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Innocent Lies (1995)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose ...
Style: realistic, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: brother sister incest, incestuous desire, brother sister sex, mother daughter relationship, incest, investigation, murder, manipulation, wealth, betrayal, jealousy, secret ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938
Place: france
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While the Wolf's Away (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A young teen and his misfit group of friends try to escape from a strict boarding school that holds dangerous secrets.
Style: serious, compassionate, heartbreaking, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: coming of age, boarding school, boy, friendship, fighting the system, life is a bitch, social relations, human rights, loneliness, boss, childhood, isolation ...
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 4.7
 69
The Goblin (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: A boy imprisoned by an abusive recluse mother alone in a mansion in the 1920s begins to get ideas of his own when a goblin in his closet comforts him in the dark.
Style: psychological, bleak, suspense, minimal cast, crying ...
Plot: creature, abusive parent, sadism, boy, mysterious event, murder, female psychopath, bondage, punishment, loneliness, dysfunctional family, cruelty ...
Time: 1920s
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The Influence (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Queenie, the Faraday family's grandmother and oppressive matriarch, is finally laid to rest, no one could foresee the horrifying extent of her evil influence, which continues even beyond death.
Style: dark, twist ending, psychotronic, crying, surprise ending ...
Plot: witchcraft, mother daughter relationship, black magic, ghost, hospital, supernatural, rite, spell, witchery, haunted house, haunted, creepy child ...
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Patient Seven (2016)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The film centers on Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist who has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, ...
Style: anthology, psychological, brutal, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot: mental patient, serial killer, psychiatrist, doctor, police, vampire, corpse, possession, hallucination, death, ghost, demon ...
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 6.6
 17K
Happy End (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A middle-class family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.
Style: art house, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot: infidelity, divorce, refugee, boredom, emptiness, family relations, accident, mother daughter relationship, millionaire, father daughter relationship, selfishness, liar ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: english channel, europe, france
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The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
Style: dark, suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, pandemic, post apocalypse, infection, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, military, zombie child, children, undead, virus ...
Time: future, year 2016
Place: london
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 4.8
 10K
Dog Eat Dog (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life.
Style: rough, harsh, enigmatic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: ex convict, murder, kidnapping, violence, police brutality, baby, impersonating a police officer, drug use, dead body, dark humor, criminal gang, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.2
 674
Downriver (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: James has served time for drowning a little boy when he was a child, although the body was never found in the river. A visit from his victim's mother upon parole sends him on a quest to find the truth. With little time and danger at every turn, ...
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, queer cinema
Plot: gay interest, gay teenager, gay, child murder, cover up, lgbt, gay sex, masturbation, gay son, ex convict, dysfunctional family, uncover truth ...
Place: australia
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 7.6
 579K
Watchmen (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited ...
Style: neo noir, visually stunning, visually appealing, stylized, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly, teens, adult
Plot: superhero, alternate reality, vigilante, anti hero, distopia, good versus evil, moral dilemma, mars, masked vigilante, cold war, alternate history, conspiracy ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 2000s, 1940s, future ...
Place: usa, new york, america, washington d.c., los angeles ...
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 6.2
 4K
Evilenko (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1984, in Kiev, the communist teacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko is dismissed from his position after a pedophilic act against a student. On 15 May 1984, the pedophile Evilenko begins to rape children, and then slashing the victims in pieces and ...
Style: slasher, heartbreaking, suspense, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, pedophile, child murder investigation, sexual abuse, true crime, dead children, cannibalism, pedophilia, woman in danger, killer, murder ...
Time: 90s, 80s, year 1984, year 1992
Place: kiev ukraine, ukraine, russia, crimea, soviet union
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 8.0
 792K
Sin City (2005)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, surreal, dark, anthology ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: corruption, vengeance, justice, gory, hitman, revenge, dark hero, comic book, redemption, vigilante, killings, distopia ...
Time: year 2005, y2k, 80s, 90s, 2000s ...
Place: texas, iran
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The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Dean Cain portrays Scott Peterson, the California man accused of murdering his 8 month pregnant wife, Laci. Based on a true story.
Style: disturbing, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: husband murders wife, murder, pregnancy, false accusation, missing person, courtroom drama, investigation, uncover truth, protagonist as suspect, infidelity, amateur detective, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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 7.3
 266K
Identity (2003)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style: twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, mental disorder, investigation, psychology, murderer, mental illness, motel, split personality, psychopath, rainstorm ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa, florida
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 5.6
 4K
Nightmare (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A drug-treated schizophrenic plagued by horrible nightmares escapes from the hospital and goes on a killing spree.
Style: slasher, disturbing, scary, grindhouse, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, rough sex, gory, exploitation, murder, mental disorder, freak, extreme, blood, psycho killer, maniac, home invasion ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: florida, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Shogun Assassin (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the countryside with his toddler son in search of ...
Style: bloody, grindhouse, visual, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, samurai, kung fu, female nudity, female ninja, violence, yakuza, exploitation, violent, gory, shogun ...
Time: 19th century, 16th century, 15th century
Place: japan, asia
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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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 7.7
 305K
Halloween (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, holiday horror, small town, psychiatrist, babysitter, violence, violent, babysitting ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest
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Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
Style: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: evil child, killer child, island, children, murder, pregnancy, isolation, danger, haunted by the past, manhunt, stranded, creepy child ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: iberian peninsula, mediterranean sea, spain, fictional island
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 7.5
 130K
The Omen (1976)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil. A classic horror film with Gregory Peck from ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, satanic, psychological, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: devil, evil child, prophecy, satan, supernatural, macabre, priest, murder, demon, demonic possession, gory, religion ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: london, persia, britain, rome italy, england ...
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 5.8
 9K
It's Alive (1974)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Heavily pregnant Lenore Davis tells her husband, Frank, that she is in labor. They leave their eleven year-old son Chris with their friend Charley and they head to the Community Hospital. Lenore feels that something is wrong and delivers a monster ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, slasher, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: supernatural, murder, creepy child, monster, body horror, gory, serial killer, isolation, mutant, investigation, deadly creature, family in danger ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, california, seattle, santa monica california
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Devil Times Five (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Five extremely disturbed, sociopathic children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken in unwittingly by a group of adult villagers on winter vacation.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, rough ...
Plot: evil child, mental illness, murder, snow, killer child, escaped mental patient, isolation, winter, teenage life, obsession, danger, violence spree ...
Time: 70s
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 6.6
 2K
Bad Ronald (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new family, with the teen still living inside.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Plot: murder, voyeurism, mental illness, psychopath, hidden room, death of mother, voyeur, mysterious character, social misfits, teenage life, parents and children, secret ...
Time: 70s
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Scream Bloody Murder (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A disturbed boy kills his father with his farm tractor and his arm is mangled in the process. He's taken to a mental hospital where he's outfitted with a hook to replace his lost hand and, years later, he's eventually released from ...
Style: grindhouse, slasher, controversial, cult classic, disturbing ...
Plot: oedipus complex, kidnapped woman, exploitation, serial killer, mental institution, mental illness, home invasion, stepfather, dismemberment, violent, mental disorder, psychopath ...
Time: 70s
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The Candy Snatchers (1973)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An abused autistic boy is the sole witness to the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
Style: disturbing, grindhouse, depressing, controversial, independent film ...
Plot: rape, kidnapping, buried alive, teenage girl, hostage, diamond, diamonds, mute child, psychological torture, stepfather, shooting, schoolgirl ...
Time: 70s
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The Scopone Game (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
Style: crying, tragicomedy, dark comedy
Plot: millionaire, failed expectations, class differences, gambling, old woman, poverty, doctor, dead body, cooking, sick woman, rivals, passive aggressive girl ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: italy, rome italy
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Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
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, psychopath, serial killer, police investigation, journalism, obsession, amateur detective, small town, mind game, mysterious character, uncover truth, death ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, southern italy, europe, milan italy
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Who Saw Her Die? (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young girl is brutally murdered somewhere in France. Sometime later, the same thing happens to the daughter of a well-known sculptor. This time the parents (the sculptor and his wife) start investigating, and soon find they are in way over their ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, amateur detective, investigation, obsession, psychopath, murder, mind game, mysterious character, child molestation, danger, vengeance, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 70s
Place: venice, italy, france, europe, monaco
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What the Peeper Saw (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Oliver! star Mark Lester undertook a change of pace - and then some - with this uncomfortable, Bad Seed-like shocker. He plays Marcus, the preteen son of a recently-remarried, well-to-do writer, whose first wife (Marcus's mother) died a ...
Style: slasher, psychological thriller, grindhouse, erotic, romantic ...
Plot: sex with a minor, boy, evil child, female nudity, sexual tension, killer child, love, erotica, murder, coming of age, tiny, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 70s
Place: spain
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Blood and Lace (1971)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, orphanage, prostitute, investigation, psychopath, murder, orphan, youth, danger, isolation, teenage life, mysterious man ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa
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