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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
Best tv shows and movies like The Fan (1981):
Similar in 87%
Love Object (2003)
Plot Summary:
The twisted tale of Kenneth, socially insecure technical writer who forms an obsessive relationship with "Nikki", an anatomically accurate silicone sex doll he orders over the Internet.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychological, suspense, dark, perverse, spooky
Similar in 86%
Blind (2019)
Plot Summary:
Faye, a former actress that lost her vision due to botched laser eye surgery, struggles to put her life back together while living alone in her dream house in the Hollywood Hills. Supported by her friend Sophia, she starts opening up to Luke, a personal trainer who is mute and can only communicate through his cell phone. When a masked stranger named Pretty Boy shows up, Faye will realize that she isn't as alone as she thinks.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, sad, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, crying
Similar in 77%
They Shoot Divas, Don't They? (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sloan McBride is an 1980s music star who is trying to hold on to her career. She hires Jenny as her assistant and Jenny seems to be the perfect employee. However, Jenny is actually planning her revenge because she blames Sloan for ruining her mother's career and causing her suicide.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough, humorous, realistic
Similar in 81%
Shadow of Fear (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a new boy is employed to work in a coffee shop, he turns out to be a schizophrenic who refuses to take his medication, and makes the life of the popular young waitress who works there a misery.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, captivating
Similar in 78%
The Seduction (1982)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful newscaster is stalked and tormented by a photographer obsessed with her beauty.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, sexual, independent film, erotic
Similar in 78%
Lisa (1990)
Plot Summary:
Because her overprotective mother (Cheryl Ladd) won't allow her to date, 14-year-old Lisa (Staci Keanan) creates a rich fantasy life. She calls random men and seduces them anonymously. But now she may have picked the wrong man. Richard (D.W. Moffett) is Lisa's most charming target yet, but he's also the Candlelight Killer, who murders beautiful young women. Jeffrey Tambor co-stars in this seductive thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, neo noir, slasher, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
Similar in 75%
I Can Make You Love Me (1993)
Plot Summary:
Laura Black has got it. She has got her master in computer science and she has got that great job in Silicon Valley. Time to say 'bye bye' to mom and dad and to leave Virginia. Everything seems to be fine with one exception. That guy Richard Farley at her new job. If he would stop his attempts to date her. Since weeks his psycho terror is going on now. Laura decides not to let him win. She does not want to be his 'victim'. May be an official complaint about Farley would solve her problem? Written by Oliver Heidelbach.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, sad, crime drama, creepy, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 90%
Tattoo (1981)
Plot Summary:
Karl Kinsky, an unbalanced tattoo artist, becomes obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he is hired to body-paint several women for a photo shoot, making the women look like they have large tattoos. As Kinsky grows more obsessed with Maddy, he becomes increasingly determined that Maddy should bear his "mark" -- forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, neo noir, slasher, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
Recovery (2016)
Plot Summary:
The night before their high school graduation, Jessie and her friends are guided by a 'Find My iPhone' app to recover her lost device from a house whose demented tenants are hell bent on making her a flesh and blood member of the family.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, teen horror
Similar in 90%
The Paper Boy (1994)
Plot Summary:
A paper-boy murders an old lady only to lure her family from the city out to the country. As each day passes the paper-boy tries to make friends with the family. Once the family sees what a sicko he is, they banish him from their lifes. Then the terror begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller, slasher, suspense, terrifying, independent film, sexual
Similar in 82%
Roman (2006)
Plot Summary:
Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young man who yearns to find love, happiness and companionship. Tormented by his ungrateful co-workers and trapped in a life of tedium as a welder in a local factory, Roman's one pleasure is his obsession with the elusive beauty (Kristen Bell) who lives in another apartment in his building complex. When a chance encounter with the young woman goes horribly wrong, a moment of frenzied desperation triggers a chilling turn of events leading to the girl's murder. As he teeters between deranged fantasy and cold reality, Roman's struggle to hide his grisly secret is further complicated by an eccentric neighbor named Eva (Nectar Rose) who develops an unlikely attraction to Roman and forces herself into his dark and tortured world.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 80%
Ratter (2015)
Plot Summary:
Emma is a young and beautiful graduate student just starting a new life in New York City. Like most people her age, she is always connected - her phone and laptop are constant companions, documenting her most intimate moments. What she doesn't realize is that she's sharing her life with an uninvited and dangerous guest. A hacker is following Emma’s every move. When the voyeuristic thrill of watching her digitally isn't enough, the situation escalates to a dangerous and terrifying level.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: cyber, psychological, thought provoking, suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing, scary, slasher, mysterious
Similar in 87%
Rosewood Lane (2011)
Plot Summary:
Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake (Rose McGowan) moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood Lane after her alcoholic father dies. But upon arrival in the old neighborhood, Sonny discovers her neighbors are terrified of the local paperboy (Daniel Ross Owens). She thinks this is ridiculous, until she encounters the boy himself. It turns out that he is a cunning and dangerous sociopath, one who may have gruesomely killed her father - and others.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing, slasher, realistic
Similar in 79%
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
Similar in 81%
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
Similar in 83%
Living in Peril (1997)
Plot Summary:
The young architect Walter leaves his wife Linda to go to L.A. to draw a mansion for Harrison. On the highway a truck driver almost drives him off the road. Walter calls the truck-company to complain. The driver gets fired. When Walter arrives to the apartment-block where he has rented a flat he meets the choleric landlord William and the others living there. But now the problems starts. The next morning somebody has ruined his drawing and Harrison dislikes what Walter has drawn. But soon everything gets out of hand. Walter gets into more trouble - one morning he finds rats all over his apartment and the next day he finds his beautiful neighbor killed in his bed - and he starts to think that it is the fired truck driver who is out to get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 80%
Mother's Boys (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes, into a murderous plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, realistic, neo noir, dark, independent film, serious
Similar in 80%
Knife Edge (2009)
Plot Summary:
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, slasher, spooky, scary, realistic
Similar in 86%
X-Ray (1981)
Plot Summary:
While receiving a routine check-up, a beautiful woman is stalked by a maniac out to avenge a childhood Valentine's Day humiliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, medical horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, bloody, atmospheric
Similar in 78%
Clean Break (2008)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 85%
The Hand (1981)
Plot Summary:
Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, cult classic, psychotronic, christmas horror, psychological thriller, horror comedy
Similar in 79%
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 84%
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
Similar in 76%
The Crush (1993)
Plot Summary:
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, suspenseful, erotic, tense, intense, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense, teen
Similar in 86%
Bundy: An American Icon (2009)
Plot Summary:
Bundy, starring Corin Nemec in the title role and co-starring Kane Hodder, details the dark psyche and previously unexplored motivations of the man who became known as one of the most notorious serial killers to leave behind a legacy of evil.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, realistic
Similar in 79%
The Cellar Door (2007)
Plot Summary:
Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to outsmart her psychopathic tormentor. But Herman has experience on his side: He's entrapped and tortured other women before, playing sick and twisted mind games with his frightened victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, awful
Similar in 81%
Shiver (2012)
Plot Summary:
Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, realistic, slasher, psychological, bloody, independent film, serious
Similar in 83%
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 83%
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
Similar in 82%
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