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Plot Summary:
Frank takes Pia Postman hostage on live TV, threatening to execute her after she accepts the blame for his daughter's suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, psycho film
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October 22 (1998)
Plot Summary:
A wounded man makes a desperate call, reporting that a gunman is holding a coffee shop hostage and shooting anyone he pleases -- but when the SWAT team shows up, the madman opens fire. Through flashbacks, a waitress serves an array of customers, all of whom are blissfully unaware of how their lives will be horrifically changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, psychological thriller, bizarre, psycho film
Similar in 80%
Blind Witness (1989)
Plot Summary:
Woman is trapped in her home with her husband's killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spooky, psychological, exciting, tense, rough, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 85%
Sympathy (2007)
Plot Summary:
A bank robber and his hostage spend the night in a hotel where they are visited by a man who sends the story on an unexpected path full of twists and turns.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, independent film
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Supremacy (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the run again. When he finds a house off a dirt road and takes a family hostage, he thinks the Aryan Brotherhood has his back–and his kidnap victims are black. The family’s patriarch, Mr. Walker, is a jaded ex-con who hates cops so much he disavowed his own son for becoming one. Seeing a familiar desperation in Tully, Walker refuses to call the authorities for help, causing familial tensions to escalate, and soon grave missteps are made.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, independent film
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On the Inside (2011)
Plot Summary:
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998)
Plot Summary:
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, disaster movie
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Frame by Frame (1996)
Plot Summary:
A pair of romantically entangled cops become suspects in the brutal murder of one of their mates.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: crime drama, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Roulette (2012)
Plot Summary:
When three very different people (Mike Baldwin, Will Haza, Ali Lukowski) from three completely different worlds begin a deadly game of Russian Roulette, they soon discover that their pasts are a trilogy of overlapping events that have brought them together for one last session of group therapy.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, non-linear, independent film
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Thirst (1998)
Plot Summary:
A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the town's water supply, causing people who drink it to die of thirst.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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The Cursed (2000)
Plot Summary:
A woman desperate to save her injured husband is taken hostage by an escaped mental patient.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, tense, bleak, realistic
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Dead in a Heartbeat (2002)
Plot Summary:
An unlikely duo, Lieutenant Tom Royko of the Seattle Bomb Squad and renowned heart surgeon, Dr. Gillian Hayes, find themselves in a race against time to track down a disturbed bomber who is inexplicably causing Dr. Hayes' patients to explode.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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PVC-1 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Shot in real time, PVC-1 is based on the true story of a woman who is turned into a human time bomb in a bizarre act of terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, realistic, tense, bleak, serious, tragic ending
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Fishing Without Nets (2014)
Plot Summary:
In Somalia, principled, young husband and father Abdi turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone is his only connection to all he truly values. Abdi and his fellow pirates hit the high seas and capture a French oil tanker, demanding a hefty ransom. During the long, tedious wait for the cash to arrive, Abdi forges a tentative friendship with one of the hostages. When some of the pirates resort to violence, Abdi must make dramatic choices to determine his course.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Kenya, Somalia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, rough, suspenseful
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Tripfall (2000)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer turns the life of a family on vacation into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, realistic, fast
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Good Chemistry (2008)
Plot Summary:
After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his nightmare only worsens.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Enemies Among Us (2010)
Plot Summary:
It's not politics as usual, or is it? The governor of Louisiana is about to become the vice-presidential candidate for his party but a murder and an international web spanning from South Africa to Pakistan and North Korea might just get in the way.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, rough, realistic
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Perfect Witness (1989)
Plot Summary:
A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Mistrial (1996)
Plot Summary:
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychological thriller, psycho film
Similar in 77%
Darkness Falls (1999)
Plot Summary:
With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ending up in a coma.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, dark, independent film, psychological thriller
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Below Utopia (1997)
Plot Summary:
Daniel returns to his family's mansion for the holidays along with his girlfriend Susanne. His family's seemingly-utopian existence is overshadowed by not only the death of Daniel's brother, but also by Daniel's failure to live up to his brother's potential. However, this quickly becomes inconsequential, as blood-thirsty killers soon show up.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, suspense, erotic, independent film, bleak
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Under Still Waters (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple encounters a stranger who threatens their marriage and their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, independent film
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Landslide (2005)
Plot Summary:
Manhattan fireman Mark Decker visits, for the first time, his Steven in his ex Emma's new apartment in one of her dad Donald Richardson's development estates, at the foot of Diamand-back Mountain. But Don's ambitious executive Stewart Hancock, who dreams of his own firm, has been cutting too many corners, at the expense of safety, causing a landslide. Mark gets trapped with Steven and the new concierge Harold, who knows everything about an additional danger: rattlesnakes awoken early from hibernation. Now Mark discovers artistic, nerdy Steven only did 'manly' stuff in the city because dad-son time is so rare. While they soldier on, landscape architect Emma discovers the truth and counters Stewart's plan B to literally cover it up.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, disaster movie
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Held Hostage (2009)
Plot Summary:
Michelle a single mother is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to saving her only child's life while they are both wired to explode.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
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Man of Her Dreams (1997)
Plot Summary:
After suspecting her husband is playing the field, a nervous woman finds a sympathetic ear in the form of a strange man. The drawback is that her sensitive new-found friend is an obsessive psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Tracks of a Killer (1996)
Plot Summary:
Business mogul David Hawkner and his wife are enjoying a quiet vacation by themselves at their isolated retreat. The serenity is broken when they become the targets of a handsome, crazed killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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The Crew (1994)
Plot Summary:
Still depressed over the suicide of his mother, Bill has no idea that he's in for a wild ride when he and his wife Jennifer board the yacht owned by her bigoted lawyer brother. Along for the trip: a rock musician and his wife, as well as the newly sex-changed Tim, and the woman he's smuggling into the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, psychological thriller, independent film
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Infinite Justice (2006)
Plot Summary:
An American reporter is held hostage by Muslim fundamentalists in Karachi against the release of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, suspense, captivating, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Five Fingers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, however, Martijn is abducted by a group of terrorists, injected with a debilitating drug, and imprisoned. Under threat of death, the young man engages in a mental chess match with Ahmat, trying to learn his captor's true objective and avoid a horrible fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mind blowing, twisted, emotional, twist ending, perverse, exciting
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Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990)
Plot Summary:
Genua, 3rd October 1985. Together with over 500 other passengers Margot and Pierre Bergeron, a married couple from France, the Serafinis, an Italian family, Anne Higgins, an Englishwoman, Gitta and Helmut Holzer from Germany and an American couple called Marilyn and Leon Klinghoffer board the 'Achille Lauro'. The mood is cheerful and relaxed, everyone is looking forward to twelve days of sun, sea and peace. No one suspects that there are four Palestinian terrorists among the passengers: Al Assadi, Fatayer, Al Ashker and Molqi, their leader. The ship puts to sea in perfect weather. Three marvellous days follow. Everyone appears to be happy and contented. But in the case of some of the passengers appearances are deceiving. Marilyn Klinghoffer, for example, only pretends to her crippled husband that she is well and happy; in reality she is seriously ill with cancer and knows that this will be her last voyage. She does not want to upset her husband, however. A crisis is brewing between.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, USA, West Germany, UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Perfect Prey (1998)
Plot Summary:
A former Texas Ranger is recruited by a Houston police captain to assist a homicide detective in the search for an elusive serial killer who collects antique dolls.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful