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Plot Summary:
A young woman seeking self-improvement enlists the help of a renowned hypnotist but, after a handful of intense sessions, discovers unexpected and deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, psychological horror
Best tv shows and movies like Hypnotic (2021):
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False Positive (2021)
Plot Summary:
After months of trying and failing to get pregnant, Lucy and Adrian finally find their dream fertility doctor in the illustrious Dr. Hindle. But after becoming pregnant with a healthy baby girl, Lucy begins to notice something sinister through Hindle's gleaming charm, and she sets out to uncover the unsettling truth about him, and her own "birth story." As if getting pregnant weren't complicated enough.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, dark, medical horror, psychological thriller, psychological horror
Similar in 89%
Stalked By My Patient (2018)
Plot Summary:
A troubled patient mistakes a doctor's compassion for adoration and becomes obsessed, willing to do whatever it takes to keep her in his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 78%
10 Year Reunion (2016)
Plot Summary:
At their 10-year high school reunion, Carly Newman and her old clique discover that their friend Abby's death right before graduation may not have been an accident after all when an unknown assailant begins to threaten them. Kayla Ewell, Jillian Nelson, Johnny Pacar, Anya Engel-Adams, Abigail Klein, Thea Gill, Bryce Durfee star.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 81%
Gone (2019)
Plot Summary:
When the detectives won’t believe she was abducted, a woman must do her own investigation to identify the person who kidnapped her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, dark
Similar in 82%
The Well (2020)
Plot Summary:
An injured woman trapped in a deep well must outsmart a manipulative stranger with keys to her dark past to save her daughter from a terrifying ordeal.
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Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, minimal cast, suspenseful, psychological, tense, clever, smart, deep, cult film
Similar in 77%
Corridor (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat, a quiet place to focus on his coming exams. But when he meets the girl upstairs, the intrusive Lotte, he realizes there is something wrong with the place. Each time he leaves his apartment, Frank is scared... the talkative concierge, the annoying child, the love-sick Lotte, her brutal ex-boyfriend and above all, her new jealous boyfriend, the scary Micke, they all seem to be Frank's enemies.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, scary, realistic
Similar in 77%
Fear Therapy (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to help her twin sister, with whom she has a strong connection, recover from a trauma. But weird things surround their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 89%
RangiTaranga (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious events begin to unfold after a reclusive novelist and his wife move back to her ancestral village, followed by a journalist.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: kannada, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, experimental, suspense thriller, twisted
Similar in 76%
Marriage of Lies (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Rachel’s husband disappears, the police have one suspect: her. While trying to prove her innocence, she uncovers many secrets about the man she married.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark
Similar in 84%
The Great Hypnotist (2014)
Plot Summary:
The famous psychologist Xu Ruining has a raising career, when he met the troublesome patient Ren Xiaoyan. The meeting is not easy as feeble-looking Ren is point by point against him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, enigmatic, mind blowing, rough, neo noir, suspense, entertaining, disturbing, mystical
Similar in 83%
Never Here (2017)
Plot Summary:
An artist whose work involves capturing images of strangers begins to believe she herself is being observed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, mesmerizing
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*69 (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends fall victim to tragic events after one of them dials *69 in response to a crank call. Tina, who's finally putting the missing pieces of her life back together after a car accident robbed her of her memory a year prior, uncovers that these events are somehow linked to her past. Now, she must find a way to unlock the truth that is buried deep within in order to put an end to the nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 84%
Forbidden Secrets (2005)
Plot Summary:
While going through a difficult divorce from her domineering, businessman husband, Alexandra moves back into her old childhood home, where she's forced to re-examine the circumstances surrounding the murder of her aunt by her insane mother several years ago when Alexandra was a young girl. As a series of bizarre and unsettling incidents prod Alexandra to investigate her past, she finds herself wandering deeper into danger as her past comes back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Anchor (2022)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious informant calls a broadcast news anchor to request that the anchor report on the informant’s inevitable death.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tension
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House of the Disappeared (2017)
Plot Summary:
After 25 years of imprisonment for familicide, a mother comes back home where her son disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, twisted
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The Dark Red (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital and claims her newborn was stolen by a dark cult.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Eun Ji (2019)
Plot Summary:
Yeonmo Island is a small and serene island. Eun-ji enters the island for some peace, with a guitar and some scuba gear. The men in the fishing village start stirring, as a beautiful woman appears. Especially Yong-tae, the president of the island, and his subordinates, Yoon-gil and Byeong-sam, look creepily at her. One day, Eun-ji finds out that the men in the village have blocked the boat that is supposed to get her off the island. The residents, the police and everyone else gathers around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 79%
Fear Bay (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman being terrorized by a stalker hires and develops a relationship with a handsome private detective, not realizing he'd become her deadly avenging angel.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crime drama
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Babysitter's Nightmare (2018)
Plot Summary:
With a killer on the loose, a young woman takes babysitting to a new level to escape the danger and reveal the killer’s identity.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 79%
Broken Star (2018)
Plot Summary:
Abandoned by her friends and family and with her career in jeopardy, starlet Markey Marlowe is sequestered in a duplex with a reclusive landlord who just may be more dangerous than she is.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 81%
Causality (2021)
Plot Summary:
Claudia shows up at a bar to meet Luis, a doctor who contacted her through a dating app. Claudia doesn't suspect what fate has in store for her. A kidnapping that ends with an inevitable and unpredictable death. A suspense story with surprising twists until the last second, narrated in a sequence shot without cuts.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 79%
Primal Doubt (2007)
Plot Summary:
When an ex-romance author who is trapped in an unsatisfying marriage, decides to give love another chance with a man she met over the Internet, she finds herself caught up in a terrifying murder mystery.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 85%
Mississippi Murder (2017)
Plot Summary:
An amazing murder mystery taking place in a setting that no one would expect the coast of Mississippi. A young woman tried to live a normal life despite a horrible upbringing. But she will learn her past will haunt her once more.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Every Breath You Take (2021)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist, whose client commits suicide, finds his family life disrupted after introducing her surviving brother to his wife and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, captivating, psychological, dark, teen
Similar in 82%
Terrible Angels (2012)
Plot Summary:
Detective Ben Nolan is sent to investigate the story of a convicted prostitute and known drug dealer Linda Grossel. Linda explains that she was kidnapped and held captive for weeks. As the investigation unfolds, Linda's sanity is put to question, leaving Ben to decide whether to go on with the investigation or leave Linda to the fate of the prison system.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological, realistic
Similar in 87%
McBride: Dogged (2007)
Plot Summary:
The annual LA Kennel Club Dog Show gets treated to an unexpected surprise when a backstage murder incriminates the winning canines' handler.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 86%
The Kindred (2021)
Plot Summary:
After her father’s suicide, a young mother investigates what led to his death. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery from 30 years ago, she discovers a dark family history that could prove deadly for her child.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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The Killing Room (2009)
Plot Summary:
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, clever, psychological thriller, rough, intellectual, mindfuck, surreal
Similar in 77%
Memento (2000)
Plot Summary:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby snaps Polaroids of people and places, jotting down contextual notes on the backs of photos to aid in his search and jog his memory. He even tattoos his own body in a desperate bid to remember.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 13000000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir, psychological thriller, non-linear, confusing, tense, philosophical
Similar in 82%
Shutter Island (2010)
Plot Summary:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 14000000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, cerebral, neo noir