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Tears of Kali (2004)
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A creepy three-part anthology which is actually constructed from a trio of German-produced independent short films that form a narrative around a mysterious cult in 1983 India as a wrap-around story. In the first story "Shakti", a reporter talks to an institutionalized cult survivor who claims to have murdered her boyfriend. In the second story "Devi", a man awakens from a therapy session to discover that he's been beaten senseless and held prisoner by his evil therapist. In the third story "Kali", a faith healer exorcises a spirit from a person only to discover that he has released it into his cellar.
Style:
psychological, serious, scary, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale, anthology
Plot:
sect, self discovery, experiment, journalism, rehabilitation, introspection, charlatan, murder, drugs, psychologist, religion, suspense, pagan, body horror, curses spells and rituals, religions or cults, female nudity, mental institution, spirit, basement, religious cult, body transformation, therapist, healer, danger ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
india
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about danger, deadly, gory, suspense, murder, gore and female nudity mostly in Horror, Fantasy and Thriller genres. Some movies like Tears of Kali: Mimesis (2011), Rampo Noir (2005), Someone's Knocking at the Door (2009), Snuff-Movie (2005), Subconscious Cruelty (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
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A dark figure appears in the night, bringing with him a virus that turns people into monsters. Hoping to gather stories to take back with him to the other side, he meets his opposite, a light figure prepared to do battle with the dark man in order ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
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Returning to the same medical school where they were test subjects years before, two twisted serial killers use brutal sex acts to kill off a group of med students.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Boris Arkadin is a horror film maker. His pregnant wife was brutally murdered by a Manson-like gang of hippy psychopaths during the 1960s. He becomes a virtual recluse - until years later he directs his own snuff inspired movies. He invites actors ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A surrealistic anthology of horror films; four segments structured as an intense fever dream...
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disturbing, psychological, rough, brutal, bloody ...
Plot:
torture, strong sexual content, symbolism, suspense, violent, pregnancy, cannibalism, masturbation, dead child, surrealism, extreme violence, sex scene ...
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Place:
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Six parapsychologists investigate a reputed haunted mansion and are set upon by three flesh-eating succubus ladies under the control of the sinister warlock owner bent on finding a mysterious amulet to give himself more power.
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Her fears and inability to cope with the harsh realities of life becoming so intense that they manifest themselves in an altered state of reality, a schizophrenic girl begins taking orders from a pair of clown dolls who instruct her to murder her ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Tells the story of a vampire relic with occult powers that falls into the hands of a grief-stricken young woman who will do anything to contact her dead brother.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A bus full of strangers find themselves fighting for their lives when one of them reads from an ancient Gothic tome, bringing six dead serial killers back to life, who proceed to hunt them down one by one.
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Audience:
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
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In the first story two grave robbers, thieving from an ancient Etruscan burial ground, gets in trouble when one of them tries out a ring which passes a werewolf curse to him! The second one is about a woman who wants to look like her best friend and ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Country: USA
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Duration: 90 min.
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Country: USA
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Duration: 77 min.
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Story:
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