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Plot Summary:
A terminally ill woman opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss on her friends and family. When she makes a miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Finland, Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, dark, mindfuck, psychological thriller, independent film
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Mad Mom (2019)
Plot Summary:
Amber Vickers is ecstatic that she will finally be making the walk down the aisle with her prince charming Luke. After multiple failed relationships, she was beginning to think that something was wrong; but her soon-to-be mother-in-law and best friend, Jill, believes that Amber is the picture-perfect daughter she never had. Everything is coming up roses until Sharon Vickers, Amber's mother, arrives for a visit. Gaudy, straight-laced and opinionated, Sharon is the complete opposite of Jill. What was supposed to be a benign first meeting of the in-law's quickly turns into a competition, as Sharon and Jill have widely differing views on life, love and marriage. As the weekend visit is coming to an end, Sharon takes matters into her own hands, rendering Jill incapable of escaping her house, and proving to her once and for all that no one comes between Sharon and her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Andover (2017)
Plot Summary:
A geneticist clones his dead wife, over and over, in an attempt to get her back exactly as she was.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, romantic comedy
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Closer to God (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man on the cutting edge of science becomes the first to successfully clone a person, but events unravel when the news leaks out before his team could prepare for what's to come.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological horror, psychological
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The Reconstruction of William Zero (2014)
Plot Summary:
A geneticist wakes up from an accident with only fragments of his memory is forced to relearn who he is via his twin brother. But as he digs deeper, he discovers he might not be who he thought at all.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, mind bending, existential
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Boyfriend Killer (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Grieving mother suspects that her son's ex-girlfriend may have been involved in his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, scary, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, exciting
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The Calm Beyond (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman lives, hidden in plain sight in a ruined Hong Kong building after a tsunami destroyed the city - A castaway on a concrete island. Her concealed existence is changed forever when a small child literally floats into her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Chimera Strain (2018)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant but disturbed scientist freezes his children alive, while he races to cure their deadly genetic disease by decoding the DNA of the immortal Turritopsis jellyfish.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Immaculate Room (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mike and Kate, a young couple, get the once-in-a lifetime chance to win a cool five million dollars. The challenge: Live for 50 days in a blank space. Sticking it out for thirty days, and the five million are theirs. How difficult can it be?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, social, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Reversion (2015)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a billionaire tech mogul questions her own memories about her mothers death after being kidnapped by a stranger.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Break-Up Nightmare (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Barbara learns that nude photos of her daughter have been put up on a revenge porn site, she vows to get them taken down. But the site's administrator and his followers refuse, threatening Barbara's family in retaliation. Barbara doesn't back down, but in doing so, her and her daughter's lives are systematically destroyed both online and off.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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You Can't Take My Daughter (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman fights to keep her rapist from gaining custody of her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Paradise Highway (2022)
Plot Summary:
A truck driver has been forced to smuggle illicit cargo to save her brother from a deadly prison gang. With FBI operatives hot on her trail, Sally's conscience is challenged when the final package turns out to be a teenage girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, road movie
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You Bet Your Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
A compulsive gambler is forced to take a chance with his own life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, erotic
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Grain (2017)
Plot Summary:
The global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the climate is relatively good. These cities are populated by the elites, while the immigrant masses struggle with hunger and epidemics. For unknown reasons, the city’s agricultural plantations have been hit by a genetic crisis - and, as a result, by massive crop failure. Professor Erol Erin, a seed genetics specialist learns of Cemil Akman, a fellow scientist. Apparently, Cemil wrote a thesis about the recurrent crisis affecting genetically modified seeds - but the work was banned by the corporation.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey, Germany, France, Sweden, Qatar
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, realistic, black and white
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Hostile Border (2015)
Plot Summary:
When she’s deported to México, Claudia must choose between reconciling with her estranged father or partnering with a dangerous smuggler to return to the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Deadly Exchange (2017)
Plot Summary:
Samantha and daughter Blake invite Chloe, a foreign exchange student from Britain, into their California home. The two girls become close friends but Samantha's uneasiness begins with the suspicious death of Blake's boyfriend. Samantha sets out to prove her daughter's innocence, discovering Chloe's ultimate plan is to "adopt" Samantha as her "mum".
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Society's Child (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ten-year-old Nikki is a precocious child suffering from Rett Syndrome. Unwilling to help her the doctors, instead, want to write her off as a mentally handicapped person.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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I Almost Married a Serial Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
To escape a serial killer, a single mom and her daughter enter witness protection, only to find their lives in greater danger than ever.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Double Cross (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two women jokingly agree to kill each others' husbands. Then one really does and blackmails the other into killing her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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My Daughter's Disgrace (2016)
Plot Summary:
A high school senior’s life is turned upside down when photos of her naked body are distributed to a revenge porn website. Frustrated by police inaction, her mother takes the investigation into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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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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Pool Boy Nightmare (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Gale as she has a brief affair with pool cleaner Adam, but quickly turns down his continued advances. Insulted at being rejected, Adam starts dating Gale's high school age daughter Becca, using her as an unsuspecting pawn in a twisted game of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Seductress (2000)
Plot Summary:
Alexis Baxter marries and murders wealthy men in order to assume their fortune.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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Cradle of Lies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Following a whirlwind romance, a woman begins to unravel the dark secrets of her husband's past when his obsession to produce a male heir turns deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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LX 2048 (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. Against this dystopian backdrop, a dying man seeks to ensure the future well-being of his family, while coping with what it means to be human in this new reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Lithuania, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, thought provoking, touching, unusual plot structure, suspense
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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
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Barracuda (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sinaloa hitchhikes into Texas to meet Merle, her half-sister by way of their dead country musician father. As the two get to know each other, Sinaloa's chaotic influence starts to unravel Merle's quiet, comfortable life. While the family music legacy brought Sinaloa to Austin, she won't leave without taking revenge against the people who stole her daddy away years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Mommy's Little Girl (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of a dangerous little girl who is reunited with her natural mother after living with her controlling grandparents in a rural farmhouse in seclusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Mother/Android (2021)
Plot Summary:
Georgia and her boyfriend Sam go on a treacherous journey to escape their country, which is caught in an unexpected war with artificial intelligence. Days away from the arrival of their first child, the couple must face No Man’s Land—a stronghold of the android uprising—in hopes of reaching safety before giving birth.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: dramatic, suspense, thought provoking, disturbing, surprise ending, serious, captivating, futuristic, tragic ending, emotional
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The Library Suicides (2016)
Plot Summary:
Twin sister librarians Nan and Ana plan revenge when their author mother commits suicide, with her final words suggesting her biographer murdered her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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