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Plot Summary:
In the perfectly normal town of Louisville, KY, there is a perfectly normal man living the perfect life. David Dailey is a man who has it all: A great career, a community that adores him, and an enduring marriage. But beneath the surface, David's idyllic world is crumbling. He's haunted by a series of mysterious notes that warn of an imminent fall from grace.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, realistic
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The Cry of the Owl (1987)
Plot Summary:
Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler and confronts him, then invites him in.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, suspense, french noir
Similar in 80%
You Belong to Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jeffrey has met the man of this dreams, hunky Frenchman René, he impulsively moves into the same building. The move backfires as Remé becomes cold and distant. Landlady Gladys lavishes attention on her new tenant.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending, realistic, gloomy, independent film
Similar in 84%
Asunder (1999)
Plot Summary:
Chance Williams (Underwood), a man whose life is torn apart when his wife and unborn child are killed in a bizarre accident. Chance comes to believe Lauren (Morgan), wife to best friend Michael (Beach), is the only woman who can love and help him, and he's willing to do anything to make her his own.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
Similar in 77%
Other Voices (2000)
Plot Summary:
Phil and Anna are a young, married couple, who begin to suspect one other of an affair. When a shady private investigator gets involved in their relationship, things begin to spin out of control, in this turn-of-the-millennium thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, independent film, psychological, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Silence Becomes You (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters, Grace and Violet, bound together by more than blood, live a reclusive life in a large mansion, detached from society and reality too. They have a plan. It's hardly conventional, but the outcome nine months later is all that counts. Whatever they do they must not fall in love with the man that they choose to ensnare. Set in contemporary New England.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Lithuania
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, erotic, sex comedy, serious, realistic, freeze frame
Similar in 77%
Cold Heaven (1991)
Plot Summary:
An adulterous woman's faith in God is tested when her husband dies and miraculously comes back to life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, sexual
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Aggar: Passion Betrayal Terror (2007)
Plot Summary:
With strong suspicions that her husband is cheating on her, successful businesswoman Janvi (Udita Goswami) begins an affair with her co-worker Aryan (Tusshar Kapoor). But when Janvi decides that she's done fooling around, she learns her new lover has other ideas. Because Aryan doesn't want the relationship to end, he's willing to completely destroy the lives of Janvi and her husband to have his way.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense
Similar in 85%
Exit in Red (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ed Altman is a psychiatrist who relocates to Palm Springs, Calif., in order to avoid a lawsuit. However, he happens to wander directly into more trouble when he begins an affair with the rich and beautiful Ally Mercer (Annabel Schofield), who has her own reasons for becoming involved with Ed. Soon Ally's other lover, the volatile Nick, is caught in the intrigue, which results in murder, betrayal and numerous shady dealings.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, psychological, independent film, stylized, sexual, surprise ending, sexy
Similar in 75%
The Flying Dutchman (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sexuality and serial murder in an American village.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, tense, realistic, erotic, surprise ending
Similar in 89%
Missionary (2013)
Plot Summary:
A wife and mother starts an affair with a young missionary... with disastrous consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious
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The Other Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, romantic, romantic drama, bleak, gloomy
Similar in 90%
Love Thy Neighbor (2006)
Plot Summary:
Plagued by flashbacks of a violent home invasion, Laura Benson is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Looking for a fresh start, she and her husband sell their house and relocate to a seemingly idyllic gated community. But, little do the Bensons know, evil not only dwells in the neighborhood...it lives next door. As strange and terrifying events unfold, Laura doesn't know whether her sinisterly sweet neighbor is to blame, if she's been targeted for revenge...or if she's losing her mind.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 713
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Backfire (1987)
Plot Summary:
Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a mysterious stranger, Reed, at a local bar, she believes she has found the right person to help her out of her predicament. But Mara worries that Donnie's sister, Jill, is on to her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, neo noir, independent film, surprise ending, tension, twist ending
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Cold Heart (2001)
Plot Summary:
A woman discovers becoming attracted to the wrong man can have deadly consequences in this tense erotic thriller. Linda (Nastassia Kinski) is a woman whose life would seem ideal on the surface: she runs a thriving business and is happily married to Phil (Jeff Fahey), a psychiatrist. But a faint air of discontent has begun to creep into her relationship, and when Phil arranges for Linda to hire Sean (Josh Holloway), one of his patients, as an assistant, she finds herself seriously tempted for the first time. Linda impulsively sleeps with Sean one night, but the next day decides she made a mistake and tries to break off her affair. Sean, however, is not willing to give her up so easily, and his attraction to her soon becomes a dangerous obsession.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, sexy, serious, erotic, disturbing, tense, stylized, sexual, realistic
Similar in 79%
Malice Aforethought (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Edmund Bickleigh is married to a particularly overbearing woman who reminds him at every turn that he is living in her house. But the good doctor has outside interests to help him cope.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Mystery, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Similar in 83%
Blind Terror (2001)
Plot Summary:
After marrying a handsome man she barely knows, a woman experiences threatening calls and violent attacks from a mysterious woman who claims to be her new husband's former lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, surprise ending, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
Keyed: A Deadly Game of Sex/Lies/Betrayal (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three lives are intricately linked during a New Years Eve “Key Party” for Swingers: A young newlywed is forced into an open relationship by her star-athlete husband and best friend an ill-fated club owner reunites with old friends to realize the bond they once shared is in jeopardy and a loving father has to reconcile his relationship with his estranged brother to save the life of his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, sexy, serious, psychological, independent film, sexual
Similar in 78%
The Bottom of the Sea (2003)
Plot Summary:
An architect (Daniel Hendler) trails a man (Gustavo Garzón) who was hiding under his girlfriend's (Dolores Fonzi) bed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 78%
Lured Innocence (2000)
Plot Summary:
A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, mind bending, sexual, sexy
Similar in 76%
Mother's Boys (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes, into a murderous plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, realistic, neo noir, dark, independent film, serious
Similar in 86%
Say Nothing (2001)
Plot Summary:
Housewife Grace Needham (Nastassja Kinski) has a one-night stand with Julian Grant (William Baldwin), who then becomes obsessed with sinking her marriage to husband Matt (Hart Bochner). The twist here is that Julian is a millionaire global powerbroker, and Matt works for him! It's a titanic battle of testosterone as the guys duke it out while Grace simmers angrily.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, tense, realistic, sexual
Similar in 90%
Clean Break (2008)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 80%
I Love You Too (2001)
Plot Summary:
While camping in France, Eric and Eddy fall in with two women. Eric talks to Silke, a Ugandan studying medicine in Holland. She tells him about her life and asks about the book he's writing: it's the story of his love affair with Reza. He tells her the story and we see it in flashbacks: Reza explodes into his boring life, she's unpredictable and their relationship becomes intense.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, touching, suspenseful, sexual, erotic, exciting, sexy
Similar in 82%
Man of Her Dreams (1997)
Plot Summary:
After suspecting her husband is playing the field, a nervous woman finds a sympathetic ear in the form of a strange man. The drawback is that her sensitive new-found friend is an obsessive psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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A Dangerous Woman (1993)
Plot Summary:
Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a quality that leads to her getting fired from a dry-cleaning shop thanks to the actions of the shifty Getso. Conflict seems to follow Martha, since she also becomes romantically involved with local fix-it man, Mackey, who is sleeping with Frances as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, gloomy
Similar in 86%
Attraction (2000)
Plot Summary:
A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, independent film, sexual, intense, serious, realistic, gloomy, erotic
Similar in 76%
Sex and Consequences (2006)
Plot Summary:
When 18-year-old Sam begins a no-strings-attached summer fling with uninhibited older woman Mary, it seems like the perfect relationship. But after Mary begins using him to make her uptight police officer husband John jealous, he becomes an unwilling pawn in a dangerous emotional game. Can Sam avoid John's wrath, or will he pay the ultimate price for giving in to his carnal desires?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, sexy, suspenseful, serious, realistic, sexual, independent film
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Impulse (2008)
Plot Summary:
Acting on impulse, Claire Dennison (Willa Ford), enjoys a brief fling with a sexy stranger (a dead ringer for her husband), only to realize that the object of her desire is a crazed, manipulative, and tenacious psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense, mysterious, realistic, sexual, psychotronic, erotic, sexy
Similar in 80%
Night Eyes (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Beverly Hills home-security guard is seduced by a rock star's wife he monitors by video.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, independent film, sexual, erotic, hot
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Deceit (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man returns to his hometown after his father's death and soon enters into an affair with the wife of his old best friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, realistic