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Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Heian-kyō, capital and the center of elegant, aristocratic culture, is heavily guarded by a spiritual force field -- or so it seems. In reality, onmyōji (court magi who create the spiritual force field) can only defend the palace located in the ...
Style:
anime, tense, sinister, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
demon, monster, spiritual warfare, battles, fight, supernatural power, supernatural, magic, magical creature, haunting, palace intrigue, sword and sorcery ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In a nonaligned country, where a civil conflict is raging, a team of photographers follows a mercenary war lord, whose men wreak havoc among enemies and innocents alike. The story is a modern version of the tragedy Antigone, in a time when TV and ...
Style:
grim, serious, tense, bleak, dark ...
Plot:
photography, civil war, violence, tragedy, moral ambiguity, war crime, frontline, ethical dilemma, journalism, chaos, political unrest, accomplice ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.
Style:
grim, neorealism, bleak, intense, crime drama ...
Plot:
poverty, social commentary, exploitation, corruption, realism, inequality, black market, class struggle, desperation, working class, moral dilemma, moral corruption ...
Place:
iran, persia, tehran, tehran iran
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the near future, the areas between major cities are lawless wastelands. Atolladero is a town run with an iron fist by a corrupt tyrant named The Judge and his murderous enforcer, Madden. One decent cop decides to leave town, but the powers that ...
Style:
grim, bleak, neo western, neo noir, independent film ...
Plot:
dog sex, zoophilia, dystopia, lawlessness, corruption, tyranny, dystopian society, con artists, wasteland, post apocalyptic, corrupt judge, anti establishment ...
Time:
near future, 90s, 2040s
Place:
mexico, sonora
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story:
Ninja Resurrection takes place in the Tokugawa era, at a time when Christians in Japan were being persecuted. The leader of the Shimabara Rebellion, Amakusa Shirō, hoped to resist the government forces attacking Christians like him but is ...
Style:
anime, dark fantasy, grim, sinister, tense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
violent, ninja, samurai, supernatural, feudal japan, resurrection, swordplay, tokugawa shogunate, betrayal, occult, graphic violence, anti hero ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for secluded military ...
Style:
dark, grim, intense, art house, period piece ...
Plot:
mental illness, manipulation, power struggle, character study, psychological torment, betrayal, revenge, claustrophobia, military, love triangle, intimate, symbolism ...
Time:
turn of the century, 60s
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white.
Style:
bleak, historical drama, grim, period piece, family saga ...
Plot:
hunger, starvation, loss, family tragedy, village life, realism, mourning, survival, social commentary, oppression, memory, political repression ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Allan and Lisa flee the war-torn city of Sweetwater with their young son for the safety of the municipal dump in this sleepy war drama. They join other displaced survivors who were driven from their homes. After Lisa gives birth to another child and ...
Style:
bleak, grim, apocalyptic
Plot:
post apocalypse, pregnancy, survival, post apocalyptic, dystopia, water shortage, wasteland, family drama, desperation, garbage dump, resilience, urban decay ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, heartbreaking, bleak, grim, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, gypsy, genocide, discrimination, nazi occupation, loss, auschwitz, suffering, persecution, tragedy, ethnic cleansing ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Paige Hopkins begins working at a halfway house for degenerate teenage girls, she believes that her syrupy sweet disposition is just what the girls need to find their path to redemption. But these hardened street girls show Paige that she ...
Style:
psychological, grim, dark, intense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
exploitation, rehabilitation center, female protagonist, murder, juvenile delinquent, violent, character study, abuse, manipulation, moral ambiguity, torture, psychopath ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An award-winning performer trio and a sophisticated story characterize the thrilling TV thriller "The Missing Woman". From the naive betrayed to the tough revenge angel Corinna Harfouch turns into the lead role. At her side, Ulrich Matthes ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, bleak, tense, grim ...
Plot:
betrayal, deception, manipulation, insurance fraud, revenge, female protagonist, fraud, moral ambiguity, psychological manipulation, hitman, corruption, survival ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
Style:
period piece, grim, bleak, tragic
Plot:
world war two, firing squad, execution, desertion, death sentence, biopic, social commentary, court martial, world war, military, soldier, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the ...
Style:
tension, poignant, grim, bleak, black and white ...
Plot:
world war two, children, orphanage, brutality, fear, hiding, occupation, concentration camp, soldier, trauma, loss, realism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
poland, europe, central europe
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Genre: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
San and Mayu are two schoolgirls living in Okinawa during the closing months of the Pacific War. Together with their classmates, the two friends are drafted into the war effort as nurses for wounded soldiers. When ordered to die for their country, ...
Style:
grim, bleak, period piece, anime, adult animation ...
Plot:
escape, survival, friendship, pacific war, loss of innocence, trauma, resilience, isolation, moral ambiguity, japanese culture, evacuation, survival horror ...
Place:
okinawa japan
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
When a sociopathic hired hand murders an entire family, the town of Schafer, North Dakota, rises up to take justice into their own hands. Based on the true story of the infamous Charles Bannon case of 1931.
Style:
tense, bleak, historical drama, grim, dark ...
Plot:
small town, vigilante justice, murder, true crime, revenge, sociopath, extreme violence, trauma, social commentary, isolation, lynching, investigation ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
north dakota
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Harvesters is an action-packed thriller about a small-time gang of misfits led by lesbian Gulf War veteran Frankie Falzone. After she thrashes a redneck at a strip club, she and her gang move on to a small town where they rob a liquor store and kill ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, grim, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
violence, murder, survival, home invasion, law enforcement, isolation, backwoods, small town, outlaw gang, chase, manhunt, survival horror ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
Style:
tense, brutal, bleak, grim, dark ...
Plot:
cannibalism, survival, post apocalyptic, revenge, desperation, violence, dystopia, rescue mission, isolation, moral ambiguity, lawlessness, barbarism ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In this remarkable adaptation of Arezki Mellal’s novel, a family must defend itself amidst the onslaught of violence between government forces and radical Islamists in 1980s Algeria.
Style:
grim, tense, historical drama, bleak, art house ...
Plot:
political unrest, violence, trauma, oppression, religious fundamentalism, realism, survival, mother son relationship, small town life, moral ambiguity, coming of age, chaos ...
Time:
90s
Place:
algeria, north africa, maghreb
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A house cleaner desperately searches for her husband as a dreaded criminal syndicate dredges up past tragedies and ultimately drives her to violence.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, crime thriller, dark, thrilling ...
Plot:
investigation, missing husband, criminal syndicate, murder, missing person, revenge, violence, who done it, criminal, uncover truth, crime investigation, mysterious disappearance ...
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997
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Simon Sachs, a terminally ill ten year old boy, claims to have been a serial killer in his previous life and apparently he can prove it. He leads a lawyer, Robert Stern to the locations of the bodies, who were killed long before Simon was born. ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, terminal illness, pedophile, legal investigation, legal action, legal, rivalry, investigation, past life, supernatural, reincarnation, axe murder ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Directed and created by Shane Ryan, the movie was shot shortly after the events which inspired it (15 year old Alyssa Bustamante was convicted of killing her 9 year old neighbor, Elizabeth Olten). Compared to the likes of David Lynch, Larry Clark, ...
Style:
controversial, disturbing, dark, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, true crime, investigation, murder mystery, juvenile delinquency, child murder, teenage life, crime investigation, murderer, murder investigation, disappearance, mysterious disappearance ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Kumaresan, a police constable, gets recruited for an operation implanted to capture Perumal Vaathiyar, who leads a separatist group dedicated to fighting against the authorities for committing atrocities against innocent village women in the name of ...
Style:
crime drama, political thriller, tension, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
police officer, fight, capture, battles, police, problem, police procedural, human rights, moral ambiguity, police brutality, violence, justice ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
After CSI have done their stuff, the cleaner mops up the grisly remains. For Wicky, a bloodbath and the pub is all in a day's work.
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, feel good, grim ...
Plot:
crime scene, cleaning, workplace, middle aged man, death, blood, murder, job, satire, murder mystery, workplace situations, forensics ...
Place:
britain, england, united kingdom
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young British widow shelters an old medical school colleague, a man who has somehow turned himself invisible. As his isolation grows and his sanity frays, he schemes to create a reign of wanton murder and terror across the city.
Style:
suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological horror, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
invisible man, claustrophobia, paranoia, isolation, killing, murder mystery, invisible, killing spree, young widow, invisibility, terror, multiple murder ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1839, months after the British army has repressed the insurrection of the Patriots, hundreds of rebels rot in prison. The morning of February 14, Marie-Thomas Chevalier De Lorimier and Charles Hindelang learn that they will be hung in 24 hours, ...
Style:
bleak, grim, tense, reflective, educational ...
Plot:
death sentence, execution, prison, tragedy, injustice, political oppression, british colonialism, rebellion, sacrifice, revolt, grief, mourning ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s
Place:
quebec
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After a series of murders throughout the state, single-mother, Amanda, discovers that she is the muse of the infamous serial killer known as, the "Infinity Killer." Every woman killed looks like her and with every death she is sent a photo ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, intense, tension, dark ...
Plot:
serial killer, stalker, female protagonist, obsession, kidnapping, psychological manipulation, serial murder, murderer, murder investigation, murder, killing spree, homicidal maniac ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1905, on a rescue mission to the North Pole to retrieve an old friend and his lost expedition crew, Captain Mortimer gets more than he bargained for when his ship is frozen into the ice sheet and set upon by bloodthirsty fish-creatures. Mortimer ...
Style:
lovecraft, harsh, bleak, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
north pole, shipwreck, creature feature, creature, monster, rescue mission, castaway, survival horror, isolation, survival, monster attack, cold ...
Time:
1900s
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Death-row inmate Sudo (Pierre Taki) sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii (Takayuki Yamada). In his letter, he states that a man named Kimura (Lily Franky), also known as "teacher," committed numerous murders for insurance money. While ...
Style:
tense, dark, disturbing, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, investigative journalism, journalist, investigative reporter, investigation, killing, true crime, serial killer, killing spree, prison visit, murderer, hitman ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
CI Shivakumar,a brash police officer, handles a lot of missing cases which has caused great strain on his marriage life. After a serious accident,Shiva admits his wife Aparna and daughter Lucky in hospital, only to find them missing next day. Will ...
Style:
suspense, thrilling, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, theater, disappearance, investigation, theatrical troupe, murder investigation, secret, murder mystery, crime solving, murderer, problem, killing ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Ann Hui's darkly realistic Night and Fog starts at the end of the story: a man murders his wife and, based on statements by unreliable witnesses, the film goes on to investigate how things could have got this far and what kind of man was able ...
Style:
bleak, dark, dramatic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, domestic violence, tragedy, family tragedy, abuse, killing, cold blooded murder, murder of wife, murder of family, murder of a family, violent, murder of a woman ...
Place:
hong kong
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