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Plot Summary:
One of the contemporary masters of Japanese film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa here fashions a dark tale that is both a sharp satire of corporate life and a B-movie thriller. A former sumo wrestler now working as a security guard goes on a murderous rampage in the company that's employed him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Beautiful Target (1995)
Plot Summary:
When beautiful forensic scientist Kyoko and her colleagues fail to uncover clues to the identity of a man who brutally attacks and kills women, she agrees to become the bait to lure the killer into a police snare. But as the murderer remains frustratingly aloof, Kyoko discovers that she will have to risk everything in order to apprehend him. Naosuke Kurosawa directs this steamy thriller.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Love and Crime (1969)
Plot Summary:
Discover 4 famous japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Room 13 (1964)
Plot Summary:
A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Denmark, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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The Voice of Sin (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago.The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags:
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Enbalming (1999)
Plot Summary:
Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide, before the funeral. While performing the embalming process she finds herself pricks by a needle buried deep in the boy’s flesh where it should not be. During the night the head is removed from the body and stolen, Miyako begins a desperate search for it so she can finish her work. Miyako search finds her encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, incest, psychopathic schizophrenics as well as some very dark secrets from here own past.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, sinister, detective, black comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy, cult film
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Violated Angels (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young man breaks into a nurse's rooming house and one-by-one kills off nurses.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: scary, depressing, suspense, controversial, crying, avant garde
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The Neighbor (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the town of Cutter, most people keep to themselves. But when John comes home to find his girlfriend missing, he sneaks into his neighbor's house, finding his girlfriend and several other kidnapped people tied up in the basement. When the neighbor come home, John is forced to get out of the house alive and lead the group to safety.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, exciting, tense, captivating, entertaining, suspenseful, suspense
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Las Poquianchis (1976)
Plot Summary:
In the middle 70's in the mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground, the corpses were from murdered prostitutes. the suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis" The sisters were very religious but were the owners of brothels and recruited poor girls with the false promises of jobs, instead they were forced to prostitution, and some were killed.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, period drama
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Game Over (2005)
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Finland, Spain, UK, Sweden
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, rough, bleak, erotic
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Death Valley (1982)
Plot Summary:
A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, offbeat, bloody, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Cardiac Arrest (1979)
Plot Summary:
The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a black market for human organs, while across town a man must make a difficult decision regarding his wife, who needs a transplant.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, detective
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I Can Make You Love Me (1993)
Plot Summary:
Laura Black has got it. She has got her master in computer science and she has got that great job in Silicon Valley. Time to say 'bye bye' to mom and dad and to leave Virginia. Everything seems to be fine with one exception. That guy Richard Farley at her new job. If he would stop his attempts to date her. Since weeks his psycho terror is going on now. Laura decides not to let him win. She does not want to be his 'victim'. May be an official complaint about Farley would solve her problem? Written by Oliver Heidelbach.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, sad, crime drama, creepy, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007)
Plot Summary:
Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and carrying large scissors, the spirit would approach her young victims and, while removing the mask, ask if she was pretty. The victim’s response would almost always lead to their violent death.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, rough, bloody, suspense, terrifying, scary, surprise ending
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Inferno of Torture (1969)
Plot Summary:
Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, queer horror, crying, transgressive, pink cinema, sexploitation film, cult film
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The Perfect Patient (2019)
Plot Summary:
A true and captivating story about the biggest legal scandal in Swedish history, the story about the reporter who questioned an entire legal system. Hannes Råstam was dedicated to proving the innocence of Thomas Quick and unmask the legal chaos which sentenced Quick to a life in psychiatric prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Belgium
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, scary, bleak
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A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019)
Plot Summary:
The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she's forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Belgium, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, dark, slasher, hood, perverse
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Creepy (2016)
Plot Summary:
After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police force and takes up a position as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. But his desire to get to the bottom of criminals’ motives remains, and he does not hesitate long when former colleague Nogami asks him to reopen an old case.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, serious, captivating, suspenseful, psychological thriller, atmospheric, thought provoking, detective, action thriller
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I Killed My BFF (2015)
Plot Summary:
A friendship between two young mothers results in murder when one develops an attraction to the other's boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Golden Glove (2019)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, controversial, erotic, psychological, atmospheric, brutal, suspense, slasher, devastating
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Killers (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Nomura is an eerily handsome, sharply dressed, sociopathic serial killer who preys on the women of Tokyo. In Jakarta, a world-weary journalist named Bayu finds himself unexpectedly falling into vigilantism after brutally killing two sadistic robbers. When each posts videos of their violent sprees online, the pair find one another on the Internet and begin a toxic and competitive duel. While Bayu clings to the hope that he can resume a normal life, Nomura continues to spill blood without remorse. Killing, advises Nomura, is something everyone ought to consider.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Japan
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, dark, slasher, crime drama, action thriller
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Waz (2007)
Plot Summary:
There is something horribly wrong with the bodies found in the dark city streets. Some are mutilated while others have the Price equation (wΔz = Cov (w,z) = βwzVz) carved into their flesh. Detective Eddie Argo and his new partner Helen Westcott unearth the meaning of the odd equation and realise each victim is being offered a gruesome choice: kill your loved ones, or be killed. Before long it becomes clear that the perpetrator has suffered a similar fate and is now coping by seeking a way to solve this philosophical dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, rough, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, tense, serious, neo noir, slasher
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Yara (2021)
Plot Summary:
The murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio shocks the little town of Brembate di Sopra, Italy. To bring the culprit to justice, prosecutor Letizia Ruggeri only has one tenuous lead: a bit of DNA that's not much help without a database to compare it to. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Kemper (2008)
Plot Summary:
A film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, scary
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Bundy: An American Icon (2009)
Plot Summary:
Bundy, starring Corin Nemec in the title role and co-starring Kane Hodder, details the dark psyche and previously unexplored motivations of the man who became known as one of the most notorious serial killers to leave behind a legacy of evil.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, realistic
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Son of Sam (2008)
Plot Summary:
This chilling tale recounts the late 70's in New York City, when a serial killer on the loose dubbed "Son of Sam" creates havoc. When arrested, "Son of Sam" tells police he was influenced by a satanic cult. New York would never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, slasher
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B.T.K. Killer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Veteran Boogey Man and Zodiac Killer director Ulli Lommel continues his long tradition of delivering tense thrills with this relentless look at the life of the elusive, Kansas-based serial killer known to authorities only as "B.T.K." before his arrest.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, realistic, slasher
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Sorrow (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple of depraved killers find themselves in a different situation when the survivor takes matters into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dahmer (2002)
Plot Summary:
On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, one of the world's most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events from his life. Certain characters and events are fictional.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, slasher, stylized, rough, suspense, suspenseful, dark, controversial
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Suicide Club (2001)
Plot Summary:
When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, creepy, bloody, suspenseful, controversial, splatter, cult classic
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Ted Bundy (2002)
Plot Summary:
Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970's (though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered). Set from his college student years, to his first victims, his capture, escape from prison (twice), his final killing spree to his trial, conviction and execution.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, controversial, cult classic, frightening, twisted