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Plot Summary:
The mind is a terrible thing to waste.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, serious, suspense, bleak, dark, mind bending
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Solomon Grundy (2012)
Plot Summary:
8-year-old Jimmy finds comfort and protection in the form of his imaginary friend, Solomon Grundy. Upon reaching adulthood, Jimmy finds that his invisible friend has not gone away.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, anime, surprise ending, neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy
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Bleeding Through (2012)
Plot Summary:
Months after the brutal car accident that killed her parents, sensitive college student Lindsey still struggles with overwhelming grief. Pressure from her brother to sell the family home, financial stressors and failing grades send Lindsey spiraling into a dark pit of depression, her only resource a new friendship and possibility of romance. But when romance turns into vicious betrayal, Lindsey unearths a capacity for violence and bloody revenge from beyond the grave!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, dark, bleak, suspense, queer horror, realistic
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American Dreamer (2018)
Plot Summary:
A down on his luck driver making extra cash chauffeuring a low level drug dealer around town, finds himself in a serious financial bind and decides to kidnap the dealer's child.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, dark, non-linear, neo noir, psychological thriller, psycho film
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The Trespasser (2001)
Plot Summary:
Estevão , Ivan e Gilberto são companheiros desde os tempos de faculdade e sócios de uma construtora de sucesso há mais de 15 anos. O relacionamento entre eles sempre foi muito bom, até que um desentendimento na condução dos negócios faz com que eles entrem em choque, com Estevão, sócio majoritário, ameaçando abandonar a empresa. Acuados, Ivan e Gilberto decidem então contratar Anísio , um matador de aluguel, para assassinar Estevão e, assim, poderem conduzir a construtora do modo como bem entendem. Entretanto, Anísio tem seus próprios planos de ascensão social e aos poucos invade cada vez mais as vidas de Ivan e Gilberto.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, captivating, realistic
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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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Madtown (2016)
Plot Summary:
A stand-up comedian confesses to a murder on-stage at an open mic night to a shocked audience - his crime the result of a deadly triangle formed between his older sister, just released from prison after a 20-year stay for the murder of their parents, the loving bond he now shares with a caring surrogate family, and the ultimate choice he must make between them - his dysfunctional blood ties with his own sister, or his picturesque view of the ideal family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, rough, captivating, exciting
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The Other Wife (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kate is devastated to learn that her husband Billy has been living a double life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful
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She Who Must Burn (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Angela (Sarah Smyth) refuses to leave her planned-parenthood clinic after it is shut down by the state, a family of fanatical evangelists vow to make her pay.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, bleak, serious, atmospheric
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Pinprick (2009)
Plot Summary:
A criminal gradually integrates himself into a broken household by methodically asserting control over a teenage girl and her lonely mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Hungary
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Forfeit (2007)
Plot Summary:
An armored car guard's elaborate plan for revenge is threatened by his relationship with an old friend -- a brilliant and unpredictable television preacher.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Dirty Hands (2014)
Plot Summary:
Towing a submerged torpedo in the wake of their battered fishing boat, a desperate fisherman and a naive kid embark on a journey trafficking millions of dollars worth of cocaine. Shot entirely on location along the Pacific coast of Colombia—in areas that bear the indelible scars of the drug trade—Manos Sucias refuses to glamorize the drug trade but rather seeks to offer a rare glimpse of its devastating effects.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, social, bleak, captivating, realistic
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White Knuckles (2010)
Plot Summary:
A sweet housewife has been married to the same crotchety man for 40 years and she just can't bear another day. She starts to poison his food just to see if he might change. When he falls ill, both are awakened to the raw reality of life and death.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, realistic, suspense, mumblecore, independent film
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Joe (1970)
Plot Summary:
Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he runs into a drunken factory worker named Joe, who hates hippies, blacks, and anyone who is "different", and would like to kill one himself. The two start talking, and Bill reveals his secret to Joe. Complications ensue.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult classic, realistic, disturbing, psychedelic, controversial, psychological, thought provoking, bleak, serious
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Finder's Fee (2001)
Plot Summary:
After finding a wallet in the street tepper calls the owner in order to return it. After making the call he discovers that the lottery ticket inside is a $6 million winner. To add to things his friends are on their way over for their weekly poker night & the groups tradition is to bet their lottery ticket.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, neo noir, independent film
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Lethal Eviction (2005)
Plot Summary:
A first time landlord purchases a run-down, rent-controlled apartment building in hopes of making a solid investment. Everything seems to be going smoothly until, one by one, the tenants begin to meet strange, untimely gruesome deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, creepy, suspense, mind bending, realistic
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Little Necro Red (2019)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time, after many years without contact, Diane Hunter received a phone call from her long-lost friend Angela. Angela's daughter, Annie (aka "Little Red"), mysteriously disappeared, but the police never found her body. Now, Angela's life is being plagued by inexplicable events. While Diane and Angela begin to shed light on the mystery, a masked maniac known as "The Wolf" is on the prowl, leaving a trail of blood and carnage in his wake. The further Diane and Angela delve into madness, the deeper the doubt burrows into their minds: is Annie alive? This is the most gory, and twisted Slasher you have ever seen: this is not a fairy-tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, dark, slasher, splatter, dark fantasy
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Unrequited (2010)
Plot Summary:
UNREQUITED is a psychological thriller and tells the story of Ben Jacobs, a troubled young man who, on his 18th birthday, has to leave the group home for "troubled teens" where he has been living for the past several months and move back in with his alcoholic mother. Upon his return, Ben soon discovers that his girlfriend, Jessica Morgan, has moved on with her life and is now dating an older college guy. Desperate for love and unable to cope with losing Jessica, Ben's troubled past catches up with him as he kidnaps her in an attempt to regain her affection. Spiraling out of control and on a very dangerous path, Ben must ultimately decide whether to let her go, or hold on to the one person he loves, even if it means destroying them both in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, serious, contemplative, independent film, realistic, bleak
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The Invisible Witness (2018)
Plot Summary:
A businessman must explain to his lawyers how he came to be found in a locked hotel room with his dead partner, whose body was covered in money.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, realistic, enigmatic
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Good Chemistry (2008)
Plot Summary:
After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his nightmare only worsens.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Final Recourse (2013)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abuse,turning her back on her family. She later discovers that someone close to her may be behind her subsequent abduction and kidnapping.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense, captivating
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Bucksville (2011)
Plot Summary:
In a small, wooded town, a young man struggles to leave a secret militia started by his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Keyed: A Deadly Game of Sex/Lies/Betrayal (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three lives are intricately linked during a New Years Eve “Key Party” for Swingers: A young newlywed is forced into an open relationship by her star-athlete husband and best friend an ill-fated club owner reunites with old friends to realize the bond they once shared is in jeopardy and a loving father has to reconcile his relationship with his estranged brother to save the life of his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, sexy, serious, psychological, independent film, sexual
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Samuel Bleak (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, bleak, realistic, suspenseful
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Clean Break (2008)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Good Doctor (2011)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing her, so he begins tampering with her treatment, keeping Diane sick and in the hospital right next to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, medical horror, psychological thriller, emotional, suspense, dark
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Stolen by Their Father (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story of a mother whose two young daughters are kidnapped by her abusive ex-husband—and her all-consuming fight to get them back.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Mulholland Dr. (1999)
Plot Summary:
Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which had approved the script, but chose not even to air the pilot once it was done in 1999, despite Lynch's labours to cut the project to their liking. It was left in limbo until 18 month later French company Studio Canal Plus (also producer of 'The Straight Story') agreed to pay ABC $7 million for the pilot, and budget a few million more to turn the pilot into a two-hour, 27-minute movie. The cost of the film doubled to $14 million as sets had to be reconstructed and actors recalled.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, parody, dark, mind blowing
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Plot Summary:
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: suspense, thought provoking, mind bending, psychological, disturbing, surreal, philosophical, suspenseful, dark, art house
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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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Black Swan (2010)
Plot Summary:
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 808000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, cerebral, atmospheric, surreal, sexy, twist ending, psychological thriller, mind bending, visually appealing