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Plot Summary:
After suffering years of mental abuse from her husband, Jules thinks she's finally free when a physical struggle ends in a fire that takes his life. However, she's soon pushed to the edge as she starts to believe she's seeing him at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Dream House Nightmare (2017)
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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Circle of Violence - A Family Drama (1986)
Plot Summary:
Georgia Benfield's, at her wit's end, loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia had been abused herself as a child. As family and friends slowly begin to learn of the abuse, and long buried family secrets come to light, both mother and daughter must learn to accept the past, to change what is happening at present, in order to face a better future.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Trial by Fire (1995)
Plot Summary:
Paulette Gil is a very engaged teacher. When she realizes that her pupil Kip has problems she takes special care for him. But Kip interprets it in the wrong way and tells his mates that he had an affair with Paulette. Then he commits suicide and the rumours draw Paulette into court. - Written by Volker Boehm.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Deceptions II: Edge of Deception (1994)
Plot Summary:
Since the death of his colleague, which was partly his fault, Lieutenant Nick Gentry lives a lonesome life. Reporter Joan wants to write a story about him, and seems to be interested in other ways too, but he rejects. Instead he falls in love with his new neighbor Irene and witnesses how she's repeatedly beaten up by her husband Allan. One day, when Allan threatens her with a gun, he shoots him. Certainly self-defense -- until it turns out, that Alan's gun was made inoperable.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Requiem for a Maiden (1992)
Plot Summary:
A fourteen-year-old girl isplaced in an institution for mentally ill instead of a foster-home due to an official mistake. Here she gets a most cruel treatment which is governed by high-handedness of the spineless and perverse nurses. The girl attempts a desperate escape.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Beyond Obsession (1994)
Plot Summary:
The story of Traci Di Carlo who was accused of plotting the murder of her obsessively domineering mother. Traci's boyfriend was arrested for the killing.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Stark Fear (1962)
Plot Summary:
A marriage falls apart after a dutiful wife becomes the breadwinner after her husband loses his job. This angers him and after reveling in her humiliation, he leaves her. Fortunately, the wife lands on her feet, but not before she obtains closure with her brutish husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, dark, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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When No One Would Listen (1992)
Plot Summary:
Jessica has been married to her controlling husband Gary for years. She began dating him at the age of fifteen and has two kids, Maggie and Pete. After some career trouble Gary moves the family out to a New York suburb. Anyway, at first Gary seems like a sweet and loving husband, but after getting mad at some hippie neighbors he begins slapping Jessica and having fits of rage. The abuse only gets worse when she gets a job at a bakery and makes two really caring friends: her co-worker and neighbor Lee, and her boss Walter. Walter becomes more than just her boss; he notices bruises on Jessica's neck and advises her to leave Gary, but she can't; she's too afraid. Soon she starts dating Walter, and when Gary punches Pete repeatedly she realizes she has to be the voice for her two kids; she takes them to stay with Walter. Things only get worse as Gary makes a decision that could send her life crashing down.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sad
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Beyond Betrayal (1994)
Plot Summary:
Joanne is married to Bradley, who's a cop and who abuses her. One day she decides to run away. She then meets Sam, who is separated from his wife, who is obsessed with him. Bradley finds Joanne and the lead takes him to Sam's boat. Now his wife is on the boat and somehow she's killed. The police suspect Sam because she was stalking him and because of certain peculiarities in his actions on the day she died. Joanne knows that it's Bradley who did it but is too afraid to come forward and Bradley has another cop alibi him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Escaping Dad (2017)
Plot Summary:
A woman goes on the run with her children to escape an abusive husband, who is the District Attorney. He puts out an Amber Alert for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Subwave (1995)
Plot Summary:
College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat's last party and is missing since, had sex with five of them. Roger does his utmost to prevent the potential statutory rape case ruining his son's future, but confides in his moralistic wife, refuge house worker Karen, who instead of supporting the boys haunts them like Rosalie's mother Inez, with multiple tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Sleeping with the Devil (1997)
Plot Summary:
Professional nurse Rebecca Dubrovich is swept off her feet by charming millionaire Dick Strang, and the two begin a passionate romance. Only when it is too late does Rebecca discover that Strang has a very dark side.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, suspenseful, sincere
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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:
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Dangerous Intentions (1995)
Plot Summary:
A man stalks his wife and child when they leave for an abused women's shelter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story (1999)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based story about a Bible-quoting woman who in 1990 murdered a camp counselor, whom she learned molested her 7 year old son.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Shattered Mind (1996)
Plot Summary:
Heather Locklear stars in this psychological thriller as a woman who is racked by multiple personalities and confronts a horrifying past of dark secrets buried a long time ago. When her father dies she descends into a bizarre emotional world where she lashes out at her husband and two young daughters.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Days of Wrath (2013)
Plot Summary:
Back in his high school days, Joon-Seok (Joo Sang-Wook) was bullied by Chang-Sik (Yang Dong-Geun). Because of this, Joon-Seok's high school days were like a nightmare. Now, Joon-Seok finds it difficult to live a normal life due to the bullying. Meanwhile, Chang-Sik, who has forgotten what he did to Jeon-Seok, lives a relatively happy life. He is about to marry Ji-Hee (Lee Tae-Im). Joon-Seok will pay him back for all the misery.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Forsaken (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a rural town where football is war and the quarterback is king, comes a tense re-imagining of MACBETH with a bloody twist to prove that Lady and King Macbeth didn't kill for power - They killed for love.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Murder at My Door (1996)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet neighborhood, a suburban family is shocked when their son is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a neighbor's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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Illicit Dreams (1994)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman sharing a psychic link meet and fall in love, but the woman's influential and powerful husband stands in their way.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, surprise ending, independent film, erotic, sexploitation film
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Black and Blue (1999)
Plot Summary:
After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Trois 3: The Escort (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a hip-hop promoter is bailed out of a hefty debt by a club owner, he becomes one of her call boys and nearly loses his life in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, stylized, erotic, sexual, surprise ending, twist ending
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Motives 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Vivica A. Fox and Shemar Moore return for this thrilling sequel to Motives that picks up three years after the events of the original film. Innocent convict Emery Simms is serving time for a crime he didn't commit; while most convict's claims of innocence are shoddy at best, Emery has every reason to protest his wrongful incarceration. Meanwhile, in the outside world, Emery's ex-wife (Fox) has married his best friend and the pair is struggling to build a normal life together. When Emery is killed in prison and his brother Donovan (Brian J. White) discovers the truth about what killed his ill-fated sibling, his quest to cut through the complex web of lies and deceit which previously ensnared Emery threatens to bring about deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Loved (1997)
Plot Summary:
After a husband is accused of droving his third wife to suicide, his first wife Hedda, a troubled woman who can't hate or hurt others even if they had wronged her, is subpoenaed to testify on his abusive behavior during their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
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Trapped (2001)
Plot Summary:
Hotel guests become trapped by a raging fire.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Enough (2002)
Plot Summary:
Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden possessive dark side, a controlling and abusive alter ego that can turn trust, love and tranquility into terror. Terrified for her child's safety, Slim flees with her daughter. Relentless in his pursuit and enlisting the aid of lethal henchmen, Mitch continually stalks the prey that was once his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, serious, intense, scary, tense, psychological thriller, motivational, neo noir, crime drama
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Not Without My Daughter (1991)
Plot Summary:
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: factual, tense, thought provoking, touching, bleak, realistic, sad, retro, suspense, poignant
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Missing (2023)
Plot Summary:
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological thriller
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Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, psychological thriller, erotic, sexy, captivating, psychosexual thriller