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Plot Summary:
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, independent film
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Murder in Mind (1997)
Plot Summary:
The L.A. police find two bodies in a fancy house and suspect the wife of one victim. Dr. Ellis, a hypnotherapist, takes her back in time; with the police listening, a pattern of spousal abuse emerges. When each trance ends, however, the woman, Carolyn Walker, wonders if those repressed memories are true. Dr. Ellis guides her through her trial, testifies himself, and continues treatment after the verdict is in. Carolyn's memory and well-being get worse after the trial, not better. She misses some therapy sessions, and Dr. Ellis comes to see her at home. Snatches of memory come and go. Can he help her remember what really happened? Are the cops satisfied justice has been done?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Similar in 86%
Backwaters (2006)
Plot Summary:
A paralyzed woman goes missing after she and her husband travel to India for specialized medical attention.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing, scary, tense, sentimental, suspense, suspenseful, erotic
Similar in 86%
Our Mother's Murder (1997)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based true crime story about the murder of publishing heiress Anne Scripps Douglas who, in 1989, married a young hunk who eventually killed her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
Cold Sweat (1993)
Plot Summary:
Mark Cahill is a good family man with a loving wife and two wonderful children. Mark also happens to be a hit man who is haunted by his last victim, a blonde, who keeps appearing in his bedroom at the worst of times. His life becomes even more complicated when he becomes caught up in the schemes of two business partners, one of the partner's spouse and her boyfriend(s).
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, surprise ending, tense, serious, realistic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 80%
A Killer Within (2004)
Plot Summary:
Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is turned upside down when he arrives home from work late one night to find his wife brutally murdered and his son unconscious in critical condition at the hospital. Now, fingered as a suspect by the police, Addison must race to find the real killer and prove his innocence before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, mind bending, tense, rough, serious, psychological, bleak, realistic, surprise ending
Similar in 88%
Other Voices (2000)
Plot Summary:
Phil and Anna are a young, married couple, who begin to suspect one other of an affair. When a shady private investigator gets involved in their relationship, things begin to spin out of control, in this turn-of-the-millennium thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, independent film, psychological, psychological thriller, psycho film
Similar in 76%
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (2000)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood film executive gets blackmailed by a derelict who uses some damaging information to move into his house and take over his perfect life for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending
Similar in 81%
Loved (1997)
Plot Summary:
After a husband is accused of droving his third wife to suicide, his first wife Hedda, a troubled woman who can't hate or hurt others even if they had wronged her, is subpoenaed to testify on his abusive behavior during their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
Similar in 85%
The Tesseract (2003)
Plot Summary:
A psychologist, an Englishman, a bellboy and a wounded female assasin have their fates crossed at a sleazy Bangkok hotel.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Thailand, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, mind blowing, realistic, gloomy, experimental, crying, freeze frame
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The House Next Door (2002)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple move into their dream home only to find that their next door neighbor isn't as good-natured as they had initially thought.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 75%
Secret Ceremony (1968)
Plot Summary:
A tormented rich girl hires a sex worker to act as her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, deep, psychological, tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
Her Name Is Carla (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, realistic, crying
Similar in 88%
Backfire (1987)
Plot Summary:
Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a mysterious stranger, Reed, at a local bar, she believes she has found the right person to help her out of her predicament. But Mara worries that Donnie's sister, Jill, is on to her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, neo noir, independent film, surprise ending, tension, twist ending
Similar in 86%
Forever Mine (1999)
Plot Summary:
A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, romantic, sexy, sex comedy, anamorphic, erotic
Similar in 80%
Natural Enemy (1996)
Plot Summary:
William McNamara plays a young man who was given away by his mother at birth, seeking revenge on her for abandoning him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing, weird
Similar in 79%
A Table for One (1999)
Plot Summary:
A wife, her two-timing husband and a flirting neighbor are unpredictable competitors in a warped game that turns into a life-or-death affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, tension, sexy
Similar in 85%
Betrayal (1983)
Plot Summary:
Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the husband's point of view, with the scenes in precise reverse chronological order. Written by Dan Hartung.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, captivating, talky, clever, stylized, non-linear, extraordinary
Similar in 88%
Darkness Falls (1999)
Plot Summary:
With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ending up in a coma.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, dark, independent film, psychological thriller
Similar in 90%
My Daughter's Keeper (1991)
Plot Summary:
An American writer in England takes his children and a newly hired nanny on a trip to South Africa while his wife, a reporter, is on assignment. He has an affair with the nanny, but when he refuses to leave his wife for her, the nanny gets her revenge by kidnapping his children.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, tense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
Similar in 82%
Complicity (2000)
Plot Summary:
Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, independent film
Similar in 87%
Lured Innocence (2000)
Plot Summary:
A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, mind bending, sexual, sexy
Similar in 86%
Mother's Boys (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes, into a murderous plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, realistic, neo noir, dark, independent film, serious
Similar in 80%
Under Suspicion (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with Hazel, wife of the man whose house he was supposed to guard. In his new job as a fake private investigator, he helps couples get divorces by photographing Hazel having "affairs" with the husband. When she is murdered during a job, Tony begins having an affair with the dead man's mistress, Angeline, while trying to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, serious, clever, realistic, suspenseful, detective, noir, visually stunning, sexy
Similar in 82%
Man of Her Dreams (1997)
Plot Summary:
After suspecting her husband is playing the field, a nervous woman finds a sympathetic ear in the form of a strange man. The drawback is that her sensitive new-found friend is an obsessive psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
Similar in 85%
Fascination (2004)
Plot Summary:
Young Scott Doherty (Adam Garcia) gets suspicious when his mother (Jacqueline Bisset) plans to wed Oliver Vance (Stuart Wilson) soon after her husband's untimely death. Scott investigates with Oliver's pretty daughter, Kelly (Alice Evans), who shared Scott's doubts about the upcoming nuptials. Along the way, he falls in love with Kelly, but a fatal explosion turns Scott's life upside down - and the evidence points to him as the murderer. Has he been framed?.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, neo noir, serious, suspense, romantic, realistic, sexual, surprise ending
Similar in 77%
Dream Lover (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ray is young, charming, successful and the owner of a prosperous architect company. However, he has recently gone trough a very painful divorce. His friends try to cheer him up by showing him the positive sides of being single but for Ray marriage and stability is just too important. But when he meets Lena his gloom is quickly forgotten.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, psychosexual thriller, sexual, erotic, neo noir
Similar in 80%
Malicious (1995)
Plot Summary:
A mystery woman turns vengeful after a college athlete dumps her following a one-night stand.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, erotic, psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense
Similar in 85%
Thy Neighbor's Wife (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the vein of "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" and fraught with mystery and edge-of-your seat suspense, Kari Wuhrer Poison tells the darkly insidious story of the Garrett household and their descent into a hellish world of sexual malice and physical terror! Seeking revenge for her husband's death, Ann ingratiates herself with the Garretts under the guise of a caring housekeeper. Once she gains their trust, Ann begins to wreak havoc upon them. Seduction and malice are her weapons as she attempts to eliminate everyone she believes is responsible.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, erotic, sexy, realistic, surprise ending, hot
Similar in 84%
Caught (1996)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged couple has a drifter enter their lives. The fish-store owners find that the mysterious young man awakens the couple in ways they didn't expect. Things get tense when the drifter begins an affair with the woman of the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, sexy, captivating, suspenseful, neo noir, sexual
Similar in 90%
Final Analysis (1992)
Plot Summary:
Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married to a gangster. She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, psychological, twist ending, enigmatic, suspense, intense