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Plot Summary:
High school student Mikaela is attracted by her Swedish teacher Göran and writes an erotic novel for his class.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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Tale 52 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Love leads to madness when an unstable man falls for an unsuspecting woman in this thriller from Greece. Iasonas (Giorgos Kakanakis) is throwing a party one evening when a friend introduces him to Penelope (Serafita Grigoriadou); the two quickly hit it off and soon she's sharing his home. However, before long it becomes obvious that something isn't quite right -- each of them tends to see things in different ways, Iasonas has a hard time making his memories skew with what has actually happened, and tension between them reaches the boiling point. But when the relationship finally explodes into violence, what actually happens between Iasonas and Penelope?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Final Hour (1995)
Plot Summary:
Some students gets locked up in their school and is stalked by a killer. But as time goes by, it turns out that there is more to this than it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bloody, slasher, mind bending, surprise ending, splatter, crying
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Red Wind (1991)
Plot Summary:
A psychotherapist who specializes in treating people in abusive relationships inadvertently causes a patient to kill her abusive husband.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, surprise ending, twist ending
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Davids bog (1996)
Plot Summary:
Henrik helps his uncle clear out a rich man's villa after the owner went bankrupt and committed siucide. During the clearance he finds a book that gives minute details of perfect crimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Cheer Squad Secrets (2020)
Plot Summary:
A mother helps her daughter become captain of the cheerleading squad only to discover that someone is giving the daughter steroids and will do anything, including murder, to cover it up.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Deadly Switch (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a foreign exchange student, Ana, studying abroad in America becomes the target of a dangerous stalker, she accepts the invitation to move in with her roommate's family in their idyllic town.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, bleak
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The Wrong Stepmother (2019)
Plot Summary:
Michael, who lost his wife a few years back, has been use to being a single dad to his two daughters until his new girlfriend Maddie comes along.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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The Perfect Roommate (2011)
Plot Summary:
Carrie Remington seems like any other struggling waitress who's had a run of bad luck including a recent divorce. Things seem to be improving when she moves in with Ashley Dunnfield, a young woman from a wealthy background who's trying to make it on her own without assistance from her father, Richard. Ashley is thrilled when Carrie helps to win her father over, but when Carrie starts dating Richard, Ashley starts digging into her past and finds out that there is much she didn't know about her new roommate's sinister history.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, psychological thriller
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A Lover's Revenge (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Philadelphia, the psychologist Dr. Liz Manners is the host of the WLOR Talk Radio Show giving advices about relationships to her audience. When she suggests to her listener Sara Jane to leave her abusive and obsessive husband Kyle Lundstrom, Sara runs away home chased by Kyle and is hit by a car, immediately dying. The psychopath Kyle decides to use his money to destroy Dr. Manners' life, and assuming the fake identity of the investor James, he meets her husband Rob and poisons her marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective
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Inju: The Beast in the Shadow (2008)
Plot Summary:
The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe, considered by him to be the master of manipulation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, stylized
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The Dogs of Riga (1995)
Plot Summary:
A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia. One of their officers travel to Sweden to to help but when he returns to his home country he is mysteriously murdered. Kurt flies to Riga to find out why and is drawn into complex conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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The Collective (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jessica (Wynn Everett) travels to New York City to help her sister but she is nowhere to be found. As she delves into a world of darkness and lies surrounding a spiritually depraved community calling itself 'The Collective' with her friend Tyler (Kelly Overton) she has to decide if she will risk her life to save her sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Dangerous Love (1988)
Plot Summary:
A psychopath kills members of a video dating club and records their deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Serial Killing 101 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Casey Noland, a high school kid with no direction in life, decides to pursue the serial killing profession. Only problem...he can't bring himself to kill anybody. Will the help of a gothic chick named Sasha, he attempts to learn the ways of a mass murderer. Meanwhile, a real serial killer is at work in their town and Casey thinks he might know who the maniac is.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, horror comedy, suspense, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, scary
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My Little Nightmare: The Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
New student Kanji transfers to 6th grade 2 class, where Ayami Mutoi works as the homeroom teacher. Students begin to talk among themselves that they have seen new transfer student Kanji in a dream. Yuiko Koto also had a night mare. In her nightmare, a boy that looks transfer student Kanji appeared as a prince. Ayami Mutoi tries to keep that to herself. She actually likes the prince in her dream.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Recovery (2016)
Plot Summary:
The night before their high school graduation, Jessie and her friends are guided by a 'Find My iPhone' app to recover her lost device from a house whose demented tenants are hell bent on making her a flesh and blood member of the family.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, teen horror
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Student Body (2022)
Plot Summary:
High school student Jane Shipley seeks to mend her splintering relationship with childhood best friend Merritt, and fit in with her rebellious peers. When Jane's math teacher oversteps his bounds, an apathetic high school administration forces Jane and Merritt to take matters into their own hands, driving their relationship into further turmoil and inciting deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Crush (2009)
Plot Summary:
Julian is perfectly happy in his relationship with the pretty blond Clare. That is, until he meets Anna, a dark-haired, bikini-clad beauty who he encounters while he is house-sitting. Passion reigns in their relationship, and soon Julian learns that Anna is more dangerous than he ever would have thought.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, sexy, suspense, slasher, psychological horror, scary, psychotronic
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Trauma (2004)
Plot Summary:
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, sentimental, disturbing, splatter
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Love Thy Neighbor (2006)
Plot Summary:
Plagued by flashbacks of a violent home invasion, Laura Benson is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Looking for a fresh start, she and her husband sell their house and relocate to a seemingly idyllic gated community. But, little do the Bensons know, evil not only dwells in the neighborhood...it lives next door. As strange and terrifying events unfold, Laura doesn't know whether her sinisterly sweet neighbor is to blame, if she's been targeted for revenge...or if she's losing her mind.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 713
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Poison (2000)
Plot Summary:
Traci is a devious teenage girl who befriends and kills anyone who comes between her and her mother, Dana, a failed movie actress who lies for and protects Traci.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, independent film, realistic
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The River King (2005)
Plot Summary:
Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school, who is found floating in the river. Fearing scandal, the school insists it was suicide. But after discovering from the boy's girlfriend, Carlin, that he was being badly bullied, Abel suspects that a dangerous schoolboy initiation has gone horribly wrong and he secretly solicits the help of a sympathetic teacher, Betsy. He is warned off the investigation by his boss, as the school is a generous benefactor to the Police benevolent fund. Abel, however, cannot let the case go, not only because his own brother committed suicide years before, but also it seems that the spirit of the dead boy is leaving them clues as to what really happened that night.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, creepy
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Nobel's Last Will (2012)
Plot Summary:
While covering the annual Nobel Banquet for tabloid Kvällspressen, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses a spectacular murder right in front of her. Two people are shot, one of them the controversial Laureate in Medicine, Aaron Wiesel. Annika is the key witness and is bound by the police not to disclose anything she has seen. A terrorist group with connections to the Middle East quickly admits responsibility for the murder. International press is all over the story, as are the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir
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I Start Counting (1970)
Plot Summary:
Jenny Agutter plays Wynne, an adopted 14-year-old girl who has a crush on her 32-year-old stepbrother, George, played by Bryan Marshall. While spying on George in the bathroom, Wynne notices George has several scratches on his back, and finds a bloody sweater she made for him that he threw in the trash, which leads her to suspect George of being the serial killer of several local teenage girls, who is still at large. Despite this belief, Wynne continues to have romantic sexual fantasies about George and dreams of marrying him when she comes of legal age.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: offbeat, crying, independent film, rough, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful
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Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005)
Plot Summary:
In 1990, as a boy, Giulio was chased through the woods by two women after spying on them practicing witchcraft. Now a young film student in Turin, he watches his neighbors in the flats across from his third floor apartment, especially Sasha when she's naked or arguing with her mother. Giulio's girlfriend is disgusted with his voyeurism, but, after a murder occurs, Giulio is convinced that two relative strangers, just as in Hitchcock and Highsmith's "Strangers in a Train," have agreed to murder each other's bête noir. He follows his suspects, ends up with an intruder and a broken foot, and may be in real danger. Is he more than a peeping Tom?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, creepy, expressionism
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Random 11 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Prodigy detective Mitsuko Unagi is on the hunt for a notorious serial killer known only as "Eleven". 10 years earlier, on February 29th 2006, a series of murders began, involving 11 randomly selected victims killed simultaneously in various parts of Tokyo. The killings continue over the next decade, leaving the police with no evidence, no witnesses, and the killer always one step ahead. But now something has changed, and the killer has changed his pattern, giving Detective Unagi the one chance to finally get closer to solving the mystery of the Random 11.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, action thriller, psychological thriller
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Graduation Day (1981)
Plot Summary:
After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The suspects include the track coach Michaels, Laura's sister Anne who arrives in town for the funeral, the creepy school principal Mr. Guglione, and Laura's strange boyfriend Kevin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, retro, bloody, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, scary, serious
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Eyes of Crystal (2004)
Plot Summary:
While hunting a cultured, intelligent and vicious psychopath, Inspector Amaldi comes face to face with the physical and moral decay of his city as well as the ghosts of his own past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, psychological thriller, disturbing, detective
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When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Plot Summary:
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, slasher, creepy, rough, grindhouse
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In the House (2012)
Plot Summary:
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, tense, psychological, witty, disturbing, surreal, intellectual, dark comedy, mind twisting