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Plot Summary:
A pregnant woman, who is taking care of her son with development problems, is at her breaking point when a caregiver from the Philippines steps into her life. Diana suspects that she’s using voodoo against her after the quick improvements of her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic
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Son (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a young boy contracts a mysterious illness, his mother must decide how far she will go to protect him from terrifying forces in her past.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, splatter, demonic
Similar in 87%
The Binding (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's faith is put to the ultimate test when she is forced to uncover the truth behind her husband's horrific visions.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, spooky
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Killer Night Shift (2018)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant woman forced to bedrest, gets the additional help she needs from two home care nurses. Unbeknownst to her, one of them has a vendetta against her husband and is out to steal their baby!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense
Similar in 76%
Born and Missing (2017)
Plot Summary:
A week after she gives birth, Ashley dies in a car crash and her newborn goes missing. Her husband Brian fears that there is something more devious behind the accident.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Tarumama (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sara and Óscar, a couple going through a marital crisis, decide to spend a week in a remote country cabin with their two children, Alicia and Tomás. The family tries to have a quiet time, but something strange happens there. There is a woman who prowls through the forest and cries uncontrollably looking for a baby she has just lost. This deeply affects the family who will have to stay together to survive this nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Colombia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing
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For Sale By Owner (2009)
Plot Summary:
One man's journey to find his past leads him to discover the secret to one of America's most haunting mysteries.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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Psycho Granny (2019)
Plot Summary:
After Samantha's mother passes away, her spirits are lifted with the sudden appearance of her long lost Grandmother, Colleen. All is well until Colleen's dark past reveals itself and Sam is forced to fight for her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
Don't Wake Mommy (2015)
Plot Summary:
Molly is struggling with being a new mom, but after meeting Beth, things temporarily improve only to turn sinister as Beth's dark intentions are brought to light.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Red Dress (2015)
Plot Summary:
Rainer and Patricia move to Malta to reinvigorate their marriage after the loss of their child.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Malta
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Souvenir (2019)
Plot Summary:
The enigmatic Isabel decides to rent her belly to give birth to the baby of Sara and Joaquin, a possessive couple obsessed with the idea of starting a family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Twinsanity (2018)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of their mother, an identical twin pulls away to establish her own independence, while the other unravels and plots to end her sister’s new beginning. Inspired by true events.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Last Possession (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young family is forced to relocate to the husband's childhood home and believe they are being terrorized by the ghost of the grandfather who committed suicide there only to find out they are horrifyingly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, light
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Tilt (2017)
Plot Summary:
All seems normal with Joseph and Joanne. Joanne is pregnant with their first child. Life in their little urban house is cozy and familiar. But something is off about Joseph. He doesn’t seem excited about the baby. Work on his documentary is becoming increasingly untethered. As Joseph struggles to maintain the routines of his domestic life, his mask begins to slip. Late at night, while Joanne thinks he is working, Joseph prowls the streets of Los Angeles, deliberately courting danger. Joanne is growing worried about Joseph’s odd behavior. But not as worried as she should be.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mumblecore, weird
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The Daisy Chain (2008)
Plot Summary:
A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, surprise ending
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The Shattering (2021)
Plot Summary:
Claire has everything - money, a loving husband and a desired child. But suddenly her life changes. Doubts and lies bring her to the edge of insanity.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Next-Door Nightmare (2021)
Plot Summary:
When young couple Sarah and Kyle move next door to Helen, a charismatic older woman, they have no idea she's a deeply disturbed psychopath who will stop at nothing to become Sarah's surrogate mother, and grandmother to the child she is expecting. Julia Borsellino, Mark Taylor, Deborah Grover, Marium Carvell star. (2021).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Some Beasts (2019)
Plot Summary:
A family travels to a remote island in southern Chile. During the trip they try to convince the grandparents to support them financially to build a hotel in the place. Nicolás, the man who crossed them disappears, leaving the family trapped on the island, the smiles begin to disappear. With cold, without water and without certainties, tempers are diluted, exposing the tensions that each member of the family hides.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Switched Before Birth (2021)
Plot Summary:
Switched Before Birth follows Olivia Crawford and her husband Brian, who after multiple miscarriages, numerous failed IVF trials and stretching themselves to the limit financially, finally receive the joyous news that she’s pregnant with twins. While going through her latest round of IVF, Oliva meets and becomes fast friends with Anna Ramirez, who is struggling to have a child after years of focusing on her successful restaurants. When Anna becomes pregnant as well, the ladies celebrate and begin to prepare for their babies. Olivia is also there for Anna when she suffers a devastating miscarriage and struggles to move forward while her marriage to restaurateur Gabe Ramirez crumbles. When Olivia and Brian finally welcome their twins Olivia’s life feels complete, but the happy couple’s world is turned upside down when they discover that not only are the babies not twins, but one of the babies is also biologically Anna and Gabe’s that was implanted into Olivia by mistake.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Stalker's Prey (2017)
Plot Summary:
Laura's life is turned upside down when she is attacked by a shark while celebrating her 18th birthday. She's rescued by Bruce, a handsome young man just returned home from college. As she recovers, he becomes a local hero for his bravery. As the dust settles, Bruce seems smitten with his damsel in distress, but Laura is not ready to move past the boyfriend she lost in the attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense
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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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Next Stop Murder (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman discusses her family problems with a stranger she meets on a bus, but is horrified when her confidante suggests each of them kill the person making the other's life difficult.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, 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
Similar in 82%
Gut (2012)
Plot Summary:
Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around him. Dan has the solution... something Tom's got to see to believe... tonight. What Dan shows him leaves Tom unsettled, flooding his mind with disturbing images, and binding the two friends together with its ugly secret.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, captivating, controversial, scary, realistic
Similar in 78%
Saving My Baby (2018)
Plot Summary:
After she's run off the road, an expectant mother barely survives a harrowing crash. When she awakens days later, she discovers that her baby has been taken.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Cradle of Lies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Following a whirlwind romance, a woman begins to unravel the dark secrets of her husband's past when his obsession to produce a male heir turns deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Samuel Bleak (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, bleak, realistic, suspenseful
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Coffin Rock (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying, makes the drunken mistake of sleeping with a young stranger. The stranger then goes to terrifying lengths to prove his paternity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, psychological, captivating, slasher, disturbing, psychological horror, scary, realistic
Similar in 79%
Death Saved My Life (2021)
Plot Summary:
On the surface it seems Jade has it all, including a successful marketing career, a husband admired and respected in the community, and a young daughter they both dote on. However, behind closed doors, her life is far from perfect.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, emotional
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Stalked by My Ex (2017)
Plot Summary:
After learning that her abusive ex-husband is about to be released from prison, a woman flees with her teenage daughter back to her old hometown.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing