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Plot Summary:
Amber Vickers is ecstatic that she will finally be making the walk down the aisle with her prince charming Luke. After multiple failed relationships, she was beginning to think that something was wrong; but her soon-to-be mother-in-law and best friend, Jill, believes that Amber is the picture-perfect daughter she never had. Everything is coming up roses until Sharon Vickers, Amber's mother, arrives for a visit. Gaudy, straight-laced and opinionated, Sharon is the complete opposite of Jill. What was supposed to be a benign first meeting of the in-law's quickly turns into a competition, as Sharon and Jill have widely differing views on life, love and marriage. As the weekend visit is coming to an end, Sharon takes matters into her own hands, rendering Jill incapable of escaping her house, and proving to her once and for all that no one comes between Sharon and her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The More You Ignore Me (2018)
Plot Summary:
Based on Jo Brand's critically acclaimed novel of the same name, The More You Ignore Me is a warm, comedy drama focusing on the life of an unconventional family in 1980s rural England. The film focuses on Gina, a young mother, whose efforts to be a loving mother and wife are undermined by her declining mental health. Things deteriorate when she develops an obsession with the local weatherman, which leads to an admission to the nearby psychiatric hospital. Over the years, as she grows up, her daughter Alice struggles to relate to her heavily medicated mum, and causes chaos when she comes up with a plan to reconnect with her, which divides the family forever and leads to a moving climax. Set to the songs of The Smiths, The More You Ignore Me provides a sometimes stark, yet comical insight into life within this quirky household, whilst addressing mental health issues and their impact on the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Compulsion (2013)
Plot Summary:
A strange and destructive relationship develops between a chef and her neighbor, a former child actress.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, erotic, suspense, culinary, grindhouse, offbeat
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Almost Perfect (2018)
Plot Summary:
When popular mother/daughter-bonding vlogger Stella Marshall finds herself on the outs with her own rebellious daughter Shay, she soon attracts the attention of a dangerous teen fan girl named Peyton who will stop at nothing to make Stella the perfect mother of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, crime drama
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My Mother's Secret (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a woman becomes pregnant and tells the news to his mother is revealed to him that she is adopted. Then decides to search for his biological family and hired the services of a private detective.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
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FANatic (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tess is the female lead in a very successful Sci-Fi series. She longs to escape from the sexist and stereotypical role that has given her fame but no one around her can believe she would leave a starring role. When a photo leaks that suggests her leading man and real-life husband is cheating on her, Tess turns to her trusted assistant for support. Unfortunately, that may not have been the wisest choice.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Wrong Stepfather (2020)
Plot Summary:
A happy engagement to a charming college adviser soon turns into real fear when a teacher worries her fiancé may be the wrong stepfather for her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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No Good Deed (2020)
Plot Summary:
Karen never planned on being a hero. A recent widow, she has her hands full with work and parenting her son Max. Then Karen saves Jeremy's life during a drug store robbery and quickly discovers that the young man is intent on paying her back at any cost. At first, life starts improving for this good Samaritan, but as Jeremy's efforts become more extreme, Karen starts to wonder if no good deed truly goes unpunished.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Killer Daddy Issues (2020)
Plot Summary:
An equestrian discovers her family's estate harbors an unfathomable secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Forget and Forgive (2014)
Plot Summary:
After being left for dead, Anna Walker awakes in the hospital to find she has full blown amnesia.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dual (2022)
Plot Summary:
A terminally ill woman opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss on her friends and family. When she makes a miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Finland, Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, dark, mindfuck, psychological thriller, independent film
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All That Divides Us (2017)
Plot Summary:
A middle-class house in the middle of nowhere. A council estate in Sète. A mother and daughter. Two childhood friends. A vanishing. Blackmail. A clash between two worlds.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Killing Your Daughter (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a DNA test helps Candace connect with her birth parents, she realizes some family histories are better left untold.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Time of Death (2013)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of CEO Robert Loring at precisely 10:44 pm, the FBI sends in Jordan Price, one of their best and brightest to solve the case. As other key executives are murdered at exactly the same time, Jordan finds herself investigating the past in order to solve the case. She quickly discovers the ultimate cover up and is under the gun to solve the mystery before the next victim is killed.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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One Small Indiscretion (2017)
Plot Summary:
Years ago, heartbroken and officially separated from her husband, Caroline briefly turned to the arms of another man. It was only one small indiscretion - a brief affair, forgotten after she and her husband reunited. But beautiful Elle, daughter of Caroline's lover, hasn't forgotten. She rents a guesthouse from Caroline, her husband, and teenage son with one purpose: to destroy their lives the way Elle thinks Caroline destroyed hers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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The Boathouse (2021)
Plot Summary:
When an emotionally-fragile young woman takes a job as nanny to two troubled children at a remote summer cottage, she falls in love with the children's father, while becoming enmeshed in the mystery of their estranged mother - with whom, it turns out, the young woman has her own fraught history. As the summer progresses, she begins to suspect that the family has a dark history that they are desperate to keep secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Mommy Would Never Hurt You (2019)
Plot Summary:
Riley wants to rebuild her relationship with her mother and little sister, who are shut-ins due to her sister's illness. When Riley realizes her sister may not be sick, her mother will stop at nothing to keep her daughters with her forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Remember Me, Mommy? (2020)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca, a respected teacher at a private girls school, has her life turned upside down when a new scholarship student arrives who might be the daughter she gave up for adoption seventeen years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, weird
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Mommy Be Mine (2018)
Plot Summary:
A psycho killer teenage girl will stop at nothing to replace her dead mother's love.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Room for Murder (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Kristen decides to take a break from college and return home, she finds Jake, a handsome stranger, living in her old room. Her mother, Moira, explains that she invited Jake to live as a tenant to help with the house expenses. Soon, Kristen discovers not only are Jake and Moira sleeping together, but Jake has a secret, dangerous past.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Happy Now (2001)
Plot Summary:
All grown up and gunning for political power in a small North Wales community, Glen Marcus and his best mate harbour a dark secret which seems to be coming back to haunt them. But can the daughter of Tina Trent, a local woman just returned from Alaska, be the same girl the two lads buried fourteen years earlier? Only local policeman Max Bracchi can solve the case with the help of a wrongly accused tramp, Tin Man.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, sex comedy
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Red Letter Day (2019)
Plot Summary:
While adjusting to a new life in the suburban community of Aspen Ridge, a recently divorced mother of two receives mysterious letters instructing her and her teenage children to kill the people in their letters before they kill them. Paranoia and chaos ensues as the family attempts to rationally deal with an irrational situation.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hotwired in Suburbia (2020)
Plot Summary:
High school friends Emily and Max make extra cash by hot-wiring cars but when their shop teacher discovers what they're up to and gets involved, things get a lot more dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Two Wrongs (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sarah, a single mother working as an in-home nurse, confronts a parents worst nightmare when her daughter is abducted and she has to do the unthinkable to find her.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Target (2018)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in an empty building, nine people are forced to play a lethal game. All their movements will be recorded, and only one player can survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, satirical, suspenseful, disturbing, twisted
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The Captive Nanny (2020)
Plot Summary:
Chloe (Karynn Moore) is a nanny who desperately wants to adopt but needs to get her life together first. She finds the perfect live-in nanny position with the Brown family - Emily (Austin Highsmith), Michael (Michael Aaron Milligan) and their son - that will help get her life back on track. She quickly learns they're oddly strict about security, with coded locks on all doors. Emily explains it's due to her famous musician ex named Baz (Jason Skeen), who stalks her. Horrified, Chloe agrees to help Emily and Michael keep their son safe. But when Chloe notices things seem a bit off with the Browns, Emily and Michael turn on Chloe and accuse her of being a spy for Baz. They lock her up to force a false confession out of her, but Chloe soon learns that it's not Baz that's making bad things happen - it's Emily, who is determined to win back Baz by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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I Almost Married a Serial Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
To escape a serial killer, a single mom and her daughter enter witness protection, only to find their lives in greater danger than ever.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dark Harbor (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dark Harbor tells the story of Olivia, a young mother on the verge of childbirth who finds her future threatened by a hidden darkness from her family's past.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Au Pair Nightmare (2020)
Plot Summary:
Trying to escape the pain from the death of her fiancé, a woman becomes an au pair in a house where she learns the family is hiding a mysterious secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Deadly Excursion (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her daughter charter a sail boat while on spring break only to discover the captain has plans to make sure they never return home.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Murder In-Law (2019)
Plot Summary:
Claire has always loved her son Jim and her granddaughter Sydney, but struggles to connect with her daughter-in-law, Allison. When Allison announces a big job promotion that will relocate them far away, Claire's motherly instincts are pushed to an unsettling level where she will scheme, lie and even murder to keep her son and granddaughter from moving away.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing