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Plot Summary:
Richard has been living alone since his wife left. His reclusion is broken when mysterious vagabond Jack comes to his rescue. Richard offers to put him up for a few days in exchange for some odd jobs. But the press soon starts hinting at a serial killer on the loose. Richard begins to have doubts: could Jack be the murderer? Richard panics and tension mounts when he discovers blood in the house. But what if Richard has his own demons to hide?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, twist ending, psychological, suspense, thrilling, surprise ending
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Til Death Do Us Part (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman investigates the past of her seemingly ideal husband, a doctor who starts to become increasingly hostile.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological thriller
Similar in 76%
The Last Stop (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of quircky, snow bound, strangers discover there are killers amongst them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, tense, mind bending, realistic
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The Killer Downstairs (2019)
Plot Summary:
Alison Peters has always done everything right but finds her life in turmoil as a lawyer stuck working at a grocery store job. Desperate for cash, she rents her basement on MiCasaSuCasa.com and gets a response from James Brewer who explains that he and his wife have recently split. At work, Alison and her friend Sarah, deal with a boss, Brandon, who's been harassing Alison. When Brandon is murdered, the police are suspicious of her. As romance starts to bloom between Alison and James, more people in her life begin disappearing.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Welcome to Curiosity (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four interconnected stories surrounding the escape from prison of a notorious serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, scenic, suspense
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Disposable (2017)
Plot Summary:
What if a man with a mental condition, living in a fantasy world and detached from all emotional responsibility, is in real life the prime suspect for a series of murders targeting young women? Bill Thompson awakens to reality when forced to confront the truth about himself. Is he really the serial killer behind these murders? Or just the perfect fall guy? But it's not easy to find those answers when you can't differentiate between fact and fiction. Now, Bill must struggle to ground himself in reality and unfold the mystery behind the killings, as the only way to prove his innocence. "DISPOSABLE": the story of a man who must confront the truth about himself in order to save himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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Simon (2016)
Plot Summary:
An investigative Journalist thinks she's found a killer, and breaks into his place to find the evidence. Only when he come's back it becomes a game of cat and mouse with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Thriller
Country:
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Secrets of My Stepdaughter (2017)
Plot Summary:
A mother protects her stepdaughter after the teenager witnesses the murder of her best friend, but is soon forced to come to grips with the terrifying possibility that her stepdaughter may be the real killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Paranormal Abduction (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young women suffering memory loss and psychological issues after surviving a brutal attack, tries to piece together the clues surrounding her attack and its similarities to a series of recent murders. During the investigation, she struggles to maintain her sanity as her world gets more surreal and reality starts to unwind around her. Following the clues that lead her down the "rabbit hole" she finds herself fighting to wake up from this nightmare...before she becomes the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Paris Under Watch (2012)
Plot Summary:
An anonymous hacker has hacked all of Paris' cameras and observes the city unbeknownst to its inhabitants. Petty crimes and moments of stolen intimacy, he sees everything. Until the day that an explosion lays wasted to the Gare d'Austerlitz. The police starts tracking down an Al Queda satellite group. The hacker succeeds in finding images of the explosion and discovers that it was a young couple who planted the bomb. Using the city's cameras, he decides to hunt down the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere (2013)
Plot Summary:
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a secret organization specializing in kidnapping children.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, action thriller
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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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Stolen Identity 2 (2020)
Plot Summary:
A couple of months have passed since the serial murder case. A new dead body is found in the same area. Detective Manabu Kagaya tries to find the truth. He goes to see serial killer Yoshiharu Urano in prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, slasher, suspenseful, detective
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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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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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Chronicle of a Serial Killer (2020)
Plot Summary:
What goes through the mind of a serial killer as he meticulously plots his crimes, researching his victims and entrapping them while they are none the wiser?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher (2016)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer walks the streets of Whitechapel, London, attacking and killing women, which later came to be known as the 'Whitechapel murders' stretching from 3 April 1888 to 13 February 1891 included in the London Metropolitan Police Service Investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, psychotronic
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Looks Can Kill (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of models is killed off, one by one, and everyone is a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Cheerleader Murders (2016)
Plot Summary:
A high school student whose father and sister were recently murdered begins her own investigation after two of her fellow cheerleaders are kidnapped. She sets out on a rescue mission, but the killer may already be hot on her trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Black Widow Killer (2018)
Plot Summary:
A single mother fears for her life and that of her daughter when they become targets of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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911 Nightmare (2016)
Plot Summary:
Officer Chris McCullers was gravely injured in a shootout and now works on 911-dispatch. Resentful that her career has ended up here, Chris receives a call from a scared kid and dismisses it as a prank. The next day, she learns that the call was all too real: there's been a murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 78%
Witness Unprotected (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sam is a divorced freelance photographer who is struggling to put her daughter, Laurie, though college. She takes any job, even the dangerous ones, to keep the paychecks coming. Her latest assignment, given to her by a private investigation firm, goes horribly wrong when Sam suspects the subject of her stakeout may have been the victim of foul play.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Model for Murder: The Centerfold Killer (2016)
Plot Summary:
Supermodels compete for a coveted centerfold spread as a merciless killer stalks the glamorous women. Meanwhile, two detectives attempt to unravel the mystery before the body count mounts.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sexy, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, hot
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The Head Hunter (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1972 the tranquility of a coastal town in California is broken as hitch-hiking girls begin to go missing and corpses start showing up. Welcome to Murder City.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Final Move (2013)
Plot Summary:
To save his daughter's life and restore his reputation, disgraced ex-detective Nick Mathers must catch the sadistic Grand Master killer before time runs out, and the final piece is taken in the deadly game of chess.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, contemplative
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The Devil's Path (2013)
Plot Summary:
Death-row inmate Sudo (Pierre Taki) sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii (Takayuki Yamada). In his letter, he states that a man named Kimura (Lily Franky), also known as "teacher," committed numerous murders for insurance money. While checking out the story, based on Sudo's tip, Fuji becomes convinced that the letter is correct. But, a lot of time has passed from the incidents and Sudo's testimony isn't clear. Due to the persistance of Sudo, who is a former yakuza, and Fuji, the police begin to move.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
Similar in 77%
The Strangler's Wife (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mae thought she had the perfect husband. Until she found out about his other women. But now she suspects an even more horrible truth. He isn't cheating with these other women... he's killing them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 79%
Forbidden Lust (2002)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca is a gorgeous and sensitive woman who's looking for love ... or is she? Unfortunately, her affluent husbands die prematurely. The police start to suspect she's a killer marrying rich men only to murder them for their money. Fortunately, she has her best friend, Tucker Jones, to lean on. However, it appears Tucker's interest in Rebecca may be more than friendly. Meanwhile, as suave Detective Valdez and his good-looking partner Sam Winters delve deeper into their investigation of Rebecca's husband' death, they find that every clue leads to a dead body. Is Rebecca the perpetrator, or the next victim? Either way, this will be one dangerously hot case.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexploitation film
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Fatal Intuition (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jang-woo had only his sister to live for until she is brutally murdered. During a ritual to send her spirit to heaven, he comes across a suspicious man, who manages to escape from the scene. He begins to suspect a local pharmacist and keeps an eye on him. Although Jang-woo is absolutely convinced that the pharmacist is the killer, no one believes him because the pharmacist is considered the kindest man in town. But he gets help from a possessed woman named Si-eun who foresees how people die. Their pursuit begins and Si-eun predicts yet another murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Suspension of Disbelief (2012)
Plot Summary:
Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happened to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, mind bending, realistic