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Plot Summary:
"Glass" Is a film about a young man, Atlas, and his continuous struggle with early-onset Alzheimer's. Seen through his eyes, his life is a puzzle he desperately tries to piece together. His condition deteriorates, loved ones are forgotten, and Atlas's broken mind persuades him to love a girl from his past that may or may not exist. He forgets everything else but her. This is a struggle that many people all around the world face every single day. We want to raise awareness and open minds with this film. This beautiful story of family, love, and illness is an unflinching look at early-onset Alzheimer's like it has never been seen before.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags:
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Remember (2015)
Plot Summary:
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Mexico, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, emotional, intense, thought provoking, psychological thriller
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O Fascínio (2003)
Plot Summary:
An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Portugal, Spain, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Implanted (2013)
Plot Summary:
When your memory lies, how do you find the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Blank (2009)
Plot Summary:
In this sensitive examination of the effects of Alzheimer's a home care assistant, Felicia, is charged with spending her days with Anna, an elderly woman suffering from dementia. When Anna's husband vanishes, Felicia dedicates herself to Anna, and like Anna, slowly loses all sense of time and self.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Dusk (2015)
Plot Summary:
John Whitmore wakes to find his wife, Anne, has disappeared from their bed overnight and a recorded ransom message now remains in her place.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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The Truth About Emanuel (2013)
Plot Summary:
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, melancholic, depressing, dark, tense, serious, independent film, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Child in the Night (1990)
Plot Summary:
A child psychologist, Hollis who's marriage collapsed after she learned she was barren, bonds with Luke Winfield, who witnessed his father's murder at the hands of rain-slicker wearing killer with a cargo hook. Along the way she befriends Detective Bass as he investigates a series of homicides, each with the same M.O. As Hollis gets closer to Luke she discovers some trouble family secrets ensuring she is next to be slain.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher
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Eroded (2011)
Plot Summary:
"It is said that when left unhealed, the past can destroy our lives. When Billy Reid and his sister Sheila lose loved ones in a horrific accident, they must face the aftermath together. For Billy, that aftermath and the secrets that lie within could devastate what's left of his family. As he struggles to find his way forward, he is left with only memories. But memories are sometimes tricky things and have the power to conceal the truth.".
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, independent film, tense
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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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The Blackout (1997)
Plot Summary:
A debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon finds out that some questions about his past are best left unanswered.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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A Vow to Cherish (1999)
Plot Summary:
John (Ken Howard) and Ellen (Barbara Babcock) have a picture-perfect life: While John runs a successful business, Ellen works as a schoolteacher, and they've raised two beautiful children. But that picture is shattered when Ellen is diagnosed with a devastating disease. The couple's relationship faces its hardest test yet, and before long, John's business starts to suffer and his eye begins to wander after he finds a lovely new jogging partner.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sad, christian film
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The Other Woman (1992)
Plot Summary:
A ambitious reporter investigating a murder case becomes intrigued with a mysterious woman whom she suspects is having an affair with her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psycho sexual, crying, independent film, tension, suspense
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Evidence of Blood (1998)
Plot Summary:
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Silent Fall (1994)
Plot Summary:
An autistic boy witnesses his parents' double murder. Richard Dreyfuss as a controversial therapist, seeks to probe the child's mind in order to solve the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller, action drama, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, gloomy, surprise ending
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Dementia (2015)
Plot Summary:
After being diagnosed with Dementia, an elderly war veteran is forced by his estranged family to hire a live-in nurse, only to find she harbors a sinister secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scary, psychological thriller, psychological horror, psychotronic
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Memory (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew . Biggs's mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, psychological thriller, suspense
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Lapse (2010)
Plot Summary:
Renee wakes up one morning in the middle of the desert with blood on her hands. She cannot remember why she is there, how she got there or with whom she came. Her quest to uncover forgotten events leads her on a journey of discovery where reality and memory collide and people are not what they seem.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: surreal, suspense, experimental, avant garde, surprise ending, independent film, cult film, low-budget
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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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Blind Turn (2012)
Plot Summary:
Samantha Holt had the perfect life with a handsome fiancée and a future that couldn’t look brighter. But an unexpected turn on a dark lonely road puts her on a collision course with Bruce Miller, a devoted family man who descends into madness when he loses everything he ever cared about. One year later, Bruce decides to give Samantha the punishment he believes she escaped. Samantha has struggled with her own demons since that fateful night, and Bruce will take her struggles to the edge when he implements a demented plan to teach her a twisted lesson that may cost her the ultimate price.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, ambiguous ending, independent film, surprise ending, psychological thriller, serious, scary
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Nancy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, suspense, social
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Recalled (2021)
Plot Summary:
Soo Jin, a woman suffering from post-traumatic memory loss, returns to her daily life with her husband after an accident. But her recovery takes an unexpected turn when she starts experiencing eerie visions: One day, she sees a vision of a child living in the same building being hit by a car. Shortly after almost risking her life to save the child, she has yet another chilling vision about a girl living on the 7th floor being harassed by a man, and does what she can to help the girl. She runs into her former boss at an art school, and learns that learns that her husband may not be telling the truth about everything. Meanwhile, detective Ki-sang finds Soo Jin’s husband on the surveillance footage of a crime scene and starts to investigate him. Soo Jin’s suspicion grows as she sees a vision of her husband killing a neighbor. While searching for the truth about her husband, she stumbles upon a wedding photo of her with a strange man other than her husband….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Reaching Distance (2018)
Plot Summary:
Logan, a cynic with a photographic memory, follows his sister's killer onto a night-rider bus. As the line between past and present begins to blur on the journey, Logan uncovers he has a complex past with much more than one passenger.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Queen of Earth (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, tense, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, slasher, mumblecore, minimal cast, deep, cerebral
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Safe House (1998)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller; Mace Sowell, an ex-intelligence operative and whose past government activities catches up with him, faces his own mortality, in the shape of the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Holding the electronic key to secret information which implicates a Presidential front-runner, Mace struggles for his life while battling the debilitating effects of the disease.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: political, psychological, exciting, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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The Father (2020)
Plot Summary:
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 183000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sad, psychological, thought provoking, emotional, sentimental, philosophical, touching, social, tear jerker, compassionate
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Keane (2004)
Plot Summary:
A mentally ill man searches New York for his missing eight year old daughter. He recreates her steps each day hoping for some clue to her disappearance, until he meets and befriend a woman with a daughter the same age. Could she help him with the missing piece of the puzzle?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, psychological, serious, independent film, mind twisting, mind bending, suspense, art house, art film
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Relic (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Edna, the elderly and widowed matriarch of the family, goes missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam travel to their remote family home to find her. Soon after her return, they start to discover a sinister presence haunting the house and taking control of Edna.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, China
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mystical, scary, dark, slasher, tense, psychological thriller, atmospheric
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Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Plot Summary:
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, independent film, bleak, suspense, atmospheric, surreal, psychological thriller, art house
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3 Women (1977)
Plot Summary:
An awkward young teen working at a spa becomes overly attached to her fellow worker, a lonely outcast. They hang out at a bar owned by a strange pregnant artist and her has-been cowboy husband. Amid emotional crises, the three woman steal and trade one another's personalities.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, stylized, art house, depressing, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic, visual, mind blowing
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Stay (2005)
Plot Summary:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 85000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, gloomy, mindfuck, suspense, mind blowing, mind bending