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Plot Summary:
Alison Whitford thought she had it all. An accomplished career woman, she resisted getting married until she found “the One.” And Dominick was everything she had ever hoped for in a man. Still in the honeymoon phase of her marriage, Alison’s world is turned upside down when Dominick dies suddenly in a car accident. When it’s revealed that he was murdered and then even more secrets about Dominick’s life come to light. It soon becomes clear that Alison was not the only one mourning Dominick, and that his death was only the beginning of a larger plan. Perhaps her perfect husband wasn’t so perfect after all, and some of his secrets may be worth killing for….
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful
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The Psycho She Met Online (2017)
Plot Summary:
When her husband is hospitalized after a car accident, EMT Karen decides to rent out their spare rooms online. All goes well until Miranda moves in. Miranda quickly infiltrates all areas of Karen’s life. When one of Karen’s renters is found murdered, Karen becomes convinced Miranda was involved but has no idea that kicking her psychotic guest out will send Miranda into a murderous rage.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, intense
Similar in 89%
Til Death Do Us Part (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman investigates the past of her seemingly ideal husband, a doctor who starts to become increasingly hostile.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological thriller
Similar in 77%
Troubled Waters (2006)
Plot Summary:
Intrepid FBI agent Beck, assigned to solve the case of a multimillionaire couple's missing daughter. As clues begin to reveal themselves, Beck draws an explosive line connecting the kidnapper and the girl's mother -- and brings to light their dark, disturbing secret. Racing against the clock, the determined agent must discover the real reason for the abduction and save the child's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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My Mother's Secret (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a woman becomes pregnant and tells the news to his mother is revealed to him that she is adopted. Then decides to search for his biological family and hired the services of a private detective.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
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Haunted Echoes (2008)
Plot Summary:
Laura (Sean Young) and Guy (David Starzyk) are devastated by grief when their 8-year-old daughter, Kimberly, is murdered. Hoping to repair their tattered marriage, they move to a quiet town to remodel an old mansion, but weird things start to happen in this eerie ghost story. Laura is convinced that they are being visited Kimberly's spirit, and Guy ultimately believes her, but is it really their daughter who is urging them to seek vengeance?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, serious
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Galentine's Day Nightmare (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman's life becomes a living nightmare when she becomes the prime suspect in her boss's murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Thicker Than Water (2019)
Plot Summary:
It has been a year since Paige and Nathan Petrovic tragically lost their teenage son Zach. Nathan and daughter Addie have slowly been putting their lives back together. Paige, however, remains consumed by grief and withdrawn, and is unable to work. In order to supplement Paige's lost income, the family decides to rent out their spare bedroom. Surprisingly, life starts to look up for Paige once their new tenant Brandon Wilson enters the picture.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 820
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful
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Dark Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site in the desert. Boy is waiting for the end of the world and carves Katchina dolls that supposedly contain magical powers. Boy's solitude is interrupted when a Hollywood jet-set couple who are travelling across the desert become stranded after their car breaks down. The couple are rescued by Boy, who then holds them prisoner because of his desire for the woman and his ambition to create a better world with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, stylized, realistic, independent film, neo western
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4Closed (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a young family moves into a foreclosed house, the previous owner begins a campaign of intimidation and terror. The deranged man will stop at nothing to get his home back.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
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Snatched from Mommy (2021)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth and her husband are basking in the glow of being new parents. When Elizabeth starts a mommy blog to document the experience, her baby Evan is kidnapped and she realizes danger lies much closer than she thought.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
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Deadbolt (1992)
Plot Summary:
When medical student Marty places an ad for a roommate, her ad is answered by handsome, clean-cut Alec. At first Alec seems to be a wonderful roommate; supportive, considerate and a real friend. However, Alec's affection turns to obsession as he plots to manipulate and control all aspects of Marty's life, imprison her in her own apartment and make her his.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, dark, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic
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Zoom Hunting (2010)
Plot Summary:
Yang Ruyi (32), a fashion magazine photographer, lives with her elder sister Yang Ruxing (33), a rational, introverted detective fiction author. Ruyi has inadvertently photographed a couple making madly passionately love. Few days later in a shopping center not far from her home, she finds the woman already married, leading a child and is with a different man. Ruyi shares her secret with Ruxing who is suffering from writer's block. The two sisters begin to observe the couple; gradually Ruxing even writes some of her observations into her novel, without letting Ruyi knows it. Late one night, Ruyi views two people are arguing, but as she picks up her camera to photograph she can only see two vague, dark outlines wrestling one another; Ruyi calls the police but upon arriving, nothing seems out of order. Ruyi is convinced she has mistaken nothing; she enlarges the photo and discovers a third outline looks pretty much like her older sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 86%
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
Similar in 75%
Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear (1998)
