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Plot Summary:
A would-be actress uncovers horrifying files on other starlets.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, mind bending, realistic
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Ruby Cairo (1992)
Plot Summary:
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, UK, Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspense, independent film, psychological
Similar in 80%
Escape Clause (1996)
Plot Summary:
A man finds out that his wife has paid $10,000 to have him killed. Then both the would-be killer and the wife turn up dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Fever (1999)
Plot Summary:
A struggling artist is implicated in a string of macabre murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Knockdown (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six years ago Jack "The Ripper" Stemmons, an American boxer had his career destroyed by a St. Louis bookie. After Jack seeks revenge he is forced into hiding. Jack disappears half way around the world in Thailand. There he falls victim to the addictive spell of Bangkok's exotic and dangerous underworld. Eventually he finds solace in the arms of a beautiful prostitute who has been set in his path by a Russian gangster in order to get Jack back in the ring, This time in Bangkok's notorious underground fight clubs. No matter how hard Jack tries to distance himself from his past, it always hunts him down like a Bad Penny. When a mysterious fight fan appears, it's only a matter of time before Jack's past, present and future accelerate and collide into a twisted climax.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, independent film, tense, psychological, captivating, rough, serious, realistic
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The Letter (2012)
Plot Summary:
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, serious
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No Strings Attached (1997)
Plot Summary:
A renowned journalist becomes a suspect in a series of murders after he becomes intimately involved with a mysterious woman. In an attempt to clear his name, he tries to find a connection between his lover and the increasing number of dead bodies.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sensual, sexy, independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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Choke (2001)
Plot Summary:
Henry, an uptight businessman who sometimes acts with questionable ethics, nevertheless rejects Ron, a scam artist who wants a partner. Ron won't let up and finds a lever to blackmail Henry, whose daughter Gina has killed a pedestrian in a hit-and-run car accident. To protect Gina, Henry disposes of Ron, but a murderous sociopath witnesses this crime. Henry and this stranger bond in an odd way, telling stories about their childhoods. Henry makes a deal with the stranger, helping to get rid of the body of one of the stranger's victims. Will this act seal a bargain between the two men and get Henry off the hook, or will the stranger threaten Henry and Gina?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Poison Ivy: The Secret Society (2008)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious death of a young college student occurs late one night at a prestigious New England college.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, erotic, sexy, suspense, psychological, sexual, independent film
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Separate Lives (1995)
Plot Summary:
The e-cop Tom Beckwith has just quit his police job in order to study psychology. But his professor, Lauren Porter, is more interested in his criminology abilities than in his progress in psychology. Because of traumatic circumstances during her childhood she is suffering from schizophrenia, and it looks like her other ego has just killed somebody. So Tom Beckwith tries to help her by observing her, combining his professional abilities as an ex-cop and his recently gained knowledge of psychology.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Intruder (1999)
Plot Summary:
Catherine meets Nick by accident and, after a whirlwind romance, the two get married and Catherine moves into Nick's apartment only that's the start of problems when an unseen intruder begins playing strange mind games with Catherine in an apparent attempt to drive her insane.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, scary, psychological, tense, mind bending, gothic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Trauma (2004)
Plot Summary:
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, sentimental, disturbing, splatter
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Love Thy Neighbor (2006)
Plot Summary:
Plagued by flashbacks of a violent home invasion, Laura Benson is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Looking for a fresh start, she and her husband sell their house and relocate to a seemingly idyllic gated community. But, little do the Bensons know, evil not only dwells in the neighborhood...it lives next door. As strange and terrifying events unfold, Laura doesn't know whether her sinisterly sweet neighbor is to blame, if she's been targeted for revenge...or if she's losing her mind.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 713
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Backfire (1987)
Plot Summary:
Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a mysterious stranger, Reed, at a local bar, she believes she has found the right person to help her out of her predicament. But Mara worries that Donnie's sister, Jill, is on to her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, neo noir, independent film, surprise ending, tension, twist ending
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Criminal Passion (1994)
Plot Summary:
A homicide detective begins a torrid affair with a senator's son who is a suspect in a series of grisly murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, rough, independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, detective
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Whispers in the Dark (1992)
Plot Summary:
Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while finding that some of the sexual exploits her patients relate are weighing on her. Turning to a married friend from her research days for guidance, she finds his help increasingly important when a female patient is murdered and it turns out that her new boyfriend was also seeing the dead woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychosexual thriller, erotic, suspenseful, sexy, gloomy, psychological thriller, neo noir, independent film, detective, tense
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Sensation (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lila a college student discovers a latent ability to see into the past. When a professor hires her for some psychological tests she becomes the target of the killer of the woman she sees in her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Cyberstalker (2012)
Plot Summary:
After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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A Table for One (1999)
Plot Summary:
A wife, her two-timing husband and a flirting neighbor are unpredictable competitors in a warped game that turns into a life-or-death affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, tension, sexy
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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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Apartment Zero (1988)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a failing cinema and his mysterious boarder are caught up in the political intrigue of Argentina.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, captivating, cult classic, tense, bleak, independent film, scary, neo noir
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Mother's Boys (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes, into a murderous plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, realistic, neo noir, dark, independent film, serious
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Jericho Mansions (2003)
Plot Summary:
A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Tangled (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, teen horror, tense, slasher, detective, non-linear, surprise ending
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The Woman in the Fifth (2011)
Plot Summary:
An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, sincere, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, suspense, powerful, insightful
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Bad Company (1995)
Plot Summary:
Nelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of $50,000 in gold. They blackmail him into working for the Grimes Organization, which is set up as a private company for hire, to blackmail prominent individuals. Crowe, working with Margaret Wells (another former Covert Operations operative), blackmails and bribes a State Supreme Court judge, but the deal sours. One of Crowe's co-workers, Tod Stapp, discovers Crowe's current CIA involvement in a plot to overthrow Grimes, and blackmails him to be cut in on the deal. More blackmail occurs as Wells manipulates Crowe to kill Grimes, then the CIA uses that discovery to blackmail Wells into killing Crowe. Who can you trust???.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, clever, psychological, neo noir, stylized, suspense, anamorphic, rough, serious
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Impulse (2008)
Plot Summary:
Acting on impulse, Claire Dennison (Willa Ford), enjoys a brief fling with a sexy stranger (a dead ringer for her husband), only to realize that the object of her desire is a crazed, manipulative, and tenacious psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense, mysterious, realistic, sexual, psychotronic, erotic, sexy
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Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, sensual, psychological, stylized, neo noir, psychotronic, psychological thriller
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Heart of Stone (2001)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman doesn't know if the killer is her lover ... or her husband ... or someone else!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, sexual, erotic
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Living in Fear (2001)
Plot Summary:
A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, serious, psychological thriller, tricky, intense, clever