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Plot Summary:
Twenty-five years ago Adib (Alexander Siddig, Syriana, Cairo Time), a promising young officer in the Syrian military police, suddenly left Damascus under suspicious circumstances. Abandoning the love of his life Fatima (Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler, The Ides of March), he made his way to Canada and wiped the slate clean. With a beautiful wife, two grown daughters, and a great job in Toronto, Adib is confident he s built a successful life from scratch. But when his daughter Muna suddenly disappears in Damascus, his past threatens to violently catch up to him. Teaming up with a Canadian emissary (Joshua Jackson, Fringe), Adib must now confront the turmoil he thought he left behind so many years ago in order to find Muna.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, South Africa
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, thought provoking, suspense, funny, realistic
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Disappeared (2004)
Plot Summary:
Harry Sands is a self made man, happily married with two children. When he learns that his daughter has gone missing in Istanbul, he flies out to find her. To Harry's horror, he discovers from Olivia's best friend, that the two of them have been working as nightclub dancers and not as the charity workers like Harry was led to believe. So begins the hunt for his missing daughter and a journey that turns into a nightmare as Harry is forced to face his own prejudices and mounting paranoia.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, suspense
Similar in 77%
The Devil You Know (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kathryn Vale (Lena Olin) is a reclusive ex-movie star with a dark secret and a daughter hoping to follow in her mother's movie-star footsteps. When Kathryn attempts to make a career comeback, she is threatened by an anonymous blackmailer. The resulting events force Kathryn to confront the truth about herself and those around her.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
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Stranger at the Door (2004)
Plot Summary:
Katherine "Kathy" is happily married to businessman Greg Norris and lives in his beautiful home with his about 18-year old daughter Tara. When suddenly a charming young man, who Tara first saw lurking around in the garden, turns up on their doorstep claiming he must be Jamie, the baby son she once gave up for adoption as a teenage mother on her parents' orders, the couple is delighted to meet him. They even take him in as they hear his adoptive parents have died in car accident and he's looking for a place to stay during his business studies just like Greg, to pay for which he held various jobs, even in Rio. The only one who remains suspicious is Tara, who doesn't want to be the kid sister and starts looking for holes is Jamie's story, going trough his things and having a friend examine his past- there are, since he didn't tell the Norris family about his lover who helps him unconditionally with his sinister hidden agenda.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Engaged to Kill (2006)
Plot Summary:
Abby Lord (Maria del Mar) is kidnapped and her husband Robert Lord (Joe Lando) has to pay off a million dollar ransom. Based on a True Life story.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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Crisis Point (2012)
Plot Summary:
Criminal psychologist Cameron Grainger is Detroit’s go-to hostage negotiator. Blaming herself when a crisis she’s handling goes wrong and a young man is killed, she removes herself from service. But she is called back into sudden and terrifying action when her own sister becomes a hostage and the assailants—with an agenda to be revealed—demand that Cameron be the one to negotiate her release.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Honour (2014)
Plot Summary:
A story centered on a young woman is targeted by her family for an "honour killing" and the bounty hunter who takes the job.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, realistic
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Non-Stop (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious emotional thriller about a woman who, after being left at the altar, has a brief liaison with a handsome stranger on a plane which ultimately puts her – and everyone else on the flight – in terrible danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense, offbeat, emotional, realistic
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The Nightmare Nanny (2013)
Plot Summary:
Stay-home mom Annie is reluctant to return to work, until she finds Amber, the perfect nanny for her 3-year-old daughter Jenny. But as Annie's young daughter grows closer and closer to Amber, Annie begins to feel like she's being pushed out of her own life. When Jenny suddenly vanishes one day,Annie's search for her missing daughter leads her to the terrifying truth about the dark past of the woman she trusted with her child.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, enigmatic, captivating, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Tommy (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a year abroad Estelle returns home to collect her husband's share of the loot from a major robbery.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Sri Lanka
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Holy Ghost People (2013)
Plot Summary:
On the trail of her missing sister, Charlotte enlists the help of Wayne, an ex-Marine and alcoholic, to infiltrate the Church of One Accord - a community of snake-handlers who risk their lives seeking salvation in the Holy Ghost.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, independent film
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Safehouse (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and now the ex-agent is forced back into the life he left behind to keep the thumb drive from the wrong hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film, exciting, realistic
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Deadly Encounter (2004)
Plot Summary:
Restaurant hostess and mom Joanne Sanders has to work late one night. After she leaves the restaurant she accidentally cuts a car off on the highway. This driver takes it personally and he begins to stalk and harass Joanne.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, suspense, tense, bleak, disturbing
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Mummy An' the Armadillo (2004)
Plot Summary:
Secrets, murders and lies... all in the name of family. In the middle of nowhere sits the Armadillo Café.The once popular, but now desolate, café is run by a strange family led a troubled, booze-addled mother (Betty Buckley) and a disturbed family (Lori Heuring, Brad Renfro, Jonathon Schaech). Their dark secrets are threatened when Sarah (Clare Kramer) arrives, seeking answers to her past.Turmoil reigns and emotions boil over as the horrifying truth unravels and Sarah barely escapes with her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, scary, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, suspense, independent film, atmospheric, realistic
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The Iris Effect (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles, Dr. Sarah Hathaway hired private eyes trying to find her missing son, the painter Thomas, who ran away from their home ten years ago after a quarrel with her. She finds a clue in a catalog of a panting exhibition in San Petersburg and she decides to travel alone to Russia to search for Thomas. Once there, she is not able to locate him and she has a nervous breakdown, but with the support of Dr. Ivan and helped by a street boy, she discloses what happened with her son.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective
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A Sister's Secret (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Katherine (Alexandra Paul) finds out her father's company is about to close the paper mill they own in her hometown in rural Pennsylvania, she comes up with a plan to save it. Needing the approval of the city council, she goes back and runs into someone from her past: Jane (Cynthia Preston). Years ago, in high school, Katherine dated Jane's twin brother Sean, who subsequently committed suicid.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, exciting, suspense, disturbing
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Secrets From Her Past (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, Kate Collins (Ashley Jones) was a different person. Literally. She was living in Chicago, working as a bartender, and going by her real name ‘Stephanie Wickers.’ That all changed when she witnessed the murder of her boss by a ruthless member of an up and coming crime syndicate named Alek Ravik (Al Sapienza). Knowing that Klebanov saw her, she faked her death, changed her name, and went into hiding in Philadelphia. When a crooked cop retires and young, eager Detective Miesen (Alain Chanoine) is chosen to head a new task force to tackle crime syndicates in Chicago, the unsolved murder case is reopened. Miesen believes that Kate/Stephanie is still alive and begins to look for her. Unfortunately, so does Alek.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic
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Seduced by Lies (2010)
Plot Summary:
Brad Sterling arrives by yacht as a handsome dream prince, and the discrete favorite nephew and brilliant investor of his tycoon uncle Wade. Charles Colton's ingrate heiress Laura eagerly dates him and puts him in the guest-house, partially as spiteful as alliterative to workaholic tycoon pa's preferred son-in-law Jonathan Lawson, son of tycoon Richard. People who warn fickle Laura get irate reactions, best friend Ava even dies in a suspicious hit and run, yet Laura also turns on either suitor in turn, oblivious to serious indications of manipulation.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Cyberstalker (2012)
Plot Summary:
After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Enemies Among Us (2010)
Plot Summary:
It's not politics as usual, or is it? The governor of Louisiana is about to become the vice-presidential candidate for his party but a murder and an international web spanning from South Africa to Pakistan and North Korea might just get in the way.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, rough, realistic
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Breakout (2013)
Plot Summary:
A pair of criminals try to track down the kids who witnessed them commit a murder in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating, cliffhanger
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A Sight for Sore Eyes (2003)
Plot Summary:
When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
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Confined (2010)
Plot Summary:
A couple moves into a quiet neighborhood. With too much time on her hands, the woman begins to suspect that someone is confined in the basement next door.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Missing at 17 (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to save her adopted daughter from a criminal, with help from the girl's biological mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating
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Border Run (2012)
Plot Summary:
A female American reporter searches for her missing brother against the backdrop of violence and human smuggling across the US/Mexican border.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, realistic, independent film
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Greetings to the Devil (2011)
Plot Summary:
A former guerrilla is reluctantly drawn into the vengeance scheme of one of his victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter (2012)
Plot Summary:
Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of international contacts, Hamilton manages to get them on track. Hamilton, along with some military colleagues, plans a daring rescue mission.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, rough, realistic
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Kidnap (2008)
Plot Summary:
A fortnight before her eighteenth birthday, Sonia goes missing. Her family receives a call informing them that she has been kidnapped and her estranged father, a US-based businessman, must now follow the kidnapper’s instructions to the letter if he is to entertain any hopes of seeing her alive again. Is this a mere kidnapping or is there more to it than what meets the eye?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, China
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
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Tyrant (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of an unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation. Bassam "Barry" Al Fayeed, the younger son of the dictator of a war-torn nation, ends a self-imposed 20-year exile to return to his homeland, accompanied by his American wife and children, for his nephew's wedding. Barry’s reluctant homecoming leads to a dramatic clash of cultures as he is thrown back into the familial and national politics of his youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspenseful, stylized, serious, realistic, political, dramatic, political drama
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Comes a Bright Day (2012)
Plot Summary:
A romantic thriller set during the armed robbery of one of London’s most exclusive jewellers. Sometimes funny, often dark, always captivating and never what you expect.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, interesting
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Living in Fear (2001)
Plot Summary:
A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful