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Plot Summary:
Greg Sanderson is helping his wife, Jan, to recover from a nervous breakdown and revive their strained marriage. Their privacy is interrupted by the arrival of Greg's stunning and mysterious sister, Laura. Jan's paranoia deepens as she suspects that Greg's and her sister's relationship is too close. In her desperation, she confides her fears to the landlord but his weird reaction only creates more confusion.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, exciting, enigmatic, erotic
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Sleeping With My Student (2019)
Plot Summary:
New school headmaster and single mother Kathy discovers her vacation fling with charming 18-year-old Ian was no accident when he transfers to her school targeting Kathy and her teenage daughter Bree in a deadly scheme. Ian wants revenge as he believes Kathy is responsible for splitting up his family ultimately leading to his father's death. Kathy will need to uncover Ian's motives quickly if she hopes to protect herself and Bree from his dangerous threats.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Lebensborn (1997)
Plot Summary:
College freshman Kari Berman and her twin brother Kyle are young, healthy, brilliant, and attractive. To genetic researcher Dr. Martin Speer they're breeding stock, part of his scheme to make create superior humans through modern genetics.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 89%
Golden Earrings (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ronnie and Sara are best friends and roommates. And for Ronnie, Sara is her whole world. She does everything with her and their small group of friends. But one day, Sara suddenly disappears and Ronnie is left with a hole in her life that she cannot deal with. And her apparent guilt over something she's done causes everything in her life to collapse. Despite her friends attempts to calm her, Ronnie sinks deeper and deeper into her loneliness. Until one day, Ronnie suddenly starts 'seeing' Sara. Or does she? No one else can see her except for Ronnie. Is it Sara's ghost? Ronnie's imagination? And why does Ronnie feel so guilty about Sara's disappearance? Sometimes, your friends aren't who you think they are.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, independent film
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Shattered Mind (1996)
Plot Summary:
Heather Locklear stars in this psychological thriller as a woman who is racked by multiple personalities and confronts a horrifying past of dark secrets buried a long time ago. When her father dies she descends into a bizarre emotional world where she lashes out at her husband and two young daughters.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Deceptions (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a wealthy socialite kills her husband, she claims self-defense. The cop assigned to the case is suspicious but becomes obsessed with the sensual young woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Body Language (1992)
Plot Summary:
The ambitious Betsy is happy: she gets promoted to a leading management position. Her happiness is spoiled only a little by problems with a boyfriend who feels neglected and an harassing boss. She realizes much too late that her secretary Norma is after her job and step by step tries to ruin her career and private life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Secret Games 3 (1994)
Plot Summary:
A neglected housewife of a busy husband who is a doctor turns to prostitution to pass the time. One of her customers develops an obsession with her and begins stalking her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
Similar in 82%
The Mad Whale (2017)
Plot Summary:
Inmates at a women's mental asylum stage a theatrical production of Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick.'.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 84%
Hollywood Sins (2000)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood. Tinseltown. Sin City. A town that's built its reputation on money, power and sex. A typical talent agent, Simon Teller is no different that the rest of the Hollywood elite. He'll do anything to seal a deal. And he and his starlet fiancee, Lacy Lloyd, like to push the envelope of their sexual boundaries. They get off by video-taping their erotic indiscretions with other men and women and watching them together. But eventually Simon picks the wrong woman to fool around with. When Donna, the sultry conniving wife of the agency's CEO, seduces and then black-mails him, he'll have to summon more than the usual tricks to land on his feet.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, melancholic, suspense, disturbing
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Sister of Mine (2017)
Plot Summary:
Oliver, a young film director, discovers on a porn Web site one night that the protagonist of one of the erotic videos is his younger half-sister Aurora. In the process of finding out what she was doing there, Oliver will become fascinated by his sister.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Colombia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, meditative, erotic, teen horror
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The Temp (1993)
Plot Summary:
A series of mysterious accidents at a food company lead a manager to suspect his impressive new temporary secretary.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, stylized, neo noir, serious, erotic, light, sexy, clever, feel good
Similar in 85%
On the Inside (2011)
Plot Summary:
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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Brotherly Love (1970)
Plot Summary:
In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also harbors an incestuous yearning for his sister Hilary (Susannah York), who is staying with Sir Charles after a fight with her husband Douglas (Michael Craig). An adaptation of James Kennaway's novel Household Ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Cold Comfort (1989)
Plot Summary:
Dolores has everthing she wants for her birthday: a party, 18 glowing candles, and Stephen, the handsome stranger who's more than a guest. He's a prisoner. COLD COMFORT bristles with the suspense, passion and danger of three people caught up in a madman's game.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Two (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two people, a man and a woman, wake up naked and with their abdomens attached to each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, surreal
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Nuts (1987)
Plot Summary:
A high-class call girl kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. Not helping matters is that she is very distrustful of everybody, including her court-appointed attorney, and is very disruptive during her court hearings.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, hilarious, psychological thriller, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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In Dark Places (1997)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful woman lures her half brother into a game that may leave her the sole heir to their abusive father's fortune.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
Similar in 79%
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
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Kept (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dead bodies are piling up, and the leads the two LA homicide cops have point to Barbara, business manager for a successful architectural firm she runs with her husband Lance. The dead men were interns at the firm, and each of them was Barbara's lover (kept in a classy flat she owns and observed via closed-circuit TV by the applauding Lance). Kyle is Barbara's latest intern and lover, and he may be in danger. He also starts to fall in love with Barbara, and the feeling may be mutual. In the background are Erin, Lance and Barbara's myopic administrative assistant, and Tony, Kyle's one-time roommate who also knows Barbara. Can the cops solve this before too many more die?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, touching, bleak, captivating, disturbing
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My Sweet Killer (1999)
Plot Summary:
Charlie is an introverted person getting out of prison. He feeds in an apartment and starts dreaming of the woman who died in this apartment. And his fantasies of this woman getting worse and worse.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 75%
Unforgettable (2017)
Plot Summary:
Julia moves in with her fiancé, David, but his ex-wife and her own haunting past join forces to rock her quiet suburban existence.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, sexy, psychosexual thriller, suspense, detective, psychological thriller, psychological, surprise ending, rough, tense
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Sugar Mountain (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, down on their luck, fake a disappearance in the Alaskan wilderness so they'll have a great survival story to sell, but the hoax turns out to be more real than they planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Sliver (1993)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, sensual, psychosexual thriller, serious, exciting, anamorphic
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Adrift (2001)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen-year-old Sammy has recently become aware of desires she awakens in men but one man to whom she is herself attracted is her older brother Jacob. With an institutionalized father and a mother neither sibling has seen for years, Jacob provides for the household through his trade in meat declared unfit for human consumption. This situation has sufficed for years but the dedication with which Jacob watches over his little sister leaves her no room to mature as a woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
Similar in 87%
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
Similar in 78%
Bird (2020)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with the meaninglessness of her life, Samantha Flores, an unassuming and shy young woman, living in the city of Los Angeles is convinced by a friend, Juliette, a vivacious call-girl, to go out one night posing as her. What was supposed to be a night of fun and excitement for Samantha, turns into a night of sheer terror after she witnesses a brutal murder. Now stranded and wandering aimlessly along a dark road, Samantha crosses paths with Greg Vargas, a reluctant criminal talked into participating in a jewel heist that is occurring nearby. After Greg initially picks her up to get her away from the crime scene, they are suddenly attacked by unknown assailants. After barely escaping with their lives, Greg and Samantha now must not only work together to solve the mystery of who is after them, but also learn to trust each other. The only clues that can help them uncover the secrets of that night are locked away in Samantha's traumatized, fragmented memories, and they are running out.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fatal Attraction (1987)
Plot Summary:
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sexy, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sensual, erotic, psychological, tense, neo noir
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The Quiet (2005)
Plot Summary:
After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to Dot, but that does not prevent her from telling her secrets to her silent stepsister, including the fact that she wants to kill her lecherous father.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, psychological, teen, suspenseful, rough, sexy, heartbreaking, erotic, scary
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Stoker (2013)
Plot Summary:
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, gothic, tense, suspense, disturbing, erotic, surreal, visual
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Poison Ivy (1992)
Plot Summary:
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, melancholic, disturbing, realistic