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Mark | 10 (imdb: 8.1) |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:14 |
Characters | Pianists, Disabled people, Musicians, Hermits, Actors |
Plot | Jealousy, Revenge, Hostage, Mental disorders |
Style | Atmospheric, Action, Heavy, Disturbing |
Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their relationship affected by simmering subconscious thoughts of mutual envy, hate and revenge.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | action, crime |
Country | USA |
Place | USA |
Style | Action, Heavy, Disturbing |
David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city with his partner Creeper making sure people pay up or will see retaliation. An old threat returns to Los Angeles that puts everything David loves in harm’s way.
Mark | imdb: 4.5 |
Characters | Diggers, Crocodiles, Friends, Tourists, Monsters |
Plot | Survival, Killer animals, Adventure, Death, Fear |
Place | Caves, Australia |
Style | Action, Heavy, Exciting, Tense, Disturbing |
An adventure-loving couple convince their friends to explore a remote, uncharted cave system in the forests of Northern Australia. With a tropical storm approaching, they abseil into the mouth of the cave, but when the caves start to flood, tensions rise as oxygen levels fall and the friends find themselves trapped. Unknown to them, the storm has also brought in a pack of dangerous and hungry crocodiles.
Mark | 8.2 (imdb: 5.6) |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:35 |
Characters | Superhero, Heroes, Brothers, Judge |
Plot | Survival, Revenge, Apocalypse, Technology, Justice, Pads |
Place | New York |
Time | Future, Post apocalypse |
Style | For men, Action, Heavy, Exciting, Disturbing, Cyberpunk |
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
Mark | 7.6 (imdb: 5.6) |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:31 |
Characters | Heroes, Lawyers |
Plot | Supernatural, Ghosts, Apocalypse, Survival, Technology, Superpowers |
Place | Estate |
Time | Halloween |
Style | Atmospheric, Action, Heavy, Tense, Disturbing |
Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine "designed by the devil and powered by the dead" to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | action, thriller, crime, detective |
Country | South Korea |
Characters | Hired assassins, Serial killers |
Plot | Investigation |
Place | Korea |
Style | Action, Heavy, Depressive, Disturbing, Fascinating |
Chief of the ‘Special Crime Unit’, OH Gu-tak, looks for the former gangster, PARK Woong-chul, whom he had worked with before, and recruits a con artist, KWAK No-soon, and a convicted cop, KO Yoo-sung in the new team. With new blood, the ‘Bad Guys’ have become stronger and tougher. As they dig deeper into the case, they sense that a much bigger crime organization is behind it all and they begin the hunt for bad guys…
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | Norway |
Style | Action, Heavy, Disturbing |
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it's every man for himself.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, drama |
Country | USA |
Characters | Family, Fathers, Programmers |
Plot | Death, Virtual Reality, Investigation, Technology, Fate |
Time | Future |
Style | Action, Tense, Disturbing |
A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to question reality itself.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller |
Country | Canada |
Characters | Pregnant, Family, Teens |
Plot | Mystery, Cheating |
Style | Unexpected ending, Fancy, Disturbing, Action, Heavy |
A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.
Mark | 7.4 (imdb: 8.1) |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA |
Characters | Lawyers, Students |
Place | College |
Style | Fascinating |
A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.
Mark | 10 (imdb: 7.8) |
Genre | horror, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:45 |
Characters | Zombie, Zombie |
Plot | Supernatural, Supernatural, Superpowers |
Style | Disturbing, Smart |
A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But every brain she eats, she also inherits their memories and must now solve their deaths with help from the Medical examiner and a police detective.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA |
Style | Disturbing, Heavy, Action |
When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie. Facing a recent affair, great strain is put on the family that slowly gnaws away at Jackie's grip on reality. But after a malicious presence manifests itself in their home and puts their son, Connor, in mortal danger, the cold, hard truth about evil in the Harper household is finally uncovered.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:39 |
Characters | Scammers |
Plot | Chase, Betrayal |
Place | Prison, England, London |
Style | Disturbing, Action, Heavy |
Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam (Sam Claflin), an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen (Spall), who has high-level connections in politics, finance and the police force. Liam's drive for redemption sees him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption.
Mark | |
Plot | Death, Technology |
Time | Future |
Style | Action, Tense, Disturbing |
The creator of the best virtual reality games is convinced that in reality everyone and everything is controlled, but a chance meeting with a young activist opens his eyes to the fact that the world is much wider and more complicated than anything that he knows and understands about it.
Mark | 9 (imdb: 8.5) |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:35 |
Characters | Hackers, Hackers, Criminals |
Plot | Split personality, Drug addict, Sects, Revolution, Sects, Uprising |
Style | Disturbing, Depressive |
A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot will find himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.
Mark | 6.8 (imdb: 7.6) |
Genre | fantasy, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:33 |
Characters | Wizards, Gays, Friends, Gods, Kings, Students, Teachers |
Plot | Magic, Adventures, Superpowers, Depression, Life after death, Time travel |
Place | Parallel worlds, School, College |
Style | Spectacular, Fascinating |
Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and poses grave danger to humanity.
Mark | 10 (imdb: 8.6) |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:12 |
Characters | Superhero, Lawyers |
Style | Netflix, Spectacular, For men |
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Characters | Detectives, Friends |
Plot | Investigation |
Place | England |
Style | Based on real events, Fascinating, By books |
Factual drama based on the notorious White House Farm murders, and the ensuing police investigation and court case.
Mark | 7.2 (imdb: 6.9) |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 03:03 |
Characters | Zombie, Zombie |
Plot | Apocalypse, Survival, Viruses, Apocalypse, Survival, Viruses |
Place | Los Angeles |
Style | Disturbing, Fascinating, Action, Depressive, For men, Action, Fascinating |
What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.
Mark | imdb: 8.4 |
Genre | horror, action, fantasy, comedy |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:27 |
Characters | Heroes, Zombie, Demons, Zombie, Demons |
Plot | Supernatural, Survival, Viruses, Supernatural, Survival, Viruses |
Style | Heavy, Disturbing, For men |
Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams, an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who’s spent the last three decades avoiding maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead. But when a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, he’s forced to face his demons — both metaphorical and literal.
Mark | 7.4 (imdb: 7.1) |
Genre | horror, fantastic |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:30 |
Characters | Aliens |
Plot | Survival, Survival |
Place | Space, Space, Spaceships |
Time | Future, Future |
Style | Disturbing, Tense, For men |
A group of troubled passengers wake up on a damaged spaceship abandoned in deep space, each having left behind a dark past in search of a fresh start on a newly colonized planet. As their terrifying situation spirals into paranoia, they come to realize that the greatest threat to their dream of starting over – and indeed their lives – is something far darker than the pasts they were so desperate to escape.
Style | Action, Heavy, Disturbing |
A group of young people take part in a unique AI experiment in an attempt to create an absolutely impartial court of law. However, the experiment soon turns into an uncontrollable trial of the participants, revealing their true selves and the secrets they desperately try to hide.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Plot | Skirmishes, Robbery |
Place | Prison |
Style | Action, Heavy, Exciting, Disturbing, For men |
Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. Turning to a local gangster for employment, the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino heist, right in the heart of the city.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Characters | Dogs, Jews |
Plot | Revenge, Abduction |
Style | Action, Heavy, Tense, Disturbing |
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
Mark | 1 (imdb: 7.3) |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:39 |
Characters | Superhero |
Plot | Superpowers, Death |
Place | USA |
Style | Netflix, Spectacular |
Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.
Mark | 1 (imdb: 7.4) |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, drama |
Country | Brazil |
Duration | 02:14 |
Characters | Poor, Losers, Rich, Teenagers |
Plot | Uprising, Survival, Technology, Relationship, Fate, Power |
Time | Future |
Style | Netflix |
In a future where the elite inhabit an island paradise far from the crowded slums, you get one chance to join the 3% saved from squalor.
Mark | 9 (imdb: 6.4) |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | France, Canada |
Duration | 01:23 |
Characters | Writers, Maniacs, Captives, Sisters, Serial killers |
Plot | Ghosts, Supernatural, Fear, Survival |
Style | Creepy, Tense, Disturbing, Action, Heavy, Exciting |
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:51 |
Characters | Hermits, Sisters, Family |
Plot | Revenge, Fate, Mental disorders |
Place | Estate |
Style | Tense, Gothic, Action, Heavy, Depressive, Disturbing |
In Shirleyville, Vermont, during the sixties, sisters Merricat and Constance, along with their ailing uncle Julian, confined to a wheelchair, live isolated in a big mansion located on the hill overlooking the town, tormented by the memories of a family tragedy occurred six years ago. The arrival of cousin Charles will threaten the fragile equilibrium of their minds, haunted by madness, fear and superstition.
Mark | 7.2 (imdb: 6.6) |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:29 |
Characters | Aliens, Scientists, Astronauts, Monsters |
Plot | Death, Survival, Technology, Chase |
Place | Space, Spaceships, Mars, Laboratory |
Style | Disturbing, Action, Tense |
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Mark | 5.8 (imdb: 4.8) |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:30 |
Characters | Dogs, Sisters |
Plot | Supernatural, Investigation, Ghosts |
Place | USA |
Style | Atmospheric, Disturbing, Heavy, Action, Tense, Fascinating |
Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn't telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.
Mark | 5.2 (imdb: 7) |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA |
Duration | 01:23 |
Characters | Doctors, Family, Dogs, Teachers |
Plot | Blackmail, Obsession, Supernatural, Motorcycles, Fear, Cars |
Place | School |
Style | Action, Heavy, Tense, Disturbing, Fascinating |
A teenager's attempts to bring a brilliant surgeon into his dysfunctional family take an unexpected turn.
Mark | 5.8 (imdb: 7.3) |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:35 |
Plot | On real events, Death, Justice, Uprising |
Place | Ghetto |
Style | Action, Heavy, Tense, Disturbing, Unexpected ending |
A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
Mark | 10 (imdb: 7) |
Genre | drama, military, biography, history |
Country | Czech Republic, United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:23 |
Characters | Jews, Smugglers, Lions, Strong women |
Plot | On real events |
Place | Zoos |
Style | Action, Touching, Heavy, Tense, Disturbing, Makes me think |
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Mark | 5 (imdb: 5.6) |
Genre | fantastic |
Country | Russia |
Duration | 02:09 |
Characters | Aliens, Fathers, Guests, Military |
Plot | Love, UFO, War, Adventure, Skirmishes |
Place | Moscow, Russia, Space, Spaceships |
Style | Action, Heavy, Exciting, Tense, Disturbing, For men |
After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, fantasy |
Country | USA |
Style | Action, Heavy, Disturbing |
A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope.
Duration | 01:36 |
Characters | Childrens, Autistic, Family, Parents |
Plot | Technology, Supernatural, Death |
Style | Action, Tense, Disturbing, Creepy |
A lonely young boy feels different from everyone else. Desperate for a friend, he seeks solace and refuge in his ever-present cell phone and tablet. When a mysterious creature uses the boy’s devices against him to break into our world, his parents must fight to save their son from the monster beyond the screen.
Mark | 4 (imdb: 8.2) |
Genre | drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:56 |
Characters | Lawyers, Losers |
Plot | Revenge, Justice, Investigation, Political, Fate, Power |
Place | Office |
Style | Action, Heavy, Tense, Disturbing |
Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman & McBride, the massive law firm he helped create, Billy and his ragtag team uncover a vast and deadly conspiracy, pitting them all in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | action, thriller, crime |
Country | USA |
Characters | Snipers |
Style | Action, Heavy, Exciting, Tense, Disturbing |
An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and desperate young girl who has fled the hijacking of a Police motorcade that was transporting her to testify as a witness in a trial. Hot on her heels is the psychopathic hijacker and his team of henchmen, who will stop at nothing to extract and eliminate the witness.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller |
Country | Canada |
Duration | 01:45 |
Characters | Grandparents, Neighbors, Childrens, Farmers |
Plot | Death, Survival |
Style | Disturbing, Action, Heavy |
Alone, and targeted on an isolated farm, 12 year old Henry finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of terror, and a dark family legacy, when his secretive grandfather dies suddenly in the night.
Mark | imdb: 3.5 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | Russia |
Plot | Death |
Style | Action, Heavy, Exciting, Tense, Disturbing, Fascinating, Unexpected ending |
A group of friends decide to spend a weekend together at a country house, but an unexpected accident forces them to stop at a strange and remote estate. In this abandoned and eerie place, a rare antique camera is discovered. Slowly the camera draws them into a mystical and tragic chain of events that none of them could have seen coming. Anyone who has their picture taken by the camera sees a photo revealing their death. Many of them lose their lives in excruciating ways, as they race to solve the mystery of the camera.
