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Plot Summary:
In the Irish Midlands of 1859 an English nurse, Lib Wright, goes to a tiny village to observe what some see as a medical anomaly and others a miracle, that a girl has survived without food for months. Tourists flock to see 11-year-old Anna O’Donnell, and a journalist has come to cover the sensation as two strangers transform each other’s lives in a story of love pitted against evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: costume drama, dramatic, period piece, psychological, period drama, beautiful
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The Demon (1978)
Plot Summary:
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, crying, sexy
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Nuclear (2019)
Plot Summary:
In a small village under the shadow of a nuclear power station, a toxic family with a past must face the ghosts that threaten their future.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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In Secret (2013)
Plot Summary:
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences. Based on Emile Zola’s novel, Thérèse Raquin.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia, Hungary, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, period piece, costume drama, historical drama, gothic, suspenseful, stylized, frightening
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My Cousin Rachel (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, period piece, costume drama, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, gothic, sweet, novela
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Duel of Hearts (1991)
Plot Summary:
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, touching, realistic, period piece, costume drama, period drama
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Vanity Fair (2004)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: period piece, costume drama, emotional, melancholic, stylized, serious, realistic, romantic, witty, satirical
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Nancy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, suspense, social
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Innocent Lies (1995)
Plot Summary:
In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, erotic, crying, detective, mysterious, sensual
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The King (2005)
Plot Summary:
A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian community church. Pastor Dave tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is his son from a pre-conversion liaison, tells them to have nothing to do with him. But Elvis has already connected with Malerie, the pastor's 16-year old daughter. Elvis embarks on the seduction of Malerie, while Dave examines his conscience and comes to a new conclusion. Can anyone get right with the Lord? Does the Lord hear?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, independent film, tense, clever, contemplative
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The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Hired to steal a rare painting from one of most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art dealer becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, twist ending, surprise ending
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An American Haunting (2005)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Romania, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, surprise ending, creepy, period piece, atmospheric, psychotronic
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The Name of the Rose (1986)
Plot Summary:
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence – which is considerable.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy, France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: intellectual, psychological, suspenseful, gloomy, clever, suspense, realistic, serious, atmospheric, detective
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Flowers in the Attic (1987)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritence she plans to win back from her dying father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, cult classic, controversial, serious, mystical, psychological thriller, gothic
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The Weight of Water (2000)
Plot Summary:
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tricky, tense, suspenseful, suspense, sexual, mystical, atmospheric, serious
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Lady Macbeth (2016)
Plot Summary:
The passionate affair of a young woman trapped in a marriage of convenience unleashes a maelstrom of murder and mayhem on a country estate.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, cynical, costume drama, depressing, psychological thriller, exciting, philosophical, independent film, historical drama, aesthetic
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The Field (1990)
Plot Summary:
"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell it in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it. While no local dare bid against him, a wealthy American decides he requires the field to build a highway. "Bull" and his son decide they must try to convince the American to let go of his ambition and return home, but the consequences of their plot prove sinister.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: realistic, talky, serious, bleak, psychological, suspense, rough, independent film, sentimental, road movie
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Lizzie (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman goes on a notorious ax-murdering rampage in Massachusetts at the turn of the century.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, historical drama, queer horror, psychological, psychological thriller, social, art house, costume drama
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Shadow Dancer (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political thriller, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic, psychological thriller, political, suspense, cult classic, visually stunning
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The Woman in White (1997)
Plot Summary:
Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, suspenseful, serious, costume drama, atmospheric, realistic, gloomy, period piece, sinister
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The Monk (2011)
Plot Summary:
A well respected monk, Capucino Ambrosio compromises himself with his carnal lust for a pupil, a woman disguised as a monk (Matilda), she tempts the monk to transgress and he is soon found desiring another, the innocent Antonia. Matilda uses magic spells to help the monk in his pursuit of Antonia, whom he later rapes and kills. It later emerges that Matilda is an instrument of Satan in female form. Focus also is also shown on Antonia's previous relationship with Lorenzo, whose sister is tortured by hypocritical nuns for her own relationship. Returning to Ambrosio, he is delivered to the Inquisition; escaping only by selling his soul to the devil. The devil prevents Ambrosio's final repentance, and informs Ambrosio that Antonia is the monk's sister.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, bleak, psychological thriller, sexy, suspense, tense
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Brimstone (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the menacing inferno of the old American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, UK, USA
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, epic, costume drama, disturbing, dark, psychological, southern gothic, period piece, cult classic
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Dark Places (2015)
Plot Summary:
A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, psychological, intense, serious, realistic, surprise ending, detective
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The Shadow in the North (2007)
Plot Summary:
When an elderly client loses a fortune on an investment, fearless Sally Lockhart will stop at nothing to rectify the situation — even if it means risking everything important to her in the process. As Sally sorts out the threads of the mystery — a magician being pursued by thugs, a clairvoyant who sees a brutal murder in the woods and a rich, heartless industrialist on a mad mission — nothing fits together. But as Sally closes in on the truth, it becomes devastatingly clear that her life will be forever altered.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating, detective, talky, period drama, weird
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Don't Worry Darling (2022)
Plot Summary:
Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 135000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, mind bending, exciting, thought provoking, psychedelic, serious, futuristic, surreal, underground film
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The Falling (2014)
Plot Summary:
It's 1969 at a strict English girls' school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, tense, realistic, suspense, psychological thriller, dark, slasher, sad, stylized
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Crimson Peak (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 156000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, gothic horror, atmospheric, suspense, dark, twist ending, suspenseful, scary, fairy tale
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Dorian Gray (2009)
Plot Summary:
A vain London playboy offers his soul in exchange for eternal beauty in this adaptation of the chilling tale by author Oscar Wilde. Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, gothic horror, sexy, stylized, gloomy, dark fantasy, suspense, captivating, period piece
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Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Plot Summary:
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, enigmatic, psychological thriller, dark, detective, atmospheric
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Gone Girl (2014)
Plot Summary:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, clever, twist ending, suspenseful, neo noir, tense, dramatic, psychological thriller
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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