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 6.8
 3K
My Joy (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Ukraine, Netherlands
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A routine run for a truck driver turns into a nightmare he can’t escape in this psychological drama from filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa. Georgy (Viktor Nemets) is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police ...
Style: road movie, disturbing, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: losing-it hero, murder, life is a bitch, disorder, social relations, countryside, on the road, nothing goes right, human nature, underground, character study, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: soviet union, russia
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 4.4
 886
Below Zero (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Jack (Edward Furlong) is in danger of missing a deadline, his manager orders him to take whatever measures are needed to complete his screenplay. Jack locks himself in a slaughterhouse freezer but discovers that his inner demons are keeping him ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, writer's life, losing-it hero, isolation, twists and turns, one last chance, danger, figment, gory, writers, trapped, cold ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 5.0
 4K
Semum (2008)
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Director Hasan Karacadag argues that he tried to create a model of a Turkish-Islamic horror film and that he would make the world recognize this model, of which he sees "Semum" as the first example. "Semum" stars Ayça inci, ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, satanic, demonic ...
Plot: supernatural, losing-it hero, woman in danger, curse, couple relations, curses spells and rituals, dark secret, possessed girl, haunted house, occult, exorcism, alienation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
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 5.3
 10K
Lovely Molly (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Newlywed Molly moves into her deceased father's house in the countryside, where painful memories soon begin to haunt her.
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, creepy ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, nude, bare breasts, haunted by the past, drug addiction, losing-it hero, found footage, life is a bitch, woman in danger, nobody believes, isolation, newlyweds ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.1
 452K
The Exorcist (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: 12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to ...
Style: scary, suspense, satanic, demonic, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: religion, supernatural, demon, exorcism, devil, priest, macabre, possession, demonic possession, occult, exorcist, supernatural horror ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: persia, usa, washington d.c., asia, new york ...
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 6.6
 1K
LFO (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story: LFO is a dark comedy/drama/Sci-Fi about a man who realizes that he can hypnotise with sound. He starts experimenting on his neighbors, where the abuse of power takes over and, eventually, severe consequences for mankind are at stake.
Style: suspense, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, biting ...
Plot: manipulation, losing-it hero, supernatural ability, dark humor, supernatural, unfulfillment, hypnosis, sexual content, extramarital affair, sex scene, unfaithfulness, mind game ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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 4.9
 258
Eye Catcher! (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Elizabeth, a voluptuous, shy and unpopular girl, is the object of ridicule at school by the cool in-crowd. Her life spirals downward after the death of her only friend, her grandmother. But she has a crush on a popular boy at school, and a deranged ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: schizophrenic, losing-it hero, bullying, rivalry, teenage life, youth, social misfits, vengeance, physical appearance, obsession, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
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 4.1
 883
Septic Man (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A sewage worker gets trapped inside a septic tank during a water contamination crisis and undergoes a hideous transformation. To escape, he must team up with a docile Giant and confront the murdering madman known as Lord Auch.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: losing-it hero, survival, supernatural, contamination, investigation, danger, murder, evacuation, small town, body horror, violent, canuxploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 4.8
 17
Freddy Hotel (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freddy Angi, separate and homeless, stumbles into strange love affairs, including one with his wife Anna. The two meet now and then as lovers in a hotel room.
Style: serious, atmospheric, touching, realistic, bleak
Plot: couple relations, losing-it hero, unfulfillment, writer's life, dull life, cause and meaning, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse, hotel, disintegration, drugs/alcohol
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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No Rest for the Brave (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A strange man is involved in a village massacre and drug dealing.
Style: experimental, surreal, humorous, realistic, serious ...
Plot: insomnia, drug dealer, gangster, losing-it hero, teenage life, love affair, youth, on the run, psychopath, dark humor, countryside, chase ...
Time: 21st century
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 3.7
 397
Unspeakable (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Impotent and unhappy middle-aged James Fhelleps goes murderously around the bend after an automobile accident claims the life of his beloved daughter Heather and turns his nagging wife Alice into a pathetic grotesquely disfigured cripple. James ...
Style: disturbing, serious, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, midlife crisis, life turned upside down, losing-it hero, vengeance, psychopath, gory, violence spree, crumbling marriage, rivalry, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
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Comforting Skin (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A lonely young woman's desperate need for emotional and sexual companionship draws her into a surreal and ultimately destructive relationship with a shifting and whispering tattoo she has willed to life on her skin.
Style: serious, surreal, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: body horror, supernatural, losing-it hero, love and romance, starting over, nightlife, physical appearance, sexual relations, couples, mental illness, illness, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 4.7
 838
Locked In (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Josh leaves his advertising career at its peak, everyone wants either to be him or to have him. A car accident will leave his daughter in a strange coma and when everyone has given up she starts communicating with him, or is he going mad?
Style: realistic, suspenseful, touching, suspense
Plot: adultery, heroes, losing-it hero, husband wife relationship, marital separation, infidelity, little girl, father daughter relationship, car accident, old love, car, sex in a hotel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, boston
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Cracks in the Shell (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Fine suffers from not being seen but she also does her best at not being noticed, even though she is an acting student. At night, when her mentally handicapped sister Jule cannot get to sleep and stereotypically bangs her head against the wall, Fine ...
Style: serious, psychological, tense, realistic, gloomy
Plot: actor's life, losing-it hero, power relations, artists and showbiz, actress, mentor protege relationship, self destructing, audition, theater, disability, casting, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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 6.2
 35K
The Nines (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
Style: psychological, philosophical, confusing, thought provoking, surreal ...
Plot: obsession, metaphysics, alternate reality, supernatural, video game, lifestyle, losing-it hero, parallel universe, artist, love and romance, human nature, coincidence ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
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 7.5
 47K
Devdas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story: Devdas is sent away by his father so he can improve himself but upon his return his father still doesn’t welcome him back. Devdas and Paro are in love but Paro is a lower caste and is set to be married to an older widower. Devdas is devastated ...
Style: touching, emotional, weeping, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, love triangle, alcoholic, forbidden love, tragic love, prostitution, unrequited love, prostitute, drunkenness, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, hindu, death of protagonist ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 1900s, 21st century
Place: india, london, kolkata, europe, asia ...
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Survive Style 5+ (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A man continually trying and failing to get his wife to stay dead; a self-absorbed ad agency creative director who comes up with one unworkably inane idea after another; a British hitman who only wants to know everyone's function in life; and ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, not serious, mind blowing, anthology ...
Plot: hitman, hypnosis, murder, losing-it hero, social relations, dark humor, multiple storylines, surrealism, undead, gay, stoner, kaiju ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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The Beckoning (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Francesca is a pediatrician who is dedicated to both motherhood and children, married to another physician, Pedro. Following the birth of a new child, Francesca begins to suffer from postpartum depression. Following the advice of friend and ...
Style: suspense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: ghost, obsession, supernatural, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, family relations, family problems, confined, danger, couple relations, starting over, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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Escape from Tomorrow (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
Style: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, enigmatic, black and white ...
Plot: amusement park, hallucination, disneyland, surrealism, dysfunctional family, losing-it hero, disorder, parents and children, adultery, loss of job, middle aged man, midlife crisis ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
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 6.5
 260
Phobidilia (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After suffering an emotional breakdown in a public place, a young man vows to quit the chaotic city life and never leave his apartment. He quickly discovers that in todays world all his needs can be easily met: sexual satisfaction via the internet, ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, offbeat ...
Plot: losing-it hero, opposites attract, confined, impossible love, isolation, mental illness, love and romance, misfit, estrangement, couples, eviction, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
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The Uninvited (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Impaired by amnesia, Jeong-won (Shin-yang Park) can't remember his youth -- until he meets Yeon (Ji-hyun Jun), a psychic who may be able to uncover his past. After witnessing the horrific deaths of children, both share dreamlike visions of ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind twisting ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, ghost, losing-it hero, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, danger, society, dealing with death, missing child, family in danger, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea, poland
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 6.2
 138
Manila (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A tribute to filmmakers and National Artists Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal. In the "Day" segment, Piolo Pacual portrays the role of William, a drug addict who tries to rebuild his sense of self and reconnect with the people around him. ...
Style: tense, serious, atmospheric, touching, neo noir ...
Plot: losing-it hero, on the run, downfall, life is a bitch, gang, nothing goes right, human nature, boss and employee, addiction, drug abuse, chases and races, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines, asia, manila philippines
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Early One Morning (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, sincere, non-linear ...
Plot: losing-it hero, introspection, unlikely criminals, workplace, rivalry, road not taken, workplace situations, boss and employee, murder, suicide, business, violence spree ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, france
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 5.3
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Hysterical (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Frederic Lansing (Bill Hudson) is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview, Oregon; however, the lighthouse in which he's staying is haunted by the ghost of Venetia (Julie Newmar), who had killed herself 100 years ...
Style: parody, not serious, humorous, scary, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lighthouse, ghost, zombie, investigation, possession, supernatural, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, reincarnation, vengeance, danger, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: oregon
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The Red Shoes (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A woman who finds a pair of pink high heels on a subway platform soon realizes that jealousy, greed, and death follow them wherever they go.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind twisting, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, curse, supernatural, obsession, murder, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, woman in danger, gory, curses spells and rituals, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, extreme ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: south korea
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 3.4
 398
Final (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A family descends into a vortex of denial and paranoia after the death of the oldest son. Though labeled a suicide, the bizarre circumstances lead the mother, Helen, to believe there are darker forces at work
Style: serious, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, offbeat
Plot: losing-it hero, supernatural, religions or cults, chase, danger, family in danger, small town, curses spells and rituals, murder, occult, supernatural ability, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ohio
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The Melancholy Fantastic (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Suffering from her mother's recent suicide, a delusional young girl falls for an alluring Goth, against the objections of a life-size talking muslin doll. The Melancholy Fantastic is a psychological thriller set during the holidays.
Style: christmas horror, surreal, suspenseful, gothic, fairy tale ...
Plot: christmas, holiday horror, mental illness, grief, loneliness, losing-it hero, fall in love, imaginary character, imaginary, objects come to life, puppet, magic realism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.6
 51K
The Beaver (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter (Anton Yelchin) pushes for his ...
Style: touching, depressing, emotional, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: depression, mental illness, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, family drama, psychology, mental disorder, solitude, adaptation, happy ending, family relations, losing-it hero ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Burnt Offerings (1976)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time some gets hurt on the grounds the beat-up house seems to repair itself.
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, psychosis, macabre, old dark house, obsession, old woman, murder, possession, ghost, estate, haunted ...
Time: year 1976, 20th century, 70s
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The Attic Expeditions (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Trevor Blackburn is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith, in a brutal ritual. He's sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Elk, who tortures Trevor ...
Style: disturbing, rough, psychological, lovecraft, suspense ...
Plot: murder, mental illness, mental institution, surgery, psychopath, losing-it hero, mind game, supernatural, mad scientist, supernatural ability, mentally unstable, ghost ...
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