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Plot Summary:
A poor single mother, who is trying to turn her life around, is thrust into a fight for survival when her ex-husband relapses and spirals out of control.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Nowhere to Hide (1994)
Plot Summary:
Divorcee learns from the FBI that her husband has mafia connections and put a contract on her life. She gets into the witness protection program and falls in love with the agent who protects her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Redemption of the Ghost (2002)
Plot Summary:
When convicted embezzler Witt Hampton (Gene Bicknell) escapes from prison, a lonely barn serves as the perfect hideout -- until a pair of tykes stumbles on him. Telling the tots he's a ghost, Witt strikes up a friendship with the pair. Soon, inspired by their innocence, he decides to take responsibility for his crimes. Too bad the local sheriff isn't quick to forgive in this family drama co-starring, Diane Ladd, Rachel Hunter and John Savage.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film
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...And Then She Was Gone (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jack Bauer, a workaholic businessman, accidentally gets involved in a case of child kidnapping when he returns a doll found in the subway.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological
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Run to Ground (2011)
Plot Summary:
Some wounds never heal. In a rundown East European town, the everyday lives of three working people are violently disrupted: a boy goes missing, a woman is stalked, and a man comes face to face with the killer of his child. A sinister chill grips the air as Margo scouts the streets in search of her son's missing friend. Terrified by threats to her family, Alma sets out in the dark to confront her stalker. And Peter, seizing the opportunity for revenge, kidnaps his son's killer and goes on the run. The chase is on, the police net is tightening, but who are the hunters and who the prey? With the lives of innocents at stake, victims, predators and avengers must all be run to ground, before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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The Perfect Soulmate (2017)
Plot Summary:
On the outside, Sarah Miles appears to have it all: her husband is charming and successful and their daughter Megan is bright and engaging. Having put her once successful career as a published poet on hold to raise Megan, Sarah now shares her writing on her poetry blog. But there's a terrible truth lurking behind the doors of her suburban mansion… despite his polished persona, Sarah's husband is controlling, manipulative, and abusive. Isolated and desperate to escape her marriage, Sarah welcomes the newfound attention of one of her devoted fans, a bookish young woman named Lee Maxson. But as Sarah gets closer to Lee, she begins to discover that she’s found an ever more dangerous companion. Stars Cassandra Scerbo, Alex Paxton-Beesley, Scott Gibson.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Ring of Deception (2017)
Plot Summary:
Single mom Julie Stevens' life is turned upside-down when international con man Martin moves to her neighborhood. As Julie begins to open up to Martin's charms, another woman - Sloane - is determined to kill Martin for having left her and robbed her blind. Will Julie survive Martin's affections and Sloane's revenge?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Crisis (2021)
Plot Summary:
Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new "non-addictive" painkiller to market.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Belgium
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, social, anamorphic
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Tender Loving Care (1973)
Plot Summary:
Teenage nurses give love therapy. Lots of action when they try to straighten out the corrupt hospital staff.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Santa (2014)
Plot Summary:
A trip to Lapland leads to immense changes in the life of a single mother and her seven- year- old son. Love, hope and efforts to save the life of the little boy will change dramatically the lives of the two grown-ups. “Santa” - is a story about human relations and often painful challenges that life poses. In order to overcome these challenges one must believe in the miracle of a fairy-tale and... breath in deeply the fresh air of the North. It’s so fresh, you almost want to drink it. And it’s worth living for. The movie contains breathtaking Lapland views and is peppered with Marius Ivaškevičius specialty humor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Lithuania, Finland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense
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Mother (2020)
Plot Summary:
Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving grandparents instead of going to school. Except raising the little half-sister, his rock-bottom life seems to have no end.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Spiral (2007)
Plot Summary:
A reclusive telemarketer has only one semblance of a friend: His telecommuter boss. But the telemarketer's social circle seems to improve greatly when a whimsical co-worker enters his life. Only, as he begins to sketch his new friend's portrait, disturbing "voices" from the phone man's past threaten to lead him into a network of destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, sad, christmas horror, cerebral, mind twisting
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Cam-Girl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Gessica, a single mother who works as a webcam stripper is pushed to her limit when held hostage by an unknown gunman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Man in the Trunk (2019)
Plot Summary:
On an otherwise quiet night there is a startling knock at the door. Andrew Tucker answers the door to find an old friend whom he hasn't seen in years. The disheveled and absent friend comes to him with one request: "I need you to come with me but, I can't tell you where we're going." Andrew takes a chance but learns that every answer brings more questions. Nothing good ever comes knocking after midnight and Andrew's nightmare asks how far you would go to help a friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, psychological thriller, dark, art house
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Pelican Blood (2019)
Plot Summary:
Wiebke, a professional horse trainer, faces a unique challenge when she adopts Raya, a five-year-old girl, who is prone to violent outbursts because of her traumatic past.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Bulgaria
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Sugar Daddies (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a girl with a promising future finds herself in financial straits, she makes an agreement with an older man and struggles to keep it secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Secrets in the Attic (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a teen girl and her mom inherit an old house, little do they know that a mysterious person is hiding in the attic – a teen boy who has been living there for months.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Paper Angels (2014)
Plot Summary:
An abused wife leaves her alcoholic husband and moves with her children to another town. There their lives become entwined with another family in trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, inspirational
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Amber Alert (2016)
Plot Summary:
A 20 year old man takes a bus full of young children hostage in exchange for money to help his sick mother. Meanwhile a detective must over come doubt from family and co-workers while she tries to negotiate with the hostage taker.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Girl in Room 13 (2022)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl is imprisoned by her former boyfriend in a motel room and forced to consume drugs and alcohol so she can be sold into human trafficking. Her only hope is her mother, who is determined to rescue her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Edge of Winter (2016)
Plot Summary:
When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, exciting, tense, suspenseful, neo western
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Monolith (2016)
Plot Summary:
A mother and her son plan a surprise visit to Los Angeles to see her husband/his father. Halfway there they get into a terrible accident in the middle of nowhere and now must fight to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, stylized, ambiguous ending, action thriller
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Knifepoint (2011)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas Eve, two sisters sharing a Venice apartment discover their home is the final target of a brutal gang of criminals led by Jess and his sadistic sister Lorraine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, tense, rough, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Knuckleball (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alone, and targeted on an isolated farm, 12 year old Henry finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of terror, and a dark family legacy, when his secretive grandfather dies suddenly in the night.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
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Whitewash (2013)
Plot Summary:
The brutality of winter and the power of the mind are aptly portrayed in this dark comedy set in Northern Quebec. Bruce (Thomas Haden Church) is merely trying to survive a harsh winter when he meets Jean. Conflict leads to an accidental death, and Bruce finds himself in a complicated and unexpected place. Grappling with his guilt, Bruce creates a prison from which he cannot escape. Haden Church perfectly utilizes his comic talent in this wry, well-crafted film.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, mind bending, offbeat, realistic, independent film
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Stolen by Their Father (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story of a mother whose two young daughters are kidnapped by her abusive ex-husband—and her all-consuming fight to get them back.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Plot Summary:
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: suspense, thought provoking, mind bending, psychological, disturbing, surreal, philosophical, suspenseful, dark, art house
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Centigrade (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young American couple travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and ice.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological thriller, captivating, realistic
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Big Sky (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hazel suffers from a crippling case of agoraphobia. So much so that it causes a rift between her and her mother, Dee. Hazel and her mother decide to go on a road trip to a desert facility to help Hazel deal with her fear but when gunmen and brothers Jesse and Pru attack them, Hazel has to battle her fears so she and her mother can survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, dark
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Dancing Trees (2009)
Plot Summary:
Martha (Katie Boland), 18, sees the world as animated and fun. She has a form of autism that means she is a mathematical genuis whilst incapable of looking after herself. Living in a dull routinewith her cousin Nicole (Brooke Burns), and mother Josephine (Amanda Tapping), she sees the good in everything and everyone. But suddenly, her mother is the casualty of a brutal crime before her eyes and Martha is sent to a foster home. Nicole is distraught and battle for custody of her cousin, but the police constantly block her requests. Finally, Detective Velez relents, on one condition: Martha must help solve the crime and find justice for her fallen mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blood and Money (2020)
Plot Summary:
A retired veteran hunting in the Allagash backcountry of Maine discovers a dead woman with a duffle bag full of money. He soon finds himself in a web of deceit and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, ambiguous ending