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Plot Summary:
Everyone thought Danny had gone missing. Towards the end of senior year she vanished, leaving family and friends devastated and confused including her closest friend in the world, Becca. Gaslight picks up years later when Becca and her new husband receive an unexpected visitor during breakfast.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 13 min
Plot tags: anime
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Tiny House of Terror (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the tragic disappearance and presumed death of her tech mogul husband, Samantha Hastings decides to escape from her fancy hi-tech house in Silicon Valley and move to a rustic and cozy tiny house, completely isolated from the prying eyes of the public. As she begins to adapt to her new lifestyle, Samantha's serenity is interrupted when she can't shake the feeling that she is being watched... exactly what her husband felt before his disappearance. Strange and unexplained terrors begin to happen in the tiny house until eventually Samantha's sanctuary becomes her prison with no way out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
Similar in 77%
Snapshot of a Crime (1975)
Plot Summary:
When Luca's girlfriend Mirna (Erna Schurer) inexplicably dumps him, he finds solace in the arms of two fashion models, Stefania and Claudia. When Stefania mysteriously disappears after photographing herself having rough sex with Luca, Mirna begins sending him the negatives -but to what end? Meanwhile, Claudia searches for her missing friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Complete Unknown (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, suspense, mysterious, psychological, mind bending, psychotronic, psychological thriller
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Fancy Dance (2023)
Plot Summary:
Since her sister’s disappearance, Jax has cared for her niece Roki by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga Reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow. At the risk of losing custody to Jax’s grandfather, Frank, the pair hit the road and scour the backcountry to track down Roki’s mother in time for the powwow. What begins as a search gradually turns into a far deeper investigation into the complexities and contradictions of Indigenous women moving through a colonized world and at the mercy of a failed justice system.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Eternal Daughter (2022)
Plot Summary:
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Children of the Mountain (2016)
Plot Summary:
Against the picturesque Ghanaian backdrop, Children of the Mountain is an honest exploration of a mother’s will in the face of much adversity. When her baby is born with a cleft lip, cerebral palsy, and Down syndrome, Essuman is led to believe that she has a ‘dirty womb.’ Her promising future as a wife and mother is shattered as her lover disowns her and the community eyes her with suspicion.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Ghana
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Reconquest (2016)
Plot Summary:
Manuela and Olmo meet in a future as they had promised fifteen years earlier as teenagers, when they lived their first love. Based on this romantic situation, La Reconquista is in fact a film on a quest for time; or about the awareness of time: of time lost and time recovered; about what we remember about ourselves and what we don't remember; about the words, gestures and feelings to which we remain faithful, because they define and compel us today, yesterday and tomorrow.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 943
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem (2021)
Plot Summary:
Over a long weekend, John & Marlena travel to Zurich, Ben & Ciara have a romantic getaway in New Orleans, Chad visits some old friends in Phoenix, and Abe, Paulina, Lani, and Eli vacation in Miami. All find themselves embroiled in a mystery involving stolen jewels which, in the wrong hands, could cause dire consequences for Salem.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Arianna (2015)
Plot Summary:
Arianna is nineteen, but she's still waiting to get her first period. As the summer begins, her parents decide to renew their acquaintance with their country house on Lake Bolsena, where Arianna lived until she was three, and has never been back. As the family settle in for the summer, long-repressed memories start to re-emerge, and Arianna decides to stay on after her parents return to the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Deception (2021)
Plot Summary:
An American writer living in exile in London, Philip listens to women. His English mistress, who visits him regularly in the studio that serves as their refuge. A student he loved in another life. A former lover confined to a hospital in New York.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Midnight Invitation (1981)
Plot Summary:
Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection….
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Double Life (2023)
Plot Summary:
A widow finds out from her late husband's mistress that his death was not an accident. Both women work together to unmask the truth behind the man they both loved.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1999)
Plot Summary:
When her doctor recommends that a widow pursue her unfulfilled life ambitions, he doesn't realize that she has always wanted to be a spy. Sending a letter to her congressman gets her an interview with the CIA and accidentally gets her an assignment to Morocco for a supposed easy task of picking up an encrypted code book. When the agency realizes their mistake, they send a super-agent to watch over her. Both are taken prisoner and the real agent is injured, leaving Mrs. Pollifax to use her considerable wits to help them escape and to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Fatal Woman (1991)
Plot Summary:
A California forest ranger (Colin Firth) seeks his bride (Lisa Zane) and discovers, with his artist friend (Billy Zane), her dark sides.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Wild (2016)
Plot Summary:
An anarchist young woman breaks the tacit contract with civilization and fearlessly decides on a life without hypocrisy or an obligatory safety net.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: existential
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All My Puny Sorrows (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is a world-famous concert pianist.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Autumn Lights (2016)
Plot Summary:
An American photographer adrift in a remote Icelandic community becomes entangled in the lives of a mysterious European couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Iceland, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, touching, independent film
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In the Company of Women (2023)
Plot Summary:
Summer of 1976. Bea is 16 years old and she collaborates with a group of women to make visible the feminist cause and achieve the approval of the right to abortion. The rebellion she feels in the blood will mix with an unexpected feeling that will disrupt her the inner world. Throughout these months, Bea will engage in a very special friendship with Miren, older than her. Her political commitment and her relationship with Miren will turn that summer into a stage that will mark her life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Uncle (2018)
Plot Summary:
The life of Ipse, a 19-year-old girl who cannot get out of her own bed due to psychological trauma, is as motionless as a plant. Having no family and no clue of her family's mysterious history, she lives completely dependent on her neighbors, but starts to feel suffocated under the abuse and the looks she gets as if she was something to be eaten up. One day, in the midst of her hellish everyday life, a stranger comes to her house.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Hyouka: Forbidden Secrets (2017)
Plot Summary:
Energy-conservative high school student Houtarou Oreki ends up with more than he bargained for when he signs up for the Classics Club at his sister's behest—especially when he realizes how deep-rooted the club's history really is. Begrudgingly, Oreki is dragged into an investigation concerning the 45-year-old mystery that surrounds the club room. Accompanied by his fellow club members, the knowledgeable Satoshi Fukube, the stern but benign Mayaka Ibara, and the ever-curious Eru Chitanda, Oreki must combat deadlines and lack of information with resourcefulness and hidden talent, in order to not only find the truth buried beneath the dust of works created years before them, but of other small side cases as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, anime
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We Don't Belong Here (2017)
Plot Summary:
A matriarch of a dysfunctional family is pushed to her tipping point by the disappearance of her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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November Criminals (2017)
Plot Summary:
Addison Schacht investigates the murder of his friend Kevin, with the help of Phoebe, and they discover the truth is darker than they ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, cynical, sincere, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)
Plot Summary:
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Midnight Swim (2014)
Plot Summary:
Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home. They find themselves unable to let go and become drawn into the mysteries of the lake.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse
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Agnes of God (1985)
Plot Summary:
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, intense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, talky, slasher, clever, contemplative
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The Happiest Place on Earth (2015)
Plot Summary:
A daycare teacher's dreams of a home and family of her own are threatened by the loss of her husband's newspaper job and his subsequent disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: neo noir, neorealism, touching, sincere, captivating, independent film, contemplative, cinema verite
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Winter's Bone (2010)
Plot Summary:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: depressing, atmospheric, harsh, bleak, disturbing, tense, gloomy, serious, neo noir, independent film
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Under the Sand (2000)
Plot Summary:
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, enigmatic, melancholic, atmospheric, stylized, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, surreal, art house
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Greta (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman returns an elderly widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, psychological thriller, surprise ending, clever, slasher
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Proof (2005)
Plot Summary:
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father’s mental illness along with his mathematical genius. When Robert’s work reveals a mathematical proof of potentially historic proportions, it sets off shock waves in more ways than one.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, inspirational, clever, intellectual, enigmatic, serious, heartbreaking, realistic, depressing