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Plot Summary:
The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing a customer, and decides he's found his soulmate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, experimental, weird
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The Three Trials (2006)
Plot Summary:
Catherine, a nun with a unique form of narcolepsy, attempts to lose herself in the worlds of religion, adolescent fantasy, and finally masochistic devotion to a man. Her husband, a plastic surgeon, has evolved from a yeti-like creature to accommodate her masochism with increasingly extreme and bizarre rituals. With an experimental and ground-breaking format, The Three Trials incorporates surreal narrative, music video, and abstract imagery. The viewer is left to interpret what is real, what is dream, and what is false narrative in this feverish, pitch-black comedy with a smorgasbord of sexual fetishes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychedelic, experimental, cult film
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Lovesick: Sick Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Julia is a hard-working girl with two jobs and a boyfriend, Istvan, who is a rock musician and always in trouble. When cocaine dealers threaten to kill him over a debt, she tries to help him come up with the money. This starts an unfortunate chain of events at her daytime job at the hotel, and brings her and the hotel manager, O'Ryan, closer together, or so it seems. Then, in his unrequited love for Julia, O'Ryan goes a step too far, way too far, and from there, things get very ugly!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, independent film, weird
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My Body Hungers (1967)
Plot Summary:
Marcia, a sexy bucolic orphan, hitch-hikes to the city to meet up with her sister, who has promised her a job at the roadhouse where she works as a hostess. She has no qualms about sleeping with her driver in order to be safeguarded to her destination. Once she arrives, she discovers that her sister has recently been violently murdered -- in a stangulation by garter belt. Marcia takes her sister's job in order to go undercover in finding the murderer. She thus imperils her own life while making discoveries about her sister's former lifestyle and the seamy antics of the local civic leaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl (1984)
Plot Summary:
The world's largest black pearl has vanished without a trace, and it's up to Detective Ippei to track it down. His only clue is the mysterious words of a dying man, who managed to mutter "Pussy Print!" before slipping away forever. Teaming with the man's younger widow Matsuko, Detective Ippei boards a local train and begins taking prints of the female passenger's vulvas in hopes of matching one to the print that Matsuka's husband had in his possession at the time of his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, detective
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Damned in Venice (1978)
Plot Summary:
A blind boy receives a vision that warn him of the birth of the anti-christ.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial
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Shadows Run Black (1984)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigates a series of killings committed by a serial killer known as "The Black Angel." He begins to suspect that it might not be just a random group of murders.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, relaxing, erotic, crying, independent film
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A Woman Called Sada Abe (1975)
Plot Summary:
The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student. Sada wanders the city, becoming a geisha and eventually meeting Kichizo, a posh restaurateur who falls under her spell. Together, they embark on a week-long sexual escapade filled with dangerous obsessions. Their complete descent into each others desires culminates in a shocking crime of passion which captures the city's headlines. Based on a real event from 1936.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, sensual, biting, suspense
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Angel Guts: High School Co-Ed (1978)
Plot Summary:
Three gangsters spend their time assaulting students until their leader feels guilty and saves a young girl from being raped. Following the incident the gang decides he must now prove himself by raping her himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial
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The Devil In Miss Jonas (1974)
Plot Summary:
Softcore remake of THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Olivia (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nightmares of the past haunt the beautiful, mysterious Olivia (Suzanna Love), a London resident who begins a passionate affair with American businessman Mike (Easy Rider's Robert Walker, Jr.). Trapped in a loveless marriage and traumatized by memories of her mother's brutal murder, Olivia hopes her lover will offer a chance at a new life. However, ghostly voices and brutal murders ignite a fiendish, twist-filled story of double identities, deception, and erotic terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, captivating, dark, surprise ending, neo noir, psycho sexual, independent film
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Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
Plot Summary:
Hirosuke (Teruo Yoshida) , a medical student with almost no recollection of his past, is trapped in an asylum, despite being perfectly sane. After escaping from the loony bin, and being framed for the murder of a circus girl, he spots the photo of a recently deceased man, Genzaburo Komoda, to whom he bears an uncanny resemblance. By pretending to have been resurrected, Hirosuke assumes the dead man's identity, fooling everyone, including Komoda's widow and mistress. Whilst at the Komoda household, Hirosuke recalls memories that convince him to travel to a nearby island, home of Jogoro, the web-fingered father of Genzaburo. Whilst on the island, Hirosuke not only discovers Jogoro's plans to build his 'ideal community' (by transforming perfectly normal humans into hideous freaks), but also the awful truth behind his own identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, slasher, experimental, gothic horror, disturbing, controversial, art house, grindhouse, creepy
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The Peeping (2002)
Plot Summary:
Private detective Calvin is hired to tape the sex life of a female politician Kwai Fung Ming, but falls for her instead. He decides to help her counter-attack Law Sau Nam, who is the mastermind to discredit Kwai. Unexpectedly, Law is only one of the tools in this war.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, independent film, detective
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Day-Dream (1964)
Plot Summary:
While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, experimental, disturbing, controversial, dark fantasy, weird
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Zigeunerweisen (1980)
Plot Summary:
A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, erotic, psychedelic, enigmatic, erotic drama, psychological, atmospheric, offbeat, serious
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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
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Detective Story (2007)
Plot Summary:
A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people's organs.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, surreal, detective, crime drama, scary, rough
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Hitch Hike to Hell (1977)
Plot Summary:
Howard is mild-mannered and slightly simple-minded, with a habit of picking up teenage hitchhikers while driving his delivery routes. Sometimes the girls admit to being runaways, and if they claim to hate their mothers it drives Howard into a violent frenzy; his sister ran away from home years ago and was never heard from again, causing his desperate, addled mother to tighten her hold on him. Howard never remembers raping his victims or strangling them with wire coat hangers, though his boss does notice missed deliveries and late arrivals.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film
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The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966)
Plot Summary:
A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade. He also brushes her hair, applies make-up on her, and breaks down and cries in the fetal position. In the end the girl gets free and has her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 914
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, suspense, controversial, disturbing, freeze frame, avant garde
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Amateur Porn Star Killer (2006)
Plot Summary:
The unofficial story of a killer who kidnaps and kills three girls is told through the tale of his last victim, 'Amateur Porn Star Killer' is about a girl he picks up on the street and convinces to go back to his hotel room. The girl is shy, unnerved, and yet unable to take herself out of a bad situation. The killer is a guy who seems at first nothing more than your standard, 18 year old pervert with a penchant for filming his sexual escapades. An unsettling darkness descends.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, erotic, psychological, rough, bleak, tense, suspenseful, bloody, slasher
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Death Walks on High Heels (1971)
Plot Summary:
Exotic dancer Nicole finds herself terrorized by a black-clad assailant determined on procuring her murdered father's stolen gems. Fleeing Paris in hopes of evading her knife-wielding pursuer, Nicole arrives in England only to discover that death stalks her at every corner.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, erotic, surprise ending, cult classic, psychological thriller, crying, independent film, detective, black comedy
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Play Motel (1979)
Plot Summary:
The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak, disturbing, erotic, sexy, sex comedy, psycho sexual, detective
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Murder Obsession (1981)
Plot Summary:
Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film project, who are given a rather cool reception by the superstitious housekeeper Oliver. Soon rude things begin happening to some of the guests, and Michael fears a repeat of his nightmare past is in progress.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, gothic, suspense, gothic horror
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The Brutal Insanity of Love (1993)
Plot Summary:
The third entry in the unrelated series which began with Shiryo No Wana (1988), Toshiharu Ikeda's bloody horror film deals with a policewoman (Megumi Yokoyama) investigating the apparent suicide of a college coed. The prime suspects include the girl's professor, who may have been having an affair with her, and the professor's wife, who frequents lesbian bars. Gruesome axe murders and mutilations ensue, leading Yokoyama to a shocking discovery. Less grisly than its predecessors, this installment is perhaps the best-scripted of the three (all were written by Takashi Ishii), but all are arguably among the best Japanese horror films of the decade. Ishii is best known for the stylish Tenshi No Harawata series which began in 1978, one of which was also directed by Ikeda.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense
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Amuck! (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young American girl arrives on an island near Venice to begin her new job as secretary to famous novelist Richard Stuart. However, it turns out that her predecessor disappeared without a trace.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, sexy, slasher, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, independent film, cult film
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The Killer Is Still Among Us (1986)
Plot Summary:
Forensic student Christina Marelli decide to write about a mysterious serial killer who kills couple in love. The killer shows up just when the little lovebirds sitting in their cars and have a cozy time. He shoots them to death and then uses her knife to mutilate women.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, surprise ending, independent film
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Tropic of Cancer (1972)
Plot Summary:
A couple on holiday in Haiti become involved in a series of savage murders linked to a doctors a new invention, a drug with extreme side effects.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Haiti
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Resident (2011)
Plot Summary:
Juliet, a beautiful doctor, has found the perfect New York apartment to start a new life after separating from her husband. It's got spacious rooms, a spectacular view, and a handy, handsome landlord. But there are secrets behind every wall and terror in every room as Juliet gets the unnerving feeling that she is not alone.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, atmospheric, scary, tense, surreal, disturbing, psychotronic
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Green River Killer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Along twenty years, the deranged serial-killer Gary Ridgway has killed at least forty-eight prostitutes and dumped their bodies in Green River.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective, independent film
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Blade of the Ripper (1971)
Plot Summary:
Newly married to an older man, Julie returns to Vienna, where a razor wielding slasher is killing women. Jean, her cruel and sadistic former lover, immediately contacts her, certain that only he can satisfy her strange vice. But she rejects him. She also meets George, the handsome cousin of her friend Carol; both are newly rich, thanks to an uncle's death. Julie's husband Neil is away frequently, so George pours on the charm. Meanwhile, it seems that the slasher is now focused on Julie. Bodies pile up, other murders are barely avoided, and George invites her to go away with him. Can it end happily?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, erotic, sexual, grindhouse, psychological, suspense
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The Bodies Presented Traces of Carnal Violence (1973)
Plot Summary:
A series of sex murders shock a college campus, and four beautiful young girlfriends head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the hands - and blade - of the lecherous maniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending, sensual, erotic