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Plot Summary:
25 year old Danny Hill's grandmother just died giving Danny the chance to move into her enormous rent controlled apartment in Manhattan. Danny must lock himself in for twelve days before he can take over the lease. There's just one problem -- he may not be the only occupant.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, surreal, tense, offbeat, independent film
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Tomorrow You're Gone (2012)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Rankin, recently released from prison, seeks vengeance for his jail-house mentor William "The Buddha" Pettigrew. Along the way, he meets the ethereal, yet streetwise, Florence Jane. They embark on a unlikely road trip, careening towards an unlikely redemption and uncertain resolution.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, neo noir, independent film
Similar in 80%
Footsteps (2003)
Plot Summary:
Daisy Lowendahl (Bergen) is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan (Hall) who knows almost everything about her, and two men - one of whom may be trying to kill her, the other of whom could save her life, causing Daisy to be thrown into the middle of a real-life drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, enigmatic, bleak, scenic, psychological, serious, realistic
Similar in 87%
Isolation (2011)
Plot Summary:
In this eerie hospital chiller, a medical student wakes up in an isolation room, gravely ill with no idea how she got there or how to get out. Trying to make sense of her plight and save herself, she finds the hospital staff distinctly unhelpful.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychological, slasher, realistic
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Haunted Echoes (2008)
Plot Summary:
Laura (Sean Young) and Guy (David Starzyk) are devastated by grief when their 8-year-old daughter, Kimberly, is murdered. Hoping to repair their tattered marriage, they move to a quiet town to remodel an old mansion, but weird things start to happen in this eerie ghost story. Laura is convinced that they are being visited Kimberly's spirit, and Guy ultimately believes her, but is it really their daughter who is urging them to seek vengeance?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, serious
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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
Similar in 75%
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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True True Lie (2006)
Plot Summary:
After 12 years in an asylum, as she is reunited with friends and family, Dana begins to realize the events that led to her stay there may not have been imaginary.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, realistic
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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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Legacy (2010)
Plot Summary:
Taking refuge in a shabby Brooklyn motel after narrowly surviving a failed mission in Eastern Europe, Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray (Idris Elba) begins to disintegrate mentally as he broods over the legacy of his actions in this taut psychological thriller. Haunted by his demons while holed up in his room, Malcolm ponders the ascent of his brother (Eamonn Walker), an ambitious senator with designs on the presidency.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Nigeria, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological thriller, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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The List (2007)
Plot Summary:
A sudden death tied to a list from the past leads to unimaginable evil. Fresh out of law school and full of hope for the future, Renny Jacobson is stunned by his father's sudden death--and then by the terms of the will: the elder Jacobson has left the bulk of his estate to charity.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, scary, psychological, tense, mind bending, realistic, christian horror
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Alone (2020)
Plot Summary:
"Alone" follows a writer seeking peace and solitude in the countryside in an attempt to recover from tragedy and finish her book. However, as the welcoming country house turns into a living hell, she soon realizes that her inner demons are not the worst of her problems.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: harsh, scary, bleak, suspense, surreal, intense, psychological, serious, disturbing, atmospheric
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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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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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Slip (2006)
Plot Summary:
"Slip" is the story of Sarah, a young woman who witnessed her mother's murder as a child. Now grown, Sarah is haunted by her mother's memory, her restless soul, opening a gateway for the spirits of the recently departed. Sarah is compelled to do their bidding so their souls may rest in peace. One of these souls leads her to Cal, a young car thief who is one car away from going legit. Unfortunately, Cal is wrongfully accused of stealing from his partners and now they want him dead.Sarah, drawn by the spirit of Cal's murdered nephew, becomes an avenging angel, awakening a dark spirit of her past while risking all to save a total stranger. Now in a race for their lives as well as their souls, Cal and Sarah soon discover that there are far more fearsome things than men with guns.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Games (1967)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious woman (Simone Signoret) in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers (James Caan, Katharine Ross) and helps one trick the other.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Way of the Wicked (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lawrence Salva's script centers on a detective (Facinelli), on the trail of a murderer, who is led to believe that a local teenager, harboring some sort of strange supernatural power, may be involved. Slater plays the man's disbelieving boss, while Hauer plays a man-of-the-cloth who aids the cop on his mission.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, detective, satanic
