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 7.1
 246K
Cube (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style: psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, mathematics, maze, escape, group of strangers, survival horror, death, game of death ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
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 6.9
 43K
Ravenous (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: UK, Czech Republic, Mexico, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale ...
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, wendigo, snow, winter, gory, death, camp, isolation, military, fort, survival ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 90s, 1800s, 1840s ...
Place: usa, california
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 7.3
 346K
Equilibrium (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: distopia, martial arts, dystopia, fighting the system, cyberpunk, gunfight, rebellion, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, utopia, totalitarianism, dystopic future ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 2002, 2000s
Place: china, beijing china
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House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Style: bloody, disturbing, scary, brutal, splatter ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: halloween, psychopath, gory, macabre, urban legend, violent, supernatural, killer clown, brutality, murder, torture, evil wins ...
Time: year 2003, 70s, 2000s, y2k, year 2000 ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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 7.5
 194K
Battle Royale (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, bloody, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: game of death, survival, death, dystopia, suicide, gory, desperation, cruelty, social commentary, school class, dystopian future, contests and competitions ...
Time: future, year 2000, distant future, 2000s, near future
Place: japan, asia, east asia
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 5.8
 8K
Ted Bundy (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970's (though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered). Set from his college student years, to his first victims, his capture, ...
Style: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, controversial ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, sexual predator, necrophilia, electric chair, kidnapping, misogyny, violence against women, masturbation, murder, execution, rapist ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, utah, colorado, seattle, florida
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 7.3
 147K
Irreversible (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring ...
Style: art house, bleak, disturbing, surreal, offbeat ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, sexual abuse, revenge, violence, violent, rape and revenge, vengeance, brutality, sex, sexual perversion, sadism, vigilante ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten ...
Style: scary, gothic, dark, period piece, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, female werewolf, transformation, mythical creature, wilderness, sister, snow, curses spells and rituals, danger, winter, beast ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, regency period, georgian era, 1800s
Place: canada
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 5.8
 56K
Open Water (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot: survival, shark, isolation, stranded, shark attack, diving, ocean, panic, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, water ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: caribbean
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 5.4
 101K
The Ring Two (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rachel Keller must prevent evil Samara from taking possession of her son's soul.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, creepy, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, macabre, ghost, supernatural horror, evil child, nightmare, investigation, mental institution, family problems, supernatural ability, small town, scared ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: astoria oregon, oregon, usa, seattle
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 7.6
 463K
Saw (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, gory, macabre, serial killer, mind game, plot twist, survival horror, violent, psychopath, fear, trapped, locked in a room ...
Time: year 2004, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
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The Devil's Rejects (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The sequel to House of 1000 Corpses – the Firefly family are ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men guns blazing – yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding ...
Style: scary, creepy, bloody, grindhouse, suspense ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, revenge, killer clown, sheriff, murder, kidnapping, brutality, gory, female villain, maniac ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, y2k ...
Place: texas, austin texas, bolivia, usa
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The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into ...
Style: erotic, melancholic, black and white, factual, bleak ...
Plot: rape, sexual abuse, photographer, photography, female nudity, bdsm, fetishism, photograph, female protagonist, investigation, model, sexuality ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 2005 ...
Place: usa, tennessee, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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 6.1
 14K
The Ordeal (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège, his van conked out. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog leads Marc to a shuttered inn...
Style: disturbing, surreal, psychological, christmas horror, atmospheric ...
Plot: rape, psychopath, surrealism, gory, village, extreme, mentally unstable, danger, isolation, backwoods, redneck, christmas ...
Place: belgium, europe
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 6.1
 10K
In Secret (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia, Hungary, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, captivating, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot: forbidden love, female masturbation, tragic love, infidelity, marital infidelity, murder, husband wife relationship, dishonesty, couple relations, cousin cousin relationship, couples, love affair ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, sweet, dramatic, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prejudice, love, happy ending, fall in love, love and romance, opposites attract, strong female character, aristocracy, initially antagonists, wooing, unlikely couple, pride ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, victorian era, georgian era, 1790s ...
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, europe
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills ...
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, cannibalism, psychopath, torture, gory, murder, cruelty, cannibal, violence, sadism, chainsaw, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2006, 60s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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 6.5
 134K
Red Eye (2005)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, the Lux Atlantic Hotel manager Lisa is waiting for a flight to Miami. Due to the bad weather and consequent flight delay, she meets in the airport bar Jack Rippner, who is also in the waiting ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot: airplane, terrorism, hostage, kidnapping, woman in danger, airport, villain, hitman, fear, stewardess, strong female character, danger ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, miami, dallas texas, texas
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Murder-Set-Pieces (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set against Sin City, Las Vegas, "Murder-Set-Pieces" tells the story of a fashion photographer whose vocation is murder - a voyeuristic nightmare of blood, sex and brutality.
Style: disturbing, extreme horror, controversial, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: rape and murder, psycho killer, serial killer, strong sexual content, psychopath, gory, extreme, danger, murder, sexual abuse, hardcore, rape ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, los angeles
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 7.4
 111K
August Rush (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
Style: touching, inspirational, sentimental, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: music, musician, childhood, prodigy, orphan, child prodigy, dancing, child protagonist, genius, youth, chance meeting, children ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 80s, year 1995, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, chicago, xian, san francisco ...
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 6.6
 275K
Saw II (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan. Eight ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, bloody, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, torture, gory, trap, sadistic horror, psychopath, serial murder, hostage, mind game, brutality, violent, insanity ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
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 6.5
 88K
Slither (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Style: suspense, entertaining, black comedy, space horror, funny ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: alien, monster, parasite, zombie, body horror, alien invasion, gory, zombie attack, infection, creature feature, creature, small town ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa
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The Burrowers (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It is 1879 in the Dakota Territories, a band of men who set out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, but they soon discover that the real ...
Style: scary, rough, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: native american, monster, buried alive, cavalry, creature feature, creature, missing child, danger, isolation, kidnapping, old west, heroic mission ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, north dakota, south dakota
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 6.3
 180K
Surrogates (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
Style: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, surreal, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, robot, distopia, utopia, androids and robots, dystopia, technology gone awry, cloning, virtual reality, cyborgs, dystopic future, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 2009, year 2017, 2010s, near future
Place: san diego california
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 5.8
 101K
Splice (2009)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, twist ending, twisted ...
Audience: adult
Plot: monster, supernatural, genetic engineering, genetics, cloning, experiment, danger, creature, experiment gone awry, laboratory, imaginary, dna ...
Time: year 2009, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: america, usa
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 6.3
 110K
Repo Men (2010)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the ...
Style: futuristic, bloody, suspense, absurd, thought provoking ...
Plot: cyberpunk, distopia, dystopia, evil corporation, dystopian future, dystopic future, rebel, virtual reality, chase, hitman, transplant, black market ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future, year 2010
Place: usa
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 4.7
 53K
The Unborn (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
Style: scary, suspense, demonic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, ghost, supernatural horror, demonic possession, uncover truth, possession, twins, death, insect, woman in danger, brutality ...
Time: year 2000, year 2009
Place: middle east
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The Final Destination (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After a young man's premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers, Death sets out to collect those who evaded their end.
Style: suspense, slasher, splatter, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, survival, premonition, gory, a vision, car race, blood, torture, danger, coincidence, foreknowledge, race against time ...
Time: year 2009, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
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 6.6
 276K
The Village (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Style: surprise ending, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, clever ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: plot twist, forest, isolation, psychology, twists and turns, utopia, village, mysterious place, autumn, small town, village life, blind character ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 1890s, 19th century, 18th century ...
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, new england
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 7.3
 382K
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.
Style: gothic, dark, scary, dark fantasy, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, family friendly
Plot: supernatural, witch, murder, ghost, investigation, supernatural horror, small town, magical, horseman, witchcraft, goth, legends and myths ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 19th century, victorian era, year 1999 ...
Place: new york, madagascar, america, britain, new york state
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