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Plot Summary:
A woman desperately races to save her child after police place her hometown on lockdown due to an active shooter incident.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, inspirational
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Targeted (2022)
Plot Summary:
Axel is an employee of a call center who is used to complaints from his clients and an unbearable boss. Axel has a natural talent for dealing with people and their problems. But one day everything changes, when he receives a call from Figueroa Mont, a frustrated client who wants to unsubscribe. Fed up with the bureaucracy of the companies, Figueroa warns Axel that he is watching him through a telescopic sight attached to a high-precision rifle and that if he does not solve the problem, he will blow his head off.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 85%
Wrong Swipe (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Anna has a difficult time getting close to people, her sister creates a dating profile for her online. Anna starts to message a handsome man until she starts getting disturbing messages that a match is close by.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Stalked By My Patient (2018)
Plot Summary:
A troubled patient mistakes a doctor's compassion for adoration and becomes obsessed, willing to do whatever it takes to keep her in his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Stalker in the House (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jen is single and looking to find her match with online dating. She connects with Mike, who appears handsome and charming. But some things are too good to be true, and all is not what it seems. When he becomes aggressive Jen pushes away and tries to avoid him, however Mike has other ideas.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fatal Following (2021)
Plot Summary:
Heather discovers her daughter, who was presumed dead, has actually joined a sinister cult.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, twist ending
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Shut In (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young single mother is held captive along with her two children by a violent ex and must plot their escape before it’s too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, thrilling, independent film
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Killing Your Daughter (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a DNA test helps Candace connect with her birth parents, she realizes some family histories are better left untold.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lethal Seduction (2015)
Plot Summary:
High School senior Mark Richards has never minded his overprotective widowed mother,Tanya, and is a good son to her as he prepares to go off to Princeton in the fall. However, when he comes under the sexual spell of the rapacious, manipulative older woman Carissa Barrington, he finds himself in the middle of two strong, unreasonable women--one of whom is insane.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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Psycho Granny (2019)
Plot Summary:
After Samantha's mother passes away, her spirits are lifted with the sudden appearance of her long lost Grandmother, Colleen. All is well until Colleen's dark past reveals itself and Sam is forced to fight for her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, psychotronic
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Dying for the Crown (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Isabelle Wagner takes the plunge to attend her twenty-year high school reunion with her daughter, Sierra, she comes face to face with her past when she is reunited with her former classmate rival, Andrea Turner. When a seemingly changed Andrea insinuates herself into their lives, Isabelle's world comes crashing down and she soon realizes that twenty years hasn't changed Andrea after all.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Borrego (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young botanist relocates to a small desert town to study an invasive plant species. While out on research, she comes to the aid of a downed plane only to find herself taken captive by an inexperienced drug mule who forces her to lead a trek across the sweltering desert to his drop. A local sheriff is drawn into the hunt as his rebellious daughter sets out to find the missing botanist, all the while being pursued by a local drug receiver.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cliffhanger, entertaining, dark
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Stranded (2006)
Plot Summary:
Bride-to-be Carina (Durance) decides to take four friends to an exotic Caribbean island for a hen party to remember. After arriving at the luxurious resort the women take a boat ride to an isolated island where they can bask in the sun and sand - and it's there that the nightmare begins. The captain of the boat forgets to pick the girls up, leaving them stranded and forcing them to use a deserted house as a makeshift shelter. Then, one by one, the girls start to vanish. With Carina's big day the last thing on the girls minds they start to wonder whether they will see out the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Home Is Where the Killer Is (2019)
Plot Summary:
What if Dee Dee Blanchard was a rich lady doctor who preyed on her roommates and also loved to watch Downton Abbey?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, sinister, creepy
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Venom (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a car breaks down in an isolated desert, a mother and young daughter are relentlessly pursued by a deadly snake.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, exciting, serious, realistic, psychotronic
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Always and Forever (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a tragedy reunites Nicole with her childhood friends, they each find themselves in danger, targets of a deranged stalker. Nicole knows this can't be a coincidence. The secrets of their past are coming back to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark
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The Captive Nanny (2020)
Plot Summary:
Chloe (Karynn Moore) is a nanny who desperately wants to adopt but needs to get her life together first. She finds the perfect live-in nanny position with the Brown family - Emily (Austin Highsmith), Michael (Michael Aaron Milligan) and their son - that will help get her life back on track. She quickly learns they're oddly strict about security, with coded locks on all doors. Emily explains it's due to her famous musician ex named Baz (Jason Skeen), who stalks her. Horrified, Chloe agrees to help Emily and Michael keep their son safe. But when Chloe notices things seem a bit off with the Browns, Emily and Michael turn on Chloe and accuse her of being a spy for Baz. They lock her up to force a false confession out of her, but Chloe soon learns that it's not Baz that's making bad things happen - it's Emily, who is determined to win back Baz by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 75%
The Midwife's Deception (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jina, a midwife, is a dream come true for seven-month pregnant Sara until secrets unfold and Jina may want more than only delivering the baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
Similar in 87%
Fear Bay (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman being terrorized by a stalker hires and develops a relationship with a handsome private detective, not realizing he'd become her deadly avenging angel.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crime drama
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Twin Betrayal (2018)
Plot Summary:
A struggling single mother, in the midst of a fierce custody battle, is framed for the murder of her wealthy father by her ambitious identical twin.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 78%
The Au Pair Nightmare (2020)
Plot Summary:
Trying to escape the pain from the death of her fiancé, a woman becomes an au pair in a house where she learns the family is hiding a mysterious secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 87%
We Still Say Grace (2020)
Plot Summary:
The teenage daughter of a religious fanatic attempts to escape her twisted family life when three strangers break down near their remote farmhouse and interrupt her father's delusional family suicide pact.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Broken Star (2018)
Plot Summary:
Abandoned by her friends and family and with her career in jeopardy, starlet Markey Marlowe is sequestered in a duplex with a reclusive landlord who just may be more dangerous than she is.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Deadly Shores (2018)
Plot Summary:
This gripping thriller follows Anna who moves to a remote island as the new bride of a famous mystery writer. Once there, she uncovers secrets about her new husband's dead former wife and fears she may be the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dying for a Baby (2019)
Plot Summary:
Amber and Kyle are ready to move on after a car accident two years ago. But their world turns upside down when Jessica, the other driver who lost her unborn baby in the accident, moves in next door and gets a job with Amber's doctor -- all in a plan to seek a cold form of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 81%
911 Nightmare (2016)
Plot Summary:
Officer Chris McCullers was gravely injured in a shootout and now works on 911-dispatch. Resentful that her career has ended up here, Chris receives a call from a scared kid and dismisses it as a prank. The next day, she learns that the call was all too real: there's been a murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 85%
Witness Unprotected (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sam is a divorced freelance photographer who is struggling to put her daughter, Laurie, though college. She takes any job, even the dangerous ones, to keep the paychecks coming. Her latest assignment, given to her by a private investigation firm, goes horribly wrong when Sam suspects the subject of her stakeout may have been the victim of foul play.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Soviet Sleep Experiment (2019)
Plot Summary:
Russian researchers in the late 1940s keep five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental stimulant. Based on the popular internet horror story (Creepypasta) “The Russian Sleep Experiment”.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Girls' Night Out (2017)
Plot Summary:
McKenzie is a few months away from getting married when her three best friends from college surprise her with a bachelorette party.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Captors (2020)
Plot Summary:
Alys - a human trafficking victim who narrowly escaped her captors ten years ago - confronts her traumatic past when a relative leaves her his remote, snowbound mansion. Although the new house first presents the promise of a new chapter in her life, Alys is soon besieged by strange hallucinations and deadly adversaries and must fight to survive while keeping her sanity intact.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 77%
Cyber Case (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman uses geotagged pictures to help rescue her kidnapped brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing