprise ending
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Ebar Shabor (2015)
Plot Summary:
A very much experienced police detective Mr. Shabor Dasgupta (Actor-Saswata Chatterjee) is assigned to do the task of solving the mystery of the murder of Mitali Ghosh (Actress-Swastika Mukherjee),who is a woman with a messy past life, who was killed on the night she had thrown a house party for her close friends and family. The task is very tough for Shabor to find the real victim. There are lots of twists in the story.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, dark, detective
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Stoker Hills (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three students filming a horror movie stumble upon something much worse, and their only hope for survival is two detectives who find the camera that was left behind.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, detective
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Block Z (2020)
Plot Summary:
A pre-med student and her friends encounter the death of a patient that exhibited symptoms of rabies. They are soon faced with an even bigger problem as their patient comes back from the dead and infects the people on campus, causing a lockdown and trapping the students inside.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful