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Plot Summary:
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a similar experience, Telly embarks on a search to prove her son's existence, and her sanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 68000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, surprise ending, enigmatic, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, mindfuck, intense
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Jericho Mansions (2003)
Plot Summary:
A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful
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The Fourth Kind (2009)
Plot Summary:
Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, mockumentary, atmospheric, creepy, psychological, intense, serious
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Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
Plot Summary:
After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow he and his brothers back to their home all hell breaks lose.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, christmas horror, weird, fake documentary
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Coma (1978)
Plot Summary:
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, neo noir, scary, atmospheric, captivating, medical horror, creepy, psychotronic
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Premonition (2007)
Plot Summary:
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, confusing, suspense thriller
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The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
Plot Summary:
Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, exciting, psychological thriller, apocalyptic, cult classic, scary, mind bending, serious
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400 Days (2015)
Plot Summary:
4 would be astronauts spend 400 days in a land locked space simulator to test the psychological effects of deep space travel but, when something goes terribly wrong and they are forced to leave the simulation, they discover that everything on earth has changed. Is this real or is the simulation on a higher level than they could have ever imagined?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, harsh, enigmatic, captivating, realistic, smart, cerebral
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Frequency (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, suspense, serious, suspenseful, touching, atmospheric, sentimental, mind bending, clever
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Non-Stop (2014)
Plot Summary:
Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today's flight will be no routine trip. Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New York to London, he receives a series of mysterious text messages ordering him to have the government transfer $150 million into a secret account, or a passenger will die every 20 minutes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, clever, exciting, psychological thriller, tricky, detective, serious, realistic
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Midnight Special (2016)
Plot Summary:
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, futuristic, road movie, atmospheric, stylized, tricky, serious, suspense, psychological, cerebral
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The Arrival (1996)
Plot Summary:
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, intense, futuristic, surprise ending, atmospheric, mystical, apocalyptic
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Impostor (2001)
Plot Summary:
Gary Sinise plays Spencer Olham, a top-secret government weapons designer who is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious, psychological thriller, thought provoking, cyber, mindfuck, intense
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The X Files (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, cerebral, psychological, neo noir, psychological thriller, political, apocalyptic, novela
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The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Plot Summary:
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, suspense, suspenseful, dark, creepy, twist ending
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Paycheck (2003)
Plot Summary:
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 112000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: futuristic, entertaining, suspense, tech noir, exciting, serious, thought provoking, suspenseful, stylized, cyber
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Flightplan (2005)
Plot Summary:
A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 170000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, exciting, intense, psychological thriller, clever, tense
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Plot Summary:
When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: political thriller, suspense, psychological, clever, political, tense, suspenseful, twist ending, intense, stylized
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The Box (2009)
Plot Summary:
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, psychological, mind bending, mindfuck, suspenseful, twist ending, surprise ending, bad ending, surreal
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Fire in the Sky (1993)
Plot Summary:
A group of men who were clearing bush for the government arrive back in town, claiming that their friend was abducted by aliens. Nobody believes them, and despite a lack of motive and no evidence of foul play, their friends' disappearance is treated as murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, disturbing, psychological, cult classic, suspense, retro, psychedelic, slasher, surreal
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The Jacket (2005)
Plot Summary:
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, enigmatic, mind bending, tricky, cerebral, suspense, mindfuck, twist ending, confusing
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What Lies Beneath (2000)
Plot Summary:
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire investigates, she discovers that the man she loves might know more than he's letting on.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, scary, psychological thriller, twist ending, atmospheric, creepy, sexy
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Coherence (2013)
Plot Summary:
On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, mind blowing, suspenseful, tense, confusing, mindfuck, suspense, serious, intellectual
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The Skeleton Key (2005)
Plot Summary:
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 121000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, gothic, psychological, southern gothic, mind bending, mysterious, tricky
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The Village (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, atmospheric, captivating, psychological thriller, psychological, mindfuck, clever, bad ending, enigmatic, romantic
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Donnie Darko (2001)
Plot Summary:
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 837000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, atmospheric, mind bending, philosophical, cult classic, clever, psychological thriller, cerebral, independent film
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Secret Window (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 207000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, tense, dark, atmospheric, bad ending, psychological thriller, suspenseful
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Vanilla Sky (2001)
Plot Summary:
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 282000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, philosophical, enigmatic, twist ending, mind bending, non-linear, confusing, psychological thriller, artsy
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Knowing (2009)
Plot Summary:
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 245000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, twist ending, surprise ending, thought provoking, absurd, mindfuck
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K-PAX (2001)
Plot Summary:
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 191000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, cerebral, sentimental, surprise ending, futuristic, philosophical, atmospheric, clever, mind twisting
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Stay (2005)
Plot Summary:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 85000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, gloomy, mindfuck, suspense, mind blowing, mind bending