Suspense
see all genres ›Alfred Hitchcock once differentiated between suspense and mystery by saying that the former is an emotional process while the latter is an intellectual one. Anticipating a major event while remaining uncertain of its outcome is the essence of suspense. Certain situations lend themselves to that feeling (a chase, for instance) and, unsurprisingly, those situations often occur in suspense films.
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Genres / Suspense
SUB-GENRES · Giallo · Political · Conspiracy · Psychological · Revenge
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A Shock to the System
A middle-aged advertising executive loses his long-awaited promotion to a younger man. In frustration, he accidentally pushes a panhandler in front of a subway train... and gets away with the death. Realizing that committing murder might be a little easier than he previously...Watch Movie
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Nightmare Castle
At the height of her career as the dark goddess of Italian horror, the legendary Barbara Steele delivered two of her most memorable performances in this tale of obsession, madness and depravity. Steele stars as a cheating wife who is chained, whipped and tortured to death by...Watch Movie
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American Psycho II
Patrick Bateman is dead. But his evil legacy continues in the body of Rachael Newman, the only victim who managed to escape Bateman's grasp. Rachael has developed an obsession with serial killers and now she will get rid of anyone who stands between her and her goal of...Watch Movie
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Carnival of Souls
Mary Henry struggles to put her life back in order after emerging the lone survivor of a gruesome car accident. She takes a job as a church organist in Utah, alienating neighbors and fellow roomers with an icy detachment; unbeknownst to them all, Mary is sinking into one...Watch Movie
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Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
Director Josephine Decker's highly-acclaimed second feature unfolds with the lyricism and inexorable sense of tragedy of an ancient Appalachian murder ballad. Indie icon Joe Swanberg delivers a beautifully understated performance as Akin, a soft-spoken farmworker who takes a...Watch Movie
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American Psycho
Patrick Bateman is a Wall Street yuppie, obsessed with success, status and style, with a stunning fiancee. He is also a psychotic killer who rapes, murders and dismembers both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or purpose. Based on the controversial novel, the film offers a sharp...Watch Movie
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Black Sabbath
One of the great horror anthology films and Mario Bava's personal favorite of his works, BLACK SABBATH solidified the director's reputation as Europe's maestro of the macabre. In THE TELEPHONE, a woman is haunted by menacing phone calls from a former lover. THE WURDULAK stars Boris Karloff as a...Watch Movie
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Master of the Flying Guillotine
The legendary Jimmy Wang Yu stars as the one armed boxer, a martial arts expert, who is targeted by the blind master of the flying guillotine, who has vowed revenge for the deaths of his two disciples. The MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE combines eye-popping visuals,...Watch Movie
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Dark Star
In the mid twenty-first century, mankind has reached a point in its technological advances to enable colonization of the far reaches of the universe. DARK STAR is a futuristic scout ship traveling far in advance of colony ships. Armed with Exponential Thermosteller Bombs, it prowls the darkest...Watch Movie
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Yella
Narrowly escaping her volatile ex-husband, Yella flees her small hometown in former East Germany for a new life in the West. She finds a promising job with Philipp, a handsome business executive with whom an unlikely romance soon blossoms. But just as Yella seems poised to realize her dreams, she...Watch Movie
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Memory Box
A dreamlike drama about gender and power. A young mother works at a memory recreation facility (where actors recreate clients' memories). A client pushes her to break the rules, crossing lines and jeopardizing her job. She's forced to decide how far she's willing to go. Dreams and fantasy become...Watch Movie
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The City of the Dead
THE CITY OF THE DEAD is an extraordinarily good chiller which still has the power to frighten fans of the horror genre. A college student, Nan Barlow is researching the history of witchcraft. Taunted by her brother and fiance, who have voiced their concern over her silly...Watch Movie
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The Woman in the Fifth
American writer Tom Ricks comes to Paris desperate to put his life together again and win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter. When things don’t go according to plan, he ends up in a shady hotel in the suburbs, having to work as a night guard to make ends meet....Watch Movie
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The Strangers Gundown
With its horror-movie styling and ultra-violent nature, this perfect example of a Euro gothic western garnered an "X" rating on its initial Italian release. During the Civil War, three Confederate officers, leaders of a Confederate regiment, sell out to the Yankees, kill the...Watch Movie
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The Stranger
Having directed two undisputed masterpieces, CITIZEN KANE and THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, Orson Welles delved into the suspense film, crafting a baroque postwar thriller that drew upon the style of his previous work, while laying the groundwork for his later film noir classics THE LADY FROM...Watch Movie
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
An American writer (Tony Musante) traveling in Rome is the only witness to an attempted murder by a sinister man in a raincoat and black leather gloves, though he is powerless to do anything to stop him. With a feeling that something is not quite right about the scene he has...Watch Movie
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Wake in Fright
Alongside MAD MAX and WALKABOUT, WAKE IN FRIGHT is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Donald Pleasence, WAKE IN FRIGHT tells the nightmarish story of a schoolteacher's descent into personal...Watch Movie
