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Plot Summary:
A soldier who deserted because of spiritual beliefs was tried and evaluated by four psychiatrists, and they all concluded that he was unable to distinguish right from wrong, so he was sentenced to a mental hospital. One day, he escapes and kidnaps them and leaves them all in the middle of the desert.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Open Season (1974)
Plot Summary:
Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. However the father of one of their earlier victims is plotting a vicious revenge against them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, poliziottesco
Similar in 82%
Blue Desert (1990)
Plot Summary:
After surviving rape, comic-book artist Lisa Roberts is moving from New York City to small town in Arizona. But there's danger in small towns too.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
Similar in 84%
The Aviary (2022)
Plot Summary:
A twisted journey of two women’s desperate flee to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by the promise of “freedom” in the isolated desert campus called The Aviary, Jillian and Blair join forces to escape in hopes of real freedom. Consumed by fear and paranoia, they can’t shake the feeling that they are being followed by the cult’s leader, Seth, a man as seductive as he is controlling. The more distance the pair gains from the cult, the more Seth holds control of their minds. With supplies dwindling and their senses failing, Jillian and Blair are faced with a horrifying question: how do you run from an enemy who lives inside your head?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller
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Murder at the Mansion (2018)
Plot Summary:
As her wedding day approaches the would be bride uncovers some secrets at the family home of her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: emotional, psychotronic
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Courage (1984)
Plot Summary:
Marathon runners are taken captive in desert by right-wing militia.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Name of the Game Is Kill (1968)
Plot Summary:
A desert family offers a traveling stranger its hospitality, but the stranger doesn't realize exactly what they have in store for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, psychological, psychological thriller, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film
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The Ghost Dance (1982)
Plot Summary:
The spirit of a long-dead warrior possesses the body of an Indian medicine man and turns him into a homicidal maniac.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, cult film
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The Killer Next Door (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ronnie Schwann is a 20-something with a comfortable life in a guesthouse behind his mother's home. The two share cigarettes, drugs and too much TV. During the day he works at a halfway home for the mentally ill where he develops an attraction for one of the patients, Sarah. When Sarah wanders through the neighborhood one day, lost and scared, Ronnie Ronnie brings her into his bedroom and plans to seduce her. Things go horribly wrong and Ronnie finds himself forced to cover up his plan. This edgy indie thriller explores Ronnie's 24-hour experience of life, love, death and the strong probability of a very long prison term.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Primal Instinct (2002)
Plot Summary:
Footage of a brutal murder becomes a feature on the internet.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Pass (1998)
Plot Summary:
A businessman with a compulsive gambling problem which has led to his wife leaving him, travels to Reno, Nevada for some gambling therapy which takes a turn when he picks up a psychotic serial killer posing as a hitchhiker.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful
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Evil Obsession (1996)
Plot Summary:
As models show up on calendars and magazine covers, someone is making bodies show up at the morgue. Is it the obsessed fan?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, weird
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Dimension in Fear (1998)
Plot Summary:
Escaped murderer Cal Lewis wants revenge for those responsible for him being put away. Enroute from Texas to Las Vegas he crosses paths with young TV news reporter Deidre Holland who quickly becomes his target.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Reckless (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ex-cons Victor and Rico have masterminded a foolproof plan to abduct millonaires’ daughter Laura Temming. When she is kidnapped and placed in a remote and soundproofed room, gradually the power relations shift. Exactly who is the perpetrator and who is the real victim?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Night Vision (2011)
Plot Summary:
A womanizing reality-TV producer (Spencer) unwittingly sleeps with a mysterious woman (Alison), who turns out to be his own stalker. Alison then kidnaps Spencer and holds him hostage while she humiliates and abuses him, recording every moment on camera for her own twisted reality-TV show.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969)
Plot Summary:
A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, mad
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Sharon's Secret (1995)
Plot Summary:
A 16 year old girl is accused of killing her parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Rainbow Drive (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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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:
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Wander (2020)
Plot Summary:
After getting hired to probe a suspicious death in the small town of Wander, a mentally unstable private investigator becomes convinced the case is linked to the same 'conspiracy cover up' that caused the death of his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, surprise ending, atmospheric, clever, intellectual, enigmatic, serious, captivating
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Distant Cousins (1993)
Plot Summary:
Kate's husband Richard hasn't seen his cousin Harry for 20 years. So when he comes to stay with his fiancee Connie they are welcomed. But Kate senses her family is at risk when they start behaving suspiciously.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Blackway (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman newly returned to her hometown becomes the subject of harassment by a man named Blackway, an ex-cop turned violent crime lord who operates with impunity in this small community on the edge of the wilderness. Forsaken by the local townspeople, and advised by the Sheriff to leave town, Lillian decides instead to take a stand against her sociopathic stalker, and enlists the help of ex-logger Lester and his laconic young sidekick Nate.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, rough, tense, sincere, independent film
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Dig (2022)
Plot Summary:
A widower and his deaf daughter are held hostage and forced to dig under their house, revealing dark secrets from the past.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Secrets at the Lake (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of teens make a pact that has deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, teen horror
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Killer Night Shift (2018)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant woman forced to bedrest, gets the additional help she needs from two home care nurses. Unbeknownst to her, one of them has a vendetta against her husband and is out to steal their baby!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense
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A Mother's Worst Fear (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alice is starting a new chapter in life by moving on from her highly stressful job as a hostage negotiator and putting more focus on her family. Suddenly, her world is turned upside down when her daughter is abducted with no demand for ransom. As Alice uses her expertise with abduction cases to do everything to find her daughter, she discovers the kidnapper has a personal vendetta against her husband Brent with malicious consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
Similar in 78%
Cat in the Cage (1978)
Plot Summary:
A young man returns to his rich family's estate after a stay in a mental hospital. He finds that his father has married his deceased wife's nurse, who is secretly plotting with her lover.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 86%
Bitter Vengeance (1994)
Plot Summary:
Annie marries Jack Westford, a cop when they met. Six years later Jack is now working as a security guard in a bank and feels that he was unfairly fired from the force. He also appears to be no longer interested in Annie and has an affair with another bank employee. Among his duties is delivering old money for disposal. He comes up with a plan to steal the money and run away. Part of his plan is to fake his death and frame Annie. While the police suspect that she killed Jack and knows where the money is, there's also an insurance investigator on her back.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Benefit of the Doubt (1993)
Plot Summary:
Twenty two years earlier, Karen helped convict her father, Frank, for the murder of her mother. With his new freedom, thanks to parole, Frank returns home to seek revenge. Having always pleaded his innocence, Frank soon works his way back into Karen's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Missionary Man (2007)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious stranger rolls into town on a unique motorcycle. All he carries is the bible and a desire for justice. Past vengeance collides as Ryder rights an injustice from his past and liberates the small town from a malicious oppressor.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
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Fatal Justice (2012)
Plot Summary:
Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the perpetrators is released, Karen decides to go on a murderous trail of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful