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Pan's Labyrinth(2006)

Κ-18
| 1h 58min | Fantasy, Drama, War
3.9/5 (with 4,773 votes)

Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.

Irreversible(2002)

17
| 1h 33min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.6/5 (with 1,320 votes)

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

Carrie(1976)

1h 38min | Horror, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 1,748 votes)

In this chilling adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel, withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother at home. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross, Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually take a dark and violent turn.

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.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer(2017)

K-15
| 2h 1min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 1,731 votes)

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.

Halloween(2007)

1h 49min | Horror
3.1/5 (with 1,011 votes)

After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.

Carrie(2002)

2h 12min | Drama, Horror, TV Movie
3.1/5 (with 203 votes)

Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother.

The Girl Next Door(2007)

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.

Ninja Scroll(1993)

3.9/5 (with 249 votes)

Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, lending his services to those with gold—or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a plot to overthrow the government threatens to end his wandering ways—and possibly his life.

Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Batman: The Killing Joke(2016)

1h 12min | Action, Animation, Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 801 votes)

As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness.

Directed by Sam Liu

Antichrist(2009)

1h 48min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 1,192 votes)

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Day of the Woman(1978)

1h 41min | Horror, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 243 votes)

After a young writer is brutally gang-raped and left for dead by four men, she systematically hunts them down one by one to exact a terrible vengeance.

Directed by Meir Zarchi - With Camille Keaton
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Hard Candy(2005)

1h 43min | Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 1,126 votes)

Hayley’s a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff’s a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff’s place. Jeff thinks it’s his lucky night. He’s in for a surprise.

Jane Eyre(2011)

3.6/5 (with 653 votes)

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Hotel Rwanda(2004)

2h 1min | Drama, History, War
3.9/5 (with 1,239 votes)

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

Rendition(2007)

16
| 2h | Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 288 votes)

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.

Green Street Hooligans(2005)

1h 49min | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,085 votes)

After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of British football hooliganism. Matt learns to stand his ground through a friendship that develops against the backdrop of this secret and often violent world. 'Green Street Hooligans' is a story of loyalty, trust and the sometimes brutal consequences of living close to the edge.

A Prophet(2009)

2h 35min | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 660 votes)

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

Grotesque(2009)

1h 13min | Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 87 votes)

An unnamed doctor has always had everything he's ever wanted, but that has only made him develop more extreme and depraved needs. He kidnaps a young couple in the prime of their life together and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.

Directed by Kōji Shiraishi

Au Hasard Balthazar(1966)

1h 36min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 179 votes)

The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

Directed by Robert Bresson - With Anne Wiazemsky, Pierre Klossowski, René Pascal

Frontier(s)(2007)

1h 48min | Drama, Horror, Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 331 votes)

A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.

The Hill(1965)

2h 3min | Drama, War
3.8/5 (with 86 votes)

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

Mind Game(2004)

3.7/5 (with 109 votes)

The film follows Nishi, a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, the film follows Nishi as he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.

Directed by Masaaki Yuasa

Burke & Hare(2010)

3.0/5 (with 203 votes)

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.

Goodbye Uncle Tom(1971)

2h 3min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 22 votes)

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

Charm School(2007)

1h 40min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 56 votes)

Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.

Nathalie: Escape from Hell(1978)

1h 43min | Drama, Thriller
1.6/5 (with 5 votes)

When a Russian doctor (Patrizia Gori) falls foul of the Nazis, she finds herself imprisoned at Fort Stilberg, a luxury brothel for German top brass where the women are overseen by sadistic SS officer Helga Hortz (Jacqueline Laurent). The doctor's medical skills bring her to the attention of Nazi Lieutenant Erik Mueller (Jack Taylor), who saves the lovely lady from becoming one of the establishment's 'hostesses' by assigning her to the infirmary.

The Bamboo House of Dolls(1973)

1h 50min | Action, Drama, Horror, War
2.5/5 (with 9 votes)

A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.

Mezzo Forte(2000)

3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

The target of hitgirl Mikura is a wealthy baseball team owner, but he turns out to be a powerful underworld boss. Mikura and her team are beset by countless heavily armed bodyguards and the boss' vicious daughter.

Directed by Yasuomi Umetsu

Dead Man's Shoes(2004)

K-16
| 1h 30min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.6/5 (with 228 votes)

A soldier returns home to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his dimwitted brother while he was away.

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