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Chosen (2014)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Michael Todd, a lonely college student, with no direction in his life; he is assigned a research paper about a local New Orleans legend, the tale of Erica Fisc, a girl who disappeared some twenty years prior. As he looks into the truth behind what really happened to the girl, he finds the truth is more sinister then he could have ever imagined. And now, those who killed her begin to come after him. Some mysteries are better left unsolved because now Mike must run for his life, and his soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic
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Brake (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Secret Service Agent is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures high-speed mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract needed information for their sinister plot.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: twist ending, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, scary, psychological, psychological thriller, bad ending
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True Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
On the surface, Kate and Jack, late 20's, are happy. But like everyone, they carry secrets that neither of them is prepared to reveal. After their wedding, they wake from a deep, dark sleep, each alone in a sealed room with no doors or windows, just a projection screen and a monitor with two buttons: one for “yes”, one for “no”. As the horror of their situation unfolds, surveillance films showing their life together, appear on the screen as the monitor asks questions, each more strange and terrifying that the last. It soon becomes apparent that a bizarre test of their relationship is underway, and the secrets revealed lead them deeper and deeper into what could not just destroy their love, but threaten their very lives….
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, independent film
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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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Visible Scars (2012)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those same woods to escape her abusive boyfriend. There she is haunted by the ghosts of the little girls crying for their mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, spooky, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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Purgatory (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman must survive the night after she welcomes a neighbor's child into her home.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
Mummy An' the Armadillo (2004)
Plot Summary:
Secrets, murders and lies... all in the name of family. In the middle of nowhere sits the Armadillo Café.The once popular, but now desolate, café is run by a strange family led a troubled, booze-addled mother (Betty Buckley) and a disturbed family (Lori Heuring, Brad Renfro, Jonathon Schaech). Their dark secrets are threatened when Sarah (Clare Kramer) arrives, seeking answers to her past.Turmoil reigns and emotions boil over as the horrifying truth unravels and Sarah barely escapes with her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, scary, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, suspense, independent film, atmospheric, realistic
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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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After... (2006)
Plot Summary:
Urban Exploration. The practice of investigating areas not designed for public use. But strange things can happen in the dark, closed-off areas of history beneath the streets of Moscow, and what started as a way for Nate to escape his grief quickly turns into a journey that forces him to confront it head-on, with nothing less than his eternal destiny hanging in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, independent film
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The Presence (2010)
Plot Summary:
In this darkly romantic ghost story, a woman travels to an isolated cabin where she is stalked by an apparition who inhabits her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows obsessive. Soon the woman begins to exhibit weirdly irrational behavior as the thin line between sanity and possession begins to unravel. Is she battling her inner demons, or is a much darker presence threatening them all?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, surreal, spooky, independent film
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The Caller (2011)
Plot Summary:
Troubled divorcee Mary Kee is tormented by a series of sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman. When the stranger reveals she's calling from the past, Mary tries to break off contact. But the caller doesn't like being ignored, and looks for revenge in a unique and terrifying way.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller, erotic, atmospheric, mind bending, surreal, disturbing
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The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Plot Summary:
7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, teen, exciting, rough
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Event 15 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three soldiers get trapped in an elevator when terrorists set off a dirty bomb. But when White escapes, her world turns upside down as she realizes nothing is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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The Employer (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five highly qualified applicants interview for a coveted job with the Carcharias Corporation, a powerful conglomerate whose business practices are shrouded in mystery. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and drugged. The next day, they wake up trapped together in a locked room without any hope of escape. Soon the true nature of their situation is revealed when they receive a phone call from the mysterious CEO of Carcharias, known only as The Employer. He informs them that they are about to experience the final interview, but it's not at all what they were expecting.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, psychological, realistic, independent film