Best movies like Night Owl
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Plot Summary:
New York: Every night the mysterious "Night Owl" goes on the air with her moody radio show. She seems to have an inexplicable influence on some men; several of Julie's friends commit suicide while listening to her voice. She fears for her husband Harry, who becomes more and more distant from her. Written by Tom Zoerner.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, psychological, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, realistic, psychotronic
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Best tv shows and movies like Night Owl (1993):
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Requiem for Murder (1999)
Plot Summary:
A thriller starring Molly Ringwald.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Similar in 89%
Twin Sisters (1992)
Plot Summary:
A woman flies from Los Angeles to Montreal to investigate the supposed death of her identical twin. What she finds out could get her killed.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Shelter Island (2003)
Plot Summary:
Ally Sheedy is a retired golfer turned motivational speaker. Patsy Kensit plays her lover and also works with her. There is another girl as well. There are some difficulties at work, a New York firm. So Ally decides she's going to go away for the weekend to some property she owns at Shelter Island. Her lover goes with her. A big storm is coming to the island and the mansion is very isolated from the rest of the island's people. The storm is a perfect set-up for the visitor who just happens to show up, supposedly "stranded" by the storm. This is the Stephen Baldwin character. It seems at first, he is who he says he is. But then he keeps finding excuses to delay leaving, and then finally he attacks Ally Sheedy. He tosses her in a marsh thinking she is dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, realistic
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Distant Cousins (1993)
Plot Summary:
Kate's husband Richard hasn't seen his cousin Harry for 20 years. So when he comes to stay with his fiancee Connie they are welcomed. But Kate senses her family is at risk when they start behaving suspiciously.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Twist of Fate (1998)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful attorney's hunt for a serial killer is frustrated by his accomplice's twisted scheme to keep the killer free at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, scary, psychological, rough, mind bending, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful
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4Closed (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a young family moves into a foreclosed house, the previous owner begins a campaign of intimidation and terror. The deranged man will stop at nothing to get his home back.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
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Committed (2011)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Dupont arrives at a mental facility to apply for a staff position. World famous Dr. Quilly interviews her, and has her sign papers. She is thrilled to get the job, and is shown her room. However, confusion with her room being on the same floor as the patients' soon turns to panic as she is told that she is a "guest"- not a doctor, and the papers she signed were not job forms, but commitment papers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, scary, mind bending
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Interstate (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Montreal DJ, following his girlfriend to Los Angeles, falls into a deadly relationship with a couple of female hitch-hikers.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir, serious, realistic, cult film
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The Perfect Tenant (2000)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years ago Danny Summer found his father hanging from the rafters on Christmas Eve. Ever since that night he has been plotting revenge. When Brian Hartwell moves into Jessica Michael's guesthouse, she has no idea that her new tenant has a deadly agenda to go with his new identity. Her daughter Laura doesn't trust him from the beginning but can't convince her mother that there's more to "The Perfect Tenant" than meets the eye.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, christmas horror, independent film, mind bending, realistic
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Conjurer (2008)
Plot Summary:
After moving to the country to start life anew after their child's death, photographer Shawn Burnett and his wife, Helen, begin to suspect that a ramshackle cabin on their property is haunted by the malevolent spirit of a long-dead witch who once lived there.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, psychotronic
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House of Good and Evil (2013)
Plot Summary:
After a family tragedy in the chaotic city, Chris and Maggie Conley, in a last-ditch effort to save their dying marriage, purchase an isolated home in the deepest woods, to which they quickly discover evil has a key.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, realistic
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The Stray (2000)
Plot Summary:
After a drifter is struck by a car the driver offers to take him back from the hospital to her home in order to nurse him back to health...which turns out to be one of the biggest mistakes of her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, independent film, realistic, detective
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Murder Rap (1988)
Plot Summary:
When a young audio fanatic accidentally records a brutal murder, his pursuit of the killer lures him into a sinister plot of revenge and deceit, Texas style.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, tense, sexy, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear (1998)
Plot Summary:
A neglectful mother overhears her husband on the telephone at their workplace talking with their babysitter. She discovers they are having an affair and are going to have a baby. She concocts an evil plan to win back her husband and remove the girl and baby. Two men are hired to kill the girl and hold the son hostage in order for her to play the hero and reclaim her husband. The plan hits a snag when the criminals enter the wrong apartment.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense, ridiculous
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Net Games (2003)
Plot Summary:
The successful publicist Adam Vance of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Japanese client and is needy of sex because his traumatized wife Jennifer Vance was raped one year ago and is totally frigid, refusing to have sex. His close friend and colleague Ray Walters suggests Adam to visit the porn site cyber chat.net, where lonely people have erotic conversation. Adam meets Angel, a luscious woman and hacker while his wife is visiting her rapist in the prison with her therapist as part of her treatment. When Adam decides to finish his virtual affair with Angel, he is chased and blackmailed by the deranged sexy killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir, sexy, tense, psychological, suspense, erotic, sexual
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Choke (2001)
Plot Summary:
Henry, an uptight businessman who sometimes acts with questionable ethics, nevertheless rejects Ron, a scam artist who wants a partner. Ron won't let up and finds a lever to blackmail Henry, whose daughter Gina has killed a pedestrian in a hit-and-run car accident. To protect Gina, Henry disposes of Ron, but a murderous sociopath witnesses this crime. Henry and this stranger bond in an odd way, telling stories about their childhoods. Henry makes a deal with the stranger, helping to get rid of the body of one of the stranger's victims. Will this act seal a bargain between the two men and get Henry off the hook, or will the stranger threaten Henry and Gina?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Dream Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
Kris is a homicide cop with psychic abilities. She works to prove that the prime suspect in her latest case (the much younger husband of the millionaire victim) is innocent. But are her visions true, or planned by someone who knows what she can see?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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You Belong to Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jeffrey has met the man of this dreams, hunky Frenchman René, he impulsively moves into the same building. The move backfires as Remé becomes cold and distant. Landlady Gladys lavishes attention on her new tenant.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Layover (2001)
Plot Summary:
An airport affair of a business man turns into a nightmare when it turns out that the woman is married to a dangerous jewelry dealer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, suspense, tense, sexy, independent film
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Oscura Seduccion (2010)
Plot Summary:
Laura is a successful plastic surgeon who feels her life is somewhat empty. She meets a young nurse and falls in love and experiences sexuality to a extent not known to her. However, In this spiral of desire and seduction both play a dangerous game where no one is who appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, sexy, tense, psychological, captivating, erotic, realistic, sexual
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Crimes of Passion (2011)
Plot Summary:
Arturo Bolaño is a mediocre insurance salesman who loves women, booze and any short cut he can find to Easy Street. He thinks he's found it with the beautiful Rebeca Solis, the wife of the owner of the hotel where he stays on business. Rebeca wants nothing more than to escape from her husband and after Arturo falls in love, she asks him to help her get rid of him. The plan goes without a hitch but just as they think they are going to get away with murder, they receive an anonymous letter from a witness to the crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, tense, rough, realistic, serious, sexual
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Freeway (1988)
Plot Summary:
A deeply-disturbed priest goes on a murderous night-time rampage across America's highways.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Killer Reality (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hayley, a producer on the hit reality show LOVE EVER AFTER, unwillingly falls for The Bachelor on this marriage elimination series. Things become complicated very quickly, especially when one of the female contestants turns up dead. That's when work becomes downright murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, rough, sexual
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The Lost Angel (2005)
Plot Summary:
Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Ghost Image (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a young female video editor loses her boyfriend in a car crash, she finds solace in watching video of him taken the night before he died. When he starts to communicate with her through that video, she must decide if he has broken through the barrier between this world and the next, or has she slipped off into madness.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, enigmatic, mind bending, realistic
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Suspended Animation (2001)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood animator Tom (Alex McArthur) gets lost in the Michigan woods after a snowmobile ride goes wrong. He finds refuge at an isolated cabin inhabited by two sisters (Laura Esterman and Sage Allen). Initially grateful to them, Tom soon realizes that the women are cannibals who peg him as their next meal. Tom's friends manage to rescue him, but he's perpetually haunted by his horrific ordeal.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Kaaterskill Falls (2001)
Plot Summary:
A romantic road trip to the Catskills for some much-needed time alone turns bumpy for Ren (Hilary Howard) and Mitchell (Mitchell Riggs) in this indie film directed by Josh Apter and Peter Olsen. After picking up a hitchhiker, Lyle (Anthony Leslie), their dream vacation becomes a nightmare, especially when he appears at their cabin hours after they drop him off at the side of the road. At Kaaterskill Falls, the mounting tension takes its toll.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, realistic
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Lured Innocence (2000)
Plot Summary:
A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, mind bending, sexual, sexy
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Heart of Stone (2001)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman doesn't know if the killer is her lover ... or her husband ... or someone else!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, sexual, erotic
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Dark Hearts (2014)
Plot Summary:
When struggling artist Colson finds his muse in sultry singer Fran, their daring romance spirals out of control into a dangerous game of deception and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, stylized, captivating, sexual, sexy