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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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Kill Switch (2008)
Plot Summary:
A troubled detective travels to Memphis in order to track down a pair of serial killers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, fast, suspense, neo noir, detective
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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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MacGyver (1985)
Plot Summary:
MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff. Henry Winkler and John Rich were the executive producers. The show ran for seven seasons on ABC in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1985 to 1992. The series was filmed in Los Angeles during seasons 1, 2 and 7, and in Vancouver during seasons 3–6. The show's final episode aired on April 25, 1992, on ABC. Episode List The show follows secret agent Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson, who works as a troubleshooter for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles and as an agent for a fictional United States government agency, the Department of External Services. Educated as a scientist, MacGyer served as a Bomb Team Technician/EOD during the Vietnam War. Resourceful and possessed of an encyclopedic knowledge of the physical sciences, he solves complex problems with everyday materials he finds at hand, along with his ever-present duct tape and Swiss Army knife. He prefers non-violent resolutions and prefers not to handle a gun, but will if necessary.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, intellectual, retro, scenic, action adventure, relaxing
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Black (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of a grim reaper who gets erased from the memories of the world for breaking the rules of heaven and falling in love with a mortal woman after inhabiting a human body.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: gothic, dorama, scary, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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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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Terminal Rush (1996)
Plot Summary:
A group of terrorists, led by a Brit and a psycho (in a great performance by "Rowdy" Roddy Piper) take control of the Hoover Dam and demand $25 million or they will kill civilians and dam workers they have taken hostage. But the terrorists didn't count on Sheriff Jacob Harper, (Don "The Dragon" Wilson), an ex-Army Ranger whose father is one of the hostages. But after the FBI takes over the the crisis, and relieves him of his duties, he must take on the terrorists by himself and save his father and any hostages that are still alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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The Crow: Salvation (2000)
Plot Summary:
Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to solve the murder of a young woman that he was wrongly accused of killing. Alex follows the crow into the police department's evidence room, where he discovers that Lauren was killed by a group of corrupt cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, stylized, harsh, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, gothic, entertaining, scary
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The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy Cuervo is a down-on-his-luck ex-con living in a polluted mining town on a reservation that would run him out of town if not for the remainder of his probation. With his time nearly finished, he plans to start a new life with his girlfriend Lily , and leave the town for good. But Luc Crash and Lola Byrne head up a local gang of local Satanists who murder Jimmy and Lily in a brutal ritual.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, serious, futuristic, slasher, suspense, neo noir, independent film
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The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
Plot Summary:
After Ashe and his little son are murdered violently for no reason by Judah's men, he returns from the dead to take revenge. One after one, Judah's people face the power of the dark angel. The second film based on James O'Barr's cult comic.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, stylized, atmospheric, cult classic, dark, rough, bleak, serious, scary, epic
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RoboCop: Prime Directives (2001)
Plot Summary:
Thirteen years after the original Robocop, Delta City, considered to be "The Safest Place On Earth!", has become a futuristic city owned and operated by OCP, and RoboCop, Alex Murphy has begun to feel his age. Murphy finds himself nearly obsolete, and must deal with the fact that his now-grown son James is an OCP executive, unaware that his father is still alive. Also, Murphy's former partner, John Cable, has returned to Delta City as its new Security Commander. But slowly, new enemies arise, and Murphy and Cable begin an investigation into a mysterious villain known as the Bone Machine, unaware that they are coming dangerously close to exposing an evil group of OCP executives known as The Trust... which James Murphy is a part of. Desperate to prevent their sinister plans from being revealed, The Trust programs Murphy to kill John Cable.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 375 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, futuristic, detective, cyber, bleak, serious, stylized
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the devil resurfaces with aims to take over the world in human form, Johnny Blaze reluctantly comes out of hiding to transform into the flame-spewing supernatural hero Ghost Rider -- and rescue a 10-year-old boy from an unsavory end.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 125000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic, entertaining, retro, epic, slasher, saga, cult classic
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Spawn (1997)
Plot Summary:
After being murdered by corrupt colleagues in a covert government agency, Al Simmons (Michael Jai White) makes a pact with the devil to be resurrected to see his beloved wife Wanda (Theresa Randle). In exchange for his return to Earth, Simmons agrees to lead Hell's Army in the destruction of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, dark fantasy, dark, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, epic, bloody, suspense
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The Phantom (2009)
Plot Summary:
Before Superman, Spider-Man, and Batman, there was The Phantom, the greatest legend in the annals of 20th century comic-book crime fighting. Now, the immortal superhero returns to strike terror in the hearts of villains around the world - and to inspire a new generation to believe in the Ghost Who Walks.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, entertaining, saga, serious, suspenseful
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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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Mutant X (2001)
Plot Summary:
Mutant X is a science fiction television series that debuted on October 6, 2001. The show was created by Avi Arad, and it centers around Mutant X, a team of "New Mutants" who possess extraordinary powers as a result of genetic engineering. The members of Mutant X were used as test subjects in a series of covert government experiments. The mission of Mutant X is to seek out and protect their fellow New Mutants. The series was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Even though the series had high ratings and was meant to be renewed for a fourth season, it was abruptly canceled in 2004 after the dismantling of Fireworks Entertainment, one of the show's production companies, ending the show on a cliffhanger.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, anime, fast, serious, suspenseful, telenovela
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Kami no Kiba -JINGA- (2018)
Plot Summary:
Makai Knight Jinga Mikage , along with his partner Makai Priest Fusa and younger brother Toma, hunts the beasts known as Horrors that are born from the human malevolence known as “Inga.”.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark fantasy
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Iron Fist (2017)
Plot Summary:
Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfill his destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 138000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, realistic, saga, suspenseful, stylized, serious, cliffhanger, anime, independent film
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Crying Freeman (1995)
Plot Summary:
A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in love with him. An intense power struggle for the leadership of the Yakuza Clans ensues as they seek vengeance for the death of their leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: emotional, exciting, suspenseful, anime, suspense, stylized, touching, manga, perverse, cult classic
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Van Helsing (2016)
Plot Summary:
Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula nemesis Abraham Van Helsing is resurrected five years in the future to find out that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. She is humanity’s last hope to lead an offensive to take back what has been lost.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary, gothic, humorous, dark, serious, bloody
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Jonah Hex (2010)
Plot Summary:
Gunslinger Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slayed his wife and child. Megan Fox plays a prostitute as well as Jonah Hex's love interst in the film.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: stylized, gothic, exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing, epic, entertaining
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Punisher: War Zone (2008)
Plot Summary:
Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw. With the "Punisher Task Force" hot on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more of his evil deeds go unpunished.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: brutal, stylized, exciting, rough, suspenseful, action packed, bloody, splatter, intense, grindhouse
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The Equalizer (1985)
Plot Summary:
The Equalizer is an American television series that ran for four seasons, initially on CBS, between 1985 and 1989. It stars Edward Woodward as a middle aged retired intelligence officer with a mysterious past who helps people in trouble. The show mixes ingredients from popular spy films and private investigator shows with violent realism. A film adaptation starring Denzel Washington was released in 2014.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, detective, neo noir
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Constantine (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man struggling with his faith is haunted by the sins of his past but is suddenly thrust into the role of defending humanity from the gathering forces of darkness.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, scary, supernatural thriller, humorous, epic, detective, anime, horror comedy
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Blade: The Series (2006)
Plot Summary:
The brutal hunt for the pure bloods continues as the ultimate vampire hunter, Blade, battles to defeat the House of Chthon, an ancient evil sect of vampires that is growing stronger everyday. Led by the vampire overlord Marcus, their objective is to create a vaccine that will give rise to a new breed of super vampires, immune to vampire weaknesses. In order to stop them, Blade joins forces with th.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, stylized, gothic, cliffhanger, epic, suspense, black comedy
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Marvel's Jessica Jones (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 224000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, neo noir, realistic, semi serious, stylized, bleak, detective, psychological thriller, sexy
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Powers (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, are assigned to investigate cases involving people with superhuman abilities, referred to as “Powers.” Set amidst today’s paparazzi culture, Powers asks the questions, what if the world was full of superheroes who aren't actually heroic at all? What if all that power was just one more excuse for mischief, mayhem, murder, and endorsement deals?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, scenic, detective, serious, suspenseful
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The Crow (1994)
Plot Summary:
Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven -- watched over by a hypnotic crow -- returns from the grave to exact revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 195000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, dark fantasy, rough, exciting, atmospheric, stylized, neo noir, scary, brutal
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Sleepy Hollow (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, atmospheric, serious, detective, bloody, exciting, suspense, offbeat, dread
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The Punisher (2004)
Plot Summary:
When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 169000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, rough, realistic, action packed, brutal, bloody, grindhouse
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Garo: Makai Senki (2011)
Plot Summary:
As long as humans have evil spirits, the demon beast horror will appear from the demon world. To eat the body and soul through the shadow. However, there is light where there is darkness. The Makai Knight and Makai Houshi are fighting somewhere tonight as guardians. Immediately after the seal of Horror Cigarain, Saezima Kouga, who holds the title of Garo, the highest rank of the Makai Knight, is attacked by a man with a red mask, and his chest is stamped with ruin. Koga endures the pain and continues to subdue the horror while hiding the existence of the engraving. What is the identity and purpose.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, anime, dark fantasy