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 7.4
 91K
The Following (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Notorious serial killer Joe Carroll, after being found guilty of murdering 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature, escapes from death row. The FBI calls former agent Ryan Hardy to consult on the case, as he was ...
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murderer, fbi, mind game, criminal, investigation, serial murder, violence, killings, murder, victim ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 3.4
 312
Craig (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: CRAIG is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from losing his parents in a big fire. Besides a friend from childhood, in one go he looses everyone he cares about. The friend, Cliff, isn't of much use either. He has his own ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, vengeance, danger, mental illness, gory, split personality, obsession, rivalry, suburban life, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
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When Heroes Fly (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Eleven years after falling out, four friends, war veterans of a Special Forces unit, reunite for one final mission: to find Yaeli, a former lover of one of them and sister of another. Their journey will take them deep into the Colombian jungle but, ...
Style: exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense
Plot: israeli, soldier, jungle, disappearance, israeli army, girlfriend, friendship, investigation, danger, rivalry, mossad, ptsd ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: colombia, israel
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 4.9
 5K
Jackals (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set in the 1980s, an estranged family hires a cult deprogrammer to take back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot: isolated house, home invasion, family in danger, brother brother relationship, baby, kidnapping, father son relationship, family home, night, terror, siege, murder ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
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 6.0
 14K
Motel Hell (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make ...
Style: black comedy, slasher, spoof, scary, parody ...
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, murder, serial killer, psychopath, violence, trap, female nudity, farmer, butcher, gory, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
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The Other Lamb (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Belgium, USA, Denmark, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A haunting and nightmarish tale that tells the story of Selah, a young girl born into a repressive cult known as the Flock. The members of the Flock – all women and female children– live in a rural compound, and are led by one man, known only as ...
Style: suspense, psychological, enigmatic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: religious cult, woman, religious leader, female protagonist, community, cult leader, teenage sexuality, polygamy, menstruation, coming of age, social problems, sorority ...
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Night of the Demons (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While conducting a seance during a Halloween party, high-school seniors unlock the demon that remains locked in the crematorium.
Style: scary, gothic, demonic, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, demon, halloween, gory, brutality, demonic possession, supernatural, killed during sex, teenager, ghost, dark humor, halloween party ...
Time: 80s
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 6.6
 7K
Impetigore (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, South Korea, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Enticed by a promise of inheritance, a young woman returns to the village of her birth. Unbeknownst to her, the villagers hide a sinister plan -- one that may require her very own death.
Style: disturbing, suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: curse, folk horror, village, black magic, remote location, ritual sacrifice, hometown, runaway, mysterious past, terror, ritual murder, murder ...
Place: indonesia
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To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
Style: satanic, scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: occult, ritual, satanism, afterlife, satanist, deal with the devil, demon, ghost, satanic cult, curses spells and rituals, danger, witch ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1976
Place: london
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The Devil's Hand (1961)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a satanic cult.
Style: cult classic, satanic, grindhouse, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: voodoo, devil worship, human sacrifice, witchcraft, witch, magic, demon, macabre, coven, occult, satanic cult, satanism ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
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 6.0
 22K
Starry Eyes (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.
Style: scary, surreal, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot: gory, hollywood, religions or cults, ambition, aspiring actress, secret society, filmmaking, occult, casting, casting couch, violence, friendship ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
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 3.7
 2K
The Last Man (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Argentina, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tov Matheson is a war veteran with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) who perceives that the end of the world is coming. After establishing a relationship with a dubious Messiah, he leaves his normal life and begins the construction of a shelter ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, rough ...
Plot: apocalypse, storm, gang, suicidal thoughts, messiah, post traumatic stress disorder, war veteran, violence, prison escape, father daughter relationship, jail, distopia ...
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Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The shocking true story of Catherine Oxenberg and her fight to save her daughter India from a dangerous sex cult.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: brainwashing, extortion, mother daughter relationship, sorority, religions or cults, mother and daughter, fighting the system, fight for supremacy, criminal, religious cult, guru, charlatan ...
Place: malibu california
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Lord of Illusions (1995)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
Style: dark, neo noir, scary, detective, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, magic, investigation, occult, private detective, fanatic, violence, good versus evil, desert, murder, telekinesis, demon ...
Time: 90s, year 1982, 80s
Place: los angeles, new york, mojave desert, usa, california
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Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 159 min.
Story: A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, scary, psychological ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: mass suicide, dysfunctional family, family relations, internet, suicide, nihilism, woman in danger, teenage life, youth, on the run, leaving home, investigation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Big Wednesday (1978)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
Style: harsh, inspirational, exciting, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: surfing, coming of age, friendship, surfer, adolescence, vietnam war, surf, youth, follow your dream, adolescence vs adulthood, ocean, teenage boy ...
Time: 60s, year 1978, 70s, 20th century, year 1974 ...
Place: california, vietnam, usa, tijuana mexico, pacific ocean ...
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, macabre, massacre, murder, chainsaw, american horror, psychopath, masked killer, cannibalism, homicidal maniac, psycho killer, danger ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1973
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
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 5.9
 19K
Devil in Ohio (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 356 min.
TV show
Story: Determined to protect a young patient who escaped a mysterious cult, a psychiatrist takes the girl in, putting her own family — and life — in danger.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: psychiatrist, stranger, hiding place, relationships, changing lives, threat, religious cult, life is a bitch, occult, problem, faith, hospital ...
Place: ohio
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 6.2
 21K
Dagon (2001)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. ...
Style: lovecraft, scary, suspense, surprise ending, satanic ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, cthulhu, chase, monster, supernatural, small town, body horror, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, gory, nightmare, ritual, human sacrifice ...
Place: spain, galicia, europe
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 7.0
 13K
Aquarius (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: In the late 1960s, a Los Angeles police sergeant with a complicated personal life starts tracking a small-time criminal and budding cult leader seeking out vulnerable women to join his “cause.” The name of that man is Charles Manson.
Style: tense, stylized, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly
Plot: police detective, hippie, missing person, police investigation, murder, charles manson, policewoman, party, drug, police station, name calling, teenage girl ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, year 1969, year 1968, 60s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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 6.4
 34K
The Omega Man (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling ...
Style: futuristic, bleak, apocalyptic, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: plague, post apocalypse, survival, vampire, isolation, infection, post apocalyptic, virus, pandemic, dystopia, apocalypse, transformation ...
Time: future, 70s, year 1971, near future, year 1975 ...
Place: los angeles, usa, soviet union, china, california ...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker ...
Style: horror musical, parody, grindhouse, surreal, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: mad scientist, transsexual, transvestite, lgbt, rock and roll, cannibalism, transgender, music, lgbtq, dancing, butler, gay ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: transylvania, ohio
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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: "This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert ...
Style: mockumentary, parody, spoof, funny, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: heavy metal, music, musician, rock and roll, satire, singer, rock, music band, pianist, found footage, rock music, fame ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place: seattle, middle east, austin texas, memphis, los angeles ...
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Gothic (1986)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord ...
Style: gothic, surreal, scary, disturbing, gothic horror ...
Plot: insanity, demon, surrealism, mad scientist, seance, mind game, brutality, obsession, goth, drug, writers, hallucination ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, regency period
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 7.5
 110K
The Warriors (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, futuristic, stylized, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: survival, street gang, gang, violence, gang war, subway, gang member, gangster, chase, murder, graffiti, assassination ...
Time: future, year 1979, 70s, near future
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, bronx new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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 7.4
 231K
The Evil Dead (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.
Style: splatter, psychotronic, grindhouse, bloody, creepy ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, date night, teens, adult
Plot: zombie, gory, evil dead, monster, demonic possession, supernatural horror, extreme violence, demon, evil, supernatural, violence, dark humor ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, michigan, tennessee
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Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Style: grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, splatter, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, infection, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, monster, epidemic, end of the world, survival, living dead, siege, shopping mall, undead ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, philadelphia, bolivia, usa
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink white Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events ...
Style: neo noir, dark comedy, surreal, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bowling, mistaken identity, weed, dialogue, slacker, hippie, marijuana, great dialogue, dream, drug, stoner, nihilism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, year 1991
Place: los angeles, america, iraq, arizona, usa ...
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Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Margot, a documentary filmmaker, heads to a secluded Amish community in the hopes of learning about her long-lost mother and extended family. Following a string of strange occurrences and discoveries, she comes to realize this community may not be ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, bleak ...
Plot: found footage, paranormal, paranormal activity, ghost, supernatural, exorcism, paranormal phenomena, supernatural being, devil worship, animal sacrifice, isolated community, community ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.6
 4K
Bad Dreams (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, creepy ...
Plot: hospital, cult leader, supernatural, suicide, afterlife, insanity, sole survivor, psychopath, mind game, woman in danger, danger, serial killer ...
Time: 80s, 70s
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