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Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | horror, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:27 |
The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears in a frenzy of shocking lunacy. Horrifying visions invade the castle - realizations of Byron's fear of leeches, Shelley's fear of premature burial, Mary's fear of birthing a stillborn child - all brought forth in a bizarre dreamscape. They share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night. The events of that night later inspired Mary Shelley to write the classic "Frankenstein" and Dr. Polidori to pen "The Vampyre," which became the basis for the creation of Dracula..
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark |
Duration | 01:53 |
Borgman is the central character of this dark, malevolent fable. Is he a dream or a demon, a twisted allegory or an all-too-real embodiment of our fears? Borgman is a sinister arrival in the sealed-off streets of modern suburbia. His presence unleashes a crowing gallery of distortion around the careful façade constructed by an arrogant, comfortable couple, their three children and nanny.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | Australia |
It is about two Atheists who run a video blog debunking Psychics, Mediums and religious beliefs. However, a death experiment goes totally wrong and as a result they attract evil entities that stalk and haunt them.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | fantastic, action, fantasy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:47 |
Invisible forces exert power over us in our sleep. A mercenary named Ink, on a literal nightmare mission, captures the spirit of 8-year-old Emma in the dream world. To save her, the dream-givers marshal all their resources, focusing on saving the soul of Emma's tragically broken father.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama |
Country | Mexico, Italy |
Duration | 02:03 |
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, fantasy, drama |
Country | Canada, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:55 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy |
Country | USA, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Japan, Nigeria |
Duration | 02:05 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | fantastic, action, drama, adventure, detective |
Country | USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore |
Duration | 02:52 |
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, fantasy, detective |
Country | France, West Germany |
There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: sister, brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the world through her radio.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | horror, fantasy, short |
Country | France |
Duration | 00:17 |
Un Chien Andalou is a classic European avant-garde surrealist film from the cooperation of director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. The film changed the way people made movies. Most famous is the scene of a woman’s eye being cut with a knife.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | fantasy, drama |
Country | France, Germany, Belgium |
Duration | 01:55 |
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.
Mark | imdb: 3.6 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
S. Darko follows Samantha Darko, the younger sister of Donnie, the protagonist of Donnie Darko, and her friend Corey. On their way to California, their car breaks down, forcing them to wait in a small town until it is fixed. While there, Samantha begins to have dreams that warn her of the end of the universe.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Belgium |
Duration | 02:31 |
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:45 |
A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | fantastic, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:59 |
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | horror, drama |
Country | South Korea |
Duration | 01:55 |
A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | USA, Germany |
Duration | 01:52 |
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | horror, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | France |
The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that a mysterious 'beast' is stalking the vicinity.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA, Romania, Iceland |
Duration | 01:32 |
Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriving. While cameras watch Simon's every move, he struggles to find the answers to the mysterious forces taking over his life.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden |
Duration | 02:16 |
A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:29 |
On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | fantasy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada |
Duration | 02:02 |
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, drama |
Country | Canada |
In the near future, as humanity prepares to set foot on Mars, Jacob Obus, an elderly musician, takes pride in slowing down time by playing instruments inspired by women's bodies, designed by his friend Arthur. A love triangle develops when Jacob and Arthur both fall in love with Avril, a young photographer. Enter Eugène Spaak, Arthur's father, an inventor and cosmologist who unveils a new theory about man's desire to reach Mars and helps Jacob find the true meaning of life and love.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | France, USA |
Duration | 01:38 |
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:34 |
Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | fantasy, drama |
Country | Spain |
Duration | 01:31 |
Pol is a teenager with a seemingly calm life: he lives with his brother and is still in high school. However, Pol has a secret: Deerhoof, a cuddly teddy bear who thinks, moves around and with whom he shares his best moments. Life goes on as normal until the arrival of Ikari, an enigmatic student who seems to be hiding something. Pol is fascinated by his new classmate and attracted to the dark side he harbors. An inexplicable death and a series of strange events will transform the meek student's routine into a fantastic adventure which will take over their lives. Animals is a story of teenage love, of sacrifice, of the tragedy of two clashing worlds. A Tale in which the power of imagination blurs it´s borders with reality and where death turns out to be an ending as tempting as inevitable.