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Plot Summary:
Two investigative reporters track down reports of giant rats in a city sewer system.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Love & Murder (1990)
Plot Summary:
A photographer who lives in an apartment building takes sneak photos of women in their apartments. One day he accidentally photographs a murder, and the killer goes after him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
Similar in 88%
The Big Hurt (1986)
Plot Summary:
A reporter looking into the death of a research scientist finds more deaths connected to the man, including some dubious "suicides". He discovers that the scientist may have been killed to cover up a secret government plot concerning mind-control drugs that have been tested on unknowing civilians, and he becomes involved with the scientist's daughter, who is trying to clear her father's name.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
Similar in 81%
Deadly Lessons (1983)
Plot Summary:
A psycho is stalking the students at an exclusive girls' school.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult film
Similar in 78%
The Bloody Slaying of Sarah Ridelander (1973)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer murders a businessman's wife, then blackmails the man into procuring young girls for him to murder. The businessman hires a gang of renegade motor-cyclists to kidnap girls for him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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The Wrong Babysitter (2017)
Plot Summary:
A recent kidnapping has single mom Susan worried about leaving her daughter Christy at home for an out-of-town trip - until neighbor Teri offers to "babysit," looking in on Christy and spending the night. But Susan rushes home when Christy goes missing, under circumstances reminiscent of her police detective husband's death. Susan will have to open the past wound of her husband's death in order to rescue the only family she has left.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Malevolence 3: Killer (2018)
Plot Summary:
Martin Bristol returns to where it all began: the home where he was kidnapped from. But he is not the boy who disappeared over 10 years ago. Tortured and abused at the hands of his psychotic captor Graham Sutter, Martin is damaged beyond repair. Lurking in the shadows of suburbia, he stalks and kills without remorse. Special Agent William Perkins follows Martin's trail of terror, desperate to capture him before he kills again. Martin's family, mourning his disappearance for over 10 years, is informed not only that he is alive, but that he is responsible for the wave of murder sweeping through their town. Will they be able to reunite with their long-lost son before it's too late, or will Perkins have to use force to bring him down?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense
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Hit and Run (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mary Murdock, a college student, thinks she's hit and killed a cat with her car driving home drunk from a party. She is horrified beyond words when she gets home and discovers a man's nearly dead body impaled on the bumper of her Jeep. Terrified and irrational, Mary is faced with a series of decisions that determine her fate.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller
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Coming Home in the Dark (2021)
Plot Summary:
A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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14 Cameras (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a family of four rent a beautiful house for their summer vacation, the price seems too good to be true. Unbeknownst to them, the lascivious owner has set up a series of spy cams throughout the house, documenting their most intimate moments and live streaming them to the dark web.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, splatter, crime drama, independent film
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Adverse (2020)
Plot Summary:
In order to save his sister, a ride-share driver must infiltrate a dangerous crime syndicate.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Ungodly (2007)
Plot Summary:
When struggling filmmaker inadvertently records a notorious serial killer in the middle of a murderous act, he decides to use the footage to blackmail the madman into being the subject of a disturbing new documentary.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological thriller, weird
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Night Visitor (1989)
Plot Summary:
A teenager (Derek Rydall) insists he saw a satanist (Allen Garfield) kill the call girl next door, and tries to prove it.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 846
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, neo noir, scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Coffin 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Trick is among five hostages trapped together, paralyzed from the neck down. While an FBI agent and former detective race against the clock to find their location, the group tries to figure a way out before their promised execution.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing, detective, twisted
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Out of the Dark (1988)
Plot Summary:
An employee at a telephone fantasy service helps hunt for the killer preying on her silken-voiced colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, rough, neo noir, erotic, independent film, scary, serious
Similar in 79%
Abduction (1975)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of wealthy businessman is taken hostage by a gang of radical black revolutionaries. While she fears for her life at first, she gradually starts to become sympathetic to her kidnappers' cause, and begins to consider herself to be one of them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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The Wild Card (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young, beautiful wife cheating on her rich, older husband amidst the neon lights of Las Vegas. Four men hired to do a job, but there is a traitor in their midst. Adultery, betrayal, kidnapping and murder lead to the ultimate double cross and no one is innocent in the end. Who will live and who will die... and who is The Wild Card?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Do Not Reply (2019)
Plot Summary:
Chelsea, a high school introvert, is abducted through a social media app and is forced to look like other girls Brad holds captive. Chelsea desperately attempts to persuade them to escape before they all become victims in his virtual reality filmed murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological, scary, intellectual, dark, cyber, crying, tension
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A Stranger Is Watching (1982)
Plot Summary:
Three years after Steve Peterson's wife, Nina, was murdered in front of their 11 year old daughter Julie, she and his new girlfriend Sharon Martin are kidnapped by the same killer, the psychotic Artie Taggart. Imprisoning them in a bunker below Grand Central Station, he throws the police into a race against time to save the girls and catch the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, detective, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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When a Killer Calls (2006)
Plot Summary:
A babysitter begins receiving threatening phone calls from a man who has just killed an entire family.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mockbuster, tense, realistic, slasher horror, awful
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Pathology (2008)
Plot Summary:
Medical student Ted Grey graduates at the top of his class and quickly joins an elite pathology program, whose top students invite him into their circle. There he uncovers a gruesome secret: They play a game in which one tries to commit the perfect, undetectable murder, then the others compete to determine the victim's cause of death.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, serious, suspense, sexy, surprise ending, tense, rough, medical horror, realistic
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Leatherface (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge, one of the teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will destroy his mind, moulding him into a monster named Leatherface.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, suspense, rough, brutal, bleak, scary, psychological, psychological thriller, retro
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Valley of Ditches (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman bound in the front seat of a parked car watches helpless as her captor methodically digs a grave in the desert ground. The bloody lifeless body of her boyfriend lies framed in the rear-view mirror, a fate she will fight at all costs to avoid for herself. But this is only the beginning of a brutal struggle where survival could be worse than death.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, suspense
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Bereavement (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors. Chosen at random, his victim's screams were drowned out by the rural countryside. For five years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery, until 17 year old Allison Miller (Alexandra Daddario) comes to live with her Uncle, Jonathan (Michael Biehn). While exploring her new surroundings, Allison discovers things aren't quite right at the farmhouse down the road. Her curiosity disturbs a hornet's nest of evil and despair that once torn open, can never be closed. Starring Michael Biehn, Brett Rickaby, Alexandra Daddario, and John Savage. Written and Directed by Stevan Mena.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, dark, creepy, cult classic
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The Great American Snuff Film (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two pretty young women are abducted to be the featured stars of a snuff film produced by a couple low-life goons. The ladies are bound, gagged, tortured, burned with cigarettes and forced to dig their own graves.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, controversial, independent film
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Anonymous Killers (2020)
Plot Summary:
Four seasoned killers and one hapless professor are rounded up in one violent swoop and awake in chains to discover they are part of a demented experiment orchestrated by their maniacal, mysterious captor.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Don't Breathe (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 294000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, brutal, exciting, disturbing, twist ending, dark, tense, minimal cast
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The Last House on the Left (1972)
Plot Summary:
Mari and Phyllis go to the "big city" to see their favorite band BloodLust. Along the way they meet up with newly escaped convict Krug and his gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, scary, grindhouse, sadistic, bleak, psychological, creepy, cult classic, bloody
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P2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Angela, a corporate climber, gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, serious, creepy, brutal, bloody, psychological thriller
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Bad Samaritan (2018)
Plot Summary:
A thieve makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are not longer how he expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic, exciting, psychotronic, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Nine Dead (2009)
Plot Summary:
Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, twist ending, suspense, mind bending, psychological thriller