Best movies like Forgetting the Girl
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Plot Summary:
Kevin is obsessed with finding a girl who can help him forget his unpleasant past. However, all his encounters with the opposite sex inevitably go afoul. As the rejections mount, Kevin's futile search for happiness and love becomes overwhelmingly turbulent, forcing him to take desperate measures.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological horror, psychological
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America (2011)
Plot Summary:
América, a 30-year-old mother who lives in a remote Caribbean village, suffers the hardest hit when her lover takes her daughter from her. Fury and fear push her to run away. In her new life as a nanny in New York City, with support from relatives and other latinas, América finds comfort and hope. When she dares to dream of a life without violence, reality hunts her down. Will she survive to tell her story?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ice Scream (2016)
Plot Summary:
A shy young man attempts to buy ice cream for his girlfriend when faced by two of the town's worst bullies. This is the beginning of a day he will never forget.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: cult film
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Rage (2009)
Plot Summary:
A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident on the runway becomes a murder investigation, and denial leads to devastation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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DogMan (2023)
Plot Summary:
A boy, bruised by life, finds his salvation through the love of his dogs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Lustre (2005)
Plot Summary:
"Lustre" chronicles a change in heart, a spiritual awakening through the rise of an unlikely holy man. Filmed on the streets of New York in the year after the Twin Towers fell, "Lustre" tells a story of renewal in uncertain times.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cat Person (2023)
Plot Summary:
When Margot, a college sophomore, goes on a date with the older Robert, she finds that IRL Robert doesn’t live up to the Robert she has been flirting with over texts.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Redlight Greenlight (2010)
Plot Summary:
After 10 years of toil, a moral, determined and penniless agent trainee is given his only and last opportunity to make agent. Standing in his way; a 24 hour time frame, Hollywood's most amoral, hyper ambitious and successful agent deciding his fate, and his conscience.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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American Bomber (2013)
Plot Summary:
Recently released from military prison with a dishonorable discharge and a broken heart, John Hidell decides to travel to New York City. However his preparations are complicated by an unexpected relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Double Edge (1992)
Plot Summary:
Upon arriving Israel on her first foreign assignment, American photojournalist Faye Milano is greeted by David, an Israeli officer and writer who's also the nephew of Jerusalem's mayor.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Scum of the Earth (1963)
Plot Summary:
A naive and innocent teenage girl is blackmailed into modeling in the nude for a photographer who is in league with a teenage gang whose boss illegally sells photos of teenage girls being abused and degraded.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, stylized, psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016)
Plot Summary:
A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the new prime minister of Israel.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, political, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, sad, political thriller, independent film, interesting
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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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Clock (2023)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of her 38th birthday, a woman desperately attempts to fix her broken biological clock.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological horror, psychological thriller
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Off the Rails (2017)
Plot Summary:
A married woman loses her memory after a train accident. As her memory starts to return, she thinks she might have had an affair with a missing man.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Foreigner (1978)
Plot Summary:
A French special op suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission and the requisite connections.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, existential
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Without Warning: Terror in the Towers (1993)
Plot Summary:
Based on the earlier bombing attack on the Twin Towers in New York.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Money (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young man whose father's fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this odyssey through the world's major financial centers.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, Italy, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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After Image (2001)
Plot Summary:
The story of a clairvoyant who falls in love with a crime photographer. Soon, both become involved in the search for a pathological murderer.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, independent film, bleak, realistic, gloomy
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Sorry, Haters (2005)
Plot Summary:
Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, realistic, suspense, erotic, multicultural, talky, surprise ending
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Finder's Fee (2001)
Plot Summary:
After finding a wallet in the street tepper calls the owner in order to return it. After making the call he discovers that the lottery ticket inside is a $6 million winner. To add to things his friends are on their way over for their weekly poker night & the groups tradition is to bet their lottery ticket.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, neo noir, independent film
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One Eyed King (2001)
Plot Summary:
Residents of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen attempt to balance family and friendship against the harsh street life that unfolds around them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
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Off Jackson Avenue (2008)
Plot Summary:
Off Jackson Avenue is an interwoven crime story set in New York City involving a Mexican woman who has been tricked into sex-slavery by an Albanian pimp and must find a way to break out; A Japanese hit man who is in town to do a job for the Chinese mob and must finish his assignment despite the fact that he is haunted by his recently-dead mother's ghost; And a local car-thief who must go on one last stealing spree to raise enough money to buy a tire store and go legit. A smack-bang tale of ambition, survival and fate, Off Jackson Avenue reminds us that there are still some parts of New York City that you won't find on any map.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Camera Obscura (2017)
Plot Summary:
A photojournalist suffering from PTSD returns home from Iraq and finds himself struggling to keep his sanity and family intact.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, mumblecore, psychological horror
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Green (2011)
Plot Summary:
A New Yorker moves to the country with her boyfriend, where her new friendship causes a problem as her partner also takes an interest in the woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: tense, mumblecore, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, psychological thriller, serious, realistic, independent film, intellectual
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Negative (2017)
Plot Summary:
Negative is set in the American southwest and follows Natalie, a former British spy who flees Los Angeles for Phoenix after a deal with a cartel goes wrong. She's joined by Hollis, a street photographer who has put his life at risk by taking Natalie's photo at the wrong time and in the wrong place.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, tense
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Glass Chin (2014)
Plot Summary:
After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a deal with a crooked restaurateur. But quick schemes rarely bring easy pay-offs and as the consequences of his business negotiations unfold, Bud has to make a choice between his integrity and his aspirations.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense
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The 9/11 Commission Report (2006)
Plot Summary:
Independent writer-director Leigh Slawner helms this chilling dramatization of the findings laid out in the best-selling 9/11 Commission Report, a document that sought to analyze the circumstances surrounding coordinated terrorist attacks against American civilians on Sept 11 2001.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, mockbuster, independent film
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The Confession (1999)
Plot Summary:
After his young son dies from the negligience of medical professionals at a hospital, Harry Fertig (Kinglsey) takes matters into his own hands and kills the negligent doctors responsible. Slick lawyer Roy Bleakie (Baldwin), looking only to win a case and not caring of the matters involved, is assigned Fertig's case. Shocked to hear that his client wants to plead guilty, the case causes Bleakie to question his own morals by defending an honorable man.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, suspense, inspirational, independent film
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Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Plot Summary:
48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, atmospheric, serious, dark comedy, surreal, meditative, disturbing, stylized, suspenseful
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#SquadGoals (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ambitious high school senior Samantha Hodges is a serious journalist, both for the school paper and for the yearbook, but she's just as serious about her friends, Nate, Gillian, and Rudy, all of whom are vying with her for a full-ride local scholarship to college. Very close to her mother, Emily, who is the school's guidance counselor, Samantha finds her reporting taking an investigative turn when two of her classmates--and contenders for the scholarship--are murdered.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, tense, suspense