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Plot Summary:
When two youngsters meet and fall for each other, they must go on the run from the girl's corrupt father, who is also the sheriff of the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, cliffhanger, dark, crime drama, cult classic
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Lost in the Sun (2015)
Plot Summary:
A small time crook and a newly-orphaned teenage boy team up to perform a string of robberies.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspenseful, road movie, independent film
Similar in 86%
Sweet Virginia (2017)
Plot Summary:
A former rodeo champ befriends a young man with a propensity for violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, independent film, intellectual
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The Things We've Seen (2017)
Plot Summary:
Accusations of guilt turns a father into a fugitive, leaving his son to find and bring him home after struggling to put the pieces together.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Murdered at 17 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Pretty and popular, seventeen-year-old Brooke Emerson is the envy of her classmates--and even some of her closest friends. But while she seems to have it all, Brooke has never felt so lost. Ever since she sustained a head injury during a cheerleading stunt the previous year, she's suffered from a disorder that causes her to fly into uncontrollable, sometimes violent rages. As hard as she tries to keep it together, she finds herself in danger of jeopardizing her seemingly perfect life. It isn't until Brooke meets Jake, a handsome and charismatic stranger, that she feels like she's found someone who not only understands her, but accepts her for who she is. As tempting as it is to get swept up in the romance, she can't help but feel like something in their relationship isn't quite right. When her best friend is brutally murdered, Brooke has no choice but to depend on her new love...especially because she's worried that she might be the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Sins of Our Youth (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sins of Our Youth is the story of four teenagers who accidentally murder a younger boy while shooting off assault weapons recreationally and the perilous decisions they make in the wake of the murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, intense
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The Legend of Lucy Keyes (2006)
Plot Summary:
Guy moves to an old farm in Princeton with his wife Jeanne Cooley and their two daughters, Molly and Lucy to build eight windmills to generate clean power to the city. The Cooley family has a cold reception in town, and while voting for the approval of the project, the old woman Gretchen Caswell votes against the construction with many followers and mentions the historic importance of the spot and the name of Martha. Jeanne researches and discloses that two hundred and fifty years ago, a girl called Lucy Keyes got lost in the woods and in spite of the efforts of her mother Martha Keyes and the locals, she was never found. When the ghost of Martha comes to the fields around their property calling for Lucy, Jeanne realizes that the legend is true and that there are many hidden secrets in that location.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, bleak, dark, weird
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Catch Me Daddy (2014)
Plot Summary:
Laila, a girl on the run from her family is hiding out in West Yorkshire with her drifter boyfriend Aaron. When her brother arrives in town with a gang of thugs in tow, she is forced to flee for her life and faces her darkest night.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological thriller, serious, realistic, ambiguous ending, tragic ending, weird
Similar in 79%
Don't Tell a Soul (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two thieving teenage brothers, stealing money to help their sick mom, match wits with a troubled security guard stuck at the bottom of a forgotten well.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, suspenseful, intense, dark, action thriller
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Secrets in the Attic (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a teen girl and her mom inherit an old house, little do they know that a mysterious person is hiding in the attic – a teen boy who has been living there for months.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Picture Claire (2001)
Plot Summary:
After her Montreal apartment burns down and her possessions are reduced to ash, Claire Beaucage heads to her boyfriend's place in Toronto, only to find that he's missing. Then the police mistake her for Lily Warden, a sinister woman who killed a local gangster and happens to live in the same building as Claire's boyfriend. The police pursue a bewildered Claire while a gang of criminals chases after Lily.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, noir, independent film
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The Winter Lake (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Holly’s dark secret is accidentally uncovered by her new emotionally unstable neighbor Tom, they are pulled into a violent confrontation with her father, who will do anything to keep the secret hidden.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, weird
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Supremacy (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the run again. When he finds a house off a dirt road and takes a family hostage, he thinks the Aryan Brotherhood has his back–and his kidnap victims are black. The family’s patriarch, Mr. Walker, is a jaded ex-con who hates cops so much he disavowed his own son for becoming one. Seeing a familiar desperation in Tully, Walker refuses to call the authorities for help, causing familial tensions to escalate, and soon grave missteps are made.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, independent film
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Runaway (2005)
Plot Summary:
Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a quiet, rural town, Michael's convinced he can make a better life for both of them. While Dylan stays holed up in a cheap motel all day, Michael works at a convenience store where everything starts to come together for him. But as Michael falls in love with his beautiful co-worker, Carly, his past begin.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Bullies (1986)
Plot Summary:
When the peaceful Morris family move to a small town and buy the town grocery store, they run afoul of the Cullen family. The Cullen's have been bullying the town's folk for years, and now they are harassing the Morris family every chance they get. Matt meanwhile meets and starts seeing a lot of Becky who also likes him. Unfortunately her last name is Cullen, and when the rest of the family finds out about their relationship, they decide to get even, and their harassment is elevated to vicious assault.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Deep Dark Canyon (2013)
Plot Summary:
Bloom Towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential Mayor Dick Cavanaugh's family. When Bloom's two teenage sons, Nate and Skylar accidentally shoot and kill Dick during a deer-hunt, Bloom's long-held allegiance to the reigning Cavanaugh clan is tested. Skylar (still a minor) decides to take the wrap for his older brother Nate, claiming he fired the fatal shot. The Cavanaugh family's quick retaliation sends Skylar on his way to county jail, soon to be tried as an adult. Desperate and guilt-ridden, Nate breaks Skylar out of jail and sets off a chain of lawless acts, which send them deep into the woods and on the run. Bloom's choice between the law and his sons leads to revelations of old family secrets that threaten to destroy everything he loves.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic, independent film
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Undertow (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: harsh, suspense, suspenseful, depressing, intense, lyrical, cult classic, atmospheric, stylized, gothic
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Low Tide (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the long days of summer in a beach town on the New Jersey shore, high schooler Alan (Keean Johnson) and his friends Red (Alex Neustaedter) and Smitty (Daniel Zolghadri) break into vacation homes to steal valuables, funding dates at the boardwalk and lunches at the burger stand. When Alan and his younger brother Peter (Jaeden Martell) find a bag of gold coins, they try to hide them from the others — but Red, suspicious and violently unpredictable, seems willing to do anything to get the money.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, touching, suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking, depressing, weird
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Edge of Winter (2016)
Plot Summary:
When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, exciting, tense, suspenseful, neo western
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The Lie (2018)
Plot Summary:
A father and daughter are on their way to dance camp when they spot the girl's best friend on the side of the road. When they stop to offer the friend a ride, their good intentions soon result in terrible consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, slasher, crime drama
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The Zone (2007)
Plot Summary:
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, hispanic, twisted, thrilling, thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Joe (2013)
Plot Summary:
The rough-hewn boss of a lumber crew courts trouble when he steps in to protect the youngest member of his team from an abusive father.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, dark, atmospheric, depressing, southern gothic, harsh, rough, suspense, cult classic
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Hellion (2014)
Plot Summary:
When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, moody
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The Trigger Effect (1996)
Plot Summary:
How tenuous is man's hold on civilization when survival becomes an issue? When the lights go out and stay out for several days, suburbanites Matthew and Annie learn the hard way that man is "by nature" a predatory creature. Matthew's long-time friend, Joe, happens by on the second day and a rivalry between the two friends simmers as Annie cares for her sick baby. . Is this what is meant by "man's inhumanity to man?".
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, bleak, cult classic, action thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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The Company You Keep (2012)
Plot Summary:
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, captivating, light, serious, suspenseful, tricky, social, political thriller, detective
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In Her Skin (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, disturbing, crime drama, inspirational, mind bending, gothic
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The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
Plot Summary:
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 286000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: harsh, captivating, psychological, stylized, neo noir, suspense, gloomy, melancholic, atmospheric, crime thriller
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Come Morning (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in rural Arkansas in 1973, Come Morning is the tragic story of Frank and his 10-year-old grandson and the hunting accident that forever changes their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, rough
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Rust Creek (2018)
Plot Summary:
When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, psychological, philosophical, bloody, political, disturbing
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Fear (1996)
Plot Summary:
A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexual, psychological, suspenseful, sexy, suspense, psychological thriller, teen, neo noir, serious, erotic
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Stoker (2013)
Plot Summary:
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, gothic, tense, suspense, disturbing, erotic, surreal, visual