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Plot Summary:
Early one summer morning a young man, with a secret stashed away in a duffel bag, emerges from the forest. In a nearby village he asks around for work, but the farmers, suspicious to the point of hostility, are not very forthcoming. Only when Lucy, the mayor’s unruly daughter, takes a liking to him, does the village change its attitude: he is promptly offered a job as a farmhand and a caravan to live in. As time passes and he is gradually integrated into the community, it emerges that he’s not the only one with a past to hide. Something sinister is lurking under the immaculate surface of this picturesque little world - and it is slowly drawing him in.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, melancholic, suspenseful, psychological horror, weird
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Echoes from the Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
On a foggy day, Julia‘s six-year-old son Jens is called missing. Despite a thorough search, the boy is never found. Twenty years later, Julia’s father receives one of the shoes Jens was wearing the day he disappeared. Who sent it? Why? Is the boy still alive? This inexplicable act suddenly awakens a hope in Julia that she might see her son again… or that she could find his body and murderer. As she returns to her father’s island, she hears stories of the mythical Nils Kant – a murderer who once was the terror of the island. He is dead and buried for years, long before Julia’s son disappeared. But Julia’s father uncovers that his death and burial were only a fake. While on his tracks, Julia accepts the help and love of Lennart, a local police inspector. His dark and mysterious past brings him a lot closer to Jens’s disappearance that she might think….
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating
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Neither Heaven Nor Earth (2015)
Plot Summary:
Afghanistan 2014 As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antarès Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antarès and his men’s determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. One dark night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, weird
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Dark River (2017)
Plot Summary:
After her father dies, a young woman returns to her Yorkshire village for the first time in 15 years to claim the family farm she believes is hers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, social
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Black Night (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a world overtaken by eternal darkness, the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark, disturbing, controversial, art house, deep, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, weird
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What You Don't See (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers have a strong impact on a young man who's spending some time with his family in this drama from Germany. Seventeen-year-old Anton has been struggling to make sense of his life since his father committed suicide when Anton was attending boarding school. Anton's mother, Luiza, wants to mend her strained relationship with her son and introduce him to her boyfriend, Paul, so she arranges for them to take a vacation together.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, twisted, realistic
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Knockdown (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six years ago Jack "The Ripper" Stemmons, an American boxer had his career destroyed by a St. Louis bookie. After Jack seeks revenge he is forced into hiding. Jack disappears half way around the world in Thailand. There he falls victim to the addictive spell of Bangkok's exotic and dangerous underworld. Eventually he finds solace in the arms of a beautiful prostitute who has been set in his path by a Russian gangster in order to get Jack back in the ring, This time in Bangkok's notorious underground fight clubs. No matter how hard Jack tries to distance himself from his past, it always hunts him down like a Bad Penny. When a mysterious fight fan appears, it's only a matter of time before Jack's past, present and future accelerate and collide into a twisted climax.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, independent film, tense, psychological, captivating, rough, serious, realistic
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Against the Grain (2013)
Plot Summary:
Fatima, a committed schoolteacher living the cosmopolitan high life in Karachi, has her life shattered when her nanny, Nusrat, inexplicably disappears. Though her friends and family beg her not to disturb the status quo and confront the powerful feudals in Nusrat's village, Fatima travels there to investigate. Will the trials and tribulations deter Fatima's resolve? Will the quest challenge an already complicated romantic relationship? Josh: Against the Grain Is the story of Fatima's search for a dangerous truth in Nusrat's feudal village. It is the story of the biggest challenge to Pakistan's still reigning feudalism: the country's youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Pakistan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, suspenseful, tense, inspirational, islamic, realistic
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Crisis Point (2012)
Plot Summary:
Criminal psychologist Cameron Grainger is Detroit’s go-to hostage negotiator. Blaming herself when a crisis she’s handling goes wrong and a young man is killed, she removes herself from service. But she is called back into sudden and terrifying action when her own sister becomes a hostage and the assailants—with an agenda to be revealed—demand that Cameron be the one to negotiate her release.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Non-Stop (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious emotional thriller about a woman who, after being left at the altar, has a brief liaison with a handsome stranger on a plane which ultimately puts her – and everyone else on the flight – in terrible danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense, offbeat, emotional, realistic
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The Nightmare Nanny (2013)
Plot Summary:
Stay-home mom Annie is reluctant to return to work, until she finds Amber, the perfect nanny for her 3-year-old daughter Jenny. But as Annie's young daughter grows closer and closer to Amber, Annie begins to feel like she's being pushed out of her own life. When Jenny suddenly vanishes one day,Annie's search for her missing daughter leads her to the terrifying truth about the dark past of the woman she trusted with her child.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, enigmatic, captivating, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Moss (2010)
Plot Summary:
Hae Gook (Park Hae Il) travels to a reclusive village to attend his father's funeral. He wants to find out the reason behind his father's strange death, but the villagers, in particular village chief Cheon (Jung Jae Young), seem to be watching his every move and eager to see him leave. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, Hae Gook enlists the help of prosecutor Park (Yoo Jun Sang) to slowly unravel the village's sinister secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, mind twisting, psychological, mind bending, action thriller, rough, serious
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Savage (2018)
Plot Summary:
It's summer, somewhere in the Dordogne, young people disappear. The wildest rumors circulate, we are talking about a feline prowling. Laura, seeks to elucidate the mystery and meets Paul, a strange writer who attracts him as much as he scares her. As they get closer, a lover spurned by Laura disappears in turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful
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Forgotten (2012)
Plot Summary:
During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in an old summer house on a small island. Shortly after Hanna’s 9th birthday, they suddenly lost touch and only meet again unexpectedly 25 years later. Hanna is now married, has a seven-year-old daughter and is the chief resident physician at the hospital where she reunites with Clarissa. Her old friend has been brought to the hospital ER for overdosing on sleeping pills. The two women pick up their friendship where they left off and spontaneously decide to spend a few days on the island, just like in the old days. When Hanna learns that Maria, a playmate of hers from the island’s village, disappeared as a child and was never seen or heard from again, she begins to search in the past. Something horrible must have happened on the island and they must have been involved.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, scary
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Blind Horizon (2003)
Plot Summary:
Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, psychological thriller, independent film
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Fatal Trust (2006)
Plot Summary:
After the father of her kid son Sam was killed by an escaped psychiatric patient, Kate decides it's time for a new chapter in her life. She moves to the town where her former lover Tom lives and now works in the sheriff's department, and slowly gets intimate again with the sensitive, caring gentleman. Professionally she becomes the secretary of Dr. Mark Lucas, the respected local physician. In time she starts to take an old man's warnings against the doctor seriously, starts to believe that he may systematically have a hand in a suspicious number of old patients dying shortly after contact with him and tries to prove her theory.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Cheaters' Club (2006)
Plot Summary:
A controversial therapist assembles a group of discontented wives and prescribes using adultery to save their failing marriages, only to have her patients killed off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, sentimental, melancholic, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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InSight (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kaitlyn, an ER nurse who is tending to a young stabbing victim, is accidentally electrocuted by the defibrillator that is used in an effort to save the woman's life. Almost immediately Kaitlyn starts to experience the victim's memories. She turns to family, friends, and the police, but no one takes her seriously. She decides that she must take it upon herself to try to solve the crime - or risk the terrifying visions ending in her own sanity being at stake. Ultimately Kaitlyn teams up with the detective on the case and weaves her way through the victim's past - to discover not only the brutal truth, but also some very unexpected lessons about life, love, sorrow and forgiveness along the way. (official website).
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological, rough, serious
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Secrets From Her Past (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, Kate Collins (Ashley Jones) was a different person. Literally. She was living in Chicago, working as a bartender, and going by her real name ‘Stephanie Wickers.’ That all changed when she witnessed the murder of her boss by a ruthless member of an up and coming crime syndicate named Alek Ravik (Al Sapienza). Knowing that Klebanov saw her, she faked her death, changed her name, and went into hiding in Philadelphia. When a crooked cop retires and young, eager Detective Miesen (Alain Chanoine) is chosen to head a new task force to tackle crime syndicates in Chicago, the unsolved murder case is reopened. Miesen believes that Kate/Stephanie is still alive and begins to look for her. Unfortunately, so does Alek.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic
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Seduced by Lies (2010)
Plot Summary:
Brad Sterling arrives by yacht as a handsome dream prince, and the discrete favorite nephew and brilliant investor of his tycoon uncle Wade. Charles Colton's ingrate heiress Laura eagerly dates him and puts him in the guest-house, partially as spiteful as alliterative to workaholic tycoon pa's preferred son-in-law Jonathan Lawson, son of tycoon Richard. People who warn fickle Laura get irate reactions, best friend Ava even dies in a suspicious hit and run, yet Laura also turns on either suitor in turn, oblivious to serious indications of manipulation.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Cyberstalker (2012)
Plot Summary:
After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Judicial Indiscretion (2007)
Plot Summary:
Monica Barrett, a successful Federal judge, learns she is on the President's shortlist to fill the new vacant spot on the Supreme Court. When her lover turns out to be a male prostitute, Monica's life is shattered by blackmail and sexual intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Red Lights (2004)
Plot Summary:
A cross-country trip turns out to be a nightmare for a troubled couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, transgressive, psychological, sexual
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Abandoned (2010)
Plot Summary:
Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, action thriller, realistic, independent film
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Cold Creek Manor (2003)
Plot Summary:
Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Turning it into their dream house soon becomes a living nightmare when the previous owner (Dorff) shows up, and a series of terrifying incidents lead them on a spine-tingling search for clues to the estate's dark and lurid past.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, intense, serious, psychological thriller, dark, slasher
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Confined (2010)
Plot Summary:
A couple moves into a quiet neighborhood. With too much time on her hands, the woman begins to suspect that someone is confined in the basement next door.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, realistic
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I Dream of Murder (2006)
Plot Summary:
Johanna is a therapist on the verge of a midlife crisis. When one of her patients is found brutally murdered, she takes it upon herself to solve the mystery. But why is this stressed-out shrink willing to risk her marriage, her career and her entire life to solve the crime? As the case unravels, so do the dark inner demons that Johanna has been trying to hide for the past 20 years!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Missing at 17 (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to save her adopted daughter from a criminal, with help from the girl's biological mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating
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The Betrayed (2008)
Plot Summary:
Kidnappers force a young mother (Melissa George) to recover money stolen by her shady husband (Christian Campbell).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending, realistic, surprise ending
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Fault (2001)
Plot Summary:
The film starts with the murder of Priti (Divya Dutta), wife of Shekhar (Aftab Shivdasani), a well-known journalist. Inspector Lokhande (Ashutosh Rana) investigates the case and accuses Shekhar of the murder, saying he has enough evidences to arrest him. Upon getting bail from the court, Shekhar's lawyer tells him that he will not be able to fight his case because he is a corporate lawyer. He asks him to contact Simran Bhargav (Lisa Ray), who is a criminal lawyer to fight his case.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, melancholic, surprise ending, remake of american film
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In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Plot Summary:
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, thought provoking, intense, serious, rough, neo noir