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Plot Summary:
Safari is an American, found footage thriller film, set in South African wild, where animals and poachers rule the land. Two worlds collide when Mbali, a young zulu girl, meets an American tourist group who have come to explore and go on safari in South Africa. Things take a wrong turn after the group enter uncharted hunting grounds where they are forced to face the untamed wild.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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My Baby Is Gone! (2017)
Plot Summary:
Emily, who is seven months pregnant, quickly becomes friends with her new neighbour, Kelly, who is also pregnant. They seem to have a lot in common and both look forward to the arrival of their new babies. Little does Emily know that Kelly has been faking her pregnancy in order to get close to Emily so she can steal her baby!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 79%
Hidden in the Woods (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of two sisters who have been raised in isolation, subjected to the torment of their abusive, drug dealing father. When they finally decide to report him to the police, he kills the two officers and is put in jail. But things go from bad to worse when the girls must answer to their Uncle Costello, a psychotic drug kingpin, who shows up looking for his missing merchandise which is hidden in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 81%
The Perfect Wedding (2021)
Plot Summary:
Lindsay is about to marry the man of her dreams- until everything spirals out of control at her bachelorette party. With the wedding called off, she soon uncovers her friends devious scheme to steal away the man she loves.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Fatal Memories (2015)
Plot Summary:
Fatal Memories is the story of two sisters dealing with the murder of their mother. One of the sisters, April, is the primary suspect in the investigation, but she is traumatized and unable to recall what happened. The other sister, Sutton, is determined to prove April’s innocence, and knows that discovering the truth depends on recovering April’s repressed memories.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Honeymoon (2014)
Plot Summary:
In this intense thriller, a young couple is thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse after they trek deep into the wilderness on a honeymoon canoe trip. After setting up camp and trespassing near a house on an isolated lake, they become targets of a vengeful family and must survive a savage wasteland or face certain death.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, deep
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My Daughter Vanished (2018)
Plot Summary:
Recently widowed mom, Melanie and her daughter Gabby are adjusting to life after husband and dad Scott died in a tragic boating accident. When Gabby disappears after a heated argument with her mom, authorities and friends fear she’s run away from home. Unwilling to believe her daughter would run off, Melanie is convinced something more sinister is behind her daughter’s disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 81%
The Sinister Surrogate (2018)
Plot Summary:
Josh and Danielle have found the perfect surrogate, Kailee, to bear their child. But when Kailee gives birth to a beautiful baby girl, the happy couple learns how deep and dark a mother's love can go. But is it really Kailee whom they need to fear, or is she just a pawn in someone else's game? Someone who will stop at nothing to take what she views as hers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 76%
It Watches (2016)
Plot Summary:
Andre, recovering from a recent accident, agrees to help his friend Robert by taking over a house sitting job at a creepy home nestled in the hills above Los Angeles. As night comes, the house reveals its insidious nature as Andre begins hearing ominous sounds and experiencing strange occurrences throughout the house that lead him to believe he is not alone, and that someone, or something is in the house with him.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 90%
Borrego (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young botanist relocates to a small desert town to study an invasive plant species. While out on research, she comes to the aid of a downed plane only to find herself taken captive by an inexperienced drug mule who forces her to lead a trek across the sweltering desert to his drop. A local sheriff is drawn into the hunt as his rebellious daughter sets out to find the missing botanist, all the while being pursued by a local drug receiver.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cliffhanger, entertaining, dark
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The Reef: Stalked (2022)
Plot Summary:
After her sister's murder, Nic, her younger sister and two friends seek solace through a Pacific island kayaking adventure. Hours into the trip the women are stalked by a shark and must band together, face their fears and save each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Venom (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a car breaks down in an isolated desert, a mother and young daughter are relentlessly pursued by a deadly snake.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, exciting, serious, realistic, psychotronic
Similar in 75%
Serpent (2017)
Plot Summary:
A romantic escape into nature turns into the ultimate moment of reckoning when a husband and wife are trapped in a tent with a deadly snake. Unable to escape and with certain death looming, the tent becomes a heated confessional to a cataclysmic truth. Betrayed, the couple finds themselves spiraling into a dark and dangerous space of which only one can survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 77%
Half-Caste (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Half-Caste is a Human/Leopard hybrid believed to feast on unsuspecting Travelers, but after Bobby is found soaked in blood, the police think that he murdered his friends. After hearing tell of the half-caste, a half-leopard, half-man said to exist in the wilds of South Africa, four filmmakers set out on safari in search of the mysterious creature. But is the bloodthirsty beast real, or just the stuff of local legend?.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, scary, serious, suspense
Similar in 82%
Dark Harbor (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dark Harbor tells the story of Olivia, a young mother on the verge of childbirth who finds her future threatened by a hidden darkness from her family's past.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 80%
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
Similar in 85%
Ladyworld (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a catastrophic event, eight girls find themselves stranded in a house without electricity. As they run out of food and water, their sanity begins to crumble, and soon they regress to their baser instincts.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, weird
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Stowaway (2021)
Plot Summary:
A tenacious party girl fights to survive after three thieves commandeer her luxury yacht. Unable to escape and trapped on the yacht at high seas, the prey becomes the hunter as she turns the tables on the intruders and takes matters into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, emotional, suspense, heroic, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 83%
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
Similar in 77%
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
Similar in 86%
The Soviet Sleep Experiment (2019)
Plot Summary:
Russian researchers in the late 1940s keep five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental stimulant. Based on the popular internet horror story (Creepypasta) “The Russian Sleep Experiment”.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Good Neighbor (2022)
Plot Summary:
A nightmarish evening unfolds for David, a former New York Times journalist, when he and his strange new neighbor Robert, accidentally hit a girl on her bike. Buzzed and disoriented, David lets Robert convince him to flee the scene and leave the girl for dead, in order to protect his career. Robert shows no remorse, and in the name of friendship he does unspeakable things to protect the secret. Now that the police are full-on hunting for the hit-and-run killer, things begin to spiral out of control when David’s local newspaper sends him to cover the story where he meets the deceased girl’s sister Vanessa. Despite the circumstances, and her deep desire to find her sister’s killer, the two immediately have a romantic connection, which surprises and haunts David, while pushing Robert to take brutal steps to keep his new friend to himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Latvia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing
Similar in 85%
The Head Hunter (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1972 the tranquility of a coastal town in California is broken as hitch-hiking girls begin to go missing and corpses start showing up. Welcome to Murder City.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 81%
Green Rush (2020)
Plot Summary:
A cannabis farmer and his pregnant lover fight for their lives when ruthless criminals invade their property.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 86%
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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Mississippi Murder (2017)
Plot Summary:
An amazing murder mystery taking place in a setting that no one would expect the coast of Mississippi. A young woman tried to live a normal life despite a horrible upbringing. But she will learn her past will haunt her once more.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 90%
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
Similar in 88%
Endangered Species (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jack Halsey takes his wife, their adult kids, and a friend for a dream vacation in Kenya. But as they venture off alone into a wilderness park, their safari van is flipped over by an angry rhino, leaving them injured and desperate. Then, as two of them go in search of rescue, a bloody, vicious encounter with a leopard and a clan of hyenas incites a desperate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Kenya, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological
Similar in 82%
The Canyon (2009)
Plot Summary:
A survival story about a honeymooning couple who get lost in the wide expanse of the Grand Canyon.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, scary, realistic, suspense, sexy, serious, independent film
Similar in 86%
Prey (2007)
Plot Summary:
An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by lions.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror, psychological thriller, suspense, perverse, rough, bleak
Similar in 82%
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