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Plot Summary:
A man goes on a mission to locate a stolen artifact for a client, which leads him to a haunted town full of vampires, sleeping beauties, and Voodoo gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychedelic, surreal, neo noir, dark fantasy, british noir
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The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (1968)
Plot Summary:
Based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Eve of Ivan Kupala” (“St John’s Eve”).
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, spiritual, surreal, mystical, beautiful, iconic
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Motion Sickness (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lost on a train of thought tunneling through the dark night of his unconscious, a former rabbinical student struggles to resolve a paralyzing conflict between his mind and his body.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, surreal, disturbing
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The Girl on a Bulldozer (2022)
Plot Summary:
Haeyoung is a hopeless girl. She lives with her father who runs a Chinese restaurant, and a younger sibling. One day, her father has a mysterious accident, which places her in a position of responsibility. She is now not only the head of the house and must look after her younger sibling, but also an investigator tasked with finding the truth about the accident, and a fighter standing against the ugly world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Lowlife (2012)
Plot Summary:
A lonely musician's descent into the shadowy world of a living drug leads to a mysterious island where a battle of body and soul is waged.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: experimental, psychological, surreal
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Mayday (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ana is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins an army of girls engaged in a never-ending war. Even though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she realizes that she's not the killer they want her to be, and times running out for her to get home.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surreal, anamorphic
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Super Me (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sang Yu is so exhausted from trying to stay awake. Every time he closes his eyes, a demon chases and kills him in his dreams. One night Sang realizes he has a special power: he can bring treasures from his dreams into reality. Almost overnight, he becomes a rich man. But his wealth also attracts the attention of a ruthless gangster.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: China
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surreal
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Oki - okeāna vidū (2014)
Plot Summary:
Psychological thriller connecting three different people in the mysterious vortex, trying to untangle the dramatic fight of border between the truth and fantasy. Rob, a former real estate broker, unemployed, starts following a strange Japanese woman, Oki, who constantly moves from house to house. He drags his roommate Wylie into the investigation during which they have to face the dark past and curse of Oki, while dealing with the history of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Latvia, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
Plot Summary:
A gang of sharp witted street kids save Sherlock Holmes from an accusation of murder and help to foil an audacious robbery.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Red Maple Leaf (2016)
Plot Summary:
A detective, who is deeply grieving over the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, becomes determined to find the kidnapped daughter of the U.S. Ambassador, no matter what the cost.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Lightest Darkness (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a neurotic private eye who struggles to finish the case takes a train voyage, his own dark secrets begin to reveal themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, captivating, disturbing, surreal, independent film, detective
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Sagrada Reset Part 1 (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the town of Sakurada, where about half of the residents have special abilities, Kei Asai (Shuhei Nomura) is a high school student and is able to remember everything. Misora Haruki (Yuina Kuroshima) is also a high school student and she has the power to reset the world by 3 days. If they use both of their powers together, they can go back in time by 3 days and retain their memory. They are watched by the administrative bureau.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing
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Dream (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of a car crash, a man discovers his dreams are tied to a stranger's sleepwalking.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, mind twisting, mind bending, surreal, touching, captivating, art house, psychological, philosophical
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The Warning (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ten-year-old Nico receives a threatening letter and now his life is in danger. No one seems to believe him except one person that he doesn't know.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, thrilling, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Agatha Christie's Hjerson (2021)
Plot Summary:
Swedish murder investigator Sven Hjerson forms an unexpected detective duo with stubborn TV producer Klara after several years of isolation. Will she also manage to recruit him for her new TV show?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, Germany, Finland, UK
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2020)
Plot Summary:
Comic creator Rohan Kishibe, along with his partner-cum-editor, Kyōka Izumi, challenge various incidents beyond human knowledge.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense
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The Essex Serpent (2022)
Plot Summary:
London widow Cora Seaborne moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms an unlikely bond with the village vicar, but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of attracting the creature.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 288 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, gothic, spiritual, costume drama, period drama, beautiful
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Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)
Plot Summary:
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sparkling Cyanide (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current (2016)
Plot Summary:
Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered bodies. The bodies were found drifting in the Seto Inland Sea, where the currents repeat every 6 hours.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The American Side (2016)
Plot Summary:
Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic scientist, Nikola Tesla.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Pink and Gray (2015)
Plot Summary:
Popular actor Rengo Shiraki dies suddenly. Due to his sudden death, unpopular actor Daiki Kawata attracts the spotlight due to his close friendship with Rengo. Did Rengo Shiraki commit suicide or was he murdered?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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The Last Wave (1977)
Plot Summary:
White Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of aborigines charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of water, slowly realizes danger may come from his own involvement with the aborigines and their prophecies.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surreal, cerebral, lovecraft, psychological, atmospheric, philosophical, mind bending, disturbing, dark fantasy, psychedelic
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The Temptation of St. Tony (2009)
Plot Summary:
A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being "good" finds himself confronting the mysteries of middle-age and morality as he loses grasp of what was once his quiet life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Estonia, Finland, Sweden, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, bleak, suspenseful, black and white, philosophical, disturbing, controversial, dark comedy, spiritual
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Another Trip to the Moon (2015)
Plot Summary:
The magical surrealist journey of Asa, daughter of a shaman, who confronts her own mother, fighting for her own life and freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, surreal, disturbing, psychedelic
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Sea of Souls (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sea of Souls follows para-psychologist Monaghan and his two sidekicks from a fictitious Scottish University that investigates paranormal activity.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, mystical
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Homunculus (2021)
Plot Summary:
A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, surreal
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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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Paperhouse (1988)
Plot Summary:
Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane present, she is drawn only deeper into a dream turning into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, surreal, tense, intense, serious, creepy
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Marebito (2004)
Plot Summary:
A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, slasher, psychological, scary, suspenseful, lovecraft, mockumentary, suspense, clever