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Plot Summary:
A social conscience thriller about a courageous Afro-Caribbean girl from Haiti, who is trapped inside a human-trafficking network in the United States. She chooses to risk her life in order to gain her freedom and expose an explosive conspiracy whereby unsuspecting illegal immigrants are routinely murdered in an elaborate, multi-million-dollar, life-insurance racket.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, multicultural, suspenseful, tense, suspense, contemplative, independent film
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Copper Bill (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two thieves attempt to steal 80 million dollars of hidden Texas drug money from the famed ranch belonging to a dead member of the Cowboy Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: twist ending, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, surprise ending, independent film
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Cam-Girl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Gessica, a single mother who works as a webcam stripper is pushed to her limit when held hostage by an unknown gunman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Disposable (2017)
Plot Summary:
What if a man with a mental condition, living in a fantasy world and detached from all emotional responsibility, is in real life the prime suspect for a series of murders targeting young women? Bill Thompson awakens to reality when forced to confront the truth about himself. Is he really the serial killer behind these murders? Or just the perfect fall guy? But it's not easy to find those answers when you can't differentiate between fact and fiction. Now, Bill must struggle to ground himself in reality and unfold the mystery behind the killings, as the only way to prove his innocence. "DISPOSABLE": the story of a man who must confront the truth about himself in order to save himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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His Deadly Affair (2019)
Plot Summary:
Violinist Danielle Turner returns to her hometown for her final show of the tour. While home she sets out to repair her relationship with her sister, Heidi, but Danielle’s dream boyfriend, James the Conductor of the Orchestra, has a dangerous and obsessive wife, who is waiting to extract her vengeance on Danielle.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Simon (2016)
Plot Summary:
An investigative Journalist thinks she's found a killer, and breaks into his place to find the evidence. Only when he come's back it becomes a game of cat and mouse with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Thriller
Country:
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Killer Night Shift (2018)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant woman forced to bedrest, gets the additional help she needs from two home care nurses. Unbeknownst to her, one of them has a vendetta against her husband and is out to steal their baby!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense
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From the Inside (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alone in their isolated home where no cars pass and no one lives nearby, Vincent and Tally suffer together in a loveless marriage. But what they don't know is that they are not as alone as they think -- a criminal and his psychotic brother are watching them through binoculars. They stare lustfully at Tally through the windows and plan something horrible for the unhappy couple when night falls.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, independent film
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The Stray (2000)
Plot Summary:
After a drifter is struck by a car the driver offers to take him back from the hospital to her home in order to nurse him back to health...which turns out to be one of the biggest mistakes of her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, independent film, realistic, detective
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Relentless (2018)
Plot Summary:
An American mother searches for her daughter who was kidnapped by human traffickers in Central America.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, El Salvador
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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The Passage (2007)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his girlfriend Tracy, the American Luke travels to Morocco with his British friend Adam to spend vacation and recover his loss. While in Medina, Luke meets the gorgeous Moroccan nurse Zahra and he offers to walk her home. However, she is offended by a group of men due to her Western companion and Luke defends her. Zahra offers to be his tourist guide and suggest him to travel to Atlas Mountain to the see the sunset and spend the night in a hotel. Adam decides to meet the couple in the next morning to let Luke alone with Zahra. However, the hotel manager does not accept their check-in and a local lodges the couple in a cabin of his own. During the night, Luke goes to the bathroom and finds a mace of tunnels linking the cabins in the mountain. Zahra meets him in the tunnel and he discovers a dark secret about the place.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Paranormal Abduction (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young women suffering memory loss and psychological issues after surviving a brutal attack, tries to piece together the clues surrounding her attack and its similarities to a series of recent murders. During the investigation, she struggles to maintain her sanity as her world gets more surreal and reality starts to unwind around her. Following the clues that lead her down the "rabbit hole" she finds herself fighting to wake up from this nightmare...before she becomes the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Fedz (2013)
Plot Summary:
