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Brimstone(2016)

R
| 2h 28min | Western, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
3.6/5 (with 477 votes)

In the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.

Chronicle(2012)

PG-13
| 1h 24min | Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 2,378 votes)

Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(2011)

R
| 2h 38min | Thriller, Crime, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 3,149 votes)

This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

Martyrs(2008)

1h 39min | Horror, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 1,135 votes)

A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

Missing(2023)

PG-13
| 1h 51min | Thriller, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 382 votes)

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.

Directed by Will Merrick, Nicholas D. Johnson - With Tim Griffin, Ava Zaria Lee, Nia Long, Kimberly Cheng, Storm Reid, Ken Leung, ...

The Girl Next Door(2007)

R
| 1h 31min | Thriller, Crime, Drama, Horror
3.3/5 (with 297 votes)

In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that involve her young sons, the neighborhood children, and one 12-year-old boy whose life will be changed forever.

Scars(2005)

1h 45min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 40 votes)

The story of a dysfunctional couple, whose problems will inevitably deteriorate their marriage and their son's life.

Directed by Francisco del Toro

Natural Born Killers(1994)

R
| 1h 58min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
3.5/5 (with 1,476 votes)

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Novitiate(2017)

R
| 2h 3min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 76 votes)

In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.

Stuart: A Life Backwards(2007)

1h 32min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 74 votes)

Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.

Chained(2012)

R
| 1h 34min | Horror, Thriller, Crime
3.4/5 (with 190 votes)

A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose between escaping or following in his captor's bloody footprints.

House at the End of the Street(2012)

PG-13
| 1h 41min | Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 804 votes)

A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.

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Radio Flyer(1992)

PG-13
| 1h 54min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 84 votes)

A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, Mike decides to convert their toy trolley, the "Radio Flyer", into a plane to fly him to safety.

Bedevilled(2010)

1h 55min | Thriller, Crime, Drama, Horror
3.6/5 (with 165 votes)

A woman subject to mental, physical, and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.

Directed by Jang Cheol-soo - With Seo Young-hee

Brubaker(1980)

R
| 2h 5min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 201 votes)

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Restraint(2008)

R
| 1h 34min | Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 49 votes)

Two fugitives land in hot water when they take a hostage who poses a threat to their well-being.

Directed by David Denneen - With Stephen Moyer, Travis Fimmel, Teresa Palmer

Daughters of Eve(1985)

2h 5min | Horror, Drama, Crime
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

In the remote countryside of Ilongo, various women are sexually abused by local men. Two sisters meet Simon, the most attractive man in the village, and fight over him - one constantly haunted by Catholic dogma because of the abuse she suffered previously.

Directed by Elwood Perez - With Maria Isabel Lopez, Mark Joseph, Sarsi Emmanuelle, Jimmy Reyes

The Strange Thing About the Johnsons(2011)

28min | Drama, Horror
3.5/5 (with 113 votes)

A dark domestic melodrama about the ties that bind and the ties that really bind.

Directed by Ari Aster

Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story(2019)

1h 28min | Thriller
3.7/5 (with 44 votes)

An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum, and feigns mental illness in order to be institutionalized to report from the inside. The movie is an account of actual events surrounding Nellie’s stay beginning after she has undergone treatment, leaving her with no recollection of how she came to the asylum or her real identity.

Possum(2018)

1h 25min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 91 votes)

A disgraced children’s puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.

Directed by Matthew Holness - With Sean Harris

Ju Dou(1990)

PG-13
| 1h 35min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 56 votes)

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.

Directed by Zhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang - With Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Wei

Gardens of the Night(2008)

R
| 1h 50min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 30 votes)

After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.

Priest(1995)

1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 51 votes)

Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.

The Silence of the Sky(2016)

1h 42min | Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 32 votes)

After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I(2013)

NR
| 1h 58min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 1,496 votes)

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.

Britney vs. Spears(2021)

1h 33min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 74 votes)

Journalist Jenny Eliscu and filmmaker Erin Lee Carr investigate Britney Spears' fight for freedom by way of exclusive interviews and confidential evidence.

Directed by Erin Lee Carr

Kill for Me(2013)

R
| 1h 35min | Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 48 votes)

Rent’s a bitch. And that is why, six months after her best friend went missing, Amanda finally gives in to getting another roommate, Hailey. The two college students turn out to have something in common, however: abusive men. For Hailey, it’s her dad. For Amanda, it’s a stalkery ex-boyfriend. But problems can be solved and, you know, you scratch my back, I scratch yours. In other words, Kill for Me, I kill for you.

Directed by Michael Greenspan - With Katie Cassidy

The Harvest(2015)

1h 44min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 88 votes)

Maryann moves in with her grandparents after she's orphaned. Desperately lonely, she sets out to befriend a neighboring deathly ill, bed-ridden boy, despite the outright disapproval of his mother. Maryann's persistence pays off, however, and during a series of secret visits she gradually uncovers some seriously sinister goings-on in the house.

A Patch of Blue(1965)

NR
| 1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 40 votes)

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

The Day Will Come(2016)

1h 50min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 31 votes)

Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres on two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy's home forgotten by time. Armed only with a vivid imagination and a fickle hope, the boys engage in the frightening battle against Headmaster Heck and his lethal tyranny. The film is based on actual events.

Directed by Jesper W. Nielsen - With Sofie Gråbøl, Jens Jørn Spottag, Mads Wille, Paw Henriksen, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Sonja Richter, ...
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