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Plot Summary:
Paul and Kathy Plunk buy a small motel in a lonesome mountain region in Oregon. Their newfound tranquility is broken by a pair of guests who turn out to be wanted criminals on run from the police. They need money, so they assault the Plunks, force them to withdraw all their money from the bank. But the nightmare just begins as they take the Plunks and their baby with them as hostages.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Birthmother's Betrayal (2020)
Plot Summary:
A woman becomes suspicious when her adopted daughter's birth mother reenters her life and starts to display increasingly erratic behavior.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
Similar in 77%
The Good Nanny (2017)
Plot Summary:
When strong-willed Summer Pratt takes a job at a beautiful estate as the new nanny to a sweet but sad little girl named Sophie, she soon starts to suspect something is very wrong with the beautiful, wealthy couple who call themselves her parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspenseful
Similar in 77%
The Husband (2019)
Plot Summary:
Concerned her widowed mother Tracy will be lonely when she leaves for college, kind-natured Ashley secretly creates an online dating profile for her mom and meets Jared, who seems like the perfect match. When Tracy "accidentally" meets Jared and they fall in love, Ashley is comforted to see her mother happy until Jared moves in and begins doing whatever he can do to shut her out of their new life. It quickly becomes apparent that Jared's hold on Tracy will lead to devastating consequences if Ashley doesn't do something about it and must find a way to take Jared down.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, mysterious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
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Gunpoint (2021)
Plot Summary:
It is a disturbing thriller about a home invasion of a wealthy family that lives in a small-high end apartment. The family is taken hostage as the invader psychologically tortures David, the head of the household, by causing harm to his family members as he watches.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, sad
Similar in 78%
The Maddening (1995)
Plot Summary:
In this psycho-thriller, a little girl and her mother find themselves the focus of a crazed couple's delusions. The horror begins after Cassie has a fight with her husband David and takes off in the car with their young daughter Samantha. Cassie takes a wrong turn and ends up in the home of the evil Mr. and Mrs. Because Cassie and Samantha closely resemble relatives the couple recently lost, the duo hold the frightened mother and daughter captive in their home. Soon the two victims find themselves psychologically and physically abused, particularly Cassie who is threatened with torture and rape. Will David find them before the Scudders kill them both?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, erotic
Similar in 80%
If I Die Before I Wake (1998)
Plot Summary:
A suburban family is held hostage and terrorized by three intruders while their sixteen year-old daughter first hides, then exacts her own brand of terror on the assailants.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 78%
Captured (1998)
Plot Summary:
A car thief breaks into a man's house who is on a low because his career is being taken away. The man locks up the thief in the car, and tortures him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, clever, serious, suspenseful, independent film, suspense
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Home Invasion (1997)
Plot Summary:
A gang of armed criminals bursts into the home of a woman, taking her and the daughters of three of her friends hostage.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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The Stranger Inside (2016)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her husband become the target of their fertility doctor.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Dangerous Isolation (2006)
Plot Summary:
A weekend vacation turns terrifying when computer scientist Samantha (Alexandra Paul) and her daughter are lured into the hands of a killer. Kidnapped and held hostage, Samantha is given a choice: she must use her expertise to help her captors carry out an unspeakable crime, or let her daughter die. Nothing is as it seems in this twisting thriller, where high-stakes and high-tech collide for an edge-of-your-seat movie experience that will keep you guessing until the very end!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, tense, captivating, suspense
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Dig (2022)
Plot Summary:
A widower and his deaf daughter are held hostage and forced to dig under their house, revealing dark secrets from the past.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Indiscretion (2016)
Plot Summary:
A married woman's affair comes back to haunt her when her obsessed lover infiltrates every part of her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, eros
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Killing Your Daughter (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a DNA test helps Candace connect with her birth parents, she realizes some family histories are better left untold.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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A Mother's Worst Fear (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alice is starting a new chapter in life by moving on from her highly stressful job as a hostage negotiator and putting more focus on her family. Suddenly, her world is turned upside down when her daughter is abducted with no demand for ransom. As Alice uses her expertise with abduction cases to do everything to find her daughter, she discovers the kidnapper has a personal vendetta against her husband Brent with malicious consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Snatched from Mommy (2021)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth and her husband are basking in the glow of being new parents. When Elizabeth starts a mommy blog to document the experience, her baby Evan is kidnapped and she realizes danger lies much closer than she thought.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
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Dynamite (2004)
Plot Summary:
A woman's life is turned upside down when three armed robbers invade her home.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Mother Betrayed (2015)
Plot Summary:
Newlywed Monica is committed to a mental hospital for hallucinations, but soon finds out that her husband has a devious plan to steal her life, including her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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The Truth Is Always Complicated (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a couple is taken hostage in their home by an intruder, a simple home invasion robbery turns into something much more complicated.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, sexy, neo noir, bleak, serious, realistic, independent film
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Nowhere in Sight (2001)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - Helen Slater, Christopher Heyerdahl, Andrew McCarthy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, independent film, tense
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Killer Grandma (2018)
Plot Summary:
Melissa, a happily married woman with an eight-year-old daughter, invites her husband's mother to live with them, only to realize that Grandma is unhinged and wants to kidnap Melissa's daughter to replace her own dead child.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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A Mother's Crime (2017)
Plot Summary:
Encouraged by her lover, Danielle kills her husband and goes on the lam with her infant daughter Cali. But the cops catch her and, en route to prison, she agrees to give custody of Cali to her arch rival, her sister Nikki. But on release from prison, Danielle will stop at nothing to get Cali back from Nikki's safe and healthy home.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
Similar in 82%
Room for Murder (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Kristen decides to take a break from college and return home, she finds Jake, a handsome stranger, living in her old room. Her mother, Moira, explains that she invited Jake to live as a tenant to help with the house expenses. Soon, Kristen discovers not only are Jake and Moira sleeping together, but Jake has a secret, dangerous past.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
Similar in 87%
Hotwired in Suburbia (2020)
Plot Summary:
High school friends Emily and Max make extra cash by hot-wiring cars but when their shop teacher discovers what they're up to and gets involved, things get a lot more dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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23rd Psalm: Redemption (2011)
Plot Summary:
Five years have passed and Luther still blames Detective John Smith for destroying his life, as John had helped convict Luther on a murder charge. After being denied parole, Luther, along with two goons, escapes from prison. John, now married, is a minister and stepfather to an adolescent girl. Seeking revenge, Luther and his goons break into John's house and hold his family hostage. John makes a harrowing attempt to coax Luther to do the right thing - but will he do it?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: christian film, suspense
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Refuge (2013)
Plot Summary:
A post-apocalyptic thriller set in the ruins of a collapsed America, Refuge follows a family’s struggle to survive and rebuild a life in the absence of civilization. In the wake of a catastrophic plague, the family lives a lonely existence, struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy amidst a lawless world of roaming gangs and dwindling resources.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, apocalyptic, independent film, disaster movie
Similar in 85%
Tripfall (2000)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer turns the life of a family on vacation into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, realistic, fast
Similar in 76%
The Captive Nanny (2020)
Plot Summary:
Chloe (Karynn Moore) is a nanny who desperately wants to adopt but needs to get her life together first. She finds the perfect live-in nanny position with the Brown family - Emily (Austin Highsmith), Michael (Michael Aaron Milligan) and their son - that will help get her life back on track. She quickly learns they're oddly strict about security, with coded locks on all doors. Emily explains it's due to her famous musician ex named Baz (Jason Skeen), who stalks her. Horrified, Chloe agrees to help Emily and Michael keep their son safe. But when Chloe notices things seem a bit off with the Browns, Emily and Michael turn on Chloe and accuse her of being a spy for Baz. They lock her up to force a false confession out of her, but Chloe soon learns that it's not Baz that's making bad things happen - it's Emily, who is determined to win back Baz by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 81%
Deadly Excursion (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her daughter charter a sail boat while on spring break only to discover the captain has plans to make sure they never return home.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 81%
Red Eye (2005)
Plot Summary:
After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, the Lux Atlantic Hotel manager Lisa is waiting for a flight to Miami. Due to the bad weather and consequent flight delay, she meets in the airport bar Jack Rippner, who is also in the waiting list. They sit together in the plane, and Jack reveals that he wants Lisa to change the room in Lux of an important American politician to facilitate a terrorist attempt against him. Otherwise, Lisa's father will be killed by a hit man. Lisa has to decide what to do with the menacing man at her side.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 133000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, psychological, tense, suspense, intense, psychological thriller, serious, realistic, scary
Similar in 87%
Blind Heat (2001)
Plot Summary:
An industrialist's wife is kidnapped and held for ransom.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic