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Plot Summary:
The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive or rational his appearance or argument. However, the creek dries up, indicating an upstream blockage and an imminent flood. Several trips upstream by the son have failed to locate the blockage and now Dad wants to be released.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Skinheads (1989)
Plot Summary:
A group of students traveling to California are menaced by a vicious group of skin-heads in the Colorado mountains. A WW2 vet living in the mountains comes to their rescue.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Border Blues (2004)
Plot Summary:
Moskow police detective Andrei Somov resigns and emigrates from Russia, but has to accept a menial job in a restaurant while his adolescent son and pregnant daughter-in-law are denied exit visa's. 'Andy' does however get to know some LAPD cops after volunteering his expertise and Russian language skills and is sent to Tijuana to fetch cheap tiles. On that Mexican journey Somov bumps into coyote Larry, another ethnic Russian but US citizen, who lost his daughter years ago and now helps illegal families enter the States. His present client, arrogant Russian Lena, haughtily presumes to know everything better but is always wrong, yet he takes pity on her daughter. Meanwhile the LAPD takes medium Michael March seriously about a mad bomber who targets pharmaceutical companies and got a bad feeling with and envelop held by Larry. It all ties in.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Deadly Messages (1985)
Plot Summary:
1985 made-for-TV thriller starring Kathleen Beller & Michael Brandon.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: crime thriller
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My Stepdaughter (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jill strives to connect with her new teenage stepdaughter, Casey, who is struggling with a dark past that leads her down a path of destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Tomorrow at Ten (1963)
Plot Summary:
A British policeman (John Gregson) tries to find a rich man's (Alec Clunes) son before a kidnapper's (Robert Shaw) time bomb blows.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: noir, independent film, vintage, british noir
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From Beneath (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jason, is bit by a strange organism while on vacation with his girlfriend, Sam, at her sister's secluded farmhouse. The bite begins a transformation in Jason, and now the couple must race against time to figure out what happened to Sam's sister and her family, and what lies in store for them. All of these elements are tantamount to the ultimate fear addressed in the film, the fear of losing a loved one and worse, becoming a monster in their eyes.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 959
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, serious, suspense, offbeat, psychotronic
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Stepsisters (1974)
Plot Summary:
A man and his sister-in-law plot to kill his wife, but things don't turn out quite the way they planned.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film
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The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978)
Plot Summary:
Panic grips a small community after a tanker truck crashes through a fence at a wild animal park, freeing dozens of dangerous beasts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: natural horror
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Terror in the Mall (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of people are trapped in a deserted mall during a flood along with an escaped prisoner.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, disaster movie
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The Maddening (1995)
Plot Summary:
In this psycho-thriller, a little girl and her mother find themselves the focus of a crazed couple's delusions. The horror begins after Cassie has a fight with her husband David and takes off in the car with their young daughter Samantha. Cassie takes a wrong turn and ends up in the home of the evil Mr. and Mrs. Because Cassie and Samantha closely resemble relatives the couple recently lost, the duo hold the frightened mother and daughter captive in their home. Soon the two victims find themselves psychologically and physically abused, particularly Cassie who is threatened with torture and rape. Will David find them before the Scudders kill them both?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, erotic
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The Deadlines (2010)
Plot Summary:
Travis Levon (Rickey Bird) is forced to finish a novel from famous author, Simon Woodburn (Robin Steffen) after he suddenly dies, in order to meet a deadline. Gavin Stone (James MacPherson), his callous boss, reminds Travis of the importance of this finale to an epic saga of books. "The Deadlines" will be the highest grossing book in history with pre-sales, and Mr. Stone won't let a petty thing like death stop it from hitting shelves. Once Travis steps into the writer's seat in Woodburn's home, there is no turning back. As he types away at the computer, the twists and turns in the novel write themselves and come to life. Without warning, Travis and his girlfriend Kelly Hughes (Jenna Marie Bowers) are stuck in a world they have no escape from. Writing a way to survive will be harder than he thought. You might make it out of the house, but not out of the story.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Sleepwalker (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman seeks help from a sleep clinic for her insomnia, but soon deals with her entire life being turned upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, fairy tale, complex
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Revenge on the Highway (1992)
Plot Summary:
At his wedding Claude Sams has an argument with his son about his life-style; in anger Paul leaves. Together with a friend he sets out for Vegas to search a job. While changing a tire on the highway, he's killed by a passing truck. The police believes it's been an accident, but Claude doesn't accept this and frantically searches for a yellow truck and it's crazy driver at all truck stations.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Dig (2022)
Plot Summary:
A widower and his deaf daughter are held hostage and forced to dig under their house, revealing dark secrets from the past.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
Similar in 76%
Killing Your Daughter (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a DNA test helps Candace connect with her birth parents, she realizes some family histories are better left untold.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Avenger (2006)
Plot Summary:
After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private 'specialist' in cases which wouldn't reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard 'Ricky' Edmunds for his pa, influential rich businessman Stephen Edmonds. Ricky for a private Canadian war victims charity in Bosnia and went missing. Dexter discovers Ricky was beaten to pulp and drowned for no other crime then helping street boys from the other side by Zoran Zilic and his Serbian paramilitary 'order'. He offers Steven to 'finish the job' as such war criminals don't go to trial. But deputy CIA director Paul Devereaux cares only for a nuclear arms project he wants to use Zilic for. So CIA troubleshooter Frank McBride is ordered to protect him and handle Dexter.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, political thriller, realistic
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Storm (1999)
Plot Summary:
A top secret government study involving the manipulation of the weather goes awry, leaving L.A. in the path of a destructive hurricane. A meteorologist sets out to save the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 821
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, rough, fast, disaster movie
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Fire from Below (2009)
Plot Summary:
Digging at a nearby cave, a careless industrialist unearths a vein of pure base Lithium and inadvertently brings it to the surface, where the Lithium combusts when coming into contact with water and begins to wreak havoc on the country side.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Plot Summary:
7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, teen, exciting, rough
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The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
Plot Summary:
A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto. With a nondescript armored truck, crudely yet somehow elaborately rigged with high explosives (and the President trapped inside), the two terrorists keep the Secret Service at bay until in the end, Assanti is killed and Shatner has to find a way into the truck anyway.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, psychotronic, political, grindhouse, independent film, rough
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Nowhere to Land (2000)
Plot Summary:
A pilot must safely land a 747 on which deadly nerve gas has been planted.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Carriers (1998)
Plot Summary:
A female Army doctor and a journalist team up to track a killer virus.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Contagious (1997)
Plot Summary:
When some shrimp from Mexico, tainted with Cholera, is served to some people on a plane bound for LA. An outbreak ensues. And a doctor sets out to find the source and contain it before it turns into a epidemic. And if things weren't bad enough, a drug smuggler who was carrying some drugs on him contaminates the drugs and are sold on the street. And to top things of her husband who is on a camping trip with their two children is sick but did not show any symptoms until they were isolated from the rest of the world. Can she get to them in time?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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200 Degrees (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ryan Hinds awakes inside a sealed industrial kiln. He is set challenges by a voice with no face, pushed to the limits of human endurance as the temperature within the kiln begins to rise.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Airport 1975 (1974)
Plot Summary:
"Something hit us...the crew is dead...help us, please, please help us!" With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood's greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the nerve chilling sequel to the greatest disaster movie ever made.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, exciting, rough, serious, fast, crying, black comedy
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Trapped: Buried Alive (2002)
Plot Summary:
The management of a ski resort blatantly ignores a local expert's warning that a mass of snow has build up which is just waiting to come down the ski slopes in a terrible avalanche. Instead of clearing the endangered area, skiers are allowed to remain 'for the rest of the day'. Nature doesn't wait till after business hours, so the crystallized wave rushes down and crushes everything on its path, including a brand new hotel; among the guests is the architect Michael Cooper's own family, which now tries to remember the plans well enough to find the way out, as he tries to instruct the rescue operation above, where a second, even larger avalanche is expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
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Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003)
Plot Summary:
When the dam in the town of Rutland starts to show signs of wear. David Powell, the architect who originally worked on the dam but was removed and who left town after he was black balled by Walker, the man who only cares about making a profit; returns. He insists that the dam be drained and inspected but Walker claims it would take too long and would be too costly. David goes to the dam and notices a few anomalies. He then tries to warn the deputy mayor who happens to be his estranged wife but out of anger she refuses to listen. Also David tries to reconnect with his son who resents his desertion.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, disaster movie
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Landslide (2005)
Plot Summary:
Manhattan fireman Mark Decker visits, for the first time, his Steven in his ex Emma's new apartment in one of her dad Donald Richardson's development estates, at the foot of Diamand-back Mountain. But Don's ambitious executive Stewart Hancock, who dreams of his own firm, has been cutting too many corners, at the expense of safety, causing a landslide. Mark gets trapped with Steven and the new concierge Harold, who knows everything about an additional danger: rattlesnakes awoken early from hibernation. Now Mark discovers artistic, nerdy Steven only did 'manly' stuff in the city because dad-son time is so rare. While they soldier on, landscape architect Emma discovers the truth and counters Stewart's plan B to literally cover it up.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, disaster movie
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Tornado Valley (2009)
Plot Summary:
Liz McAdams is haunted by the memories of a tornado that destroyed her home 25 years ago. Now a professional storm tracker, she and her family are in danger once again as another devastating twister rapidly gains momentum. Caught in the path of destruction, Liz and her estranged husband struggle to save those they love.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic, disaster movie
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Danger Beneath the Sea (2001)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful