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Plot Summary:
A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, serious, atmospheric, captivating, melancholic, retro, independent film, crying, freeze frame
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Quiet is the Night (1978)
Plot Summary:
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, freeze frame, poliziottesco
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is accused of murdering her debauched neighbor after dreaming it. Was she set up, or did she really do it?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychosexual thriller, surprise ending, erotic, psychedelic, suspense, experimental, mondo, sensual
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Deadfall (1968)
Plot Summary:
Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, freeze frame, british noir
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Lost Soul (1977)
Plot Summary:
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, creepy, surprise ending, crying
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Hastrman (2018)
Plot Summary:
A strange nobleman returning after years abroad to a small Bohemian village in the beginning of 19th century. The nobleman feels closer to animals despite looking like a human.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, folk tale, crying, psychotronic, allegory, dark comedy
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The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995)
Plot Summary:
Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, sexy, slasher, psychotronic, southern gothic, perverse, psycho sexual, offbeat
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Storm (2005)
Plot Summary:
DD is a smug fellow, almost 30 years of age, who can manage all by himself. At least that's what he thinks. However, a strange woman - Lova - enters his life, hunted by evil men who want to hurt her. Against his will, DD is forced into a series of horrific events.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, freeze frame, urban fantasy
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Summerfield (1977)
Plot Summary:
When teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is surprised to discover that his predecessor has disappeared without a trace - and that nobody seems too concerned about it. As Simon probes deeper into the disappearance, the inhabitants of a forbidding estate called "Summerfield" take on more and more significance - until events reach a tragic, shattering and unforeseen climax.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, road movie, crying, independent film, freeze frame
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The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer uses a scythe to slash his murder victims--or maybe it's *her* murder victims?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic, neo noir, crying, freeze frame, slasher horror
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Trap for Cinderella (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young girl suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, touching, realistic, psychological thriller, atmospheric, gloomy, neo noir, lgbt cinema, crying
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Wetherby (1985)
Plot Summary:
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Images (1972)
Plot Summary:
Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychological thriller, psychological, slasher, scary, retro, psychedelic, offbeat, gothic
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Night Train to Terror (1985)
Plot Summary:
God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane anylum with some very interesting treatment plans. Another involves a 'death club'. The final story shows us the adventures of a server of Satan.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology, retro, slasher, dark fairy tale, cult horror, classic horror, independent film, claymation, scary, atmospheric
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Dagon (2001)
Plot Summary:
A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's secret..they worship Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea...and Dagon's unholy offspring are on the loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, atmospheric, suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, satanic, tense, serious, dark
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Screamtime (1983)
Plot Summary:
Compilation of three short horror films: "That's The Way To Do It", "Dreamhouse" and "Do You Believe In Fairies?" plus some new linking material.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, dark fairy tale, independent film, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher horror
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A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
Plot Summary:
A painter facing a creative block arranges to spend the weekend in the country at his mistress's villa. While staying there, his sanity begins to disintegrate.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, slasher, gothic horror, controversial, neorealism, grindhouse, phantasmagoric, scary, atmospheric
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Rapture (1979)
Plot Summary:
José Sirgado, filmmaker in his thirties, has completed his second film and is deeply unsatisfied for various reasons. One may be that his relationship with the film has nothing to do with what he had imagined, another may be that the heroine of his film has left a deeper mark than expected, or his break with Ana, the protagonist of his first film. On returning home he finds Ana and the heroine of his latest film. Both of them are expecting him as if nothing had happened and José, deeply altered, soon falls into temptation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: experimental, surreal, suspense, slasher, controversial, cult classic, mind bending, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Jamie Marks Is Dead (2014)
Plot Summary:
No one seemed to care about Jamie Marks until after his death. Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost visits former classmate Adam McCormick, drawing him into the bleak world between the living and the dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, captivating, psychological, tense, offbeat, mumblecore, scary, gothic, twisted
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The Bye Bye Man (2017)
Plot Summary:
When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, scary, spooky, psychological, rough, erotic
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Apartment Zero (1988)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a failing cinema and his mysterious boarder are caught up in the political intrigue of Argentina.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, captivating, cult classic, tense, bleak, independent film, scary, neo noir
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Waterland (1992)
Plot Summary:
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, serious, offbeat, contemplative, gloomy, crying, independent film
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Photographing Fairies (1997)
Plot Summary:
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, spiritual, mystic, grindhouse, esoteric, independent film, atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating
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Red Lights (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, reappears after an enigmatic absence of 30 years to become the greatest international challenge to both orthodox science and professional sceptics. Tom starts to develop an intense obsession with Silver, whose magnetism becomes stronger with each new manifestation of inexplicable events. As Tom gets closer to Silver, tension mounts, and his worldview is threatened to its core.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, enigmatic, twist ending, atmospheric, tense, clever, suspense, twisted, psychological thriller, mind blowing
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One Deadly Summer (1983)
Plot Summary:
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, neo noir, slasher, social, anthology, erotic drama, neurotic, psychological, bleak
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Rebecca (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, gothic, suspenseful, enigmatic, intellectual, period piece, romantic drama, thrilling, psychological thriller
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Sleuth (2007)
Plot Summary:
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, talky, witty, minimal cast, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending, suspense, twist ending
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Gothic (1986)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears in a frenzy of shocking lunacy. Horrifying visions invade the castle - realizations of Byron's fear of leeches, Shelley's fear of premature burial, Mary's fear of birthing a stillborn child - all brought forth in a bizarre dreamscape. They share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night. The events of that night later inspired Mary Shelley to write the classic "Frankenstein" and Dr. Polidori to pen "The Vampyre," which became the basis for the creation of Dracula.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, surreal, scary, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, mind bending, gothic horror, dark, art house
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The Gift (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the arrest of an abusive husband, but did he really do it?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, scary, psychological, southern gothic, sexy, dark, psychological thriller, tense
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Don't Say a Word (2001)
Plot Summary:
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Switzerland, Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, rough, intense, serious, clever, scary
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Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, serious, psychological thriller, tricky, intense, clever