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Plot Summary:
A handsome drifter, without a past, gets off an interstate bus in a small Texas town and finds work at Leroy's Country Blues Bar....and the mystery begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, realistic, surprise ending, twist ending, independent film
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Who Are You People (2023)
Plot Summary:
After trying and failing to seduce her teacher, 16-year-old Alex runs away from her boarding school. Trying to seek out the biological father her mother has always kept hidden from her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 84%
Out of Sight (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ya'ara, a blind PhD candidate in Mathematics at Princeton University, hears of her cousin Talia's suicide. Ya'ara rushes back to Israel. They were best of friends and twin spirits. Talia saw for both of them, and was always the one who believed and led Ya'ara to believe, that in spite of her blindness, Ya'ara could see everything. Ya'ara joins Talia's family for the traditional 7-day mourning period and there, she discovers the secrets of Talia's life and embarks on an investigation trying to discover the reason that led Talia to commit suicide.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Everything (2004)
Plot Summary:
A man visits a prostitute but just wants to talk. She goes along with it until he starts asking questions. Is he just a loner or is there a different reason for him to come here?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, talky, surprise ending, minimal cast
Similar in 82%
Disappeared (2004)
Plot Summary:
Harry Sands is a self made man, happily married with two children. When he learns that his daughter has gone missing in Istanbul, he flies out to find her. To Harry's horror, he discovers from Olivia's best friend, that the two of them have been working as nightclub dancers and not as the charity workers like Harry was led to believe. So begins the hunt for his missing daughter and a journey that turns into a nightmare as Harry is forced to face his own prejudices and mounting paranoia.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, suspense
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Murder Without Conviction (2004)
Plot Summary:
Recently released from her vows as a nun, Christine Bennett is discovering "life on the outside." After a visit to her mentally-handicapped cousin Gene, Christine becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder mystery surrounding James and Edward Talley, twin savant brothers accused of killing their mother on Good Friday.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, gloomy
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The Nothing (2011)
Plot Summary:
The faith of five strangers is put to the test when they awake to find themselves in a mysterious place, with no idea of how they got there... and no way out.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christian film, underground film, psychological, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, independent film, minimal cast, contemplative
Similar in 80%
Mysteries (1978)
Plot Summary:
In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, surprise ending, enigmatic, suspense, psychological, captivating, sexy, mind bending, realistic, sexual
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Story of Jen (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man commits suicide leaving a disturbing note. His wife and his daughter try to cope with it when the step-brother of the deceased visits them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, psychological, suspense, bleak, realistic
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The Other Side of Sleep (2011)
Plot Summary:
Loosely inspired by the director’s own memory of a girl’s disappearance from her village, the film follows Arlene (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), a young factory worker living alone in a rural Irish community.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, surreal, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, captivating, offbeat, realistic, gloomy, crying
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Evidence of Blood (1998)
Plot Summary:
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Interstate 84 (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a body is found floating in an upstate New York river, hard-drinking cop Joe Weldon is left with few clues. After uncovering the man's identity - an enigmatic simpleton named Hap - Weldon is led to the crooked hustler who took advantage of Hap and the disturbed, young punk who tormented him. A tale of personal demons, shattered lives, and ultimate redemption.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, touching, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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McBride: The Chameleon Murder (2005)
Plot Summary:
As a favor to a friend, defense attorney McBride takes on a client accused of murdering a woman. When McBride and his partner Phil investigate the deceased, they discover she had many identities and with each new life she was leading the list of suspects grows larger.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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What Would Jesus Do? (2010)
Plot Summary:
The citizens of a small town lose their faith day by day. Poverty and hardships have been hard on them... when all of a sudden something changes. Their faith is reborn. And a question rises inside them: "What would Jesus do?".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: christian film, realistic, serious, spiritual, inspirational, fable
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October Baby (2011)
Plot Summary:
OCTOBER BABY is the coming of age story of a beautiful and naive college freshman who discovers that her entire life is a lie and sets out on a road trip with a host of misfits to discover herself and the answers she craves.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, christian film, sad, inspirational, romantic, uplifting, captivating
Similar in 79%
Lone Star (1996)
Plot Summary:
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: neo western, witty, tense, sincere, touching, realistic, philosophical, neo noir, cerebral, independent film
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The Ghost and the Whale (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man, Joseph, loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. The wife's brothers' need revenge! Joseph tries to tell anyone who will listen that a whale killed his beautiful Annabel Lee, but even he doesn't quite remember the truth. A journey into the depths of his mind, a conversation with a whale and blood thirsty brothers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
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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
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Waterland (1992)
Plot Summary:
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, serious, offbeat, contemplative, gloomy, crying, independent film
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Agnes of God (1985)
Plot Summary:
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, intense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, talky, slasher, clever, contemplative
Similar in 79%
Ondine (2009)
Plot Summary:
An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net believing her to be a mermaid.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, fairy tale, sweet, romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, serious, gloomy, romantic drama
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One Deadly Summer (1983)
Plot Summary:
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, neo noir, slasher, social, anthology, erotic drama, neurotic, psychological, bleak
Similar in 79%
Little Sister (1995)
Plot Summary:
After several years without contact, Martijn visits his sister Daantje, who just started to live on her own in Amsterdam. He tells her he is going to make a documentary from her life, and enters her home life with a video camera.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexy, hot, documentary filmmaking
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Untouched (2017)
Plot Summary:
Untouched is the story of a reluctant attorney's struggle with inner demons while defending a teenage girl accused of murdering her newborn. When the "Hostess City of the South" is rocked by the horrific crime, Mitchell Thomas III becomes strangely compelled to defend the firm's newest client. Mitch and the girl connect and her circumstances exhume memories that begin to consume him. While his mother (Eleanor) rallies for a quick resolution in order to save the prestigious reputation of the girl's father from tabloid embarrassment, Mitch digs deeper into the Tybee community that hides the secret to the girl's pregnancy. The more he uncovers about his client's history, the more he drinks to escape the demons from his own past. Mitch realizes that in order to save this young woman, he must face the darkest events of his past. He works against his mother and an unforgiving city to acquit the young woman and mend is his own crippling wounds.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, gloomy, surprise ending
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Deep in the Heart (2012)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations. Guiding him is a spiritual figure he calls "The Bearded Man".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: realistic, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, sincere, independent film, entertaining
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A Stranger in the Kingdom (1999)
Plot Summary:
A Vermont town in the 1950's hires a new minister based on his war record and capable presentation, but then are shocked when he shows up and is a black man. Things go completely wrong for.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Winter's Bone (2010)
Plot Summary:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: depressing, atmospheric, harsh, bleak, disturbing, tense, gloomy, serious, neo noir, independent film
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Living in Fear (2001)
Plot Summary:
A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Spitfire Grill (1996)
Plot Summary:
Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring resentment and fear in some, and growth in others.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: christian film, sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, realistic, gloomy, crying, tear jerker, inspirational
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Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
Plot Summary:
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental, atmospheric, enigmatic, melancholic, realistic, spiritual
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Proof (2005)
Plot Summary:
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father’s mental illness along with his mathematical genius. When Robert’s work reveals a mathematical proof of potentially historic proportions, it sets off shock waves in more ways than one.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, inspirational, clever, intellectual, enigmatic, serious, heartbreaking, realistic, depressing