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 5.9
 13K
Backtrack (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he ...
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, touching, tense ...
Plot: ghost, memory, nightmare, therapist, hallucination, murder, death, death of daughter, female police officer, repressed memory, train crash, haunted ...
Time: year 2015
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 6.7
 77K
High Tension (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, ...
Style: scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, gory, macabre, home invasion, psycho killer, kidnapping, torture, insanity, survival, killing spree, disturbed individual, murder ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, y2k, 21st century
Place: france, south of france, europe
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Deadly Revisions (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hypnotherapy and drugs are used to help an amnesiac horror writer, but are the terrifying images that surface real or imagined?
Style: scary, suspense, psychotronic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: writers, nightmare, evil, murder, supernatural power, ghost, supernatural, mission, revenge, curses spells and rituals, creature, victim ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.3
 319
Sunrise (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: India, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Inspector Joshi is a grieving father searching for his daughter Aruna, kidnapped years ago when she was six. In his despair, life converges with a recurring dream in which Joshi pursues a shadowy figure who leads him to 'Paradise', a ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: nightmare, police inspector, investigation, crime investigation, child abduction, kidnapping, family problems, obsessive quest, beach, revenge, family relations, child trafficking
Place: mumbai india
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 5.8
 12K
Baskin (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Feature length version of the 2013 Turkish short film about police making a horrifying discovery in an apartment building.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, lovecraft, scary ...
Plot: torture, frog, black mass, nightmare, body horror, violence, imagination, patrol, road accident, death, accident, dream ...
Place: turkey
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Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Heather Mason and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn't fully understand, Now on the eve of her 18th birthday, plagued by horrific nightmares and the disappearance of her father, Heather ...
Style: gothic, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: occult, ghost town, ghost, female protagonist, mysterious place, supernatural, missing person, zombie, nightmare, alternate reality, parallel universe, demon ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: portland oregon, west virginia
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 6.4
 3K
Don't Tell (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe ...
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: incest, nightmare, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, family relations, sexual abuse, self discovery, introspection, couples, family problems, haunted by the past, couple relations ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa, los angeles, italy
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 6.8
 62K
Inland Empire (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
Style: surreal, psychological, mindfuck, experimental, psychedelic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, macabre, filmmaking, danger, alternate reality, insanity, curse, murder, nightmare, actress, abusive husband, mysticism ...
Time: year 2006, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: poland, los angeles, usa, california, europe ...
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Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Israel, France, Germany, USA, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Much awarded animated documentary, in which director and Israeli army veteran Ari Folman interviews friends and former soldiers about their memories of the 1982 Lebanon war and especially the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut. The usage on ...
Style: rough, disturbing, adult animation, psychological, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: politics, military, soldier, memory loss, nightmare, haunted by the past, guilt, mass murder, memory, catastrophe, israeli, tragic event ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place: israel, lebanon, middle east, palestine, beirut lebanon
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Carnival of Souls (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Alex Grant is a troubled young woman, 20 years ago, she witnessed her mother get murdered by a carnival clown. She has nightmares of the clown - Louis Seagram. First a kind man then turned bad and also tried to rape Alex's mother. Alex fears ...
Style: slasher, surprise ending, psychological, tense, scary ...
Plot: evil clown, female protagonist, carnival, nightmare, murder, childhood trauma, vengeance, sister sister relationship, psychopath, killer clown, witnessing a crime, haunted by the past ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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 7.6
 47K
The Tenant (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A quiet and inconspicuous man (Trelkovsky) rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill ...
Style: psychological, offbeat, black comedy, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, paranoia, insanity, mental illness, dark humor, nightmare, apartment building, suicide, conspiracy, obsession, landlord tenant relationship, mental disorder ...
Time: near future, year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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The Huntress: Rune of the Dead (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When Runa’s father disappears on a viking journey she steps up as head of her family, but she is tormented by strange nightmares. One day when she is out hunting, she stumbles across a wounded warrior who carries news of her father, new that seem ...
Style: scary, tense, bleak, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: viking, forest, nightmare, treasure, archer, loneliness, missing father, hunting, sister sister relationship, family problems, trapped, fear ...
Time: medieval times, 9th century
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young woman is accused of murdering her debauched neighbor after dreaming it. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
Style: slasher, psychosexual thriller, grindhouse, surprise ending, spooky ...
Plot: lesbian lover, nightmare, erotic dream, murder, lesbian, female nudity, serial killer, glamour, female psychopath, plot twist, acid trip, mysticism ...
Time: 70s
Place: london, england, europe
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It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.
Style: philosophical, surreal, adult animation, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, illness, mental health, mental illness, narration, dark humor, nightmare, hospital, divorced parents, loneliness, life & death, existentialism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.5
 93K
Flatliners (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life. A science fiction thriller from the early 1990's with a ...
Style: scary, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, medical student, near death experience, hallucination, suicide, medical experiment, experiment gone awry, obsession, bullying, manipulation, memory ...
Time: 80s, 90s, distant future, 20th century
Place: chicago
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 6.9
 51K
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then ...
Style: black comedy, funny, independent film, humorous, scary ...
Plot: mummy, mental illness, president, undead, dark humor, nightmare, roommate, monster, irreverent, musician, old man, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, las vegas, usa, southern usa ...
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The Manchurian Candidate is a political thriller from American director John Frankenheimer. An American soldier is brainwashed into being a killer for the communist Russians during the Korean War.
Style: political thriller, black and white, psychological, political, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: conspiracy, cold war, political conspiracy, brainwashing, assassin, senator, election, political intrigue, korean war, spy, manipulation, politics ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 50s, 1950s, year 1952
Place: new york, china, north korea, korea, usa ...
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 5.5
 2K
Martyrs Lane (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leah, 10, has terrible nightmares. Her mother seems distant somehow, lost in her thoughts. A small, nightly visitor brings Leah comfort, but soon Leah will realize that her little visitor offers knowledge that might be very, very dangerous.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, mystical, disturbing, atmospheric
Plot: ghost, nightmare, supernatural horror, supernatural, ghost story, mysterious girl, mysticism, ghost child, cemetery, haunted house, terror, haunted ...
Time: 2020s
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Last Night in Soho (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.
Style: scary, gothic, suspense, slasher, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: time travel, murder, female serial killer, rape, brothel, fashion designer, grandmother granddaughter relationship, plot twist, nightmare, nostalgia, ghost, macabre ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, year 1960, year 1969, year 1967
Place: london, england
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 6.0
 11K
The I Inside (2004)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: memory loss, time loop, hospital, paranoia, puzzle, murder, nightmare, uncover truth, dishonesty, mind game, investigation, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 2000, year 2002
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 7.6
 4K
Shiki (2010)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Sotobamura is a small village with around 1300 residents; so small the village isn't even connected to a single highway. An isolated village in which old customs, such as the burial of the dead, are still practiced. One day, the bodies of three ...
Style: anime, dark fantasy, scary, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot: vampire, fear, supernatural, mysterious death, danger, desperation, murder, evil, insanity, death, imaginary, nightmare ...
Place: japan, asia
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Tales from the Crypt (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Tales from the Crypt, sometimes titled HBO's Tales from the Crypt, is an American horror anthology television series that ran from June 10, 1989 to July 19, 1996 on the premium cable channel HBO for seven seasons with a total of 93 episodes. ...
Style: anthology, suspenseful, witty, gothic, psychological ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: dark humor, supernatural, nightmare, nightmare comes true, amateur detective, hidden identity, supernatural ability, danger, gory, woman in danger, verbal byplay, monster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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As the Gods Will (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. He and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind, the only thing Shun ...
Style: surreal, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: game of death, game, school, death, heroes, high school student, isolation, nightmare, superhero, chaos, fight scenes, murder ...
Time: year 2014
Place: japan
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The Boogey Man (1980)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A young girl witnesses her brother murder a man through a reflection in a mirror. Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, murder, vengeance, childhood trauma, psychiatrist, fear, danger, nightmare, curse, family in danger, haunted by the past, abusive mother ...
Time: 70s
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 6.2
 6K
Dust Devil (1992)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Style: atmospheric, slasher, scary, dark, offbeat ...
Plot: desert, hitchhiking, adultery, nightmare, hitchhiker, supernatural, female nudity, dying during sex, murder of a nude woman, woman on top, motel, occult ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: south africa, africa
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 6.8
 30K
Dead Again (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hypnosis, murder, memory loss, private detective, dual role, reincarnation, amnesia, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural, mysterious character, nightmare ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: los angeles, san francisco, usa
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 7.5
 372K
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 159 min.
Story: After Dr. Bill Hartford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly ...
Style: sexual, sexy, psychological, artsy, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: marriage, voyeurism, obsession, sex, secret society, disguise, orgy, adultery, infidelity, lust, nudity, nude ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, seattle, usa
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 7.9
 616K
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz ...
Style: feel good, 3d animation, humorous, funny, emotional ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: friendship, toy story, toy comes to life, toys, chase, villain, outer space, falling from height, kidnapping, little boy, anthropomorphism, doll ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: ohio
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 8.2
 1.4M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, persia, iran, america
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 7.5
 18K
Another (2012)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 286 min.
TV show
Story: When Kouichi Sasakibara transfers to his new school, he can sense something frightening in the atmosphere of his new class, a secret none of them will talk about. At the center is the beautiful girl Mei Misaki. Kouichi is immediately drawn to her ...
Style: anime, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, mind twisting ...
Plot: classmate, mysterious character, death, supernatural, school, accidental death, curses spells and rituals, suspicion, encounter, twists and turns, nightmare, paranormal activity ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: japan, asia
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