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Plot Summary:
David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what happens when his fictional world becomes all too real?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, suspense, scary, serious
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Dark Reprieve (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two people Matt and Kate wake up in a closed down prison. They have no idea how they got there, or why they are there. In the prison they encounter several terrors as they look for an exit.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious
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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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The Source (2001)
Plot Summary:
Four outcast teenagers acquire mystical powers that allow them to become gods on campus, with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film, serious, teen horror
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Strange Behavior (1981)
Plot Summary:
A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, bloody, grindhouse, suspense, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
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Inju: The Beast in the Shadow (2008)
Plot Summary:
The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe, considered by him to be the master of manipulation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, stylized
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Eternal (2004)
Plot Summary:
Detective Raymond Pope is a detective of questionable morals, searching for his missing wife. His investigation leads him to the wealthy estate of the enigmatic Elizabeth Kane and her young maid Irina. Under Elizabeth's fascinating looks and aristocratic manners hides a terrifying secret,shared by her companion Irina. As Detective Pope finds himself perversely drawn to the powerful Elizabeth, bodies begin to surface, his inquiries only deepening the mystery surrounding Elizabeth's past. Pope's obsession grows so intense that he completely fails to anticipate Elizabeth's reaction to his intrusion into her dark world, a fatal mistake that might cost him his life and the lives of those close to him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, offbeat, sexual, detective, sexy
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The Cell 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life; over and over again; until they beg to die! Maya is a psychic investigator who gained her powers after a 1 year coma after she was the Cusp's first victim! Now the Cusp Killer is back and Maya has little time to do what she has never done before: go into the mind of a killer unprotected and save his latest victim.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, slasher, suspenseful, exciting, serious, tech noir, sexual, cyber
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The Bone Snatcher (2003)
Plot Summary:
After miners disappear in the Namib Desert, some scientists find their remains and the demonic creature that killed them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, natural horror, enigmatic, disturbing, serious, slasher, rough, suspenseful
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The Dark Half (1993)
Plot Summary:
Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic murders matching those in his pulp novels, which are soon discovered to be the work of Stark himself. Looking like a maniacal version of his counterpart, Stark is not so willing to quit the writing game – even if it means coming after Thad's wife and their baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, creepy, rough, suspenseful, suspense, splatter, neurotic
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The Attic Expeditions (2001)
Plot Summary:
Trevor Blackburn is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith, in a brutal ritual. He's sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Elk, who tortures Trevor in an attempt to learn the whereabouts of a powerful occult book. As other patients start to disappear, Trevor begins to wonder who and where he really is.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, disturbing, lovecraft, suspense, horror comedy, terrifying, independent film, scary, tense
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Believers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two paramedics responding to an emergency call find themselves kidnapped by a religious sect whose great obsession is to stop the end of the world by committing suicide and killing people.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, psychological horror, scary
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Trauma (2004)
Plot Summary:
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, sentimental, disturbing, splatter
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Eden Log (2007)
Plot Summary:
A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious creature, he must continue through this strange and fantastic world. Enclosed, Tolbiac has no other option to reach the surface than to use REZO ZERO, secret observing cells in this cemetery-like abandoned mine.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, cyber, suspense, apocalyptic, surreal, twist ending
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GhostWatcher (2002)
Plot Summary:
Laura Kove is an agoraphobic young woman whose world turns upside down when she discovers that the apartment she's locked herself into is haunted. Turning to the internet for help, she enlists the aid of Elizabeth Dean, a scam artist who passes herself off as a ghost hunter. At first, Elizabeth doesn't buy Laura's story but she soon becomes a true believer.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending
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The Sight (2000)
Plot Summary:
The American successful architect Michael Lewis travels to London with his partner and friend, the builder Jake, to refurbish an old hotel. Michael is having successive nightmares, and once in London, he realizes that twenty-one spirits are trying to contact him to solve murders of a serial killer. Michael, with the support of Jake, Detective Pryce and the ghosts, try to avoid the ninth crime and find the serial-killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious, spiritual, esoteric
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Unforgettable (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a neurobiology Linda Fiorentino which has the ability to transfer memories from one person to another, but not without consequences. Liotta driven to solve the case injects himself with the serum, bringing him closer and closer to finding her killer but bringing him closer to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense, rough, serious, exciting, psychological thriller, surprise ending, neo noir
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Jericho Mansions (2003)
Plot Summary:
A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003)
Plot Summary:
Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are murdered. Someone is hunting them through the pitch-black Forest and is determined to kill them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, independent film, teen horror, surprise ending, rough
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A Closed Book (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has another agenda. Incrementally, Sir Paul's familiar surroundings are altered. His housekeeper is diverted away, strange things happen around the house and he becomes increasingly dependent on his new assistant.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005)
Plot Summary:
In 1990, as a boy, Giulio was chased through the woods by two women after spying on them practicing witchcraft. Now a young film student in Turin, he watches his neighbors in the flats across from his third floor apartment, especially Sasha when she's naked or arguing with her mother. Giulio's girlfriend is disgusted with his voyeurism, but, after a murder occurs, Giulio is convinced that two relative strangers, just as in Hitchcock and Highsmith's "Strangers in a Train," have agreed to murder each other's bête noir. He follows his suspects, ends up with an intruder and a broken foot, and may be in real danger. Is he more than a peeping Tom?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, creepy, expressionism
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Nemesis Game (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sara Novak is an introverted college student with a few skeletons in her closet. Shying away from classmates, she prefers to spend time with Vern, an older comic store owner who shares her passion for mind games and riddles. But when the riddles she solves lead to the deaths of those around her, she realizes the riddles are more than a simple game.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, New Zealand, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense, serious, gloomy
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My Neighbor's Secret (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nicholas Brendon is a grieving husband out to ruin a man (Vincent Ventresca) he blames for ruining his marriage by targeting his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful
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Retribution (2006)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points toward the detective as the prime suspect, a ghost in red follows him, and he begins to question his identity. His realization of what seems to have really happened results in something much more sinister and larger in scope, and it leaves his psyche scarred.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, disturbing, detective, crime drama, cult classic
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Eyes of Crystal (2004)
Plot Summary:
While hunting a cultured, intelligent and vicious psychopath, Inspector Amaldi comes face to face with the physical and moral decay of his city as well as the ghosts of his own past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, psychological thriller, disturbing, detective
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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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Toolbox Murders (2004)
Plot Summary:
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, disturbing, rough, psychological, serious, suspenseful, bloody, cult classic
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They (2002)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, twist ending, suspense, psychological thriller, brutal, psychological horror, classic horror
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The I Inside (2004)
Plot Summary:
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, inspirational, intellectual, confusing, dread
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The Killing Room (2009)
Plot Summary:
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, clever, psychological thriller, rough, intellectual, mindfuck, surreal
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Fermat's Room (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time what connects them all and why someone might wish to murder them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, mind bending, psychological thriller, mind blowing