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Plot Summary:
Successful actress Vera Lockman thrashes during a nightmare in which she struggles with, shoots and kills her drug-dealer ex-boyfriend. Jolted awake, she reveals in her journal that the killing actually occurred the day before and that Sal, dead, lies in a trunk in her living room.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags:
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Nurse Jill (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jill Danvers is trying to put her life back together after her divorce. But someone is watching her; following her every move.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychological
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Dream House Nightmare (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young couple buy their dream home in New Orleans, only to be tormented by an obsessive mother who believes the house should be hers.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Tiny House of Terror (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the tragic disappearance and presumed death of her tech mogul husband, Samantha Hastings decides to escape from her fancy hi-tech house in Silicon Valley and move to a rustic and cozy tiny house, completely isolated from the prying eyes of the public. As she begins to adapt to her new lifestyle, Samantha's serenity is interrupted when she can't shake the feeling that she is being watched... exactly what her husband felt before his disappearance. Strange and unexplained terrors begin to happen in the tiny house until eventually Samantha's sanctuary becomes her prison with no way out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Dying to Remember (1993)
Plot Summary:
A woman goes to a psychiatrist because she is plagued by recurring nightmares. The psychiatrist tells her that she was involved in a murder in San Francisco in a past life, and the nightmares are related to that crime. She enlists the help of two San Francisco police officers to help solve the old murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: microfilm
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Forever, Lulu (1986)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful novelist gets involved with the violent underworld crime elements in New York City and becomes a target. Alec Baldwin plays the cop who pursues her killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Sounding (2017)
Plot Summary:
On a remote island off the coast of Maine, Liv, after years of silence, begins to weave a language out of Shakespeare's words. A driven neurologist, brought to the island to protect her, commits her to a psychiatric hospital. She becomes a full-blow rebel in the hospital; her increasing violence threatens to keep her locked up for life as she fights for her voice and her freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Conjuring: The Beyond (2022)
Plot Summary:
A sleep study goes awry when participants start to go missing.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Playmaker (1994)
Plot Summary:
A would-be actress uncovers horrifying files on other starlets.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, mind bending, realistic
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Wander Darkly (2020)
Plot Summary:
New parents Adrienne and Matteo are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship. They must revisit the memories of their past and unravel haunting truths in order to face their uncertain future.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sweet, suspenseful, non-linear
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Leave (2011)
Plot Summary:
Henry Harper is a successful novelist who has it all. But after surviving a recent trauma he finds himself haunted by a dream that terrifies him. Convinced that the only way to understand what the dream means is to write his way through it, Henry decides to go to a remote second home to begin work on his next novel, a thriller. While on his way there he encounters a strangely familiar drifter who confronts him with information that threatens to turn everything he knows to be true, upside down. Written by producer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, twisted, realistic, independent film
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Heaven's Prisoners (1996)
Plot Summary:
A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray when his family is viciously threatened.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: stylized, suspense, melancholic, talky, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic
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Mike's Murder (1984)
Plot Summary:
Betty has a crush on her tennis instructor Mike. He promises to call her for a date, but never does – she doesn’t know he sells drugs on the side. After botching a deal on someone else’s turf, Mike has to disappear for a while. He contacts Betty – then he’s killed before they can meet. Betty tries to find out what happened, leading her straight into a hornet's nest of vice.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, depressing, rough, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, erotic
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In the Cold of the Night (1990)
Plot Summary:
Scott is a fashion photographer concerned about the sudden appearance of nightmares in his nightly dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexual, slasher, perverse, cult classic, independent film, scary, psychological, rough
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Blind (2016)
Plot Summary:
A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, sentimental, uplifting, heartbreaking, disturbing, romantic drama
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My Sweet Audrina (2016)
Plot Summary:
Living in her family's secluded mansion, Audrina is kept alone and out of sight and is haunted by nightmares of her older sister, First Audrina, who was left for dead in the woods after an attack. As she begins to question her past and her disturbing dreams, the grim truth is slowly revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: captivating, bleak, suspenseful, romantic, scenic, enigmatic
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Extramarital (1998)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring writer gets involved in the investigation of her best friend after she is killed while having an affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, slasher, sexy
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Last Moment of Clarity (2020)
Plot Summary:
A normal New Yorker's life is upended when his girlfriend is murdered by the Bulgarian mob. He flees to Paris to hide from her killers. But three years later, he sees a similar looking woman on the silver screen. Obsession with past love takes Sam to Los Angeles to look for answers, only to put him back into the sights of the Bulgarians. An updated Hitchcockian thriller in the vein of Vertigo and Rear Window.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, twist ending, neo noir, suspenseful, scary, bleak, captivating, psychological, dark, disturbing
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The Wolf Hour (2019)
Plot Summary:
Once a known counterculture figure, June E. Leigh now lives in self-imposed exile in her South Bronx apartment during the incendiary '77 Summer of Sam. When an unseen tormentor begins exploiting June's weaknesses, her insular universe begins to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychological, gothic, enigmatic, bleak, mysterious, surreal, tense, dark, independent film
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The Ghost and the Whale (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man, Joseph, loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. The wife's brothers' need revenge! Joseph tries to tell anyone who will listen that a whale killed his beautiful Annabel Lee, but even he doesn't quite remember the truth. A journey into the depths of his mind, a conversation with a whale and blood thirsty brothers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
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When Will I Be Loved (2004)
Plot Summary:
Feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, a young woman begins to explore her sexuality with other people.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sexy, melancholic, talky, stylized, psychosexual thriller, sexual, serious, realistic, erotic, independent film
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The Gabby Petito Story (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows Gabby's tragic murder. Centering in her complicated relationship with her fiancé Brian Laundrie and what may have gone wrong during their cross-country trip. The disappearance of Gabby Petito captured America’s attention, setting off a nationwide search for the 22-year-old travel blogger after her parents reported her missing in September 2021, when she failed to return home following her cross country “van-life” trip with her fiancé Brian Laundrie. Non-stop coverage on the news drove amateur sleuths to dissect Gabby’s social media posts for clues about what happened to her during her trip, leading to the eventual discovery of her body in Wyoming. As the one-year anniversary of her tragic death approaches, the movie will bring to life Gabby and Brian’s doomed love story, including the warning signs that Gabby’s life was in danger, the ensuing search for her, the eventual discovery of her murder and ultimately, Brian’s suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Mulholland Dr. (1999)
Plot Summary:
Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which had approved the script, but chose not even to air the pilot once it was done in 1999, despite Lynch's labours to cut the project to their liking. It was left in limbo until 18 month later French company Studio Canal Plus (also producer of 'The Straight Story') agreed to pay ABC $7 million for the pilot, and budget a few million more to turn the pilot into a two-hour, 27-minute movie. The cost of the film doubled to $14 million as sets had to be reconstructed and actors recalled.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, parody, dark, mind blowing
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Anatomy of a Scandal (2022)
Plot Summary:
Anthology series centering on the personal and political scandals of Britain’s elite.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 268 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexual, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political, romantic, anthology, sexy, political drama
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Keane (2004)
Plot Summary:
A mentally ill man searches New York for his missing eight year old daughter. He recreates her steps each day hoping for some clue to her disappearance, until he meets and befriend a woman with a daughter the same age. Could she help him with the missing piece of the puzzle?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, psychological, serious, independent film, mind twisting, mind bending, suspense, art house, art film
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The Runner (2021)
Plot Summary:
After being busted for drug possession, Aiden, a troubled teenager, is forced by the cops to go undercover and risk his life to bring down a dangerous drug kingpin.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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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
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Greta (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman returns an elderly widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, psychological thriller, surprise ending, clever, slasher
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Mulholland Drive (2001)
Plot Summary:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 377000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, art house, neo noir, atmospheric, mind bending, disturbing, cerebral, surprise ending, enigmatic
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21 Bridges (2019)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced NYPD detective after being thrust into a citywide manhunt for a cop killer, is given a shot at redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: detective, neo noir, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, captivating, independent film, entertaining
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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