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Plot Summary:
A policewoman whose childhood friend disappeared in Patagonia years ago starts a new search to find answers, and soon finds her own life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, realistic, intense, psychological thriller, twisted
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Missing Woman (2016)
Plot Summary:
A struggling divorcee discovers that her little daughter and her Chinese nanny have disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, compassionate
Similar in 90%
Lost Boy (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Laura Harris's kidnapped son returns after eleven devastating years, what she thinks will be a dream come true turns out to be a family nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, captivating, suspense, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, independent film
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The 7th Floor (2013)
Plot Summary:
Like every day, Marcelo gathers her children on the floor of his ex-wife. As each day play "to see who gets there first" them down the stairs, him in the elevator, a diversion that your ex-partner does not like. But when one day Marcelo plays the downstairs children are not. They are not anywhere. The fear begins to emerge when a phone call will catapult the horror: a kidnapper puts a price for the release of their children.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, surprise ending, suspense, twisted
Similar in 79%
The Treatment (2014)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all - looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known sex offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure in harassing Nick. Then, when a disturbing case comes to light involving a missing nine-year-old, Nick heads a massive search which turns into a relentless manhunt.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, tense, bleak, serious, biting, psychological thriller, sexy, gothic
Similar in 78%
Hit (2020)
Plot Summary:
Vikram Rudraraju is a 30-year-old cop working for the Telangana State Police. While Vikram is battling with his own traumatic past, the stakes get high when a girl called Preethi mysteriously disappears in Hyderabad and Vikram has to solve the case at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bring Me Home (2019)
Plot Summary:
Six years after her son went missing, dedicated mother Jung-Yeon still hasn't lost hope - even after her husband's shocking accident while rushing to follow up on a potential sighting. Although she's in mourning, drowned in despair for her losses, she doesn't give up. Just when everything feels like it's in vain, she hears about a young boy living in a fishing community outside the city who seems to resemble her lost son. Facing strange surroundings and corrupt cops covering up child abuse, Jung-yeon may not be able to handle all the obstacles in her way, let alone fend for herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, heartbreaking, disturbing, suspense, social
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Into the Labyrinth (2019)
Plot Summary:
The anomalous heat wave overwhelms everything, forcing everyone to reverse the pace of life: only during the hours of darkness it is possible to work, move, survive. And it is precisely in the middle of the night that Samantha emerges from the darkness that had swallowed her. A thirteen year old kidnapped and long held prisoner, Sam is now suddenly free and, traumatized and wounded, is hospitalized in a hospital room. Next to her, Dr. Green (Dustin Hoffman), an extraordinary profiler. Green in fact does not hunt monsters in the outside world, but in the minds of the victims. Because it is inside the memories of Sam that the clues able to lead to the capture of his jailer are hidden: the Man of the Labyrinth. But Dr. Green is not the only one chasing the monster. There is also Bruno Genko (Toni Servillo), a private investigator with an unexpected talent.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, rough, tense, realistic, scary, psychological, psychological thriller, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 87%
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Plot Summary:
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, serious, scary, realistic, psychotronic
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All Around the Town (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young woman, seemingly good but still psychologically disturbed from being kidnapped as a little girl, becomes the obvious suspect in a murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic
Similar in 77%
Class of '76 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious "faceless child.".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, mind bending, realistic
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Swallow, Cat, Rose, Death (2006)
Plot Summary:
What's in a name but murder? Münster comes across the strangled body of a young woman in her home and surprises the murderer who is still on the premises. Though the murderer escapes, a rare book is found at the scene with a dedication by the killer. When another victim is uncovered, Van Veeteren's literary expertise is put to the test as it becomes clear they are dealing with a serial murderer who kills using names taken from 19th century crime novels. Which name will he use for his next victim?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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I'll Be Seeing You (2004)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds out she has a half sister when he father disappears and her half sister turns up dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, mind bending, realistic
Similar in 78%
The Vanishing (1993)
Plot Summary:
A young woman (Sandra Bullock) mysteriously disappears, sending her boyfriend Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) on a years-long quest to find her. Not even a new love (Nancy Travis) can keep him from his obsessive search. All the while, the calculating psychopath (Jeff Bridges) who kidnapped his girlfriend stalks Jeff, ultimately taking him through the exact same steps that led to the crime. In order to find out what happened, Jeff must put his own life in the hands of this devious stranger.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, scary, suspense, intense, serious, atmospheric, dark
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Perfect Number (2012)
Plot Summary:
Based on the series by the popular Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino, this is a mystery drama that 'faithfully but freely' adapts the 3rd part in the series, . The story revolves around 3 characters: a woman who unwittingly killed her husband, a math genius next door who sets up a perfect alibi for her out of his attraction toward her, and a detective who closely traces her, finding the alibi suspicious.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, twist ending, captivating, surprise ending, twisted, unpredictable, realistic
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Poker Night (2014)
Plot Summary:
When you become a detective in Warsaw Indiana - you go to Poker Night, where you play against some of the best cops in the business. They tell you stories about their time on the job - their successes and failures. When new Detective Stan Jeter leaves the game, he is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement. Using the stories he heard at Poker Night, he must match wits against his captor - and save not only himself, but the young girl trapped in the basement with him. Like Seven and Usual Suspect, Poker Night combines thrills and twists and turns that will leave you guessing till the very end.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, psychological thriller, clever, slasher, detective, twisted, independent film, serious
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My Son (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a man's only son goes missing, he travels to the town where his ex-wife lives in search of answers. To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script of dialogue.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Talvar (2015)
Plot Summary:
A hardened cop deals with three conflicting perspectives involving a brutal double murder. The case is complicated as the prime suspects are the parents who supposedly killed their teenage daughter.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, captivating, social, psychological, tense, psychological thriller, mind bending, dark, realistic
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The Girl in the Fog (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on the bestselling novel by Donato Carrisi, THE GIRL IN THE FOG is a gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where enigmatic Detective Vogel is investigating on the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old Anna Lou. But with the case at the heart of a media storm, the fine line between the police and criminals begins to blur and soon everyone becomes a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspense, tense, enigmatic, disturbing, clever, neo noir, crime drama, detective
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The Captive (2014)
Plot Summary:
Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, serious, surreal, intense, non-linear, stylized, psychological thriller, tense
Similar in 90%
Freedomland (2006)
Plot Summary:
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, intense, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, detective, crime drama
Similar in 84%
Recurrence (2022)
Plot Summary:
Years after moving to a remote town, ex-cop Pipa is pulled back into the dark world she thought she'd left behind when a corpse appears on her property.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark
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Lost Girls (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, emotional, disturbing, compassionate, bleak, dark, perverse, powerful
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The Tall Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, intense, slasher, twisted, psychological thriller
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Breakdown (1997)
Plot Summary:
When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never seen Amy. Johnathan Mostow's tense thriller then follows Jeff's desperate search for his wife, which eventually uncovers a small town's murderous secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, road movie, psychological thriller, tense, scenic, intense, neo noir, scary
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Secret in Their Eyes (2015)
Plot Summary:
A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Spain, South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, clever, surprise ending, tense, suspense, detective, psychological thriller, crime drama, dark, deep
Similar in 79%
Kiss the Girls (1997)
Plot Summary:
Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 80000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological thriller, surprise ending, disturbing, intense
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Plot Summary:
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 487000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, rough, clever, serious, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, suspense
Similar in 81%
Prisoners (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 784000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric, neo noir, detective, surprise ending, psychological thriller, tense
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Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Plot Summary:
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 285000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: twist ending, detective, thought provoking, neo noir, surprise ending, suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, tense
Similar in 79%
Gone Girl (2014)
Plot Summary:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, clever, twist ending, suspenseful, neo noir, tense, dramatic, psychological thriller