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Plot Summary:
On a foggy day, Julia‘s six-year-old son Jens is called missing. Despite a thorough search, the boy is never found. Twenty years later, Julia’s father receives one of the shoes Jens was wearing the day he disappeared. Who sent it? Why? Is the boy still alive? This inexplicable act suddenly awakens a hope in Julia that she might see her son again… or that she could find his body and murderer. As she returns to her father’s island, she hears stories of the mythical Nils Kant – a murderer who once was the terror of the island. He is dead and buried for years, long before Julia’s son disappeared. But Julia’s father uncovers that his death and burial were only a fake. While on his tracks, Julia accepts the help and love of Lennart, a local police inspector. His dark and mysterious past brings him a lot closer to Jens’s disappearance that she might think….
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating
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Rage (1972)
Plot Summary:
An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son. When he tries to hold the military accountable for their actions, he runs up against a wall of silence.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: political, independent film, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, experimental
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End of the Game (1975)
Plot Summary:
Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard Gastmann. Though Baerlach's partner meets his demise while investigating Gastmann, his replacement, Walter Tschanz, is undaunted. Meanwhile, the lovely Anna Crawley becomes involved in the case, which proceeds to take many twists and turns.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Crime, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy
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Riddle (2013)
Plot Summary:
Holly & Nathan Teller live in a small town in Pennsylvania. Holly is on the cheerleading team and has a close relationship with her younger brother Nathan, who is subjected to bullying at school. Nathan is taken for a car ride one day by the bullies, whose intent about what they are going to do with Nathan is not clear. He gives them the slip, but disappears and is still missing after three years.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mind bending, serious, disturbing, atmospheric, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Murder at the Savoy (1993)
Plot Summary:
A famous industrialist is murdered at a restaurant in Malmoe. Police inspector Martin Beck in Stockholm gets the case. The suspects lead to people involved in illegal arms deals. But who was the biggest criminal, the murderer or the industrialist?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Children... (2011)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on a true yet unsolved murder case from the early 1990s that is known among Koreans as the "disappearance of the frog children." In 1991, five elementary school students told their parents that they were going to hang out on a nearby mountain to catch frogs, and then they go missing.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, emotional, serious, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, depressing, dark, action thriller, twisted
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Non-Stop (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious emotional thriller about a woman who, after being left at the altar, has a brief liaison with a handsome stranger on a plane which ultimately puts her – and everyone else on the flight – in terrible danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense, offbeat, emotional, realistic
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The Nightmare Nanny (2013)
Plot Summary:
Stay-home mom Annie is reluctant to return to work, until she finds Amber, the perfect nanny for her 3-year-old daughter Jenny. But as Annie's young daughter grows closer and closer to Amber, Annie begins to feel like she's being pushed out of her own life. When Jenny suddenly vanishes one day,Annie's search for her missing daughter leads her to the terrifying truth about the dark past of the woman she trusted with her child.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, enigmatic, captivating, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Stunts (1977)
Plot Summary:
After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating, independent film, realistic, mind bending
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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Plot Summary:
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, serious, scary, realistic, psychotronic
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A Sister's Secret (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Katherine (Alexandra Paul) finds out her father's company is about to close the paper mill they own in her hometown in rural Pennsylvania, she comes up with a plan to save it. Needing the approval of the city council, she goes back and runs into someone from her past: Jane (Cynthia Preston). Years ago, in high school, Katherine dated Jane's twin brother Sean, who subsequently committed suicid.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, exciting, suspense, disturbing
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Fatal Trust (2006)
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After the father of her kid son Sam was killed by an escaped psychiatric patient, Kate decides it's time for a new chapter in her life. She moves to the town where her former lover Tom lives and now works in the sheriff's department, and slowly gets intimate again with the sensitive, caring gentleman. Professionally she becomes the secretary of Dr. Mark Lucas, the respected local physician. In time she starts to take an old man's warnings against the doctor seriously, starts to believe that he may systematically have a hand in a suspicious number of old patients dying shortly after contact with him and tries to prove her theory.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Lady Vanishes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful and wealthy young socialite Iris Carr is used to being at the heart of her social group, but when her friends' raucous and unsociable behaviour escalates whilst on holiday in the Balkans she resolves to seek out some tranquillity and travel home alone. But her expectations of peace are short-lived when, at the railway station, Iris wavers in the scorching heat and constant jostle of passengers, fainting suddenly on the platform. She wakes in time to be rushed onto the train, but with a pounding head and a feeling of being almost in a dream. Whilst in this malaise she is comforted by an older English lady called Miss Froy, but when Iris falls asleep she awakes to find Miss Froy has gone and her fellow passengers denying she ever existed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspense, absurd, period piece, mind bending, realistic
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Murder on Pleasant Drive (2006)
Plot Summary:
After Fran Smith disappears one day in mysterious circumstances, Fran's daughter Deanna and Fran's sister, Sherrie endlessly search for her with enduring hope. The most likely suspect in Fran's disappearance is her husband John, but without a body, neither Deanna or Sherrie can prove that murder, much less a crime, has even been committed. With the support of Sherrie, Deanna embarks on an eleven-year search to trace John's past, eventually uncovering a 25 year-old case of a missing person that involved John's first wife, who too, disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Using this lead, Deanna and Sherrie must use all their evidence to bring John to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Assumed Killer (2013)
Plot Summary:
Bernard Salzmann's thriller Assumed Killer tells the tale of a reporter investigating a serial killer. After she suffers an accident and becomes an amnesiac, she begins to suspect her husband may be the person responsible for the brutal slayings.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
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Secrets From Her Past (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, Kate Collins (Ashley Jones) was a different person. Literally. She was living in Chicago, working as a bartender, and going by her real name ‘Stephanie Wickers.’ That all changed when she witnessed the murder of her boss by a ruthless member of an up and coming crime syndicate named Alek Ravik (Al Sapienza). Knowing that Klebanov saw her, she faked her death, changed her name, and went into hiding in Philadelphia. When a crooked cop retires and young, eager Detective Miesen (Alain Chanoine) is chosen to head a new task force to tackle crime syndicates in Chicago, the unsolved murder case is reopened. Miesen believes that Kate/Stephanie is still alive and begins to look for her. Unfortunately, so does Alek.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic
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I'll Be Seeing You (2004)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds out she has a half sister when he father disappears and her half sister turns up dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, mind bending, realistic
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We'll Meet Again (2002)
Plot Summary:
Socialite Molly Lasch is released from prison after serving a six-year sentence for the murder of her husband, Dr. Gary Lasch. Now, with the help of Fran, an investigative reporter, Molly sets out to prove her innocence. Together they uncover a conspiracy of silence at the Lasch Medical Center and a shocking secret that could cost both women their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, realistic
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Cyberstalker (2012)
Plot Summary:
After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Circle of Friends (2006)
Plot Summary:
Maggie returns to her hometown to dedicate a scholarship in her late husband's name. While there, she reconnects with old friends and comes to believe that her husband's death is tied to the mysterious deaths of several old classmates.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Fields (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of a young boy and his family who are terrorized by an unseen presence.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, suspense, twisted, serious, realistic
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Nobel's Last Will (2012)
Plot Summary:
While covering the annual Nobel Banquet for tabloid Kvällspressen, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses a spectacular murder right in front of her. Two people are shot, one of them the controversial Laureate in Medicine, Aaron Wiesel. Annika is the key witness and is bound by the police not to disclose anything she has seen. A terrorist group with connections to the Middle East quickly admits responsibility for the murder. International press is all over the story, as are the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir
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Abandoned (2010)
Plot Summary:
Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, action thriller, realistic, independent film
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I Dream of Murder (2006)
Plot Summary:
Johanna is a therapist on the verge of a midlife crisis. When one of her patients is found brutally murdered, she takes it upon herself to solve the mystery. But why is this stressed-out shrink willing to risk her marriage, her career and her entire life to solve the crime? As the case unravels, so do the dark inner demons that Johanna has been trying to hide for the past 20 years!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, sexy, tense, exciting, captivating, serious, suspenseful, intense, realistic
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Megachurch Murder (2015)
Plot Summary:
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a church conspiracy and threats toward her father, she is determined to prove that Hamilton's death was murder not suicide. As she gets closer to the truth, she realizes her own mother may be involved in her father's murder...and that the boy she is falling in love with is the son of his killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Lucky Day (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nora Barkin is an aspiring actress who supports herself by working for a courier service. No sooner has Nora's friend and coworker Bill Reagan jubilantly announced that he possesses a lottery ticket worth 13 million dollars than Bill is killed by an unknown assailant. Though discouraged from doing so by investigating detective Marinello, Nora insists upon trying to solve Bill's murder herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending
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A Crime of Passion (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young heiress has her life turned upside down after her business partner's wife is killed and foul play is suspected.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, realistic
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Flightplan (2005)
Plot Summary:
A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 170000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, exciting, intense, psychological thriller, clever, tense
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Come Morning (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in rural Arkansas in 1973, Come Morning is the tragic story of Frank and his 10-year-old grandson and the hunting accident that forever changes their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, rough