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Plot Summary:
Will Taylor has nightmares. He dreams of watching his father and aunt being murdered when he was only four years old. Will lives with his troubled uncle Joe Mitchell because his mother remains catatonic from the attack. Joe, who has his own problems with his girlfriend Sarah, has raised Will since the bank robbery that killed his wife and brother-in-law. Back in 1990 the whole town of Canyon Hills had to be moved because a new dam was built to prevent chronic flooding. The original town is now at the bottom of the lake. Will finds out that the stolen bank money was never found and begins diving to recover it and his past. Enter Carl Bennett, the bank robber turned murderer. Just released from prison, he is heading for Canyon Hills to recover the money he left behind. Who will get to it first?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Girls Getaway Gone Wrong (2021)
Plot Summary:
A girls’ trip goes horribly wrong when a trio of friends wake up to discover a woman has fallen to her death with all evidence pointing to them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 78%
Suicide Note (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ambitious psych major Molly White is on top of the world as she preps for her grad program entry exams. After celebrating with boyfriend Brady, Molly finds her roommate Emma crying after an incident she had with her boyfriend Adam. The next morning, Molly is shocked to learn that Emma jumped from the roof late that night, leaving a suicide note behind. Refusing to believe that Emma would do such a thing, Molly starts having haunting dreams over Emma’s death. Driven to uncover the truth about what happened to Emma, Molly begins to search for answers positioning herself in harm’s way.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Slasher Weekend (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jenny is leaving on a trip to see her gay boyfriend Johnny, but Johnnies boyfriend Alex is very upset after being blown off by Johnny for his girlfriend so Alex grabs a knife and makes plans to get even. Meanwhile Jenny's Daddy has a thing for his daughter and keeps fondling her causing Jenny to get very upset as well. Meanwhile Jenny's boyfriend Aaron crashes the party and wants to go along but hates Johnnie with a passion and threatens to kill him and meanwhile there is a knife wielding monster that wants to kill everyone for no apparent reason. See it to believe it!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, dark, splatter
Similar in 76%
Eve (1968)
Plot Summary:
Adventurer and treasure hunter Mike Yates is hoping to find a cache of Incan treasure lost in the Amazon jungle. While looking for his missing partner, he stumbles across a beautiful jungle girl named Eve. Later on, he comes across Eve's grandfather, who is being swindled by a man and a young woman who is pretending to be his granddaughter Eve. Will Yates be able to expose the swindle, beat the swindlers to the lost treasure (with the help of the real Eve), and reunite Eve with her grandfather before the final credits roll?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, Liechtenstein, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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A Dangerous Defense (2021)
Plot Summary:
Abby represents her estranged sister in a murder trial. Is her sister guilty or is there a killer on the loose?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
Similar in 76%
Lost Valley (1998)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Mary-Ann (Foster) and Sandy (Thompson) are finally taking their dream expedition to New Zealand. They are accompanied by their teenage daughters Jaretha (Gillette) and Kerry (Nicoll). Issues of first night frights from the local wildlife and daughters that can't stand each other become insignificant when they come face to face with Kiwi poachers. No match for gun-toting guys, the four find themselves held prisoner and fearing for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 86%
Run, Simon, Run (1970)
Plot Summary:
A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, crying, detective
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Wasted (2006)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school friends reunite in their hometown for the funeral of an old buddy, 'Bender'; they will spend a weekend struggling to accept that Bender escaped what they can't - adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sexy, sexual, cult film
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Past Tense (2006)
Plot Summary:
Trying to prove to her daughter that her nightmares aren't real, widowed mother Kim Shay 'investigates,' unwittingly bringing danger into their lives. Kim follows a trail that not only leads to the killer of a past victim, but also of her own husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
Similar in 86%
The Shade Shepherd (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the late 80s, a psychiatrist leads his junkie older brother towards the Canadian border to escape a murder charge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
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The Face of Fear (1990)
Plot Summary:
Graham Harris was once one of the world's foremost mountain climbers, until a fall five years earlier left him with a lame leg, a fear of heights...and a frightening psychic ability in which he can see murders as they are happening.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
Similar in 87%
Fatal Fiancé (2021)
Plot Summary:
When Leah is kidnapped on the day of her wedding by her fiance’s delusional ex-girlfriend Faith, she does everything within her power to escape. But once she does, she begins to question whether Faith was ever really delusional or if she was just trying to save her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Wrong Number (2001)
Plot Summary:
Greed results in murder in the tumultuous world of Internet stocks.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, detective, black comedy, dark comedy
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Twisted Twin (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tess loves her mom Patricia and the horse ranch she was raised on, but she’s ready for the next chapter. Attending her college orientation weekend, she gets the surprise of a lifetime when she’s approached by Sammy Crain, who happens to be her identical twin sister! After learning the story of how they were separated at birth, Tess is excited to connect with Sammy, but when Sammy’s adoptive parents turn up dead and Tess is mistaken for her sister, she realizes she’s been duped by her twin as part of Sammy’s devious plan to steal Tess’s identity, take the family fortune and get away with murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Flood! (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disaster movie
Similar in 83%
Dangerous Waters (1999)
Plot Summary:
A river expert (Connie Selleca), her boy friend (Matt McCoy), and her children go on a river rafting trip. But things go awry when they are taken captive by escaped convicts searching for stolen money.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident (1979)
Plot Summary:
An American intelligence agent travels to pre-Islamic Revolution Iran to try to thwart a power-mad European baron from using a stolen cruise missile to destroy an unspecific target in that country.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy, Iran, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, campy
Similar in 83%
Loophole (1981)
Plot Summary:
When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
Similar in 77%
The Alpha Caper (1973)
Plot Summary:
A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million armored car robbery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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The Device (2014)
Plot Summary:
Abby and Rebecca Powell haven't seen each other since a traumatic event in their youth ripped them apart. Reunited for the first time in over a decade, the sisters take a trip to spread their mother's ashes at a secluded lake. As the sisters reconnect and try to heal old wounds, something waits in the nearby woods. A strange object, made not by the hands of man, beckons them to it. As they begin to try and unlock its secrets, Abby is plagued by nightmares of an alien presence that seem all too real. Little do the sisters realize that this object is actually a device, one with a purpose too horrible to comprehend. As the events of the past and the present begin to merge, new discoveries will threaten to tear apart their newly reformed family, and the inhuman creators of the device will attempt to finish a terrible experiment begun years before.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, captivating, scary, serious
Similar in 77%
Deserted (2016)
Plot Summary:
When twenty-four-year-old Jae is released from prison for killing her mother, she returns to her childhood home in small-town Ridgecrest. The desire to go anywhere but there prompts her to agree to join her brother on a road trip out to Death Valley - which results in getting them hopelessly lost in the most stunning, but unforgiving topographical terrain on the planet.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller
Similar in 89%
Lost (2004)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in a maze of endless desert highways, bound by a vital deadline, and pursued by an unseen menace....Jeremy Stanton is about to take the longest ride of his life. He will learn that when you reach the crossroads of life...you must be careful which way you turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
Similar in 84%
The River Wild (1994)
Plot Summary:
While on a family vacation, rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, psychological, scary, breathtaking, dark, tension, anamorphic, intense
Similar in 76%
Fer-de-Lance (1974)
Plot Summary:
An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that it drops to the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Worse still, the snakes are still at large on the submarine and complicate the efforts of the crew to escape the sunken vessel.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
Similar in 90%
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Plot Summary:
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, retro, action thriller, serious, surprise ending, epic, tense, thought provoking
Similar in 81%
Hour of Valor (2000)
Plot Summary:
A Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hostage. Before he leaves, he receives a disk documenting evidence that the Vice-President has been trying to revive the American economy by causing a war in the Balkans. He plans to show it to both sides in the hopes of ending the situation. However, Secret Service agents hijack the Concorde he is on and kill the pilots. It's up to an Air Force officer, nicknamed "Washout" because he can't fly a plane, to land the Concorde. Written by Leigh Roche.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, fast, disaster movie
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Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
Plot Summary:
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 402000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, intense, action adventure, thrilling, exciting, buddy comedy, detective
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Survival Quest (1988)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of city slickers from different backgrounds go into the wild mountains to be one with nature, but basically to have a good time. However, a paramilitary group has chosen the same time to go camping. When one of the soldiers thinks their boss has been killed by one of the city slickers, he coaxes his team into exterminating all of them. They will have to rely on their wits and on each other in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, retro, independent film, realistic
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Dante's Peak (1997)
Plot Summary:
Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, Harry, the mayor and the townspeople find themselves fighting for their lives amid a catastrophic nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, breathtaking, apocalyptic, psychotronic, psychological
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Frozen (2010)
Plot Summary:
Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, bad ending, psychological thriller, natural horror, intense