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Plot Summary:
The war in Vietnam is announced to finish. American troops are withdrawn and the relief of peace echoes through the air. However, as the calm after the storm spreads a sigh of relief, there is something unsettling amidst the forests of North Michigan. A disturbed war veteran remains, but he lives for one reason only - to kill. What would happen if six ruthless men stumbled across him in the eerie deserted forest, after their mass bank-robbery leaves them running from the law with three million dollars? Would they be better off facing the cells of prison or can they escape from the murderer out to get them…?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating, exciting, rough, realistic
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The Night Crew (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of hard up bounty hunters must survive the night in a desert motel against a horde of savage cartel killers. They soon realize that their fugitive, a mysterious Chinese woman, is much more than she lets on.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, perverse, action thriller
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88 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman comes to in a roadside diner with no idea where she is or how she got there. Split between two timelines, she gets taken on a violent journey as she seeks out the person responsible for her lover's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, twisted, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
Outrage: Born in Terror (2009)
Plot Summary:
Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote woods of Northern Georgia...but it's also the scene of her worst childhood trauma. Things get worse when it turns out the lodge is in use by an ex-military sniper, Farragut and his three accomplice, the Loomis brothers, as a hideout who just escaped from a military prison.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, rough, serious, realistic
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Toxin (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lieutenant John Paxton wants revenge against the government he and his men swore their lives to defend. The very government that abandoned and betrayed him, leaving him to die after a secret biological warfare experiment went horribly wrong. John will discover revenge is a journey that will ultimately leave millions infected, countless dead, and the lucky few survivors struggling to find the last safe corner for humanity.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, serious, tense, captivating, scary, rough
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Blood Money (2012)
Plot Summary:
Zheng Zhou is the most feared warrior from the Shaolin Dynasty in China. His fighting and weapons skills are legendary. But when his parents are killed and sister kidnapped, he turns to a life of drugs and crime that will almost kill him. With the help of Hong Kong's notorious Dragon Triad syndicate, Colombia's biggest drugs cartel hatches an elaborate plan to traffic two tonnes of crack cocaine through the Port of Miami in America and ultimately into Australia and China. But when the partnership turns sour after the Cartel holds a Triad family member hostage, the Triads recruit Zhou to rescue the girl and kill the Colombians. What ensues is a bloodied street war across three countries. Zhou turns international Hitman with an arsenal of hi-tech surveillance devices, explosives, high powered weaponry and an array of fighting skills dating back fifteen hundred years. But just as Zhou rescues the hostage and takes control of the entire drugs shipment.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, crime drama, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic
Similar in 76%
Assassins' Code (2011)
Plot Summary:
A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough, realistic
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Closed for the Season (2010)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in a forgotten amusement park, a young woman (Kristy) finds herself terrorized by the living memories of the park. She must break free from the park's grasp before she becomes its next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, independent film
Similar in 76%
The Terror Experiment (2010)
Plot Summary:
When terrorist action releases a secret government virus in the Houston Federal building, the employees become aggressive and homicidal. Federal officials quarantine the building to wipe out the infected and control the story, but a small group of uninfected are fighting to get out.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense
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Summoned (2013)
Plot Summary:
Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary
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Desecrated (2015)
Plot Summary:
A rich heiress and her friends head for a weekend of fun at her isolated ranch house in the middle of no man's land. They soon find that the caretaker's dark past, has taken him down a bloody killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Forest (2011)
Plot Summary:
By taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest of Mount Fuji, a sexy American cover-girl supernaturally transforms into a demonic spirit to wreak a violent revenge, one by one, upon those who helped her ex-boyfriend leave her.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Deep in the Darkness (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Michael Cayle thought leaving the chaotic lifestyle of New York City behind for the quiet, small town of Ashborough would bring his family closer together. Soon after arriving, however, he discovers the town's deepest secret: a terrifying and controlling race of creatures that live amongst the darkness in the woods behind his home.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, grindhouse, spooky, serious, lovecraft
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Valley of the Sasquatch (2015)
Plot Summary:
After losing their home following a devastating tragedy, a father and son are forced to move to an old family cabin. Neither reacts well to being thrown into this new world. The son's attempts to relate to his father are complicated when two old friends arrive for a weekend of hunting. This trip into the forest will unearth not only buried feelings of guilt and betrayal, but also a tribe of Sasquatch that are determined to protect their land.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense
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Deadly Descent: The Abominable Snowman (2013)
Plot Summary:
Friends go on a snowy adventure and come face to face with a deadly creature.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, christmas horror, scary, exciting, serious, independent film
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Body Armour (2007)
Plot Summary:
A burned-out bodyguard is hired to protect the man he hates the most: an international assassin who destroyed his career and ruined his life. Forced to put his personal feelings on hold, the bodyguard must use all his skills and years of experience to keep the assassin alive in the face of constant danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Enemies Closer (2013)
Plot Summary:
After a major shipment of drugs goes missing on the US-Canadian border, forest ranger and former Navy SEAL Henry is plunged into survival mode when the drug cartel forces him to help retrieve the downed package. Trapped in the wilderness with no communication to the outside world, Henry finds himself face to face with Clay, a man with a personal vendetta against Henry who has returned for retribution. Now, the two mortal enemies must make a choice: put aside their past and work together, or die alone at the hands of the drug runners, a ruthless gang who will stop at nothing to retrieve their lost cargo.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, rough, exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, cult classic, twisted
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The Lost Samaritan (2008)
Plot Summary:
After a long night at the office, an accountant stops to help an injured motorist and ends up becoming the target of two dangerous assassins.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
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Stash House (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dave and Emma have found the perfect house, until they discover a stash of heroine and end up imprisoned in it by violent thugs.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, dark, serious, realistic
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Trail of Blood (2011)
Plot Summary:
On a weekend camping trip deep in the forest, a young U.S. Marine enlistee named Jim and his friends stumble upon the murdered bodies of a vacationing couple. They're suddenly taken hostage by a deeply disturbed war veteran on a sadistic killing spree - leaving Jim and his friends fighting to get out of the forest alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, anime, exciting, realistic, slasher
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Abducted (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, exciting
Similar in 78%
War Games (2010)
Plot Summary:
A game of paintball turns deadly when three unhinged and deranged ex-soldiers play a twisted mind game of catch and release with their unsuspecting victims. This quickly leads to a bloody man hunt where everyone is a target and no one is safe.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, intelligent, scary, exciting, realistic
Similar in 81%
The Bucks County Massacre (2010)
Plot Summary:
On Saturday, May 17th, 2008, police responded to a residence in a remote area of Bucks County, Pennsylvania for the report of a missing person. Upon their arrival, a routine investigation was performed and it was determined that the situation did not require police intervention. When the police returned the next morning to do a courtesy follow up, the house was immediately found to be the scene of a crime.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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Trigger Man (2007)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events...The story of three hunters who mysteriously became the hunted.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, atmospheric, rough, mumblecore, retro, scary, exciting, serious, realistic
Similar in 88%
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
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After Effect (2012)
Plot Summary:
College students sign up for what seems a simple paid research study, they soon realize their lives are in danger. Unfortunately they've unknowingly volunteered their bodies as human collateral in an ongoing U.S. Military experiment.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, serious
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The 13th Unit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, serious
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Don't Let Him In (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, cult classic, scary, realistic, dark
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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
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HazMat (2013)
Plot Summary:
The television crew of the "Scary Antics" hidden camera show sets up a disturbed young man for a practical joke, but the joke is on them when heads roll.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, slasher, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, realistic
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Travellers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Four friends set out on a motorcycle adventure weekend, clocking up miles in an attempt to outrun their age and urban lifestyles. After bartering with a local land owner for a place to set up camp, they spend the night reminiscing over their wasted youth. The following morning they spot an ominous looking caravan, and decide to investigate. Within minutes, an idiotic prank leads to a series of brutal events and a deadly race for survival. A modern plunge back into the worlds created by movies such as 'Deliverance' and 'Southern Comfort' but with a gritty British twang. Kidnap, murder and a hidden past are just some of the reasons these four adventurers should have stayed at home. An action thriller that will make you question who the villains really are. You cant outrun what's in your blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, serious, tense, captivating, bleak, realistic