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Plot Summary:
A large family meet at the family estate for the reading of their father's will. Each expects to be the recipient of a tidy sum, but apart from the local constable and a few other small awards to the help, the entire estate goes to the favorite daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, parody, psychotronic, detective, spoof, dark comedy
Best tv shows and movies like The Weekend Murders (1970):
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Rings of Fear (1978)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigating the murder of a teenage girl begins to focus his suspicions on the three girlfriends of the victim, who call themselves "The Inseparables.".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, slasher, crying, freeze frame, poliziottesco, cult film
Similar in 75%
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
Similar in 83%
Wave of Crimes (2018)
Plot Summary:
Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, dark comedy, crying, detective, black comedy
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Office Killer (1997)
Plot Summary:
When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, black comedy, humorous, cynical, semi serious, scary, independent film, dark comedy, offbeat
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The Mad Butcher (1971)
Plot Summary:
After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills her. Fearing he will be sent back to the hospital, he grinds up her body and sells it as sausages. As friends and relatives start asking questions about her disappearance, they too start ending up in the butcher's display case.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, Austria, Monaco
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, grindhouse, scary, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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Alien Zone (1978)
Plot Summary:
A man who is having an affair with a married woman is dropped off on the wrong street when going back to his hotel. He takes refuge out of the rain when an old man invites him in. He turns out to be a mortician, who tells him the stories of the people who have wound up in his establishment over the course of four stories.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, fairy tale, neurotic, psychotronic
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Strangler vs Strangler (1984)
Plot Summary:
When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, slasher, surreal, horror comedy, cult classic, horror musical, crying, detective, spoof, parody
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Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971)
Plot Summary:
Ultra-low-budget Florida cult film featuring a transvestite fugitive criminal and his homosexual (and mentally unstable) lover on the lam in a Miami suburb.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, lgbt cinema, crying, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema, campy
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Black Journal (1977)
Plot Summary:
Black Journal (originally titled Gran Bollito) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on the real life events of Leonarda Cianciulli, the Italian serial killer best known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: entertaining, crying, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, pre war
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Evil Eye (1975)
Plot Summary:
People around Peter Crane begin dying in mysterious fashion. How is Playboy Peter involved in this? He begins having nightmares dealing with murder...His psychiatrist has no idea of what Peter is suffering from. Even the police are in danger as they start investigating the case. What is the secret of the "Magic Circle"?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: detective, crying, poliziottesco, vintage, urban fantasy
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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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Maniac (1963)
Plot Summary:
The rape of his teenage daughter instigated a violent, maniacal retribution on the perpetrator for which Georges was incarcerated in an asylum for the insane. When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder for which he has been carefully and surreptitiously groomed to take full responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, noir, offbeat, suspense, grindhouse, neo noir, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame
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The Drone (2019)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple is terrorized by a consumer drone that has become sentient with the consciousness of a deranged serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspense, suspenseful, independent film, crying, psychotronic, detective, weird, urban fantasy
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Jack's Back (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young doctor is suspected when a series of Jack the Ripper copycat killings is committed. However, when the doctor himself is murdered, his identical twin brother claims to have seen visions of the true killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, sexy, scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 82%
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 79%
Julie Darling (1982)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, erotic, disturbing, independent film, neo noir, crying, detective
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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
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5 Dolls for an August Moon (1970)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends get together in a remote Mediterranean island for a weekend of relaxation. Soon they start turning up dead one by one. The group gets together to determine the identity of the killer amongst them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, erotic, suspense, creepy, cult classic, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sneekweek (2016)
Plot Summary:
Six friends go to party for a week during the "Sneekweek". But they are haunted by a secret from their past.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, psychotronic, humorous, slasher, sexy, detective
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Night Warning (1981)
Plot Summary:
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death to anyone who comes between her and her obsession. But the investigating detective is convinced that Billy is the real killer - and determined to prove it. Madness and fanaticism work together to drag all concerned into a terrifying vortex of blood-letting that adds a nightmarish twist to the classic Oedipus story.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic, retro, bloody, homoerotic, detective, cult classic
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So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, erotic, sexy, suspense, psychological thriller, psychotronic, independent film, freeze frame, poliziottesco
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Cutting Class (1989)
Plot Summary:
High school student Paula Carson's affections are being sought after by two of her classmates: Dwight, the "bad boy", and Brian, a disturbed young man who has just been released from a mental hospital where he was committed following the suspicious death of his father. Soon after being released, more murders start happening. Is Brian back to his old tricks, or is Dwight just trying to eliminate the competition?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, detective, slasher horror, funny, bloody, scary, rough, serious, realistic
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
Plot Summary:
Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, mind bending, grindhouse, creepy, surprise ending, suspense, erotic, psychological thriller, psychedelic, bloody
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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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Common Wealth (2000)
Plot Summary:
Julia finds 300 million pesetas hidden in a dead man's house while selling an apartment. She's a 40-ish real estate agent now forced to face the wrath of a very peculiar community (of neighbors), headed by an unscrupulous administrator. Black humor gives way to suspense, closely followed by horror that doesn't take long in coming to a head in undisguised pandemonium.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, enigmatic, disturbing, bleak, horror comedy, witty, scary, manga
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Fade to Black (1980)
Plot Summary:
Eric Binford watches a lot of movies. He is the truest definition of a film geek. One day, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies. In doing so, he manages to involve his enemies and the scenes usually result in death.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspense, horror comedy, slasher, black comedy, cult horror, independent film, suspenseful
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Student Bodies (1981)
Plot Summary:
Director Mickey Rose's zany send-up of teen slasher flicks features a maniacal psycho known as the Breather (played by Jerry Belson), who stalks –and murders– promiscuous students at a suburban high school. The fanatical killer's unusual weapons include paper clips, blackboard erasers and eggplants. Kristen Riter, Matthew Goldsby, Joe Flood, Kevin Mannis and Sara Eckhardt head the cast.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, slasher, humorous, not serious, bloody, ironic, cult classic, teen, horror comedy, twist ending
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Blood Brides (1970)
Plot Summary:
A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, surreal, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, grindhouse, mind bending, psychedelic
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The Shortcut (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Derek (AnDrew Seeley) moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the warning, Derek and his friends set out to uncover the dark secret that's buried deep in the woods. But will they survive to tell it?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological, slasher, dark, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, teen