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Plot Summary:
Painter Lorenzo's life spirals out of control as he fears his wife is trying to isolate him from their infant son.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: non-linear, crying, interesting
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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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Taxi 121 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Taxi 121 is a feature film inspired by true events, where a serial killer took lives of three Prague taxi drivers. Story is focused on one of the victims, the young driver Matej. His one last ride will change life of many people around forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, touching, captivating, disturbing, crying
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The Washing Machine (1993)
Plot Summary:
A police detective investigates the murder of a man found dismembered in a washing machine and is drawn into a web of deceit and murder by the dead man's lover, Vida, and her two sisters, Sissy and Ludmilla.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Hungary
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic, freeze frame, weird
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The Double (1971)
Plot Summary:
A man is shot in an underground car-park by a mysterious bearded man. As he dies he recollects the events that led him to this situation, including adulterous liaisons and jealous envy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir, neurotic, non-linear, crying, detective, freeze frame
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Under the Tree (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Baldwin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Poland, Denmark, Germany, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, crying, surprise ending, tragic, weird
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The Killer is One of Thirteen (1973)
Plot Summary:
The attractive widow of a wealthy lawyer invites to her luxurious house the thirteen best friends of her late husband, with the purpose of finding out if her husband's killer is one of them. But, over the next few days, a series of mysterious deaths takes place among the invited guests and servants.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, crying, freeze frame
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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
Similar in 81%
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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Wolf (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jacob, a man who believes he is a wolf trapped in a human body, is sent to a clinic by his family where he is forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of "curative" therapies at the hands of The Zookeeper. Jacob’s only solace is the enigmatic wildcat with whom he roams the hospital in the dead of night. The two form an improbable friendship that develops into infatuation.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Poland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychological thriller, crying, allegory, controversial
Similar in 76%
Obsessions (1969)
Plot Summary:
A young medicine student observes his neighbour's love life through a hole in his apartment wall.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, suspense thriller
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The Burned Barns (1973)
Plot Summary:
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers (Rose and Pierre) have a link with the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Someone Is Bleeding (1974)
Plot Summary:
On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, sexual, crying
Similar in 79%
Le monte-charge (1962)
Plot Summary:
On a Christmas night, an ex-convict ,Robert Herbin, meets a beautiful Italian married woman Marthe Drévet ,who has got a lot of things to hide . She lives in an old house ,the first floor of which is a big workshop where a service elevator leads to the apartment.Marthe takes Robert to her home for a drink;he puts a small bird he bought on the Xmas tree,and they go for a stroll in the streets;when they come back,there's a dead body in the room(the husband) and most extraordinary thing,the bird has disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, crying, detective, french noir
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Love in the Strangest Way (1994)
Plot Summary:
Successful Julien sees his family off on holiday and at once becomes drawn into a risky relationship with Angela, whom he spies outside the cafe opposite his office. When he later finds she is to become his son's new nanny he rightly starts to worry there is more to the relationship than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sensual, neo noir, crying, freeze frame, french noir
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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 Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young newlywed couple from America returns to Geneva to visit Marcel's home town. Once there he is informed of his former lover's suicide and in turn is subjected to threats that accuse him of being responsible for her death and further, threaten his new fiancée's life. George Hilton plays a peculiar neighbor with voyeuristic tendencies who has an obsession with Deborah.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological thriller, neo noir, psycho sexual, crying, independent film, freeze frame
Similar in 87%
A Quiet Place to Kill (1970)
Plot Summary:
A race-car driver who's down on her luck is invited by her ex-husband's wife to stay at their plush villa. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As it turns out, though, they're not alone in plotting murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, grindhouse, surprise ending, neo noir, twist ending, crying, psychotronic, detective, 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
Similar in 79%
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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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (2015)
Plot Summary:
She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. The lady in the car has never seen the sea. On the run from the police, she keeps telling herself that she’s not crazy… Only.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, enigmatic, captivating, tense, road movie, neo noir, non-linear, period piece, french noir
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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
Similar in 89%
Under Your Bed (2019)
Plot Summary:
Naoto was ignored by other people. During his school days, Chihiro was the first person who called his name. Naoto dreams of seeing her again and tries to find her. Finally, after 11 years, he locates her, but she is a totally different person now. Naoto becomes obsessed with her. Naoto sneaks into her house and stays under her bed.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crying
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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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Marrowbone (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, surprise ending, tense, psychological thriller, slasher, clever, non-linear, mind blowing, post-horror
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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Plot Summary:
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: southern gothic, gothic, atmospheric, psychological thriller, scary, suspenseful, suspense, intense, black and white, gothic horror
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The Body (2012)
Plot Summary:
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, suspense, mind blowing, detective, serious, psychological thriller, mind twisting
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Greta (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman returns an elderly widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, psychological thriller, surprise ending, clever, slasher
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Scorned (1993)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husband's death.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller, sexy, tense, suspense, melancholic, cult classic, sexual
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The Invisible Guest (2016)
Plot Summary:
"The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened in a frenetic race against time.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 189000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, twist ending, mind blowing, psychological thriller, mindfuck, detective, suspense thriller, psychotronic
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We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Plot Summary:
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 165000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, suspense, surreal, gloomy, independent film, thought provoking, tense