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Plot Summary:
In this eerie hospital chiller, a medical student wakes up in an isolation room, gravely ill with no idea how she got there or how to get out. Trying to make sense of her plight and save herself, she finds the hospital staff distinctly unhelpful.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychological, slasher, realistic
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Footsteps (2003)
Plot Summary:
Daisy Lowendahl (Bergen) is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan (Hall) who knows almost everything about her, and two men - one of whom may be trying to kill her, the other of whom could save her life, causing Daisy to be thrown into the middle of a real-life drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, enigmatic, bleak, scenic, psychological, serious, realistic
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The Last Stop (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of quircky, snow bound, strangers discover there are killers amongst them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, tense, mind bending, realistic
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The Accidental Witness (2006)
Plot Summary:
Victor Sandeman is a senior partner with Brunel Global Securities. He is experiencing major financial problems, ones that can be solved if the planned $100 million merger of the company takes place. However, the company's owner, Raymond Brunel, is against the merger. Thinking that he can overpower the ineffective David Brunel, Raymond's grandson and the company's heir apparent, Victor murders the elderly Raymond (trying to make it look like a death by natural causes) so that he can go ahead with the planned merger. The one glitch in the murder is a possible witness, Christine Sternwald. A paralegal and aspiring lawyer, Christine is just putting her life back together following a sexual assault three years earlier. When Victor and Christine meet shortly after the murder in a fender bender with Victor driving the deceased Raymond's car, Victor is forced to identify himself to her as Raymond Brunel.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, exciting
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Haunted Echoes (2008)
Plot Summary:
Laura (Sean Young) and Guy (David Starzyk) are devastated by grief when their 8-year-old daughter, Kimberly, is murdered. Hoping to repair their tattered marriage, they move to a quiet town to remodel an old mansion, but weird things start to happen in this eerie ghost story. Laura is convinced that they are being visited Kimberly's spirit, and Guy ultimately believes her, but is it really their daughter who is urging them to seek vengeance?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, serious
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Terror Trap (2010)
Plot Summary:
Driving to a weekend getaway, a car breakdown strands young couple Don and Nancy (David James Elliot and Heather Marsden) while passing through a small, rural Louisiana town. Finding the couple on the roadside, the towns inhospitable Sheriff Taylor (Jeff Fahey) tells them therell be no one to repair their car before morning. He directs them to a nearby motel for the night run by Carter (Michael Madsen). Checking into the seedy, rundown establishment, Don and Nancy have no way of knowing how this place deals with outsiders. Badge aside, the Sherriff answers to Carter, as do a gang of twisted, masked kidnappers, torturers, and killers. By the time Don and Nancy realize whats happening, its too late to flee. They must fight to survive the night, or be the next victims of the Terror Trap.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, psychotronic
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Interstate (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Montreal DJ, following his girlfriend to Los Angeles, falls into a deadly relationship with a couple of female hitch-hikers.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir, serious, realistic, cult film
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Zephyr Springs (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Dawn, an overworked single mother, agrees to take her teenage daughter, Kayla, to a luxurious but isolated spa retreat, the women believe they have escaped to a paradise of spa treatments, yoga, and nature hikes until a series of disturbing incidents has Kayla questioning the perfection around her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, scary, realistic
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Murder on the 13th Floor (2012)
Plot Summary:
A neglectful mother concocts a plan to kill her live-in nanny when she discovers the nanny is having an affair with her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, psychosexual thriller
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Unrest (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young pathology med student suspects that the spirit of a dead cadaver in the hospital morgue where she works is killing off all those who handle or desecrate the body.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, dark, brutal, suspense, slasher, medical horror
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Home Sweet Home (2012)
Plot Summary:
After going broke, Gwen Stevens is forced to return to her abandoned childhood home hoping to pick up the pieces of her life. Among the relics and memories of her past, she discovers someone is living in the house and they don't want to leave. In the New Mexico desert, miles from safety, Gwen must fight to protect the only thing she has left. Her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, serious, realistic, independent film
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Nowhere in Sight (2001)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - Helen Slater, Christopher Heyerdahl, Andrew McCarthy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, independent film, tense
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The Contract (1999)
Plot Summary:
Anna has a bad week. Her boss is a pain to her, as is the grocery store clerk. Her friend was bad to her, her husband couldn't take his eyes off a waitress, and her babysitter annoyed her. One night at the local pub, she tells a man about her problems and he says he can solve them if she just signs a paper. The next day, her boss has been brutally murdered. Soon, Anna realizes everybody she knows is in danger, including her family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, independent film, scary, realistic
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The Stray (2000)
Plot Summary:
After a drifter is struck by a car the driver offers to take him back from the hospital to her home in order to nurse him back to health...which turns out to be one of the biggest mistakes of her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, independent film, realistic, detective
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Teenage Bank Heist (2012)
Plot Summary:
Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real time, ticking clock thriller, as the girls are on the run from the police, we learn that the real motivation behind the robbery is something unexpected.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, realistic
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The Lost Angel (2005)
Plot Summary:
Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
Ghost Image (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a young female video editor loses her boyfriend in a car crash, she finds solace in watching video of him taken the night before he died. When he starts to communicate with her through that video, she must decide if he has broken through the barrier between this world and the next, or has she slipped off into madness.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, enigmatic, mind bending, realistic
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Prisoner (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood director is taken prisoner while scouting a remote prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, controversial
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True Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
On the surface, Kate and Jack, late 20's, are happy. But like everyone, they carry secrets that neither of them is prepared to reveal. After their wedding, they wake from a deep, dark sleep, each alone in a sealed room with no doors or windows, just a projection screen and a monitor with two buttons: one for “yes”, one for “no”. As the horror of their situation unfolds, surveillance films showing their life together, appear on the screen as the monitor asks questions, each more strange and terrifying that the last. It soon becomes apparent that a bizarre test of their relationship is underway, and the secrets revealed lead them deeper and deeper into what could not just destroy their love, but threaten their very lives….
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, independent film
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Suspended Animation (2001)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood animator Tom (Alex McArthur) gets lost in the Michigan woods after a snowmobile ride goes wrong. He finds refuge at an isolated cabin inhabited by two sisters (Laura Esterman and Sage Allen). Initially grateful to them, Tom soon realizes that the women are cannibals who peg him as their next meal. Tom's friends manage to rescue him, but he's perpetually haunted by his horrific ordeal.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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The Life Zone (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kidnapped by a mysterious figure, three women find themselves trapped in an abandoned hospital. Held against their will for months, the prisoners are faced with life-transforming decisions and must struggle for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, independent film, surprise ending, twist ending
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Visible Scars (2012)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those same woods to escape her abusive boyfriend. There she is haunted by the ghosts of the little girls crying for their mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, spooky, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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No Through Road (2008)
Plot Summary:
The serenity of another quiet evening is shattered for an amateur photographer when a desperate woman takes refuge in his humble suburban home. Reluctantly, he is pulled into a cat and mouse game with her pursuers. Only dawn will reveal the blood-soaked fallout of being alone in the middle of suburbia.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film, scary, realistic, suspenseful, slasher
Similar in 78%
Kaaterskill Falls (2001)
Plot Summary:
A romantic road trip to the Catskills for some much-needed time alone turns bumpy for Ren (Hilary Howard) and Mitchell (Mitchell Riggs) in this indie film directed by Josh Apter and Peter Olsen. After picking up a hitchhiker, Lyle (Anthony Leslie), their dream vacation becomes a nightmare, especially when he appears at their cabin hours after they drop him off at the side of the road. At Kaaterskill Falls, the mounting tension takes its toll.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, realistic
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For Elise (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young college is responsible for the care of an innocent little girl, but soon all he knows give a twist that will endanger his own life. All begin when crossing under the floor of the third floor to the left, a road without knowing directly the door open to the forces of evil, freeing them at will through the building. A desperate race to save the lives when terror and pure evil are in the next aisle.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, serious, scary, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Deadly Cargo (2003)
Plot Summary:
Journalist Sara joins timid Victor and pregnant wife Thais, instructors Ivan and Edgar, and local kid Drui in Senegal for some underwater exploration. When their craft blows up following a misfired bullet, they float around in the water for a while before seeing a ship. Their initial relief turns to horror as they see a man being tipped into the water from it but the ship is the group's only option. Hiding on board, things start to unravel for them in a horrific way.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic
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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
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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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Trapped: Buried Alive (2002)
Plot Summary:
The management of a ski resort blatantly ignores a local expert's warning that a mass of snow has build up which is just waiting to come down the ski slopes in a terrible avalanche. Instead of clearing the endangered area, skiers are allowed to remain 'for the rest of the day'. Nature doesn't wait till after business hours, so the crystallized wave rushes down and crushes everything on its path, including a brand new hotel; among the guests is the architect Michael Cooper's own family, which now tries to remember the plans well enough to find the way out, as he tries to instruct the rescue operation above, where a second, even larger avalanche is expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
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The Employer (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five highly qualified applicants interview for a coveted job with the Carcharias Corporation, a powerful conglomerate whose business practices are shrouded in mystery. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and drugged. The next day, they wake up trapped together in a locked room without any hope of escape. Soon the true nature of their situation is revealed when they receive a phone call from the mysterious CEO of Carcharias, known only as The Employer. He informs them that they are about to experience the final interview, but it's not at all what they were expecting.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, psychological, realistic, independent film
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Wreckage (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jared, Kate, Rick, and Jessica find themselves stranded in a wreckage yard after their car breaks down during a drag race. Meanwhile, the sheriff's office receives notice that a convict escaped from a local state prison. As the teenagers mysteriously disappear one by one, the killer grows hungry and the thriller continues to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending