Compulsion
see all genres ›Behavior that can no longer be controlled by anything short of a straitjacket has always had a vicarious appeal for moviegoers who love homicidal maniacs and other menaces to society so long as they are safely projected onto the silver screen.
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Genres / Suspense / Psychological / Compulsion
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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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Blood and Black Lace
An unscrupulous business operating under the guise of a top fashion house becomes a murder scene after someone is pushed to the edge. The saga begins when a beautiful model is brutally murdered and her boyfriend is suspected of the crime. But is he guilty or is someone waiting...Watch Movie
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Horrors of the Black Museum
London is fear-struck and Scotland Yard is baffled by a series of strange murders plaguing the city. Through his stories of the atrocities, crime journalist Edmond Bancroft (Michael Gough) comes to his own conclusions while clues of the crimes continue to elude the police....Watch Movie
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In the Folds of the Flesh
In a genre defined by shocking violence and psychosexual kink, it remains perhaps the most over-the-top "giallo" in EuroCult history: former MGM starlet and doomed James Dean paramour Pier Angeli (two decades past her Golden Globe award for "Most Promising Newcomer" and just...Watch Movie
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A Zed and Two Noughts
"Two legs look so good together, don't you think?" A masterpiece of modern cinema, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is Peter Greenaway's beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on obsession and death. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women...Watch Movie
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The Mask
If there is a presumption that Canadian horror began with David Cronenberg, think again! THE MASK tells the tale of an unusual mask which allows the wearer to achieve hallucinatory visions of a surreal and supernatural world. Like most fanciful opportunities, these benefits come with deadly side...Watch Movie
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Blonde Ice
A beautiful blonde high-steps her way up the society ladder (and over one dead body at a time) in this fast, cheap and deadly film noir, thought lost for many years but rediscovered. Claire Cummings, a former "$18-a-week steno from a hick town" turned society newspaperwoman, finds herself...Watch Movie
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À tout de suite
A stylish thriller, A TOUT DE SUITE is the highly anticipated film from acclaimed French director Benoit Jacquot. Based on actual events, it tells the story of free-spirited Lili, a Parisian art student who falls for a charismatic bank robber and joins him on the run, a dizzying cross-continent...Watch Movie
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Las Vegas Serial Killer
A killer is stalking the streets of Las Vegas, a merchant of death whose resume in the field of human slaughter is vast and horrifying. On August 31st, 1986 Jonathan Klick was released from the Nevada State Penitentiary on a technicality. He arrived in Las Vegas three days...Watch Movie
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The Case of the Frightened Lady
The ancient and mysterious house of Mark's Priory is the family seat of the Lebanon family. Lady Lebanon is desperate to have an heir to carry on the family name and has told her son, Lord William, that he must marry his niece, Isla Crane. But Lord William has no intention of...Watch Movie
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Alpha
In a not-so-far-away future, Alpha, a conforming bourgeois woman, refuses to provide shelter to a mysterious Fugitive, for fear of putting her controlled life in danger. The Fugitive is captured and Alpha is arrested and taken to the Forest, where the authorities throw the castaways and the...Watch Movie
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The Copper
Though many audiences are initially familiar with the extraordinary German actor Hans Albers from his role in Josef von Sternberg's THE BLUE ANGEL, his reputation was enhanced (and his fame soared) after his starring role in DER GREIFER (THE COPPER) released the following year. Nearly three...Watch Movie
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Possible Lives
After her husband mysteriously disappears during a business trip to Patagonia, Clara embarks on a desperate mission to find him. During her search, she makes a startling discovery: a man with an uncanny resemblance to her spouse but with another name and a wife. Convinced the stranger may be her...Watch Movie
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Strike Me Deadly
A hunter deliberately guns down his partner and starts a forest fire to cover up the murder. He thinks he's gotten away with the perfect crime until he spies Forest Ranger Jimmy Grant, who stumbles onto the gruesome scene while out on patrol, witnessing everything. A deadly...Watch Movie
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Hunting
Tina is high-strung and over-worked. Her boss (whom she refers to as "Rick the Dick") is so strict about personal time she can't even apartment hunt with her roommate Maureen. Already suffering from terrifying chronic stress dreams about a creepy, claustrophobic hallway and not wanting anymore...Watch Movie
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Uniform
Double lives and deceptions provide the core of Diao Yinan's DV blend of urban realism and Gogolian satire, one of the key early works of China's digital underground. A put-upon youth, busy slaving away at his family’s tailor shop and barely interested in his town's epidemic of factory closures,...Watch Movie
