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Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, an eleven year old boy left home alone, kills two intruders in self defense. He and his family then try to cope with the boy's anguish and the dead intruders' friends who want revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Deadly Weapon (1989)
Plot Summary:
An expermintal gun powered by an atomic reactor is misplaced when the transport carrying it crashes into a river. The weapon soon falls into the hands of a bullied teen named Zeke, who uses it to get even with his persecutors. An army team led by the overzealous Lt. Dalton is sent to recover the weapon before it's unstable reactor overloads and causes a meltdown.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tragic ending, independent film
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The Witman Boys (1997)
Plot Summary:
Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, France, Hungary
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Rage (2006)
Plot Summary:
Züli Aladag's critically acclaimed, but controversial movie deals with the conflict of Can, son of Turkish immigrants, and the Laubs, a supposedly liberal middle class family. Simon Laub, professor of literature, and his wife Christa, real estate agent, live with their son Felix in a safe and quiet Berlin district. However, Felix gets in trouble with Can, son of a Turkish greengrocer, who starts to tyrannize the family. As he is annoyed by the boy's attacks, Simon -despite his political correct attitude- humiliates Can, which starts a vicious circle of anger and violence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Abducted (1986)
Plot Summary:
A mixed-up mountain boy kidnaps a pretty college student.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Northern Borders (2013)
Plot Summary:
'Northern Borders' tells the story of ten year-old Austen Kittredge who is sent by his father to live on his grandparents' Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets. It's 1956 and Austen experiences the farm as a place full of eccentric people, especially his stubborn grandparents whose thorny marriage is known as the Forty Years War. Initially feeling stuck in this fractured household, young Austen plans a quick exit but ends up stranded with no choice but to navigate and endure. A humorous and sometimes startling coming-of-age-story, 'Northern Borders' evokes Vermont's wildness, its sublime beauty, a haunted past, and an aura of enchantment.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, period drama
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Who Will Love My Children? (1983)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story of Iowa farm wife Lucile Fray. Ann-Margret plays a dying mother of ten whose last wish is to find loving families for her children.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: depressing
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The Haunting Passion (1983)
Plot Summary:
Dan was a successful football player, but when his contract expired recently, it wasn't renewed due to his age. Together with his wife Julie he decides to make a new start and they move into a romantic and lonesome house. While Dan starts a second career as newscaster, she's home alone and suffers from frightingly realistic erotic dreams, in which she has sex with an unknown man. Soon this demon even haunts her in broad daylight and attacks friends and husband out of jealousy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, detective
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Killing Mr. Griffin (1997)
Plot Summary:
The high school students didn't mean to kill Mr. Griffin. They wanted to make him suffer. But when their mean English teacher turns up dead, they have to find out who killed them before the police arrests them all.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, crying, detective
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The Good Road (2013)
Plot Summary:
Pappu is a truck driver. Supporting his parents and extended family is beyond his means. Now, he has been presented a plan. An accident will be staged. Pappu will "die". Insurance payments are substantial.David and Kiran, a middle class urban couple, with their son Aditya, are on a holiday. Aditya will be accidentally separated from them during a brief halt at a Dhaba. And his loss will only be discovered several hours, and several hundred kilometers later. They must double back to find him. Poonam is an 11-year old-year-old child from the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, realistic, road movie, gujarati
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The Secrets We Keep (2020)
Plot Summary:
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, rough, emotional, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Supremacy (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the run again. When he finds a house off a dirt road and takes a family hostage, he thinks the Aryan Brotherhood has his back–and his kidnap victims are black. The family’s patriarch, Mr. Walker, is a jaded ex-con who hates cops so much he disavowed his own son for becoming one. Seeing a familiar desperation in Tully, Walker refuses to call the authorities for help, causing familial tensions to escalate, and soon grave missteps are made.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, independent film
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Gone in the Night (1996)
Plot Summary:
A couple is unjustly accused of the murder of their daughter. Based on a true story and book of the same title.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min
Plot tags: dark
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Custody (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a divorce, Miriam Besson decides to ask for exclusive custody to her son, in order to protect him from a father that she is accusing of violence. The judge-in-charge of the file grants a shared custody to the father whom it considers abused. Taken as a hostage between his parents, Julien Besson will do everything to prevent the worst from happening.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, disturbing, emotional, stylized, smart, crying, cult film
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Jake's Closet (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jake's Closet takes you back through childhood in a suspenseful and deeply moving story that dives deep into the mind of a little boy under the stress of a fractured family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, psychological thriller, gloomy
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Missionary (2013)
Plot Summary:
A wife and mother starts an affair with a young missionary... with disastrous consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious
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Two Kinds Of Love (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two kinds of love are experienced by young Ricky Schroder in this made-for-TV drama. One kind is the tenuous affection he extends to his estranged father when Schroder's mother unexpectedly dies. The other kind consists of the teasing sensations felt by Schroder whenever he approaches a girl his own age.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Undertow (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: harsh, suspense, suspenseful, depressing, intense, lyrical, cult classic, atmospheric, stylized, gothic
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The Boy (2015)
Plot Summary:
An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, mumblecore, psychological, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, controversial, independent film
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Edge of Winter (2016)
Plot Summary:
When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, exciting, tense, suspenseful, neo western
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The Fields (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of a young boy and his family who are terrorized by an unseen presence.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, suspense, twisted, serious, realistic
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Hellion (2014)
Plot Summary:
When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, moody
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Amy Fisher: My Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
This sensational true story of a near fatal attraction left Mary Jo Buttafuoco paralyzed for life and made Amy Fisher America's most infamous teenager. Imprisoned 5-15 years for a crime she confessed to Fisher has nothing to lose by telling how it was-her way, her story. Deception, Promiscuous Sex, and Violence.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Entrusted (2003)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks. Or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Autumn Blood (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two young orphans in the Tirolian Mountains come under siege by a vicious band of hunters. Frightened of being separated by child services following the death of their mother, a self-sufficient 16-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother - who hasn't spoken a word since seeing his father killed by the mayor - strive to live off the land in peace. Their innocence is shattered, however, when a group of hunters led by the mayor's son brutalizes and rapes the free-spirited girl. Later, when a well-meaning social services worker arrives too late to protect the terrorized siblings, the girl and her brother prepare to take a stand against their ruthless attackers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, independent film, weird
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The Good Son (1993)
Plot Summary:
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, scary, serious, psychological thriller, creepy, sad, terrifying, mind bending
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Room (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 443000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, heartbreaking, suspense, psychological, sad, emotional, psychological thriller, tense, bleak, thought provoking
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Blood and Money (2020)
Plot Summary:
A retired veteran hunting in the Allagash backcountry of Maine discovers a dead woman with a duffle bag full of money. He soon finds himself in a web of deceit and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, ambiguous ending
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Come Morning (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in rural Arkansas in 1973, Come Morning is the tragic story of Frank and his 10-year-old grandson and the hunting accident that forever changes their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, rough
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On the Ice (2011)
Plot Summary:
In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong, resulting in the death of their friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, independent film, tense, sincere, serious, suspenseful, crying
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The Road (2009)
Plot Summary:
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 251000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, suspense, apocalyptic, atmospheric, gloomy, psychological, sad