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Plot Summary:
In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, melancholic, bleak, thought provoking, spiritual, social, disturbing, cynical, independent film
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The Confessional (1995)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1952, in Quebec City. Rachel (16), unmarried and pregnant, works in the church. Filled with shame, she unburdens her guilt to a young priest, under the confidentiality of the confessional. In the present year of 1989, Pierre Lamontagne has returned to Quebec to attend his father's funeral. He meets up with his adopted brother, Marc, who has begun questioning his identity and has embarked on a quest for his roots that would lead them to the Quebec of the 1950s. Past and present converge in a complex web of intrigue where the answer to the mystery lies.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, psychological thriller, manga, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy, thought provoking, clever
Similar in 84%
Absolution (1978)
Plot Summary:
At a Catholic public school, Benjamin Stanfield is tired of being the teacher's pet and decides to play a practical joke on his form master Father Goddard. In confession, Stanfield tells Goddard that he has accidentally murdered his friend Blakey and buried him in the forest. When Goddard investigates the matter, he finds a buried scarecrow. Goddard is outraged, but, due to the seal of confession, he knows he cannot expel Stanfield. Shortly after, Stanfield once again enters the confession booth, telling Goddard that what before was a practical joke, he has now made happen. In disbelief, Goddard once again goes to the forest to investigate the matter. This time, he discovers Blakey's dead body. The plot soon thickens as Stanfield's fellow student Arthur Dyson mysteriously disappears.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, slasher, controversial, twisted, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying
Similar in 75%
First Reformed (2017)
Plot Summary:
A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, social, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, philosophical, dorama, noir
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Post Mortem (2010)
Plot Summary:
In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, atmospheric, serious, disturbing, detective, offbeat, realistic
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Everybody Wins (1990)
Plot Summary:
A seemingly good Samaritan hires a private detective to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a Connecticut town and finds the woman isn't everything she is pretending to be either.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Rojo (2018)
Plot Summary:
A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of a successful lawyer gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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Calvary (2014)
Plot Summary:
After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: meditative, atmospheric, psychological, melancholic, captivating, cerebral, independent film, dark comedy, black comedy, visually stunning
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Veronica (2017)
Plot Summary:
A female Psychologist who has stopped practicing medicine, decides to take the case of Veronica de la Serna, a young woman whose previous therapist has mysteriously disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, gothic, gothic horror, black and white, suspense
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The Serpent's Egg (1977)
Plot Summary:
The Serpent's Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work American circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin following Germany's defeat in World War I.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: philosophical, mind bending, psychedelic, political, suspense, political thriller, surreal, art house, psychological, atmospheric
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The Quarry (1998)
Plot Summary:
This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest people based on the usual prejudices, black and coloured people who plant marijuana in this case. Meanwhile, the true assassin not only goes his way unpunished from the very beginning, but becomes one of the rural town's most respected citizens. The sheriff at one point does begin having certain suspicions, and from there on the bulk of the plot is played out. The location is a very arid part of South Africa, so with so much desert rock, there are bound to be quarries. Some may reveal important secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, suspense, crying
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The 4th Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic writer begins having visions apparently warning him of impending danger. After he delivers a lecture, he begins an affair with a woman from the audience. The visions intensify, however, and begin to threaten his relationship with the woman, since it may be her the visions are warning against.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, surreal, psychosexual thriller, neo noir, controversial, disturbing, sexual, psychological thriller, dark comedy, psychological
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In the Name Of (2013)
Plot Summary:
The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, sincere, captivating, social, gloomy, sexual, sexy
Similar in 88%
Retaliation (2017)
Plot Summary:
An adult victim of childhood sexual abuse confronts the horrors of his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic, crying
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Death and the Maiden (1994)
Plot Summary:
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, minimal cast, suspenseful, sexy, disturbing, rough, touching, captivating, clever
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Enduring Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, disturbing, sexy, suspenseful, stylized, serious, bleak, realistic, suspense
Similar in 81%
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Plot Summary:
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence – which is considerable.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy, France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: intellectual, psychological, suspenseful, gloomy, clever, suspense, realistic, serious, atmospheric, detective
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Burning (2018)
Plot Summary:
Deliveryman Jongsu is out on a job when he runs into Haemi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return she introduces to Jongsu an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. And one day Ben tells Jongsu about his most unusual hobby.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: suspense, art house, ambiguous ending, exciting, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, psychological, inspirational, atmospheric
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Mother (2009)
Plot Summary:
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, tense, psychological, neo noir, disturbing, mind bending, serious, cerebral, suspenseful
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The Conversation (1974)
Plot Summary:
Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. Tormented by memories of a previous case that ended badly, Caul becomes obsessed with the resulting tape, trying to determine if the couple are in danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir, disturbing, political thriller, meditative, realistic, dark, intense
Similar in 86%
Doubt (2008)
Plot Summary:
In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and authority.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 135000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, period piece, sincere, psychological, clever, enigmatic, depressing, bleak, serious, surprise ending
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Blindness (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Canada, Japan, UK, Italy
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bleak, disturbing, depressing, intense, suspenseful, allegory, serious, suspense, stylized
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The Rite (2011)
Plot Summary:
Seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue) reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary, Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, demonic, suspense, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, satanic, surreal
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The Lodge (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two siblings spend the night alone with their new stepmother. Stuck in a remote mountain cabin, the trio are terrorised by a supernatural force.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological thriller, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher, tense, psychological, mumblecore, atmospheric
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Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Plot Summary:
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, independent film, bleak, suspense, atmospheric, surreal, psychological thriller, art house
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The Rosary Murders (1987)
Plot Summary:
A killer of Detroit clergy confesses to a priest (Donald Sutherland), who turns sleuth because he cannot tell the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, bleak, serious, neo noir, suspense, independent film, tense, rough, realistic
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Matador (1986)
Plot Summary:
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, psychological, sexy, controversial, dark comedy, satirical, serious, suspenseful, tense
Similar in 77%
Hidden (2005)
Plot Summary:
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, art house, surreal, tense, neo noir, clever, bleak, confusing
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The White Ribbon (2009)
Plot Summary:
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, black and white, art house, bleak, atmospheric, breathtaking, visual, thought provoking, contemplative
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Tom at the Farm (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, serious, gloomy, sexy, sexual, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, realistic
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Spider (2002)
Plot Summary:
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, disturbing, bleak, twist ending, suspenseful, offbeat, non-linear, mindfuck, mind bending