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Plot Summary:
Set on the Jersey shore, the lives of three childhood friends begin to unravel when a secret from their past is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, psychological, serious, suspense, atmospheric, gloomy, independent film
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Quid Pro Quo (2008)
Plot Summary:
A semi-paralyzed radio reporter is sent out to investigate a story that leads him into an odd subculture and on a journey of disturbing self-realization.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, disturbing, controversial, twisted, neo noir, gloomy, independent film
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Northern Lights (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to leave behind troubled days in the Baltimore city police department, Nate Burns (Eddie Cibrian) journeys to Alaska, where he takes up a quiet life as a small-town sheriff and begins a romance with spirited bush pilot Meg Galligan (LeAnn Rimes). But when Meg's father turns up dead, Burns finds himself thrust into the limelight of a dangerous murder investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, realistic, gloomy
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Eroded (2011)
Plot Summary:
"It is said that when left unhealed, the past can destroy our lives. When Billy Reid and his sister Sheila lose loved ones in a horrific accident, they must face the aftermath together. For Billy, that aftermath and the secrets that lie within could devastate what's left of his family. As he struggles to find his way forward, he is left with only memories. But memories are sometimes tricky things and have the power to conceal the truth.".
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, independent film, tense
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Fever (1999)
Plot Summary:
A struggling artist is implicated in a string of macabre murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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The Letter (2012)
Plot Summary:
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, serious
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Fathers & Sons (1992)
Plot Summary:
A beach runner and bookworm (Goldblum) has difficulty communicating with his son. He meets a psychic on a pier at the beach and soon his world turns topsy-turvy with a serial killer coming between him and his son. The ensuing E.S.P. experiences and danger bond father and son.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, serious, realistic
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Bloodworth (2010)
Plot Summary:
E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after forty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by jealousy to hunt down his wife and her lover, and Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his mamma's porch. Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, treats him with the respect his age commands, and sees past all the hatred to realize the way it can poison a man's soul. It is ultimately the love of Raven Lee, a sloe-eyed beauty from another town, that gives Fleming the courage to reject this family curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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Like a Cast Shadow (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sibylle, a pragmatic architect, mother and wife, witnesses a suicide of a woman her age while on vacation in Italy. Devastated by this incident, it causes the perception of her life and her family to change. Something inside of her has been set in motion that seems to endanger everything which she has defined herself by.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: contemplative, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Best Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
After painter Michael 'Mike' Sheldrake's failed suicide attempt, house-mate and life-long best friend Peter Tremaine, an antiques shop owner, reminisces their common past, like Mike does in therapy. It started at the beach, when scrubby, scared Mikey became the dependent protégé of forceful Pete, both doted by Pete's dad, a wealthy lawyer. Afterwards Mike moves out to marry Kate. Pete accepts to be best man, but overdoes that, 'arranging' to get stuck in the honeymoon hotel he paid for. Drama from their boarding school childhood intertwines with tragedy for the mates, Kate and vindictive former police detective Miller. Written by KGF Vissers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful
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Nor'easter (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young and inexperienced priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest's commitment to church doctrine over the laws of the natural world.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, mumblecore, gloomy
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The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel that was burning to the ground where a lot of strange people had been living.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, enigmatic, melancholic, captivating, surreal, detective, stylized, lyrical, independent film
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Sun Don't Shine (2012)
Plot Summary:
Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, realistic, tense, atmospheric, serious, suspense, road movie, dark, mind bending, stylized
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Secrets of Eden (2012)
Plot Summary:
Based on Chris Bohjalian’s New York Times best-selling novel, “Secrets of Eden” centers on Stephen Drew, an adored small-town minister, and the brutal and sadistic murder-suicide of Alice and George Hayward, the town’s most beloved parishioners. Dark secrets begin to surface.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, serious, captivating
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Guilty at 17 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A teenager becomes overwhelmed with guilt after her lies to support a friend's claim of sexual assault lead to the accused teacher's suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Deposition (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a man is involved in a car wreck that kills his former lover, his life is derailed and his mind is splintered with guilt and the subsequent uncertainty about what exactly happened.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, serious, realistic, independent film
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Abandon (2002)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, tricky, stylized, serious, detective, atmospheric, psychological thriller, surprise ending
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Apart (2011)
Plot Summary:
Linked by a rare psychological disorder, Noah Greene and Emily Gates must uncover the mystery of a tragic past in order to find hope for the future.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, fairy tale, mind bending, independent film, serious
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The Elephant King (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in Thailand, while his shy brother Oliver deals with his own depressions back home in the USA. Their dominant mother wants Jake back home and for this reason, Oliver is sent to Thailand to retrieve his brother. Once there, Oliver finds himself in Jake's bizarre life and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Lek. However, it is not a coincidence that she and Oliver have met.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, sentimental, captivating, multicultural, sincere, touching, serious, gloomy, inspirational
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Uncle John (2015)
Plot Summary:
Uncle John revolves around the struggle to keep a mysterious disappearance unsolved.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film
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Godspeed (2009)
Plot Summary:
Joseph McKelheer and Cory Knauf (The Hamiltons, The Violent Kind) star in this intense thriller set in the lingering light of the Alaskan midnight sun. Charlie Shepard, a modern day faith healer with a small flock of believers, is stunned when his family is brutally murdered. Six months later a young, mysterious girl (Courtney Halverson) appears and becomes the link to his family's killing and the murderers themselves, ultimately leading to violent consequences for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, independent film, suspense
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X/Y (2014)
Plot Summary:
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sexy, sincere, touching, serious, independent film, erotic
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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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The Perfect Nanny (2001)
Plot Summary:
Upon her release from a mental institution where she was recovering from a suicide attempt, Andrea McBride applies for the position of nanny for a handsome, wealthy surgeon, Dr. James Lewis, a widower with two children. Another applicant is hired, but she dies in an accident and Andrea gets the job after all, excelling and quickly becoming part of the family. Then Lewis' girlfriend, Dr. Julia Bruning, is mysteriously killed. When his boss tells Lewis of impending cutbacks at the hospital, the boss is murdered. Meanwhile, Lewis' teenaged daughter Fawn begins piecing together the history of the new nanny and discovers that Andrea may be responsible for these and other killings - but Fawn had better hurry, because the slayings are getting closer to home.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, psychological, suspense, sexy, independent film, realistic
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Hunting Buddies (2009)
Plot Summary:
Lifelong friends Layne, Riley, Dom and Jake return to their home town in Minnesota for their annual hunting trip...but this year is different. Animosity is running high and each one of them is wrestling with their own demons - the once inseparable group is tearing apart at the seams. When one of them mysteriously disappears in the middle of the hunting trip, they must band together to find him but what they discover will test their friendship and change all of their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, sincere, realistic
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Gut (2012)
Plot Summary:
Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around him. Dan has the solution... something Tom's got to see to believe... tonight. What Dan shows him leaves Tom unsettled, flooding his mind with disturbing images, and binding the two friends together with its ugly secret.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, captivating, controversial, scary, realistic
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California Scheming (2014)
Plot Summary:
A teen seductress pulls three other privileged Malibu kids into her devious scheme, and unforeseen consequences force the group to face their own fears and mortality.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, teen, independent film
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Fatal Secrets (2009)
Plot Summary:
"BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, seems to have it all - except the right guy in her life. Her friends urge her to "get back out there." But they don't yet know about Scott - a charming man with a secret background whose true colors paint a streak of pain and fear through Julia's life. When Scott's effect on Julia reaches the breaking point, she and her friends take matters into their own hands... and underestimate the consequences. The outcome forces all of them into a desperate situation. Everyone pays the price.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The Woman in the Fifth (2011)
Plot Summary:
An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, sincere, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, suspense, powerful, insightful
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Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Plot Summary:
Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and the desire to explore.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, captivating, sincere, serious, gloomy, independent film
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Mercy (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young novelist tries to write about love, but realizes he will first need some real-life experience before taking on the subject.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, sincere, psychological, captivating, romantic, touching, serious, gloomy