Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014), Red Riding: 1983 (2009), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Army of Shadows (1969), Brute Force (1947), Abandoned (2001), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), The Raven (2012) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Gloomy movies.
Storyline: Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.
Plot Keywords: crime, mystery, noir, detective, serial killer, police, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The disappearance of a young girl leads a Yorkshire detective (David Morrissey) to believe that he may have helped convict the wrong man of murder three years earlier.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, drama, dark, violence, serial killer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A plot to drive a man insane backfires when the intended victim adopts his late father's sadistic persona.
Plot Keywords: horror, gothic, psychological thriller, period piece, torture, madness, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: France, 1942, under German occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is a French Resistance commandant. Denounced by a French collaborator, he is interned in a concentration camp. He manages to escape, and rejoins his network in Marseille, where he has the traitor executed. This movie reveals rigorously and austerely what life was like in the French Resistance: the solitude and fear of its members; their relationships with one another; the constant threat of arrest by the Gestapo; the Resistance command structure and the way its orders were carried out. Head writer Joseph Kessel and co-writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville were both veterans of the "Shadow Army".
Plot Keywords: war, spy, resistance, world war ii, france, film noir, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail; prompting an escape scheme that has every chance of turning into a bloodbath.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: crime, film noir, prison, prison break, violence, oppression, rebellion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Aron Soprani (Tamas Meszaros) is a young boy abandoned by his father and given up to a state-run orphanage. His new home is run by cruel, abusive people, and young Aron finds little solace. Slowly forging relationships with the few allies he can find, including another boy, Attila (Szabolcs Csizmadia), and two orphanage workers, Aron and his circle rely on each other to survive the brutal conditions, both of the orphanage and their country, Hungary, ravaged by the spread of communism.
Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, mystery, crime, psychological, disappearance, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the Victorian London, the barber Benjamin Barker is married to the gorgeous Lucy and they have a lovely child, Johanna. The beauty of Lucy attracts the attention of the corrupt Judge Turpin, who falsely accuses the barber of a crime that he did not commit and abuses Lucy later after gaining custody of her. After fifteen years in exile, Benjamin returns to London under the new identity of Sweeney Todd, seeking revenge against Turpin. He meets the widow Mrs. Lovett who is the owner of a meat pie shop who tells him that Lucy swallowed arsenic many years ago, and Turpin assigned himself tutor of Johanna. He opens a barber shop above her store, initiating a crime rampage against those who made him suffer and lose his beloved family.
Plot Keywords: musical, horror, revenge, dark, bloody, gothic, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This movie is set in the mid 1800s and involves poet Edgar Allan Poe. A serial killer is on the loose and murdering people using Poe's descriptions from his published stories and poems. Poe teams up with Detective Fields, a Baltimore policeman to try and catch the killer by using his knowledge of the descriptions. Even though the stories are fictional, they start to become reality and the killer is a step ahead of them. Then it takes on a personal note as Poe's lover becomes a target. Will they stop the killer in time?
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, crime, detective, dark, horror, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four men set sail bound for Tonga on the yacht Rose Noelle. However the yacht capsizes in a storm and fills with water, trapping the crew in a space the size of a double bed. Personality conflicts threaten their survival but after 119 days adrift in the wintery pacific the Rose Noelle washes ashore on New Zealand's Great Barrier island. Their story makes headlines around the world but their survival is so miraculous that many commentators cast doubt on their story and they face open hostility from the media and authorities.—Jh
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, horror, crime, psychological, family, disappearance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the death of her husband, Dr. Cara Harding's faith in God has been shaken, but not her belief in science. In an attempt to get her more open to accepting unexplainable psychiatric theories, her father introduces her to Adam, a patient with multiple personalities who also takes on some of the physical characteristics of his other personalities. But Cara quickly discovers that his other personalities were murder victims and the more she finds out about Adam and his past, the closer she and her loved ones are to becoming murder victims themselves.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, supernatural, psychological horror, crime, paranormal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After returning to his childhood home, a disgraced children's puppeteer is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured his entire life.
Plot Keywords: psychological horror, surreal, dark, disturbing, atmospheric, slow burn, unsettling ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Merricat, Constance and their Uncle Julian live in isolation after experiencing a family tragedy six years earlier. When cousin Charles arrives to steal the family fortune, he also threatens a dark secret they've been hiding.
Plot Keywords: gothic, psychological thriller, mystery, drama, family secrets, isolation, eccentric characters ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Recently married, Quentin and Tracy Collins have just moved into Collinwood, a New England estate that has long been in the Collins family and which Quentin has just inherited. They have invited their married friends, Alex and Claire Jenkins, who write horror novels together, to live in a cottage on the estate rent free. An artist, Quentin wants to find somewhere in the mansion to do his painting that will, among other things, give him some inspiration. The estate's humorless housekeeper Carlotta Drake, who comes from a long line of domestics serving the Collins family at Collinwood, directs him to the room in the tower. After his first trip to the tower room where he finds many other paintings, Quentin begins to see visions and have nightmares including that of a young woman hanging dead in a tree outside the mansion, and a young girl in another window of the mansion holding a doll. With further information from Carlotta about those visions and nightmares, Quentin may be placing especially Tracy's life at risk staying at the estate if he is to believe Carlotta. That may indeed be the case as his behavior becomes more erratic, like he is possessed.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: horror, gothic, supernatural, sequel, haunted house, 1970s, cult film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Verena is a young nurse hired to help a mute young heir within an isolated castle in Tuscany. The more she observes the boy, the more Verena becomes convinced he has fallen under the spell of a powerful and otherworldly persona trapped in the castle's stone walls, one that seems to be quickly approaching on her.
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, drama, horror, psychological, supernatural, gothic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A student known for telling stories witnesses a murder, the latest in a series of satanic killings of hookers.
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, crime, horror, psychological, dark, murder ...
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