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Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
In 1947, LAPD detectives Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard are made partners after engaging in a boxing match to raise public support for the department. Lee introduces Bucky to his girlfriend Kay Lake, and the trio becomes insepa…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Musical, Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, biopunk, comedy horror, dystopian film, horror film, musical film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction comedy
By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet and wiped out 99% of the human population. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan. Clients who miss payments are hunted down by Repo…
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Horror, horror film, supernatural horror film
A group of college friends – Haley, Grant, Paxton, Paige, Madeline, Lucas, and Elise – rent a mansion in the Catskills for Elise's birthday. As the atmosphere turns awkward following Haley and Grant's recent breakup, the group attempt to l…
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Fantasy, Horror, cinematic fairy tale, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film
The prologue opens with a story about "a beautiful child with a pretty pink hat", a mortally wounded baby girl. Her father takes her to the woods to be cured by a witch, who performs healing spells, bestowing supernatural abilities on the …
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Action, Horror comedy, Modern-Day Fantasy, comedy horror, horror film
When his vehicle breaks down outside Hayesville, Nevada, a quiet drifter is picked up by local mechanic Jed Love, who takes him to Willy's Wonderland, a once-successful abandoned family entertainment center inhabited by eight now-withered …
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Horror, Romance Film, cannibal film, dystopian film, horror film, romantic comedy
A young woman named Arlen is exiled to a desert outside Texas, where people deemed undesirable by the government (the "bad batch") are forced to fend for themselves. A sign declares the area outside of the US and that American laws and cit…
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Slasher Horror, experimental film, slasher film
A group of friends—Kris, Colt, Troy, Evan, Ehren, Brodie, and Aurora—discover a locket hanging on the remains of a fire tower, which Troy pockets. Moments later, the corpse of a serial killer, identified as Johnny, rises from the ground. E…
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Horror, Horror comedy, comedy horror, horror film, slasher film, time-travel film
Max Cartwright waits while her actress mother, Amanda, auditions for a film. When she returns, Amanda complains that she'll only be known as scream queen Nancy in the 1986 slasher film Camp Bloodbath, a cult classic. On the way home, the t…
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Ghost-House-Movies, ghost film, horror film
At 3:15 AM on November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his entire family at their house at 412 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. He claimed that he was persuaded to kill them by voices he heard in the house.
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Ghost-Movie, Halloween film, Horror comedy, Komödie, children's film, comedy film, fantasy film, ghost film, mystery film
Successful realtors Jim and Sara Evers live in Louisiana with their young children, Megan and Michael, but Jim's workaholic ways begin to alienate him from his family. After missing his and Sara's wedding anniversary to pursue a lead, Jim …
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Horror, horror film
In the small town of Cispus Falls in central Oregon, Frank Weaver runs a meth lab out of an inactive mine. While his seven-year-old son Aiden waits outside in his truck, Frank and an accomplice are attacked by an unseen creature. Three wee…
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action fiction, action film, anime, biopunk, horror film, science fiction
In 1998, as the Raccoon City incident begins, the Umbrella Corporation hires a private military firm to help evacuate high-ranking Umbrella executives and government officials. The firm deploys Unit 6, but the majority are bitten by zombie…
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Drama, Thriller, body horror film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Identical twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle are gynecologists, who jointly operate a highly successful clinical practice in Toronto that specializes in treating fertility problems. Elliot, the more confident and cynical of the two, seduces w…
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, biographical film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, independent film, psychological horror fiction
Henry is a psychopathic drifter who indiscriminately murders scores of people – men, women, and children – as he travels throughout America. He migrates to Chicago, where he stops at a diner, eats dinner, and later murders several women an…
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Horror, horror film, thriller film
In New York City, Tom, an actor playing a priest in a supernatural horror film called The Georgetown Project (resembling The Exorcist), is inspecting the set alone when he is mysteriously killed by a supernatural force. Peter, the film’s d…
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Teen Horror Film, comedy horror, fantasy film, slasher film
Set "ten years from now," Freddy Krueger has returned and killed nearly every child and teenager in the town of Springwood, Ohio. The only surviving teenager, John Doe, is confronted by Freddy in a dream. John wakes up just outside the Spr…
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Monster Film, Sci-Fi, Splatter Film, Thriller, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
A meteorite crashes near Arborville, California. An elderly vagabond discovers within a sphere a massive slime mold-like substance that adheres to his hand. Three high school students—football star Paul, cheerleader Meg, and outsider Brian…
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Action, Psychological Thriller, Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, splatter film
An autopsy of the Jigsaw Killer reveals a wax-coated microcassette in his stomach. Detective Mark Hoffman is called in to listen to it. The tape promises him that "the games have just begun." In a mausoleum, a man named Trevor and lawyer A…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, fantasy film, thriller film
University professor and psychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant Tom Buckley, a physicist, investigate claims of paranormal phenomena. They observe a seance and later debunk the tricks used by the pretend psychic. At the same time…
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Horror, Komödie, comedy television program, horror film
Discovering that his grandparents have developed "Waltzheimer's disease", a disease that is slowly turning them "normal", Gomez plans a family reunion, hoping that some branch of his enormous family tree will find a cure. However, Gomez se…
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, Romance Film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, melodrama, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
Dave Garver is a KRML radio disc jockey who broadcasts nightly from a studio in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, often incorporating poetry into his program. After work at his favorite bar, playing a nonsensical game involving corks and bott…
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Drama, Erotic Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, fantasy film, horror film, monster film
In an undisclosed, primitive human settlement, a sacrificial maiden is tied to a tree. A black panther approaches and rests its paws on her. Another girl with feline features approaches a similar big cat in a cave, without incurring its at…
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Animalhorror, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, science fiction film
In a remote Venezuelan tepui, British entomologist Dr. James Atherton leads an expedition to discover new insect species. His photographer, Jerry Manley, is bitten by a previously undiscovered, highly venomous spider of prehistoric origin,…
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Sci-Fi, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, teen film
Seven years after the death of Donnie Darko, his sister Samantha struggles with his death and has started sleepwalking. She joins her best friend Corey on a road trip to California. When their car breaks down in Conejo Springs, they get he…
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