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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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Sin City(2005)

R
| 2h 4min | Thriller, Action, Crime
3.7/5 (with 3,599 votes)

Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.

Directed by Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino - With Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Nick Stahl, Powers Boothe, ...
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Don't Breathe(2016)

R
| 1h 29min | Thriller, Horror
3.5/5 (with 3,363 votes)

A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

Directed by Fede Álvarez - With Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Stephen Lang, Jane May Graves
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Nightbooks(2021)

2h | Fantasy, Kids & Family, Horror
3.1/5 (with 152 votes)

Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way out of this twisted place.

Directed by David Yarovesky - With Krysten Ritter, Lidya Jewett, Winslow Fegley
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Hard Candy(2005)

R
| 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.

Directed by David Slade - With Patrick Wilson, Elliot Page, Sandra Oh
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The Collector(2009)

R
| 1h 28min | Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 624 votes)

Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.

Directed by Marcus Dunstan - With Josh Stewart, Andrea Roth, Karley Scott Collins, Daniella Alonso, Haley Pullos, Madeline Zima, ...
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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky(1991)

1h 32min | Comedy, Action, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 120 votes)

Hard man Ricky is incarcerated in a futuristic prison where ultra-violence is his only means of survival in the corrupt, sadistic system. He must battle his way quite literally 'through' the feared 'gang of four', and undergo multiple tortures before facing the governor in one of the goriest climaxes ever seen.

Directed by Lam Nai-Choi - With Louis Fan, Yukari Oshima

Little Bone Lodge(2023)

1h 33min | Horror, Crime, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 106 votes)

During a stormy night in the Scottish Highlands, two criminal brothers on the run seek refuge in a desolate farmhouse. But after taking the resident family captive, they find the house holds even darker secrets of its own.

Directed by Matthias Hoene

Captivity(2007)

R
| 1h 36min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
2.4/5 (with 183 votes)

The sought-after images of top model Jennifer adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a charity event, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, they commit to escaping the chamber of horrors before they're killed.

Directed by Roland Joffé - With Elisha Cuthbert, Daniel Gillies, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Laz Alonso, Remy Thorne, Carl Paoli, ...
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Going the Distance(2004)

R
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 26 votes)

Nick is a successful young man whose comfortable West Coast life couldn't be better. However, when his girlfriend falls under the influence of lecherous music producer Lenny Swackhammer, Nick impulsively decides to travel to Toronto to intervene. Nick's buddies Tyler and Dime opt to turn the quest into a cross-country road trip that's complete with wacky antics and encounters with beautiful women.

Directed by Mark Griffiths - With Christopher Jacot, Joanne Kelly, Shawn Roberts, Mayko Nguyen, Ryan Belleville, Katheryn Winnick, ...
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Cat People(1982)

R
| 1h 58min | Horror
3.0/5 (with 205 votes)

After years of separation, Irena and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat -- and the zoo curator is drawn to her. Soon, Irena's brother will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they turn into predatory jungle cats.

Directed by Paul Schrader - With Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Annette O'Toole, Ruby Dee, Ed Begley, Jr., ...
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Alive(2020)

1h 31min | Horror, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 34 votes)

A severely injured man and woman awake in an abandoned sanitarium only to discover that a sadistic caretaker holds the keys to their freedom and the horrific answers as to their true identity.

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Dread(2009)

R
| 1h 48min | Horror, Drama, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 95 votes)

Three college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.

Directed by Anthony DiBlasi - With Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans, Paloma Faith, Laura Donnelly, Vivean Gray, Iga Wyrwał, ...
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Held(2020)

R
| 1h 34min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 22 votes)

A couple's ailing marriage is put to the test when they are held hostage in an isolated vacation rental by an unseen Voice that commands their every move and threatens harm if they don’t obey.

The 24th Day(2004)

1h 36min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 30 votes)

Tom and Dan's one-night stand turns into an intense power-play between captor and captive.

Directed by Tony Piccirillo - With James Marsden, Scott Speedman, Sofía Vergara
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All the Kind Strangers(1974)

1h 13min | Horror, Thriller, TV Movie
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

An LA photographer, driving through backwoods country, spots a young boy walking on the side of the road and offers him a ride home. After reaching the isolated house, he discovers that the boy and his siblings are keeping a woman prisoner as their "mom" and now he is expected to be their "dad"...or else.

Directed by Burt Kennedy - With Stacy Keach

That Cold Day in the Park(1969)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

Frances Austen, whose well-appointed apartment overlooks a park in Vancouver, one cold day, observes a rain-soaked young man on a park bench whom she assumes is homeless. Hoping to repress her loneliness, Frances invites ‘the boy’ inside her home to get warm and ends up encouraging him to stay. The young man accepts her every hospitality—food, clothes, profuse conversation, and a room of his own. Little does she realize that her guest is not the person he appears to be. Nor, for that matter, is Frances the woman that she appears to be.

Directed by Robert Altman - With Sandy Dennis, Michael R. Burns, Michael Murphy, Luana Anders, Susanne Benton, Michael Murphy, ...

The Last of the Mohicans(1936)

NR
| 1h 31min | Western, Adventure, Drama, History, War
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping of two sisters, daughters of the British commander; and their rescue by the last Mohicans.

Directed by George B. Seitz, Edward Small, John L. Balderston - With Randolph Scott, Heather Angel, Bruce Cabot, Phillip Reed, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon, ...
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Chronicle of an Escape(2006)

R
| 1h 43min | Thriller
3.3/5 (with 28 votes)

The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.

Directed by Adrián Caetano - With Rodrigo de la Serna, Pablo Echarri, Nazareno Casero, Alfredo Castellani, Lautaro Delgado, Alfredo Castellani, ...

The Cabinet of Caligari(1962)

NR
| 1h 46min | Horror, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

A delirious young woman feels trapped in a remote mansion at the mercy of a madman.

Directed by Roger Kay - With Glynis Johns, Dan O'Herlihy, Richard Davalos, Lawrence Dobkin, Estelle Winwood, Constance Ford, ...

Sun Choke(2015)

1h 29min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
2.8/5 (with 16 votes)

Janie’s just trying to get well. As she recovers from a violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by her lifelong nanny and caretaker. But when she develops an obsession with a stranger, Janie's buried demons begin to surface.

Directed by Ben Cresciman - With Sarah Hagan, Sara Malakul Lane, Barbara Crampton, Evan Jones, Jim Boeven

The Basement(2018)

1h 30min | Horror
2.2/5 (with 24 votes)

A seemingly innocent man is abducted by a notorious L.A. serial killer, who forces his victims to switch roles with him so that he can enact his own capture, torture and murder.

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Daddy's Girl(2018)

1h 20min | Horror, Crime, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

A young woman held captive by her stepfather becomes the focus of a female vigilante.

Eyewitness(2017)

1h 28min | Thriller, TV Movie, Drama
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Five years after sending a man to jail for the murder of her father and fiancé, Diana returns home to find that he has escaped from prison and has come to confront her. However, the man has not come for revenge, but rather wants her to understand that she put an innocent man away. Captive in her own home, Diana is resistant - she knows what she witnessed the night of the murder. But as time progresses, Diana starts to question what she saw that night as well as her own testimony.

Directed by Andrew C. Erin

Another Dawn(1943)

1h 48min | Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.

Directed by Julio Bracho - With Pedro Armendáriz, Andrea Palma, Alberto Galán, Narciso Busquets, Maruja Grifell, Manuel Arvide, ...

Long Live Robin Hood(1971)

G
| 1h 43min | Adventure
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Also known as The Scalawag Bunch - This bunch is none other than the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest and their feisty leader, Robin Hood. This is a '70s Italian-Spanish-French version of the often-played Robin Hood story, sometimes known as Archer of Fire.

Directed by Giorgio Ferroni - With Giuliano Gemma, Mark Damon, Silvia Dionisio, Mario Adorf, Nello Pazzafini, Lars Bloch, ...
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Scream Bloody Murder(1973)

R
| 1h 30min | Horror
2.6/5 (with 13 votes)

A disturbed boy kills his father with his farm tractor and his arm is mangled in the process. He's taken to a mental hospital where he's outfitted with a hook to replace his lost hand and, years later, he's eventually released from the asylum. He returns home to find his mother has remarried, which sets him off on a murderous rampage.

Directed by Marc B. Ray - With Angus Scrimm
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Hans Staden(1999)

1h 32min | Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

On the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to survive he tries to convince the Indians that he is not Portuguese (their enemies) but a friend of the French (their allies), and that his God would be very angry if they were to eat him.

Directed by Luiz Alberto Pereira

Stranger at the Door(2004)

1h 30min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Katherine "Kathy" is happily married to businessman Greg Norris and lives in his beautiful home with his about 18-year old daughter Tara. When suddenly a charming young man, who Tara first saw lurking around in the garden, turns up on their doorstep claiming he must be Jamie, the baby son she once gave up for adoption as a teenage mother on her parents' orders, the couple is delighted to meet him. They even take him in as they hear his adoptive parents have died in car accident and he's looking for a place to stay during his business studies just like Greg, to pay for which he held various jobs, even in Rio. The only one who remains suspicious is Tara, who doesn't want to be the kid sister and starts looking for holes is Jamie's story, going trough his things and having a friend examine his past- there are, since he didn't tell the Norris family about his lover who helps him unconditionally with his sinister hidden agenda.

Red Canyon(2008)

R
| 1h 38min | Action, Horror, Thriller
1.8/5 (with 7 votes)

In Red Canyon, Regina and Devon return to their family home in the badlands of Utah to face the memory of a brutal attack - and put it behind them. But in coming home they awaken a killing rage in a town where everyone has ties that bind.

Directed by Giovanni Rodriguez
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