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Plot Summary:
Dylan, a young man working at a funeral parlor, is trying to unravel a mystery that shattered his life ten years earlier. After faking his own funeral to see who will show up, he befriends a mysterious street junkie and is reunited with an old love from his past. The lives of these three characters are transformed by supernatural forces as Dylan discovers that no one is who they seem to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, stylized, sexual, surprise ending, detective, sexy
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Shuffle (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lovell Milo is a man who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, on a different day of his life, never knowing where or when he’s going to be once he falls asleep. He’s terrified and wants it to stop - until he notices a pattern in his experience, and works to uncover why this is happening to him - and what or who is behind it.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, independent film
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The Girl from the Naked Eye (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jake is a driver for a seedy escort service operating out of 'The Naked Eye strip club', he's a street thug type who falls for a witty high-class escort named Sandy. Except one night Sandy is found murdered, the only clues left behind are cell phone calls made the night she died. To avenge Sandy's death Jake must risk everything and walk a bloody path to find her killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, tense, crime drama, independent film, realistic
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Harmony (2018)
Plot Summary:
Born with an energetic power to absorb fear from others, a young woman must find love to balance the fears of her own and fight an ever growing storm of negative energy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
I Will Follow You Into the Dark (2012)
Plot Summary:
A woman reeling from the death of her parents becomes attached to an alluring man whose sudden disappearance sends her and her friends into a haunted high-rise to find him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, touching, scary, serious, gloomy, independent film
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The Last Sign (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman who is tormented by the ghost of her abusive, alcoholic husband. She must come to terms with the past if she is to find peace and love.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, realistic
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The Incubus (2010)
Plot Summary:
Things are starting to change when a group of mysterious teens move into the small town of Spoon River. All of a sudden, people in the neighborhood are starting to come down with an unexplained disease. In spite of this, one girl is intrigued by the spirits that embraces the newcomers. Will her curiosity be the death of her?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, gothic, captivating, independent film, vintage
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Outrage: Born in Terror (2009)
Plot Summary:
Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote woods of Northern Georgia...but it's also the scene of her worst childhood trauma. Things get worse when it turns out the lodge is in use by an ex-military sniper, Farragut and his three accomplice, the Loomis brothers, as a hideout who just escaped from a military prison.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, rough, serious, realistic
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Slip (2006)
Plot Summary:
"Slip" is the story of Sarah, a young woman who witnessed her mother's murder as a child. Now grown, Sarah is haunted by her mother's memory, her restless soul, opening a gateway for the spirits of the recently departed. Sarah is compelled to do their bidding so their souls may rest in peace. One of these souls leads her to Cal, a young car thief who is one car away from going legit. Unfortunately, Cal is wrongfully accused of stealing from his partners and now they want him dead.Sarah, drawn by the spirit of Cal's murdered nephew, becomes an avenging angel, awakening a dark spirit of her past while risking all to save a total stranger. Now in a race for their lives as well as their souls, Cal and Sarah soon discover that there are far more fearsome things than men with guns.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Coffin (2011)
Plot Summary:
Awakening from a deep sleep in the pitch black Sean Justice feels around him and realises that he is in a small wooden box and beside him lays his unconscious girlfriend. With only two hours of air time remaining a ransom demand is made of $500,000 dollars in cash for the location of their wooden prison.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, detective, scary, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Blood Ransom (2014)
Plot Summary:
Crystal, the girlfriend of Roman, Jeremiah's American boss whom he kidnaps. As Jeremiah's plans fail, Roman sends Bill, a psychopathic hitman after them. Crystal and Jeremiah tread the dangerous path of a love on the run. But as they run farther and as they fall deeper, a dark secret burns even stronger.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Somebody's Darling (2016)
Plot Summary:
A fraternity president becomes obsessed with a young coed but his hopeful courtship decays into sinister pursuit as unnatural secrets surface about his brotherhood.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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5 Souls (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a disgraced architect awakens from a coma, he is confronted by an agent of evil with a proposition; kill five people to reconcile his life's misdeeds and live, or decline the offer and die. As he proceeds with his grim assignment and begins collecting the fifth and final soul, he learns that his pact may have eternally horrifying consequences….
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, captivating, scary, independent film
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Trauma (2004)
Plot Summary:
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, sentimental, disturbing, splatter
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Bedeviled (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends download a Siri-like App which, at first, seems like a harmless way to get directions or a restaurant recommendation. But the sinister nature of the App soon reveals itself. The App not only knows each person’s deepest, darkest fears, but is able to manifest these fears into the real world to literally scare the kids to death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, slasher, demonic, splatter, teen horror, weird
Similar in 79%
Waking the Dead (2000)
Plot Summary:
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, sexy, stylized, intense, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sentimental, serious, erotic
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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 Dead Will Tell (2004)
Plot Summary:
Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, mind bending
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The Other Side of the Tracks (2008)
Plot Summary:
A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed ten years ago in a train accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, surprise ending
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The Ghostmaker (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of college friends discover a 15th century coffin that allows them to experience the world as ghosts. While their first adventures in the spirit world are playful and innocent, the "Box of Shadows" soon brings out the group's most dangerous impulses and desires. The friends find themselves pulled into a world of evil where they learn the line between life and death is there for a reason.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, scary, independent film, campy
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The Frame (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers find their lives colliding in an impossible way. Alex is a methodical cargo thief working for a dangerous cartel. Sam is a determined paramedic trying to save the world while running from her past.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: mind bending, captivating, tense, serious, thought provoking, exciting, surreal, suspense, visual, intelligent
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Beneath the Dark (2010)
Plot Summary:
Driving to a wedding in Los Angeles through the Mojave Desert, Paul and Adrienne pull off the highway and into Roy's Motel and Cafe. This roadside artifact proves to be a strange and surreal place with an unsettling mix of travelers, who force our couple to discover the secret hidden between them and ultimately, the horrifying reality of their current situation.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: mind bending, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, surreal, disturbing, psychological horror, atmospheric, independent film
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Sanatorium (2013)
Plot Summary:
On a bitterly cold December night, a paranormal investigations team has set their sights on the bloody Hillcrest Sanatorium to answer the age old question: Is there life after death? With rumours of hauntings and local children gone missing, they may just get their answer the hard way when members of the team mysteriously disappear, leaving behind unnerving evidence.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, dark, rough
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Room 6 (2006)
Plot Summary:
The school teacher Amy has been proposed by her boyfriend Nick early in the morning and she promises her answer later in the afternoon.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, medical horror, twisted
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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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Awakened (2013)
Plot Summary:
Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, captivating, independent film, psychotronic
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Half Light (2006)
Plot Summary:
Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, twist ending, surprise ending, stylized, intense, enigmatic, scary
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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
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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
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Dragonfly (2002)
Plot Summary:
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, scary, tear jerker, serious, mystical, spiritual, exciting
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Soul Survivors (2001)
Plot Summary:
A female collage co-ed freshman who was involved in a fatal car crash discovers she may not have survived the tragedy after all when she becomes caught between the world of the living and the dead A sort of limbo state of being between both the real and the spirit worlds in which the ghosts of the afterlife want to collect her, or even worse, use her body in its transition state to enter our world.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, surprise ending, slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, suspense