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Plot Summary:
2013 Chinese horror film directed by Qiu Chuji.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychosexual thriller
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2 Graves in the Desert (2020)
Plot Summary:
A man and woman wake to find themselves tied and gagged in the trunk of a pick-up truck and it soon becomes clear that they have been kidnapped and taken as hostages. Their two kidnappers have their own agenda, and it's not a pleasant one.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Pali Road (2015)
Plot Summary:
PALI ROAD is a mysterious and thrilling journey in search for true love between two different worlds. Lily, a young doctor, wakes up from a car accident and discovers she is living a completely different life. Now married to her boyfriend’s rival, Dr. Mitch Kayne, and a mother to a 5-year-old son, she has an established life she remembers nothing about. Everyone around her denies that her boyfriend Neil ever existed. As Lily begins to doubt her own sanity, memories of Neil resurface, causing her to encounter unexplainable incidents. While desperately searching for the truth of her past life, she questions her entire existence; but in the end, she discovers the meaning of true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, twisted, psychological thriller, romantic drama
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False Positive (2021)
Plot Summary:
After months of trying and failing to get pregnant, Lucy and Adrian finally find their dream fertility doctor in the illustrious Dr. Hindle. But after becoming pregnant with a healthy baby girl, Lucy begins to notice something sinister through Hindle's gleaming charm, and she sets out to uncover the unsettling truth about him, and her own "birth story." As if getting pregnant weren't complicated enough.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, dark, medical horror, psychological thriller, psychological horror
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Egregor (2021)
Plot Summary:
A Ukranian flight engineer must infiltrate a highly secretive cult in order to save his abducted son who some believe to be the chosen one that will allow their religion to rule all mankind.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Gone (2019)
Plot Summary:
When the detectives won’t believe she was abducted, a woman must do her own investigation to identify the person who kidnapped her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, dark
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Remember You (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of the night, a man reports a missing person to the police office... himself. He has lost his memory. He can only remember from the moment he found himself left alone in an apartment. He tries to find any clue as to who he might be, but nothing comes out. When he plucks up the courage to go out, he meets a girl at a convenience store, who he thinks might know him. Instantly she becomes his only hope and joy, but when he returns, she has disappeared. Then his attempt to find someone who remembers him becomes greater than his need for his own memories, transforming into a quest to reconnect with a lost love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, romantic, romantic drama
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Silent Retreat (2016)
Plot Summary:
Six members of a media company go on a weekend business retreat at an isolated lodge in the woods. When one of the members goes missing, they discover that the lodge was formerly a private mental institution that had been shut down after allegations of devious misconduct. One by one, they fall victim to the dark secrets buried at the lodge.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 941
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, brutal, serious, slasher
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The Bride (2017)
Plot Summary:
This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, exciting, surprise ending, suspense
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Insane (2016)
Plot Summary:
A woman gets kidnapped in the middle of the day and is tortured in a psychiatric hospital. A Journalist gets on the trace of the case and tries to find out the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Hide and Seek (2013)
Plot Summary:
A missing brother. Hide and seeks codes. A shocking truth for two different families and the struggle to save their families from someone who is already living inside their house.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, creepy, twisted, scary
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A Child's Voice (2018)
Plot Summary:
A homeless teen answers the voice of a child calling out for help and is sent on a journey to find a human trafficking network run by the child's killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, satanic, independent film
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Body of Deceit (2017)
Plot Summary:
An accident in Malta leaves ghostwriter Alice with memory loss. Suffering from writer's block, she returns to the island to recover when she meets the sensual Sara. As they bond, a shady stranger begins to taint the stay with mystery.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, detective, exotic
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Tipping Point (2007)
Plot Summary:
A medical student is desperate to solve a murder to prove that she's not having a psychological breakdown, as her family and friends believe her to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Harvest (2013)
Plot Summary:
Maryann moves in with her grandparents after she's orphaned. Desperately lonely, she sets out to befriend a neighboring deathly ill, bed-ridden boy, despite the outright disapproval of his mother. Maryann's persistence pays off, however, and during a series of secret visits she gradually uncovers some seriously sinister goings-on in the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, scary, cult classic, teen, disgusting
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The Harrow (2016)
Plot Summary:
Miller lives alone in an abandoned Alabama slaughterhouse. His memory and sanity are shattered and his only company is the spirit of his lover, who was murdered a decade ago. Ruth arrives, desperate to discover the truth about her mother's death. She stays with Miller for three nights. Together they piece together the fragments of his memory, but they are horrified at what they uncover.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The deaths from the Black Forest (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman disappears mysteriously in the middle of a forest. Police begins his search, in addition to her husband, a forensic expert. When officers asked to provide them with a photograph of the missing, he discovers that someone has entered her house and stole all the images of women.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kojiro Himuro is a champion figure skater taking part in an upcoming world competition. Yet, he is suffering from a complicated CTEPH (chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension). Kantaro Kurosu is the director of the Cross Medical Center. He asks Michiko Daimon to perform surgery on Kojiro, but, right before his surgery some thing happened.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, medical drama
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Hypnotic (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young woman seeking self-improvement enlists the help of a renowned hypnotist but, after a handful of intense sessions, discovers unexpected and deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, psychological horror
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Level Up (2016)
Plot Summary:
Gamers enter virtual reality video game contest for money only to realize things are not the way they seem.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Battle of Memories (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man becomes involved in a memory manipulation operation to try and regain lost memories. He thinks the exercise may help repair his failed marriage, but accidentally ends up with the mind of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cerebral
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I Know Who You Are (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man ends up in hospital after a car accident. He does not remember his name, but it is soon discovered he is a famous attorney. To make things worse, the police start to suspect him of having murdered his missing niece.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspenseful, psychological, sincere, realistic, enigmatic, suspense, captivating, disturbing
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Apart (2011)
Plot Summary:
Linked by a rare psychological disorder, Noah Greene and Emily Gates must uncover the mystery of a tragic past in order to find hope for the future.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, fairy tale, mind bending, independent film, serious
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The Dark Red (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital and claims her newborn was stolen by a dark cult.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Eun Ji (2019)
Plot Summary:
Yeonmo Island is a small and serene island. Eun-ji enters the island for some peace, with a guitar and some scuba gear. The men in the fishing village start stirring, as a beautiful woman appears. Especially Yong-tae, the president of the island, and his subordinates, Yoon-gil and Byeong-sam, look creepily at her. One day, Eun-ji finds out that the men in the village have blocked the boat that is supposed to get her off the island. The residents, the police and everyone else gathers around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Causality (2021)
Plot Summary:
Claudia shows up at a bar to meet Luis, a doctor who contacted her through a dating app. Claudia doesn't suspect what fate has in store for her. A kidnapping that ends with an inevitable and unpredictable death. A suspense story with surprising twists until the last second, narrated in a sequence shot without cuts.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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ID:A (2011)
Plot Summary:
A woman wakes up in a river. Wounded and without memory, then races to elude mysterious followers and recover from amnesia.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Terrible Angels (2012)
Plot Summary:
Detective Ben Nolan is sent to investigate the story of a convicted prostitute and known drug dealer Linda Grossel. Linda explains that she was kidnapped and held captive for weeks. As the investigation unfolds, Linda's sanity is put to question, leaving Ben to decide whether to go on with the investigation or leave Linda to the fate of the prison system.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological, realistic
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Blackout (2008)
Plot Summary:
Recovering from a nail gun shot to the head and 13 months of coma, doctor Pekka Valinta starts to unravel the mystery of his past, still suffering from total amnesia.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense
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Passengers (2008)
Plot Summary:
After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight's five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident -- which some say include an explosion that the airline claims never happened -- Claire is intrigued by Eric, the most secretive of the passengers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, twist ending, captivating, emotional, serious, romantic, tense
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Mirage (2018)
Plot Summary:
On November 9, 1989 (the same day that Wall of Berlin falls), Nico is a 12 years old boy passionate to videotape himself playing guitar, being care lovely by her single mother María. This same night, when starts a 72-hours storm, Nico watches a violent scene through the window in the house of his neighbor Ángel Prieto. Moving to the house, he discovers Hilda Weiss, Prieto's wife, dead in the house. Running from Prieto, Nico is run over by a car, dying in the crash. 25 years later, November 9, 2014, Vera Roy is a woman who divides her time between her work as nurse in the hospital and the family with her husband David Ortiz and her little daughter Gloria. To celebrate their moving to a new house in the suburb, they invite her friend and former boyfriend Aitor Medina and his mother Clara, where Vera learns that she and David are in Nico's house and that after Nico's death, Ángel Prieto was arrested and he committed suicide three months later in prison. This night after the dinner, Vera.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller, twisted, detective, philosophical, clever