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Plot Summary:
When a double-crossing husband runs off with his wife's ransom money, her kidnappers come after him and the missing money. He leads them on a treacherous journey through the wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger
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The Deadliest Lesson (2008)
Plot Summary:
A gang of violent teenagers uses detention class to get revenge on the teacher who identified a friend as the gunman in a deadly shooting.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Blind Man's Bluff (1992)
Plot Summary:
A blind professor is accused by the police of killing his neighbor and must clear his name by finding the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Dusk (2015)
Plot Summary:
John Whitmore wakes to find his wife, Anne, has disappeared from their bed overnight and a recorded ransom message now remains in her place.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Deadly Daycare (2014)
Plot Summary:
Rachel decides to take her three year old daughter to daycare. As the days pass, the woman feels that the teacher turns too with her daughter, reaching an almost obsessive relationship.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Cheer For Your Life (2021)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl’s spirits are crushed as she suffers through a humiliating “Cheerleader Initiation Week,” but her dreams aren’t the only thing in danger when another girl on the squad turns up dead, and when she disappears herself, her mom will have to rush to save her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Terror in the Shadows (1995)
Plot Summary:
Five years ago, Christine went after the baby she gave up for adoption, claiming he'd been stolen, and wound up killing Alex Williams' wife and the baby the Williams' had adopted. Now, Alex has remarried to a woman with a young son and when Christine escapes from a mental institution, she heads straight for Alex, looking for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Wrong Babysitter (2017)
Plot Summary:
A recent kidnapping has single mom Susan worried about leaving her daughter Christy at home for an out-of-town trip - until neighbor Teri offers to "babysit," looking in on Christy and spending the night. But Susan rushes home when Christy goes missing, under circumstances reminiscent of her police detective husband's death. Susan will have to open the past wound of her husband's death in order to rescue the only family she has left.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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The Last Hour (1991)
Plot Summary:
A former cop's ex-wife marries a stockbroker, who it turns out has cheated the Mafia out of a large sum of money. They kidnap the wife to force the husband to pay the money back. The ex-cop has to rescue her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Tripwire (1989)
Plot Summary:
A band of ruthless international terrorists led by Josef Szabo (David Warner) hijack a speeding railroad train loaded with a full arsenal of powerful military weaponry capable of threatening world peace. The only hero who can stop the terrorists' scheme for world domination is Jack DeForest (Terence Knox). During the battle between good and evil the hero DeForest accidentally kills the son of the Szabo. Seeking revenge Szabo locates DeForest’s family, murders his wife and kidnaps their teenage son thereby turning their fight it into a personal vendetta. So, DeForest must fight not only to save the world, but for his only remaining family.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (1995)
Plot Summary:
Police sketch artist, Jack, helps blind rape victim Emmy describe her attacker.. a serial rapist and murderer who is now out to get her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Kissing Place (1990)
Plot Summary:
Every night the boy dreams he is someone else. Someone in danger. A crazy woman is after him. A woman who cannot have a son of her own. A story about a kidnapped boy, who finds out that the people he thought were his parents are his kidnappers. The film is about his escape and search for his home.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Private Obsession (1995)
Plot Summary:
First-class fashion model Emanuelle Griffith is missing. Richard Tate knows exactly where she is and plans to keep her there until she knows her place: subordinate to men. But Emannuelle is waiting for her chance to turn his obsession. That one second of passion in which the prisoner becomes the hostage taker.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychosexual thriller, erotic, independent film, cult film
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Terror in the Night (1994)
Plot Summary:
A fugitive killer posing as a policeman arrests two campers in the Arizona mountains.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Fever (1991)
Plot Summary:
Fresh out of prison, all Ray wants is to get back with Lacy, but she's in a stable relationship now with Elliott, a pacifist, and wants nothing to do with him. When she's kidnapped by Ray's former associates, he and Elliott must team up to save the woman they love.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Wildcat (2021)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious reporter stationed in the Middle East who is taken captive after her convoy is ambushed. She is confronted by the trauma of her past and must find a way to bring down the militants who incarcerated her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Body Chemistry II: Voice of a Stranger (1991)
Plot Summary:
A man is torn between two women and his own violent self, born of child abuse.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychotronic, independent film, hot, cult film
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Mother's Milk (2013)
Plot Summary:
Claude is an easily overlooked statistics professor. After a childhood trauma left him motherless, he formed a dysfunctional craving. To satisfy the depraved hunger, he kidnaps Kim from the park and holds her captive in his basement. As the days pass and Claude’s truths are revealed, her fear slowly turns to comfort and compassion…or does it?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, captivating, suspense
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Vengeance (1980)
Plot Summary:
Four hoodlums break into a jeweller's house and brutally murder him, his wife and daughter. On the run they kidnap Jenny, a Senator's grand daughter and her boyfriend, but discover that the two will not be taken easily. In the melee that follows, the gang are blown away one by one, until the final vengeful confrontation between Jenny and the remaining gang member.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher
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Amber Alert (2016)
Plot Summary:
A 20 year old man takes a bus full of young children hostage in exchange for money to help his sick mother. Meanwhile a detective must over come doubt from family and co-workers while she tries to negotiate with the hostage taker.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Echo (1997)
Plot Summary:
Twin brothers are separated at birth after their parents are killed in a car accident. One grows up to have a good and successful life, and the other to be a disturbed young man who now plans to achieve the perfect life by stealing his brother's.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Blind Obsession (2001)
Plot Summary:
Police officer Jack Fletcher is injured in a gun battle resulting in the loss of his sight.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Stolen by Their Father (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story of a mother whose two young daughters are kidnapped by her abusive ex-husband—and her all-consuming fight to get them back.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, independent film, dark, suspenseful, teen, gloomy
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Freak Out (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1977, teenager Wayne (Nick Foster) gathers his two friends, female runaway Rhonda (Sarah Ogg) and disco club hopper Tim (David Gobble), for a drug party located in the suburban home of quiet recluse Dean (Brad Jones). But unknown to Tim and Rhonda are the horrible secrets which lie in Dean's basement storage room. Dean is the uncaptured child murderer who uses his basement as a torture dungeon with the help of Wayne and fellow teenager David (Buford Stowers). When the drugs and alcohol mix get higher throughout the night, not even so called friends are safe from the sadistic bloodlust of Dean. Inspired by the true story of notorious serial murderer Dean Corll.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Held for Ransom (1976)
Plot Summary:
Kidnapped, blindfolded, transported in the trunk of a car, this is a true story of a Christian woman who experienced the peace and grace through her abduction that only Christ can give.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Rapt (2009)
Plot Summary:
A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, bleak, contemplative
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Five Fingers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, however, Martijn is abducted by a group of terrorists, injected with a debilitating drug, and imprisoned. Under threat of death, the young man engages in a mental chess match with Ahmat, trying to learn his captor's true objective and avoid a horrible fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mind blowing, twisted, emotional, twist ending, perverse, exciting
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Devil's Pond (2003)
Plot Summary:
What starts out as a romantic honeymoon on a deserted island turns into a horrible nightmare as Julianne discovers that her new husband is psychotic.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, serious, suspense, scary
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The Call (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, tense, twist ending, realistic, serious, intense, teen
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Along Came a Spider (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a teacher kidnaps a girl from a prestigious school, homicide detective, Alex Cross takes the case and teams up with young security agent, Jezzie Flannigan in hope of finding the girl and stopping the brutal psychopath. Every second counts as Alex and Jezzie attempt to track down the kidnapper before the spider claims another victim for its web.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, detective, twist ending, tense, psychological thriller, clever, intense