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List of agony movies

ABCs of Death 2.5 (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An anthology of 26 fan entries submitted for inclusion in ABCs of Death 2, each offering various takes on the letter "M"
Style: anthology, suspense, psychological, disturbing, scary ...
Plot: hardcore, violence, brutality, murder, survival, multiple storylines, life & death, justice, male objectification, courage, animal attack, animal cruelty ...
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Ebola Syndrome (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A restaurant employee wanted for murder contracts Ebola by raping a woman in South Africa and starts an outbreak there and in Hong Kong when he returns home.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, bloody, rough, extreme horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rape, murder, virus, serial killer, cannibalism, deadly virus, female nudity, brutality, infection, dark humor, threesome, sex ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place: south africa, africa, china, hong kong, asia ...
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 7.1
 330K
The Lobster (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands, Belgium, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Style: surreal, art house, clever, absurd, ironic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: absurdism, dystopia, distopia, solitude, blindness, love, manhunt, society, suicide attempt, hotel, relationships, secret relationship ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, future, near future
Place: ireland, greece, hellas, canada
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ABCs of Death 2 (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Japan, Nigeria, Lithuania, France, Cuba, UK, China, India, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, Greece, Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Belgium, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Poland, Netherlands, South Africa, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Colombia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Germany, Ukraine, Austria, Australia, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Taking all that was great from the first installment, ABCs OF DEATH 2 aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.
Style: anthology, scary, suspense, harsh, surreal ...
Plot: macabre, brutality, death, dark humor, justice, gory, danger, psychopath, murder, obsession, crazy, fbi ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, london
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The ABCs of Death (2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 129 min.
Story: An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the motion picture is comprised of 26 individual chapters, ...
Style: anthology, surreal, scary, grindhouse, stylized ...
Plot: nightmare, violence, animal cruelty, death, brutality, murder, male nudity, violent, killing an animal, danger, runaway, adaptation ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, japan, vancouver, mexico city
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Soldiers of Salamina (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Professor Lola Sánchez investigates the truth behind the events experienced by Rafael Sánchez Mazas, one of the founders of the Falange Española party, during the Spanish Civil War.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, sincere, political ...
Plot: spanish civil war, soldier, writer's life, uncover truth, change of heart, lifesaver, society, political unrest, against humanity, writers, spanish history, civil war ...
Time: year 1938, year 1937, year 1936, year 1939, 21st century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, basque country, madrid, europe ...
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 7.5
 2K
The Heifer (1985)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A platoon of mismatched republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the saint patron date of the village. In addition to ruining the nationals' celebration they want the animal in order to ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, intellectual, crying
Plot: spanish civil war, anarchist, soldier, male pubic hair, skinny dipping, male nudity, mutant, platoon, behind enemy lines, republican, military, satire ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1937, year 1938, year 1939 ...
Place: spain, basque country, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe ...
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 4.7
 1K
Freetown (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Ghana
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A group of native Liberian missionaries make a desperate cross-country trip through their war torn country to save one of their own.
Style: realistic, emotional, suspenseful, independent film, serious ...
Plot: hopes, missionary, human spirit, rescue, heroic mission, state affairs, danger, daring rescue, political unrest, racism, faith, bravery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: liberia, africa, west africa
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 7.6
 11K
Butterfly (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ...
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, political, compassionate ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: spanish civil war, coming of age, civil war, friendship, children, teacher, childhood, altar boy, spanish history, depression, anarchist, family relations ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1936 ...
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, barcelona, europe, galicia ...
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Freedomfighters (1996)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story: At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's ...
Style: political, social, sad, realistic, serious ...
Plot: spanish civil war, anarchist, anarchism, feminism, spanish history, civil war, rebellion, revolution, radical, female soldier, revolt, strike ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1938, year 1939, year 1936 ...
Place: barcelona, iberian peninsula, europe, spain, basque country ...
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 6.5
 19K
Jakob the Liar (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ...
Style: sad, cult classic, emotional, uplifting, semi serious ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, shoah, nazi, gestapo, world war, radio, judaism, hopes, lie, death ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1942, year 1939 ...
Place: poland, germany, europe, russia
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Men Behind the Sun (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, Horror, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments ...
Style: extreme horror, controversial, bleak, brutal, rough ...
Plot: world war two, gory, torture, japanese history, dehumanization, extreme, violence, violent, experiment, hardcore, chinese history, sino japanese war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: china, asia, japan, korea, russia ...
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 6.4
 10K
Flight 93 (2006)
Genre: Action, History, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Flight 93 is a 2006 made-for-TV film, directed by Peter Markle, which chronicles the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks. It premiered January 30, 2006 on the A&E Network and was re-broadcast several times ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: terrorism, airplane, passenger, 9/11, hijacking, terrorist, aviation, war on terror, danger, daring rescue, government agency, save the day ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: north america, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Maruta 3 ... Destroy all Evidence (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: During the shut down and destruction of the Japanese test camp Squadron 731 in Manchuria, a soldier becomes infected with a virus developed during the camp's testing and risks spreading it into Japan on the train ride home.
Style: perverse, terrifying, bloody, realistic, serious ...
