Best movies like Bleeding Heart
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Plot Summary:
Reserved yoga instructor May's peaceful, clean-living life is thrown out of balance by the arrival of her long-lost sister Shiva, a street-smart yet naive young woman trapped in an abusive relationship. May feels compelled to rescue the hapless Shiva, but she finds herself increasingly drawn out of her sedate world and deeper into Shiva's chaotic one.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, realistic
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Free Ride (2013)
Plot Summary:
A single mom in the 1970s raises her two daughters and becomes involved in illegal drug trade to make a better life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, retro, grindhouse, independent film
Similar in 83%
The Last Lullaby (2008)
Plot Summary:
Price, a former hitman, is struggling to cope with retirement. He left the assassination business to live the "easy life." However, retirement arrived with its own agenda. It was not the instant peace and calm that Price expected. Rather, it was emptiness, boredom, and, worst of all, restlessness. The Last Lullaby plummets Price back into his old life and forces him into a corner from which he may never escape. Price's old ways no longer work for him when his heart opens, and he finds life beyond his profession. The tension finally boils, as Price must decide to close himself off again or open himself up to a world beyond his control.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 83%
Streetwalkin' (1985)
Plot Summary:
Cookie and her brother run away from their loveless mother in the province and arrive in New York. At the train station Cookie meets the fancy man Duke. With his charm he makes her fall in love with him and soon has her working as prostitute. However his brutality against her colleagues disgusts her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, independent film
Similar in 86%
The Truth About Emanuel (2013)
Plot Summary:
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, melancholic, depressing, dark, tense, serious, independent film, tear jerker, tearjerker
Similar in 86%
Intrusion (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a husband and wife move to a small town, a home invasion leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they seem.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
Killer Daddy Issues (2020)
Plot Summary:
An equestrian discovers her family's estate harbors an unfathomable secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, entertaining
Similar in 76%
Stranger at the Door (2004)
Plot Summary:
Katherine "Kathy" is happily married to businessman Greg Norris and lives in his beautiful home with his about 18-year old daughter Tara. When suddenly a charming young man, who Tara first saw lurking around in the garden, turns up on their doorstep claiming he must be Jamie, the baby son she once gave up for adoption as a teenage mother on her parents' orders, the couple is delighted to meet him. They even take him in as they hear his adoptive parents have died in car accident and he's looking for a place to stay during his business studies just like Greg, to pay for which he held various jobs, even in Rio. The only one who remains suspicious is Tara, who doesn't want to be the kid sister and starts looking for holes is Jamie's story, going trough his things and having a friend examine his past- there are, since he didn't tell the Norris family about his lover who helps him unconditionally with his sinister hidden agenda.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Similar in 76%
Blackway (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman newly returned to her hometown becomes the subject of harassment by a man named Blackway, an ex-cop turned violent crime lord who operates with impunity in this small community on the edge of the wilderness. Forsaken by the local townspeople, and advised by the Sheriff to leave town, Lillian decides instead to take a stand against her sociopathic stalker, and enlists the help of ex-logger Lester and his laconic young sidekick Nate.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, rough, tense, sincere, independent film
Similar in 85%
Hindsight (2008)
Plot Summary:
Unexpectedly pregnant with no means to raise a child, Dina and Ronnie decide to sell their unborn baby over the Internet. Their plan begins to unravel when the couple they've chosen, Paul and Maria, turn out to have an agenda of their own.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, realistic
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Running Away (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sisters Maggie and Lizzie move in with mom Peg's new husband. Secrets and lies start immediately. Maggie cannot handle what follows and recruits a friend to help her plan to get out of town with her step father's secrets. When Peg discovers that her daughter has run away, she now has to find Maggie fast but must come to terms with the dark secrets that led to Maggie's fleeing and the secrets about her new husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 84%
Twisted (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kara and Tyler are close to marriage when Tyler’s dangerous ex-girlfriend returns from rehab, and is adamant on winning him back, pulling Kara into a twisted game of cat and mouse.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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
Similar in 87%
The Good Sister (2014)
Plot Summary:
Struggling with marital problems, a man begins a passionate affair with his wife's long-lost, twin sister.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological thriller, touching, realistic
Similar in 83%
You Can't Take My Daughter (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman fights to keep her rapist from gaining custody of her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 81%
Taken Back: Finding Haley (2012)
Plot Summary:
Unable to get over the abduction of her daughter, a mother is convinced she has finally found her, but is she simply a mother obsessed?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 81%
Out of the Black (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers struggle to uncover the truth behind the mining accident that killed their father and bankrupted the town.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, talky
Similar in 77%
The Nightmare Nanny (2013)
Plot Summary:
Stay-home mom Annie is reluctant to return to work, until she finds Amber, the perfect nanny for her 3-year-old daughter Jenny. But as Annie's young daughter grows closer and closer to Amber, Annie begins to feel like she's being pushed out of her own life. When Jenny suddenly vanishes one day,Annie's search for her missing daughter leads her to the terrifying truth about the dark past of the woman she trusted with her child.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, enigmatic, captivating, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
Broken Horses (2015)
Plot Summary:
The bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty, and the futility of violence in the shadows of the US Mexico border gang wars.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, rough, tense, neo noir, neo western
Similar in 81%
Cold Comes the Night (2013)
Plot Summary:
A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, realistic, independent film
Similar in 80%
Deadly Encounter (2004)
Plot Summary:
Restaurant hostess and mom Joanne Sanders has to work late one night. After she leaves the restaurant she accidentally cuts a car off on the highway. This driver takes it personally and he begins to stalk and harass Joanne.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, suspense, tense, bleak, disturbing
Similar in 88%
The Surrogate (2013)
Plot Summary:
A married couple, struggling to have a child, hires a young woman to be their surrogate, but soon discovers she has a bizarre and deadly agenda.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, sexy
Similar in 80%
A Sister's Secret (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Katherine (Alexandra Paul) finds out her father's company is about to close the paper mill they own in her hometown in rural Pennsylvania, she comes up with a plan to save it. Needing the approval of the city council, she goes back and runs into someone from her past: Jane (Cynthia Preston). Years ago, in high school, Katherine dated Jane's twin brother Sean, who subsequently committed suicid.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 85%
Fatal Trust (2006)
Plot Summary:
After the father of her kid son Sam was killed by an escaped psychiatric patient, Kate decides it's time for a new chapter in her life. She moves to the town where her former lover Tom lives and now works in the sheriff's department, and slowly gets intimate again with the sensitive, caring gentleman. Professionally she becomes the secretary of Dr. Mark Lucas, the respected local physician. In time she starts to take an old man's warnings against the doctor seriously, starts to believe that he may systematically have a hand in a suspicious number of old patients dying shortly after contact with him and tries to prove her theory.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 90%
Mysteria (2011)
Plot Summary:
A once famous and now a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter fighting to finish his latest script with an unrealistic deadline. He finds himself in the center of a murder investigation involving a prominent politician's wife. The surrounding events feed him inspiration for his script.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting, independent film
Similar in 87%
96 Minutes (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story of 4 lives slammed together in a shocking moment. Intercutting between a carjacking and the separate stories of the 4 kids, we watch as they hurtle toward a life-changing end.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, realistic, independent film, tension, suspense
Similar in 82%
The Perfect Nanny (2001)
Plot Summary:
Upon her release from a mental institution where she was recovering from a suicide attempt, Andrea McBride applies for the position of nanny for a handsome, wealthy surgeon, Dr. James Lewis, a widower with two children. Another applicant is hired, but she dies in an accident and Andrea gets the job after all, excelling and quickly becoming part of the family. Then Lewis' girlfriend, Dr. Julia Bruning, is mysteriously killed. When his boss tells Lewis of impending cutbacks at the hospital, the boss is murdered. Meanwhile, Lewis' teenaged daughter Fawn begins piecing together the history of the new nanny and discovers that Andrea may be responsible for these and other killings - but Fawn had better hurry, because the slayings are getting closer to home.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, psychological, suspense, sexy, independent film, realistic
Similar in 77%
Who's Stalking Me? (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following a near-death experience when an attacker breaks into her home, Amanda can't shake the feeling that she's still in harm's way. In comes the handsome and stern Detective James Dawson to save the day and keep an especially close eye on Amanda. Taken by his generosity and commitment, Amanda begins to feel safer--unaware that she's letting the real threat get closer than ever.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Similar in 82%
Confined (2010)
Plot Summary:
A couple moves into a quiet neighborhood. With too much time on her hands, the woman begins to suspect that someone is confined in the basement next door.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, realistic
Similar in 86%
Greetings to the Devil (2011)
Plot Summary:
A former guerrilla is reluctantly drawn into the vengeance scheme of one of his victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 89%
Deadline (2012)
Plot Summary:
Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an idealistic young blueblood bent on discovering the truth. Harper undertakes the investigation despite the opposition of his publisher, violent threats from mysterious forces, a break-up with his fiancée, and his father's cancer diagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film