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Plot Summary:
A sexually-promiscuous priest is stabbed to death inside a church.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
Best tv shows and movies like The Weapon, The Hour, The Motive (1972):
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Oasis of Fear (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two young sexually free hippies, Dick and Ingrid, finance their travels by selling naked snaps of Ingrid until their plan is brought to an abrupt end by the Police. Forced on the run the two seek refuge at a seemingly empty isolated large villa. As it turns out the house is inhabited by the middle-aged Barbara who invites them in for some potential three-way hanky-panky that soon locks them into something far more twisted and chilling!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Isle of Darkness (1997)
Plot Summary:
Julie is a young and newly qualified teacher from Copenhagen, Denmark. Fed up with her unfaithful boyfriend and big city life, she takes a job as a teacher on an idyllic island in southern Norway. Julie finds it difficult to be accepted in the closed-net community of the island. Slowly but surely, she discovers that the idyllic island hides many dark secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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The Author's Crime (1974)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy Countess is warned that if she gives a valuable painting away as first prize in a music competition, the only thing handed out will be death. In rapid succession, the painting is stolen, the Countess murdered, her niece kidnapped, and the police baffled as the killings continue.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Naked Violence (1969)
Plot Summary:
Some youngsters rape and kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, detective
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Plot of Fear (1976)
Plot Summary:
Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo (Michele Placido) interrogates one of the guests, a fashion model (Corninne Clery) who becomes his informant, as well as his lover. Clery reveals that after a “wildlife orgy”one of the hosts tried to jokingly feed one of the prostitutes to a tiger but she got so frightened that she died of heart attack. In his attempt to find a connection between the victims, he investigates a cutting-edge security and surveillance firm whose director (Eli Wallach) has secrets of his own to hide.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, poliziottesco, weird
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Death Carries a Cane (1973)
Plot Summary:
Ketty,a photographer living in Rome,accidentally witnesses the murder of a young woman at the hands of a razor-wielding black-gloved killer.Ketty and her fiance,Alberto,go to the police-only to learn that two other witnesses to the crime have been slashed to death.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, slasher horror, cult film
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Blood Moon (1989)
Plot Summary:
Anne is convinced she has found her husband's corpse, but Dr. Mark can only find out that the man has gone home. When he comes back, his wife does not trust Mark, who believes she suffers from schizophrenia.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Crazy Desires of a Murderer (1977)
Plot Summary:
A group of hip friends gather at a Gothic castle owned by a wheelchair- bound older relative of one of the girls. One couple in the group, unbeknownst to the others, is smuggling heroin in some Chinese artifacts the protagonist has brought back from the Orient to give to her elderly relative. Meanwhile the deranged uncle of the protagonist, who supposedly killed the protagonist's mother (his own sister) and cut out her eyes, is wandering the catacombs spying on everyone. When one of the guests is murdered and her eyes subsequently disappear, suspicion naturally falls on the mad uncle. But is he being set up?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Sex of the Witch (1973)
Plot Summary:
An old man dies and as his relatives await their dosh they start getting killed, sort of by a witch!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: naughty, gothic, sexploitation film
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Voices from Beyond (1991)
Plot Summary:
Giorgia Mainardi, a brutal and egoistic person, died. Noone is really interested in his death, but during his autopsy they find out he was murdered. As a voice from dead, he and his daugther try to find the murder of him... but they have to hurry, because his spirit is fading away.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: retro, epic, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Formula for a Murder (1985)
Plot Summary:
The film opens in 1960 Boston with an 11 year old girl encountering a faceless maniac dressed as a priest who gives her a doll. As is the way in the modern world that’s not all he wants to give her and whilst trying to escape, the girl (off screen) falls down a flight of steps, breaking her back which confines her to a wheelchair. 25 years later the victim, Joanna (Christina Nagy), is revealed as being a wealthy heiress who has put some of her funds into establishing a sports centre for paraplegics. She plans to also donate a substantial sum to the local church. However, someone else fancies the cash and will flash a razor in anyone's face to get it. Father Peter (Loris Lodi), a close friend of Joanna's and the priest who will be accepting the generous cash donation, is murdered in his confessional box, his throat slit.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Demonia (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Canadian archaeological team in Sicily accidentally unleashes vengeful ghosts of five demonic nuns whom were murdered 500 years earlier and the ghosts now set out to kill the group and townspeople alike.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, dark, scary, atmospheric, serious, slasher, suspenseful, surreal, stylized
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Samrat & Co. (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young, beautiful and rich girl, Dimpy Singh, approaches Samrat Tilakdhari, a private investigator, with a strange case. Their garden got ruined for reasons that appear natural but are not known; leading horticulturists have examined the fading plants but they have not been able to identify the probable reason. Further, her father's favorite horse died; once again the reason for the pre-mature death remains a mystery. That's not the end; Dimpy's father Mahendra Pratap Singh, otherwise a very strong and balanced man, has been experiencing deteriorating health. All these aspects when combined makes the case sound weird and that grabs the attention of Samrat. Samrat along with his assistant friend, Chakradhar Pandey, visits the huge estate of Mahendra Pratap Singh. As he starts investigating, he discovers lots of mysterious facts.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Trhauma (1980)
Plot Summary:
A couple invites some friends to spend a weekend together in an isolated cabin surrounded by woods and fields. But... there's a killer lurking around.... And... someone is monitoring him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The Killer is on the Phone (1972)
Plot Summary:
A woman whose husband was murdered five years previously, is stalked by his killer, who wants to eliminate her as a potential witness. What he doesn't know is that the shock of his murder caused her to have amnesia, and she doesn't remember anything.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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Five Women for the Killer (1974)
Plot Summary:
Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult film
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The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (1974)
Plot Summary:
A rich man gathers together friends and relatives at the abandoned theatre he owns, but the party isn't fun for long since apparently one of them is a murderer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 978
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, psychological thriller, suspense, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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The Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy surgeon Andreas Valenti accidentally kills one of his lovers, Daniella, with an unusual objet d'arte and covers it up by dismembering and disposing of the body never realizing he's being watched by a stalker the entire time. Daniella's half-sister, Evelyne, knows he is somehow responsible for the girl's disappearance and enlists the aid of Inspector Garrano to help prove it. They discover the good doctor had a rich young wife who went insane on her wedding night and was committed to a lunatic asylum; later pronounced cured, she had vanished upon release. Andreas, now being blackmailed with photos of his cover-up crime, also finds himself framed when the flower with petals of steel that did Daniella in is used to murder Evelyne. Having fallen for the dead woman, the Insector won't stop until he gets to the bottom of the disappearances and deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, cult film
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Calling All Police Cars (1975)
Plot Summary:
After the daughter of the prominent professor Icardi goes missing an investigation is quickly commenced, much to the chagrin of commisioner Solmi who thinks Icardi is receiving benefits because of his status and that instead the professor should be treated like anyone else would have been treated in his place. The girl is soon found, murdered, shot in the head. The investigation gets under way and with only a few, thin, leads to go by, it's not going to be an open and shut case.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, detective, psychotronic
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Reflections in Black (1975)
Plot Summary:
A woman dressed in black is murdering young women. The police question lawyer Anselmi for whom one of the girls worked as a secretary, and it turns out that all the victims were friends of lawyer's wife Leonora.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, cult film
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The Crucifixion (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a priest is jailed for the murder of a nun on whom he was performing an exorcism, an investigative journalist strives to determine whether he in fact murdered a mentally ill person, or if he lost the battle with a demonic presence.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: satanic, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, demonic, splatter, psychotronic, bizarre
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The Cursed Lesson (2020)
Plot Summary:
Online fashion model Hyo-jeong faces imminent threat of being unemployed because of the younger and more fashionable generation coming after her. While relying on surgical procedures and treatments, Hyo-jeong hears about a mysterious yoga class that helps make perfect body shape from her old high school classmate, Ga-yeong. Hyo-jeong eventually attends the yoga class with three classmates: Mi-yeon, a boxer who failed to keep her body fit, Ji-won, who has unstable mental condition, and Ye-na, a movie star who is morbidly obsessed with her appearance. Meanwhile, police start to investigate the enigma behind this yoga class after finding out that a murder in the neighborhood was committed by a woman named Bo-ra, a former yoga class student.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, sexy
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The House of the Laughing Windows (1976)
Plot Summary:
Stefano, a young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano. The fresco painter was Legnani, and the fresco is his last work. Legnani apparently was mentally disturbed. He was used to paint people close to die or in agony. These facts together with the strange atmosphere that surround this village near Ferrara, in the north of Italy, contribute to put Stefano in a nightmare reality. Soon reality will change into horror.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, scary, tense, serious, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, gothic, slasher
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Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, psychotronic, erotic, suspense, detective, light, disturbing, creepy, perverse
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What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
Plot Summary:
After several coeds are murdered at a college, a professor (Fabio Testi) who is involved with a student becomes a suspect, along with several other male and female teachers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, grindhouse, suspense, surreal, controversial, deep, creepy, cult classic, dark drama
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Bloodstained Shadow (1978)
Plot Summary:
A murder mystery set on an island near Venice. A schoolgirl was murdered seven years ago, and the case was never solved; now, the murderer seems to be back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, surprise ending, suspense, cult classic, scary, tense, atmospheric, rough, mind bending
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Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Plot Summary:
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that's rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, suspense, disturbing, erotic, surprise ending
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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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Giallo a Venezia (1979)
Plot Summary:
A couple is found dead in mysterious circumstances – there are some puzzling details concerning their murder. The detective inspector in charge of the case (Inspector DePaul – Jeff Blynn) is trying hard to understand the motives and, most of all, the strange modus operandi of the killer. The only lead he has is a photo displaying the couple together with some friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, detective, suspense, controversial, cult classic, weird, bizarre, sexploitation film, hot
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Sleepless (2001)
Plot Summary:
An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, slasher, scary, psychological, rough, suspense, detective, bloody, disturbing