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Plot Summary:
Professional nurse Rebecca Dubrovich is swept off her feet by charming millionaire Dick Strang, and the two begin a passionate romance. Only when it is too late does Rebecca discover that Strang has a very dark side.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, suspenseful, sincere
Best tv shows and movies like Sleeping with the Devil (1997):
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Invasive (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young couple, Pauline and Alex, moves from Paris to a quiet neighbourhood in the French countryside. Pauline loves to take care of her garden and the plants. She is also fascinated with her older neighbour Gilles who lives alone. They spend much time together and he helps her with her garden. Finally, he gives her a special plant from Brasil as a gift. The plant needs a lot of attention and is sensitive to the mood around it. As the plant grows, it takes up all of Paulines time which endangeres her relationship with Alex.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, touching, captivating, contemplative
Similar in 75%
Blind Spot (2002)
Plot Summary:
Three strangers are drawn together in search of Darcy, a man they all love who has been involved with some nasty underworld business.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 78%
Obsessed (1992)
Plot Summary:
Lorie Brindel works at an insurance company and falls in love with one of her clients, the much older Ed Bledsoe. Spending weeks of passion together, Lorie is convinced that Ed is the man of her life and that he would marry her. When Ed decides to break up the relationship, Lorie does not accept it and tries to win him back, falling from her extreme love into an equally extreme hatred.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir
Similar in 78%
Til Death Do Us Part (2017)
Plot Summary:
Michael and Madison Roland had planned to spend the rest of their lives together, until one day Michael's controlling ways turned their perfect marriage. With the help of her best friend, Madison decides to get away. After adopting a new identity, she meets Alex Stone and learns to love again. All is well, until Michael discovers Madison's whereabouts, and recreate the nightmare she once lived all over again.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, psychosexual thriller, intense
Similar in 84%
Our Mother's Murder (1997)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based true crime story about the murder of publishing heiress Anne Scripps Douglas who, in 1989, married a young hunk who eventually killed her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 80%
An Unfinished Affair (1996)
Plot Summary:
When a man ends a regretful love affair that occurred during his wife's illness, his mistress plots revenge by targeting his family's most treasured possessions, a priceless painting and his son.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, noir, neo noir
Similar in 87%
Illicit Dreams (1994)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman sharing a psychic link meet and fall in love, but the woman's influential and powerful husband stands in their way.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, surprise ending, independent film, erotic, sexploitation film
Similar in 86%
Love Walked In (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense, realistic, sexual, sexy
Similar in 78%
Unforgivable (1996)
Plot Summary:
John Ritter plays a family man who puts his wife through domestic violence and his children through emotional torture. After leaving his family and almost killing his new girlfriend in one of his rages, he is ordered to seek professional help through an innovative therapy program or go to jail.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 90%
Civic Duty (2006)
Plot Summary:
An American accountant bombarded with cable news and the media's obsession with terrorist plots in the post 9-11 world, receives a jolt when an unattached Islamic graduate student moves in next door.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, clever, realistic, psychological thriller, political, twisted
Similar in 89%
Gone in the Night (1996)
Plot Summary:
A couple is unjustly accused of the murder of their daughter. Based on a true story and book of the same title.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min
Plot tags: dark
Similar in 77%
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 90%
Blind Injustice (2005)
Plot Summary:
A blind woman finds herself the target of an attacker again after the person originally convicted of her rape is found to be innocent of the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Similar in 89%
Stalker's Prey (2017)
Plot Summary:
Laura's life is turned upside down when she is attacked by a shark while celebrating her 18th birthday. She's rescued by Bruce, a handsome young man just returned home from college. As she recovers, he becomes a local hero for his bravery. As the dust settles, Bruce seems smitten with his damsel in distress, but Laura is not ready to move past the boyfriend she lost in the attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense
Similar in 75%
Committed (1991)
Plot Summary:
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, independent film, offbeat, surprise ending
Similar in 82%
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
Similar in 90%
The Babysitter's Seduction (1996)
Plot Summary:
The mother of the family for which Michelle baby-sits dies unexpectedly. Michelle is asked to take over looking after the children and is gradually "seduced" by the father.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, captivating, realistic, surprise ending, psychotronic, detective
Similar in 81%
Broken Vows (2014)
Plot Summary:
"Broken Vows" tells the story of Patrick Flynn (Bentley), whose charm and charisma masks a profound psychosis. Patrick seduces Tara Bloom (Alexander), instantly becoming infatuated with the beauty. But when Tara rejects Patrick, he is sent spiraling into madness and delusion, erupting into psychotic rage. Tara is forced to find the strength to stop Patrick from destroying her love, her family, and her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic
Similar in 86%
Kept (2001)
Plot Summary:
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
Similar in 88%
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 76%
No One Would Tell (2018)
Plot Summary:
Laura Collins (Shannen Doherty), single mom to daughter Sarah (Matreya Scarrwener), has had a history of rocky relationships, so when Sarah begins dating the popular and charismatic Rob Tennison (Callan Potter), Laura is thrilled with what she sees. But when it becomes increasingly clear that Rob has a darker, possessive side, Laura lives in a state of denial about her daughter’s relationship until Sarah goes missing. Laura must find the will to fight for justice for Sarah when a case against Rob is brought to trial and presided over by a powerful judge (Mira Sorvino).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bad ending, rough, suspense, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, emotional
Similar in 79%
Stolen by Their Father (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story of a mother whose two young daughters are kidnapped by her abusive ex-husband—and her all-consuming fight to get them back.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 83%
24 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, sincere, realistic, tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful
Similar in 89%
Inner Sanctum (1991)
Plot Summary:
A woman attempts suicide when she suspects her husband doesn't love her and is having an affair. Now she's wheelchair-bound, and her husband, who indeed doesn't love her and is having an affair, hires a private nurse to look after his wife. The nurse begins to suspect that she was hired because of unproven allegations that she murdered someone's wife in a similar situation, that the husband wants her to murder his wife.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, absurd, sexual, erotic, tension, realistic, sexy, serious, suspense
Similar in 85%
Caught (1996)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged couple has a drifter enter their lives. The fish-store owners find that the mysterious young man awakens the couple in ways they didn't expect. Things get tense when the drifter begins an affair with the woman of the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, sexy, captivating, suspenseful, neo noir, sexual
Similar in 75%
Blue-Eyed Butcher (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lifetime biopic based on the story of Susan Wright. Susan appeared to be the model wife and mother, living the fairytale life, literally married to Mr. Wright. In a shocking turn of events, the media dubs Susan Wright the "Blue-Eyed Butcher" when her loving husband is discovered buried in the backyard, with close to 200 stab wounds.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 77%
Not Without My Daughter (1991)
Plot Summary:
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: factual, tense, thought provoking, touching, bleak, realistic, sad, retro, suspense, poignant
Similar in 83%
Safe Haven (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, teen, emotional, sentimental, suspenseful, sweet, cute, romantic drama, serious
Similar in 81%
Single White Female 2: The Psycho (2005)
Plot Summary:
A warped woman takes deadly measures to help a new roommate get rid of her problems.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological thriller, realistic, psychotronic
Similar in 86%
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