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Plot Summary:
A scientist in the rain forest squares off against a land developer while trying to solve some unexplained deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Driftwood (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young woman washes ashore and is taken in by a stranger.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: minimal cast, learning
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Messengers (2004)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Sarah Chapel returns to the small town of Brighton Mills when her father Dr. Robert Chapel unexpectedly dies. His clients and friends miss him, and Sarah discloses that all of them have perfect health; they hear voices when they are sleeping; and they are addicted to the stimulant Tributol. Her further investigation discloses a dark secret about the haunting voices.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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G.P.S. (2007)
Plot Summary:
College friends embark on a GPS treasure hunt in search of money. Instead of finding buried treasure, they find a buried coffin that contains photos of a kidnapped woman and GPS coordinates that lead deeper into the forest. Are the photos real or part of a game?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Lifespan (1975)
Plot Summary:
Cult icon Klaus Kinski features in this dark and intriguing existential thriller. He plays the mysterious "Swiss Man" - ruthless industrialist Nicolas Ulrich - who is obsessed with a search for the elixir of life. He tricks a young American scientist into joining him on his demonic quest. A quest that ends in suicide, death and madness. The story takes place in the atmospheric European city of Amsterdam. Its winding alleys and ancient canals trap the characters in a labyrinthine maze as they find themselves manipulated like figures on a giant chess board.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: medical horror, independent film
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Deadly Web (1996)
Plot Summary:
A divorced mother (Gigi Rice) is targeted by an on-line stalker known as Cybergod, and she teams with an ex-cop (Ed Marinaro) to track down the maniac.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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One Under the Sun (2017)
Plot Summary:
Astronaut Kathryn Voss, sole survivor of a disastrous space shuttle mission, is a distraught mother desperate to reunite with her terminally ill daughter but becomes a wanted fugitive after discovering she possesses an extraordinary gift.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Murder Once Removed (1971)
Plot Summary:
Television thriller in which a scheming doctor murders once for love and then has to kill again to cover it up.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending
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Hatchetman (2003)
Plot Summary:
Claudia Wagner dreams of being a lawyer and, along with her boyfriend Sonny, must put all her knowledge into use when, one by one, her girlfriends become victim to a serial killer. Can she uncover his identity before she becomes the next victim?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Duplicates (1992)
Plot Summary:
A family falls victim to a scientific institute that removes memories and transfers them to a computer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tech noir
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My Blood Runs Cold (1965)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insists upon calling her Barbara. Later, at the Merriday beach house, Julie's Aunt Sarah tells Julie that her great great grandmother was named Barbara, and furthermore, that ancestress had an illegitimate child fathered by one Benjamin Gunther.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult film
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Lies and Deception (2005)
Plot Summary:
Six years after her husband's suicide, Jean Bruckner is dumbfounded by the news that he has recently been murdered! With the help of a private investigator, she heads to Chicago to uncover the truth behind her spouse's charade. The deeper she digs, the more danger she puts herself in. The truth may be out there, but she may get killed before she finds it!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, detective
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Devils in Disguise (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two roommates, Leila & Sandy, team up to kill Leila's sadistic boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, dark
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The Last Letter (2004)
Plot Summary:
As they file into the deliberation room, 11 jurors are ready to convict the defendant of 14 counts of murder, but one holdout forces the others to reevaluate the evidence -- and their own motives -- in this tense courtroom drama. As the jurors sift through the case, more of them start to lean toward an acquittal, but could one of them have a hidden agenda? This thriller starring Yancy Butler and William Forsythe holds plenty of surprises.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, splatter
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Terroir (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy wine maker Jonathan Bragg (Keith Carradine) hires Tuscan wine detective (Gaetano Guarino) to discover the source of a mysterious bottle of wine. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Sioux City (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Chimera Strain (2018)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant but disturbed scientist freezes his children alive, while he races to cure their deadly genetic disease by decoding the DNA of the immortal Turritopsis jellyfish.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Cryo (2022)
Plot Summary:
Five scientists awake from a cryogenic sleep and find themselves trapped in an underground facility. With no memory of who they are or how long they've been asleep, they begin to realize they may have been part of a scientific experiment gone wrong. After a series of strange events, the scientists find themselves being hunted. They do not know who is hunting them or for what reason, but the scientists begin to suspect that one of them may be the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, bleak, serious, bloody, captivating
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Scoring (1995)
Plot Summary:
Eric Lazlo is doing the musical score for a movie in which the female star tries to kill the male star using a variety of poisons, poisonous insects, poisonous snakes, etc. When Eric starts to see a prostitute, Abbey, he finds his life imitating art.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Storyville (1992)
Plot Summary:
While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspenseful, political thriller, sexy, neo noir, realistic, independent film, southern gothic
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New Rose Hotel (1998)
Plot Summary:
A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, cyber, atmospheric, stylized, tech noir, mind blowing, independent film, serious, neo noir
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Disconnect (2010)
Plot Summary:
A distraught college student finds a phone that enables her to talk to her deceased mother in the past. Instead of a heart attack, she learns that her mother was murdered. She tries to use the phone to stop the murder from occurring before the killer finds and kills her too.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, serious
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The Dead Will Tell (2004)
Plot Summary:
Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, mind bending
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Woman of Desire (1994)
Plot Summary:
A yacht captain, Jack Lynch, is accused of murdering his boss and raping the victim's wife, Christina Ford. Nothing is how it first appears. Jack seeks the help of veteran attorney Walter J. Hill to help prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Unforgettable (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a neurobiology Linda Fiorentino which has the ability to transfer memories from one person to another, but not without consequences. Liotta driven to solve the case injects himself with the serum, bringing him closer and closer to finding her killer but bringing him closer to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense, rough, serious, exciting, psychological thriller, surprise ending, neo noir
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The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Plot Summary:
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense, cerebral, atmospheric, talky, serious, scary
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The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Plot Summary:
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, political, psychotronic, exciting, philosophical, depressing
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Looker (1981)
Plot Summary:
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, sexy, futuristic, psychological, serious, erotic, cult classic, surprise ending, exciting
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Annihilation Earth (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two scientists fight to save the planet after a group of terrorists destroy a particle accelerator.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, fast, disaster movie
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Impostor (2001)
Plot Summary:
Gary Sinise plays Spencer Olham, a top-secret government weapons designer who is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious, psychological thriller, thought provoking, cyber, mindfuck, intense
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Cloud Atlas (2012)
Plot Summary:
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 371000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, UK, Spain
Duration: 172 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, psychological, futuristic, mind bending, surreal, spiritual, enigmatic, non-linear, atmospheric, reflective