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Plot Summary:
An architect (Daniel Hendler) trails a man (Gustavo Garzón) who was hiding under his girlfriend's (Dolores Fonzi) bed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Man Next Door (2009)
Plot Summary:
When two neighbours clash, their argument becomes less about proposed building alterations and more about the wider battle between class and social status. The hugely impressive building in question is the only example of a Le Corbusier residential home in all of Latin America, adding to the poignancy of their argument. Winner of six Argentinean Academy Awards in 2010, including Best Film.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, realistic, disturbing
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False as Water (1985)
Plot Summary:
John is the owner of a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara and falls in love with her. A movie about jealousy and death.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eighties
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And Baby Will Fall (2011)
Plot Summary:
Expectant parents become prime suspects in the disappearance of a pregnant woman who was last seen at their garage sale. Model citizen David Rose runs a garden center and is a devoted house-father. Like his wife Ivy, who suffered two stillbirths, their new neighbor Melinda is near to giving birth. Just after David showed her around in the Rose home, Melinda goes missing. Although no corpse is found, just circumstantial evidence more likely to be planted then stupidly left behind, police detective Blanchard treats David as his sole suspect, soon arrested, even after nosy neighbor Bindel is knocked down while David is in jail. School buddy Theo does his best to counsel the couple, yet Ivy doubts her husband's innocence just because of indications he may have had an affair with Melinda since high-school, and starts snooping with her best friend Jody. The worst crime is still being hatched.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, crime thriller, rough, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful
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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
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Keep Your Distance (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the perfectly normal town of Louisville, KY, there is a perfectly normal man living the perfect life. David Dailey is a man who has it all: A great career, a community that adores him, and an enduring marriage. But beneath the surface, David's idyllic world is crumbling. He's haunted by a series of mysterious notes that warn of an imminent fall from grace.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, realistic
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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
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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
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Naomi (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ilan Ben-Natan is a man on his sixties and a well-known professor of astrophysics at the University of Haifa. He is married with Naomi, a 28 years old, attractive book illustrator. Inclined to suspect, he finds out her wife's betrayal and then face his wife's lover, Oded Safra, a painter and a filmmaker, younger than him. During the argument, the scientist kills his rival and takes away the corpse in the boot of his car. With the complicity of his 80 years old mother, Ilan buries the man in a hole just dig in the cemetery. After a series of casualties, the corpse is then found and the commissioner Anton Karam, an old friend of the professor, starts the police investigation. When every signs seems to lead to the discovery of the assassin, an unexpected event will call every element into question again.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, sincere, serious, suspenseful
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Tommy (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a year abroad Estelle returns home to collect her husband's share of the loot from a major robbery.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Sri Lanka
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Green (2011)
Plot Summary:
A New Yorker moves to the country with her boyfriend, where her new friendship causes a problem as her partner also takes an interest in the woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: tense, mumblecore, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, psychological thriller, serious, realistic, independent film, intellectual
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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
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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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Seduced by Lies (2010)
Plot Summary:
Brad Sterling arrives by yacht as a handsome dream prince, and the discrete favorite nephew and brilliant investor of his tycoon uncle Wade. Charles Colton's ingrate heiress Laura eagerly dates him and puts him in the guest-house, partially as spiteful as alliterative to workaholic tycoon pa's preferred son-in-law Jonathan Lawson, son of tycoon Richard. People who warn fickle Laura get irate reactions, best friend Ava even dies in a suspicious hit and run, yet Laura also turns on either suitor in turn, oblivious to serious indications of manipulation.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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N-Secure (2010)
Plot Summary:
N-Secure is a no holds-barred thrilling drama mixed with murder, mayhem and manipulation among affluent professionals. This film sheds light on a man's downfall from the pinnacles of success into the depths of his damaged character. His insecurities lead him into a series of troubled romantic relationships and eventually a web of events that include betrayal and murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, erotic, realistic, independent film
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Last Screening (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sylvain, a film-obsessed 31-year-old, lives in the basement of a small art-house theater where he works as a programmer, projectionist and cashier. Each night, after the last showing, he goes out for a murderous ritual.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, scary, bleak, serious, realistic, slasher
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Dark Obsession (1989)
Plot Summary:
Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problems and is paranoid that his wife is cheating on him. After a boozy night at a party, Hugo hits and kills a woman with his car -- and at his friends' urging, keeps driving. When Hugo starts receiving letters from someone who knows about the accident, he begins to suspect that he has been set up.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Betrayal (1983)
Plot Summary:
Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the husband's point of view, with the scenes in precise reverse chronological order. Written by Dan Hartung.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, captivating, talky, clever, stylized, non-linear, extraordinary
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My Daughter's Keeper (1991)
Plot Summary:
An American writer in England takes his children and a newly hired nanny on a trip to South Africa while his wife, a reporter, is on assignment. He has an affair with the nanny, but when he refuses to leave his wife for her, the nanny gets her revenge by kidnapping his children.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, tense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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Lured Innocence (2000)
Plot Summary:
A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, mind bending, sexual, sexy
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Mother's Boys (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes, into a murderous plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, realistic, neo noir, dark, independent film, serious
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Fatal Secrets (2009)
Plot Summary:
"BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, seems to have it all - except the right guy in her life. Her friends urge her to "get back out there." But they don't yet know about Scott - a charming man with a secret background whose true colors paint a streak of pain and fear through Julia's life. When Scott's effect on Julia reaches the breaking point, she and her friends take matters into their own hands... and underestimate the consequences. The outcome forces all of them into a desperate situation. Everyone pays the price.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, 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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One on One (2014)
Plot Summary:
On May 9th, a female high school student was brutally murdered. There are 7 suspects and 7 shadows that terrorize them. Who are they and which one of them is you?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Coffin Rock (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying, makes the drunken mistake of sleeping with a young stranger. The stranger then goes to terrifying lengths to prove his paternity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, psychological, captivating, slasher, disturbing, psychological horror, scary, realistic
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Man of Her Dreams (1997)
Plot Summary:
After suspecting her husband is playing the field, a nervous woman finds a sympathetic ear in the form of a strange man. The drawback is that her sensitive new-found friend is an obsessive psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Attraction (2000)
Plot Summary:
A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, independent film, sexual, intense, serious, realistic, gloomy, erotic
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Malicious (1995)
Plot Summary:
A mystery woman turns vengeful after a college athlete dumps her following a one-night stand.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, erotic, psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense
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Night Eyes (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Beverly Hills home-security guard is seduced by a rock star's wife he monitors by video.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, independent film, sexual, erotic, hot
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Inside (2006)
Plot Summary:
Alex has a disturbing hobby of following strangers...until one night he gets caught. Instead of calling the police, the couple--fascinated by Alex's resemblance to their dead son--asks him to stay, and Alex finds himself trapped in a horrifying existence of desperation, despair, and insanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, emotional, dark, rough, serious, realistic
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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