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Plot Summary:
A distraught disc jockey (Gregory Hines) seeks out a mystery caller (Debrah Farentino) who may be the killer of his girlfriend (Laura Harrington).
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, surprise ending, twist ending
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Similar in 83%
Mother's Deadly Son (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 87%
Final Embrace (1991)
Plot Summary:
A detective assigned to protect a pop singer gets romantically involved with her twin sister after the singer is murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, detective, erotic
Similar in 79%
The Killing Mind (1991)
Plot Summary:
A female former FBI agent, now a cop in Los Angeles is assigned to catch a ballerina's murderer, but runs into resistance by fellow cops who don't think a woman detective can handle the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 82%
Red Wind (1991)
Plot Summary:
A psychotherapist who specializes in treating people in abusive relationships inadvertently causes a patient to kill her abusive husband.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, surprise ending, twist ending
Similar in 76%
Bodily Harm (1995)
Plot Summary:
Homicide cop Rita Cates takes a murder case where the victim is a Las Vegas stripper. The investigation immediately takes a perverse turn when she discovers the prime suspect: a psychotic ex-cop with whom she once had a torrid affair. That initial affair drove Cates' husband to suicide, but it doesn't stop her from picking up where she left off. In the heat of passion, she jeopardizes the case, her career and her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, surprise ending, twist ending, independent film
Similar in 85%
Cover Me (1995)
Plot Summary:
Police are stymied when a serial killer begins hacking up nude models all over L.A. In desperation, they hire sexy ex-policewoman Holly Jacobsen to do a little undercover work. At first her boyfriend Bobby Colter, also a cop, agrees to the plan, but when Holly moves from nude modeling to topless dancing to peep-show shower dancing, he begins getting a little possessive. Things get dicey when the killer, a transvestite who by now is totally obsessed with Holly, decides to make his move.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, independent film, cult film
Similar in 79%
Blade (1973)
Plot Summary:
A homicide detective goes after a woman-hating serial killer, who uses knives to murder his victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, independent film, detective, slasher horror
Similar in 83%
Girls Nite Out (1982)
Plot Summary:
A killer, wearing a dancing bear suit, stalks a variety of cheerleaders during an all-night scavenger hunt at a remote Ohio college.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, cult classic, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, weird, cult film
Similar in 83%
Grave Misconduct (2008)
Plot Summary:
A fledgling mystery writer sees an opportunity to advance her career after the death of a novelist/friend but faces dire consequences when a series of vicious murders occur, implicating her.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
Similar in 90%
Listen (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young woman thinks one of her neighbors in her apartment building is a serial killer and begins to suspect both her current boyfriend and former girlfriend of being the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, sexy, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, surprise ending
Similar in 85%
Girl (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman returns to her small hometown intent on killing her abusive father only to discover someone murdered him the day before. As the girl searches for answers, she uncovers a family legacy more dangerous than she'd imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological, dark
Similar in 84%
Murder 101 (1991)
Plot Summary:
Charles Lattimore, an author of a book about a famous murder trial, arranges to meet with one of his students one night. When the student is found murdered and Lattimore has no alibi, he suspects he is being framed by the subject of his book.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, crime thriller, suspense thriller, surprise ending, crying, detective
Similar in 79%
Fear (1990)
Plot Summary:
Psychic Ally Sheedy helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent - who wants to share the fear of his victims with her!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, scary, psychological, tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, cult film
Similar in 81%
Mercy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Detective Catherine Palmer (Ellen Barkin) is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie (Peta Wilson), who belongs to an exclusive club of women who engage in secret sessions of bondage and S&M. Matters become even more complicated when Palmer finds herself attracted to Kittrie, leading to a brief lesbian encounter. Palmer soon learns that each victim belonged to this club of prominent, sexually experimental women. In order to catch the killer, Catherine must trust Vickie to guide her through the dangerous and illicit underground.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, erotic, psychological thriller, independent film, tense, realistic, suspenseful, experimental
Similar in 84%
Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
Plot Summary:
Norman Bates is again released from the mental hospital he was placed in at the end of Psycho III after serving another few years and is apparently rehabiliated for the second time. Norman is now married to a young nurse named Connie and is expecting a child. However, Norman fears that the child will inherit his mental illness. Meanwhile, Fran Ambrose is a radio talk show host who is discussing the topic of matricide with guest Dr. Richmond, Norman's former psychologist. The radio station receives a call from Norman, who uses the alias "Ed" to tell his story.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, cult horror, bloody, suspense, ambiguous ending, atmospheric, serious, realistic
Similar in 80%
Mirage (1965)
Plot Summary:
New York City. David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and why is he surrounded by murder?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, mind bending, realistic, suspense, neo noir, slasher
Similar in 75%
Peacock (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man with a split personality fools his small town into believing his two alter egos are man and wife, although a struggling young mother holds the key to his past and sparks a battle between the personalities.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, intense, thought provoking, stylized, serious, atmospheric, realistic, surreal
Similar in 75%
Radio Silence (2019)
Plot Summary:
Relationship Therapist, Dr. Jill Peterman, had the highest-rated call-in radio show when her world was pulled out from under her following the on-air suicide of a female caller named Alexis. Shaken to her core, Dr. Jill walked away from her show vowing she would never go back. That is until Stuart, the station's General Manager, pleads with her to reboot the show in an effort to bring followers back to the station. Still haunted by what happened, Jill agrees to help her friend out and believes this will be the perfect remedy to put her year-long anxiety to rest. As Jill starts to settle back into her show, mysterious call-ins start happening forcing her to believe there could be a copy-cat out there. What Jill begins to uncover is a web of secrets and lies stemming from the mysterious voice she has come to know as Alexis.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, exciting, unusual plot structure, suspense
Similar in 81%
McBride: Dogged (2007)
Plot Summary:
The annual LA Kennel Club Dog Show gets treated to an unexpected surprise when a backstage murder incriminates the winning canines' handler.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
The Vast of Night (2019)
Plot Summary:
At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, bleak, captivating, mumblecore, horror comedy, lovecraft, mind blowing
Similar in 81%
Who's There? (1999)
Plot Summary:
While alone in the house, a woman hears news of serial killer on the loose. And then a stranger rings the doorbell.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, dark, slasher, experimental, twist ending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Similar in 87%
The Stepfather (2009)
Plot Summary:
Michael Harding (Penn Badgley) returns home from military school to find his mother (Sela Ward) happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David (Dylan Walsh). As the two men get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand. Is he really the man of her dreams or could David be hiding a dark side?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, slasher, rough, psychological, suspense, tense, psychological thriller, dark, serious
Similar in 80%
When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Plot Summary:
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, slasher, creepy, rough, grindhouse
Similar in 85%
Run (2020)
Plot Summary:
Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, suspense, serious, psychological, bleak, slasher, mindfuck, clever, feel good
Similar in 82%
Fractured (2019)
Plot Summary:
Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally able to get her to a doctor. While the wife and daughter go downstairs for an MRI, Ray, exhausted, passes out in a chair in the lobby. Upon waking up, they have no record or knowledge of Ray's family ever being checked in.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 89000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, captivating, bleak, suspenseful, psychological thriller, rough, psychological, suspense, thought provoking, twist ending
Similar in 77%
Urban Legend (1998)
Plot Summary:
There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at the gas station when not looking, into reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, teen, scary, splatter, cult classic, psychological thriller
Similar in 75%
Secret Window (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 207000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, tense, dark, atmospheric, bad ending, psychological thriller, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
Memento (2000)
Plot Summary:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby snaps Polaroids of people and places, jotting down contextual notes on the backs of photos to aid in his search and jog his memory. He even tattoos his own body in a desperate bid to remember.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 13000000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir, psychological thriller, non-linear, confusing, tense, philosophical
Similar in 86%
Identity (2003)
Plot Summary:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 263000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, psychological thriller, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending, mind bending, twisted, tricky, serious
Similar in 81%
Shutter Island (2010)
Plot Summary:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 14000000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, cerebral, neo noir