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Plot Summary:
A woman left alone in Morocco by her architect husband begins to lose her mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Monaco
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending
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Deception (2003)
Plot Summary:
Erin, a struggling actress, has little faith in men. She works for a detective agency, her job is to seduce married men and let their wives catch them in the act. But lately, Erin is been getting threatening phone calls and someone is trying to hurt her. Is it her boss, who's in-love with her? or is it a former "client" trying to get back at her? or maybe, this new man she's been seeing?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: detective, surprise ending
Similar in 82%
Black Box (2021)
Plot Summary:
Matthieu is a young and talented black box analyst on a mission to solve the reason behind the deadly crash of a brand new aircraft. Yet, when the case is closed by authorities, Matthieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong with the evidence. As he listens to the tracks again, he starts detecting some seriously disturbing details. Could the tape have been modified? Going against his boss' orders, Matthieu begins his own rogue investigation - an obsessional and dangerous quest for truth that will quickly threaten far more than his career.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, crime thriller
Similar in 78%
Forbidden Sun (1988)
Plot Summary:
Olympic gymnastics coach Francine Lake and her twelve gorgeous students train on the Island of Crete. The rigors of training preclude most sexual activity with the locals, thus the girls spend their evenings in quiet frustration.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 77%
The Surrogate (1984)
Plot Summary:
Frank and Lee have marital problems: he's been impotent for 18 months, she alternates between sympathy and criticism. His temper gets the best of him, so he's seeing a psychotherapist who finds the anger and the impotence related. She recommends that Frank and Lee hire a mysterious European woman to lead them through fantasies intended to unlock passion and help them heal. At the same time this is going on, the police are investigating a series of stabbings: as corpses pile up, we wonder if Frank's temper may be behind this; or perhaps it's Eric, a cross-dressing neighbor and friend of Lee's; it may even be the European woman, who keeps popping up with new fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic, independent film
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Blade on the Feather (1980)
Plot Summary:
A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer...but both men are more than they claim to be.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
Similar in 79%
Voice from the Stone (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1950s Tuscany, Voice from the Stone is the haunting and suspenseful story of Verena, a solemn nurse drawn to aid a young boy who has fallen silent since the sudden passing of his mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic, psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, erotic, surprise ending, dark, stylized, minimal cast
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Devils in Disguise (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two roommates, Leila & Sandy, team up to kill Leila's sadistic boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, dark
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Visible World (2011)
Plot Summary:
Oliver is a lonely forty-something working as an air traffic controller. He fills his empty life by watching TV and observing the family living in the house across the street - he regards them as an ideal of happiness. At first he just watches the family, but he gradually wants to learn more about them. He soon realizes that borders of one's private life are more fragile than they seem.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Apartment (2010)
Plot Summary:
Preeti Sengupta (Tanushree Dutta) is an airhostess living in with her boyfriend Karan Malhotra (Rohit Roy). They share a nice 2BHK apartment in the northern suburbs of Mumbai and are befriended by their elderly neighbor Madhusudan Tanha (Anupam Kher), a struggling poet and lyricist. Tanha is a loner living with his only companion, a Persian cat whom he lovingly calls Shehzadi. Preeti is possessive and has issues with trust. When she mistakenly suspects her boyfriend to be unfaithful, she throws him out of the house but soon realizes she can't afford the payment on the apartment on her own. On the advice of a fellow airhostess, she advertises for a tenant to share her apartment. Enter Neha Bhardwaj (Neetu Chandra), a modest small-town girl asking for accommodation. Very impressed by her simplicity and respectfulness, Preeti believes she has found a perfect roommate. The two girls soon become close - their camaraderie leads them to even become companions.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, remake of american film
Similar in 76%
I Am What I Am (1967)
Plot Summary:
Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but Jane thinks he has been killed because he was blackmailed for a picture of his second wife, Jane's mother in law. In the same Night Club Bernard finds the blackmailer corpse and Jane near him, but he believes she is innocent. So Bernard and Jane run away followed by a dwarf, the blackmailer's men, who believe Bernard killed their boss and of course, the Police. They believe that Jerome, Jane's brother, can help them to solve the case. But Jane doesn't know where he is, or so she says. Corpse after corpse, Bernard will find out the truth. But will the truth help him?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, sexy, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, sexual, psychedelic
Similar in 86%
The Other Woman (1992)
Plot Summary:
A ambitious reporter investigating a murder case becomes intrigued with a mysterious woman whom she suspects is having an affair with her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psycho sexual, crying, independent film, tension, suspense
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The Candidate (2018)
Plot Summary:
Manuel is a crooked politician who enjoys the lifestyle that kickbacks afford. He eats at fancy restaurants, parties with his friends on yachts, and provides a very luxurious lifestyle for his family. Manuel brazenly bribes, extorts, and pays off anyone who threatens to expose the activities of his inner circle. When he is singled out to take the fall for a case of fraudulent government contracts, rather than admit to any wrongdoing, Manuel decides to sell out his whole party in an effort to avoid jail time. It's a decision that puts many lives at risk.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating
Similar in 82%
Someone Is Bleeding (1974)
Plot Summary:
On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, sexual, crying
Similar in 79%
The Drowning (2016)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when the boy was just 11 years old.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating
Similar in 82%
Deeper and Deeper (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young bank teller falls for the seductive businesswoman, and moves into an apartment across the street to spy on her. His infatuation sends him into a bizarre world of obsession where things are not always what they seem.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, disturbing, suspenseful, independent film
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Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
Plot Summary:
Oliviero is a burned-out writer, living at his estate near Venice, his dead mother dominating his imagination. He is also a degenerate: sleeps with his maid and his ex-student, hosts Bacchanalia for local hippies, and humiliates his wife Irina in front of strangers. She lives in terror. When a young woman is murdered, police suspect Oliviero. Things get complicated when his young, beautiful, and self-confident niece, Floriana, pays an unexpected visit. A silver-haired stranger observes. More women die, and thoughts of harming Irina give Oliviero new inspiration. What's Floriana's game and who's the observant stranger? Watching all is a black cat named Satan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, surprise ending, erotic, sexy, suspense, grindhouse, psychological, tense, atmospheric
Similar in 81%
Last Moment of Clarity (2020)
Plot Summary:
A normal New Yorker's life is upended when his girlfriend is murdered by the Bulgarian mob. He flees to Paris to hide from her killers. But three years later, he sees a similar looking woman on the silver screen. Obsession with past love takes Sam to Los Angeles to look for answers, only to put him back into the sights of the Bulgarians. An updated Hitchcockian thriller in the vein of Vertigo and Rear Window.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, twist ending, neo noir, suspenseful, scary, bleak, captivating, psychological, dark, disturbing
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Chorabali (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sumon is compelled to grow up in the city's underworld as mafia lord Osman Ali's killer machine. After killing a pregnant woman carrying Osman Ali's illegitimate child, Sumon's conscience leads him to defy Ali's order.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, detective
Similar in 80%
Devotion (2003)
Plot Summary:
In total despair, Anja is about to throw herself from a bridge. At that very moment, Henry drives past in his car. Thinking she's a prostitute, he invites her home with him. Anja pretends to be what Henry initially thought. She refuses to explain the reasons for her apparent attempt at suicide. The two begin to play strange games, engage in unusual sex, leading Anja to try fleeing the apartment, but Henry catches her. Forced by Henry, Anja tells him about Lilly who was raped and then killed someone, leaving Henry with the impression that Lilly and Anja are one, the same person. They play more mind games, make love, and after Anja going back and forth trying to leave, Henry finally lets her go. She goes, but is back again soon after. And with a vengeance, she causes a series of strange events which will change the course of both of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 76%
The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Hired to steal a rare painting from one of most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art dealer becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, twist ending, surprise ending
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A Bay of Blood (1971)
Plot Summary:
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, bloody, gothic, psychological, creepy, cult classic
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The Voyeurs (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young couple, find themselves becoming interested in the sex life of their neighbors across the street. What starts as an innocent curiosity turns into an unhealthy obsession.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, psychological, sexy, captivating, disturbing, surprise ending, neo noir, interesting, bizarre
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Mothers' Instinct (2018)
Plot Summary:
Brussels, early 60’s. Alice and Céline live in twin bourgeois houses. They are best friends as are their children, Theo and Maxime, who have grown up like brothers. Both families spend all their time together. This perfect harmony is broken when an accident creates strong divisions between the two families.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, melancholic, psychological, captivating, ambiguous ending, tragic
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Basic Instinct (1992)
Plot Summary:
A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 214000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, neo noir, sexual, suspenseful, detective, psychological, surprise ending, suspense, psychological thriller
Similar in 77%
Deep Water (2022)
Plot Summary:
Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a couple in the small town of Little Wesley. Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, surprise ending, dark, disturbing, captivating, sexy, slasher, crime drama, psychosexual thriller
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The Hole (2001)
Plot Summary:
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, twist ending, tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark, serious, disturbing, teen
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Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, serious, psychological thriller, tricky, intense, clever
Similar in 88%
Enemy (2013)
Plot Summary:
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 209000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, non-linear, twist ending, mind bending, atmospheric, mindfuck, suspense, disturbing, tense
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Gone Girl (2014)
Plot Summary:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, clever, twist ending, suspenseful, neo noir, tense, dramatic, psychological thriller
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The Gift (2015)
Plot Summary:
A husband and wife try to reinvigorate their relationship but their lives are threatened by a "friend" from the husband's past who holds a horrifying secret about him, sending their world into a tailspin.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 169000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, China
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, suspense, twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, intense, suspenseful, mindfuck, atmospheric, scary