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Plot Summary:
A young woman returns Home from college and become suspicious of her new stepdad, her late father's business partner, after she discovers him meeting with a mysterious woman who turns up dead the following day.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Murdered at 17 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Pretty and popular, seventeen-year-old Brooke Emerson is the envy of her classmates--and even some of her closest friends. But while she seems to have it all, Brooke has never felt so lost. Ever since she sustained a head injury during a cheerleading stunt the previous year, she's suffered from a disorder that causes her to fly into uncontrollable, sometimes violent rages. As hard as she tries to keep it together, she finds herself in danger of jeopardizing her seemingly perfect life. It isn't until Brooke meets Jake, a handsome and charismatic stranger, that she feels like she's found someone who not only understands her, but accepts her for who she is. As tempting as it is to get swept up in the romance, she can't help but feel like something in their relationship isn't quite right. When her best friend is brutally murdered, Brooke has no choice but to depend on her new love...especially because she's worried that she might be the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Boyfriend Killer (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Grieving mother suspects that her son's ex-girlfriend may have been involved in his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, scary, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, exciting
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Killing Your Daughter (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a DNA test helps Candace connect with her birth parents, she realizes some family histories are better left untold.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Running Away (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sisters Maggie and Lizzie move in with mom Peg's new husband. Secrets and lies start immediately. Maggie cannot handle what follows and recruits a friend to help her plan to get out of town with her step father's secrets. When Peg discovers that her daughter has run away, she now has to find Maggie fast but must come to terms with the dark secrets that led to Maggie's fleeing and the secrets about her new husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Water's Edge (2003)
Plot Summary:
Robert wanted an escape from the big city. He thought a small town by the water's edge would give him a new start. He couldn't have been more wrong. This little town has dirty secrets, and Robert just found the worst of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending
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Kidnapped (2021)
Plot Summary:
Savannah Duke-Morgan realizes her lifetime dream to bring her husband Brad and her five-year-old daughter Aria back to her birthplace on the Gold Coast of Australia until it turns into her worst nightmare when Aria goes missing from the resort’s Kidz Klub.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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The Sweetheart (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sex, lies, and deception of a con man. Heartbroken over her parents breakup and recovering from a car accident, Jane becomes suspicious of her mother’s new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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The Red Dress (2015)
Plot Summary:
Rainer and Patricia move to Malta to reinvigorate their marriage after the loss of their child.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Malta
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Grey Lady (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Boston police officer goes to Nantucket to investigate the murder of his partner, but he finds more than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Your Family or Your Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
A doctors life is turned upside down when her lawyer husband is found dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Harrow (2016)
Plot Summary:
Miller lives alone in an abandoned Alabama slaughterhouse. His memory and sanity are shattered and his only company is the spirit of his lover, who was murdered a decade ago. Ruth arrives, desperate to discover the truth about her mother's death. She stays with Miller for three nights. Together they piece together the fragments of his memory, but they are horrified at what they uncover.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Stolen Child (2012)
Plot Summary:
Amanda and Jason are happy marriage now, after years of frustration have finally managed to take a beautiful girl from a country in Eastern Europe through an international adoption agency. But when the doctor will perform a DNA test to small, finds that there have been irregularities in the adoption process.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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Daddy's Perfect Little Girl (2021)
Plot Summary:
A 12-year-old girl becomes jealous when her adoptive father develops a budding relationship with a woman and her teenage son.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Shattering (2021)
Plot Summary:
Claire has everything - money, a loving husband and a desired child. But suddenly her life changes. Doubts and lies bring her to the edge of insanity.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Stalker's Prey (2017)
Plot Summary:
Laura's life is turned upside down when she is attacked by a shark while celebrating her 18th birthday. She's rescued by Bruce, a handsome young man just returned home from college. As she recovers, he becomes a local hero for his bravery. As the dust settles, Bruce seems smitten with his damsel in distress, but Laura is not ready to move past the boyfriend she lost in the attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense
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Half a life (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is found raped and bludgeoned to death. Her father can’t reconcile himself with her death, and even less with the fact that the murderer was never found. Half of his life he continues the search. Finally, after more than 20 years, as DNA-analysis becomes a factor in forensic medicine, new perspectives open.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Deadly Shores (2018)
Plot Summary:
This gripping thriller follows Anna who moves to a remote island as the new bride of a famous mystery writer. Once there, she uncovers secrets about her new husband's dead former wife and fears she may be the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hidden Truth (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a teenage girl is found murdered in a California town, a young woman is forced to prove her brother is innocent of the crime, discovering a disturbing dark side to the community.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Mystery at the Opera (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Paris opera house is about to give a performance of Carmen, when a young usherette is killed in one of the boxes. Faustine must prove her fiancé’s innocence before it’s too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Murder In-Law (2019)
Plot Summary:
Claire has always loved her son Jim and her granddaughter Sydney, but struggles to connect with her daughter-in-law, Allison. When Allison announces a big job promotion that will relocate them far away, Claire's motherly instincts are pushed to an unsettling level where she will scheme, lie and even murder to keep her son and granddaughter from moving away.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Killed My Wife (2019)
Plot Summary:
Jung-ho, whose estranged wife is found dead, is suspected of murder but remembers nothing about the evening. Will his memory return? Is he innocent?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense
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The Deal (2022)
Plot Summary:
Kat and Borja appear to be a perfect couple, but as in every marriage they keep secrets, lies and infidelities that will come to light the night an unexpected visitor arrives.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Cradle of Lies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Following a whirlwind romance, a woman begins to unravel the dark secrets of her husband's past when his obsession to produce a male heir turns deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Fatal Secrets (2009)
Plot Summary:
"BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, seems to have it all - except the right guy in her life. Her friends urge her to "get back out there." But they don't yet know about Scott - a charming man with a secret background whose true colors paint a streak of pain and fear through Julia's life. When Scott's effect on Julia reaches the breaking point, she and her friends take matters into their own hands... and underestimate the consequences. The outcome forces all of them into a desperate situation. Everyone pays the price.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Clean Break (2008)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Veil (2017)
Plot Summary:
The temptation to have a one night stand leads a man to a distant town and a woman with a dark agenda. When he doesn't return, it falls upon his black sheep sister to uncover the truth of what happened.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Stalked by My Ex (2017)
Plot Summary:
After learning that her abusive ex-husband is about to be released from prison, a woman flees with her teenage daughter back to her old hometown.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Awakened (2013)
Plot Summary:
Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, captivating, independent film, psychotronic
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Dancing Trees (2009)
Plot Summary:
Martha (Katie Boland), 18, sees the world as animated and fun. She has a form of autism that means she is a mathematical genuis whilst incapable of looking after herself. Living in a dull routinewith her cousin Nicole (Brooke Burns), and mother Josephine (Amanda Tapping), she sees the good in everything and everyone. But suddenly, her mother is the casualty of a brutal crime before her eyes and Martha is sent to a foster home. Nicole is distraught and battle for custody of her cousin, but the police constantly block her requests. Finally, Detective Velez relents, on one condition: Martha must help solve the crime and find justice for her fallen mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Sexual Intrigue (2008)
Plot Summary:
A mystery start when all the psychologist's patient are murdered, exactly after each one of them have a session. Who is the killer?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy