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Plot Summary:
After young policewoman Gina Pulasky succeeds in handling a domestic fight particularly well, she's added to a small team of detectives assigned to a case of gruesome child killings. She proves herself to be a worthwhile reinforcement by tracking down the prime suspect, a disturbingly smart young man named Kyle Timler. Much to the horror of her team mate and lover Will McCaid, Pulasky goes undercover to infiltrate in Timler's life and trying to get as close to him as necessary to make him confess his crimes without even noticing it. A dangerous mission involving a process of growing identification with the killer, something that doesn't leave Pulasky unscathed.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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House of Bodies (2016)
Plot Summary:
While indulging his appetite for the grim and gruesome by patronizing a voyeuristic Web site that's based in a house where a serial killer once lived, a hearing-impaired boy begins to suspect that the site's violence is more than just make-believe.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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A Killer Walks Amongst Us (2016)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by the ghosts of the past, an ex FBI agent helps the police on a case of a murdered teenager to track the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Journalist (2015)
Plot Summary:
An unsuccessful journalist becomes a star after he writes an article about the memo of an unknown serial killer. But when he learns that the memo was just part of a novel, he decides to cover up everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Silent Hours (2021)
Plot Summary:
Private detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are brutally murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending
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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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Sketches of a Strangler (1978)
Plot Summary:
An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One victim's sister starts looking for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Killer by Nature (2010)
Plot Summary:
The troubled teenager Owen Whitmore has a sleep disorder and occasionally sleepwalks. Owen is having therapy sessions with Dr. Katherine Ramos. Having just joined the medical school, he has to move to another town, but he is divided between the college and his sweetheart, Maggie. His parents Leona and Walter Whitmore are very worried about him. When Owen has violent dreams, Dr. Ramos decides to consult with Dr. Jonas Julian, a specialist in dream analysis and sleep disorders. Meanwhile, people are protesting in front of the Townsend State Prison where the infamous serial killer Dr. Eugene "Mean Gene" Branch will be executed. Dr. Eugene is the son of another serial-killer and had performed sadistic medical experiments on his victims. Out of the blue, Marcia Freeman who went missing, is found dead in precisely the way that Owen saw in his dreams - the murder set up as if carried out by Dr. Branch.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic, independent film, slasher
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Sketch Artist (1992)
Plot Summary:
A sketch artist for the police helps a witness recall who she saw leaving the scene of a murder, and discovers that the person is his wife. Not willing to believe she was responsible, he resketches the pictures so they don't look like her, and he begins his own investigation of the murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, neo noir
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Night Sins (1997)
Plot Summary:
A female FBI investigator takes over jurisdiction in Dear Lake, a small northern town just as a young boy is abducted. Her investigation leads to a bigger series of abductions and murders dating back over 20 years. Her investigation also brings her into a mutual attraction with the small-town police chief who shares her investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, melancholic, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Pack (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the dead of the night, in the heart of a forest: a car. Inside, inhaling carbon monoxide, a man awakens. He finds himself surrounded by three other men, apparently dead. It's the image of a perfect collective suicide. But they're all in chains. He struggles desperately until he manages to turn off the engine. Little by little, his mysterious companions come to their senses. They don't know one another and nobody understands how they got there. They try to piece it all together, their last memories, the previous hours. And soon enough, conflict and mistrust rise to the surface. Nothing is as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Murder Unresolved (2016)
Plot Summary:
A woman is the prime suspect in the mysterious drowning death of her anchorwoman sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Head Hunter (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1972 the tranquility of a coastal town in California is broken as hitch-hiking girls begin to go missing and corpses start showing up. Welcome to Murder City.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Deal (2015)
Plot Summary:
A cop catches a serial killer who murdered his sister but never finds her body. The lack of closure torments him and drives his brother-in-law insane, who makes a deal with the mafia for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Secret of Hidden Lake (2006)
Plot Summary:
After her dad is critically injured in a so-called hunting accident, Maggie returns to her hometown in the mountains of Colorado to be by his side. But during her stay, this devoted daughter learns that the shooting was no mistake. As Maggie attempts to unravel the mystery of what really happened, secrets start to surface that put her life in grave danger! Grab some popcorn and kick back for this thrill ride.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Pharmacist (2003)
Plot Summary:
An ecological pharmacist uses ancient Celtic techniques to murder industrial magnates whose practices harm the planet.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Stray Bullets (2016)
Plot Summary:
In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Locked In (2021)
Plot Summary:
A single mother must protect her daughter and herself during a heist gone wrong at a high-tech storage facility.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense
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Midnight (2021)
Plot Summary:
A tense night for Kyung-mi and her mother (both hearing-impaired) when they fall prey to a charismatic murderer in the dark alleys of Seoul.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
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Time of Fear (2002)
Plot Summary:
Time of Fear is a taut psychological thriller thrusting an FBI agent and a grieving father into the dark world of a demented killer. FBI Agent Cheryl Hammer, arrives in a small California town to catch an elusive killer. Seeing no help forthcoming from the Sheriff, she turns to the only other person who can help her, Jack Barone, a grieving father whose daughter, Lisa, was the victim of a similar slaying ten years prior. The killer's clues are a perversion of Biblical punishments for sins: stoning, burning, decapitation. Jack and Agent Hammer turn to Father Patrick, a Catholic priest, for help. As the clock ticks down, a young female friend of Jack's is kidnapped and may become the next casualty. The harrowing rescue of the young woman opens the door to a dark history hidden below the surface, revealing the true identity of the killer and answering the mystery of who killed Jack's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Girl Is in Trouble (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 985
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Happy Face Killer (2014)
Plot Summary:
Serial killer Keith Jesperson murders at least eight women over a five-year span and taunts authorities with disturbing letters and scribbled confessions signed with a happy face.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Killing Game (2011)
Plot Summary:
Eve Duncan is contacted, 10 years after the disappearance and murder of her 7-year-old daughter Bonnie, by a man claiming to be her killer. Taunted by his clues about Bonnie's case and his threats to kill again, she throws herself into her career as a forensic sculptor and works to close the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, serious, realistic
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Who Killed Atlanta's Children? (2000)
Plot Summary:
From 1979 to 1981, 29 African-American males, mostly children, were either missing or found murdered in metro Atlanta. The cases plagued the city until 1982, when Wayne Wiiliams was convicted of the murders of two adult men. Authorities then considered the other cases closed. Some of the parents of the slain children were critical of the way the cases were handled and believed there was some sort of cover up. Nearly four years after the conviction of Williams, "Spin" magazine editor Ron Larson and reporter Pat Laughlin come to Atlanta in search of the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere, thought provoking
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Awakening the Zodiac (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a down-on-their-luck couple who discovers a serial killer's film reels. They decide to take the law into their own hands, risking everything for the chance at a $100,000 reward. It isn't long until they find themselves in the killer's lethal cross-hairs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense
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The Sovereign (2008)
Plot Summary:
For two months a serial killer has been terrorizing the city of St. Petersburg. Every Wednesday a girl between 9 and 12 years old is the victim. The brutality of the maniac plunges city residents into horror. Parents are afraid of leaving their children alone on the street. The press reinforces the atmosphere of fear and hysteria.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, detective
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Bundy and the Green River Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
A police detective consults with incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy to help him catch The Green River Killer. Based on terrifying true life elements which inspired Silence of the Lambs. In 1984, police in Washington State are investigating a spate of serial murders committed by a mysterious man known as The Green River Killer. With no leads to go on, the detective in charge of the case consults with psychologists in an attempt to get inside the mind of the killer. But when that doesn't produce a positive result and the killings continue, the detective realizes that the only way to understand what makes a serial killer tick is to meet one. So he visits the imprisoned Ted Bundy, one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychological, atmospheric, clever, suspense, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful
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She's Just a Shadow (2019)
Plot Summary:
A crime family becomes entangled in a vicious gang war while a serial killer cuts a swath through Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Gunman (2004)
Plot Summary:
When Detective Ben Simm's wife is killed, he has to learn to be both father and mother to his little girl while searching for a Vigilante that has his own sense of justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film, bleak, realistic
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Psycho Storm Chaser (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a massive hurricane threatens the Brody Peninsula, Abby Fields, a full-time nurse to a housebound coma patient, is forced to stay behind to care for her. This puts her directly in the hurricane's path, but even worse - it puts her directly in the path of Dr. Carl Highstrom, a storm chasing serial killer who uses storms to cover up his heinous crimes.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase ‘serial killer’.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological