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Plot Summary:
The Collector is a Canadian supernatural drama television series about a man attempting to help save people who have bargained their souls with the Devil. After over 600 years of "collecting" the souls of people at the end of their 10-year deals, Morgan Pym negotiates with the Devil for the ability to aid the damned in redeeming themselves rather than sending them to Hell. Under the Devil's mocking gaze, Morgan assists his "clients" in undoing the damage their deals have done because of the devil shifting good luck towards the client and away from others. The series is set in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where it was also filmed. CHUM cancelled the program after three seasons.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, gloomy, demonic, tense, atmospheric, serious
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I'll Give You A Secret (2013)
Plot Summary:
A mother whose daughter has been kidnapped and a father who has lost his wife come across five children with different extraordinary powers. Though they all came from completely different lives, the unlikely team must become a family to protect themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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Baba (2002)
Plot Summary:
Baba film opens with the birth of Baba (Rajinikanth), who is a 'baba amsa sambhootudu'. Baba grows up as an atheist, hot-blooded guy and a Good Samaritan. His life style includes consuming alcohol, smoking beedi, chewing paan parag, His mother (Sujatha) and his maternal uncle are ardent devotees of Baba (the Baba who is supposed to be of 2000 years old and who live in Himalayas). Chamundeswari (Manisha Koirala) stays in the neighborhood of Baba and both of them fall in love.Baba beats the son of a state minister Krishna Murthy (Ashish Vidyarthi). Krishna Murthy demolishes the.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: serious, enigmatic, captivating, exciting, realistic
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The Master and Margarita (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Master and Margarita is a Russian TV mini-series, based on the novel written by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 500 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, stylized, talky, witty, cynical, surreal, captivating, realistic
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Durham County (2007)
Plot Summary:
Detective Mike Sweeney has just moved with his wife and daughters from Toronto to his hometown of Durham County after the death of his partner. Hoping to escape the violent world of big city police work, Mike falls into a suburban world besieged by crime, abuse and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, dark, detective, offbeat, serious, gloomy
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Forever Knight (1992)
Plot Summary:
Forever Knight is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a way to become human again. The series premiered on May 5, 1992 and concluded with the third season finale on May 17, 1996.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, West Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, gothic, suspenseful, serious, supernatural thriller, light, disturbing, scary, cliffhanger, captivating
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Proof (2015)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant surgeon searches for proof of life after death.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, mystical
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Played (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Covert Investigations Unit (CIU) risks going undercover to infiltrate and bring down criminal organizations. In this new style of short-term, high-intensity undercover work, each covert “play” is crafted quickly and executed at an even faster pace. Placed into various worlds of crime without a safety net, the cops are in constant danger, as they repeatedly go off the grid. Wearing wires, coaxing confessions, and setting up stings, the cops of the CIU must think quickly, talk smoothly, and rely on pure instinct. They slip in and out of characters so often that, sometimes, they lose track of who they really are.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Brimstone (1998)
Plot Summary:
Brimstone is a short-lived Fox television series, featuring a dead police detective whose mission is to return to Hell 113 spirits who have escaped to Earth. The series ran for only one partial season. Since cancellation, Brimstone reruns have aired on Syfy in the United States from the summer of 1999 onward. The reruns have no set schedule, but are usually aired in marathons during the channel's seasonal events like "Creatureland", "Inhumanland" and "the 31 Days of Halloween". Chiller also began airing reruns, on July 28, 2007. It currently airs in sporadic weekday marathons, like Syfy, and has no set airing schedule.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, satanic, spooky, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir
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Intruders (2014)
Plot Summary:
Members of a secret society chase immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, mind bending
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Hysteria (2014)
Plot Summary:
An investigative thriller about a haunted young doctor who is summoned back to her hometown to investigate an epidemic that may be linked to social media - and her own tragic past.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, realistic
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The Immortal (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Immortal is a Canadian television series which aired from October 2000 to June 2001 and had 22 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, bleak, scary, serious
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Highlander (1992)
Plot Summary:
Highlander: The Series is a fantasy science fiction action-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the Highlander. It was an offshoot and another alternate sequel of the 1986 feature film with a twist: Connor MacLeod did not win the prize and Immortals still exist post-1985. In fact, original Highlander star Christopher Lambert appeared in the Pilot episode so as to pass the torch to Adrian Paul. The series was an international hit and was nominated three times for the Gemini Awards and once for a Saturn Award in 1998.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, supernatural thriller, retro, mythical, action adventure, relaxing
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Revelations (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set just before the start of Armageddon, the mini-series will follow two central characters, a physicist and a nun, who are racing against the clock to see if the end of the world apocalypse can be averted. Bill Pullman plays Dr. Richard Massey, a Harvard professor whose daughter is murdered by satanists while McElhone stars as a nun who recruits Massey to help investigate whether what's told in the Book of Revelations is starting to come true.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, controversial, bleak
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Blood Ties (2007)
Plot Summary:
Blood Ties is a Canadian television series based on the Blood Books by Tanya Huff; the show was created by Peter Mohan. It is set in Toronto, Canada and has a similar premise to an earlier series also set in Toronto, Forever Knight, in which a vampire assists police in dealing with crime. It premiered in the United States on March 11, 2007 on Lifetime Television, and during fall of 2007 on Citytv and Space in Canada. In May 2008, Lifetime declined to renew the series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: detective, gothic, cliffhanger, dark fantasy, stylized, suspenseful, rough, serious
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The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven was a 1998 Canadian television series created by Bryce Zabel spun off from the The Crow film series starring Mark Dacascos in the lead role as Eric Draven, reprising the role originally played by Brandon Lee in the 1994 film The Crow.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, cliffhanger, slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, neo noir
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Bitten (2014)
Plot Summary:
Elena Micheals thought she left the world of supernatural behind when she left Stonehaven behind 'for good this time' she thought. Until the night she got the mysterious call from her pack leader asking her to come back. So now she is heading back, leaving her life as a normal photographer in Toronto for the moment to re-enter the world of werewolves, rules about protect the pack and a man she has spent years trying to get out of her system. Oh and did she mention she was the only living female werewolf in existence?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, supernatural thriller, tense, erotic, sexy, dread, suspenseful, bleak
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American Gods (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel about an ex-con who becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, psychedelic, serious, supernatural thriller, erotic, atmospheric, spiritual, absurd, anime, dread
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Witchblade (2001)
Plot Summary:
Witchblade is an American television series that aired on TNT from 2001 to 2002. The series is based on the Witchblade comic book series, and followed a pilot film which debuted in August 2000. Some of the episodes were written by Ralph Hemecker, Marc Silvestri and J.D. Zeik. Yancy Butler starred as Sara Pezzini, Anthony Cistaro as Kenneth Irons, David Chokachi as Jake McCartey, Eric Etebari as Ian Nottingham, Will Yun Lee as Danny Woo, Conrad Dunn as Tommy Gallo, Kenneth Welsh as Joe Siri, and John Hensley as Gabriel Bowman, among others. Although critically acclaimed and popular with audiences, the show was canceled in September 2002; there was speculation that the cancellation was connected to Butler's entering rehab for alcoholism. The series ran for two seasons on TNT, for a total of 24 episodes. The first episode aired June 12, 2001; the last episode aired August 26, 2002. In spite of its cancellation, Witchblade was ranked seventh in the Top 10 Basic Cable Dramas for 2002. According to Top Cow editor Matt Hawkins the Witchblade TV series was cancelled because the lead actress Yancy Butler was an alcoholic and went into rehab – it was and remains the highest rated TV series to be cancelled.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, detective
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The Dead Zone (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone was an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma. The show, credited as "based on characters" from Stephen King's 1979 novel of the same name, first aired in 2002, and was produced by Lionsgate Television and CBS Paramount Network Television for the USA Network. The show was originally commissioned for UPN, but the network later dropped the show and it was picked up instead by USA. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for its first five seasons. The sixth and last season was billed as "The season that changes everything" and production was moved to Montreal. The Dead Zone was expected to be renewed for a seventh season, however due to low ratings and high production cost the series was canceled in December 2007, without a proper series finale. Some rumors spread that Syfy would pick up the series after it was canceled by USA, but it did not happen. Rumors of a made for TV movie have all but faded with time.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, atmospheric, scary, bad ending, gloomy, suspenseful
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Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997)
Plot Summary:
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction is an American television anthology series created by Lynn Lehmann, presented by Dick Clark Productions, and produced and aired by the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. Each episode featured five stories, all of which appeared to defy logic, and some of which were allegedly based on actual events. The viewer was offered the challenge of determining which are true and which are false. At the end of the show, it was revealed to the viewer whether the tales were true or works of fiction. The series was hosted by James Brolin in season one and later by Jonathan Frakes for the remainder of the series. The show was narrated by Don LaFontaine for the first three seasons and by Campbell Lane for the fourth and final season.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, mindfuck, mind bending, clever, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, gloomy
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Kingdom Hospital (2004)
Plot Summary:
Stephen King's take on the masterpiece series by Lars von Trier. The story takes place in a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, built on the site of a Civil War-era mill fire in which many children died.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 608 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, medical horror, anthology, cult classic, mind bending, offbeat, serious
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PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996)
Plot Summary:
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian science fiction drama television series which was filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes over four seasons from 1996 to 2000. The presence of Dan Aykroyd opening and closing every episode and emphasizing the legitimacy of the organization it was inspired by led some viewers to take the show somewhat more seriously than intended, though it was in fact a scripted drama. Partly for this reason, in 1997 the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, then called the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, awarded Aykroyd a "Snuffed Candle" award, for "contributing to the public's lack of understanding of the methods of scientific inquiry.".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, suspense, spiritual, anthology, detective, canadian science fiction
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The Dresden Files (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago-based wizard works as a private investigator.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, detective, anime, mystic, spooky, suspenseful, urban fantasy
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Immortals (2018)
Plot Summary:
Driven by revenge, human-turned-vampire Mia sets out to vanquish Dmitry, a ruthless vampire leader who seeks an artifact that grants immortality.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, urban fantasy
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Torchwood (2006)
Plot Summary:
Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from the 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. Torchwood follows the exploits of a small team of alien hunters, who make up the Cardiff branch of the fictional Torchwood Institute, which deals mainly with incidents involving extraterrestrials.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, captivating, detective, sexy, apocalyptic, thrilling, exciting, odd
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The Lost Room (2006)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigates a mysterious motel room, which acts as a portal to an alternate universe.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags: stylized, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, captivating, detective, mysterious, psychological, exciting, mind bending
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The Listener (2009)
Plot Summary:
Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his parents and grew up in foster care, this coupled with his secret, which he shares with no one, has made him a bit of a loner. Until now, Toby has kept his ability hidden, exploring its possibilities only with his long time mentor and confidante Dr. Ray Mercer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, serious, emotional, suspenseful, detective
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Angel (1999)
Plot Summary:
Angel is an American television series, a spin-off from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Angel, a 240-year old vampire cursed with a conscience, haunts the dark streets of Los Angeles alone. But after he meets a half-demon with mysterious visions, Angel realizes his true purpose: to help those in danger with the hope that he may have a chance to redeem himself and save his own soul. With Cordelia and Doyle at his side, he forms Angel Investigations. He is soon joined by Wesley, Gunn, Lorne and Fred, and he will need all their expertise to fight the growing forces of evil, and the supernatural law firm of Wolfram and Hart.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, sentimental, serious, witty, neo noir, supernatural thriller, thrilling, scary, cliffhanger
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Wynonna Earp (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on the IDW Comic, Wynonna Earp follows Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter as she battles demons and other creatures. With her unique abilities, and a posse of dysfunctional allies, she's the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, enigmatic, deep, dark, neo western, supernatural thriller, not serious, dark fantasy, wild
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Sanctuary (2008)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population called Abnormals - a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans. Magnus seeks to protect this threatened phenomena as well as unlock the mysteries behind their existence.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, exciting, stylized, gothic, apocalyptic, anime, thrilling, offbeat, serious, suspenseful