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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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Benny's Video
Accustomed to a trite routine of school activities, daily visits to a local video store and hours in front of his bedroom television, Benny finds himself enthralled by his tape of a slaughtered swine. Staying alone in his parents' apartment, Benny eventually brings home an unknown girl, immediately exposing her to the...Start your free trial to watch
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Blonde Ice
Thought lost since the early 1970s, BLONDE ICE tells the bizarre tale of a beautiful society columnist with a desire for money and position that turns her into a serial killer, a story most Hollywood studios of the 1940s wouldn't touch! The tagline, "ice in her veins, icicles in her heart" perfectly describes Claire Cummings...Start your free trial to watch
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Blood and Black Lace
An unscrupulous business operating under the guise of a top fashion house with exotic models running sexual favors, cocaine dealings and blackmail, becomes a murder scene after someone is pushed to the edge. The saga begins when a beautiful model is brutally murdered and her boyfriend, a known addict...Start your free trial to watch
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Careful
Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents (adult, child and animal!) must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences....Start your free trial to watch
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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 decades later, Albers again starred...Start your free trial to watch
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Dead Trees
What happens when an innocent high school crush turns into an adult obsession? Daniel is torn between his relationship with girlfriend Lindsay and his past high school crush Becky. When Daniel has a chance encounter with Becky, his obsession for her builds and his life and world are turned upside down.Start your free trial to watch
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Delinquent Schoolgirls
Our protagonists in this low-budget cinematic carrion are escapees from an insane asylum! One is an ex-baseball player turned rapist, another is gay and the ringleader is a hack impressionist. When they stumble upon an all-girls school, antisocial behavior with these siliconed "students" ensues... but with...Start your free trial to watch
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Embodiment of Evil
After serving a forty-year prison term, Zé do Caixão (aka Coffin Joe) is finally released from the Mental Heath wing of the São Paulo State Penitentiary. Back on the streets, the sadistic undertaker is set upon fulfilling the goal which sent him to jail in the first place: find a woman who can give him the...Start your free trial to watch
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Eye in the Sky
Johnnie To produces this crackerjack thriller directed by To's longtime screenwriter Yau Nai-Hoi with an all-star cast. Hong Kong Police's elite SU (Surveillance Unit), led by its veteran leader Wong (Simon Yam), has been monitoring Shan (Tony Leung Ka-Fai), the criminal mastermind whom Wong suspects may have been involved...Start your free trial to watch
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God's Land
At the stroke of midnight on the 25th of March, in the suburban Texas town of Garland, the voice of God will be heard. The directive of the Creator will pre-empt all other programming on Cable Channel 18 and there He will deliver a message of eternal love, space travel and the end of the world. Teacher Chen is beckoned...Start your free trial to watch
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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. This is because Edmond is...Start your free trial to watch
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House of Whipcord
There is a large and old home just a few hours drive from London. A home that use to be a house of corrections, where bad girls were brought and bad girls were punished for crimes against society. A young man is pressured by his insane mother and father (who both worked for the British court system) as he...Start your free trial to watch
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Mad Cowgirl
Sarah Lassez delivers a star-making performance as Therese, an ass-kicking health inspector with a failed marriage, an on-going affair with a creepy televangelist, nymphomania and an obsession with old kung-fu movies. Further complicating her life is a very questionable relationship with her brother Thierry (James Duval), a...Start your free trial to watch
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The Night Visitor
A powerful Gothic suspense tale of a man wrongly accused of murder who is committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. While imprisoned, he makes a series of incredible escapes to methodically wreak vengeance on those responsible for putting him there.Start your free trial to watch
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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 husband, she ignores...Start your free trial to watch
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The Robber
A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes (and away from police cavalcades) as many as three times a day. A lean, visceral study of pathological compulsion from Austrian director Benjamin Heisenberg, featuring a riveting central performance by Andreas Lust (REVANCHE).Start your free trial to watch
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The Romantic Englishwoman
A sly, sophisticated love story, THE ROMANTIC ENGLISHWOMAN is a "masterfully acted comedy" (San Francisco Examiner) that is a showcase for its two Oscar®-winning stars: Michael Caine (HANNAH AND HER SISTERS) and Glenda Jackson (WOMEN IN LOVE). Caine plays successful novelist Lewis Fielding, whose...Start your free trial to watch