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Plot Summary:
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Complete Unknown (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, suspense, mysterious, psychological, mind bending, psychotronic, psychological thriller
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Noise (2022)
Plot Summary:
Julia is a mother, or rather, one of many mothers, sisters, daughters, colleagues, who have had their lives torn apart by the widespread violence in a country waging a war against its women. Julia is searching for Ger, her daughter. And in her search, she will weave through the stories and struggles of the different women she will meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Gaslight (2019)
Plot Summary:
Everyone thought Danny had gone missing. Towards the end of senior year she vanished, leaving family and friends devastated and confused including her closest friend in the world, Becca. Gaslight picks up years later when Becca and her new husband receive an unexpected visitor during breakfast.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 13 min
Plot tags: anime
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Memoria (2021)
Plot Summary:
A Scottish orchid farmer visiting her ill sister in Bogotá, Colombia, befriends a young musician and a French archaeologist in charge of monitoring a century-long construction project to tunnel through the Andes mountain range. Each night, she is bothered by increasingly loud bangs which prevent her from getting any sleep.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Colombia, Thailand, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar, UK, China, USA, Switzerland
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surreal, avant garde, stylized, art house
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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1999)
Plot Summary:
When her doctor recommends that a widow pursue her unfulfilled life ambitions, he doesn't realize that she has always wanted to be a spy. Sending a letter to her congressman gets her an interview with the CIA and accidentally gets her an assignment to Morocco for a supposed easy task of picking up an encrypted code book. When the agency realizes their mistake, they send a super-agent to watch over her. Both are taken prisoner and the real agent is injured, leaving Mrs. Pollifax to use her considerable wits to help them escape and to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Secrets in a Small Town (2019)
Plot Summary:
A mother's worst nightmare comes true when her teenage daughter goes missing.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, suspense
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The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw (2020)
Plot Summary:
A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful
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Exit Plan (2019)
Plot Summary:
Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of this self-consciousness makes him more and more depressed. When he realises that his beloved wife plans to leave him, he decides to take his own life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Denmark, Norway, Germany, France, Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, dark, psychological, disturbing, suspense, surreal, weird
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As You Are (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, independent film, tear jerker, tearjerker
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The Power (2021)
Plot Summary:
London, 1974. As Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val arrives for her first day at the crumbling East London Royal Infirmary. With most of the patients and staff evacuated to another hospital, Val is forced to work the night shift, finding herself in a dark, near empty building. Within these walls lies a deadly secret, forcing Val to face both her own traumatic past and deepest fears.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, medical horror, spooky, mystical
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A Death of Innocence (1971)
Plot Summary:
A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Daisy Winters (2017)
Plot Summary:
An eleven year-old girl's unconventional yet deeply loving relationship with her mother is harshly broken. Along her journey, including her quest to discover her father, she learns how to embrace every moment with determination and unrelenting self-confidence.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Cold Front (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sasha and Ilya, a bored young couple on a verge of breakup, are spending a New Year's Eve at a secluded beach house in Northern France then a carcass of an unidentified creature is washed ashore nearby. Later that day on his way back from a local bar Ilya meets Masha, a lost Russian girl, who seems to have gotten off the train at the wrong station and has nowhere to spend the night.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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So Cold the River (2022)
Plot Summary:
A documentary filmmaker's research on a town's mysterious benefactor unearths an unexplained evil while staying at a local resort.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing
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Autumn Lights (2016)
Plot Summary:
An American photographer adrift in a remote Icelandic community becomes entangled in the lives of a mysterious European couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Iceland, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, touching, independent film
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Rattlesnake (2019)
Plot Summary:
After a mysterious woman saves her daughter from a deadly snakebite, a single mother must repay the debt by killing a stranger before sundown.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, psychological, splatter, weird
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The Wasteland (2021)
Plot Summary:
Lucía and her son live isolated from society in a flat place where there’s practically no life. The small family unit formed by mother and son hardly ever receives visitors, and their goal is to lead a quiet existence. At first they succeed, but the appearance of a mysterious, violent creature that starts stalking their small house will put the relationship that unites them to the test.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, powerful
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Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)
Plot Summary:
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Daddy's Girl (2002)
Plot Summary:
British television film starring Martin Kemp.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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I Want to Know Your Parents (2022)
Plot Summary:
An eighth grade student kills himself but not before writing the names of the students who victimized him. Their parents are called into the school and a battle goes on regarding the will.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Naked Sins (2006)
Plot Summary:
Cole and Erica run an upscale escort service which sets their clients up on anonymous and impromptu "dates" at hotels. They discover one of their female clients murdered, and that the man who signed up for their service on the same day happens to be her husband. They set out to untangle these mysterious circumstances before the cops follow the leads back to them, while also dealing with various romantic relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, suspense, captivating, disturbing, sexploitation film
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Satan's Slaves 2: Communion (2022)
Plot Summary:
After moving from their home to an apartment building, a new terror awaits Rini’s family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, spooky, asian horror
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The Other Lamb (2019)
Plot Summary:
A haunting and nightmarish tale that tells the story of Selah, a young girl born into a repressive cult known as the Flock. The members of the Flock – all women and female children– live in a rural compound, and are led by one man, known only as Shepherd. Selah, a daughter who is on the cusp of teenage-hood, is given the great honor of participating in the sacred ritual of the birthing of the lambs – upon which they depend for survival – where she has a shocking and otherworldly experience. She begins to have strange visions that make her question her own reality, and everything the Shepherd has taught her and her sisters.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Belgium, USA, Denmark, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, art house, dark, erotic, scary
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Valley of Shadows (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young boy ventures into the forest in search of mysterious creatures that eat sheep, in this delightfully creepy Scandinavian Gothic fable from Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, art house, post-horror
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Separation (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Souvenir: Part II (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, serious, cult classic, surprise ending, semi autobiographical, romantic drama, student film
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Emergence (2019)
Plot Summary:
A police chief takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, enigmatic, suspense, colorful, exciting, detective, colourful
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Awakened (2013)
Plot Summary:
Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, captivating, independent film, psychotronic
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Dark Water (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. She is currently in midst of divorce proceedings and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. From the time she arrives, there are mysterious occurrences and there is a constant drip from the ceiling in her daughter's bedroom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, creepy, psychological thriller, stylized, tense
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Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
Plot Summary:
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental, atmospheric, enigmatic, melancholic, realistic, spiritual