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Plot Summary:
In 1988, the disappearance of a young girl shocks the population of little Brígida, in the interior of southern Brazil, resulting in the banning of pagan festivities of Ivana Kupala. Thirty years later, the city is preparing to bring the party back, but terrifying events, along with the dangerous ritual of transmigration of souls, unsettle the community and bring to light the secrets of a crime that ties three families’ destinies through time.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, disturbing, mystical
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Forgive Me (2013)
Plot Summary:
A series that breaks the seal of the Catholic confessional booth. A young insomniac priest gets caught up in the sins of his congregants while a secret from his own past threatens his calling.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, touching, gloomy
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Girl on the Third Floor (2019)
Plot Summary:
Don Koch tries to renovate a rundown mansion with a sordid history for his growing family, only to learn that the house has other plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, humorous, dark, disturbing, splatter, twisted
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Elise's Secret (2015)
Plot Summary:
The death of a young girl in 1969 haunts a house inhabited throughout the years by three different generations of people.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, unusual plot structure, disturbing
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The Beautiful Fantasy of Final Purpose (2020)
Plot Summary:
A small town, a flower of Amancay, a topaz of the most beautiful color and a broken family.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, captivating, suspense, dark, suspenseful, independent film, student film
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The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013)
Plot Summary:
Eun Sang-Chul (Lee Sung-Jae) and his four children encounter difficulties after the sudden death of his wife. Then, a suspicious housekeeper named Park Bok-Nyeo (Choi Ji-Woo) appears. Because of the housekeeper, Eun Sang-Chul and his children faces various cases and family members who hate each other begin to experience love and reconciliation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Mountain Medic (2008)
Plot Summary:
A medic lives with his small and strange family between the mountains and every episode he comes across a situation with not only his patients but also his family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, disturbing, bleak, suspense
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Mayday (2013)
Plot Summary:
It's Mayday in a small town steeped in pagan traditions where the crowning of the May Queen is the highlight of the day until suddenly she goes missing.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, detective, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, dark, spooky, gloomy
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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 Gift (2019)
Plot Summary:
A painter in Istanbul embarks on a personal journey as she unearths universal secrets about an Anatolian archaeological site and its link to her past.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, psychological, sincere, enigmatic, mystical
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Bedlam (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bedlam was a British supernatural drama television series created by David Allison, Neil Jones and Chris Parker. It first aired on 7 February 2011 on Sky Living and Sky Living HD. The series finale was aired on 15 March 2011. In December 2011, it was announced that a second series had been commissioned for airing in Spring 2012 with an updated cast. Series 2 began airing in June 2012 with Lacey Turner taking the lead as a suspended paramedic who can see dead people. On 13 November 2012 Jack Roth who plays Max in the series revealed that Bedlam may return for Series 3 and that a decision on the shows future is to be made around Christmas 2012. On 11 March 2013 Roth announced on Twitter that Bedlam would not be returning for a third series.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, psychological, bleak, suspenseful, scary, crime drama, serious, stylized
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South of Hell (2015)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural thriller set in South Carolina, South Of Hell focuses on Maria Abascal (Suvari), a stunning demon-hunter-for-hire whose power stems from within. Like those she hunts, Maria is divided within herself, struggling with her own demon, Abigail, who resides inside of her, feeding on the evil Maria exorcises from others. Maria and Abigail share a soul and a destiny, but as Maria desperately tries to overtake Abigail, she will discover how far Abigail will go to remain a part of her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, twist ending, suspenseful
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The Last Wave (2019)
Plot Summary:
In this supernatural thriller, an ominous cloud meets a supersized wave during a surfing competition, engulfing the participants in one fell swoop. When the cloud dissipates and the water settles, the surfers are nowhere to be seen. Five hours later, they reappear safe and sound - but with no recollection of their disappearance. One by one, the returning surfers discover they each possess inexplicable powers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Equinox (2020)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by visions after her sister vanished with her classmates 21 years before, Astrid begins an investigation that uncovers the dark, eerie truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, thrilling
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Midnight Mass (2021)
Plot Summary:
An unsettlling omen washes ashore in the wake of the storm. Later, when the locals gather for a potluck, tragedy strikes - and a miracle occurs.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 139000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 450 min
Plot tags: mystical, scary, suspense, mysterious, spiritual, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting
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Bloom (2019)
Plot Summary:
One year after a devastating flood kills five locals in an idyllic country town, a mysterious new plant appears with the power to restore their youth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, scenic, disturbing, mysterious, melancholic, enigmatic
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Phoenixsee (2016)
Plot Summary:
At Phoenixsee, an artificial lake in the southern part of Dortmunds, two worlds collide between modern apartments for the rich while the old-established working class is living just a few blocks away. The newly-rich Hansmann family just moved here from Düsseldorf while the Neuraths have been living in Dortmund for their whole life. As their children are attending the same school and play in the same soccer team, the families and their problems become entangled.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Bellevue (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a transgender teen goes missing, Annie Ryder—a cop at odds with her hometown—dives in to unravel the disappearance that suggests foul play, despite finding herself in a difficult position as she must cast suspicion on people she has known all her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: mysterious, detective, suspense, psychological, tense, intense, serious, disturbing
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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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The Living and the Dead (2016)
Plot Summary:
Somerset, 1894. A house that’s almost as old as the English countryside itself. A brilliant young couple inherit the farm and are determined to start a new life together. But their presence in this isolated corner of England starts to unleash strange, unsettling and dangerous supernatural phenomena that will start to threaten their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, period drama
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Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Plot Summary:
Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also included non-supernatural horror themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, spooky, dark fairy tale, gothic, gothic horror, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful
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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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Charmed (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set in the fictional college town of Hilltowne, Charmed follows the lives of three sisters, Macy, Mel and Maggie Vera who, after the tragic death of their mother, discover they are three of the most powerful witches of all time.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: captivating, enigmatic, suspense, gothic, semi serious, humorous, exciting, stylized, supernatural thriller, entertaining
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Bright Falls (2010)
Plot Summary:
After arriving in the small Pacific Northwestern town of Bright Falls, reporter Jake Fischer is plagued by blackouts and finds disturbing evidence of his activities. Tying this to a mysterious epidemic sweeping the town, he plans an escape. Prequel to the game Alan Wake.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, mystic, offbeat, bleak
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Ghost Wars (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in a remote Alaskan town that has been overrun by paranormal forces, the series focuses on local outcast Roman Mercer who must overcome the town’s prejudices and his own personal demons if he’s to harness his repressed psychic powers and save everyone from the mass haunting that’s threatening to destroy them all.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, captivating, dark, psychological thriller
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Hell Girl (2006)
Plot Summary:
"Hell Girl" was adapted into a single live-action television drama series that premiered on Nippon Television from November 4, 2006 spanning 12 half-hour episodes.[23] The series was directed by Makoto Naganuma. The theme song for the series is "Dream Catcher."[24] The live action adaptation features Sayuri Iwata as Enma Ai, Kazuki Kato as Ichimoku Ren, Aya Sugimoto as Onna Hone, Saaya Irie as Shibata Tsugumi, and Kazuhiko Nishimura as Shibata Hajime. Hisahiro Ogura, the actor who portrays Wanyundou in the live-action adaptation is also the Japanese male narrator at the beginning of every episode of the anime series. Eriko Matsushima retains her role as Enma Ai's grandmother in the live action series.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, spooky, shoujo
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Hausen (2020)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his mother, 16-year-old Juri and his father Jaschek move into a rundown housing complex on the city outskirts. While Jaschek tries to establish a new life for himself and his son, as caretaker of the building, Juri gradually discovers that the house has a vicious life of its own and feeds on the suffering of its inhabitants.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Messengers (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a mysterious object crashes to Earth, a group of seemingly unconnected strangers die from the energy pulse, but then awaken to learn that they have assigned the task of preventing the impending Apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, action adventure, demonic
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The Magicians (2015)
Plot Summary:
Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and poses grave danger to humanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing, fairy tale, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, funny, spiritual, costume drama
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Channel Zero (2016)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by Brian Russell’s Creepypasta tale, Channel Zero: No-End House tells the story of a young woman named Margot Sleator, who visits the No End House, a bizarre house of horrors that consists of a series of increasingly disturbing rooms. When she returns home, Margot realizes everything has changed.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, enigmatic, spooky, tense, disturbing, brutal, mysterious, surreal, mumblecore
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The Mist (2017)
Plot Summary:
A small town family is torn apart by a brutal crime. As they deal with the fallout an eerie mist rolls in, suddenly cutting them off from the rest of the world, and in some cases, each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, breathtaking, psychological thriller, apocalyptic, sitcom, grindhouse, lovecraft, interesting