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Plot Summary:
The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and steal their cargoes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 187 min
Plot tags: gothic
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A Pattern of Roses (1983)
Plot Summary:
While his parents are renovating a cottage in an English village, Tim Ingram uncovers a mystery about the 15 year old boy who had once lived in the house and had died in 1910. With the help of his friend Rebecca, Tim investigates, but finds events from the past being mirrored in his own life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: gothic, weird
Similar in 77%
Hysteria (1997)
Plot Summary:
Legendary actor Patrick McGoohan turns his famous character from THE PRISONER upside down as the psychiatrist in charge of an insane asylum. He has connected his inmates into a group mind where they share each other's psychoses, dreams and sexuality with all the scary and titillating implications imaginable! Like his highly acclaimed cult classic MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH, director Rene Daalders provocative excursion into sci fi-horror filmmaking looks at first glance like a classic grindhouse movie, but it is up to much more. In addition to its operatic mayhem, HYSTERIA is a mind-expanding reflection on individual vs. group consciousness, power, control, and freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, psychotronic, independent film, psychological
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Guard No. 47 (2008)
Plot Summary:
A WW I veteran still haunted by his time in the trenches settles in a small town to work for the railroad company. His pretty wife attracts the attention of the lonely young gravedigger.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: crying
Similar in 75%
The Near Room (1995)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Colquhoun is a journalist whose career is floundering. As a teenager, he fathered a daughter, Tommy, who was committed to foster care as an infant. Seventeen years later, Charlie, Tommy and Charlie's old schoolmate Harris Hill, now a squeaky-clean solicitor, are reunited by a scandal that includes child pornography, blackmail and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Volaverunt (1999)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries, at a time when Madrid was wobbling through a difficult time and setting the scene for the following Prim vs Crown uprising.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: weird
Similar in 77%
Murder at the Mansion (2018)
Plot Summary:
As her wedding day approaches the would be bride uncovers some secrets at the family home of her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: emotional, psychotronic
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The Disappearance (1977)
Plot Summary:
Thriller about a contract killer whose wife has disappeared. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a "shy" or hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
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The Hawk (1993)
Plot Summary:
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Keeping Rosy (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman becomes enraged after being passed over for a promotion at her job.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, psychological, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Betrayal (1974)
Plot Summary:
A lonely widow hires a young woman as her companion. What she doesn't know is that the woman and her boyfriend are extortionists, who are planning on making her their next victim, then killing her when they get her money.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense
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Angelica (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple living in Victorian London endure an unusual series of psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 820
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, gothic, psychosexual thriller, bizarre, queer cinema
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The Other Wife (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kate is devastated to learn that her husband Billy has been living a double life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful
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The Haunting Passion (1983)
Plot Summary:
Dan was a successful football player, but when his contract expired recently, it wasn't renewed due to his age. Together with his wife Julie he decides to make a new start and they move into a romantic and lonesome house. While Dan starts a second career as newscaster, she's home alone and suffers from frightingly realistic erotic dreams, in which she has sex with an unknown man. Soon this demon even haunts her in broad daylight and attacks friends and husband out of jealousy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, detective
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The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie (1972)
Plot Summary:
A traveling salesman is lured by a precocious teenage girl to her shack in the desert for some sexual escapades. However, a scuzzy biker comes along and they both find themselves dominated and tormented by him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: minimal cast, surprise ending
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In Secret (2013)
Plot Summary:
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences. Based on Emile Zola’s novel, Thérèse Raquin.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia, Hungary, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, period piece, costume drama, historical drama, gothic, suspenseful, stylized, frightening
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My Cousin Rachel (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, period piece, costume drama, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, gothic, sweet, novela
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The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
Plot Summary:
Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Spain, Liechtenstein, USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Too Good to Be True (1988)
Plot Summary:
A self-entitled woman is determined to keep her new man to herself at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The House of Usher (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three years after her lover, Rick Usher, and her best friend, Maddy Usher, had suddenly disappeared from her life without explanation, Jill Masters receives a phone call with news of Maddy's death. Her last wish was for Jill to attend her funeral. Conflicted, Jill returns to the house of Usher, a remote New England enclave. Her love affair with Rick is rekindled as she learns he suffers from the same malady that robbed his twin sister, Maddy, of her sharp mind before taking her life. His affliction is manifested in a rare nerve condition, which renders him hyper-sensitive. Under the watchful eye of the caretaker, Nurse Thatcher, Jill appears to be haunted by the ghost of Maddy, and the secret of the house of Usher is exposed.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, sexy, scary, psychotronic
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Praying Mantis (1993)
Plot Summary:
A single man thinks he has finally found a woman who loves him. The woman is charming and intelligent but holds a very dark secret which will truly test how strong their relationship can be.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, tension, suspense
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Your Family or Your Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
A doctors life is turned upside down when her lawyer husband is found dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Presence of Mind (1999)
Plot Summary:
Henry James' classic tale of terror The Turn of the Screw receives yet another screen adaptation in this thriller shot in Spain. A young woman (Sadie Frost) is hired to serve as a governess for two children, Miles and Flora (Nilo Mur and Ella Jones). She is hired by their uncle, the Master (Harvey Keitel), who became the guardian of the youngsters after the death of their parents. While the governess is initially enthusiastic about her job, Miles and Flora soon prove to be quite a handful, and the housekeeper Mrs. Grose (Lauren Bacall), who oversees most of the activities at the Master's estate, is openly antagonistic to her. Before long, the governess discovers the house bears a dark secret involving Miss Jessel (Dayne Danika), the previous governess, and Fosc (Agusti Villaronga), the Master's former valet. El Celo was the first feature from director Antoni Aloy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 713
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, stylized, psychotronic
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Night of the Hunter (1991)
Plot Summary:
A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Undertow (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: harsh, suspense, suspenseful, depressing, intense, lyrical, cult classic, atmospheric, stylized, gothic
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Fishing Without Nets (2014)
Plot Summary:
In Somalia, principled, young husband and father Abdi turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone is his only connection to all he truly values. Abdi and his fellow pirates hit the high seas and capture a French oil tanker, demanding a hefty ransom. During the long, tedious wait for the cash to arrive, Abdi forges a tentative friendship with one of the hostages. When some of the pirates resort to violence, Abdi must make dramatic choices to determine his course.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Kenya, Somalia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, rough, suspenseful
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Committed (1991)
Plot Summary:
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, independent film, offbeat, surprise ending
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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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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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The Secret Agent (1996)
Plot Summary:
London of the late 19th century is a haven for political exiles of all sorts - refugees, partisans, anarchists. Verloc has made his living spying for the Russian goverment, an agent provacateur of sorts, while simultaneously providing information to the London police, specifically Chief Inspector Heat. When the new Russian ambassador demands he prove his worth or lose his salary, Verloc sets off a tragic chain of events that involves his pretty young wife Winnie, her retarded brother Stevie, and a figure called the Professor, whose fascination with explosives and destruction makes him the person to call on when Verloc needs a bomb.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, harsh, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, political thriller, bleak, light, romantic
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Cape Fear (1962)
Plot Summary:
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, black and white, noir, atmospheric, serious