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Plot Summary:
1840 and another ship crashes on the rocks of an almost deserted island in Scotland. Three sailors survive the wreck and make it to shore where the few locals take them in as they wait for the mainland boat to come for them. But the sailors' survival story has only just started as they uncover the strange past of the once vibrant island.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: melancholic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, stylized, dark
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Bad Girl Island (2007)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy film producer Michael Pace discovers a beautiful unconscious woman pushed ashore by what appears to be a friendly dolphin. Confused and captivated by the apparent supernatural events taking place around him, Michael decides to make a film about his experience with the mysterious woman from the sea. Very soon the movie that Michael is making entwines itself into his family's past, his children's lives, and the very future of their existence together. Set at the cross roads of the modern world and ancient mystical cults, "Bad Girl Island" spins a tale of murder, obsession and seduction that leads its audience into a labyrinth of intrigue, action and mysterious forces.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bahamas
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense
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Caveat (2020)
Plot Summary:
A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, slasher, creepy, weird
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Rage: Midsummer's Eve (2015)
Plot Summary:
American and British friends studying in Finland decide to take up an offer to travel to the Arctic Circle and experience the mysterious, pagan celebration of Midsummer's Eve.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, creepy, teen horror
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The Boat (2018)
Plot Summary:
A lone fisherman on his daily run finds himself lost in a thick fog which proves impossible to navigate. The worst is yet to come when his encounter with a seemingly abandoned sailboat becomes a fight for survival against an enemy unknown.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Malta, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, rough, retro, atmospheric, enigmatic, dark, psychotronic, exciting, weird
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Blood Rain (2005)
Plot Summary:
This is a powerful period piece murder mystery about disgrace, conscience, and the impossibility of justice. In 1808 the imperial investigator Won-kyu arrives on the idyllic island Donghwa in order to investigate a grisly murder series. The superstitious rural population belives that a ghost is taking revenge for a wrongful execution of seven years ago. However, inquisitor Won-kyu suspects there to be a rather rational explanation for the crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, action thriller, twisted, serious, detective
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May the Devil Take You Too (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two years after escaping from demonic terror, Alfie and Nara try to continue their lives. However, Alfie's worst nightmare has just begun and the dangers that await are increasingly threatening.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fantasy
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The Red Door (2017)
Plot Summary:
Leonardo Cagliostro, a policeman, dies and decides to stay on Earth in order to find out more about the circumstances of his death and to save his wife, Anna, who's in danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, surreal, disturbing, detective
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Dark World (2010)
Plot Summary:
In Russia, the mystic student of linguistic Marina Leonova is in love with her boyfriend Artur. However, he blows her off and dates their schoolmate Vika. When their class travels to the countryside with their Professor Sergey Rudolfovich to research mystic spots, they meet a weird old lady in the forest and she invites them to have a meal with her. The outcast Marina stays by the lake and Artur seeks her to have sex. However they are surprised by their friends and the ashamed Marina runs to the forest. Kostya, who has a crush on Marina, follows her and they get lost in the woods. Marina and Kostya reach an abandoned house and Marina decides to explore the spot. She finds the mummified corpse of a witch holding a shield and she is possessed by a force and faints. Sergey and his students find her and he call a rescue team to help Marina. However, a violent elite squad in a helicopter arrives.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, enigmatic, suspense, mythical, offbeat
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Blackwood (2014)
Plot Summary:
Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home to move into; things finally look to be going Ben's way. Until, that is, he starts to feel that something isn't quite right in the house. Finding himself plagued by spectral visions, Ben becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind a local mystery that appears to be putting the lives of his family in danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense
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Uninhabited (2010)
Plot Summary:
Harry and Beth wanted a different kind of holiday so they chartered a boat to drop them off on a remote coral island on the Great Barrier Reef. The island was idyllic, surrounded by a wide reef, covered in palms and full of birds and other wildlife. It was small and totally deserted or so they thought. But when things go missing from their camp site and they discover someone else's footprints in the sand this quickly becomes disturbing as they realize the island has a ghost! Inspired by actual events.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, psychological
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Treehouse (2014)
Plot Summary:
A teenage boy discovers the perpetrators of several brutal kidnappings in his home town.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological
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White Settlers (2014)
Plot Summary:
Young urban couple Ed and Sarah are set to begin a new life when they move from London into an isolated borders Scottish farmhouse. After falling in love with the 19th century Castle Farm and seeing its potential as a fixer-upper they are anxious to get started on the renovations. In bed on their first night Sarah thinks she can hear noises in the darkness but Ed is disbelieving saying it’s her imagination playing tricks. Persisting in her fear they are not alone in the house, she forces Ed to investigate. When he doesn’t return after a scarily long period, she goes downstairs to investigate only to be confronted by a welcoming committee of masked intruders. As she desperately searches for Ed, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues with the mysterious assailants. But what do they want and what horrors do they have planned for the two newcomers?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, psychological, serious, realistic
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Humongous (1982)
Plot Summary:
Woman is raped at cocktail party. Years later, her son grows up to be a big hairy murderous monster who stalks a group of teens shipwrecked on his island.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, retro, bloody, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film
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The Last Boy (2019)
Plot Summary:
The world at an end, a dying mother sends her young son on a quest to find the place that grants wishes.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, apocalyptic, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, mystical, road movie, dark, minimal cast
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The Ferryman (2007)
Plot Summary:
Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean, a sick, dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht. The Greek (John Rhys-Davies) has been cheating death for countless years. Trading broken bodies for new ones over centuries. With him he carries a deadly weapon that allows him to do this. This weapon, the Shifting Blade, gives its possessor an awesome power. But now is the time of reckoning. The Ferryman, the ancient conveyor of death and the path to the afterlife is close and he wants the Greek. There is a payment to be made.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, brutal, suspense, awful
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Horsehead (2014)
Plot Summary:
Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand the origin of her nightmares. Following the death of her maternal grandmother she hardly knew, Jessica reluctantly returns to the family home. Jessica then begins to wander in a nightmarish world inhabited by twisted versions of her family members. She gradually improves her skills as a lucid dreamer and investigates to solve the mystery that gnaws her and haunts the family home.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, suspense, dark, disturbing, grindhouse
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Haunted Boat (2005)
Plot Summary:
When the young Kevin gets the boat of his dead uncle as a gift, he invites five friends of him to a trip to Catalina Island for the weekend. While in the journey, they drink booze, have sex and play games, with each one of them telling his or her greatest fear. Later Kevin drowns in the open sea, the engine stops, and they are haunted and murdered by their greatest innermost fear.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, slasher, suspenseful, independent film, scary, serious, mind twisting
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Last Passenger (2013)
Plot Summary:
Independent British thriller starring Dougray Scott and Kara Tointon. Lewis (Scott), an overworked doctor, is on his way home from London with his young son Max (Joshua Kaynama). Clearly exhausted from his work, Lewis decides to take a nap on the train while an attractive young woman (Tointon) watches over his son. When he wakes, all but a few passengers have alighted and he realises that the train is not stopping to let anyone else off. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, Lewis goes to investigate and finds that the train has been taken over by an unstable driver who is hellbent on destroying the vehicle along with all the remaining passengers on board.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, tense, action thriller, independent film, fast
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The Vanishing (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, psychological thriller, mind bending, bloody, minimal cast, powerful, crime thriller
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The Reeds (2010)
Plot Summary:
A weekend boating party turns into a nightmare for a group of young Londoners when they stumble upon a terrifying secret hidden in the reeds.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, grindhouse, independent film
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Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003)
Plot Summary:
While driving, the pregnant horror-movie actress Kyôko Harase and her fiancé are in a car crash caused by the Toshio's friend. Kyôko loses her baby and her fiancé winds up in a coma. Kyôko was cursed together with a television crew when they shot a show in the haunted house where Kayako was brutally murdered by her husband years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, serious, disturbing, suspense, controversial, extreme horror, horror comedy
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Bangkok Haunted (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three young women gathered in a coffee bar in Bangkok tell and discuss three original ghost stories with each other. The first tale: In Bangkok, the young Jieb receives an ancient drum not listed in the order from the truck of Transportation Company owned by Mr. Anake. She calls her former Professor Arkom, who identifies the markings for good luck that she describes and tells the story of the orphan Paga. In 1917, the renowned music teacher Jangwah-Chuem and his wife Peng raise the beautiful Paga with their deformed son Gnod. Paga is a good and loving sister and daughter and becomes a great beautiful dancer. When Paga falls in love for the handsome Fond, the jealous Gnod and she vanish from their village. Jieb investigates the mystery of their disappearance and discloses the eerie truth with tragic consequences. The second tale: The gorgeous Pam receives a sample from her next-door neighbor of a love potion that makes the user irresistible to men.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, anthology, suspense, dark fairy tale, mind bending
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Darkness Falls (2003)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, suspense, suspenseful, demonic, creepy, slasher, light, folk tale, disturbing
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Hierro (2009)
Plot Summary:
Traveling on a ferry heading to the island of Hierro where they will spend their holidays, Mary loses her son Diego, and no one can explain what happened. Six months later, Maria struggles to overcome the pain of loss and continue his life. Then, you receive an unexpected phone call: they found the body of a child, so it must return to the island. There, in the suggestive and disturbing landscape, surrounded by disturbing and sinister characters, Mary is forced to confront their worst nightmares. And as he travels this road, he discovers that some mysteries should not be disclosed.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, gothic, slasher, gothic horror, disturbing, powerful
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Ghost Ship (2002)
Plot Summary:
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, creepy, demonic, splatter, psychological
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Mama (2013)
Plot Summary:
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, gothic, splatter, frightening, dark, suspenseful, bad ending, atmospheric, intense
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Apostle (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, exciting, dark, disturbing, splatter, lovecraft, psychological, psychological thriller
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Murder by Decree (1979)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, gothic, serious, factual, stylized, psychotronic, gothic horror
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Dorian Gray (2009)
Plot Summary:
A vain London playboy offers his soul in exchange for eternal beauty in this adaptation of the chilling tale by author Oscar Wilde. Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, gothic horror, sexy, stylized, gloomy, dark fantasy, suspense, captivating, period piece
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Triangle (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 127000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, scary, suspenseful, suspense, mindfuck, confusing, cerebral, atmospheric