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Plot Summary:
A tale of hidden family scandals. A young woman journeys back to her birthplace and discovers that much of what she had always taken for granted concerning her family life was a lie.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Blood Brothers (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two wealthy young brothers living on a plush estate give refuge to a petty criminal who is on the run from the police. Neither the boys' parents or their staff know about the fugitive's presence, which leads them open to exploitation. Sure enough, they soon discover the fugitive has no intention of leaving.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, bleak
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Under His Influence (2023)
Plot Summary:
A social media influencer falls for an inmate and starts a crusade to prove his innocence, but after they win his appeal, she uncovers a dark secret that changes her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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He's Out To Get You (2019)
Plot Summary:
Megan suffers a major tragedy when her son and husband are killed in a car crash. After four years in a mental health institution, she goes to stay with her brother in her hometown, to attempt to get her life back together. But once Megan arrives, her brother disappears. And now none of the townspeople remember him ever existing! Is Megan losing her mind, or is there something more nefarious at work here?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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A Nightmare Come True (1997)
Plot Summary:
Eerie dreams that haunt a young nurse heighten the mystery surrounding her mother's sudden disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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The Deadly Secret (1994)
Plot Summary:
A real estate tycoon suddenly finds himself the victim of a blackmailer, who knows about his participation in the murder of a girl when he was a college student.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Crimen en familia (1985)
Plot Summary:
A wife and her kids plan the killing of the abusive husband and father. Based on a real crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Maddening (1995)
Plot Summary:
In this psycho-thriller, a little girl and her mother find themselves the focus of a crazed couple's delusions. The horror begins after Cassie has a fight with her husband David and takes off in the car with their young daughter Samantha. Cassie takes a wrong turn and ends up in the home of the evil Mr. and Mrs. Because Cassie and Samantha closely resemble relatives the couple recently lost, the duo hold the frightened mother and daughter captive in their home. Soon the two victims find themselves psychologically and physically abused, particularly Cassie who is threatened with torture and rape. Will David find them before the Scudders kill them both?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, erotic
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Revenge on the Highway (1992)
Plot Summary:
At his wedding Claude Sams has an argument with his son about his life-style; in anger Paul leaves. Together with a friend he sets out for Vegas to search a job. While changing a tire on the highway, he's killed by a passing truck. The police believes it's been an accident, but Claude doesn't accept this and frantically searches for a yellow truck and it's crazy driver at all truck stations.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019)
Plot Summary:
An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum, and feigns mental illness in order to be institutionalized to report from the inside. The movie is an account of actual events surrounding Nellie’s stay beginning after she has undergone treatment, leaving her with no recollection of how she came to the asylum or her real identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, dark
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Shattered (2017)
Plot Summary:
Shattered is a story based on true events about family betrayal, love lost, and a dark destructive secret that swirls around a high powered political family in the Deep South. Kate Stenson dreams of an enviable life as the quintessential Southern Belle. She marries Ken Burnett, the son of the town's powerful Mayor - a controlling father who will do anything to protect his position. Kate has two children with Ken - a biological daughter, and an adopted son, named Logan (Tate Birchmore). But Kate's seemingly perfect lifestyle begins to fray at the edges as she discovers that Logan suffers from severe mental health issues. Kate's journey to uncover the true story of Logan's past reveals a dark secret that can destroy the entire Burnett legacy. As Kate investigates - with the aid of a new friend - to unmask the history behind Logan's illness, these unimaginable family secrets surface, putting her in unforeseen danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Betrothed (2016)
Plot Summary:
A trip to the store turns into a surreal nightmare when a college student is kidnapped by a deranged, dysfunctional family. Now Audra West finds herself trapped in the middle of the desert, and betrothed to Adam, the youngest son of the murderous clan. As a determined detective conducts a frantic search, Audra realizes the only way to survive is to escape. But even if she could get away, almost two hundred miles of desert lies between her and help.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspenseful
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Hidden in the Woods (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of two sisters who have been raised in isolation, subjected to the torment of their abusive, drug dealing father. When they finally decide to report him to the police, he kills the two officers and is put in jail. But things go from bad to worse when the girls must answer to their Uncle Costello, a psychotic drug kingpin, who shows up looking for his missing merchandise which is hidden in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, 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
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The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
Michael Carlin, a teacher, has been having an affair with a much younger fellow teacher Carolyn Warmus. When his wife is murdered, the police suspect him due to inconsistencies in his alibi, and no evidence points to anyone else.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (1992)
Plot Summary:
A man (Rick Worthington) assaults the Alta Vista Hospital taking four women, a man and two babies as hostages. He wants to kill Dr. Garrick, who, according to Worthington, ruined his life sterilizing his wife. He threatens to detonate a bomb. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Spider in the Web (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young operative is sent on a mission to follow an older agent who's behavior has come into question.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Israel, Belgium, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspense, bleak
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Dead Beat (1994)
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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Septembers of Shiraz (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, retro, period piece
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The Disappearance of Cari Farver (2022)
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Dave Kroupa is shocked when his new girlfriend, Cari Farver, starts sending him demanding texts. When Dave ends the relationship, he finds himself on the receiving end of an onslaught of twisted messages from Cari, who has abruptly disappeared. Dave’s ex-girlfriend, Liz, also begins receiving harassing texts from Cari, resulting in a dangerous situation for them both. Meanwhile, Cari’s mother Nancy continually searches for her, keeping the pressure on the police who eventually uncover a shocking discovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Formosa Betrayed (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web of international secrets that has been thriving within college campuses across America for decades. His investigation takes him across the Pacific to the island nation of Taiwan, where with the help of the outspoken widow and an unlikely spy, he learns that the Professor's killing was not a random act, but a desperate move by a scandalous government intent on keeping its nefarious activities under wraps. Our detective soon finds himself on a collision course against the U.S. State Department, the Chinese Mafia, and the Nationalist Chinese Government - in a land where the truth is not what it seems and the only people he can trust, cannot be trusted at all. Inspired by actual events.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, clever, captivating, realistic
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Mommy Be Mine (2018)
Plot Summary:
A psycho killer teenage girl will stop at nothing to replace her dead mother's love.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Killer Grandma (2018)
Plot Summary:
Melissa, a happily married woman with an eight-year-old daughter, invites her husband's mother to live with them, only to realize that Grandma is unhinged and wants to kidnap Melissa's daughter to replace her own dead child.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Psycho Granny (2019)
Plot Summary:
After Samantha's mother passes away, her spirits are lifted with the sudden appearance of her long lost Grandmother, Colleen. All is well until Colleen's dark past reveals itself and Sam is forced to fight for her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, psychotronic
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A Dark Reflection (2015)
Plot Summary:
A journalist digs deep into the world of aviation and discovers some uncomfortable truths. And a conspiracy trail dating back to 1954. But why is no one saying anything?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
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Midnight Edition (1993)
Plot Summary:
After interviewing a convicted killer, a reporter becomes obsessed with his mesmerizing subject. When his life is threatened, he comes to his senses, but it may be too late to save his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Isolation (2015)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the true events of a couple vacationing on a remote island in the Bahamas who are hunted by a group of modern-day pirates, after their identities and their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, feel good
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The Au Pair Nightmare (2020)
Plot Summary:
Trying to escape the pain from the death of her fiancé, a woman becomes an au pair in a house where she learns the family is hiding a mysterious secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Murder In-Law (2019)
Plot Summary:
Claire has always loved her son Jim and her granddaughter Sydney, but struggles to connect with her daughter-in-law, Allison. When Allison announces a big job promotion that will relocate them far away, Claire's motherly instincts are pushed to an unsettling level where she will scheme, lie and even murder to keep her son and granddaughter from moving away.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Mississippi Murder (2017)
Plot Summary:
An amazing murder mystery taking place in a setting that no one would expect the coast of Mississippi. A young woman tried to live a normal life despite a horrible upbringing. But she will learn her past will haunt her once more.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Wait Until Dark (1967)
Plot Summary:
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, psychological, clever, serious, psychological thriller, atmospheric, talky, suspense, scary