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Plot Summary:
Twin brothers are separated at birth after their parents are killed in a car accident. One grows up to have a good and successful life, and the other to be a disturbed young man who now plans to achieve the perfect life by stealing his brother's.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Dusk (2015)
Plot Summary:
John Whitmore wakes to find his wife, Anne, has disappeared from their bed overnight and a recorded ransom message now remains in her place.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
Similar in 83%
Deadly Daycare (2014)
Plot Summary:
Rachel decides to take her three year old daughter to daycare. As the days pass, the woman feels that the teacher turns too with her daughter, reaching an almost obsessive relationship.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 86%
A Handsome Tamil Son (2007)
Plot Summary:
Guru has the ability to predict future events. With his unique ability, he identifies several future events, including the attempted murder of his lover by a look-alike.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 86%
Obsessed (1992)
Plot Summary:
Lorie Brindel works at an insurance company and falls in love with one of her clients, the much older Ed Bledsoe. Spending weeks of passion together, Lorie is convinced that Ed is the man of her life and that he would marry her. When Ed decides to break up the relationship, Lorie does not accept it and tries to win him back, falling from her extreme love into an equally extreme hatred.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir
Similar in 78%
Iratta (2023)
Plot Summary:
After a cop is found dead, a policeman's investigation sparks a chilling search for the truth connected to his estranged twin and their fraught past.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 86%
Cheer For Your Life (2021)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl’s spirits are crushed as she suffers through a humiliating “Cheerleader Initiation Week,” but her dreams aren’t the only thing in danger when another girl on the squad turns up dead, and when she disappears herself, her mom will have to rush to save her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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After Darkness (1985)
Plot Summary:
To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency through one on one contact. Free of the institution he continues to be haunted by dreams of a lost twin and chants the eerie phrase "Do I stand before the king?" It is the elder brother that seems doomed to lose himself in his brother's insanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
Similar in 84%
Terror in the Shadows (1995)
Plot Summary:
Five years ago, Christine went after the baby she gave up for adoption, claiming he'd been stolen, and wound up killing Alex Williams' wife and the baby the Williams' had adopted. Now, Alex has remarried to a woman with a young son and when Christine escapes from a mental institution, she heads straight for Alex, looking for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 85%
Shattered Illusions (1998)
Plot Summary:
A Psycho stalks a talk radio personality and her mentally challenged sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 79%
The Wrong Babysitter (2017)
Plot Summary:
A recent kidnapping has single mom Susan worried about leaving her daughter Christy at home for an out-of-town trip - until neighbor Teri offers to "babysit," looking in on Christy and spending the night. But Susan rushes home when Christy goes missing, under circumstances reminiscent of her police detective husband's death. Susan will have to open the past wound of her husband's death in order to rescue the only family she has left.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 87%
Torn Apart (2004)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Vicki Westin has no idea that losing a patient is going to wreak complete havoc on her life. But that's exactly what happens: Her deceased patient's grieving father seeks vengeance by kidnapping Vicki's husband and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, neo noir
Similar in 81%
Down Will Come Baby (1999)
Plot Summary:
Leah Garr wants to move from Phoenix to take a new job in Denver to help her family (Husband Marcus and Daughter Robin). When Robin goes to camp to give her parents time to sort things out, something unexpected occurs. On Robin's return from camp she finds out her mom is taking the new job in Denver, only returning each weekend to visit. During this turmoil in Robin's life, A new lady, Dorothy, befriends Robin, moves into the same apartment complex and spends a lot of time with her and her father Marcus. Leah is concerned about this because she does not know very much about Dorothy or her intentions. It soon becomes clear that Dorothy is after much more than friendship with the Garr family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sad
Similar in 89%
Dangerous Isolation (2006)
Plot Summary:
A weekend vacation turns terrifying when computer scientist Samantha (Alexandra Paul) and her daughter are lured into the hands of a killer. Kidnapped and held hostage, Samantha is given a choice: she must use her expertise to help her captors carry out an unspeakable crime, or let her daughter die. Nothing is as it seems in this twisting thriller, where high-stakes and high-tech collide for an edge-of-your-seat movie experience that will keep you guessing until the very end!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, tense, captivating, suspense
Similar in 76%
The Kissing Place (1990)
Plot Summary:
Every night the boy dreams he is someone else. Someone in danger. A crazy woman is after him. A woman who cannot have a son of her own. A story about a kidnapped boy, who finds out that the people he thought were his parents are his kidnappers. The film is about his escape and search for his home.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Incident at Deception Ridge (1994)
Plot Summary:
When a double-crossing husband runs off with his wife's ransom money, her kidnappers come after him and the missing money. He leads them on a treacherous journey through the wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger
Similar in 77%
Fever (1991)
Plot Summary:
Fresh out of prison, all Ray wants is to get back with Lacy, but she's in a stable relationship now with Elliott, a pacifist, and wants nothing to do with him. When she's kidnapped by Ray's former associates, he and Elliott must team up to save the woman they love.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Similar in 75%
Live Once, Die Twice (2006)
Plot Summary:
Nicole Lauker unexpectedly loses her husband to a boating explosion accident that claims the lives of two people. An FBI investigation sparks speculation that it may not have been an accident after all.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 78%
The Nightman (1992)
Plot Summary:
A drifter comes between an aging Southern beauty and her teenaged daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic
Similar in 82%
Frequent Flyer (1996)
Plot Summary:
Drama about airline pilot who is married to two separate women in separate towns and who eventually takes on a third wife. Much to his dismay, the separate worlds he lives in begin to collide, and the truth of his womanizing and bigamy begin to come to light.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 87%
Deadly Embrace (1989)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful but horny and neglected Beverly Hills wife hires a hot young stud as a gardener. It eventually gets through to her husband that some hanky-panky may possibly be going on, and he begins to spy on her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, surprise ending, crying, independent film, gay cinema
Similar in 89%
Mirror Images (1992)
Plot Summary:
A pair of beautiful twins gets involved in a murder case with a psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, queer horror, independent film, sexploitation film
Similar in 82%
Vengeance (1980)
Plot Summary:
Four hoodlums break into a jeweller's house and brutally murder him, his wife and daughter. On the run they kidnap Jenny, a Senator's grand daughter and her boyfriend, but discover that the two will not be taken easily. In the melee that follows, the gang are blown away one by one, until the final vengeful confrontation between Jenny and the remaining gang member.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher
Similar in 82%
Savyasachi (2018)
Plot Summary:
A twin brother of the protagonist is absorbed due to Vanishing Twin Syndrome and controls his left hand. When his life is threatened, the twin brother that never existed protects him like a shield.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 80%
Blind Obsession (2001)
Plot Summary:
Police officer Jack Fletcher is injured in a gun battle resulting in the loss of his sight.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
Similar in 77%
Unrequited (2010)
Plot Summary:
UNREQUITED is a psychological thriller and tells the story of Ben Jacobs, a troubled young man who, on his 18th birthday, has to leave the group home for "troubled teens" where he has been living for the past several months and move back in with his alcoholic mother. Upon his return, Ben soon discovers that his girlfriend, Jessica Morgan, has moved on with her life and is now dating an older college guy. Desperate for love and unable to cope with losing Jessica, Ben's troubled past catches up with him as he kidnaps her in an attempt to regain her affection. Spiraling out of control and on a very dangerous path, Ben must ultimately decide whether to let her go, or hold on to the one person he loves, even if it means destroying them both in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, serious, contemplative, independent film, realistic, bleak
Similar in 84%
Landslide (2005)
Plot Summary:
Manhattan fireman Mark Decker visits, for the first time, his Steven in his ex Emma's new apartment in one of her dad Donald Richardson's development estates, at the foot of Diamand-back Mountain. But Don's ambitious executive Stewart Hancock, who dreams of his own firm, has been cutting too many corners, at the expense of safety, causing a landslide. Mark gets trapped with Steven and the new concierge Harold, who knows everything about an additional danger: rattlesnakes awoken early from hibernation. Now Mark discovers artistic, nerdy Steven only did 'manly' stuff in the city because dad-son time is so rare. While they soldier on, landscape architect Emma discovers the truth and counters Stewart's plan B to literally cover it up.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, disaster movie
Similar in 81%
Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, independent film, dark, suspenseful, teen, gloomy
Similar in 87%
Rapt (2009)
Plot Summary:
A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, bleak, contemplative
Similar in 84%
The Collector (1965)
Plot Summary:
Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girl friend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar, and stalks his victim over several days.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, serious, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, cult classic, tension, suspenseful, psychological
Similar in 81%
Single White Female (1992)
Plot Summary:
Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek out a roommate in order to keep her spacious digs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, erotic, sexy, psychological thriller, intense, twist ending, sensual, serious, realistic