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Plot Summary:
Passengers on an immigrant ship traveling to the new continent get caught in a mysterious riddle when they find a second vessel adrift on the open sea.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: costume drama, historical drama, twisted, dark, period piece, epic, period drama, iconic
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Satan’s Triangle (1975)
Plot Summary:
The female survivor of a shipwreck and two Coast Guard helicopter pilots sent to rescue her find themselves trapped in a mysterious part of the ocean known as Satan's Triangle.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, spooky, twist ending, surprise ending, psychotronic
Similar in 86%
The Girl in the Mirror (2022)
Plot Summary:
After losing her memory in a bizarre accident that kills most of her classmates, Alma tries to unravel what happened that day — and regain her identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: dark, mysterious
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Beyond The Walls (2016)
Plot Summary:
Lisa, a young speech therapist, heirs a house from an unknown man who died over 20 years ago. She is not in any way related to this man and she doesn't know him. When she moves into the mysterious building, she becomes trapped in a true labyrinth.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: surreal, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, spooky, twisted
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The Onedin Line (1971)
Plot Summary:
The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Around this central theme are the lives of his family, most notably his brother and partner, shop owner Robert, and his sister Elizabeth, giving insight into the lifestyle and customs at the time, not only at sea, but also ashore. The series also illustrates some of the changes in business and shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steam ships. It shows the role that ships played in affairs like international politics, uprisings and the slave trade.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: costume drama, retro, period piece, period drama
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The Secret (2000)
Plot Summary:
A tale of suspense and intrigue set in 19th century Tyneside, 'The Secret' is based on Catherine Cookson's only thriller novel. Freddie Musgrave's life is in turmoil when a letter implicates him in murder, things are further complicated by his feelings towards his bosses daughter, Belle, who is married to a madman.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, historical drama, period piece, costume drama, period drama
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The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)
Plot Summary:
Ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 85000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 493 min
Plot tags: scary, spooky, gothic horror, supernatural thriller
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The Ark (2023)
Plot Summary:
100 years in the future, planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and loss of life. With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, the remaining crew must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags:
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Open Your Eyes (2021)
Plot Summary:
After a tragic accident, an amnesiac teen tries to rebuild her life at a memory disorders center but becomes suspicious of her unconventional treatment.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, tragic
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Dickensian (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham—in half-hour episodes, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity Shop sits next door to The Three Cripples Pub, while Fagin’s Den is hidden down a murky alley off a bustling Victorian street.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, serious, captivating, stylized, historical drama, controversial, period drama
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The Barchester Chronicles (1982)
Plot Summary:
When a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires, scandal taints the cosy community of Barchester when their local church becomes the object of a scathing, investigative report.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 385 min
Plot tags: costume drama, historical drama, period drama
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Vanity Fair (2018)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of the 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: stylized, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece, historical drama, witty, period drama
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Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (2007)
Plot Summary:
This latest installment of Babylon 5 is in two parts: the first, is about an entity that has possessed a worker. It wants to be exorcised but Col. Lochley prevents the priest & sends it & the host both back to Earth. The second is about Galen trying to dupe President Sheridan into assassinating the future Centauri President to stop him possibly attacking Earth in 30 years time.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, stylized, enigmatic, semi serious, breathtaking, intellectual, epic, saga, offbeat, bleak
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The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)
Plot Summary:
After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor with the estate’s chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling romance. At Bly Manor, dead doesn’t mean gone.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 494 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, enigmatic, gothic horror, psychological, psychological horror, scary, emotional, tense, suspense
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Titanic: Blood and Steel (2012)
Plot Summary:
Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, Italy, France, Canada, UK, Spain, Germany
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized, tense, captivating, disturbing, costume drama, epic, period drama, vintage
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Little Dorrit (2008)
Plot Summary:
The series tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her boss's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 420 min
Plot tags: captivating, costume drama, sincere, period piece, historical drama, heartbreaking, romantic drama, historical romance, atmospheric, serious
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The Luminaries (2020)
Plot Summary:
The 19th-century tale of love, murder and revenge as men and women travel across the world to make their fortunes on the wild West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, New Zealand
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, suspense, ironic, costume drama, historical drama, neo western, period drama, beautiful
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666 Park Avenue (2012)
Plot Summary:
What would you do to have everything you desire? Step inside 666 Park Avenue, New York's most seductive address. We all have some burning needs, desires and ambitions. For the residents of The Drake, the premier apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side, these will all be met – for a price – courtesy of the building's mysterious owner, Gavin Doran. But be careful what you wish for, because the price you have to pay is your soul.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, surreal, stylized, exciting, grindhouse, spooky
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The Outer Limits (1995)
Plot Summary:
The Outer Limits is an anthology series of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end. Unlike the original incarnation of the series, which was a pure anthology with each episode completely unrelated to the others, the revival series maintained an anthology format, but occasionally featured recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, cerebral, psychological, funny, mind bending, intellectual, dark, slasher, apocalyptic
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The Feed (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, people’s minds are connected to The Feed, giving them instant connectivity. When something or someone invades it, everyone is at risk.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, intellectual, apocalyptic
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Silo (2023)
Plot Summary:
In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant underground silo that plunges hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags:
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The Prisoner (1967)
Plot Summary:
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychological, exciting, thought provoking, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, captivating, witty
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The Twilight Zone (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Twilight Zone is a 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone. It aired for one season on the UPN network, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host. The series was produced by New Line Television, which since 2008 is a division of Warner Bros., which released Twilight Zone: The Movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: anthology, atmospheric, serious, mind bending, stylized, surprise ending, offbeat, psychological, intellectual, dark
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The Outer Limits (1963)
Plot Summary:
The Outer Limits is an American television series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1965. The series is often compared to The Twilight Zone, but with a greater emphasis on science fiction stories. The Outer Limits is an anthology of self-contained episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end. The series was revived in 1995, airing on Showtime from 1995 to 1999, then on Sci-Fi Channel from 1999 until its cancellation in 2002. In 1997, the episode "The Zanti Misfits" was ranked #98 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: anthology, serious, psychotronic, scary, bleak, psychological, retro, dark, experimental, dramatic
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The Alienist (2018)
Plot Summary:
Crime reporter, John Moore, meets with psychologist, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, to investigate a serial killer in New York during the late 19th century.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspenseful, detective, costume drama, psychological thriller, suspense, captivating, psychological, atmospheric
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The OA (2016)
Plot Summary:
Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk with the FBI or her parents about the seven years she went missing.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, bleak, suspense, mysterious, spiritual, twist ending, esoteric, erotic, psychological thriller, atmospheric
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Dark (2017)
Plot Summary:
A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 429000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 1455 min
Plot tags: mind bending, atmospheric, suspense, mysterious, suspenseful, mind blowing, philosophical, thought provoking, intellectual, apocalyptic
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The Gilded Age (2022)
Plot Summary:
It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook, a young orphaned daughter of a Southern general, moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian gets caught up in the dazzling lives of her rich neighbors as she struggles to decide between adhering to the rules or forging her own path.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: captivating, costume drama, suspense, disturbing, period piece, exciting, deep, historical drama, psychological, period drama
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Westworld (2016)
Plot Summary:
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 525000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: stylized, serious, thought provoking, psychological thriller, apocalyptic, suspense, futuristic, intellectual, spiritual, mind blowing
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Fringe (2008)
Plot Summary:
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 254000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, surreal, detective, thrilling, exciting, dramatic, psychological thriller, inspirational
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Stranger Things (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 13000000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, disturbing, thought provoking, epic, psychological thriller, retro, spectacular