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Plot Summary:
A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, exciting, serious, realistic, psychological, suspense, minimal cast, independent film
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Extreme Ops (2002)
Plot Summary:
While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, fast, black comedy, light, sexy
Similar in 78%
Venom (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a car breaks down in an isolated desert, a mother and young daughter are relentlessly pursued by a deadly snake.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, exciting, serious, realistic, psychotronic
Similar in 84%
Paintball (2009)
Plot Summary:
Eight strangers engaged in an intense game of experts-only paintball find their friendly game taking a terrifying turn when one member of the team begins playing by a different set of rules. It started as a remote raw battle of wits and wiles set against the backdrop of majestic wilderness. With each shot fired, the stakes grew higher. But something horrible has happened, and what was once a team sport has become a relentless struggle for individual survival. The danger growing by the minute, the combatants gradually come to realize that their greatest adversary may be the very game they set out to play.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, slasher, tense, suspense, exciting, captivating, melancholic
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Caught Inside (2010)
Plot Summary:
Surfing charters are meant to be a trip to Paradise. With six male surfers stuck on a boat, there's bound to be some friction. When two of the surf crew are replaced at the last minute with girls - the heat is turned way up. The one single girl on board - SAM - enjoys the attention. She has Bull and Rob wrapped around her finger. The frustrated, psychotic, Bull soon decides, "she'll get what she's asking for" and molests her. Outraged, the others abandon him on an island, but the ever-determined Bull returns, and takes control of the boat. He attacks the crew and holds them hostage. He harasses Sam and tortures the others. It's a nightmare battle of wits, on board the yacht, as the five imprisoned friends must survive the fury of the psycho at the helm.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, cliffhanger, slasher, realistic
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Deep Dark Canyon (2013)
Plot Summary:
Bloom Towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential Mayor Dick Cavanaugh's family. When Bloom's two teenage sons, Nate and Skylar accidentally shoot and kill Dick during a deer-hunt, Bloom's long-held allegiance to the reigning Cavanaugh clan is tested. Skylar (still a minor) decides to take the wrap for his older brother Nate, claiming he fired the fatal shot. The Cavanaugh family's quick retaliation sends Skylar on his way to county jail, soon to be tried as an adult. Desperate and guilt-ridden, Nate breaks Skylar out of jail and sets off a chain of lawless acts, which send them deep into the woods and on the run. Bloom's choice between the law and his sons leads to revelations of old family secrets that threaten to destroy everything he loves.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic, independent film
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Lost (2004)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in a maze of endless desert highways, bound by a vital deadline, and pursued by an unseen menace....Jeremy Stanton is about to take the longest ride of his life. He will learn that when you reach the crossroads of life...you must be careful which way you turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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The Gauntlet (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a sunken Castle underneath the earth, five strangers wake. They have no food. No memory. No water. And no way out. These strangers are from every normal walk of life, yet they each have a secret. They don’t know it yet, but they’re capable of something they never imagined. They must organize and band together for the sinister adventure that awaits them.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspenseful, surreal, scary, atmospheric, serious, independent film
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The King of the Hill (2007)
Plot Summary:
Quim drives around an isolated rural area through a maze of lanes. When he drives into the woods, he gets lost. Trying to find his direction, he suddenly gets shot from the hill. On his escape from gunshots, he meets Bea, an attractive young woman, who apparently is lost as well. Suspicious of each other, they join forces to run away through the forest, unprotected, cold, hunted.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, suspense, disturbing, tense, hispanic, dread, slasher, road movie
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Freezer (2014)
Plot Summary:
Robert Saunters, a mechanic is knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner and wakes up to find himself locked up inside the restaurant's freezer. Knowing nothing of why he's there, he realizes he has been mistaken as someone else.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic
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Road to Juarez (2013)
Plot Summary:
An American ex-con with Mexican underworld ties ensnares a pair of young misfits into a dangerous heist in Mexico. Inspired by true events.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting, independent film
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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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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
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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
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Air Collision (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a solar storm wipes out the air traffic control system, Air Force One and a passenger jet liner are locked on a collision course in the skies above the midwest.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mockbuster, realistic, independent film, disaster movie
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Cut Bank (2014)
Plot Summary:
25 year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in moton a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the town forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, semi serious, suspense, teen, twisted, clever, offbeat
Similar in 86%
Crash Point Zero (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a plane carrying a legendary and recently found death ray machine from Siberia to Canada is hijacked and crashes in the remote mountains of Alaska, only a fearless government agent (Treat Williams) will risk his life to save the world. A modern B movie, reusing lots of footage from other films.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, cliffhanger
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The Eliminator (2004)
Plot Summary:
Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, 3 others seriously injured in multiple action-packed crashes and explosions. Varley tries to leave the lake and collect his prize money but is drugged and kidnapped by Dawson and thrown into a different world: a world where survival means everything and no-one follows the rules. Surrounded by heavily-armed men, he soon learns that he and six other victims have been assembled to be contestants in the ultimate survival game: they will be hunted nightly by hunters with rifles until there is one remaining survivor, who will win a $10,000,000 cash prize!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, suspense, action packed, independent film, serious, realistic, fast
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The Vivero Letter (1999)
Plot Summary:
A man in Central America finds his brother's murdered body. It turns out that his brother has been murdered because he knows the whereabouts of a lost city in the jungle. The man teams up with a search expedition and goes off to hunt for these ancient ruins. Unfortunately, almost every member of the group has plans to double-cross the others. All is resolved in bloody fashion in the middle of the jungle wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Lonely Place to Die (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of five mountaineers are hiking and climbing in the Scottish Highlands when they discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness. They become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers as they try to get the girl to safety.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, exciting, tense, realistic, scary, psychological, suspense, surreal, perverse
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A Cry in the Wild (1990)
Plot Summary:
13-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of an unreported plane crash. Alone in the Yukon wilderness, Brian must learn to survive by his wits, find food and shelter, and brave wild, hungry animals until or if he is found.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, realistic, independent film
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Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
Plot Summary:
When an Amacor oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, Captain Frank Towns and copilot "A.J." are sent to shut the operation down. However, on their way to Beijing, a major dust storm forces them to ditch their C-119 Flying Boxcar in an uncharted area of the desert.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, entertaining, minimal cast, action adventure, exciting, road movie
Similar in 89%
The Canyon (2009)
Plot Summary:
A survival story about a honeymooning couple who get lost in the wide expanse of the Grand Canyon.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, scary, realistic, suspense, sexy, serious, independent film
Similar in 88%
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
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The Naked Prey (1965)
Plot Summary:
A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last surviving member is given "The Lion's Chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, retro, fast paced, independent film, realistic, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
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
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The Hunter (2011)
Plot Summary:
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, melancholic, atmospheric, thought provoking, psychological thriller, scenic, cerebral, visually stunning
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The Edge (1997)
Plot Summary:
The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle might not be the elements, or even the Kodiak bear stalking them -- it could be Robert, whom Charles suspects is having an affair with his wife and would not mind seeing him dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious, compassionate, exciting, entertaining, intense, atmospheric, clever
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The Grey (2011)
Plot Summary:
An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 261000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bad ending, harsh, tense, exciting, emotional, psychological, suspense, rough, scenic
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Sanctum (2011)
Plot Summary:
The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea. Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team--including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd)--are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, breathtaking, tense, realistic, sad, entertaining, stylized
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The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scenic, dramatic, natural horror, atmospheric, anamorphic, serious