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Plot Summary:
Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girl friend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar, and stalks his victim over several days.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, serious, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, cult classic, tension, suspenseful, psychological
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That Cold Day in the Park (1969)
Plot Summary:
A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, depressing, neo noir, slasher, disturbing, controversial, intense, psychosexual thriller, psychological, independent film
Similar in 88%
The Butcher (1970)
Plot Summary:
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, cynical, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, neo noir, slasher, surreal, anthology, perverse
Similar in 86%
The Fan (1981)
Plot Summary:
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen (Lauren Bacall). However when his letters are rejected, the fan strikes out at the actresses friends, then at her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir, bloody, horror comedy, serious
Similar in 80%
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Plot Summary:
An entomologist suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, surreal, psychological, philosophical, black and white, experimental, avant garde, erotic, disturbing, cerebral
Similar in 75%
Cold Comfort (1989)
Plot Summary:
Dolores has everthing she wants for her birthday: a party, 18 glowing candles, and Stephen, the handsome stranger who's more than a guest. He's a prisoner. COLD COMFORT bristles with the suspense, passion and danger of three people caught up in a madman's game.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Felicia's Journey (1999)
Plot Summary:
A solitary middle-aged bachelor and a naive Irish teenager transform one another's lives to arrive at a place of recognition, redemption and wisdom in Atom Egoyan's adaptation of William Trevor's celebrated 1994 novel. Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks a serial killer. Hilditch has murdered several young women, but he has no conscious awareness of the crimes; like Felicia, he doesn't see his true self. Felicia's Journey is a story of innocence lost and regained: Felicia awakens to the world's dangers and duplicities; and Hilditch, who grew up lonely and unloved, comes to realize what was taken from him, and what he himself has taken.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, erotic, sexy, art house, independent film, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative
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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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Cold Storage (2009)
Plot Summary:
A backwoods recluse steals the body of a young girl killed in a violent car crash, locking her in the freezer of his isolated shed as her sister and boyfriend search frantically for any clues to her whereabouts. The woman of Clive's dreams may be dead, but she'll always be true and she'll never grow old - at least as long as he keeps her on ice. When Cathy and Deric show up looking for the missing traveler, Clive takes them both hostage in a sinister bid to hide his ghoulish secret. ~ Jason Buchanan.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, suspenseful, psychological, tense, slasher, twisted, scary, serious, realistic
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Boxing Helena (1993)
Plot Summary:
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but an horrific accident leaves her at his mercy. The plot is bizarre and perhaps sick at times, ending abruptly and with a twist.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological, surreal, surprise ending, offbeat, bleak, sexy, mindfuck
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Homecoming (2009)
Plot Summary:
A jealous woman (Mischa Barton) plots revenge after her former beau (Matt Long) returns to their hometown with a pretty new girlfriend (Jessica Stroup).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller, dark, christmas horror, teen, serious, realistic
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Red White & Blue (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman attracts the attention of a psychotic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his ailing mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore, controversial, suspense, neo noir, psychological thriller, bloody
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The Resident (2011)
Plot Summary:
Juliet, a beautiful doctor, has found the perfect New York apartment to start a new life after separating from her husband. It's got spacious rooms, a spectacular view, and a handy, handsome landlord. But there are secrets behind every wall and terror in every room as Juliet gets the unnerving feeling that she is not alone.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, atmospheric, scary, tense, surreal, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 83%
Dead of Winter (1987)
Plot Summary:
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, slasher, suspenseful, scary, neo noir, christmas horror, twisted, serious, realistic
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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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Hide and Seek (2000)
Plot Summary:
A desperate, childless couple kidnap a pregnant woman and lead her husband to believe that she is dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, realistic, independent film
Similar in 84%
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
Plot Summary:
A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize Peyton's true intentions -- to destroy Claire and replace her in the family. The nail-biting suspense builds quickly in this chilling psychological thriller about deception and bitter revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological, neo noir, sexy, psychological thriller, serious, psychosexual thriller, dark
Similar in 88%
The Boy Next Door (2015)
Plot Summary:
A recently cheated on married woman falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, suspenseful, tense, psychosexual thriller, erotic, suspense, psychological thriller, feel good, sexual
Similar in 78%
Perfect Prey (1998)
Plot Summary:
A former Texas Ranger is recruited by a Houston police captain to assist a homicide detective in the search for an elusive serial killer who collects antique dolls.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Devil's Pond (2003)
Plot Summary:
What starts out as a romantic honeymoon on a deserted island turns into a horrible nightmare as Julianne discovers that her new husband is psychotic.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, serious, suspense, scary
Similar in 77%
Misery (1990)
Plot Summary:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 230000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, tense, tension, slasher
Similar in 75%
Cape Fear (1962)
Plot Summary:
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, black and white, noir, atmospheric, serious
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Room (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 443000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, heartbreaking, suspense, psychological, sad, emotional, psychological thriller, tense, bleak, thought provoking
Similar in 77%
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
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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
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One Hour Photo (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sy "the photo guy" Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he's part of their family. When "Uncle" Sy's picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next "has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological thrillers!".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 130000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, intense, creepy, contemplative
Similar in 76%
Fear (1996)
Plot Summary:
A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexual, psychological, suspenseful, sexy, suspense, psychological thriller, teen, neo noir, serious, erotic
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Dogtooth (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 105000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, art house, psychological, black comedy, atmospheric, surreal, thought provoking, controversial, sexy, bleak
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The Skin I Live In (2011)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, sexy, clever, surreal, breathtaking, dark, non-linear, twist ending
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Kiss the Girls (1997)
Plot Summary:
Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 80000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological thriller, surprise ending, disturbing, intense
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Plot Summary:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship with Lecter soon leads to his escape, and now two deranged killers are on the loose.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 15000000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological thriller, tense, dark, neo noir, serious, thrilling