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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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The Secret Pact (1999)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing the killing of his parents, a young teenage boy is put in a witness relocation program and sent to a boarding school in Canada to start a new life. He soon befriends a fellow student whom is a hit man looking for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
Fashion Victim (2008)
Plot Summary:
Andrew Cunanan started his murderous spree in Minnesota, continued through Chicago, and despite being the subject of an intense manhunt, was able to kill fashion great Gianni Versace, in Miami, before killing himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
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Absence of the Good (1999)
Plot Summary:
Salt Lake City homicide detective Caleb Barnes is under increasing pressure from all sides to crack a string of serial killings that have been terrorizing the city. At the same time, Barnes' home life is beginning to crumble in the wake of his son's accidental death. Will he solve the killings before the stress tears him apart? Written by.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, suspense
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The Collector (2002)
Plot Summary:
Une policière, Maud Graham, suit un tueur en série qui agresse des femmes. En même temps, elle héberge un jeune prostitué et un fugueur de 12 ans. L'action se déroule dans la ville et capitale de la province du même nom, Québec.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, neo noir
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Twist of Fate (1998)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful attorney's hunt for a serial killer is frustrated by his accomplice's twisted scheme to keep the killer free at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, scary, psychological, rough, mind bending, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful
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Relentless IV: Ashes to Ashes (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sam Dietz is back and must find and stop another serial killer before he kills again. Detective work for Dietz is tough having to juggle two gorgeous women - one his partner, and the other his shrink, who holds the key to the case.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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True True Lie (2006)
Plot Summary:
After 12 years in an asylum, as she is reunited with friends and family, Dana begins to realize the events that led to her stay there may not have been imaginary.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, realistic
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Interstate (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Montreal DJ, following his girlfriend to Los Angeles, falls into a deadly relationship with a couple of female hitch-hikers.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir, serious, realistic, cult film
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Hunt for the I-5 Killer (2011)
Plot Summary:
“Hunt for the I-5 Killer” is a dramatization based on the haunting true story of the yearlong manhunt for a killer suspected of murdering 14 victims and committing numerous sexual assaults up and down the I-5 highway corridor through California, Washington and Oregon. As Detective Dave Kominek (John Corbett) starts to discover similarities in the cases, he becomes determined to prove the seemingly unrelated killings are the work of one man. As the case unfolds and more victims come to light, a shocking twist comes into play – could the sadistic mass murderer possibly be a handsome, all-American athlete? The movie is from Ann Rule’s book, and also stars Sara Canning.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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From the Inside (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alone in their isolated home where no cars pass and no one lives nearby, Vincent and Tally suffer together in a loveless marriage. But what they don't know is that they are not as alone as they think -- a criminal and his psychotic brother are watching them through binoculars. They stare lustfully at Tally through the windows and plan something horrible for the unhappy couple when night falls.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, independent film
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The Paint Job (1992)
Plot Summary:
"Taav's first feature occupies the same setting and psychological territory as David Lynch's visions of small-town America. About a love triangle, involving house painter Wesley (Patton), his boss Willie (Pastorelli) and Willie's sensitive, vulnerable wife Margaret (Neuwirth), the film turns into a picture of hidden desires, romantic dreams and dangerous obsessions... An unsettling film in which ideas, tone and texture unite with quietly confident storytellin". TIME OUT Film Guide.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Impact Point (2008)
Plot Summary:
Pro Beach Volleyball star, Kelly Reyes, faces challenges everyday, fierce competitors, the press, but nothing could prepare her for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary
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Choke (2001)
Plot Summary:
Henry, an uptight businessman who sometimes acts with questionable ethics, nevertheless rejects Ron, a scam artist who wants a partner. Ron won't let up and finds a lever to blackmail Henry, whose daughter Gina has killed a pedestrian in a hit-and-run car accident. To protect Gina, Henry disposes of Ron, but a murderous sociopath witnesses this crime. Henry and this stranger bond in an odd way, telling stories about their childhoods. Henry makes a deal with the stranger, helping to get rid of the body of one of the stranger's victims. Will this act seal a bargain between the two men and get Henry off the hook, or will the stranger threaten Henry and Gina?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Intimate Stranger (1991)
Plot Summary:
A policeman (James Russo) guards a barroom singer (Deborah Harry) whose phone-sex sideline has put a killer (Tim Thomerson) on her trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Postmortem (1998)
Plot Summary:
The only thing James wants is to remain away from Scotland. One day, however, he receives a fax, a printout of an unknown person's obituary. The next day, he is charged and arrested for the murder of this person.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Similar in 81%
The Barber (2014)
Plot Summary:
Eugene is a small town barber, beloved by the local community, but hiding a deadly secret. John is hunting for a serial killer not to expose him but to learn the business! They form a twisted bond and turn the town upside down as Eugene teaches John to kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film
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Killer Reality (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hayley, a producer on the hit reality show LOVE EVER AFTER, unwillingly falls for The Bachelor on this marriage elimination series. Things become complicated very quickly, especially when one of the female contestants turns up dead. That's when work becomes downright murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, rough, sexual
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Games (1967)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious woman (Simone Signoret) in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers (James Caan, Katharine Ross) and helps one trick the other.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Lost Angel (2005)
Plot Summary:
Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 86%
Suspended Animation (2001)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood animator Tom (Alex McArthur) gets lost in the Michigan woods after a snowmobile ride goes wrong. He finds refuge at an isolated cabin inhabited by two sisters (Laura Esterman and Sage Allen). Initially grateful to them, Tom soon realizes that the women are cannibals who peg him as their next meal. Tom's friends manage to rescue him, but he's perpetually haunted by his horrific ordeal.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Curdled (1996)
Plot Summary:
Gabriella, a Columbian immigrant, is obsessed with understanding violent crime. The current string of murders by "The Blue Blood Killer" of affluent Miami socialites provides her with fodder for her scrapbook of death. She lands a job with a post-murder cleaning service and during a Blue-Blood clean-up job, discovers evidence that police have overlooked.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, disturbing, bloody, black comedy, suspenseful, offbeat, serious, realistic, psychotronic, independent film
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Dead Tone (2007)
Plot Summary:
As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival in this stalk-and-slash frightener from filmmaking duo Brian Hooks and Deon Taylor.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, teen horror, realistic, psychological, suspense, light, detective
Similar in 79%
Tripfall (2000)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer turns the life of a family on vacation into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, realistic, fast
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No One Can Hear You (2001)
Plot Summary:
Families are dying and reporter Trish (Kelly McGillis) finds herself reporting on a serial killing spree. After her daughter Lisa's (Kate Elliott) best friends are killed, she fears that her family may be on the killers list. Sheriff Webster (Barry Corbin) is not listening to her concerns, which leads Trish to wonder is he or his deputy might be involved. Then Lisa, her boyfriend Ben and her sister Amy receive threats.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, independent film, tense, realistic
Similar in 82%
San Franpsycho (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives hunt a serial killer who is sending cryptic messages about his crimes to a local reporter.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, independent film
Similar in 89%
Wicked (1998)
Plot Summary:
A cul-de-sac in an oppressive suburb becomes a literal dead end for wife and mother Karen Christianson (Chelsea Field) when she is brutally murdered in her own home. In the wake of the event, Karen's teenage daughter Ellie (Julia Stiles) begins to exhibit bizarre behaviors as she slowly acquires her mother's demeanor and mannerisms. Meanwhile, Karen's husband, Ben (William R. Moses), nurtures a less-than-innocent interest in the family's sultry live-in nanny, Lena (Louise Myrback).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: detective, teen horror, independent film, psychological, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, black comedy
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Starkweather (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 1958 Nebraska 19 year old garbageman Charles Starkweather goes on a murder spree with his 14 year old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate killing 11 people in three months, introducing America to spree killing.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective, road movie
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Kemper (2008)
Plot Summary:
A film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, scary
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Boston Strangler: The Untold Story (2008)
Plot Summary:
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston during the early sixties. Guided by his manipulative cell mate, who knows more about the murders than he reveals, they devise a plan to gain all of the notoriety from the killings and the money from the reward. Meanwhile, Detective John Marsden, searches out the truth certain that they were not committed by one man. Fighting the bureaucracy of the day, Marsden lets his emotions get the best of him as he follows the trail of the murders.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, rough, realistic, suspense, spooky, suspenseful
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Son of Sam (2008)
Plot Summary:
This chilling tale recounts the late 70's in New York City, when a serial killer on the loose dubbed "Son of Sam" creates havoc. When arrested, "Son of Sam" tells police he was influenced by a satanic cult. New York would never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, slasher