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Plot Summary:
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, suspense, mysterious, psychological, mind bending, psychotronic, psychological thriller
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Welcome the Stranger (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alice arrives unannounced at her estranged brother Ethan's house in an attempt to reconcile, but bizarre visions, the return of his strange girlfriend and Alice's paranoia and suspicion force the siblings to cling onto reality amidst mysterious circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, art house, mind bending, psychotronic, weird, beautiful
Similar in 78%
The Eternal Daughter (2022)
Plot Summary:
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense
Similar in 81%
Voice from the Stone (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1950s Tuscany, Voice from the Stone is the haunting and suspenseful story of Verena, a solemn nurse drawn to aid a young boy who has fallen silent since the sudden passing of his mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic, psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, erotic, surprise ending, dark, stylized, minimal cast
Similar in 90%
Flesh and Bone (1993)
Plot Summary:
Some thirty years after Arlis witnesses his father murdering a family, he runs into Kay, who happens to be the family's baby who was spared. Kay and Arlis suspect nothing about each other, but when his father returns, old wounds are reopened.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, erotic, southern gothic, romantic drama, mind bending, serious, realistic
Similar in 86%
As You Are (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, independent film, tear jerker, tearjerker
Similar in 82%
Mysteries (1978)
Plot Summary:
In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, surprise ending, enigmatic, suspense, psychological, captivating, sexy, mind bending, realistic, sexual
Similar in 82%
Never Here (2017)
Plot Summary:
An artist whose work involves capturing images of strangers begins to believe she herself is being observed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, mesmerizing
Similar in 84%
My Cousin Rachel (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, period piece, costume drama, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, gothic, sweet, novela
Similar in 82%
Autumn Lights (2016)
Plot Summary:
An American photographer adrift in a remote Icelandic community becomes entangled in the lives of a mysterious European couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Iceland, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, touching, independent film
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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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Culling Hens (2016)
Plot Summary:
A naive young farmhand stumbles upon a terrible scene after suspecting her husband of an affair. Unable to comprehend what she has seen, the woman resolves to confront her husband and discover what happens in the stables at night.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, underground film, independent film, cinema verite
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Stunts (1977)
Plot Summary:
After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating, independent film, realistic, mind bending
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Mickey and the Bear (2019)
Plot Summary:
In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place she can call home.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, social
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Every Breath You Take (2021)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist, whose client commits suicide, finds his family life disrupted after introducing her surviving brother to his wife and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, captivating, psychological, dark, teen
Similar in 75%
Make Up (2019)
Plot Summary:
After Ruth moves in with her boyfriend in a remote holiday park, tensions rise as she makes an unsettling discovery that lures her into a spiral of obsession.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, psychological thriller, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, suspense thriller, queer cinema
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The Mourning (2015)
Plot Summary:
20 years after going MIA in Desert Storm, Aaron returns home under mysterious conditions, not having aged since his disappearance, and must reestablish relationships with loved ones before an imminent return to an ambiguous other-worldly existence.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mystical, psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, mysterious
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Jagged Edge (1985)
Plot Summary:
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she hasn't handled a criminal case for many years. There's a certain chemistry between them and Teddy soon finds herself defending the man she loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, serious, psychosexual thriller, dark, twisted
Similar in 79%
Doubt (2008)
Plot Summary:
In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and authority.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 135000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, period piece, sincere, psychological, clever, enigmatic, depressing, bleak, serious, surprise ending
Similar in 77%
Winter's Bone (2010)
Plot Summary:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: depressing, atmospheric, harsh, bleak, disturbing, tense, gloomy, serious, neo noir, independent film
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Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Plot Summary:
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, independent film, bleak, suspense, atmospheric, surreal, psychological thriller, art house
Similar in 89%
Flightplan (2005)
Plot Summary:
A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 170000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, exciting, intense, psychological thriller, clever, tense
Similar in 78%
Fractured (2019)
Plot Summary:
Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally able to get her to a doctor. While the wife and daughter go downstairs for an MRI, Ray, exhausted, passes out in a chair in the lobby. Upon waking up, they have no record or knowledge of Ray's family ever being checked in.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 89000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, captivating, bleak, suspenseful, psychological thriller, rough, psychological, suspense, thought provoking, twist ending
Similar in 76%
After.Life (2009)
Plot Summary:
Following a terrible car crash, a woman (Christina Ricci) awakes to find an enigmatic mortician (Liam Neeson) preparing her for burial.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, mind bending, twist ending, atmospheric, suspense, offbeat, enigmatic, suspenseful, creepy
Similar in 82%
Don't Worry Darling (2022)
Plot Summary:
Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 135000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, mind bending, exciting, thought provoking, psychedelic, serious, futuristic, surreal, underground film
Similar in 87%
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Plot Summary:
Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychological, atmospheric, philosophical, visual, experimental, non-linear, talky, black and white
Similar in 84%
Copycat (1995)
Plot Summary:
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, tense, detective, suspenseful, sexy, slasher, scary, creepy
Similar in 78%
The Game (1997)
Plot Summary:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 421000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, neo noir, suspenseful, intellectual, unusual plot structure, clever, philosophical
Similar in 80%
Dream House (2011)
Plot Summary:
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a horrifying chain of events.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological, scary, serious, enigmatic, intense
Similar in 76%
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts of dead people.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological thriller, mind bending, touching, tense
Similar in 87%
Stay (2005)
Plot Summary:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 85000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, gloomy, mindfuck, suspense, mind blowing, mind bending