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Plot Summary:
After witnessing the murder of a little girl's parents, a young woman becomes the child's protector and is forced to flee from the killers while trying to discover their motive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Kill Ben Lyk (2018)
Plot Summary:
Someone is murdering all of the Ben Lyks in London! Youtuber, Ben Lyk, decides to gather all of the remaining Ben Lyks to try and figure out exactly what is happening to London’s Ben Lyks.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, black comedy
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Below the Surface (2016)
Plot Summary:
Cameron thought she had the perfect life with a perfect job and a perfect fiancé until he becomes a suspect in a murder case.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Overexposed (2018)
Plot Summary:
A gritty thriller dealing with topical social issues, Overexposed is the story of a teen girl caught up in a sexting scandal that leads to panic, outrage and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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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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Fatal Call (2012)
Plot Summary:
Leaving his small-town roots to start a new life, Mitch meets the beautiful and seductive Amy at a happy hour and begins a tantalizing romance. Before long, Mitch learns that nothing is as it appears and, unable to trust anyone, finds himself on a nightmarish roller coaster ride, accused of murder and running from the law and a mysterious stranger out to kill him. Surviving by quick thinking and his wits, Mitch must confront both his past and present and find a solution before time runs out!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Borrego (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young botanist relocates to a small desert town to study an invasive plant species. While out on research, she comes to the aid of a downed plane only to find herself taken captive by an inexperienced drug mule who forces her to lead a trek across the sweltering desert to his drop. A local sheriff is drawn into the hunt as his rebellious daughter sets out to find the missing botanist, all the while being pursued by a local drug receiver.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cliffhanger, entertaining, dark
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Run & Gun (2022)
Plot Summary:
After leaving a life of crime and violence, Ray is a reformed good guy, enjoying a quiet family life in the ‘burbs. But when his past is discovered, Ray is blackmailed into one last job to collect a mysterious package. After a deadly double-cross, he finds himself wounded and on the run from ruthless assassins who will stop at nothing to get what he has. Now, with the lives of his loved ones hanging in the balance and danger at every turn, Ray’s only hope is to draw upon his violent past to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, 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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I Almost Married a Serial Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
To escape a serial killer, a single mom and her daughter enter witness protection, only to find their lives in greater danger than ever.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Student (2017)
Plot Summary:
After leading a jury to wrongly sentence a man, Abigail enters her new teaching job at the law school with a newfound commitment to ethics. When she takes over her new class, it includes Vincent, an intensely ambitious student who will do anything for an A. When Abigail fails him for academic dishonesty, Vincent threatens that he will stop at nothing to get what he wants. As Vincent's devious plot begins to unravel, she must take her life into her own hands, or Vincent will take it himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, 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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Honor Student (2014)
Plot Summary:
At a book signing for his best seller, Nicholas Howarth is confronted by sexy Teresa Smith, who says he stole the story when he was her teacher in a woman's prison. Teresa has killed before and won't be stopped as she sets out to destroy Nicholas's reputation, his marriage and his life in her goal to write the final chapter of Honor Student.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Am I a Serial Killer? (2019)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl visits her mom on death row and gets lured into a dangerous trap to take the fall for her mother's crimes.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Good Neighbor (2022)
Plot Summary:
A nightmarish evening unfolds for David, a former New York Times journalist, when he and his strange new neighbor Robert, accidentally hit a girl on her bike. Buzzed and disoriented, David lets Robert convince him to flee the scene and leave the girl for dead, in order to protect his career. Robert shows no remorse, and in the name of friendship he does unspeakable things to protect the secret. Now that the police are full-on hunting for the hit-and-run killer, things begin to spiral out of control when David’s local newspaper sends him to cover the story where he meets the deceased girl’s sister Vanessa. Despite the circumstances, and her deep desire to find her sister’s killer, the two immediately have a romantic connection, which surprises and haunts David, while pushing Robert to take brutal steps to keep his new friend to himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Latvia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing
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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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InstaPsycho (2020)
Plot Summary:
An unhinged social media super fan frames her best friend for murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark
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Murder In-Law (2019)
Plot Summary:
Claire has always loved her son Jim and her granddaughter Sydney, but struggles to connect with her daughter-in-law, Allison. When Allison announces a big job promotion that will relocate them far away, Claire's motherly instincts are pushed to an unsettling level where she will scheme, lie and even murder to keep her son and granddaughter from moving away.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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
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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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The Girl Who Got Away (2021)
Plot Summary:
Massena, New York, 1998. A decade of terror comes to a close with the capture of Elizabeth Caulfield, a woman who kidnapped five young girls and pretended they were her own. Only one girl, Christina Bowden, managed to get away with her life, the other four found buried behind Caulfield's decrepit home... 20 years later, Caulfield has escaped from prison and launches a deadly pursuit to finish what she began. Christina's seemingly perfect life comes crashing down around her as the secrets of her past come back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, slasher, mindfuck
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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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Mississippi Murder (2017)
Plot Summary:
An amazing murder mystery taking place in a setting that no one would expect the coast of Mississippi. A young woman tried to live a normal life despite a horrible upbringing. But she will learn her past will haunt her once more.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Ledge (2022)
Plot Summary:
A rock climbing adventure between two friends turns into a terrifying nightmare. After Kelly captures the murder of her best friend on camera, she becomes the next target of a tight-knit group of friends who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence and anyone in their way. Desperate for her safety, she begins a treacherous climb up a mountain cliff and her survival instincts are put to the test when she becomes trapped with the killers just 20 feet away.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, cliffhanger
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Captors (2020)
Plot Summary:
Alys - a human trafficking victim who narrowly escaped her captors ten years ago - confronts her traumatic past when a relative leaves her his remote, snowbound mansion. Although the new house first presents the promise of a new chapter in her life, Alys is soon besieged by strange hallucinations and deadly adversaries and must fight to survive while keeping her sanity intact.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Midnight (2021)
Plot Summary:
A tense night for Kyung-mi and her mother (both hearing-impaired) when they fall prey to a charismatic murderer in the dark alleys of Seoul.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
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The Library Suicides (2016)
Plot Summary:
Twin sister librarians Nan and Ana plan revenge when their author mother commits suicide, with her final words suggesting her biographer murdered her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Silencer (2018)
Plot Summary:
A retired hitman must reawaken all his deadly skills and fight a one-man war against his former employer.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological