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 6.0
 2K
Werewolf (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, War
Country: Poland, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Summer of 1945. A temporary orphanage is established in an abandoned palace surrounded by forests for the eight children liberated from the Gross-Rosen camp. Hanka, also a former inmate, becomes their guardian. After the atrocities of the camp, the ...
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, psychological, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: concentration camp, holocaust, bully, world war two, survival, dog, teenager, bullying, metamorphosis, escape attempt, escape, strangulation ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place: europe, germany, central europe
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 5.9
 96K
Underwater (2020)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, lovecraft, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: underwater, creature, monster, giant monster, water, sea monster, creature feature, animal attack, earthquake, ocean, survival, destruction ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: pacific ocean
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War of the Worlds (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Russia, Japan, Mexico, South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, futuristic, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, teens, boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, end of the world, survival, disaster, invasion, space and aliens, destruction, creature, evil alien, catastrophe ...
Time: year 2005, future, jurassic, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, los angeles, boston ...
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 6.2
 3K
To Let (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Australia, South Africa
Duration: 68 min.
Story: Mario and his pregnant girlfriend Clara are trying to find in a short period a new apartment to live since they have sold their apartment and they need to move in fifteen days. When Mario finds an attractive advertisement in his mailbox, he ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apartment building, psychopath, danger, isolation, confined, gory, family relations, pregnancy, female protagonist, female psychopath, trap, escape attempt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: barcelona
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 4.5
 92K
Skyline (2010)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, people are drawn outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. Now the band of survivors must fight ...
Style: suspense, futuristic, apocalyptic, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ufo, apocalypse, alien, evil alien, space and aliens, alien invasion, alien encounter, vestiges of humanity, end of the world, alien abduction, creature, fantasy world ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, new york, california, usa, london ...
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Central Intelligence (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story: After he reunites with an old pal through Facebook, a mild-mannered accountant is lured into the world of international espionage.
Style: buddy comedy, funny, action comedy, entertaining, parody ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: espionage, buddy, spy, muscleman, cia, high school reunion, friendship, high school, bullying, accountant, betrayal, revenge ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 1996, 90s, 21st century
Place: maryland, baltimore, boston
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 5.9
 273
Caged Birds (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Barbara Hug is a young radical lawyer fighting Switzerland's antiquated prison system in the 1980s. Walter Stürm is in and often escaping out of jail becoming known as the Jailbreak King. When the two meet an unlikely alliance is formed.
Style: romantic, tense, emotional, touching, talky ...
Plot: against the odds, impersonation, con artists, escape attempt, freedom, unlikely friendships, police brutality, fight, fighting the system, existentialism, life philosophy, female protagonist ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe
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Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed, dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a ...
Style: suspense, psychotronic, anamorphic, saga, retro ...
Plot: dinosaur, animal attack, disaster, creature, prehistoric creature, monster, creature feature, tyrannosaurus rex, jurassic park, genetics, wild animal, predator ...
Time: jurassic, 2020s, future
Place: texas, italy, malta, alaska, utah ...
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The Whole Truth (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents’ house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family.
Style: suspense, gothic, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, murder, supernatural horror, voyeurism, family relations, creepy child, deliberate cruelty, mysterious death, death of sister, revenge, red herring, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
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The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A stressed-out police officer struggles not to give in to the paranoia that grips his small mountain town as bodies turn up after each full moon.
Style: suspense, scary, horror comedy, dark comedy, dark ...
Plot: werewolf, serial killer, investigation, monster, christmas, small town, murder, snow, killing spree, loss of father, violence, chase ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: utah
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 6.3
 47K
#Alive (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, disturbing, splatter ...
Plot: zombie, survival, isolation, virus, infection, walking dead, epidemic, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, zombie attack, deadly virus, infestation ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: seoul, south korea
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 5.7
 16K
Point Blank (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.
Style: captivating, bleak, tense, brutal, action thriller ...
Plot: ambulance, corruption, gang, hospital, police, betrayal, police detective, violence, deception, machismo, organized crime, conspiracy ...
Time: 2010s
Place: cincinnati ohio
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 7.6
 72K
The Body (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Style: surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder, investigation, uncover truth, missing person, adulterous husband, car accident, mistress, morgue, vengeance, adultery, haunted by the past ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
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 7.8
 386K
The Gentlemen (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A drug lord tries to sell off his highly profitable empire.
Style: dark comedy, stylized, realistic, neo noir, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly
Plot: gangster, organized crime, marijuana, gang, crime boss, money, british, criminal underworld, tough guy, criminal, swearing, gang war ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom
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 6.7
 1K
Laugh or Die (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Parikka, the actor once called the Funniest Man in Finland, and his troupe are about to be executed for the atrocities committed during the Civil War in Finland. Jaeger Lieutenant Nyborg, an admirer of Parikka, suspects a definite miscarriage of ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, tense ...
Plot: prisoner of war camp, finnish civil war, firing squad, humour, theater, prisoner, stage play, escape attempt, pow, disguise, theatre group, actor ...
Time: year 1918, 1910s
Place: germany, finland
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 4.4
 414
The Deposit (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they escape? What will be the cost of freedom?
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: deportation, prison, escape, freedom, illegal immigrant, female protagonist, female prisoner, prisoner, self sacrifice, escape attempt, twists and turns, sacrifice ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015
Place: eastern europe
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You Might Be the Killer (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Counselors are being killed off at summer camp, and Sam (Fran Kranz) is stuck in the middle of it. Instead of contacting the cops, he calls his friend and slasher-film expert (Alyson Hannigan) to discuss his options.
Style: horror comedy, slasher, suspense, psychological, dark comedy ...
Plot: masked killer, serial killer, survival, mystery killer, curse, murder, friendship, dark humor, characters killed one by one, trap, homicidal maniac, murderer ...
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 3.2
 38K
Slender Man (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.
Style: bad ending, suspense, scary, psychological, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, urban legend, evil spirit, kidnapping, teenager, friendship, teenage protagonist, small town, woods, teenage girl, evil, monster ...
Time: 2010s
Place: massachusetts
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Armed Response (2017)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story follows a team of highly trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: man versus machine, military, trapped, team, gunfight, danger, chase, rescue, murder, soldier, deception, mercilessness ...
Place: afghanistan
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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.
Style: saga, action adventure, futuristic, psychotronic, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: star wars, space travel, smuggler, spacecraft, organized crime, alien, spaceship, interspecies friendship, space opera, gangster, gambling, space battle ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: space western
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 6.3
 14K
Versus (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the ...
Style: suspense, exciting, scary, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, zombie, martial arts, supernatural, on the run, samurai, danger, chase, gangster, hostage, heroic mission, imaginary ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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3 Doors of Horrors (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 45 min.
Story: 3 horror shorts from Malaysia I Miss You Two: School life is one of the most interesting moments in a lifetime. Some people, some things, will forever be carved in one’s memory. Floating Sun: The novelist, Fiona Lim, is writing a true story of a ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot: ghost, dead girl, darkness, corpse, student, escape attempt, macabre, mission, peril, killings, death, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: malaysia
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The House with 100 Eyes (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Ed and Susan might seem to be a normal, suburban American couple, but they’ve got a horrifying secret: They create and sell snuff films in their inescapable deathtrap of a home. When Ed decides to create the world’s first ‘triple feature’ ...
Style: dark, sadistic, psychological, rough, controversial ...
Plot: torture chamber, found footage, sadist, female psychopath, psychopath, murder, violence, fear, mercilessness, sadism, brutality, torment ...
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Severed Footage (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Twelve severed feet in running shoes found on the shores of Western Canada have baffled Police. A videotape is leaked anonymously from the authorities. This paranormal thriller may solve the mystery of the severed feet.
Style: dark, disturbing, scary
Plot: found footage, mystery killer, darkness, panic, investigation, risk, violence, running, student, escape attempt, twists and turns, woods ...
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 5.9
 145K
The Great Wall (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Style: exciting, dark fantasy, entertaining, colorful, epic ...
Plot: monster, great wall of china, creature, mythology, archer, warrior, invasion, siege, battlefield, good versus evil, friendship, trust ...
Time: middle ages, year 2016, 15th century, 2010s, future ...
Place: china, tibet, ancient china
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Seeking Justice (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, intense, tense, serious ...
Plot: twists and turns, revenge, conspiracy, vigilante, vigilantism, conspiracy theory, rape, life turned upside down, secret movement, murder, plot twist, fbi ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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 5.9
 546
Harem (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min.
Story: A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, sentimental, tense ...
Plot: revolution, sultan, abduction, anger, escape attempt, murder, death, female protagonist, woman in danger, islam, romantic relationship, fiance fiancee relationship ...
Time: turn of the century, 1900s
Place: middle east, ottoman empire
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 5.8
 47K
Enough (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, intense, scary ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: domestic violence, abusive relationship, violence against women, self defense, violent husband, strong female character, abusive husband, life is a bitch, woman in danger, husband wife relationship, revenge, stalking ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, seattle, los angeles
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Flower and Snake (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife to the lecherous old man figuring a 90 year old can’t do too much bad with her. Perhaps not, but ...
Style: erotic, disturbing, psychological, serious, rough ...
Plot: bdsm, submission, sexual relations, bondage, sex slavery, voyeur, lesbian sex, sexual abuse, sadism, japanese mafia, yakuza, voyeurism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
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 5.5
 116K
Pompeii (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Canada, Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a ...
Style: exciting, epic, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, roman empire, ancient history, volcanic eruption, arena, chaos, slave, roman, gladiator, save the lady, volcano ...
Time: 1st century, year 2014, ancient times, middle ages, 2010s ...
Place: pompeii, italy, britain, london
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