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A Nightmare on Elm Street(1984)

R
| 1h 31min | Horror
3.7/5 (with 2,352 votes)

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

Directed by Wes Craven - With Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Johnny Depp, John Saxon, Charles Fleischer, Ronee Blakley, ...
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Brightburn(2019)

R
| 1h 31min | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 1,391 votes)

What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

Directed by David Yarovesky - With Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Matt L. Jones, Meredith Hagner, Jennifer Holland
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Sinister(2012)

R
| 1h 50min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 2,394 votes)

True-crime writer Ellison Oswald is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.

Directed by Scott Derrickson - With Ethan Hawke, Fred Thompson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone, Clare Foley, ...
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Clown(2014)

1h 40min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 596 votes)

A loving father finds a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a killer.

Directed by Jon Watts - With Elizabeth Whitmere, Eli Roth, Peter Stormare, Laura Allen
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The Innocents(2021)

1h 57min | Thriller, Horror
3.5/5 (with 200 votes)

Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound abilities in the nearby forests and playgrounds, their innocent play takes a dark turn and strange things begin to happen.

Directed by Eskil Vogt - With Morten Svartveit, Ellen Dorrit Petersen

Child 44(2015)

R
| 2h 17min | Crime, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 757 votes)

Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

Directed by Daniel Espinosa - With Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Xavier Atkins, Mark Lewis Jones, ...
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Assault on Precinct 13(1976)

R
| 1h 31min | Thriller, Action, Crime
3.6/5 (with 443 votes)

The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang.

Directed by John Carpenter - With Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Nancy Kyes, Tony Burton, Kim Richards, ...
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Sin Nombre(2009)

R
| 1h 36min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
3.8/5 (with 282 votes)

Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same American-bound train.

Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga - With Edgar Flores, Kristyan Ferrer, Paulina Gaitán, Ténoch Huerta, Diana García, Héctor Jiménez, ...
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Acts of Vengeance(2017)

R
| 1h 27min | Thriller, Action, Drama
3.0/5 (with 241 votes)

A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.

Directed by Isaac Florentine - With Antonio Banderas, Atanas Srebrev, Karl Urban, Karl Urban, Robert Forster, Paz Vega, ...
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The Messengers(2007)

PG-13
| 1h 30min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
2.9/5 (with 350 votes)

When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions and endure attacks from a supernatural source. Jess must warn her disbelieving family before it is too late to save them.

Directed by Danny Pang Phat, Oxide Pang Chun - With Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, Evan Turner, William B. Davis, ...
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Confessions(2010)

1h 47min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 387 votes)

A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.

Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima - With Takako Matsu, Masaki Okada, Yoshino Kimura, Mana Ashida, Ai Hashimoto

M(1931)

PG-13
| 1h 57min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
4.1/5 (with 931 votes)

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

Directed by Fritz Lang - With Gustaf Gründgens, Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Inge Landgut, Ellen Widmann, ...
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The House That Jack Built(2018)

R
| 2h 32min | Drama, Horror, Crime, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 1,149 votes)

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

Directed by Lars von Trier - With Matt Dillon, Sofie Gråbøl, Uma Thurman, Bruno Ganz, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Riley Keough, ...
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Becky(2020)

1h 33min | Thriller, Crime, Horror, Action
3.2/5 (with 179 votes)

A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.

Directed by Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion - With Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale, Amanda Brugel, Robert Maillet, Ryan McDonald, ...

The Informers(2008)

R
| 1h 38min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 90 votes)

A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.

Directed by Gregor Jordan - With Billy Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Brad Renfro, Amber Heard, ...
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Lord of the Flies(1963)

PG-13
| 1h 32min | Thriller, Adventure, Drama
3.4/5 (with 219 votes)

Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when they split into two separate camps -- one led by the pragmatic Ralph and the other by militaristic Jack -- their society falls into disarray, leading to a disturbing examination of human nature and a chilling conclusion.

Directed by Peter Brook - With James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman, Roger Allan, ...
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Devil's Knot(2013)

NR
| 1h 54min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 293 votes)

The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.

Directed by Atom Egoyan - With Reese Witherspoon, Kevin Durand, Stephen Moyer, Colin Firth, Elias Koteas, Bruce Greenwood, ...
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Every Secret Thing(2014)

R
| 1h 33min | Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 141 votes)

One clear summer day in a Baltimore suburb, a baby goes missing from her front porch. Two young girls serve seven years for the crime and are released into a town that hasn't fully forgiven or forgotten. Soon, another child is missing, and two detectives are called in to investigate the mystery in a community where everyone seems to have a secret.

Directed by Amy J. Berg - With Dakota Fanning, Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, Nate Parker, Danielle Macdonald, Common, ...
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The Virgin Spring(1960)

1h 30min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 277 votes)

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson, Allan Edwall, Axel Düberg, ...
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Ted Bundy(2002)

1h 39min | Crime, Drama, Horror
2.9/5 (with 66 votes)

Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970's (though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered). Set from his college student years, to his first victims, his capture, escape from prison (twice), his final killing spree to his trial, conviction and execution.

Directed by Matthew Bright - With Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Bliss, Steffani Brass, Eric Da Re, Tricia Dickson, Tracey Walter, ...
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Maps to the Stars(2014)

1h 52min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 485 votes)

Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.

Directed by David Cronenberg - With Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, ...
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Mercy Black(2022)

1h 27min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 10 votes)

A woman is sent to a mental institution after stabbing her classmate in an attempt to conjure an evil spirit called, Mercy Black. Fifteen years later she's released, and must save her nephew, who has become obsessed with the phenomenon.

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Don't Torture a Duckling(1972)

1h 45min | Horror
3.7/5 (with 152 votes)

A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.

Directed by Lucio Fulci - With Tomas Milian, Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Irene Papas, Marc Porel, Ugo D'Alessio, ...
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The Border(1982)

R
| 1h 48min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 50 votes)

A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.

Directed by Tony Richardson - With Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo, Gary Grubbs, ...
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The Tortured(2010)

R
| 1h 19min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 65 votes)

An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.

Directed by Robert Lieberman - With Chelah Horsdal, Jesse Metcalfe, Erika Christensen, Bill Moseley, Zak Santiago
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Vigilante(1983)

R
| 1h 30min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 36 votes)

New York City factory worker Eddie Marino is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. When a corrupt judge sets the thugs free, Eddie goes berserk and vows revenge.

Directed by William Lustig - With Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Richard Bright, Joe Spinell, Carol Lynley, Woody Strode, ...
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Compulsion(1959)

1h 43min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 51 votes)

Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.

Directed by Richard Fleischer - With Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, E. G. Marshall, Martin Milner, ...
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L'Âge d'or(1930)

1h 3min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 125 votes)

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Directed by Luis Buñuel - With Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst, Josep Llorens i Artigas, Lionel Salem, Bonaventura Ibáñez, ...

Murder-Set-Pieces(2004)

1h 31min | Horror, Thriller, Crime
2.0/5 (with 38 votes)

Set against Sin City, Las Vegas, "Murder-Set-Pieces" tells the story of a fashion photographer whose vocation is murder—a voyeuristic nightmare of blood, sex, and brutality.

Directed by Nick Palumbo - With Gunnar Hansen, Cerina Vincent, Tony Todd, Edwin Neal
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Something Wicked This Way Comes(1983)

PG
| 1h 35min | Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
3.2/5 (with 71 votes)

In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?

Directed by Jack Clayton - With Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier, Angelo Rossitto, Arthur Hill, ...
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