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Plot Summary:
Raquel Welch is an author researching a new book, when she comes across the story of a surprising double murder-suicide. A smart, young, athletic high school student adopted by his parents at a young age had killed his well-respected family, then committed suicide. Welch goes on a hunt to discover that the boy's biological mother had been a patient in a mental institution and that the boy is part of a fraternal twin set. His sister had also been adopted, and Welch, fearful of a murderous genetic trait, takes it upon herself to find the sister. Meanwhile, two good friends and neighbors, Wagner and Green, exhibit the type of behavior that leads to believe that one of them is the missing sister. Welch tracks them down and it's only a matter of time to discover which one has the deadly trait.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Equinox (1992)
Plot Summary:
Henry Petosa and Freddy Ace are twins who were separated being babies, and they do not know each other. Henry was adopted by a honest man, while Freddy becomes a gangster. Henry is very shy and has a lot of mental troubles. The film melts the two stories by a young writer who discovers that they were sons of an european noble and they own a large inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, psychological, offbeat, serious, futuristic, realistic, gloomy
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A Dark Place (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Pennsylvania town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation to prove the boy was murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, dark
Similar in 77%
Midnight Blue (1997)
Plot Summary:
Shortly before he moves from New York to Los Angeles a banker visits his Atlanta branch. One evening he is propositioned, apparently by a high-class call girl. Their night of passion leaves him besotted but he is unable to find her again even with the help of a private investigator. In L.A. he is introduced to his boss's wife and is sure she is his lady of the night. But she insists she isn't. Meanwhile, many millions are missing from the bank.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Nadiya Kollappetta Rathri (2007)
Plot Summary:
Railway Anti-Criminal Task Force (RATs) investigates three unrelated murders happened in a train.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense
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Jigsaw (1968)
Plot Summary:
After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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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
Similar in 79%
Blade (1973)
Plot Summary:
A homicide detective goes after a woman-hating serial killer, who uses knives to murder his victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, independent film, detective, slasher horror
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Disconnected (1984)
Plot Summary:
Twin sisters are implicated in a series of slasher murders. The question is, did one of them do it, did both of them do it, or did neither of them do it?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, retro, tragic ending, independent film, cult film
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Vanished: Searching for My Sister (2022)
Plot Summary:
Jada gets pulled into a world of drugs and deceit in order to learn the shocking truth about what really happened to her missing sister, Kayla.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Deadly Sibling Rivalry (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two twins lead separate lives since one of them blamed the other for the accidental death of his father. Years later, one carries a conventional family life while the other has a life of excess. When the first has an accident and is in a coma, the other does not scruple to take over her identity and steal her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Gone (2019)
Plot Summary:
When the detectives won’t believe she was abducted, a woman must do her own investigation to identify the person who kidnapped her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, dark
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Shenanigans (2012)
Plot Summary:
A famous novelist invites five friends for dinner. He prepared everything: good wine, small presents for everyone, a good meal and... his suicide as dessert.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful
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After Midnight (2014)
Plot Summary:
When an exotic dancer is murdered at a seedy strip club, her sister Constance, a TV newscaster, goes undercover to find the killer. While working at the club, she quickly realizes that everyone is a suspect and that other dancers are being targeted. She must work fast to find the killer to seek her revenge before she becomes the next target.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, independent film, surprise ending
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Riddle (2013)
Plot Summary:
Holly & Nathan Teller live in a small town in Pennsylvania. Holly is on the cheerleading team and has a close relationship with her younger brother Nathan, who is subjected to bullying at school. Nathan is taken for a car ride one day by the bullies, whose intent about what they are going to do with Nathan is not clear. He gives them the slip, but disappears and is still missing after three years.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mind bending, serious, disturbing, atmospheric, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Kahaani 2 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Vidya Sinha (Vidya Balan) has only one obsession in life. She wants to see her teenage daughter Mini, who is paralysed waist-downwards, walk again. But, is this scenario as obvious as it seems? Or is Vidya an impersonator of Durga Rani Singh from Kalimpong, who is wanted for kidnapping and murder?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Fear (1990)
Plot Summary:
Psychic Ally Sheedy helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent - who wants to share the fear of his victims with her!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, scary, psychological, tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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Lethal Eviction (2005)
Plot Summary:
A first time landlord purchases a run-down, rent-controlled apartment building in hopes of making a solid investment. Everything seems to be going smoothly until, one by one, the tenants begin to meet strange, untimely gruesome deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, creepy, suspense, mind bending, realistic
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The Dark Half (1993)
Plot Summary:
Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic murders matching those in his pulp novels, which are soon discovered to be the work of Stark himself. Looking like a maniacal version of his counterpart, Stark is not so willing to quit the writing game – even if it means coming after Thad's wife and their baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, creepy, rough, suspenseful, suspense, splatter, neurotic
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Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999)
Plot Summary:
A girl called Hannah goes back to her hometown (Gatlin) to find out who her mother but on the way she picks up a strange man who fore-shadows her life with a passage from the bible. When she gets there she wakes up Isaac from a coma he has been in for 19 years. Isaac is awake and wants to fulfill the final prophecy.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, saga, pastoral, cult horror, independent film, scary, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Radio Silence (2019)
Plot Summary:
Relationship Therapist, Dr. Jill Peterman, had the highest-rated call-in radio show when her world was pulled out from under her following the on-air suicide of a female caller named Alexis. Shaken to her core, Dr. Jill walked away from her show vowing she would never go back. That is until Stuart, the station's General Manager, pleads with her to reboot the show in an effort to bring followers back to the station. Still haunted by what happened, Jill agrees to help her friend out and believes this will be the perfect remedy to put her year-long anxiety to rest. As Jill starts to settle back into her show, mysterious call-ins start happening forcing her to believe there could be a copy-cat out there. What Jill begins to uncover is a web of secrets and lies stemming from the mysterious voice she has come to know as Alexis.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, exciting, unusual plot structure, suspense
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Snapdragon (1993)
Plot Summary:
An erotic amnesiac lures a police psychologist into a world of lust and danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, realistic, disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, scenic
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Sisters (1972)
Plot Summary:
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, grindhouse, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending, detective, slasher, psychological thriller, bloody, suspense
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The Woman in White (1997)
Plot Summary:
Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, suspenseful, serious, costume drama, atmospheric, realistic, gloomy, period piece, sinister
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D.O.A. (1988)
Plot Summary:
Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds help and comfort from one of his student, Sydney Fuller.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, mystical, suspense thriller, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, gloomy
Similar in 78%
The Unborn (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, demonic, atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy, rough, terrifying, psychological, satanic
Similar in 82%
Sinister 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, brutal, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, creepy, intense, demonic, splatter
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Lost Highway (1997)
Plot Summary:
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: surreal, neo noir, mind bending, atmospheric, confusing, disturbing, psychedelic, cerebral, gothic, suspenseful
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Case 39 (2009)
Plot Summary:
In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily assumes custody of Lilith while she looks for a foster family. However, Emily soon finds that dark forces surround the seemingly innocent girl, and the more she tries to protect Lilith, the more horrors she encounters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, gloomy, atmospheric, serious, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, intense
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The Girl on the Train (2016)
Plot Summary:
Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 197000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tricky, intense, detective, crying, clever
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Shutter Island (2010)
Plot Summary:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 14000000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, cerebral, neo noir