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The Father (2020)
Plot Summary:
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality
Duration: 97 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 183000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France, USA
Plot tags: alzheimer's disease, elderly, memory loss, old man, dementia, caregiver, father daughter relationship, destiny, elderly man, human spirit, alone in the world, memory, aging, old age, mental health, terminal illness, dream, self discovery, life & death, acceptance, disability, doubts and hesitations, loneliness, faith, insanity
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman haunted by a tragedy in her past takes revenge on the predatory men unlucky enough to cross her path
Duration: 113 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 201000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Plot tags: revenge, rape, rape and revenge, revenge from beyond the grave, medical school, unpunished crime, violence, death of friend, chauvinism, sexual predator, oral sex, feminist, women, female protagonist, murder, double life, dating, wedding ceremony, vigilante justice, brutality, feminism, strong female character, vigilante, sociopath, woman
Palm Springs (2020)
Plot Summary:
When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other
Duration: 90 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Plot tags: time loop, time travel, time, love and romance, wedding, time traveler, repeated event, dark humor, earthquake, drug use, family relations, party, strong female character, dying repeatedly, drug, time warp, couple relations, desert, one day, suicide, gay interest, wedding day, groundhog day, teenager, stoner
The Courier (2020)
Plot Summary:
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis
Duration: 112 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Plot tags: cold war, spy, russian spy, cuban missile crisis, counter intelligence, agent, reconnaissance, espionage, politics, real life, interrogation, secret agent, war, wartime, special agent, prospector, new year, nazi, winter, secret service, post war, intrigue, danger, secrets, truth
The Invisible Man (2020)
Plot Summary:
Currently unknown
Duration: 124 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 249000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Plot tags: twists and turns, stalking, stalker, sadist, home invasion, invisibility, homicidal maniac, domestic violence, domestic abuse, murder, suicide, psychological abuse, husband hits wife, sociopath, death, violence against women, abusive boyfriend, invisible man, panic, evil man, near death experience, woman in danger, abusive relationship, hitchhiking, terror
The Call (2020)
Plot Summary:
Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a serial killer puts another woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate
Duration: 112 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Plot tags: time travel, psychopath, serial killer, borderline personality disorder, police officer, time, couples, xmas, violence, death, chase, danger, husband wife relationship, killer, supernatural, parallel world, past, parallel universe, murder mystery, paradox, asian, cell phone, terror, plot twist, thoughtful
The Kid Detective (2020)
Plot Summary:
A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend
Duration: 100 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Plot tags: private detective, small town, private investigator, investigation, murder mystery, kidnapping, murder, murder investigation, evidence, who done it, murderer, chase, escapades, society, danger, uncover truth, whodunit, twists and turns, distopia, mysticism, cop, teenager, police, older man younger woman relationship, missing girl
Escape From Pretoria (2020)
Plot Summary:
South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison…
Duration: 106 min
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA, South Africa, Germany
Plot tags: prison escape, apartheid, prison, prison break, political activism, escape, political prisoner, prisoner, human spirit, jail, human rights, maximum security prison, freedom, political activist, politics, political persecution, rebelliousness, dictator, dictatorship, racism, youth, friends, brutality, hopes, imprisonment
The Dry (2020)
Plot Summary:
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl
Duration: 117 min
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Plot tags: murder, haunted by the past, murder mystery, investigation, murder investigation, police, small town, heroes, violence, death, family relations, male female relationship, evidence, suicide attempt, elderly man, funeral, uncover truth, murderer, chase, society, who done it, danger, police investigation, police detective, twists and turns
Boss Level (2020)
Plot Summary:
A retired special forces officer is trapped in a never-ending time loop on the day of his death
Duration: 100 min
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: time loop, repeated event, one against many, time travel, tough guy, time traveler, dying repeatedly, trapped, martial arts, hitman, end of the world, brutality, death, murder, final battle, time, time machine, male protagonist, revenge, urban setting, time paradox, distopia, space, superhero, travel
Run (2020)
Plot Summary:
Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret
Duration: 90 min
IMDB Rating: 6.7/10
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Plot tags: overprotective parent, mother daughter relationship, bad mother, revenge, kidnapping, teenage girl, single mother, disability, lie, teenage life, woman in a wheelchair, life is a bitch, terror, parents and children, teenager, female warrior, dysfunctional family, overprotective father, child abuse, youth, sociopath, family relations, mental illness, fear, family problems
Bloody Hell (2020)
Plot Summary:
A man with a mysterious past flees the country to escape his own personal hell... only to arrive somewhere much worse. In an effort to survive this new horror, he turns to his personified conscience
Duration: 93 min
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Plot tags: cannibalism, ogre, ex convict, escape, survival, heist, mysticism, trap, family secret, deathtrap, struggle for survival, secret, survival horror, heist gone wrong, trapped, supernatural horror, cannibal, monster, serial killer, bank robbery, ghost, supernatural, supernatural being, supernatural power, guts
Enola Holmes (2020)
Plot Summary:
While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord
Duration: 123 min
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
IMDB Votes: 213000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Plot tags: sherlock holmes, strong female lead, victorian england, feminism, amateur detective, female detective, female protagonist, teenage protagonist, private detective, fight, runaway teen, obsessive quest, teenage detective, strong female character, breaking the fourth wall, runaway, child prodigy, feminist, train, teenager, police, master of disguise, teenage love, women, coming of age
Host (2020)
Plot Summary:
Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown — but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realize they might not survive the night
Duration: 57 min
IMDB Rating: 6.5/10
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Plot tags: fear, found footage, quarantine, internet, evil spirit, terror, death, computer, evil, isolation, violence, group of friends, ghost, blood, panic, virus, technology, paranormal activity, psychic, supernatural horror, shark, supernatural, halloween, pandemic, killings
The Night House (2020)
Plot Summary:
Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets
Duration: 107 min
IMDB Rating: 6.5/10
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Plot tags: occult, demonic possession, afterlife, grief, forest, suicide, depressed woman, ghost, widow, high school student, female protagonist, invisibility, dark secret, haunted house, investigation, secret, depression, bookstore, suicide of husband, supernatural, life & death, haunted, characters in danger, xmas, love
Possessor (2020)
Plot Summary:
A thriller about an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to enable its operatives to inhabit other people's bodies, ultimately driving them to carry out assassinations for high-paying clients
Duration: 103 min
IMDB Rating: 6.5/10
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Plot tags: body horror, gore, sociopath, murder, brutality, corporation, hallucination, mind control, virtual reality, technology, sadism, assassination attempt, blonde, surveillance camera, suicide by cop, loss of girlfriend, graphic violence, female warrior, serial killer, male nudity, apocalypse, maniac, spy, ghost, cyberpunk
Bulbbul (2020)
Plot Summary:
A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her village
Duration: 94 min
IMDB Rating: 6.5/10
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: India
Plot tags: village, murder, tragedy, rape, folklore, supernatural horror, revenge, witch, patriarchy, ghost, exorcism, supernatural, violence, hunting, death, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, rescue, family relations, chase, supernatural ability, evil, fear, vengeance, society
Archive (2020)
Plot Summary:
2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife
Duration: 109 min
IMDB Rating: 6.4/10
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Hungary, USA
Plot tags: robot, artificial intelligence, space and aliens, deadly creature, husband wife relationship, dead wife, monster, heroic mission, death of wife, androids, dead, cyberpunk, cyborgs, scientist, escapades, memory, isolation, fantasy world, creator, chases and races, science gone wrong, creature feature, rage, human android relationship, science
Sputnik (2020)
Plot Summary:
At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…
Duration: 113 min
IMDB Rating: 6.4/10
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Plot tags: alien, evil alien, creature, alien life-form, outer space, alien contact, extraterrestrial, monster, alien monster, research, fear, parasite, ufo, alien invasion, creature feature, twists and turns, peril, spacewalk, macabre, ghost, space and aliens, giant monster, occult, space program, contact
Hunter Hunter (2020)
Plot Summary:
Joseph and his family live in the remote wilderness as fur trappers but their tranquility starts to be threatened when they think are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf and Joseph leaves them behind to track it
Duration: 93 min
IMDB Rating: 6.4/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Plot tags: beast, macabre, wolf, serial killer, dog, monster, wilderness, revenge, family relations, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, bait, woods, dead body, animal attack, gore, obsession, gory, brutality, saving a life, creature feature, survival, teenager, jungle
Anything for Jackson (2020)
Plot Summary:
A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but they end up summoning more than they bargained for
Duration: 97 min
IMDB Rating: 6.3/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Plot tags: satanism, satanist, demon, demonic possession, evil spirit, occult ritual, possession, occult, curse, ghost, kidnapping, supernatural, grandson, pregnant woman, violence, hospital, curses spells and rituals, obsession, evil, danger, death in the family, suicide, shark, witch, monster
Alone (2020)
Plot Summary:
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her
Duration: 98 min
IMDB Rating: 6.2/10
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: kidnapping, trapped, chase, psychopath, road rage, survival, struggle for survival, kidnapped woman, maniac, highway, lost in the woods, escape, psycho, river, hunter, cruelty, murder, road trip, cabin in the woods, violence against women, serial killer, forest, car chase, female protagonist, car trouble
The Empty Man (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers a horrific secret that puts his life—and the lives of those close to him—in grave danger
Duration: 137 min
IMDB Rating: 6.2/10
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, France
Plot tags: occult, supernatural, cosmic horror, suicide, investigation, danger, teenager, death, legend, riddles and clues, experiment, supernatural horror, cave, hospital, missing person, creature, sect, monster, macabre, urban legend, grief, sacrifice, religions or cults, shark, superhero
The Silencing (2020)
Plot Summary:
A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago
Duration: 93 min
IMDB Rating: 6.2/10
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Plot tags: serial killer, disappearance, missing person, sheriff, manhunt, forest, hunter, missing daughter, dead girl, small town, revenge, murder investigation, investigation, alcoholic, hunting, murder, missing girl, violence, hostage, native american reservation, danger, wildlife, teenage girl, loss of daughter, girl in peril
The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
Plot Summary:
A stressed-out police officer struggles not to give in to the paranoia that grips his small mountain town as bodies turn up after each full moon
Duration: 85 min
IMDB Rating: 6.2/10
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: werewolf, serial killer, investigation, monster, christmas, murder, small town, snow, killing spree, loss of father, police, escape, violence, death, brutality, courage, chase, fear, escape attempt, full moon, winter, supernatural, xmas, heroes, youth
Lost Girls (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers
Duration: 95 min
IMDB Rating: 6.2/10
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: serial killer, missing person, investigation, prostitute, missing child, depression, disappearance, true crime, search and rescue, killer, psychopath, police, murderer, police officer, death, tragedy, single woman, parents and children, single parent, determination, sibling relationship, presumed dead, missing man, murder, forest
Black Box (2020)
Plot Summary:
After losing his wife and memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an experimental treatment that makes him question who he really is
Duration: 100 min
IMDB Rating: 6.2/10
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: father daughter relationship, ghost, supernatural, amnesia, car accident, wedding, death of husband, death of wife, death of son, hypnosis, exorcism, violence, death, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, rescue, family relations, parents and children, chase, supernatural ability, evil, fear, vengeance, supernatural power, danger
Spenser Confidential (2020)
Plot Summary:
Spenser, a former Boston patrolman who just got out from prison, teams up with Hawk, an aspiring fighter, to unravel the truth behind the death of two police officers
Duration: 111 min
IMDB Rating: 6.2/10
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: police corruption, tough guy, one against many, conspiracy, police officer, police, ex convict, ex-cop, organized crime, corrupt cop, revenge, investigation, friendship, corruption, fbi agent, drug smuggling, near death experience, vigilantism, danger, buddy, bodyguard, partners against crime, uncover truth, sex scene, heroes
The Lovebirds (2020)
Plot Summary:
A couple experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery. As their journey to clear their names takes them from one extreme – and hilarious - circumstance to the next, they must figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night
Duration: 86 min
IMDB Rating: 6.1/10
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: breaking and entering, murder, love, car accident, interracial couple, disorder, encounter, wrong place wrong time, orgy, secret society, twists and turns, couples, nothing goes right, comedy of errors, couple relations, sect, car chase, villain, taxi, chase, flirting, shooting, male female relationship, police corruption, police investigation
Shirley (2020)
Plot Summary:
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple
Duration: 107 min
IMDB Rating: 6.1/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: adultery, new neighbor, unfaithful, mad love, neighbor neighbor relationship, marriage crisis, women, girl, writers, depression, craziness, strong female lead, murder, poet, feminist, parents, dialogue, publisher, mind game, atmosphere, violent, badass, train, party, baby