Mark | 8.2 (imdb: 6.7) |
Genre | drama, military, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:34 |
Characters | Journalists, Strong women, Photographers, Terrorists, Writers |
Plot | On real events, War, Survival, Death, Political, Revolution |
Place | Jungle, Deserts |
Style | Womens in main roles, Action, Disturbing, Heavy, Tense |
One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.
Mark | 4.4 (imdb: 5.8) |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:28 |
Characters | Terrorists, Lifeguards, Military, Bodyguards, Special Forces |
Plot | On real events, Hostage, Political, Survival, Dancing, Cars |
Place | Aircraft |
Style | Tense, Action, Heavy, Disturbing, For men, Unexpected ending |
In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane with 248 passengers on board and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.
Mark | 6.4 (imdb: 5.4) |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Duration | 02:09 |
Characters | Bartenders, Doctors, Mute, Good people |
Plot | Investigation, Technology, Revenge, Love, Missing people, Justice |
Place | Berlin, Germany |
Time | Future |
Style | Netflix, Cyberpunk, Action, Exciting, Disturbing, Worth watching |
A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.
Mark | 5.6 (imdb: 5.3) |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 02:06 |
Characters | Autistic, Aliens, Killers, Scientists, Warriors, Military, Soldier, Snipers, Hunters, Horses, Spiders, Writers |
Plot | Genetic experiments, UFO, Weapon, Technology, Death, Chase, Fear, Missing people |
Place | Spaceships, Laboratory, Lake, Forest, Caves |
Time | Night |
Style | Action, Exciting, Tense, Fascinating, Disturbing |
When a kid accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled female scientist can prevent the end of the human race.
Mark | 8 (imdb: 6.7) |
Genre | drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:38 |
Characters | Parents, Family, Difficult teens, Dogs |
Plot | Drug addict, Snow, Money |
Time | New Year |
Style | Disturbing, Touching, Action, Heavy, Tense |
19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother's undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe.
Mark | 7.4 (imdb: 5.9) |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:16 |
Characters | Strong women, Sheriffs |
Plot | Survival |
Place | Forest, Small cities |
Style | Disturbing, Heavy, Tense, Action |
When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.
Mark | imdb: 2.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, military |
Country | Russia |
Characters | Soldier |
Plot | Death, War, Fate, Skirmishes |
Place | Ukraine |
Style | Action, Heavy, Exciting, Depressive, Disturbing, Fascinating, To cry |
In the center of the plot of the film is a young soldier of the Ukrainian army, Andrei Sokolov, who is sent to the combat zone as a driver. Fleeing from the shelling, Andrew finds himself in the basement of a dwelling house, where he meets different people, each of whom dreams of only one thing - so that the war will end as soon as possible.
Mark | imdb: 4.2 |
Genre | horror |
Country | USA |
Plot | Death, Curses, Fate |
Style | Action, Heavy, Depressive, Tense, Disturbing |
Following the passing of his father, Aaron Hammond returns to his hometown to help his devastated mother and to confront his past demons. Sifting through his father’s belongings, Aaron comes upon a mysterious item that is far more than it seems.
Mark | 3.6 (imdb: 4.7) |
Genre | thriller, comedy, melodrama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:52 |
Characters | Actors, Maniacs, Dogs |
Plot | Abduction, Relationship, Obsession |
Place | School, Hotels, Ireland |
Style | Tense, Disturbing, Touching, Heavy, Makes me think |
A socially awkward young man kidnaps an aspiring actress with the hope that they will fall in love. A psychosexual noir that explores power dynamics between men and women.
Mark | 6.2 (imdb: 5.1) |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | Spain, Argentina, Uruguay |
Duration | 01:59 |
Characters | Actors |
Plot | Ghosts, Death, Experiments |
Place | Psychiatric hospitals |
Style | Heavy, Depressive, Tense, Disturbing |
In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, a theatre group experiments with insomnia for the preparation of a stage play. With the passage of days without sleep, they reach new thresholds of perception that expose them to the secrets of the place and the energies that inhabit it. When Bianca, a young, promising actress, joins the cast, competing for the lead role, she must survive not only the intensity of the work and her cast mates, but the unknown force that is pulling them towards a tragic outcome.