Plot Summary:
A neglectful mother overhears her husband on the telephone at their workplace talking with their babysitter. She discovers they are having an affair and are going to have a baby. She concocts an evil plan to win back her husband and remove the girl and baby. Two men are hired to kill the girl and hold the son hostage in order for her to play the hero and reclaim her husband. The plan hits a snag when the criminals enter the wrong apartment.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense, ridiculous
Similar in 86%
The Art of Murder (1999)
Plot Summary:
An abused wife (Joanna Pacula) turns to another man and becomes the victim of a blackmailer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
Similar in 78%
Betrayed (2014)
Plot Summary:
Julie, six months pregnant, and her boyfriend Trent arrive at a tiny Cape Cod cabin for some time to relax. The town is quiet and deserted during the off season… except for Sully, the creepy guy who’s keeping an eye on the couple from a distance. And then there's Jonathan, Julie’s husband, who she thinks she sees across town. With the divorce still being finalized, he can’t find out that she’s on a romantic retreat with another man.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Similar in 83%
Playing House (2011)
Plot Summary:
In this taut thriller, newlyweds Jen and Mitch find that three's company and four's a crowd when they ask their friend Danny to move in with them to share expenses. But a sweet situation turns sour when Danny invites a new person into the mix.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, slasher, independent film
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Crimes of Passion (2011)
Plot Summary:
Arturo Bolaño is a mediocre insurance salesman who loves women, booze and any short cut he can find to Easy Street. He thinks he's found it with the beautiful Rebeca Solis, the wife of the owner of the hotel where he stays on business. Rebeca wants nothing more than to escape from her husband and after Arturo falls in love, she asks him to help her get rid of him. The plan goes without a hitch but just as they think they are going to get away with murder, they receive an anonymous letter from a witness to the crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, tense, rough, realistic, serious, sexual
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Slip (2006)
Plot Summary:
"Slip" is the story of Sarah, a young woman who witnessed her mother's murder as a child. Now grown, Sarah is haunted by her mother's memory, her restless soul, opening a gateway for the spirits of the recently departed. Sarah is compelled to do their bidding so their souls may rest in peace. One of these souls leads her to Cal, a young car thief who is one car away from going legit. Unfortunately, Cal is wrongfully accused of stealing from his partners and now they want him dead.Sarah, drawn by the spirit of Cal's murdered nephew, becomes an avenging angel, awakening a dark spirit of her past while risking all to save a total stranger. Now in a race for their lives as well as their souls, Cal and Sarah soon discover that there are far more fearsome things than men with guns.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 81%
The Surrogacy Trap (2013)
Plot Summary:
After losing hope of conceiving a child on their own, Christy and Mitch turn to surrogacy in hopes of creating the perfect family. However, their confidence is quickly shaken when they discover that the young woman might not be as perfect as they first thought.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, sexy, feel good
Similar in 76%
The Devil's Dominoes (2008)
Plot Summary:
On their way to a weekend hunting trip in the Ozarks, four friends get in to a car accident, killing the driver of the other car.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
The Reckoning (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sally Wilson's daughter Amanda is stricken with a brain tumour and each day, her condition appears to be worsening. Sally is at her wits end as to how to help her daughter and knows a life saving operation in America that she can't afford would be the answer. When the harassed single Mum is called to the office of a swish city lawyer, she never expects a life or death proposition. She’s been bequeathed £5 million! But in order to qualify for this amazing transfer of funds, Sally must first kill a man who deserves to die.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, serious, realistic
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Telling Lies (2008)
Plot Summary:
The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of disastrous telephone calls chart the certain ruin of young Phil's day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another. Told entirely in animated captions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Last Weekend (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ian (Shaun Evans) and Em (Claire Keelan) receive a surprise invitation from an old friend. Ollie (Rupert Penry-Jones) invites the couple to spend a weekend in the Suffolk countryside with him and Daisy (Genevieve O'Reilly). The couples expect an idyllic holiday, but the competitive edge to the men's relationship soon rises to the surface, with irreversible consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, dark, thrilling, psychological thriller
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The Lost Angel (2005)
Plot Summary:
Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
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
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Nightwaves (2003)
Plot Summary:
Recently widowed Shelby Naylor (Sherilyn Fenn) listening to her husbands police scanner overhears a husband and wife arguing on the phone. The wife ends up dead and Widow Naylor points the finger endangering herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, twist ending, realistic
Similar in 78%
Favor (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kip's perfect life is put in jeopardy when the waitress with whom he's having a casual fling is accidentally killed in their motel room. Desperate, he turns to childhood friend and loser, Marvin, to help get rid of the body. Marvin agrees which begins the unraveling of their friendship and ultimately leads both to murderous acts they never thought themselves capable of.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, twisted, realistic, independent film
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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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Fatal Reunion (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jessica is a housewife, unhappy in her marriage, who decides to "spice it up" a little bit. But she gets more than she bargained for when she contacts an old high school classmate she once had a crush on.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending