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Plot Summary:
Duncan (Hasselhoff) is a murderous thief. When he jumps out of his plane, it crashes into the Rockies and produces an avalanche. A quiet family trapped inside their house will rescue him. They will have to survive the disaster and the madman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Protection (2001)
Plot Summary:
A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness and tries to start over, only to find he can't escape his old ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 84%
The Last Stop (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of quircky, snow bound, strangers discover there are killers amongst them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, tense, mind bending, realistic
Similar in 84%
Temptation (1994)
Plot Summary:
After five years in prison for insurance fraud the sailor Lanarsky is released. Together with his buddy Bone he gets a job as seamen on board the yacht owned by the wife of his insurance fraud-partner Michael Reddick. Lanarsky has a question to his former partner who he thinks tried to cheat him. But Michael Reddich himself has another insurance plan ready where he will kill everybody on board the yacht, blow it up and then claim the life-insurance for his wife. But Lanarsky and the wife Lee escape and follow Michael to the nearby Cayman Island where the final showdown takes place.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Necrosis (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 2009, six friends arrive at an isolated cabin to enjoy a long weekend in the snow. An epic snowstorm interrupts their vacation, trapping them on the mountain and resurrecting the haunting ghosts of the Donner Party. But, are they true 'entities' or is it simply 'cabin fever' that brings out their fears and darkness, causing friends to turn against each other as reality deteriorates around them.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, epic
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Final Run (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Grand Royale is a new high-tech passenger train with a computerized engine. On its maiden voyage, it suffers a severe technical failure, killing the controller and gradually increasing its already high speed, at the rate of 2 more miles per minute. With heavily populated areas ahead and the risk of a deadly derailment, every minute counts and once again, it's up to Lucky singer to save the 200 passengers on board.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: action thriller, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 83%
Exit Speed (2008)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas. Far out in the wilds they collide with a meth-addicted biker.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, exciting, realistic
Similar in 79%
Chameleon (1995)
Plot Summary:
An undercover agent (Anthony LaPaglia) uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Juncture (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Anna Carter is diagnosed with a terminal illness, she sees her final three months as an opportunity to enact some vigilante justice. Racing her deteriorating health and trying to stay one step ahead of the police, Carter furiously tracks down vicious criminals whom she feels unjustly eluded jail time.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
Blowback (2000)
Plot Summary:
Whitman is a psychotic religious killer who was caught by Inspector Morell a former seminarian, whose religious knowledge led to Whitman's capture. Whitman was tried and sentenced to death. However, he was rescued by a secret government group who want to make him an assassin, however, Whitman escapes and decides to get back at the people who tried to stop his mission, the jury, the judge, the district attorney, who's Morrell's ex-wife. Morrell recognizes the killings as Whitman's style but how could it be when he's dead. The man who recruited Whitman posing as an FBI agent claims that they are looking for a copy cat but Morrell finds it hard to believe that it could no one other than Whitman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film
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The Cursed (2000)
Plot Summary:
A woman desperate to save her injured husband is taken hostage by an escaped mental patient.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, tense, bleak, realistic
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Surviving Crooked Lake (2008)
Plot Summary:
A summertime canoe trip turns into a nightmare for four 14-year-old girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, scary, tense, independent film
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Held for Ransom (2000)
Plot Summary:
Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, scary, tense
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Deadly Cargo (2003)
Plot Summary:
Journalist Sara joins timid Victor and pregnant wife Thais, instructors Ivan and Edgar, and local kid Drui in Senegal for some underwater exploration. When their craft blows up following a misfired bullet, they float around in the water for a while before seeing a ship. Their initial relief turns to horror as they see a man being tipped into the water from it but the ship is the group's only option. Hiding on board, things start to unravel for them in a horrific way.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic
Similar in 83%
Tripfall (2000)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer turns the life of a family on vacation into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, realistic, fast
Similar in 88%
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
Similar in 78%
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
Similar in 85%
Red Line (2013)
Plot Summary:
Terrified commuters are on the ride of their lives when terrorists send a subway train speeding out of control during rush hour. With the saboteur among them, a group of citizens are now trapped underground and in a race against time if they hope to see daylight again. Full of fast-paced action and suspense, Redline is a thriller that will have you holding on for safety.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, fast
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N.Y.C. Underground (2013)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy, Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and a group of their friends head to Brooklyn for a concert when they meet notorious gangster, Simon and make an ill-advised deal with him. Soon, things go wrong and now the group is desperately running from Simon's crew through New York City's labyrinthine subway system in a terrifying life-or-death race.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 87%
Escape from Alaska (1999)
Plot Summary:
A helicopter pilot work with a husband and his wife in the frozen North tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an avalanche hits the group, the husband is killed and only by the pilot's perseverance is the wife saved. Two years later, the wife takes on a corporation which wants to extend an oil pipeline across the tundra above Juneau. She is convinced that this will cause an avalanche on the town. Of course, she is rejected by the corporation executives. She recruits the pilot to try to aid her, but with no success.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
Similar in 79%
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
Similar in 83%
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
Similar in 84%
Survive! (1976)
Plot Summary:
Sixteen plane crash survivors stranded in the Andes turn to cannibalism to stay alive. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 75%
Tracks of a Killer (1996)
Plot Summary:
Business mogul David Hawkner and his wife are enjoying a quiet vacation by themselves at their isolated retreat. The serenity is broken when they become the targets of a handsome, crazed killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
Similar in 88%
Blind Heat (2001)
Plot Summary:
An industrialist's wife is kidnapped and held for ransom.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic
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Superfire (2002)
Plot Summary:
A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignment with a raging forest fire in Portland, Oregon, that has the whole city in jeopardy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, disaster movie
Similar in 77%
Survival Quest (1988)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of city slickers from different backgrounds go into the wild mountains to be one with nature, but basically to have a good time. However, a paramilitary group has chosen the same time to go camping. When one of the soldiers thinks their boss has been killed by one of the city slickers, he coaxes his team into exterminating all of them. They will have to rely on their wits and on each other in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, retro, independent film, realistic
Similar in 78%
Arctic Blue (1993)
Plot Summary:
An environmentalist gets involved in transporting an accused killer (Ben) from an isolated Alaskan town to the authorities. Ben is determined to escape, and his fellow trappers are ready to help.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
Similar in 81%
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