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Plot Summary:
A river expert (Connie Selleca), her boy friend (Matt McCoy), and her children go on a river rafting trip. But things go awry when they are taken captive by escaped convicts searching for stolen money.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, psychotronic
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Lost Valley (1998)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Mary-Ann (Foster) and Sandy (Thompson) are finally taking their dream expedition to New Zealand. They are accompanied by their teenage daughters Jaretha (Gillette) and Kerry (Nicoll). Issues of first night frights from the local wildlife and daughters that can't stand each other become insignificant when they come face to face with Kiwi poachers. No match for gun-toting guys, the four find themselves held prisoner and fearing for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 79%
Run, Simon, Run (1970)
Plot Summary:
A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, crying, detective
Similar in 83%
Hunting for Shadows (2016)
Plot Summary:
A little girl encounters Indigenous mythological nightmares while lost in the Australian bush.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, crying, psychotronic, independent film
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Murder at the Mansion (2018)
Plot Summary:
As her wedding day approaches the would be bride uncovers some secrets at the family home of her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: emotional, psychotronic
Similar in 81%
If I Die Before I Wake (1998)
Plot Summary:
A suburban family is held hostage and terrorized by three intruders while their sixteen year-old daughter first hides, then exacts her own brand of terror on the assailants.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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A Vacation in Hell (1979)
Plot Summary:
Five tourists, four women and one man, escape from the group in a holiday camp at a tropical place and get lost. They have to find the way back, but problems are still to come.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Maneater (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two couples on a camping trip are hunted by two tigers set upon them by a crazed animal trainer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: wild
Similar in 79%
Blood Money (2017)
Plot Summary:
Three friends on a wilderness excursion must outrun a white collar criminal hellbent on retrieving his cash, but soon their greed turns them against each other. A modern re-telling of Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, ambiguous ending, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, tense, disturbing, cliffhanger
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Cave (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of former military elites set out to explore an uncharted abyss, not knowing their worst nightmare is waiting for them deep beneath the ground.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing
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Killing Your Daughter (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a DNA test helps Candace connect with her birth parents, she realizes some family histories are better left untold.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 80%
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
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Nowhere in Sight (2001)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - Helen Slater, Christopher Heyerdahl, Andrew McCarthy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, independent film, tense
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Mommy Would Never Hurt You (2019)
Plot Summary:
Riley wants to rebuild her relationship with her mother and little sister, who are shut-ins due to her sister's illness. When Riley realizes her sister may not be sick, her mother will stop at nothing to keep her daughters with her forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Snowman's Pass (2004)
Plot Summary:
Still struggling to accept her fiancé's death in a rock climbing accident, mountain guide Diana Pennington gratefully accepts industrialist Curt Seaver's offer to find the body using a new satellite imagery technology his company has developed. But while traversing the legendary "Snowman's Pass" with Curt and his companions Hugo and Tyler, Diana is horrified to discover the search for her fiancé is a decoy; they are in fact hunting for a fallen spy satellite, property of an enemy foreign power. Barely escaping with her life, Diana finds herself pursued through the cold and threatening mountains in a deadly cat and mouse game, with only a backpack full of climbing gear and her instincts to defend herself against the dangerous, and increasingly desperate men.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, cliffhanger
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Deserted (2016)
Plot Summary:
When twenty-four-year-old Jae is released from prison for killing her mother, she returns to her childhood home in small-town Ridgecrest. The desire to go anywhere but there prompts her to agree to join her brother on a road trip out to Death Valley - which results in getting them hopelessly lost in the most stunning, but unforgiving topographical terrain on the planet.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Cold River (1982)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel Winterkill, by William Judson, Cold River is the story of an Adirondack guide who takes his young daughter and step-son on a long camping trip in the fall of 1932. When winter strikes unexpectedly early (a natural phenomenon known as a 'winterkill' - so named because the animals are totally unprepared for a sudden, early winter, and many freeze or starve to death), a disastrous turn of events leaves the two children to find their own way home without food, or protection from the elements.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mother Lode (1982)
Plot Summary:
A couple of youngish adventurers go into the wilderness of British Columbia in search of a lost colleague. Their plane crashes and they find themselves at the mercy of a crazed old Scottish miner, who has lived in isolation for many decades searching the mountain caves for a chamber of long lost gold. He is prepared to do anything - including murder - to keep his gold for himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Held for Ransom (2000)
Plot Summary:
Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, scary, tense
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The River Wild (1994)
Plot Summary:
While on a family vacation, rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, psychological, scary, breathtaking, dark, tension, anamorphic, intense
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White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II (1993)
Plot Summary:
A two-week trek through the Cascade Mountains tries the survival instincts of five adventurous teenagers. At first, it's all a good time. Shooting the rapids, exploring caves and making new friends. But when an accident occurs, Mother Nature raises the stakes and challenges the hikers to the greatest test of their young lives. Written by Concorde - New Horizons (with permission).
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious
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True Heart (1999)
Plot Summary:
A brother and sister are plane-wrecked in Canada, where they must rely on the help of a native and his bear.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, serious
Similar in 79%
The Deep (1977)
Plot Summary:
A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, scenic, scary, slasher, action thriller, serious, realistic
Similar in 86%
Skyscraper (2018)
Plot Summary:
Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 131000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychotronic, suspenseful, anamorphic, fairy tale, cult classic, action thriller, action packed, detective
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The Creeper (1977)
Plot Summary:
Five doctors on a wilderness outing are stalked by disfigured, crazed killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, disturbing, cult classic, dark drama, independent film, rough, bleak
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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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Cliffhanger (1993)
Plot Summary:
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 138000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, France, Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, action packed, rough, realistic, breathtaking, entertaining, inspirational
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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
Similar in 89%
The Descent (2005)
Plot Summary:
After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 242000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy, psychological, twist ending, splatter
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Frozen (2010)
Plot Summary:
Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, bad ending, psychological thriller, natural horror, intense
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Deliverance (1972)
Plot Summary:
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, suspense, southern gothic, controversial, rough