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Plot Summary:
A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult film
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Woo dung saai yan si gin (2002)
Plot Summary:
Pop star Anna has been kidnapped. Kidnapper Jash uploads the video clip of Anna being tortured onto the internet, which instantly becomes the talk of Hong Kong. A week later, Jash contacts the police, asking not for a ransom but for retired police inspector Mo to be his police contact. Inspector Mo eventually discovers through a tabloid magazine that a self-proclaimed psychic named Shana had phoned a radio program on the day of the kidnapping to warn of the incident.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Raw Nerve (1991)
Plot Summary:
A race car driver has visions of the victims of a serial killer before their demise and tries to get a skeptic police detective and an ambitious reporter to help him find the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, detective, cult film, cult movie cast
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The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963)
Plot Summary:
A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror
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The Puzzle of the Red Orchid (1962)
Plot Summary:
Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Blue Turquoise (2016)
Plot Summary:
A escapee from a mental asylum returns home to terrorize his twin brother and starts to commit gruesome crimes, but a friend of someone he might of killed will search for the killer along with a young detective who is trying to break his first murder case.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country:
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: slasher, sad, scary, psychotronic, independent film, detective, grindhouse, spooky, weird
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The Zombie Walks (1968)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: detective
Similar in 77%
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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Dead on Sight (1994)
Plot Summary:
A psychic woman has visions of the Clock Killer's past and future murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film, weeping
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Dimension in Fear (1998)
Plot Summary:
Escaped murderer Cal Lewis wants revenge for those responsible for him being put away. Enroute from Texas to Las Vegas he crosses paths with young TV news reporter Deidre Holland who quickly becomes his target.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The Execution (2021)
Plot Summary:
For more than 10 years, Russian police forces have tried to stop the country’s smartest and most wanted serial killer. But even when he gets caught, nobody can prove his guilt. As the manhunt intensifies, the investigation grows increasingly personal between the detective and the suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags:
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The Indian Scarf (1963)
Plot Summary:
When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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The Door with Seven Locks (1962)
Plot Summary:
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Squeaker (1963)
Plot Summary:
Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Angels of Terror (1971)
Plot Summary:
An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a heroin smuggling gang. The gang itself is under attack from an unknown rival, who is methodically assassinating them with a shot to the head.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, poliziottesco
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One Step Behind (2005)
Plot Summary:
Shortly after police discovers the murder of three friends, police inspector Wallander finds his friend and colleague Svedberg dead. First, it is believed that Svedberg killed himself but Wallander soon discovers links between Svedberg, the three friends and a fourth person, a young woman in a mental hospital.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Blade (1973)
Plot Summary:
A homicide detective goes after a woman-hating serial killer, who uses knives to murder his victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, independent film, detective, slasher horror
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The Phantom of Sojo (1964)
Plot Summary:
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, art house, psychotronic
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The Hunchback of Soho (1966)
Plot Summary:
A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Deadly Lessons (1983)
Plot Summary:
A psycho is stalking the students at an exclusive girls' school.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult film
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Irul (2021)
Plot Summary:
A dark rainy night, an empty house, a stranded couple and an unknown man. A sleek game of the cat and the mouse starts playing on, as the three of them find a dead body in the basement.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, psychological thriller
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The College Girl Murders (1967)
Plot Summary:
Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, independent film, eurospy
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The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
Plot Summary:
A writer named Adrian Messenger believes a series of apparently unrelated "accidental" deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery. However, Messenger's plane is bombed while he is en route to collect evidence to confirm his suspicions and, with his dying breath, he tries to tell a fellow passenger the key to the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, realistic, enigmatic, captivating, political thriller, twisted, tense, clever, suspenseful
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Creature with the Blue Hand (1967)
Plot Summary:
Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 865
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, grindhouse, scary, tense, rough, mind bending, gothic, serious, suspenseful
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Vanished (2011)
Plot Summary:
A woman searches for many years to exact revenge on a kidnapper. A psychological thriller that examines how far a person would go if pushed to the extreme.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, mind bending, bleak, realistic, surprise ending
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Random 11 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Prodigy detective Mitsuko Unagi is on the hunt for a notorious serial killer known only as "Eleven". 10 years earlier, on February 29th 2006, a series of murders began, involving 11 randomly selected victims killed simultaneously in various parts of Tokyo. The killings continue over the next decade, leaving the police with no evidence, no witnesses, and the killer always one step ahead. But now something has changed, and the killer has changed his pattern, giving Detective Unagi the one chance to finally get closer to solving the mystery of the Random 11.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, action thriller, psychological thriller
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The Crimes That Bind (2018)
Plot Summary:
Michiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was strangled to death. Mutsuo Koshikawa is the owner of the apartment and he goes missing. Detectives including Yuhei Matsumiya who is a cousin of Detective Kyoichiro Kaga , have difficulties in solving the case. They can't find a connection between Michiko Oshitani and Mutsuo Koshikawa. They soon learn that Michiko Oshitani came to Tokyo to visit Hiromi Asai . They graduated from the same school, but there isn't a connection between Hiromi Asai and Mutsuo Koshikawa. Detective Yuhei Matsumiya finds something near Michiko Oshitani's body. That something has the names of 12 bridges surrounding the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Detective Kyoichiro Kaga learns of the clue and becomes agitated. There's a connection with his late mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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The Factory (2012)
Plot Summary:
An obsessed cop is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. but when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any professional restraint to get the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic, scary, serious, psychological, suspense, psychotronic, crime drama
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Who's There? (1999)
Plot Summary:
While alone in the house, a woman hears news of serial killer on the loose. And then a stranger rings the doorbell.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, dark, slasher, experimental, twist ending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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The Vanishing (1988)
Plot Summary:
Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on television, putting up posters and ruining his new relationship in the process. Eventually an unassuming chemistry teacher, Raymond, approaches Rex, intimating that he knows what happened.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, creepy, mind bending, grim
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Horsemen (2009)
Plot Summary:
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, detective, scary, suspenseful, suspense, tense, serious, surprise ending, rough