Arthouse horror movies and TV shows – page 5
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List of arthouse horror movies
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
After inheriting a run-down castle, a dispirited woman and her ill-tempered husband decide to spend the night, as time and reality shift around them.
Style:
gothic horror, suspense, psychedelic, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
castle, ghost, eternity, killing, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, peril, death, revenge, obsessive quest, murder, violence ...
Time:
70s, 2020s
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three short tales of supernatural horror. In “The Telephone,” a woman is plagued by threatening phone calls. In "The Wurdalak,” a family is preyed upon by vampiric monsters. In “The Drop of Water,” a deceased medium wreaks havoc on ...
Style:
gothic, disturbing, atmospheric, anthology, creepy ...
Plot:
vampire, macabre, vengeance, murder, afterlife, ghost, supernatural horror, visceral, family in danger, nobility, death, revenge ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 1800s, 60s, 19th century ...
Place:
london, russia, serbia, tokyo
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Genre: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Coffin Joe is still looking for the perfect woman to give birth to a son of his, and, cleared of the past crimes in the first film (At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul), keeps terrorizing the people in his small town with his iconoclast and ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, controversial, serious, surreal ...
Plot:
monster, serial killer, surrealism, exploitation, violent, killer, supernatural power, arthouse horror, love letter, virus, supernatural horror, obsession ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
brazil, latin america
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140K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually ...
Style:
mind twisting, cerebral, surreal, black and white, sexual ...
Plot:
surrealism, mute character, actress, silence, patient, existentialism, medical, nordic, art, dream, alienation, insanity ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, psychological thriller, gothic, psychological ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental breakdown, country house, husband wife relationship, adultery, hallucination, countryside, surrealism, loneliness, delusion, housewife, unicorn ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that's rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.
Style:
psychological, slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
murder, sexual attraction, sex, amateur detective, serial killer, loss of virginity, lynch mob, voyeurism, brutality, death, pervert, evil priest ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
southern italy, europe, italy, milan italy
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style:
sexy, twist ending, erotic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drowning, sex scene, blindness, serial killer, haunted by the past, hallucination, death of daughter, supernatural, psychic, grief, loss of child, marriage ...
Time:
70s, near future, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
italy, venice, europe
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.
Style:
queer horror, psychological thriller, disturbing, pastoral, offbeat ...
Plot:
lesbianism, female psychopath, mental disorder, folk horror, mental illness, terror, arthouse horror, illness, darkness, lesbian, woman, countryside ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into ...
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, sexy, cult classic, dark ...
Plot:
werewolf, surrealism, little red riding hood, legends and myths, grandmother, woman in danger, wolf, dangerous animal, coming of age, girl, folk horror, beast ...
Time:
18th century, year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A troupe of struggling stage actors is rehearsing for a small-town production of a play. Everything seems to be as it should until one of the cast members turns up dead. In a panic, the others try to get out, only to find they are now locked in the ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, psychopath, gory, strangulation, theater, blood, woman in danger, death, macabre, serial killer, theatre group, owl ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In medieval Europe, crusading knights massacre a village full of suspected devil worshipers and build a large Gothic church above the cursed remains. It is now present day, and this elaborate cathedral still stands. But when its sealed crypt is ...
Style:
satanic, atmospheric, creepy, gothic, demonic ...
Plot:
devil, supernatural, public nudity, church, ghost, attempted rape, female nudity, witch, folk horror, occult, witchcraft, monster ...
Time:
medieval times, 13th century, middle ages, 70s
Place:
germany, tokyo
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, ...
Style:
bloody, frightening, medical horror, slasher, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
demon, hell, gory, hellraiser, cursed object, violent, monster, maze, body horror, doctor, puzzle, psychiatric hospital ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
england, europe, tokyo
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Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A parasite crawls into the uterus of an abused woman (Yanka) and begins to demands human blood.
Style:
disturbing, rough, suspenseful, demonic, underground horror ...
Plot:
gory, body horror, evil wins, pregnancy, murder, deadly creature, danger, supernatural, mutant, human prey, monster, vampire ...
Time:
90s, 80s
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950's suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on ...
Style:
dark comedy, creepy, terrifying, slasher, black comedy ...
Plot:
cannibalism, coming of age, macabre, suburbs, dysfunctional family, eating human flesh, dark humor, youth, cannibal, body horror, blood, nightmare ...
Time:
year 1989, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1954
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of ...
Style:
surreal, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
coming of age, child abuse, brother brother relationship, surrealism, supernatural, suicide, animal abuse, nudity, abusive mother, cemetery, molestation, hair loss ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 90s, year 1990, 50s
Place:
idaho, usa, midwest
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands, UK, Japan, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, cult classic, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
hallucination, surrealism, exterminator, nightmare, addiction, trippy, repressed homosexual, secret agent, drug addiction, paranoia, reality vs fantasy, homosexuality ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1953, year 1991, 90s ...
Place:
north africa, usa, new york, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures' lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until "She" comes along and stirs things up a ...
Style:
gothic, black comedy, cult classic, sexy, creepy ...
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, male nudity, insanity, erotica, prostitute, grave digger, graphic violence, living dead, death, violent, undead ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
Is relevant?
169K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Style:
surreal, neo noir, mind bending, atmospheric, confusing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, murder, insanity, doppelganger, nightmare, sex scene, time loop, parallel universe, graphic violence, transformation, hallucination, promiscuous woman ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997, near future
Place:
los angeles, persia, north america
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Old professional killer Wagner seeks someone to teach what he knows as long as he is already dying, and he chooses Max, young and passionless thief to be his successor.
Style:
psychological, cynical, realistic, serious, witty ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
professional killer, hitman, killer, professional, assassin, dead prostitute, hallucination, arthouse horror, film industry, adult film industry, contract killer, school shooting ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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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, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
marriage, secret society, christmas, orgy, voyeurism, obsession, sex, disguise, dream, adultery, doctor, nudity ...
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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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany, Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.
Style:
sexy, meditative, disturbing, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
incest, intimate, sex scene, female nudity, penetration, real sex, sexual content, strong sexual content, unsimulated sex, sex, existentialism, femme fatale ...
Time:
year 1999, turn of the century, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, germany, europe, normandy
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and ...
Style:
depressing, disturbing, psychological, controversial, bloody ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, loneliness, butcher, revenge, incest, alienation, insanity, transgression, violent, existentialism, nihilism, extreme ...
Time:
turn of the century, year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sado-masochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited ...
Style:
dark comedy, sexy, sexual, erotic, offbeat ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, incest, mother son incest, fetish, paraplegic, suicide attempt, rat, dysfunctional family, lgbt, forbidden love, lgbtq, oral sex ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, ancient greece
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ...
Style:
erotic, contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
small town, sex, female nudity, female pubic hair, voyeur, orgasm, masturbation, psychiatric hospital, dead body, rape, strike, police protagonist ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
france, flanders, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Scientist Shane Brown neglects his new bride, instead spending their honeymoon searching for an old colleague who disappeared after a research paper he had written was discredited by the medical community. It turns out that Dr. Semeneau is living in ...
Style:
bloody, disturbing, sexual, scary, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
violence, vampire, sex, gory, cannibal, cannibalism, murder, wanting to die, chambermaid, bloodbath, flesh eating, masturbation ...
Time:
year 2001, turn of the century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, ghana
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost – much like the fairy-tale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, psychological, serious, rough ...
Plot:
couples, male rape, gay erotica, gay rape, murder, lgbt, lovers on the run, gay anal sex, youth, confined, psychopath, mind game ...
Time:
turn of the century, 90s
Is relevant?
19K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Manu has lived a difficult life. Abused and violently raped, she sets off to find herself only to meet Nadine, a prostitute who has encountered one too many injustices in the world. Angry at the world, they embark on a twisted, rage-filled road ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, perverse, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
strong sexual content, rape and revenge, sex, explicit sex, femme fatale, murder, misandry, violence against women, depravity, violent sex, violence, nihilism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, france
Is relevant?
14K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, bleak, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, explicit sex, couple relations, cheating wife, sex scene, strong sexual content, obsession, erotica, sexual relations, sensuality, dysfunctional marriage, erection ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jacques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970s and 80's, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas, born of the '60s counter-culture, had elevated the entire genre. Older and paunchier, he is now directing a porno ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, captivating, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
porn industry, porn, sex, lust, adult filmmaking, male pubic hair, voyeur, making love, filmmaking, dysfunctional family, real sex, explicit sex ...
Time:
turn of the century, 70s, 80s
Place:
paris france
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of ...
Style:
psychological thriller, rough, suspenseful, hood, saga ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
blood, survival horror, social injustice, abuse of power, murder, atrocity, massacre, politics, nightmare, racism, killing spree, resistance movement ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, year 2017
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
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