Foreign Mystery Horror Best, a list by dave Miller

8.2

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80

/4204/

79

/2753/

4.2

/172741/

89

/137/

93

/2238/

80

/36/

4.0

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

76

55

6.8

/2184/

70

/182/

76

/100/

3.3

/1501/

100

/15/

85

/3/

73

/5/

Li and his wife A Yu run a small business in Thailand and enjoy a happy home life with their two daughters. When their eldest daughter is violently assaulted, blackmailed and left traumatised by another student, her parents intervene, leading to a dead body which needs to be hidden, and every trace of the boy buried to cover up the accident.

80

55

7.3

/1608/

68

/66/

70

/46/

4.0

/11480/

96

/28/

81

/1/

94

/7/

With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.

76

7.3

/95618/

73

/3989/

71

/2445/

3.8

/133581/

89

/93/

84

/3999/

68

/24/

3.0

age 10+

A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.

82

7.5

/6961/

77

/183/

75

/191/

3.9

/13998/

94

/63/

80

/26/

78

/19/

4.0

A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.

82

78

7.6

/7788/

76

/232/

75

/156/

4.2

/20966/

100

/18/

87

/130/

77

/5/

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.

75

6.6

/7266/

66

/542/

66

/221/

3.4

/37994/

95

/84/

72

/35/

80

/17/

3.5

A pregnant wife who becomes worried about her husband’s sleeping habits. What starts out as some light sleep-talking soon escalates to unexpectedly grotesque behaviour. They consult a sleep clinic without success and as his nightmarish behaviour escalates, they desperately seek help from a shaman.

71

52

6.6

/1294/

60

/26/

66

/23/

3.4

/11596/

94

/34/

76

/10/

On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their past...

75

6.5

/3056/

65

/90/

66

/82/

3.5

/7714/

96

/105/

62

/12/

82

/23/

4.0

A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.

65

6.6

/30873/

65

/563/

65

/443/

3.2

/13631/

64

/100/

72

/1112/

66

/26/

2.5

A blind concert violinist gets a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her new eye can see ghosts. She sets out to find the origins of the cornea and discover the fate of its former host.

69

6.9

/19986/

70

/618/

68

/840/

3.6

/45570/

77

/71/

71

/83/

67

/27/

2.5

A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.

78

6.5

/6896/

64

/241/

66

/156/

3.8

/15999/

95

/40/

66

/52/

93

/13/

4.0

A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position.

71

7.3

/48244/

72

/596/

67

/237/

3.5

/21517/

86

/22/

65

/220/

65

/4/

A cop, investigating the mysterious death of a filmstar, meets a sex-worker, while he faces some personal problems psychologically. The mystery connects these people in a way, that ultimately changes their lives.

87

8.4

/439726/

82

/6441/

80

/3973/

4.3

/184644/

92

/162/

96

/11153/

89

/39/

3.5

age 17+

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.

76

7.4

/65122/

73

/1260/

72

/1028/

4.0

/131184/

87

/119/

85

/2650/

78

/34/

2.5

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

73

6.9

/58998/

70

/3540/

71

/1346/

3.5

/382050/

96

/121/

78

/352/

75

/14/

2.5

age 16+

Residents of a small rural town discover that a demon is about to be born among them. They desperately try to escape before the evil is born, but it may be too late.

79

6.7

/986/

67

/45/

69

/25/

3.9

/5234/

93

/30/

78

/2/

82

/9/

4.0

When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.

68

66

6.9

/8990/

68

/320/

70

/271/

3.7

/19695/

66

/41/

65

/164/

65

/11/

A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with Junichi. She starts to date Junichi and gets a job at the same store where he works. Everything seems to be going perfectly for her until something unexpected happens.

81

7.8

/229436/

78

/6659/

75

/3134/

3.8

/78023/

85

/186/

87

/6163/

76

/36/

4.0

age 18+

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

73

7.3

/1679/

70

/48/

72

/29/

4.0

/27852/

88

/69/

66

/24/

86

/22/

2.0

In a future where humanity has surrendered its ability to dream in exchange for immortality, an outcast finds illusion, nightmarish visions, and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making.

81

7.5

/12080/

71

/316/

73

/258/

3.8

/11769/

94

/110/

83

/187/

82

/21/

4.0

A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.

82

7.5

/10500/

70

/127/

75

/160/

4.0

/9612/

88

/59/

85

/171/

86

/18/

4.0

A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.

76

7.2

/7411/

69

/97/

68

/128/

3.1

/4417/

91

/23/

93

/5/

71

/8/

3.5

Kaveh Nariman is a Doctor in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him.

74

71

7.1

/8579/

72

/251/

70

/215/

3.7

/7600/

80

/20/

85

/544/

68

/7/

Bun, a schizophrenic, former police inspector comes out of retirement to help a rookie detective solve a complex murder case involving a missing colleague and a suspected policeman suffering from a multiple personality disorder.

75

69

7.1

/6719/

71

/152/

67

/138/

4.1

/24451/

80

/50/

76

/120/

81

/16/

The passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences. The film is divided in two parts. The first half charts the modest attraction between two men in the sunny, relaxing countryside and the second half charts the confusion and terror of an unknown menace lurking deep within the jungle shadows.

67

6.5

/15869/

66

/506/

66

/432/

3.4

/14169/

76

/34/

64

/320/

70

/14/

A trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.

76

64

7.0

/3886/

70

/208/

69

/124/

3.9

/22980/

94

/48/

83

/13/

71

/8/

A shy teenager on a summer vacation experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl.

79

73

7.7

/7579/

75

/158/

73

/125/

3.7

/4331/

88

/32/

90

/162/

76

/13/

A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.

69

6.6

/4299/

66

/186/

67

/110/

3.3

/8226/

86

/43/

84

/4/

67

/4/

2.0

In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.

74

6.8

/8634/

66

/218/

65

/212/

3.7

/22791/

95

/104/

62

/7/

87

/30/

3.0

A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

75

7.1

/35241/

70

/1123/

70

/897/

3.6

/44093/

84

/205/

74

/127/

73

/31/

3.5

age 17+

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.

70

56

6.5

/2488/

68

/88/

65

/149/

3.3

/2251/

91

/43/

65

/19/

70

/12/

age 16+

In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance.

76

7.6

/178460/

75

/5030/

74

/4502/

3.8

/333947/

81

/177/

84

/2021/

70

/37/

3.0

age 18+

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

66

59

6.7

/5507/

66

/88/

65

/132/

3.4

/2092/

72

/46/

62

/192/

65

/16/

After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased...

71

7.1

/101442/

74

/3629/

69

/1744/

3.5

/32283/

69

/159/

68

/2640/

66

/35/

3.5

age 18+

Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.

71

7.1

/15845/

72

/542/

69

/379/

3.7

/25149/

75

/24/

74

/141/

66

/5/

Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.

80

7.2

/22774/

70

/494/

72

/492/

3.8

/35681/

89

/108/

80

/869/

87

/32/

4.0

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

75

7.0

/29373/

69

/1746/

68

/679/

3.6

/72974/

97

/120/

73

/105/

79

/24/

3.0

Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound abilities in the nearby forests and playgrounds, their innocent play takes a dark turn and strange things begin to happen.

83

7.7

/198489/

77

/11691/

76

/2939/

4.1

/821811/

99

/213/

98

/1981/

81

/34/

3.0

age 11+

In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.

74

6.9

/39140/

70

/2208/

68

/1099/

3.7

/88686/

92

/153/

77

/109/

74

/32/

3.0

A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.

71

6.7

/8813/

67

/296/

66

/275/

3.5

/16412/

87

/83/

69

/21/

68

/18/

3.0

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

87

8.1

/258853/

80

/7508/

80

/4349/

4.4

/850953/

95

/80/

92

/1038/

82

/18/

4.0

age 16+

During the late 1980s, two detectives in rural South Korea attempt to solve a series of gruesome rape-and-murders of young women that leave the community terrified using limited resources and outdated methods. But when the murderer strikes several more times with the same pattern, the detectives realize that they are chasing the country's first documented serial killer. They then attempt to piece together the clues in this thriller based on true events.

73

7.1

/54335/

70

/1626/

71

/1033/

3.8

/94496/

81

/119/

74

/1507/

73

/21/

3.0

A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.

69

7.1

/37469/

69

/1355/

69

/859/

3.6

/30025/

75

/151/

71

/56/

65

/31/

2.5

Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.

77

51

6.5

/878/

68

/35/

65

/24/

3.5

/2579/

100

/15/

79

/11/

93

/5/

age 13+

A man is trapped in a mine shaft by his vengeful brother while his daughter embarks on a magical journey to rescue him.

78

73

7.5

/31258/

72

/871/

72

/580/

3.8

/34099/

90

/78/

86

/22/

77

/10/

age 17+

Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in their dream.

78

69

7.4

/21615/

74

/858/

73

/1048/

3.8

/35356/

90

/31/

86

/10/

75

/4/

Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.

71

6.9

/21752/

69

/509/

68

/396/

3.5

/21261/

83

/60/

77

/15577/