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Plot Summary:
Brussels, early 60’s. Alice and Céline live in twin bourgeois houses. They are best friends as are their children, Theo and Maxime, who have grown up like brothers. Both families spend all their time together. This perfect harmony is broken when an accident creates strong divisions between the two families.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, melancholic, psychological, captivating, ambiguous ending, tragic
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The Silent Forest (2020)
Plot Summary:
Hearing-impaired teenager Chang Cheng transfers to a school for children with special needs. However, the world of the hearing-impaired doesn’t seem quiet at all. When Chang witnesses the game taking place in the last row on the school bus, his excitement about blending into a new environment immediately turns into fear.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hanging Offense (2003)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, mind bending
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Last Moment of Clarity (2020)
Plot Summary:
A normal New Yorker's life is upended when his girlfriend is murdered by the Bulgarian mob. He flees to Paris to hide from her killers. But three years later, he sees a similar looking woman on the silver screen. Obsession with past love takes Sam to Los Angeles to look for answers, only to put him back into the sights of the Bulgarians. An updated Hitchcockian thriller in the vein of Vertigo and Rear Window.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, twist ending, neo noir, suspenseful, scary, bleak, captivating, psychological, dark, disturbing
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The Surrogate (2013)
Plot Summary:
A married couple, struggling to have a child, hires a young woman to be their surrogate, but soon discovers she has a bizarre and deadly agenda.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, sexy
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Those Who Love, Hate (2017)
Plot Summary:
Enrique Hubermann, homeopathic physician, travels in flight from a love. By a joke of fate, in that distant place he meets the woman he wants to forget, a beautiful young woman like a demon who manipulates men and triggers dangerous passions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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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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The Unseen (2017)
Plot Summary:
Gemma and Will are shattered when their son dies in an accident. Gemma blames herself and starts to have panic attacks that affect her eyesight - and the audience's point of view. Will, tormented, believes he is hearing his son's voice calling out to him. To escape their grief, Gemma suggests they take up Paul's offer to stay at his Lake District country getaway. Gemma's, helped by ex-pharmacist Paul, tries to stop her panic attacks with medication. Will, unable to hear to his son in his bedroom back home, antagonizes Paul and suddenly goes home. Gemma is now reliant on Paul who appears to be developing genuine feelings for her welfare. Love, grief, and the frailty of the human condition are all brought to the fore as Gemma Will and Paul are caught up in a descent into violence, both psychological and ultimately physical.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, light, surprise ending, independent film
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The Lakeside Murder Case (2004)
Plot Summary:
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor. One night, one of the wives confesses to her husband that she has killed his mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Skipping Stones (2020)
Plot Summary:
Nearly a decade after a tragic accident costs a young man his life, his sister, Amanda (Gabrielle Kalomiris) and best friend, David (Nathaniel Ansbach) are still peeling back the layers of grief and guilt that come with being left behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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#PopFan (2014)
Plot Summary:
An obsessive fan rescues a famous musician from a car crash, then takes her to his secluded lighthouse.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, captivating, tense, suspense, realistic, semi serious
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Home Is Where the Killer Is (2019)
Plot Summary:
What if Dee Dee Blanchard was a rich lady doctor who preyed on her roommates and also loved to watch Downton Abbey?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, sinister, creepy
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We Don't Belong Here (2017)
Plot Summary:
A matriarch of a dysfunctional family is pushed to her tipping point by the disappearance of her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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UV (2007)
Plot Summary:
During the absence of Philipp, in his house appears the stranger, who calls himself Boris. He says that he was the school comrade of Philipp and it arrived to visit old friend. Boris charms all households and remains to await Philipp. Only one Andre- Pierre distrustful relates to the stranger.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, psychological, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Sorority Surrogate (2014)
Plot Summary:
A surrogate mother faces an uncertain future when the couple who hires her dies in an accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Missionary (2013)
Plot Summary:
A wife and mother starts an affair with a young missionary... with disastrous consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious
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Blind Terror (2001)
Plot Summary:
After marrying a handsome man she barely knows, a woman experiences threatening calls and violent attacks from a mysterious woman who claims to be her new husband's former lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Blind Turn (2012)
Plot Summary:
Samantha Holt had the perfect life with a handsome fiancée and a future that couldn’t look brighter. But an unexpected turn on a dark lonely road puts her on a collision course with Bruce Miller, a devoted family man who descends into madness when he loses everything he ever cared about. One year later, Bruce decides to give Samantha the punishment he believes she escaped. Samantha has struggled with her own demons since that fateful night, and Bruce will take her struggles to the edge when he implements a demented plan to teach her a twisted lesson that may cost her the ultimate price.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, ambiguous ending, independent film, surprise ending, psychological thriller, serious, scary
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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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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 Perfect Nanny (2001)
Plot Summary:
Upon her release from a mental institution where she was recovering from a suicide attempt, Andrea McBride applies for the position of nanny for a handsome, wealthy surgeon, Dr. James Lewis, a widower with two children. Another applicant is hired, but she dies in an accident and Andrea gets the job after all, excelling and quickly becoming part of the family. Then Lewis' girlfriend, Dr. Julia Bruning, is mysteriously killed. When his boss tells Lewis of impending cutbacks at the hospital, the boss is murdered. Meanwhile, Lewis' teenaged daughter Fawn begins piecing together the history of the new nanny and discovers that Andrea may be responsible for these and other killings - but Fawn had better hurry, because the slayings are getting closer to home.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, psychological, suspense, sexy, independent film, realistic
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Causality (2021)
Plot Summary:
Claudia shows up at a bar to meet Luis, a doctor who contacted her through a dating app. Claudia doesn't suspect what fate has in store for her. A kidnapping that ends with an inevitable and unpredictable death. A suspense story with surprising twists until the last second, narrated in a sequence shot without cuts.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Two (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two people, a man and a woman, wake up naked and with their abdomens attached to each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, surreal
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Last Screening (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sylvain, a film-obsessed 31-year-old, lives in the basement of a small art-house theater where he works as a programmer, projectionist and cashier. Each night, after the last showing, he goes out for a murderous ritual.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, scary, bleak, serious, realistic, slasher
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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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Hidden (2005)
Plot Summary:
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, art house, surreal, tense, neo noir, clever, bleak, confusing
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Deep Water (2022)
Plot Summary:
Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a couple in the small town of Little Wesley. Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, surprise ending, dark, disturbing, captivating, sexy, slasher, crime drama, psychosexual thriller
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In the House (2012)
Plot Summary:
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, tense, psychological, witty, disturbing, surreal, intellectual, dark comedy, mind twisting
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Incident in a Ghostland (2018)
Plot Summary:
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, scary, rough, psychedelic, slasher