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Plot Summary:
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological thriller
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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Plot Summary:
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, serious, scary, realistic, psychotronic
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Distortion (2006)
Plot Summary:
When his girlfriend is kidnapped, a drug-addicted ex-cop must overcome his demons and face the sobering task of tracking her down before it's too late. His story dismissed by the police, he's left with no choice but to rely on his own detective skills in a high-stakes race against time.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 87%
Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)
Plot Summary:
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Iris Effect (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles, Dr. Sarah Hathaway hired private eyes trying to find her missing son, the painter Thomas, who ran away from their home ten years ago after a quarrel with her. She finds a clue in a catalog of a panting exhibition in San Petersburg and she decides to travel alone to Russia to search for Thomas. Once there, she is not able to locate him and she has a nervous breakdown, but with the support of Dr. Ivan and helped by a street boy, she discloses what happened with her son.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective
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Social Nightmare (2013)
Plot Summary:
A student's chances of getting into a good college hang in the balance when inappropriate photos of her are posted on the Internet.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy
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Daddy's Girl (2002)
Plot Summary:
British television film starring Martin Kemp.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Where Are the Children? (1986)
Plot Summary:
Thriller about the kidnapping of two children and the investigation that follows, based on the book by Mary Higgins Clark.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Horror in the High Desert 2: Minerva (2023)
Plot Summary:
In 2018 a string of tragedies unfold in the high desert of North Eastern Nevada. A woman was found dead and another would vanish along the same stretch of remote highway. Could these events be linked to the infamous 2017 disappearance of outdoorsman Gary Hinge?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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Followers (2017)
Plot Summary:
A couple who document their whole life on social media decide to go on a camping trip and share their every move with their followers. What they don t know is that someone is going to prove how easy it is to stalk someone in the digital age. Arriving at the camp site, their followers are close by and are ready to go to extreme and deadly lengths to prove their point.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Alice, Darling (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young woman trapped in an abusive relationship becomes an unwitting participant in an intervention staged by her two closest friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Midnight Swim (2014)
Plot Summary:
Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home. They find themselves unable to let go and become drawn into the mysteries of the lake.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse
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The Missing Person (2009)
Plot Summary:
Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing the missing person back to his wife in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, detective, thrilling, clever
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Susie Searches (2022)
Plot Summary:
Susie is an awkward college student who seizes the opportunity to bolster her popularity and her under-the-radar true-crime podcast by solving the disappearance of a classmate, but her investigation reveals that the truth and Susie aren’t at all what they seem to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Hidden Away (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman and young daughter escape her abusive husband by faking their deaths. Eight years later she is happily living in the upscale Palm Springs with her now-17-year-old daughter. When her husband discovers they are still alive, he tracks them down and spies on them to learn all about the new life they've created until he can exact his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Girl on the Train (2014)
Plot Summary:
When documentary filmmaker Danny Hart boards a train at Grand Central Station he has no reason to expect anything more than a pleasant ride to upstate New York to interview the subjects for his latest project. But a chance encounter with a mysterious young woman leads him on a journey of a very different sort. Within the blink of an eye his life of complacency is left behind for a world in which the line between fantasy and reality is blurred...a world of intrigue, danger, and the possibility of blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, realistic, psychological thriller, rough, mind bending, serious, independent film
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Elsewhere (2009)
Plot Summary:
A teen girl disappears after trying to meet men online in order to escape her small town. Apparently, only her best friend worries enough to investigate the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, disturbing, dark, teen, independent film, serious
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The Flock (2007)
Plot Summary:
This film is about a hyper-vigilant employee of the department of public safety who, while training his young female replacement, has to track down a missing girl who he is convinced is connected to a paroled sex offender he is investigating.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, depressing, emotional, detective, twisted
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Angel of Mine (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, sentimental, psychological thriller
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Kept Woman (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jessica and her fiancé Evan just moved from the city into their dream home on a quiet suburban street. Soon after, Jessica catches her seemingly friendly new neighbor, Simon, in a strange lie and can't let her suspicions rest. The danger escalates when Simon lures her inside his home and imprisons Jessica in his secret bunker, meticulously decorated in the idealized style of the 1950's.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating
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Pray for Rain (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Emma Gardner, a whip smart NYC reporter learns of her father's untimely death, she returns to her home town to find that the idyllic farming community of her childhood has been ravaged by drought and has become a place tormented by gangs and the ill effects of extreme poverty. She quickly figures out that her dad's accidental death was not accidental at all. The lists of possible suspects include overly zealous environmentalists, a local war lord and other farmers jealous of her father's outstanding reputation.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Stalked By My Neighbor (2015)
Plot Summary:
A girl and her mother escape to suburban safety after a home invasion scares them out of the city, but they're soon menaced by a sinister figure.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller
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Abandoned (2010)
Plot Summary:
Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, action thriller, realistic, independent film
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Lost Girls (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, emotional, disturbing, compassionate, bleak, dark, perverse, powerful
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Keane (2004)
Plot Summary:
A mentally ill man searches New York for his missing eight year old daughter. He recreates her steps each day hoping for some clue to her disappearance, until he meets and befriend a woman with a daughter the same age. Could she help him with the missing piece of the puzzle?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, psychological, serious, independent film, mind twisting, mind bending, suspense, art house, art film
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Relic (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Edna, the elderly and widowed matriarch of the family, goes missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam travel to their remote family home to find her. Soon after her return, they start to discover a sinister presence haunting the house and taking control of Edna.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, China
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mystical, scary, dark, slasher, tense, psychological thriller, atmospheric
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White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, Brock, for the loss. But as time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, surreal, stylized, independent film, cynical, humorous, semi serious, grindhouse, teen
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Run (2020)
Plot Summary:
Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, suspense, serious, psychological, bleak, slasher, mindfuck, clever, feel good
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Flightplan (2005)
Plot Summary:
A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 170000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, exciting, intense, psychological thriller, clever, tense
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Chinatown (1974)
Plot Summary:
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 343000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, twist ending, suspense, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, enigmatic, noir, psychological
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Searching (2018)
Plot Summary:
After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her. A thriller that unfolds entirely on computer screens.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, tension, detective, slasher, sad