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Plot Summary:
A young couple buy their dream home in New Orleans, only to be tormented by an obsessive mother who believes the house should be hers.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Door to Silence (1992)
Plot Summary:
Successful businessman Melvin Dovereux is caught in a traffic jam caused by a funeral procession. Soon he is haunted by visions of a hearse chasing him and a woman in a sports car. Could the funeral procession actuly be for him?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
Similar in 76%
Tiny House of Terror (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the tragic disappearance and presumed death of her tech mogul husband, Samantha Hastings decides to escape from her fancy hi-tech house in Silicon Valley and move to a rustic and cozy tiny house, completely isolated from the prying eyes of the public. As she begins to adapt to her new lifestyle, Samantha's serenity is interrupted when she can't shake the feeling that she is being watched... exactly what her husband felt before his disappearance. Strange and unexplained terrors begin to happen in the tiny house until eventually Samantha's sanctuary becomes her prison with no way out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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An Imperfect Murder (2017)
Plot Summary:
Successful actress Vera Lockman thrashes during a nightmare in which she struggles with, shoots and kills her drug-dealer ex-boyfriend. Jolted awake, she reveals in her journal that the killing actually occurred the day before and that Sal, dead, lies in a trunk in her living room.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags:
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The Trainer (2013)
Plot Summary:
Annie, 28 and recently divorced, is doing everything she can to get her life back on track. When she decides to join the New Life Fitness gym she's inspired and excited about her new trainer Alex, 20-something, who quickly becomes a friend. Alex is young successful and full of life. But that success comes at a price. Sadly Alex is psychotic and has been murdering her trainees for years. Turns out working out really can be murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Tutor (2023)
Plot Summary:
When a professional tutor takes a job at a remote manor, he soon finds himself battling his disturbed student’s obsessions, which threaten to expose his darkest secrets and unravel his carefully crafted persona.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, crying
Similar in 89%
In Just the Wink of an Eye (1981)
Plot Summary:
About the incestuous obsession of a retired policeman Dadong Carandang (Silayan) for his daughter Mila (Santos). When she tells her father that she wishes to marry her boyfriend Noel (Ilagan) because she is pregnant, the news unleashes a series of abnormal events that inevitably lead to the family's doom.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 696
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Red Wind (1991)
Plot Summary:
A psychotherapist who specializes in treating people in abusive relationships inadvertently causes a patient to kill her abusive husband.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, surprise ending, twist ending
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A Passion to Kill (1994)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist gets involved with his best friend's wife who may be a murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, slasher, independent film, soap opera
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Stolen from the Womb (2014)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic stalker gives a pregnant woman a labor-inducing drug, then kidnaps her newborn.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 86%
Run for Your Life (2014)
Plot Summary:
A journalist must make a decision to flee with her two children from her abusive ex-husband or kill him before he kills her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense
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Maternal Instincts (1996)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant doctor's life is made hell by the deranged patient to whom she gave a hysterectomy, without the patient's consent.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Haunting Sarah (2005)
Plot Summary:
A mother dealing with the death of her young son, learns that her niece is in contact with his spirit.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, mind bending, realistic, surprise ending
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The Other Wife (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kate is devastated to learn that her husband Billy has been living a double life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful
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Hindsight (2008)
Plot Summary:
Unexpectedly pregnant with no means to raise a child, Dina and Ronnie decide to sell their unborn baby over the Internet. Their plan begins to unravel when the couple they've chosen, Paul and Maria, turn out to have an agenda of their own.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, realistic
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The Nth Ward (2017)
Plot Summary:
An engineer with the US Army Corps is sent to New Orleans after the hurricane the assess the damage. Bizarre happenings and disappearances lead her down a path of political deceit and voodoo.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, mystical
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In the Cold of the Night (1990)
Plot Summary:
Scott is a fashion photographer concerned about the sudden appearance of nightmares in his nightly dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexual, slasher, perverse, cult classic, independent film, scary, psychological, rough
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My Sweet Audrina (2016)
Plot Summary:
Living in her family's secluded mansion, Audrina is kept alone and out of sight and is haunted by nightmares of her older sister, First Audrina, who was left for dead in the woods after an attack. As she begins to question her past and her disturbing dreams, the grim truth is slowly revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: captivating, bleak, suspenseful, romantic, scenic, enigmatic
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Voice from the Grave (1996)
Plot Summary:
A segment from the 'Unsolved Mysteries' TV series inspired this story, in which a nurse (Megan Ward) claims that she's possessed by a murdered co-worker's spirit which identifies the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Mystery, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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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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Hidden Away (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman and young daughter escape her abusive husband by faking their deaths. Eight years later she is happily living in the upscale Palm Springs with her now-17-year-old daughter. When her husband discovers they are still alive, he tracks them down and spies on them to learn all about the new life they've created until he can exact his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Dead Will Tell (2004)
Plot Summary:
Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, mind bending
Similar in 78%
Blind Terror (2001)
Plot Summary:
After marrying a handsome man she barely knows, a woman experiences threatening calls and violent attacks from a mysterious woman who claims to be her new husband's former lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, surprise ending, psychotronic
Similar in 76%
Angel of Mine (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, sentimental, psychological thriller
Similar in 78%
Obsession (1976)
Plot Summary:
New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland’s life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt. Many years later whilst visiting Italy he meets and falls in in love with Sandra Portinari, who bears a striking resemblance to his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, serious, captivating, realistic, neo noir, surreal, psychological thriller, psychological
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The House on Pine Street (2015)
Plot Summary:
A psychological horror about a young woman coping with an unwanted pregnancy after moving into a seemingly haunted house.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, scary, creepy, independent film, weird
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Stalked by My Ex (2017)
Plot Summary:
After learning that her abusive ex-husband is about to be released from prison, a woman flees with her teenage daughter back to her old hometown.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 78%
The Skeleton Key (2005)
Plot Summary:
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 121000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, gothic, psychological, southern gothic, mind bending, mysterious, tricky
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The Village (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, atmospheric, captivating, psychological thriller, psychological, mindfuck, clever, bad ending, enigmatic, romantic
Similar in 88%
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