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Plot Summary:
A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, tense, erotic, psychological thriller, sexy, dark, bizarre
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Wall of Secrets (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young lovely moves to Chicago to be with her husband. They are both amazed at the terrific apartment they obtained for very little rent. Unfortunately this apartment comes with an unsavory history. As if that isn't bad enough, there are sounds and noises in the walls!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Thriller, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, exciting, touching
Similar in 76%
A Closed Book (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has another agenda. Incrementally, Sir Paul's familiar surroundings are altered. His housekeeper is diverted away, strange things happen around the house and he becomes increasingly dependent on his new assistant.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Vanished (2011)
Plot Summary:
A woman searches for many years to exact revenge on a kidnapper. A psychological thriller that examines how far a person would go if pushed to the extreme.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, mind bending, bleak, realistic, surprise ending
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Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005)
Plot Summary:
In 1990, as a boy, Giulio was chased through the woods by two women after spying on them practicing witchcraft. Now a young film student in Turin, he watches his neighbors in the flats across from his third floor apartment, especially Sasha when she's naked or arguing with her mother. Giulio's girlfriend is disgusted with his voyeurism, but, after a murder occurs, Giulio is convinced that two relative strangers, just as in Hitchcock and Highsmith's "Strangers in a Train," have agreed to murder each other's bête noir. He follows his suspects, ends up with an intruder and a broken foot, and may be in real danger. Is he more than a peeping Tom?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, creepy, expressionism
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The Truth About Charlie (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Truth About Charlie is a 2002 remake of the 1963 film Charade (which starred Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn). It is also an homage to François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player and that film's star Charles Aznavour appeared as himself and sang his song "Quand tu m'aimes" (English version).
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: stylized, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, clever, tricky, neo noir, twist ending, light
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8MM 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
An American diplomat and his fiancée venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in Budapest, Hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspenseful, suspense, sexy, tense, captivating, disturbing, serious, saga, art house
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Fatal Justice (2012)
Plot Summary:
Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the perpetrators is released, Karen decides to go on a murderous trail of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
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
Similar in 77%
Nemesis Game (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sara Novak is an introverted college student with a few skeletons in her closet. Shying away from classmates, she prefers to spend time with Vern, an older comic store owner who shares her passion for mind games and riddles. But when the riddles she solves lead to the deaths of those around her, she realizes the riddles are more than a simple game.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, New Zealand, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense, serious, gloomy
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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
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Damascus Cover (2017)
Plot Summary:
A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Radio Silence (2019)
Plot Summary:
Relationship Therapist, Dr. Jill Peterman, had the highest-rated call-in radio show when her world was pulled out from under her following the on-air suicide of a female caller named Alexis. Shaken to her core, Dr. Jill walked away from her show vowing she would never go back. That is until Stuart, the station's General Manager, pleads with her to reboot the show in an effort to bring followers back to the station. Still haunted by what happened, Jill agrees to help her friend out and believes this will be the perfect remedy to put her year-long anxiety to rest. As Jill starts to settle back into her show, mysterious call-ins start happening forcing her to believe there could be a copy-cat out there. What Jill begins to uncover is a web of secrets and lies stemming from the mysterious voice she has come to know as Alexis.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, exciting, unusual plot structure, suspense
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Random 11 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Prodigy detective Mitsuko Unagi is on the hunt for a notorious serial killer known only as "Eleven". 10 years earlier, on February 29th 2006, a series of murders began, involving 11 randomly selected victims killed simultaneously in various parts of Tokyo. The killings continue over the next decade, leaving the police with no evidence, no witnesses, and the killer always one step ahead. But now something has changed, and the killer has changed his pattern, giving Detective Unagi the one chance to finally get closer to solving the mystery of the Random 11.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, action thriller, psychological thriller
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Blackout (2008)
Plot Summary:
Recovering from a nail gun shot to the head and 13 months of coma, doctor Pekka Valinta starts to unravel the mystery of his past, still suffering from total amnesia.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense
Similar in 89%
The Crimes That Bind (2018)
Plot Summary:
Michiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was strangled to death. Mutsuo Koshikawa is the owner of the apartment and he goes missing. Detectives including Yuhei Matsumiya who is a cousin of Detective Kyoichiro Kaga , have difficulties in solving the case. They can't find a connection between Michiko Oshitani and Mutsuo Koshikawa. They soon learn that Michiko Oshitani came to Tokyo to visit Hiromi Asai . They graduated from the same school, but there isn't a connection between Hiromi Asai and Mutsuo Koshikawa. Detective Yuhei Matsumiya finds something near Michiko Oshitani's body. That something has the names of 12 bridges surrounding the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Detective Kyoichiro Kaga learns of the clue and becomes agitated. There's a connection with his late mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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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 81%
Snapdragon (1993)
Plot Summary:
An erotic amnesiac lures a police psychologist into a world of lust and danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, realistic, disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, scenic
Similar in 82%
Suspension of Disbelief (2012)
Plot Summary:
Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happened to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, mind bending, realistic
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In the Cut (2003)
Plot Summary:
Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, a self-determined woman living in New York City--as if to test the limits of her own safety--propels herself into an impossibly risky sexual liaison. Soon she grows increasingly wary about the motives of every man with whom she has contact--and about her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, France, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexual, sexy, erotic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, detective, serious, rough, psychosexual thriller
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Plasterhead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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Jagged Edge (1985)
Plot Summary:
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she hasn't handled a criminal case for many years. There's a certain chemistry between them and Teddy soon finds herself defending the man she loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, serious, psychosexual thriller, dark, twisted
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Righteous Kill (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, twist ending, intense, rough, serious, realistic, bad ending, detective
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The Forest (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, enigmatic, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark, psychological, suspense, serious, spooky, psychological thriller
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White Orchid (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shy and reserved, Claire Decker, 30ish, is a part-time investigator for Social Services. Typically, she solves cases where senior citizens have died alone, leaving no indication of who must handle their estate. This time however, Claire is reluctantly drawn into a puzzling murder case. The local police have been unable to solve the horrific crime, or even decipher the victim's true identity. A beautiful and enigmatic young blond, known only as "The White Orchid," has been brutally murdered. As Claire is drawn deeper and more intimately into the dead woman's life, she finds herself taking dangerous chances and pushing personal and professional boundaries. As she gets closer to the truth, Claire must effectively become the charismatic "White Orchid" in order to solve the mysterious crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense
Similar in 81%
Blink (1993)
Plot Summary:
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, suspense, neo noir, enigmatic, erotic, psychological thriller, gloomy
Similar in 86%
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Plot Summary:
Life takes a nasty twist for D.A. Rusty Sabich when the woman he has been romantically involved with is murdered. He is assigned to investigate the case, but is soon charged with the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, suspense, sexy, tricky, enigmatic, talky, intense
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Forgotten (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model for Jin-seok. One night, his beloved brother is kidnapped by unidentified assailants before Jin-seok’s eye. Jin-seok can’t recognize their faces, but can remember only the VIN that matches with no car. After long silence of 19 days, suddenly Yu-seok returns home, but remembers nothing which had happened in the meantime. And soon Jin-seok feels Yu-seok is a total stranger….
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, mind twisting, tense, twisted, exciting, mindfuck
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Taking Lives (2004)
Plot Summary:
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, scary, psychological, detective, tense, intense, suspenseful
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Horsemen (2009)
Plot Summary:
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, detective, scary, suspenseful, suspense, tense, serious, surprise ending, rough
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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