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Plot Summary:
Brain cells from a murdered woman are transplanted into an FBI agent, in the hopes of finding the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Deep Red (1994)
Plot Summary:
After a young girl is accidently infected with an alien substance known as "Deep Red", the astonishing results attract the attention of the illustrious scientist Dr. Newmeyer. Disillusioned security expert Joe Keyes must team up with his estranged wife to protect the girl and her mother from the obsessed scientist who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: action thriller, neo noir, independent film
Similar in 80%
Implanted (2013)
Plot Summary:
When your memory lies, how do you find the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
Similar in 84%
Jigsaw (2002)
Plot Summary:
A college class tackles a bizarre project - splitting up a mannequin, they each decorate a piece. The net result is an exquisite corpse they name 'Jigsaw'. After a night of drunken confessions, the group burns the lifeless body but their darkest secrets come back to haunt them when their brainchild rises from the ashes, targeting each of the creators for a brutal death that is in keeping with their own fears!.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, cult film
Similar in 82%
Addiction (2003)
Plot Summary:
An average, happy, hard-working man's life takes a turn for the horrific after he kills a mugger and discovers he's now addicted to killing.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Closer and Closer (1996)
Plot Summary:
Three years after author Kate Sanders penned a best selling novel about a serial killer, she has become the victim of a twisted tale of art imitating life -- left crippled after fleeing a deadly and psychotic reader, she lives in isolation, connected to the world only through the Internet. But with the release of her sequel, the nightmare begins again.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, suspense
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Drop Dead Gorgeous (1991)
Plot Summary:
A hot new model takes the fashion world by storm, but things start to turn ugly when people around her begin turning up dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Dancing with Danger (1994)
Plot Summary:
A Portland taxi dancer is a suspect in a series of murders involving her former customers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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#FollowFriday (2016)
Plot Summary:
Students and Faculty on a college campus are targeted by a killer using social media.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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City Killer (1984)
Plot Summary:
An attractive young girl is being watched closely by her ex-lover, but matters soon start to escalate and run out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Fashion Victim (2008)
Plot Summary:
Andrew Cunanan started his murderous spree in Minnesota, continued through Chicago, and despite being the subject of an intense manhunt, was able to kill fashion great Gianni Versace, in Miami, before killing himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
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Sins in the Suburbs (2022)
Plot Summary:
Heather, a struggling artist living in a quiet neighborhood, meets her new neighbor: the good-looking photographer Tyler. While at first intrigued, Heather begins to question if Tyler may be involved in reports of a local serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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BrainWaves (1982)
Plot Summary:
After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her: to regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with neural patterns of a woman who just died. It works, and Kaylie seems to be OK again. However in her dreams, she lives the last day of her savor - and realizes that she's been killed! Together with her husband she tries to find out what happened.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Perfect Bride (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young woman begins to suspect that her brother's young fiancée, an attractive Englishwoman, is actually a serial killer who kills men on the eve of their weddings.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Revenge on the Highway (1992)
Plot Summary:
At his wedding Claude Sams has an argument with his son about his life-style; in anger Paul leaves. Together with a friend he sets out for Vegas to search a job. While changing a tire on the highway, he's killed by a passing truck. The police believes it's been an accident, but Claude doesn't accept this and frantically searches for a yellow truck and it's crazy driver at all truck stations.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 84%
Cerebrum (2021)
Plot Summary:
To make ends meet, Tom signs on as a guinea pig at a home-based lab, but when he commits a crime he cannot remember, he must risk his own sanity to reveal the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
Michael Carlin, a teacher, has been having an affair with a much younger fellow teacher Carolyn Warmus. When his wife is murdered, the police suspect him due to inconsistencies in his alibi, and no evidence points to anyone else.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Stranger by Night (1994)
Plot Summary:
Detective Bobby Corcoran (Steven Bauer) and his partner, Detective Larson (Michael Parks), are on the hunt for a vicious serial killer in this tense police thriller. As the murderous villain stalks the city streets leaving carnage in his wake, Corcoran begins to experience blackouts and sudden fits of anger. As the detectives pursue the case, they uncover evidence suggesting that one of them may be responsible for the mysterious deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, mystical
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Naked Souls (1996)
Plot Summary:
Edward is busy trying to unlock the secrets of reading and recording people's thoughts. He is very involved with his work leaving little room for girlfriend Britt. Longstreet comes along and offers Edward a place to do his research and have unlimited funding. There are, however, ulterior motives as Edward is also somehow unlocking the secrets of eternal life.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, bleak, serious, tense, suspense, sexy, independent film, suspenseful, slasher, hot
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Ezekiel's Landing (2015)
Plot Summary:
UFO hunter Emma Wright is a believer and a fraud. After a daring interview with professional skeptic Joel Hooper brings her close to admitting that her alien abduction memoirs are pure invention, an obsessive fan, Kass Burroughs, comes to her with a compelling mystery, one that gives her a new reason to believe, and to lie. Before long, Wright and Burroughs discover a deadly secret protected by a small town's UFO cult -- a secret that lies in the skeptical Hooper's past, and which could destroy his future. It's up to Wright and Hooper to battle the UFO cult and reveal the truth, about the town and each other, before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 82%
Their Killer Affair (2017)
Plot Summary:
When several carnal murders in a small beach town are linked to the public release of a discreet dating app's client information, detective Maxine Payton suspects the killer may be someone intimately close to her.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Midnight Edition (1993)
Plot Summary:
After interviewing a convicted killer, a reporter becomes obsessed with his mesmerizing subject. When his life is threatened, he comes to his senses, but it may be too late to save his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Zenith (2010)
Plot Summary:
In a hellish future where human beings have become stupefied by the state of permanent happiness they have been genetically altered to experience, Jack offers relief via drugs that cause his customers the welcome phenomenon of pain. But when Jack receives a mysterious videotape of his dead father, he sets out to unmask the dangerous conspiracy that has created this dystopian world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, serious, experimental, independent film, futuristic, talky, mind bending
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Implanted (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sarah, a struggling young woman, agrees to volunteer as a test subject and be implanted with the LEXX nanochip for a pharmaceutical company experiment. She hopes that the money received for her participation will solve her financial troubles. When the implant turns sinister and orders her to commit crimes, Sarah is plunged into a murderous spiral with only one choice: to live or die.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Z.P.G. (1972)
Plot Summary:
In the not too distant future, a very smoggy and overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules and gets in a lot of trouble. (Z.P.G. stands for Zero Population Growth.).
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, experimental, grindhouse, frightening, thought provoking, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, controversial
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Virus (1995)
Plot Summary:
Who could have deliberately released a rare and deadly African plague that is now spreading uncontrollably throughout America's largest urban areas? A lone determined doctor desperately and fearlessly searches for the truth, but she soon finds herself targeted for death as well. With time running out to save human kind, Dr. Marissa Blumenthal discovers that the strange disease may have actually been unleashed by the medical establishment itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mystical, apocalyptic
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.com for Murder (2002)
Plot Summary:
This high-tech, psychological thriller is set in the shadowy world of the Internet. Sondra Brummel is recovering from a skiing accident in her boyfriend's mansion, and accidently contacts a possible killer in an Internet chatroom. She and her friend Misty enter a virtual game that that becomes all too real.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, erotic, slasher
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Devil Girl (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fay is a small town girl on a cross country road trip, trying to escape her own reality after the death of her father. When her muscle car breaks down during a drag race she finds herself stranded along route 66 in an isolated desert town. Short on cash, she makes a series of choices to make enough money to repair her car. After encountering a neurotic, drug abusing clown she finds herself sliding down a dark spiral. Soon thereafter, her road trip starts to devolve into a living nightmare. Trapped and desperate, she fights to regain her identity while navigating through a host of locals; a creepy motel clerk, an overzealous preacher, and a sexy temptress with horns and a tail.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: bleak, surreal, tense, suspenseful, independent film, scary, rough, serious, disturbing, surprise ending
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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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Captors (2020)
Plot Summary:
Alys - a human trafficking victim who narrowly escaped her captors ten years ago - confronts her traumatic past when a relative leaves her his remote, snowbound mansion. Although the new house first presents the promise of a new chapter in her life, Alys is soon besieged by strange hallucinations and deadly adversaries and must fight to survive while keeping her sanity intact.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Brainstorm (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, meditative, futuristic, psychological, philosophical, intense, cyber, tense, serious, cerebral