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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
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Stranger with My Face (2009)
Plot Summary:
After the shocking and untimely death of her husband, Shelley Stratton (Catherine Hicks) moves her daughter Alexis (Emily Hurst) and her adopted daughter, Laurie (Alexz Johnson), to their remote summer house in hopes of giving her family a fresh start. As Laurie begins to settle in and put her life back together, she gets the eerie feeling that she is constantly being watched. Laurie's uneasiness grows when people start claiming to see her in places that she has never been. The family's delicate state begins to unravel when Laurie unearths the dark past, discovering a twin sister that she never knew she had. Laurie is forced to delve deeper into her twin's secrets, for as it turns out her twin has been locked up for years! Laurie must now understand their strange connection in order to prevent her sister from taking over her life and harming her loved ones. Based on the book by author Lois Duncan.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, offbeat, gloomy
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One Deep Breath (2014)
Plot Summary:
Maël tries hard to cope with his partner Adam's suicide as well as their troubled past together. Patricia, also one of Adam's lovers, gets herself into danger in her attempt to help Maël in his grief.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, melancholic, suspenseful, independent film
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Avalon (2011)
Plot Summary:
Janne, a 60 year old party promoter is arranging a nightclub at the annual tennis week in the small coastal town of Båstad, where he also teams up with his older sister Jackie. But an accident turns his life upside down and forced by the people around him, he desperately seeks a way out.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, gloomy
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Blue Blood (2014)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years ago on a volcanic and paradisiacal island a 10-year-old boy was separated from his sister. The mother, fearful that an incestuous attraction would develop between the two, sent her son to the mainland with Kaleb, the magician from the Neptune Circus that had visited the island. On the mainland Kaleb teaches the boy the arts of the circus and the spirit, and the ex islander becomes Zolah, the Bullet Man. Zolah is now back visiting the island with the circus. A parallel between cinema and circus that speaks of the sea, art and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Brazil
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sentimental, serious, realistic, stylized
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The Fold (2013)
Plot Summary:
Struggling with her grief, Anglican priest Rebecca Ashton tries to replace her deceased daughter with another girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, gloomy
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Daylight (2013)
Plot Summary:
A successful lawyer finds out that she has a half-brother who is imprisoned in a secure hospital after he brutally murdered his neighbor and their baby.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, twisted
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Homeland (2010)
Plot Summary:
In a country shaken by major political events, three generations of a Greek family clash over an inside-the-family adoption.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, gloomy, biting, suspense
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Like a Cast Shadow (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sibylle, a pragmatic architect, mother and wife, witnesses a suicide of a woman her age while on vacation in Italy. Devastated by this incident, it causes the perception of her life and her family to change. Something inside of her has been set in motion that seems to endanger everything which she has defined herself by.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: contemplative, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Lipstikka (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two women reunite in London, where they go over the details of a life-changing event which occurred when they were teenagers in Jerusalem.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, thought provoking, psychological, tense, sincere, rough, controversial
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Secrets of Eden (2012)
Plot Summary:
Based on Chris Bohjalian’s New York Times best-selling novel, “Secrets of Eden” centers on Stephen Drew, an adored small-town minister, and the brutal and sadistic murder-suicide of Alice and George Hayward, the town’s most beloved parishioners. Dark secrets begin to surface.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, serious, captivating
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The Confessor (2004)
Plot Summary:
CHRISTIAN SLATER plays a worldly and urbane priest who is forced to challenge his comfortable existence as an ecclesiastical spin-doctor when he comes to believe in the innocence of a young priest accused of murder. His only ally, a journalist, is also his former sweetheart.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Similar in 82%
Murk (2005)
Plot Summary:
The psychological thriller "Murk" tells the story of Jacob, who is investigating into the circumstances surrounding his sister's death on her wedding night.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, tense, serious, suspenseful, perverse, mind blowing, realistic, masterpiece
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Sorority Surrogate (2014)
Plot Summary:
A surrogate mother faces an uncertain future when the couple who hires her dies in an accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Lemming (2005)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, psychedelic, surreal, mind twisting, psychological, realistic
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Into the White Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter Yukiho and the pawn shop owner's son Ryouji. As time goes by, more mysterious deaths surround Yukiho & Ryouji. Detective Sasagaki still unable to let go of the pawn shop owner case discovers startling details about Yukiho and Ryouji.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, twisted, realistic, suspenseful
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Godspeed (2009)
Plot Summary:
Joseph McKelheer and Cory Knauf (The Hamiltons, The Violent Kind) star in this intense thriller set in the lingering light of the Alaskan midnight sun. Charlie Shepard, a modern day faith healer with a small flock of believers, is stunned when his family is brutally murdered. Six months later a young, mysterious girl (Courtney Halverson) appears and becomes the link to his family's killing and the murderers themselves, ultimately leading to violent consequences for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, independent film, suspense
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Quo Vadis, Baby? (2005)
Plot Summary:
A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective
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Lost Song (2008)
Plot Summary:
Pierre and Elisabeth, a couple in their thirties, move with their baby into a cottage on a lake for the summer. The setting is idyllic, and the couple’s happiness seems within reach. Every day, Pierre goes to work in the city while Elisabeth rehearses for an upcoming voice recital. Despite the benevolent presence of her mother-in-law who lives in the neighbouring house, the young woman feels isolated and overwhelmed in her new role as a mother. Her entourage is concerned, but no one fully grasps the extent of Elisabeth’s distress. Muted violence soon takes hold and tightens its grip.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, sentimental, bleak, disturbing, contemplative, gloomy, tragic ending
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Firecracker (2005)
Plot Summary:
A tale of murder in small-town Kansas. When Jimmy is lured away from his abusive family by a traveling sideshow carnival, he encounters Sandra, one of the main attractions. The happiness they find together causes them to confront the darkness in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, controversial, cult classic, neo noir, crying, independent film
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Good Neighbours (2010)
Plot Summary:
Takes place in 1995, the year of the second referendum on the separation of Quebec. In the dead of winter, a serial killer is on the loose in the small Montreal neighborhood of Notre Dame de Grace. The tenants of an old apartment house must figure out who they can trust and who they can't.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, dark comedy, psychological thriller, neo noir, grindhouse
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The Ghost and the Whale (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man, Joseph, loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. The wife's brothers' need revenge! Joseph tries to tell anyone who will listen that a whale killed his beautiful Annabel Lee, but even he doesn't quite remember the truth. A journey into the depths of his mind, a conversation with a whale and blood thirsty brothers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
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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
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Agnes of God (1985)
Plot Summary:
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, intense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, talky, slasher, clever, contemplative
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The Owls (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two middle-aged, lesbian couples accidentally kill a younger lesbian and hide the body, without reporting it to the authorities. Their guilt and long-kept, dark secret comes back to haunt them, as an unexpected stranger shows up in their lives, bringing tension and discord. Little do they know that this mysterious stranger has a plan which includes all four of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lights Out (2010)
Plot Summary:
March 1992, in a small town in the suburbs of Paris. During an alcohol fueled party, teenagers discover a body hidden in the bushes of a forest. A body that seems lifeless. Two weeks earlier. Simon, a 16 year-old teenager, has not shown up for class. Blood stains are found in a class-room. Run-away, kidnap, suicide, murder? A few days later, Laetitia, a student from the same class goes missing without her parents knowing where she has gone. A young girl with no dark background or connection to Simon. The next day, Jean-Baptiste, a third student, also disappears. Rumors start to spread. The psychosis begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, bleak, psychological thriller, serious, realistic, disturbing, weird
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Brother (2014)
Plot Summary:
Giorgi is 16 years old when he discovers another world through American films forbidden in all Soviet Union until then. Since the post-revolutionary chaos in his home town, Tbilisi, Giorgi has wanted to have succeeded by following the path of his idols: Tony Montana and Vito Corleone. He has almost reached his goal when he is confronted with a dilemma; how can he stop his little brother who is 12 years old to follow his path when he could become a famous pianist? All this in a world that only knows chaos.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating, stylized, gloomy, entertaining
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In My Father's Den (2004)
Plot Summary:
Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families (Otto, Moy), frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, emotional, atmospheric, talky, serious, tense, clever, touching, captivating
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Megachurch Murder (2015)
Plot Summary:
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a church conspiracy and threats toward her father, she is determined to prove that Hamilton's death was murder not suicide. As she gets closer to the truth, she realizes her own mother may be involved in her father's murder...and that the boy she is falling in love with is the son of his killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful
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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