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Plot Summary:
Stacey Ruth Castor weathered the storm of her first husband's death and managed to find love again with her boss, David. But when David is discovered dead of an apparent suicide, the police suspect some foul play, as David's death mimics that of Stacey's first husband, Michael Wallace, who died in 2000.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, tragic
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Ring of Deception (2017)
Plot Summary:
Single mom Julie Stevens' life is turned upside-down when international con man Martin moves to her neighborhood. As Julie begins to open up to Martin's charms, another woman - Sloane - is determined to kill Martin for having left her and robbed her blind. Will Julie survive Martin's affections and Sloane's revenge?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
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El profeta Mimi (1973)
Plot Summary:
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Boyfriend Killer (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Grieving mother suspects that her son's ex-girlfriend may have been involved in his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, scary, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, exciting
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Madtown (2016)
Plot Summary:
A stand-up comedian confesses to a murder on-stage at an open mic night to a shocked audience - his crime the result of a deadly triangle formed between his older sister, just released from prison after a 20-year stay for the murder of their parents, the loving bond he now shares with a caring surrogate family, and the ultimate choice he must make between them - his dysfunctional blood ties with his own sister, or his picturesque view of the ideal family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, rough, captivating, exciting
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Azor (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, is going to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumors, who disappeared overnight. Between hushed lounges, swimming pools, and gardens under surveillance, a remote duel takes place between two bankers who, despite different methods, are the accomplices of a discreet and merciless form of colonization.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, France, Argentina
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Murder at My Door (1996)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet neighborhood, a suburban family is shocked when their son is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a neighbor's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Sweetheart (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sex, lies, and deception of a con man. Heartbroken over her parents breakup and recovering from a car accident, Jane becomes suspicious of her mother’s new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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TalhotBlond (2012)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, tense, captivating, suspense
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A Woman Deceived (2017)
Plot Summary:
It’s been one year since Elizabeth’s husband, Bill, died in a tragic horseback riding accident and she is starting to move on. When she runs into Travis Brown, the cowboy she met the same weekend Bill died, the two immediately hit it off. Travis is just what Elizabeth needed to come into her life and they soon get married. When new evidence surfaces implying that Bill’s death wasn’t an accident, Elizabeth must find a way to protect herself and her son from the man she married.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Blood and Ties (2013)
Plot Summary:
Da-eun lives a happy life with her single father, a man who sacrificed everything in his life for her. She loved her father very dearly. However, their relationship is about to take an unexpected turn. Da-eun becomes suspicious that her father might be a monstrous kidnapper. Even though she wants to believe in his innocence, she finds herself searching for evidence to the contrary. What is her father's true identity? And how will she deal with the burden of discovery if her suspicions are confirmed at the end of her final pursuit of the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, twisted
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Who's Stalking Me? (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following a near-death experience when an attacker breaks into her home, Amanda can't shake the feeling that she's still in harm's way. In comes the handsome and stern Detective James Dawson to save the day and keep an especially close eye on Amanda. Taken by his generosity and commitment, Amanda begins to feel safer--unaware that she's letting the real threat get closer than ever.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
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Half a life (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is found raped and bludgeoned to death. Her father can’t reconcile himself with her death, and even less with the fact that the murderer was never found. Half of his life he continues the search. Finally, after more than 20 years, as DNA-analysis becomes a factor in forensic medicine, new perspectives open.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Wrong Boy Next Door (2019)
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After troubled teen Katie is sentenced to house arrest, Katie falls for an attractive young man named John, who has just moved in next door. While their affair seems harmless at first, Katie becomes increasingly convinced there's more than meets the eye with John.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Double Cross (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two women jokingly agree to kill each others' husbands. Then one really does and blackmails the other into killing her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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His Double Life (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young woman returns Home from college and become suspicious of her new stepdad, her late father's business partner, after she discovers him meeting with a mysterious woman who turns up dead the following day.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Tucked Away (2007)
Plot Summary:
On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are giving way to visions of his abusive father, unlocking a suppressed violence he's unable to control. When ray brutally assaults a man in a parking lot, it leads to an investigation by an aging detective with a connected past. Neither is prepared as the secrets begin to unfold over a thirty-year-old murder they've both struggled to keep buried.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Love Her Madly (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three men are dangerously obsessed with the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, independent film, mind bending, neo noir
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Mystery at the Opera (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Paris opera house is about to give a performance of Carmen, when a young usherette is killed in one of the boxes. Faustine must prove her fiancé’s innocence before it’s too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Glass Chin (2014)
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After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a deal with a crooked restaurateur. But quick schemes rarely bring easy pay-offs and as the consequences of his business negotiations unfold, Bud has to make a choice between his integrity and his aspirations.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense
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Pool Boy Nightmare (2020)
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The story follows Gale as she has a brief affair with pool cleaner Adam, but quickly turns down his continued advances. Insulted at being rejected, Adam starts dating Gale's high school age daughter Becca, using her as an unsuspecting pawn in a twisted game of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Maisie Undercover: Shadow Boxer (2006)
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The beautiful ex-cop/bar owner/private eye goes undercover as a boxer at an illegal underground fight club in order to find the killer of a female boxer.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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Wicked Sins (2002)
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Detectives Sara Parson and Luke Gage have just broken off their romantic partnership when they are forced to collaborate on a double-murder case. The breakup appears to have been about Luke's indiscretions with a female witness in a previous case. The victims are Jonathan Lawson, a fashion photographer and his current model and playmate, Shani Cassata, who is married to Frank Cassata the owner of Club Z. Kari Sims, Jonathan's assistant and former waitress/dancer at Club Z, becomes the first suspect by discovering the bodies. Then comes the twist: Jonathan appears not to be himself, but his twin Justin, who is supposed to reside in a mental institution. Det. Sara is sufficiently attracted to Justin/Jonathan that she begins to take liberties with her professional role regarding witnesses in a current case. We are led to speculate on whether Luke and Sara can work together despite their personal differences as well as Sara's distractions to solve the case.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective, hot
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Kept (2001)
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Dead bodies are piling up, and the leads the two LA homicide cops have point to Barbara, business manager for a successful architectural firm she runs with her husband Lance. The dead men were interns at the firm, and each of them was Barbara's lover (kept in a classy flat she owns and observed via closed-circuit TV by the applauding Lance). Kyle is Barbara's latest intern and lover, and he may be in danger. He also starts to fall in love with Barbara, and the feeling may be mutual. In the background are Erin, Lance and Barbara's myopic administrative assistant, and Tony, Kyle's one-time roommate who also knows Barbara. Can the cops solve this before too many more die?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, touching, bleak, captivating, disturbing
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Clean Break (2008)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Secret Scandal (2013)
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A reporter and a prosecutor investigate the death of an actress, and in the process come into conflict with a group of very powerful people. Based on the true story of actress Jang Ja-yeon's suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Megachurch Murder (2015)
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After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a church conspiracy and threats toward her father, she is determined to prove that Hamilton's death was murder not suicide. As she gets closer to the truth, she realizes her own mother may be involved in her father's murder...and that the boy she is falling in love with is the son of his killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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White Orchid (2018)
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Shy and reserved, Claire Decker, 30ish, is a part-time investigator for Social Services. Typically, she solves cases where senior citizens have died alone, leaving no indication of who must handle their estate. This time however, Claire is reluctantly drawn into a puzzling murder case. The local police have been unable to solve the horrific crime, or even decipher the victim's true identity. A beautiful and enigmatic young blond, known only as "The White Orchid," has been brutally murdered. As Claire is drawn deeper and more intimately into the dead woman's life, she finds herself taking dangerous chances and pushing personal and professional boundaries. As she gets closer to the truth, Claire must effectively become the charismatic "White Orchid" in order to solve the mysterious crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense
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Martha (Katie Boland), 18, sees the world as animated and fun. She has a form of autism that means she is a mathematical genuis whilst incapable of looking after herself. Living in a dull routinewith her cousin Nicole (Brooke Burns), and mother Josephine (Amanda Tapping), she sees the good in everything and everyone. But suddenly, her mother is the casualty of a brutal crime before her eyes and Martha is sent to a foster home. Nicole is distraught and battle for custody of her cousin, but the police constantly block her requests. Finally, Detective Velez relents, on one condition: Martha must help solve the crime and find justice for her fallen mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion. Unexplainable things keep happening as Ishigami struggles to find his wife. Gradually, Ishigami realizes all his memories are gone and finds himself acting like someone else. What is his true identity?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Thriller
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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
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