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Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Deadly Strangers (1975)
Plot Summary:
After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to get away from a lecherous trucker, she is given a ride by a good-looking but somewhat mysterious young man, who she comes to suspect may be a dangerous escapee from a mental asylum.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: road movie, offbeat, neo noir, independent film, rough, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, twist ending, freeze frame
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The Stranger Within (1990)
Plot Summary:
A troubled young man mysteriously appears in a rural Minnesota town from which he claims he was abducted 16 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, neo noir, crying
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The Hollywood Beach Murders (1992)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - Two cops are sent cross-country by train (on board the titular Hollywood Beach) to return a suspect in a murder case that's been closed. But a brutal murder that has all the earmarks of the one just solved, along with the presence of a crime boss on board the train, plants a seed of doubt in the cops' minds as to whether the original murderer is still on the loose. Stars Frank Gorshin and Rebecca Holden. Directed by Eric Straton. - Frank Gorshin, Rebecca Holden, David Regal.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Angel (2015)
Plot Summary:
Angel, a woman who was horribly abused by her grandmother as a little girl and institutionalized after killing her, embarks on a killing spree as an adult. Though sentenced for the rest of her life to an insane asylum, Angel was released due to inside governmental pressure while being pronounced dead in order to avoid public outcry. Now Angel’s on the loose again, and a government agent is ordered to kill her in order to cover up the blunder.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, political thriller, suspenseful
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Framed for Murder (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a woman falsely accused of murdering her husband is released from prison after 8 years, she hires a private investigator, determined to find out who framed her. What she doesn't know, is that the killer is about to do it again.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating
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The Baby Doll Murders (1993)
Plot Summary:
A Los Angeles cop tracks a serial killer who leaves a broken baby doll at the site of each grisly crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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The Last Bid (2016)
Plot Summary:
When two female friends decide to try their hand at a storage locker auction, they unwittingly inherit a locker belonging to a dangerous serial killer. They soon find themselves in a desperate race to uncover the truth about the locker before the killer tracks them down.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Layla Fourie (2013)
Plot Summary:
Layla Fourie, a young single-mother in South Africa, receives a job assignment as polygraphist. In the constant presence of mistrust, lies and fear Layla soon becomes a suspect herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, France, Netherlands
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Nightmare Come True (1997)
Plot Summary:
Eerie dreams that haunt a young nurse heighten the mystery surrounding her mother's sudden disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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The Aviary (2022)
Plot Summary:
A twisted journey of two women’s desperate flee to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by the promise of “freedom” in the isolated desert campus called The Aviary, Jillian and Blair join forces to escape in hopes of real freedom. Consumed by fear and paranoia, they can’t shake the feeling that they are being followed by the cult’s leader, Seth, a man as seductive as he is controlling. The more distance the pair gains from the cult, the more Seth holds control of their minds. With supplies dwindling and their senses failing, Jillian and Blair are faced with a horrifying question: how do you run from an enemy who lives inside your head?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller
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The Face of Fear (1990)
Plot Summary:
Graham Harris was once one of the world's foremost mountain climbers, until a fall five years earlier left him with a lame leg, a fear of heights...and a frightening psychic ability in which he can see murders as they are happening.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Til Death Do Us Part (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman investigates the past of her seemingly ideal husband, a doctor who starts to become increasingly hostile.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological thriller
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Follow the Crows (2018)
Plot Summary:
Long after the end of the world people wander the fields and woods that once housed the cities of Britain, in search of food, warmth and anything that may help them survive. One of these survivors is The Man (Max Curtis), haunted by the terrible deeds he did in his youth, he isolates himself from human contact. However, when he finds a Woman (Daniella Faircloth) in need of his help he inadvertently begins a relationship that will teach them both what it is to be human again. Meanwhile, a crazed Killer (Marcus Starr) stalks his victims, picking them off one by one, in a desperate search for vengeance and closure. As he approaches the end of his list the Killer begins to consider what he will do when his task is complete and he has nothing left to live for. A post-apocalyptic thriller, with strong elements of horror and drama, "Follow The Crows" is an unsettling look at a world stripped of technology and society, of humanity and the people whom inhabit this bleak, uncompromising and.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, independent film
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Caboose (1996)
Plot Summary:
An abandoned caboose becomes a junkie's hideout, a multiple murder has been committed. A police investigation leads nowhere, the crime remains unsolved, and Marceau, a hardened cop, resigns in the aftermath. But his troubles don't end there: someone is stalking him and his life is in danger. To save himself, Marceau recruits Camille, a young woman drummed out of the police academy for her inability to fire a gun. They make a pact: Camille agrees to flush out Marceau's potential murderer and Marceau, in exchange, undertakes to remunerate and train her. Camille plunges into Marceau's seedy underworld and encounters a raft of suspects. As Camille sinks deeper and deeper into this sordid world, she comes to terms with its violence and understands that the line between good and evil is narrow indeed. From this insight she draws the strength that had previously eluded her. Marceau's legacy... But who, exactly, is Marceau?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir
Similar in 82%
Rainbow Drive (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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River (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the south of Laos, an American volunteer doctor becomes a fugitive after he intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman. When the assailant's body is pulled from the Mekong River, things quickly spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, serious, suspense
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Straight on Till Morning (1972)
Plot Summary:
Brenda moved to London to begin living those intoxicated fantasies that all young women imagine city life to offer. Soon after her arrival she begins a relationship with Peter with whom she is tremendously happy. When she becomes pregnant Peter's behaviour towards her alters as he reveals the most frightening and unpredictable side of his personality. He forces Brenda to listen to a series of recordings, exposing a past of shocking cruelty of sadistic murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, noir, independent film, psychological thriller, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neurotic
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Tower Block (2012)
Plot Summary:
A year after witnessing a murder, residents of Tower Block 31 find themselves being picked off by a sniper, pitting those lucky enough to be alive into a battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, scary, action thriller, mindfuck, thrilling
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Sixteen (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jumah is about to turn 16 and is already in need of a fresh start. Burdened with the shameful legacy of a past as a child soldier in the Congo, he lives with his adoptive mother in west London, where he struggles to keep a lid on his history of violence. One night, enjoying a rare carefree evening out with a new friend, Jumah witnesses something that draws him seemingly inescapably into his old ways. As he and others around him begin to question whether he can ever stop being a soldier, he’s set on a path to find out who he truly wishes to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Dig (2022)
Plot Summary:
A widower and his deaf daughter are held hostage and forced to dig under their house, revealing dark secrets from the past.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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The Perfect Stalker (2016)
Plot Summary:
Grace Winston has HPD (Histrionic Personality Disorder) - After murdering her husband, she moves to Philadelphia and finds herself in love and obsessed with her neighbor - How to make him fall for her? She invents an imaginary stalker, and she'll need his help.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, sexy, detective
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Presumed Dead (2006)
Plot Summary:
A famous crime novelist's protigie disappears before the release of author's first new book in years. Is the seeming crime an elaborate publicity stunt, or was this author so desperate for material that he created his own sinister inspiration? Despite his cunning defense on trial (the trial that made his book a best seller), Detective Cooper suspects the latter. She's determined to separate fiction from reality, but the deeper she gets in the story, the more twisted the plot becomes.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, realistic, surprise ending, detective
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Picture Claire (2001)
Plot Summary:
After her Montreal apartment burns down and her possessions are reduced to ash, Claire Beaucage heads to her boyfriend's place in Toronto, only to find that he's missing. Then the police mistake her for Lily Warden, a sinister woman who killed a local gangster and happens to live in the same building as Claire's boyfriend. The police pursue a bewildered Claire while a gang of criminals chases after Lily.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, noir, independent film
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Fear X (2003)
Plot Summary:
When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident Harry, prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark, Canada, UK, Brazil
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, neo noir, atmospheric, bleak, realistic, psychological thriller, sexy, suspense, surreal, art house
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Pacific Heights (1990)
Plot Summary:
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, psychological thriller, scary, suspenseful, suspense, tense, clever, controversial, cult classic
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Frenzy (1972)
Plot Summary:
A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, detective, tense, atmospheric, disturbing, black comedy, psychological, neo noir, psychosexual thriller
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Cutterhead (2018)
Plot Summary:
Rie is a PR-coordinator visiting a tunnel boring machine to portray the well-oiled European cooperation in the Metro construction when an accident suddenly occurs. Unable to escape, she takes refuge in an airlock with Croatian miner Ivo and Bharan, a worker from Eritrea.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, independent film
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Looks Can Kill (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of models is killed off, one by one, and everyone is a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sorority Murder (2015)
Plot Summary:
Pretty and likable Jennifer arrives as a freshman at Whittendale University and is greeted by pledge-seeker Carly of the Beta Sigma Eta Sorority. Once warmly embraced by the sorority, Jennifer soon realizes trouble is lurking beneath the happy surface of the sorority and makes an enemy of the sorority president Breanne. When Breanne's body is found in her car, Jennifer finds herself considered to be the number one suspect on campus.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Wait Until Dark (1967)
Plot Summary:
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, psychological, clever, serious, psychological thriller, atmospheric, talky, suspense, scary