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Plot Summary:
Two wealthy young brothers living on a plush estate give refuge to a petty criminal who is on the run from the police. Neither the boys' parents or their staff know about the fugitive's presence, which leads them open to exploitation. Sure enough, they soon discover the fugitive has no intention of leaving.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, bleak
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Layla Fourie (2013)
Plot Summary:
Layla Fourie, a young single-mother in South Africa, receives a job assignment as polygraphist. In the constant presence of mistrust, lies and fear Layla soon becomes a suspect herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, France, Netherlands
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 80%
Moonlight (2002)
Plot Summary:
Claire lives with her wealthy adopted parents in a luxurious and isolated house in the woods. She discovers a wounded and bleeding boy her age in her family's garden shed. The boy is a young drug courier from Afghanistan; shot and wounded after serving his purpose as human packing material. Claire decides to keep the boy a secret. He slowly recovers under her care; and they fall in love. When the drug dealers return and Claire's family is due to move back to the city; they decide to flee; though Claire finds it difficult to outrun her past as an abandoned child.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Reykjavik-Rotterdam (2008)
Plot Summary:
A former sailor who has served prison sentences for alcohol smuggling fights to keep his family afloat. He is offered pay for a last tour of cargo between Reykjavik and Rotterdam. He agrees, in the hope to get out of debt, but unexpected events occur.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Iceland, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, tense, captivating, neo noir, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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The Fraternity (2002)
Plot Summary:
Some students at Runcie prep school form an elite club. The group is implicated in a cheating scandal and one of the club members dies mysteriously. Another member decides to try and discover the dangerous truth about Runcie.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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The Trespasser (2001)
Plot Summary:
Estevão , Ivan e Gilberto são companheiros desde os tempos de faculdade e sócios de uma construtora de sucesso há mais de 15 anos. O relacionamento entre eles sempre foi muito bom, até que um desentendimento na condução dos negócios faz com que eles entrem em choque, com Estevão, sócio majoritário, ameaçando abandonar a empresa. Acuados, Ivan e Gilberto decidem então contratar Anísio , um matador de aluguel, para assassinar Estevão e, assim, poderem conduzir a construtora do modo como bem entendem. Entretanto, Anísio tem seus próprios planos de ascensão social e aos poucos invade cada vez mais as vidas de Ivan e Gilberto.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, captivating, realistic
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White Snow (2010)
Plot Summary:
Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, realistic, neo noir
Similar in 78%
Deliver Us from Evil (2009)
Plot Summary:
In search of a new lifestyle, Johannes and his wife Pernille leave the city and move with their two children to Johannes’ childhood town in the country. When Johannes’ drunken brother Lars accidently runs over Anna, a local, and plants false evidence pointing at the emigrant Alain, Johannes stands up to defend Alain. But it comes with a price.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, disturbing, suspense, captivating, neo noir, thought provoking, bleak, realistic
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Snow in Paradise (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hard-hitting character study that's based on the real story of one man's journey to control his violence through religion. It takes us from the blood soaked East End of London to the world of the Islamic whirling dervishes.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, serious, bleak, realistic, islamic
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The Dark House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to escape a stalker by moving with her children to her sister's isolated beach house.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Skulls III (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young college co-ed tries joining the elite, all-male, secret society, the Skulls, and in so doing, she uncovers some unscrupulous methods used by some of the members to get what they want.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, slasher
Similar in 84%
Suburban Bliss (2002)
Plot Summary:
Catherine, a rebellious pre-teen who has been deeply affected by her parents’ divorce, plays a game which involves crossing a dangerous road with her eyes closed. She becomes friends with the girl next door, the quiet Ariane, to the consternation of Ariane’s father, David. Although he appears to be a model father, David is in fact obsessed by the need to protect his daughter. As such, he tries – unsuccessfully – to prevent Ariane from coming under Catherine’s bad influence. Ariane takes up smoking, starts telling lies, and begins to explore her sexuality. While Catherine’s mother attempts to seduce the handsome, and single, David, he sets a trap for Catherine. For Catherine, living dangerously is no longer a game, and she has to summon all her strengths in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful
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Child of Mine (2005)
Plot Summary:
An Alberta small-town police chief officially finds no suspect in the bloody stabbing to death of 'working girl' Jane McGill. Her daughters are adopted two years later, trough his friend Alvin, by a London couple who don't qualify yet for a correct procedure. Grace, the eldest, behaves viciously to Tess Palmer, who gave up her psychotherapist job to become their full-time mother, yet as sweetly as her little sister to new father Alfie Palmer, a struggling entrepreneur, but aggressively too toward his son Charlie, from an earlier marriage, and his grandmother. Whe the strain on the marriage becomes unbearable, Tess takes Grace to Alberta to examine suspicions about a dark past arisen during written overseas contacts.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, bleak, realistic
Similar in 87%
White Lie (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young writer has his book stolen by his mentor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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Murder on the 13th Floor (2012)
Plot Summary:
A neglectful mother concocts a plan to kill her live-in nanny when she discovers the nanny is having an affair with her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, psychosexual thriller
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Dynamite (2004)
Plot Summary:
A woman's life is turned upside down when three armed robbers invade her home.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
Zoom Hunting (2010)
Plot Summary:
Yang Ruyi (32), a fashion magazine photographer, lives with her elder sister Yang Ruxing (33), a rational, introverted detective fiction author. Ruyi has inadvertently photographed a couple making madly passionately love. Few days later in a shopping center not far from her home, she finds the woman already married, leading a child and is with a different man. Ruyi shares her secret with Ruxing who is suffering from writer's block. The two sisters begin to observe the couple; gradually Ruxing even writes some of her observations into her novel, without letting Ruyi knows it. Late one night, Ruyi views two people are arguing, but as she picks up her camera to photograph she can only see two vague, dark outlines wrestling one another; Ruyi calls the police but upon arriving, nothing seems out of order. Ruyi is convinced she has mistaken nothing; she enlarges the photo and discovers a third outline looks pretty much like her older sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
The Confidant (2010)
Plot Summary:
The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond and a more intriguing secret. Both young men are on the right path to promising futures, a first round NFL draft pick, and a talented art major on a full scholarship. A complicated web of lies, gambling, murder and a pact between friends sends an innocent friend to prison and the other to fame. After spending eleven years in prison, the innocent comes to collect a debt and is determined to have the life he was promised... by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, bleak, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough, sexy, realistic, independent film
Similar in 90%
Dead Beat (1994)
Plot Summary:
In 1965, Rudy, a Midwestern high-school kid, moves to Albuquerque; lonely and friendless, he's attracted to Kit, slightly older, with a car, his own apartment, and spending money. Kit loves Elvis and loves the ladies; plus, he's a complete phony: his tan is fake, he wears lifts, he lies to girls, and he pretends to care about Rudy. Kit also shares a dark secret with two other devoted followers, Jimmy and Martha. He meets his match in Kirsten, a spoiled rich girl who gives as good as she gets. When she and a younger cousin disappear, Rudy must choose between loneliness and the law. Written by.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, period piece, dark comedy
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Formosa Betrayed (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web of international secrets that has been thriving within college campuses across America for decades. His investigation takes him across the Pacific to the island nation of Taiwan, where with the help of the outspoken widow and an unlikely spy, he learns that the Professor's killing was not a random act, but a desperate move by a scandalous government intent on keeping its nefarious activities under wraps. Our detective soon finds himself on a collision course against the U.S. State Department, the Chinese Mafia, and the Nationalist Chinese Government - in a land where the truth is not what it seems and the only people he can trust, cannot be trusted at all. Inspired by actual events.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, clever, captivating, realistic
Similar in 76%
A Dark Reflection (2015)
Plot Summary:
A journalist digs deep into the world of aviation and discovers some uncomfortable truths. And a conspiracy trail dating back to 1954. But why is no one saying anything?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
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The Dinner (2013)
Plot Summary:
Adapting a Dutch bestseller inspired by a shocking real-life crime, Menno Meyjes (screenwriter of The Color Purple and Lionheart) directs this excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak
Similar in 83%
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere (2013)
Plot Summary:
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a secret organization specializing in kidnapping children.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, action thriller
Similar in 81%
Cherry Crush (2007)
Plot Summary:
A High school Photographer breaks his own rules and falls in love with his teenage model.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sexy, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychosexual thriller, surprise ending, twisted, sexual
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Graduation Day (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school students that document the events of their senior year in this suspenseful 'Found Footage' thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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Teenage Bank Heist (2012)
Plot Summary:
Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real time, ticking clock thriller, as the girls are on the run from the police, we learn that the real motivation behind the robbery is something unexpected.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, realistic
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Missing (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hyeon-jeong's sister is missing and she fears for the worst. Via her sister's cellphone, Hyeon-jeong learns that her sister stayed in a countryside vaillage. She goes to the village to find her sister and stops at the local police station for help. Because of the little evidence she has, the police refuse to offer help. Hyeong-jeong then finds a witness who thinks she saw her missing sister near the home of an elderly man Pan-kon. When Hyeong-jeong eventually arrives at the elderly man's home, her worst nightmares are to begin.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, psychological, splatter, twisted, scary, bleak, suspenseful
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Bypass (2014)
Plot Summary:
Tim has no job, but Tim ‘works’, selling stolen goods...In the face of mounting internal and external pressure, how far will he go to keep his head above water and protect those he loves?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, gloomy
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The Activist (2014)
Plot Summary:
A political thriller taking place during the Wounded Knee insurrection in 1973. Two activists are arrested and in the custody of the local sheriff's office. During their stay they are visited by a Nixon advisor, a lawyer, a senator and a movie star who is also an activist.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, political, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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The Wrong Student (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kelly Halligan has moved with her 17-year-old niece from New York to California to start her new business venture. When her niece tries out for the soccer team, the two meet the athletic and handsome new coach, Dominic. They also become acquainted with the attractive, but somewhat unstable, student Maddie who is also on the girl's high school soccer team. While Kelly and Dominic develop a romance, Dominic becomes the unwanted center of attention for Maddie, who becomes obsessed with her new coach and proceeds to sabotage his life and Kelly's after he refuses her sexual advances.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, disturbing, sexy
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Son of Cain (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nico Albert is a very peculiar character teenager, with exceptional intelligence and a single obsession: chess. His parents, concerned about the anomalous attitude of his son, child psychologist hired Julio Beltran. Through therapy and common hobby chess, Julio will delve into the disturbing world of Nico and the complex relationships of this seemingly normal family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 843
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, tense