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 7.8
 72K
The Chaser (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, investigation, race against time, revenge, anti hero, police detective, murder, brutality, missing person, violent ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, seoul, korea, asia
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 7.5
 108K
Lolita (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's ...
Style: sexual, disturbing, psychological, sexy, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: forbidden love, lolita, age difference, pedophilia, girl man relationship, seduction, older man younger woman relationship, lust, teenage girl, nymphet, obsession, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1962, near future, 1950s ...
Place: new hampshire, usa, ohio
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 7.7
 119K
Deliverance (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: wilderness, survival, rape, canoe, friendship, rape and revenge, nature, forest, camping, backwoods, revenge, hillbilly ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
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 7.3
 26K
I Stand Alone (1998)
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, bleak, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: loneliness, incest, butcher, revenge, violence, alienation, nihilism, insanity, existentialism, macabre, violent, obsession ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 7.1
 62K
Don't Look Now (1973)
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: suspense, twist ending, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, drowning, serial killer, blindness, psychic, haunted by the past, grief, sex scene, hallucination, twists and turns, death of daughter, marriage ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, near future, 20th century
Place: italy, venice, europe
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 7.1
 40K
The Accused (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After a young woman suffers a brutal rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.
Style: disturbing, realistic, poignant, thought provoking, compassionate ...
Plot: courtroom drama, rape, lawyer, sexual abuse, injustice, rape victim, violence against women, legal action, gang rape, courtroom, sexual assault, fraternity ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, boston, usa, washington d.c., washington state
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, emotional, touching, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual abuse, coming of age, rape, family relations, dysfunctional family, pedophile, parents and children, life is a bitch, domestic violence, child abuse, children, child rape ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, 1950s, 50s
Place: south carolina, usa, southern usa
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, political, bleak ...
Plot: distopia, brainwashing, dystopia, politics, totalitarianism, surveillance, fascism, alternate reality, political corruption, female nudity, totalitarian state, propaganda ...
Time: future, year 1984, 80s, near future, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom
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Mulholland Drive (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style: surreal, psychological, art house, neo noir, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: surrealism, twists and turns, lesbian, amnesia, obsession, hollywood, nightmare, hallucination, doppelganger, alternate reality, filmmaking, dream ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, usa, california
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Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline's mother when she tries to end the girls' intense and obsessive relationship.
Style: disturbing, psychological, surreal, enigmatic, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, obsession, friendship, teenager, murder, coming of age, lesbian romance, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, insanity, lgbtq, sexuality ...
Time: 1950s, 90s, year 1994, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: new zealand, oceania
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 6.9
 56K
Naked Lunch (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Japan
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: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, neo noir, philosophical ...
Plot: hallucination, surrealism, drug addiction, paranoia, addiction, exterminator, insect, homosexuality, beat generation, giant insect, cockroach, secret agent ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, year 1991, 90s, 50s ...
Place: north africa, usa, new york
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 7.3
 18K
13 (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, black and white, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: overdose, murder, life is a bitch, depression, visceral, reward, contests and competitions, danger, fish out of water, social decay, profanity, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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 6.4
 66K
Crash (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Style: erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexuality, obsession, erotica, lust, deviant sex, car accident, hospital, sexual perversion, sex scene, husband wife relationship, sadomasochism, sexual obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
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 8.8
 2.3M
Fight Club (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style: surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, psychology, fight, plot twist, schizophrenia, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, losing-it hero, against the rules, nihilism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2013
Place: delaware, america, los angeles, iran, seattle ...
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ABCs of Death 2 (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Japan, Nigeria
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, disturbing, suspense, scary, harsh ...
Plot: justice, murder, death, brutality, obsession, insanity, fbi, crazy, macabre, gory, dark humor, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, london
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 8.2
 913K
Taxi Driver (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style: psychological, neo noir, bleak, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, character study, loner, alienation, obsession, vigilantism, violence, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, depression ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
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 7.5
 73K
Hunger (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatises events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands’ death.
Style: disturbing, bleak, political, sincere, depressing ...
Plot: prison, prison life, ira, suicide, dying, rebellion, idealism, police brutality, resistance, suffering, nudity, male nudity ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 90s, 2000s, year 1981 ...
Place: ireland, northern ireland, london, europe
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 6.7
 61K
Scanners (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style: disturbing, intense, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: body horror, scientist, psychic power, investigation, exploitation, violence, telekinesis, human experiment, murder, mind reading, supernatural ability, misfit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
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 6.3
 21K
Rabid (1977)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood -- the only nourishment that will now sustain her.
Style: disturbing, scary, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: vampire, body horror, epidemic, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hospital, virus, zombie, violence, insanity, cannibalism, infected, infection ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: montreal, canada, quebec
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 7.5
 103K
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.
Style: bleak, disturbing, touching, independent film, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, gender, rape, transgender, transsexual, violence, prejudice, lgbt, tragic love, small town, gay slur, lgbtq ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: nebraska, texas, usa
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 7.3
 161K
Monster (2003)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Aileen Wuornos is an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.
Style: bleak, disturbing, psychological, depressing, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, lesbian, homeless, prostitute, lesbian love, mental illness, rape, female serial killer, murder, borderline personality disorder, gay, couples ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 80s, 2000s, 90s
Place: florida, usa, michigan, miami, ohio
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 7.5
 42K
Deep Red (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style: psychological, gothic, disturbing, slasher, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, murder mystery, psychopath, visceral, supernatural, danger, female psychopath, mental illness, intrigue, manic, haunted by the past ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, australia, lebanon ...
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 6.7
 10K
Dumplings (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A rich woman, Mrs. Li, is losing her attractiveness and longs for passion with her husband, who is having an affair with his younger and more attractive masseuse. In order to boost her image, she seeks out the help of Aunt Mei, a local chef. Mei ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, dark, surreal, bloody ...
Plot: cannibalism, obsession, macabre, violent, abortion, food, starlet, aging, extreme, career change, torture, cannibal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong
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The White Ribbon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Style: disturbing, black and white, art house, bleak, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: children, punishment, sexual abuse, priest, physical appearance, suicide, small town, death, child abuse, cruelty, family secret, village life ...
Time: year 1914, year 2009, 1910s, 90s, 1920s ...
Place: germany, europe, northern germany, italy
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 6.8
 19K
Taxidermia (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Hungary, Austria, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, surreal, controversial, cult classic ...
Plot: surrealism, perversion, body horror, misfit, parents and children, taxidermy, rejection, extreme, goofy hero, social misfits, family relations, violent ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe
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 6.8
 31K
Freeway (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the ...
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, suspenseful, bloody, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, little red riding hood, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, drug addiction, psychopath, brutality, prison, dysfunctional family, hitchhiker, murder, police investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, san diego california
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 7.2
 5K
Zero Day (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two troubled adolescents chronicle the events that ultimately lead up to a terrifying assault on their school.
Style: disturbing, psychological, mockumentary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: school shooting, found footage, vengeance, brutality, suicide, friendship, serial killer, high school, bullying, childhood, rebellion, justice ...
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 6.8
 34K
The Brood (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
Style: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher, creepy ...
Plot: body horror, killer child, murder, creepy child, transformation, supernatural, child abuse, psychiatrist, mental illness, strangulation, monster, surrealism ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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Killing Me Softly (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman grows suspicious of her controlling husband after she discovers secrets about the women in his past.
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, sex, fatal attraction, sex scene, sexual relations, dangerous attraction, love affair, bdsm, obsessive love, lust, bondage, sex game ...
Time: year 2002
Place: london, europe, england
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Would You Rather (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Style: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: game of death, survival, game, group of strangers, psychopath, danger, torture, deathtrap, mind game, moral dilemma, confinement indoors, choice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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