In London, just a few years from now, the government have enforced a curfew - no civilians on the streets after dark. A terrorist group have threatened to release a killer virus. Time is running out for the FEDZ.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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Down and Dangerous (2013)
Plot Summary:
An inventive and resourceful cocaine smuggler defends his trade against violent rival traffickers, a monstrous and vengeful killer, and the DEA agents who want to lock him up – all while falling for a stunningly beautiful woman with a taste for danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 907
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film, exciting, realistic
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A Daughter's Plan to Kill (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Katie and Greg Carlyle invited Greg's estranged daughter to live with them, they had no idea that they would be inviting jealousy, violence, and deceit into their home to wreak havoc on their perfect life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Code Name Banshee (2022)
Plot Summary:
Caleb, a former government assassin in hiding, who resurfaces when his protégé, the equally deadly killer known as Banshee, discovers a bounty has been placed on Caleb's head.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, brutal, serious, bloody, captivating, emotional, suspense, suspenseful, harsh, disturbing
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Deviation (2012)
Plot Summary:
Told over one horrifying night, Deviation will take you on a white-knuckle journey into the mind of Frank Norton, a dangerous schizophrenic murderer as he escapes from Broadmoor Hospital and embarks on a murderous rampage across London. But when Frankie takes a hostage, the deadly game of cat-and-mouse truly begins.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, realistic
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Profile for Murder (2013)
Plot Summary:
Psychological thriller. A police profiler who quit after a horrific case is terrorised by the escaped serial killer she sent to prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fear Bay (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman being terrorized by a stalker hires and develops a relationship with a handsome private detective, not realizing he'd become her deadly avenging angel.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crime drama
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The Au Pair Nightmare (2020)
Plot Summary:
Trying to escape the pain from the death of her fiancé, a woman becomes an au pair in a house where she learns the family is hiding a mysterious secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Broken Star (2018)
Plot Summary:
Abandoned by her friends and family and with her career in jeopardy, starlet Markey Marlowe is sequestered in a duplex with a reclusive landlord who just may be more dangerous than she is.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dying for a Baby (2019)
Plot Summary:
Amber and Kyle are ready to move on after a car accident two years ago. But their world turns upside down when Jessica, the other driver who lost her unborn baby in the accident, moves in next door and gets a job with Amber's doctor -- all in a plan to seek a cold form of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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
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Girls' Night Out (2017)
Plot Summary:
McKenzie is a few months away from getting married when her three best friends from college surprise her with a bachelorette party.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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River Runs Red (2018)
Plot Summary:
When the son of a successful judge is killed by two police officers and the system sets them free, a hardened veteran detective finds some incriminating files on the officers and the judge teams up with another mourning father to take the law into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Red Eye (2005)
Plot Summary:
After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, the Lux Atlantic Hotel manager Lisa is waiting for a flight to Miami. Due to the bad weather and consequent flight delay, she meets in the airport bar Jack Rippner, who is also in the waiting list. They sit together in the plane, and Jack reveals that he wants Lisa to change the room in Lux of an important American politician to facilitate a terrorist attempt against him. Otherwise, Lisa's father will be killed by a hit man. Lisa has to decide what to do with the menacing man at her side.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 133000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, psychological, tense, suspense, intense, psychological thriller, serious, realistic, scary
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Home Invasion (2012)
Plot Summary:
After a woman kills a home invasion robber in self-defense, his vengeful girlfriend befriends her at a crime victim support group and sets about trying to destroy her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Fatal Justice (2012)
Plot Summary:
Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the perpetrators is released, Karen decides to go on a murderous trail of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Taj Mahal (2015)
Plot Summary:
One evening, while her parents go out for dinner, 18-year-old Louise, alone in her hotel room at Taj Mahal Mumbai, hears strange noises out in the corridor. Within minutes, she realises that a terrorist attack is underway. Her only connection to the outside world is her cell phone, which allows her to maintain contact with her father, who is desperately trying to reach her from the other side of a city that has been plunged into chaos. Louise must spend a long night alone in the face of danger. She will never be the same again.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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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