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Plot Summary:
A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife’s lover - but things aren’t exactly as they seem.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, mind bending, atmospheric, enigmatic, minimal cast, serious, realistic
Best tv shows and movies like Sleuth (1972):
Similar in 84%
Deathtrap (1982)
Plot Summary:
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, dark comedy, surprise ending, witty, semi serious, detective, cerebral, psychological thriller, black comedy, minimal cast
Similar in 81%
A Killer Upstairs (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman investigates when her teenage son is arrested for his married lover's murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending, bleak, serious
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Similar in 83%
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Plot Summary:
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, serious, scary, realistic, psychotronic
Similar in 80%
The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
Plot Summary:
An employee of a corporation with a lucrative secret process is tempted to betray it. But there's more to it than that.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, tense, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, witty, surprise ending, serious, realistic
Similar in 84%
The Last of Sheila (1973)
Plot Summary:
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: clever, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark comedy, road movie, mind bending, dark, minimal cast, crime thriller
Similar in 75%
Clue (1985)
Plot Summary:
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, humorous, parody, funny, black comedy, witty, hilarious, captivating, suspense, mind bending
Similar in 76%
Murder by Death (1976)
Plot Summary:
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, surprise ending, humorous, spoof, funny, feel good, detective, atmospheric, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 83%
Sleuth (2007)
Plot Summary:
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, talky, witty, minimal cast, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending, suspense, twist ending
Similar in 78%
The Vanishing (1988)
Plot Summary:
Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on television, putting up posters and ruining his new relationship in the process. Eventually an unassuming chemistry teacher, Raymond, approaches Rex, intimating that he knows what happened.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, creepy, mind bending, grim
Similar in 83%
The Loft (2014)
Plot Summary:
For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital affairs -- is a dream come true, until the dead body of an unknown woman turns up. Realizing that her killer must be one of their group, the men are gripped by paranoia as each one suspects another. Friendships are tested, loyalties are questioned, and marriages crumble while fear and suspicion run rampant.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, intense, serious, psychological thriller, twisted
Similar in 79%
Perfect Stranger (2007)
Plot Summary:
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending, intense, tense, rough
Similar in 77%
Deceiver (1997)
Plot Summary:
The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, neo noir, clever, talky, twisted, detective, psychological thriller
Similar in 88%
Insomnia (1997)
Plot Summary:
Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins Erik's death on the fugitive. Jonas continues to pursue the killer as he seeks to protect himself; however, his mounting guilt and the omnipresent sun plague him with an insomnia that affects his sanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, neo noir, detective, tense, suspense, enigmatic, bleak, dark, cynical, grim
Similar in 82%
Lost Highway (1997)
Plot Summary:
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: surreal, neo noir, mind bending, atmospheric, confusing, disturbing, psychedelic, cerebral, gothic, suspenseful
Similar in 89%
Time Lapse (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: twist ending, psychological, tense, intellectual, suspense, cerebral, clever, confusing, mindfuck, enigmatic
Similar in 89%
The Killing Room (2009)
Plot Summary:
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, clever, psychological thriller, rough, intellectual, mindfuck, surreal
Similar in 90%
Fermat's Room (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time what connects them all and why someone might wish to murder them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, mind bending, psychological thriller, mind blowing
Similar in 78%
Following (1998)
Plot Summary:
A struggling, unemployed young writer takes to following strangers around the streets of London, ostensibly to find inspiration for his new novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, suspense, black and white, tense, clever, surprise ending, atmospheric, cerebral, mindfuck
Similar in 90%
Coherence (2013)
Plot Summary:
On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, mind blowing, suspenseful, tense, confusing, mindfuck, suspense, serious, intellectual
Similar in 78%
Secret Window (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 207000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, tense, dark, atmospheric, bad ending, psychological thriller, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
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 84%
The Number 23 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now he's worried that a fictional murder might materialize.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 210000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending, suspense, mindfuck, dark, mind blowing
Similar in 86%
Memento (2000)
Plot Summary:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby snaps Polaroids of people and places, jotting down contextual notes on the backs of photos to aid in his search and jog his memory. He even tattoos his own body in a desperate bid to remember.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 13000000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir, psychological thriller, non-linear, confusing, tense, philosophical
Similar in 85%
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 75%
Identity (2003)
Plot Summary:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 263000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, psychological thriller, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending, mind bending, twisted, tricky, serious
Similar in 78%
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Plot Summary:
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surprise ending, twist ending, clever, confusing, tense, suspenseful, mind blowing, mind bending, suspense
Similar in 77%
Gone Girl (2014)
Plot Summary:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, clever, twist ending, suspenseful, neo noir, tense, dramatic, psychological thriller
Similar in 81%
Insomnia (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 313000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, detective, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, suspenseful, tense, bad ending
Similar in 80%
The Prestige (2006)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 14000000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, clever, atmospheric, psychological, mind bending, intellectual, enigmatic, confusing, tense
Similar in 76%
Shutter Island (2010)
Plot Summary:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 14000000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, cerebral, neo noir