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Plot Summary:
A young man called Andrew is forced to endure a bitter encounter with a man known as the Cameraman, who enjoys filming beatings, murders and rapes in an abandoned underpass.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, controversial
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The Lesson (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two schoolboy delinquents learn a lesson that they will never forget when a teacher at the end of his tether decides to abduct them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, independent film
Similar in 82%
Golden Earrings (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ronnie and Sara are best friends and roommates. And for Ronnie, Sara is her whole world. She does everything with her and their small group of friends. But one day, Sara suddenly disappears and Ronnie is left with a hole in her life that she cannot deal with. And her apparent guilt over something she's done causes everything in her life to collapse. Despite her friends attempts to calm her, Ronnie sinks deeper and deeper into her loneliness. Until one day, Ronnie suddenly starts 'seeing' Sara. Or does she? No one else can see her except for Ronnie. Is it Sara's ghost? Ronnie's imagination? And why does Ronnie feel so guilty about Sara's disappearance? Sometimes, your friends aren't who you think they are.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, independent film
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Death Waltz (2010)
Plot Summary:
From a policewoman broken leg seems completely slip out of the soil. Life-threatening love triangle mixed with her husband and their criminal friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, dread
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Left for Dead: The Ashley Reeves Story (2021)
Plot Summary:
17-year-old Ashley Reeves is left for dead in the woods following a brutal attack. After spending 30 horrific hours in the cold, gravely wounded, lying in the dirt, and paralyzed, the police find her alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Broken (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young female escapes her past and absconds to England in search of a new life. She takes a job caring for a tetraplegic, but burden of the job stirs up her past. It seems the limits of caring are not always as clear as they should be.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Seeing Heaven (2010)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young escort, Paul, suffers from trip-like dreams he doesn't understand. These visions are shared by his clients, both scaring and exciting them. Paul is searching for his twin brother, whom he hasn't seen since childhood, and hooks up with enigmatic film director John Baxter. Desired by everyone but lost to himself, Paul is persuaded to make one adult film, which will help him discover himself, and in the process find his twin. But the journey he goes on is a dark one, involving dangerous clients, an unscrupulous rival producer, and unsafe sex. In discovering his true past, Paul is in danger of destroying himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Transgression (2011)
Plot Summary:
Matthew and Elena are about to face the worst night of their lives when four burglars trespass into their home looking for easy money. But things don't go as planned. Tension and fear take over them all, victims and executioners, and mistrust, betrayals and unexpected lies will come to light at the worst possible time.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Late Bloomer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Late Bloomer is the story of Sumida-san, a severely handicapped man, and his downward spiral into hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, black and white
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Nuclear (2019)
Plot Summary:
In a small village under the shadow of a nuclear power station, a toxic family with a past must face the ghosts that threaten their future.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Locked In (2010)
Plot Summary:
Josh leaves his advertising career at its peak, everyone wants either to be him or to have him. A car accident will leave his daughter in a strange coma and when everyone has given up she starts communicating with him, or is he going mad?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, touching, suspense
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The Forgiven (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, inspirational, extraordinary
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Joe (1970)
Plot Summary:
Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he runs into a drunken factory worker named Joe, who hates hippies, blacks, and anyone who is "different", and would like to kill one himself. The two start talking, and Bill reveals his secret to Joe. Complications ensue.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult classic, realistic, disturbing, psychedelic, controversial, psychological, thought provoking, bleak, serious
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Lincz (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story unfolds about the murder of an old man living in a remote village and six locals who may have been connected with the murder. Things get messy when the dead man turns out to be an ex convict. The accused ones find it very hard to deal with the preconceived attitude. The villagers, led by the families of the accused, have to fight for their innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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The Silent Forest (2020)
Plot Summary:
Hearing-impaired teenager Chang Cheng transfers to a school for children with special needs. However, the world of the hearing-impaired doesn’t seem quiet at all. When Chang witnesses the game taking place in the last row on the school bus, his excitement about blending into a new environment immediately turns into fear.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Beyond The Mountain (2018)
Plot Summary:
Miguel is a lonely boy letting his life pass by in a monotonous routine. He works in a public kiosk, takes care of his mother Consuelo and dreams with Carmela's love, one of his usual clients. One day, this perfect bubble of dissatisfaction pops when his mother dies. The tragic event, forces him to face his past and to make a radical decision: find the father that abandoned them, with the intention to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Exhibit A (2007)
Plot Summary:
Exhibit A tells the timely story of a normal family disintegrating under financial pressure, eventually driven to the unimaginable. All is not as it seems as the King family go about their day-to-day lives oblivious of the horror to come. Dad Andy (Bradley Cole) is nursing a secret that ultimately leads to terrible consequences for them all. We witness these chilling events unfold through daughter Judith's video camera, which subsequently becomes Exhibit A.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, captivating, depressing, disturbing, controversial
Similar in 77%
PVC-1 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Shot in real time, PVC-1 is based on the true story of a woman who is turned into a human time bomb in a bizarre act of terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, realistic, tense, bleak, serious, tragic ending
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Felicia's Journey (1999)
Plot Summary:
A solitary middle-aged bachelor and a naive Irish teenager transform one another's lives to arrive at a place of recognition, redemption and wisdom in Atom Egoyan's adaptation of William Trevor's celebrated 1994 novel. Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks a serial killer. Hilditch has murdered several young women, but he has no conscious awareness of the crimes; like Felicia, he doesn't see his true self. Felicia's Journey is a story of innocence lost and regained: Felicia awakens to the world's dangers and duplicities; and Hilditch, who grew up lonely and unloved, comes to realize what was taken from him, and what he himself has taken.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, erotic, sexy, art house, independent film, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Killervision (2014)
Plot Summary:
While watching B grade movies a brain-injured man is tormented by visions of his friends being murdered by a faceless killer. He becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes it's only a matter of time before the killer comes for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, scary, contemplative, slasher
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Gut (2012)
Plot Summary:
Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around him. Dan has the solution... something Tom's got to see to believe... tonight. What Dan shows him leaves Tom unsettled, flooding his mind with disturbing images, and binding the two friends together with its ugly secret.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, captivating, controversial, scary, realistic
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U Want Me 2 Kill Him? (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on the Vanity Fair article of the same title, a story about a young boy drawn into a web of lies through an online chatroom.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cyber, non-linear, twisted, vintage
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Psycho Brother-In-Law (2017)
Plot Summary:
With her husband working all the time, Kate is thankful when her brother-in-law David reappears to help out. But she soon realizes that he wants to be the new head of the family, and will do anything to make that happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, unusual plot structure, disturbing, contemplative
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Sadistic Yoga (2007)
Plot Summary:
The female instructor Mariko gives yoga classes at a high-class club in Tokyo. She has a crush on Rika whom she gives private lessons to. When she notices bruises on Rika's body, Mariko learns that the young woman is involved in a highly abusive S&M relationship. On order to gain the affections of her student, Mariko decides to take revenge against the men in Rika's life.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Silence of the Sky (2016)
Plot Summary:
After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Chile
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Shotgun Stories (2007)
Plot Summary:
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, depressing, suspense, harsh, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, southern gothic, independent film
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Guard (2019)
Plot Summary:
The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and Stas. They are on the run. They are pursued by former friends and business partners of Stas. Vlad decides to help them, because he too is hiding from the past. Each character is threatened with the inevitable payment for wrong choices in the past, but helping each other, they try to expiate these faults.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspense, disturbing, talky, psychological
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The War Zone (1999)
Plot Summary:
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, depressing, heartbreaking, rough, emotional, controversial, atmospheric, brutal, serious
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Apostle (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, exciting, dark, disturbing, splatter, lovecraft, psychological, psychological thriller
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The Riot Club (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two first-year students at Oxford University join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, satirical, realistic, absurd, tense, serious, inspirational, spiritual, artsy
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Final Cut (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends gather for a wake, and are shown a video shot by Jude (Jude Law) and starring them before he dies. Things go rapidly downhill.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, clever, cynical, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, experimental, tech noir