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Plot Summary:
A young woman participates in a medical study. After a series of nightmares and unusual side effects, the line between dreams and reality is blurred. She finds herself on the run from those involved, desperate to uncover the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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Similar in 87%
Turn Back the Clock (1989)
Plot Summary:
After a woman fervently wishes for another chance after a terrible tragedy, she is mysteriously granted one year of her life to be lived over.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 75%
Far from the Sea (2015)
Plot Summary:
A love story between a terrorist and his victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, disturbing, contemplative
Similar in 85%
Locked In (2010)
Plot Summary:
Josh leaves his advertising career at its peak, everyone wants either to be him or to have him. A car accident will leave his daughter in a strange coma and when everyone has given up she starts communicating with him, or is he going mad?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, touching, suspense
Similar in 75%
Backwaters (2006)
Plot Summary:
A paralyzed woman goes missing after she and her husband travel to India for specialized medical attention.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing, scary, tense, sentimental, suspense, suspenseful, erotic
Similar in 89%
Sorry, Haters (2005)
Plot Summary:
Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, realistic, suspense, erotic, multicultural, talky, surprise ending
Similar in 84%
The Perfect Wife (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Leah's brother dies in a car accident, she vows revenge on the doc who failed to save him.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, twisted, scary, realistic
Similar in 83%
Missionary (2013)
Plot Summary:
A wife and mother starts an affair with a young missionary... with disastrous consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious
Similar in 89%
Her Name Is Carla (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, realistic, crying
Similar in 81%
A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
After sixteen years of marriage and four children, Betty Broderick's high-powered attorney husband decides to leave her for a younger woman with whom he's been having an affair. Hurt by his betrayal and feeling helpless against his legal expertise, Betty begins a campaign of vandalism and verbal assault. Her rage consumes her and ultimately leads to a terrible and violent act.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, biting, suspense, ridiculous
Similar in 80%
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
Similar in 86%
Doctor Death (2019)
Plot Summary:
After a skiing accident, Sarah's life is saved thanks to a brilliant surgeon, Dr. Vincent. But when Dr. Vincent mistakes Sara's gratitude for love, he becomes obsessed with her, determined to have her at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, scary, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Darkness Falls (1999)
Plot Summary:
With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ending up in a coma.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, dark, independent film, psychological thriller
Similar in 75%
Lured Innocence (2000)
Plot Summary:
A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, mind bending, sexual, sexy
Similar in 77%
Psycho BFF (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Renee's shy teenage daughter Deandra finally makes a friend, Olivia, she is thrilled. After Olivia's initial bossiness turns into emotional abuse, Renee forbids the relationship from continuing, prompting the girls to run away together. Renee embarks on a desperate search for her daughter, before she's gone for good.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
Similar in 78%
The Deal (2022)
Plot Summary:
Kat and Borja appear to be a perfect couple, but as in every marriage they keep secrets, lies and infidelities that will come to light the night an unexpected visitor arrives.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
Similar in 82%
Cradle of Lies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Following a whirlwind romance, a woman begins to unravel the dark secrets of her husband's past when his obsession to produce a male heir turns deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 88%
Fatal Secrets (2009)
Plot Summary:
"BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, seems to have it all - except the right guy in her life. Her friends urge her to "get back out there." But they don't yet know about Scott - a charming man with a secret background whose true colors paint a streak of pain and fear through Julia's life. When Scott's effect on Julia reaches the breaking point, she and her friends take matters into their own hands... and underestimate the consequences. The outcome forces all of them into a desperate situation. Everyone pays the price.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 85%
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
Similar in 78%
Coffin Rock (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying, makes the drunken mistake of sleeping with a young stranger. The stranger then goes to terrifying lengths to prove his paternity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, psychological, captivating, slasher, disturbing, psychological horror, scary, realistic
Similar in 83%
Man of Her Dreams (1997)
Plot Summary:
After suspecting her husband is playing the field, a nervous woman finds a sympathetic ear in the form of a strange man. The drawback is that her sensitive new-found friend is an obsessive psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
Similar in 80%
Lead Us Not Into Temptation (2011)
Plot Summary:
A teenager girl intrudes a quite couple's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, twist ending, psychological, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, surprise ending, hot
Similar in 76%
Body Chemistry (1990)
Plot Summary:
A research project on sexual response leads two doctors into an affair where their deepest passions and darkest fantasies are revealed.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sensual, psychological, suspenseful, sexual, neo noir, eros, serious, realistic
Similar in 79%
Careful What You Wish For (2015)
Plot Summary:
A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, sexy, psychological thriller, psychological, erotic, romantic, thought provoking, touching
Similar in 77%
Fatwa (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson (Holly) ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
Plot Summary:
Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala. Confronting Victor, Charles tries to adopt an air of indifference, but the conversation ends with the husband bludgeoning the author to death and then calmly disposing of the evidence. When Hélène is questioned about Victor's murder, she discovers on her own that her husband is guilty. Instead of turning him in, Hélène is so thrilled that Charles cares so deeply about her that she is more in love with him than ever before.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, cynical, neo noir, psychological thriller, anthology, cute, twisted
Similar in 83%
Arbitrage (2012)
Plot Summary:
A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic, psychological, intense, serious, captivating, clever, tricky
Similar in 84%
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, psychological thriller, erotic, sexy, captivating, psychosexual thriller
Similar in 89%
One Hour Photo (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sy "the photo guy" Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he's part of their family. When "Uncle" Sy's picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next "has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological thrillers!".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 130000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, intense, creepy, contemplative
Similar in 79%
Adulterers (2015)
Plot Summary:
A man who returns home to find his wife cheating on him on their anniversary. He holds her and her naked and humiliated lover captive at gunpoint while he decides whether or not he's going to kill them. The story, inspired by true events, takes place over one day and is set in New Orleans during a stifling heat wave.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, romantic, scenic, crime drama
Similar in 86%
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Plot Summary:
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sexy, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sensual, erotic, psychological, tense, neo noir