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Plot Summary:
A young hacker creates an "antisocial" networking app that matches enemies instead of friends. When her enemies start turning up dead, she must uncover who or what is behind it before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: cyber
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Redistributors (2016)
Plot Summary:
A city PR girl goes on the run accused of leaking information from the military supply company where she works. Chased by ex-soldiers she hides with her brother, a member of a shadowy hacker group, and has to choose between her luxury life - and the Redistributors.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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The Cache (2017)
Plot Summary:
Highly intelligent hacker Lillian joins a cybersecurity company in order to gain access to the bank where her father used to work. She discovers nothing is what it seems and it turns out she isn’t the only one pretending to be someone else. But where do we draw the line between activism and terrorism?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Absolut (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two guys against globalization want to plant a virus in the network of a finance corporation. On the day of the attack Alex has an accident and cannot remember anything.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Night Owl (1993)
Plot Summary:
New York: Every night the mysterious "Night Owl" goes on the air with her moody radio show. She seems to have an inexplicable influence on some men; several of Julie's friends commit suicide while listening to her voice. She fears for her husband Harry, who becomes more and more distant from her. Written by Tom Zoerner.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, psychological, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, realistic, psychotronic
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Cage the Bear (2016)
Plot Summary:
Cage the Bear is about a group of Ukrainian hackers who steal money from the Kremlin, designated for Russia's terrorist invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin demands their money back, and kidnaps a web reporter friend of the hackers. The Russian agents make sure the exchange takes in the US, away from Putin's prying eyes, so they can keep the money for themselves. The hackers must find a way to expose Russia's global terror network and prevent their agents from killing her.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: cyber
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Pretty Obsession (2012)
Plot Summary:
A pretty eighteen year-old puts herself and her family in danger when she leads a double life as an erotic web cam model.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Lies of the Twins (1991)
Plot Summary:
An ex-model is seduced into danger by her psychotherapist boyfriend's wicked identical twin.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: christian film, psychotronic, cult film
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The Playground (2017)
Plot Summary:
A fable of five vastly separate inner-city lives who struggle against their limitations in an interlocking tale assembled by a dark orchestrator.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, fairy tale, psychological thriller, epic, dark, experimental, dark fantasy, avant garde
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A Deadly View (2018)
Plot Summary:
Restricted to bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy, Rachel sees things in a different light with her neighbor Sandy. Is Rachel going stir crazy with increasing paranoia or is her unborn child what Sandy truly desires?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Family (2006)
Plot Summary:
When Eldon and Cole pick up a hitchhiker, Jean on their father-son trip to find perspective on the back roads of America, they quickly learn that everything is not what it seems. As the road unfolds in front of them, so do their lives begin to intertwine. A small-time crook on the run, an ex-cop and his quiet ten-year-old son begin to bond together - at least until the secrets begin slipping out. Before Jean can figure out what is really going on, she finds herself already trapped in a spiraling nightmare where she will have to make a choice between turning her back on a little boy who needs her help, or sacrificing herself and going back to jail.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
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Terminal Entry (1987)
Plot Summary:
The USA is attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer network via satellite. A bunch of highschool kids has hacked the password and gained access. Believing it's a game they unknowingly cause terror acts all over the country. An anti-terror force fights against the terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Norway, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Absence of the Good (1999)
Plot Summary:
Salt Lake City homicide detective Caleb Barnes is under increasing pressure from all sides to crack a string of serial killings that have been terrorizing the city. At the same time, Barnes' home life is beginning to crumble in the wake of his son's accidental death. Will he solve the killings before the stress tears him apart? Written by.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, suspense
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The Takeover (2022)
Plot Summary:
Self-proclaimed ethical hacker Mel Bandison's life is turned upside down when she stops a data breach on a high-tech self-driving bus that also happens to shut down an international criminal network. She then becomes a target and is framed with a deepfake video that “shows” that she murders someone.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Til Death Do Us Part (2017)
Plot Summary:
Michael and Madison Roland had planned to spend the rest of their lives together, until one day Michael's controlling ways turned their perfect marriage. With the help of her best friend, Madison decides to get away. After adopting a new identity, she meets Alex Stone and learns to love again. All is well, until Michael discovers Madison's whereabouts, and recreate the nightmare she once lived all over again.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, psychosexual thriller, intense
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The Stranger Inside (2016)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her husband become the target of their fertility doctor.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Unknown Caller (2014)
Plot Summary:
A psychopath uses a family's high tech security system with a ticking time bomb to terrorize them for 90 minutes demanding an answer to his question; 'WHO AM I?'.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Paranormal Abduction (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young women suffering memory loss and psychological issues after surviving a brutal attack, tries to piece together the clues surrounding her attack and its similarities to a series of recent murders. During the investigation, she struggles to maintain her sanity as her world gets more surreal and reality starts to unwind around her. Following the clues that lead her down the "rabbit hole" she finds herself fighting to wake up from this nightmare...before she becomes the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Bitter Vengeance (1994)
Plot Summary:
Annie marries Jack Westford, a cop when they met. Six years later Jack is now working as a security guard in a bank and feels that he was unfairly fired from the force. He also appears to be no longer interested in Annie and has an affair with another bank employee. Among his duties is delivering old money for disposal. He comes up with a plan to steal the money and run away. Part of his plan is to fake his death and frame Annie. While the police suspect that she killed Jack and knows where the money is, there's also an insurance investigator on her back.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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
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Paris Under Watch (2012)
Plot Summary:
An anonymous hacker has hacked all of Paris' cameras and observes the city unbeknownst to its inhabitants. Petty crimes and moments of stolen intimacy, he sees everything. Until the day that an explosion lays wasted to the Gare d'Austerlitz. The police starts tracking down an Al Queda satellite group. The hacker succeeds in finding images of the explosion and discovers that it was a young couple who planted the bomb. Using the city's cameras, he decides to hunt down the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Lethal Seduction (2015)
Plot Summary:
High School senior Mark Richards has never minded his overprotective widowed mother,Tanya, and is a good son to her as he prepares to go off to Princeton in the fall. However, when he comes under the sexual spell of the rapacious, manipulative older woman Carissa Barrington, he finds himself in the middle of two strong, unreasonable women--one of whom is insane.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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Hacker (2017)
Plot Summary:
A hacker has adventures.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Slip (2006)
Plot Summary:
"Slip" is the story of Sarah, a young woman who witnessed her mother's murder as a child. Now grown, Sarah is haunted by her mother's memory, her restless soul, opening a gateway for the spirits of the recently departed. Sarah is compelled to do their bidding so their souls may rest in peace. One of these souls leads her to Cal, a young car thief who is one car away from going legit. Unfortunately, Cal is wrongfully accused of stealing from his partners and now they want him dead.Sarah, drawn by the spirit of Cal's murdered nephew, becomes an avenging angel, awakening a dark spirit of her past while risking all to save a total stranger. Now in a race for their lives as well as their souls, Cal and Sarah soon discover that there are far more fearsome things than men with guns.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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My Daughter Is Missing (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sara, a former hacker and now an Internet security specialist, has come to Belgrade to attend a conference on cyber crime. Whilst she is there her daughter and a college friend are kidnapped by a Serbian human trafficking ring. Will Sara be able to save them before it's too late?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Goliad Uprising (2012)
Plot Summary:
Shannon Lark stars as Ariel Loner who uses her lovers to achieve her goal of thwarting the one man she hasn't been able to manipulate. Her web of seduction captures the handsome David (Aaron Weisinger) and leads him on a run for their lives as national security forces close in. It isn't until David is finally trapped that he realizes he's been used by the sultry Loner.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: twisted
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Poker Run (2009)
Plot Summary:
Robert (Bertie Higgins) and Allan (J.D. Rudometkin) decide to add some excitement to their lives by taking up Harley riding. But things go south when two psychopathic bikers (Robert Thorne and Jay Wisell) kidnap their wives (Debra Hopkins and Jasmine Waltz) and force the men to perform horrific tasks to retrieve their spouses. Now they must enter -- and participate in -- a world of violence they couldn't have imagined in this bloody thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, retro, scary, realistic, independent film, surprise ending
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Prime Risk (1985)
Plot Summary:
While siphoning bank funds, computer-wise lovers spot a plot to sink the Federal Reserve.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Beta Test (2016)
Plot Summary:
While testing the latest first person shooter from global game developer, Sentinel, video game champion Max Troy discovers the events happening within the game are being reflected in the real world. He soon determines that the game's protagonist is real-life Orson Creed, an ex-Sentinel employee who is being remotely controlled by the corporation for reasons unknown. As virtual and real worlds collide, Max and Creed must join forces to unravel the conspiracy before the game's sinister events escalate and overwhelm the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, art house, cyber, mockbuster, comic
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Ratter (2015)
Plot Summary:
Emma is a young and beautiful graduate student just starting a new life in New York City. Like most people her age, she is always connected - her phone and laptop are constant companions, documenting her most intimate moments. What she doesn't realize is that she's sharing her life with an uninvited and dangerous guest. A hacker is following Emma’s every move. When the voyeuristic thrill of watching her digitally isn't enough, the situation escalates to a dangerous and terrifying level.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: cyber, psychological, thought provoking, suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing, scary, slasher, mysterious
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Contagious (1997)
Plot Summary:
When some shrimp from Mexico, tainted with Cholera, is served to some people on a plane bound for LA. An outbreak ensues. And a doctor sets out to find the source and contain it before it turns into a epidemic. And if things weren't bad enough, a drug smuggler who was carrying some drugs on him contaminates the drugs and are sold on the street. And to top things of her husband who is on a camping trip with their two children is sick but did not show any symptoms until they were isolated from the rest of the world. Can she get to them in time?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: