The Bad Seed

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The Bad Seed (1956)

Thriller, Drama, Horror

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The Reckless Moment

The Reckless Moment

1949 ★ 6.8

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

M

M

1951 ★ 6.4

Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.

Children of the Damned

Children of the Damned

1964 ★ 6.1

Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.

Z

Z

2019 ★ 6.6

A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.

Pyewacket

Pyewacket

2017 ★ 6.0

A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to invoke a witch to kill her mother.

Village of the Damned

Village of the Damned

1960 ★ 7.2

In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.

Madame X

Madame X

1966 ★ 6.4

Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who has been romantically pursuing her. She is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity in order to save the reputation of her husband and infant son. She wanders the world, trying to forget her heartbreak with the aid of alcohol and unsavory men. Eventually returning to the city of her downfall, she murders a blackmailer who threatens to expose her past. Amazingly, Holly is represented at her murder trial by her now adult son, who has become a public defender. In the hope of protecting her family, she refuses to reveal her real name and is known to the court as "Madame X".

Seeds of Yesterday

Seeds of Yesterday

2015 ★ 6.4

The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.

Bad Ronald

Bad Ronald

1974 ★ 6.4

When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.

Race with the Devil

Race with the Devil

1975 ★ 6.4

Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.

Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom

1960 ★ 7.4

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

I Confess

I Confess

1953 ★ 7.1

When a priest hears a murderer’s confession, he becomes bound by his vow of silence—even as circumstantial evidence turns suspicion toward him. Torn between faith and self-preservation, he faces public scandal and trial for a crime he cannot reveal the truth about.

Nightbooks

Nightbooks

2021 ★ 6.1

Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way out of this twisted place.

I Believe

I Believe

2019 ★ 7.7

A 9 year old boy experiences God's power in a supernatural way.

Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die

1939 ★ 6.8

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Witness to Murder

Witness to Murder

1954 ★ 6.3

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

Reap What You Sew: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

Reap What You Sew: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

2018 ★ 6.9

Internet sensation and old family friend of Aurora Teagarden, Poppy Wilson, has returned to Lawrenceton to start her new embroidery business. But not everyone is happy with Poppy's success when she turns up dead. To find the killer, Roe must follow the unsettling truths that lead her—into the path of the killer.

A Question of Faith

A Question of Faith

2017 ★ 7.3

When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs

White Heat

White Heat

1949 ★ 7.7

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

The Dark Mirror

The Dark Mirror

1946 ★ 7.0

A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.

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