Plot: against humanity, gory, extreme, torture, extreme violence, pandemic, soldier, danger, world war two, dehumanization, laboratory, strong violent content ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: asia, china, japan, korea, russia ...
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 5.8
 3K
Guernica (2016)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The fates of Henry - an American correspondent - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors during the Spanish Civil War.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, crying ...
Plot: spanish civil war, propaganda, world war two, civil war, saving a life, militia, military, war violence, hiding place, freedom, politics, nazism ...
Time: 1930s, year 1999, year 1937, pre world war two, year 1975 ...
Place: basque country, spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, morocco ...
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I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A remake of the 1979 controversial cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in ...
Style: disturbing, brutal, scary, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: vengeance, rape and revenge, torture, violence, rape, revenge, rapist, sexual abuse, serial killer, danger, female vigilante, woman in danger ...
Time: year 2010, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
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 6.7
 108K
Eden Lake (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style: brutal, suspense, bad ending, scary, slasher ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: survival, torture, camping, chase, forest, youth, fear, gory, revenge, teenager, maniac, danger ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place: united kingdom, england, britain
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 7.6
 115K
United 93 (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Style: controversial, political, disturbing, serious, rough ...
Plot: terrorism, 9/11, airplane, hijacking, terrorist, war on terror, survival, al qaeda, aviation, medieval, death, airplane accident ...
Time: september 11 2001, year 2006, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, middle east, boston, usa, pennsylvania ...
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Teen Wolf: The Movie (2023)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The wolves are howling once again, as a terrifying ancient evil emerges in Beacon Hills. Scott McCall, no longer a teenager yet still an Alpha, must gather new allies and reunite trusted friends to fight back against this powerful and deadly enemy.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, teen horror, dark fantasy
Audience: teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: werewolf, male nudity, bare chested male, wolf, shapeshifter, supernatural being, evil, full moon, supernatural power, supernatural horror, supernatural, fight ...
Time: 2020s
Place: northern california
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 6.0
 13K
Made in Italy (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.
Style: sentimental, romantic, light, touching, entertaining ...
Plot: father son relationship, home renovation, starting over, real life father and son playing father and son, divorce, family values, artist, family drama, romantic relationship, new life, lifestyle change, happy ending ...
Time: 2020s
Place: italy, tuscany, london, europe
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 7.5
 651K
A Quiet Place (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, visually stunning, frightening ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: creature, post apocalypse, sign language, monster, survival, creature feature, silence, survival horror, deafness, fear, alien invasion, self sacrifice ...
Time: 2010s, near future, distant future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york state
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 4.9
 9K
Rupture (2016)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, tense, scary ...
Plot: fear, body horror, paranoia, human experiment, arachnophobia, spider, conspiracy, abduction, violence, car, car breakdown, damsel in distress ...
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 6.1
 506
Manrape (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A woman who has been raped by a work colleague plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.
Style: psychological thriller
Plot: rape and revenge, librarian, 40 year old, society, ex husband ex wife relationship, heterosexuality, bowling, revenge, library, sex scene, intercourse, sexual intercourse ...
Time: 70s
Place: helsinki finland, finland, eastern europe
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My Life and Times With Antonin Artaud (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist, and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his "theatre of ...
Style: black and white, affectionate, allegory, thought provoking, enigmatic ...
Plot: writers, love, drug addiction, death, artist, drinking, poetry, poet, cancer, biopic, art, insane asylum ...
Time: year 1993
Place: paris france, tokyo
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 6.4
 797
Frozen City (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Looking to outrun the horrors of his past, a tormented cabbie flees Helsinki for an apartment complex in the suburbs, only to discover that new neighbors bring new problems. What ensues is a raw, realistic tragedy with an unwaveringly humane core.
Plot: nordic, nudity, children, family relations, prison visit, suburbs, pets, urban setting, prison, male nudity, prisoner, prostitute ...
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Mansion of the Doomed (1976)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in a car-accident he caused.
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, grindhouse, gothic horror ...
Plot: kidnapping, mad scientist, car accident, experiment gone awry, captivity, isolation, danger, mentally unstable, blindness, obsession, father daughter relationship, transplant ...
Time: 70s
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 5.4
 5K
Sssssss (1973)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. David also begins to fall for Stoner's young daughter, Kristina. However, the good doctor has secretly ...
Style: medical horror, scary, stylized, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: mad scientist, body horror, snake, laboratory, experiment, college student, killer animal, nightmare, transformation, insanity, carnival, python ...
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: california
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 7.9
 110K
Amour (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Austria
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Style: philosophical, reflective, sincere, sad, art house ...
Plot: death, elderly, old couple, aging, elderly lovers, life & death, husband wife relationship, life philosophy, daughter, love, illness, old love ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, germany, nebraska, france
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Operation Valkyrie (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: hitler, world war two, assassination attempt, nazi, national socialism, war, conspiracy, plan gone wrong, wartime life, leadership, military, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two
Place: germany
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Kiss of the Damned (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her seductive and highly volatile sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, she threatens Djuna's new ...
Style: sexy, gothic, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: vampire, sister sister relationship, female vampire, blood, vampire sex, lust, supernatural, killed during sex, supernatural power, female nudity, erotica, fall in love ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: connecticut, new england, usa
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