Arthouse horror movies and TV shows – page 3
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List of arthouse horror movies
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A traveller by the name of Crossley, forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, psychological, horror musical, slasher ...
Plot:
female nudity, nudity, folk horror, surrealism, erotica, renaissance, mental disorder, small town, curses spells and rituals, witchcraft, spell, insanity ...
Time:
year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place:
eastern europe, england
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
José Sirgado, filmmaker in his thirties, has completed his second film and is deeply unsatisfied for various reasons. One may be that his relationship with the film has nothing to do with what he had imagined, another may be that the heroine of his ...
Style:
experimental, surreal, crying, cult classic, slasher ...
Plot:
homoeroticism, filmmaking, hallucination, drug addict, mental disorder, nudity, gay, found footage, female nudity, surrealism, drug addiction, visitor ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
iberian peninsula, spain, europe, madrid
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23K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.
Style:
suspense, ambiguous ending, spooky, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
bartender, body horror, supernatural horror, occult, mental disorder, cockroach, bar fight, macabre, extreme, hardcore, terror, supernatural ...
Place:
new orleans, louisiana
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Style:
slasher, creepy, suspense, visually stunning, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, psycho killer, nude girl, female nudity, torture, voyeur, obsession, nudity, bare breasts, nude, evil man, masked villain ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a Parisian porn theater, a cashier, a 50-year-old man and a young projectionist are drawn into a complex love affair.
Style:
realistic, erotic, sexual, sexy, terrifying ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexual relations, sexual attraction, making love, lifestyle, gender bending, human nature, transvestism, gays and lesbians, gender, gay, gay sex, explicit sex ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, sex comedy, sensual ...
Plot:
sex, orgy, perversion, lesbian, voyeurism, sexual relations, erotica, oral sex, dangerous attraction, lesbian sex, sex scene, public nudity ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, tokyo
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161K
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, sexy, bleak, disturbing, harsh ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, revenge, violence, violent, sadism, rape and revenge, sexualized violence, brutality, anal rape, sexual perversion, rape victim ...
Time:
year 2002, turn of the century, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A 2002 French experimental film directed by Philippe Grandrieux and starring Zachary Knighton and Anna Mouglalis. The story involves a young American who falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, erotic, exciting ...
Plot:
obsession, social decay, nihilism, destructive relationship, society, prostitute, forbidden love, couples, dancer's life, starting over, sexual relations, relationship problems ...
Time:
turn of the century, 21st century
Place:
england, london, france, new york, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Style:
bleak, intense, atmospheric, apocalyptic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, boy, hopes, sex scene, dysfunctional society, survival, chaos, danger, social differences, life is a bitch, countryside ...
Time:
90s, year 2003, 2000s
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Esther, a self-conscious young woman who works for a public relations firm. One night at a party with her friend Sandrine, Esther wanders into the backyard and stumbles, scratching her leg on a piece of scrap metal. She goes back to the party, and ...
Style:
sexy, horrifying, psychological, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
self mutilation, body horror, wound, mental illness, mutilation, extreme, skin, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, insanity, obsession, self discovery, women ...
Time:
turn of the century, 21st century
Place:
japan, lisbon portugal, tokyo, milan italy, paris france ...
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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, twist ending, psychological, brutal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, gory, home invasion, brutality, torture, macabre, disturbed individual, farmhouse, psycho killer, kidnapping, killing spree, death ...
Time:
year 2003, turn of the century, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
france, south of france, europe
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Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
Story:
A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Suzie ironing, Jane sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and out of the apartment, and the occasional solo singing number by Suzie or Jane. At one point the ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, psychological, experimental, offbeat ...
Plot:
rabbit, dark humor, danger, confined, confinement indoors, isolation, surrealism, exploitation, arthouse horror, extreme, trippy, stoned ...
Time:
year 2002
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million ...
Style:
suspense, mind bending, enigmatic, suspenseful, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
moral dilemma, life & death, husband murders wife, experiment, psychology, supernatural, decision, research, mysterious character, gift, mind control, social experiment ...
Time:
70s, year 2009, 20th century
Place:
usa, langley virginia, richmond virginia, virginia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal, Austria, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on George Bataille's posthumous and controversial novel: When his father dies, a young man is introduced by his attractive, amoral mother to a world of hedonism and depravity.
Style:
disturbing, sexual, sexy, erotic, contemplative ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mother son incest, mother son relationship, depravity, incest, sexual relations, nude beach, sex, sexual promiscuity, dominatrix, incestuous relationship, exhibitionism, voyeur ...
Time:
turn of the century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
canary islands, europe, spain, nice france, france
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90K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, clever, psychological thriller, tense ...
Plot:
suicide, nightmare, guilt, childhood, haunted by the past, hidden camera, dysfunctional family, videotaping, found footage, psychology, voyeurism, lie ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, algeria, germany, iraq ...
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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:
christmas horror, surreal, horrifying, rough, frightening ...
Plot:
surrealism, psychopath, gory, extreme, holiday horror, mentally unstable, danger, isolation, rape, gay rape, backwoods, redneck ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
belgium, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Finland, Netherlands, China, Estonia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Thousands of years ago in ancient China, a love struck sword hero fights against his destiny. He wants another chance to be reunited with his loved one and he gets that chance, in a far away place and a far away time, in the cold north, in modern ...
Style:
serious, epic, stylized, exciting, romantic drama
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
legends and myths, martial arts, reincarnation, destiny, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, escapades, good versus evil, rivalry, supernatural ability, danger, heroes ...
Place:
finland, europe, china, asia
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10K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group of young people leaves a disco and bumps into a shepherd who is ready to spend his night worshipping Satan.
Style:
christmas horror, scary, suspenseful, dark comedy, surreal ...
Plot:
buddies, pregnancy, christmas, countryside, prank, club, social misfits, obsession, danger, mental illness, dangerous attraction, isolation ...
Time:
year 2006, turn of the century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, desert, gory, survival, torture, fear, rape, victim, human monster, brutality, stranded, danger ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa
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34K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise. They're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.
Style:
scary, tense, creepy, clever, frightening ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
home invasion, stranger, violence, couples, breaking and entering, danger, forest, killer child, isolation, teenage life, invasion, violent ...
Time:
year 2006, year 2000, year 2002
Place:
europe, bucharest, romania
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force beyond imagining, Saint Georges is a man possessed by ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, serious, satanic ...
Plot:
prison, trapped in space, space station, spacecraft, female psychiatrist, psychiatrist, survival, prison life, danger, supernatural ability, mental illness, distant planet ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Morocco
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.
Style:
brutal, scary, disturbing, sadistic, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
cannibal, cannibalism, desert, gory, psychopath, supernatural, torture, violent, blood, serial killer, rape and revenge, military ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, horrifying ...
Plot:
cannibalism, sadistic horror, psychopath, torture, cruelty, human monster, gory, macabre, survival, insanity, butcher, sadism ...
Time:
year 2007, turn of the century, 21st century
Place:
europe, paris france, france
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a nun broke her covenant with God to save the life of her unborn son, Aman, he was cursed for life. As an adult, Aman has killed those who have crossed him. But his curse brings his victims back to life and they pursue him for revenge, so Aman ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
zombie, deal with the devil, supernatural, heroes, lone wolves, gang, rivalry, danger, cowboy, prostitute, revenge, flashback ...
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8K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
It's young Lucy's first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She visits Mrs Jessel, an old woman who lies in cerebral coma, by herself, in her large desolate house. Learning by accident that Mrs Jessel, a former dance teacher of repute, ...
Style:
gothic, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
haunted house, masked killer, supernatural, vampire, undead, paranormal, old mansion, bloodsucker, greed, mysterious character, ghost, mysterious place ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, brittany
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of Earth is underway.
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, absurd, horror comedy, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
invasion, dark humor, dog, fictional reality, monster, psychic power, male friendship, out of body experience, buddies, portal, save the world, adult humor ...
Time:
year 2012
Place:
usa, las vegas
Is relevant?
49K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, art house, creepy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
folk horror, hitman, contract killer, ritual sacrifice, violent, husband murders wife, child killed, masked killer, brutality, infection, gory, murder ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom, britain, yorkshire, england, seattle
Is relevant?
20K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Borgman is the central character of this dark, malevolent fable. Is he a dream or a demon, a twisted allegory or an all-too-real embodiment of our fears? Borgman is a sinister arrival in the sealed-off streets of modern suburbia. His presence ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, disturbing, bleak, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
nightmare, dog, family crisis, male nudity, american horror, surrealism, husband wife relationship, garden, dark humor, good versus evil, manipulation, hidden identity ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
europe, holland
Is relevant?
259K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, brutal, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
home invasion, survival, survival horror, self defense, danger, violence spree, security system, dystopia, family in danger, society, killing spree, distopia ...
Time:
future, year 2013, near future, 2010s, year 2000 ...
Place:
california, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro ...
Style:
art house, surreal, realistic, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot:
surrealism, childhood, coming of age, kids in trouble, dysfunctional family, family life, family relations, street kid, family problems, parents and children, misfit, youth ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
chile, latin america
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