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Plot Summary:
In the suburbs of the city a 7-years old boy disappears. After months of fruitless searches the boy's older sister decides to take the deal over. She is confident that she knows who kidnapped her brother. Is this enough to justify a terrible revenge?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, crying, freeze frame
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Flowerman (2014)
Plot Summary:
Loving wife & mother Sarah is abducted by intelligent and forensically aware psychopath Nigel. The family and the police are subjected to a manipulation of the reality that surrounds them. Relating to the darkest side of the human character Flowerman also connects with both a spiritual aspect and a basic drive for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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Fistful of Flies (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sixteen-year-old Mars wants more from her life than just a fistful of flies which, to her, is a fistful of nothing. Stifled and dominated by her family, Mars just wants to be free. Denied relationships with the people who truly understand her, Mars battles her family on her own, and in her quest to be treated as a grown-up she gives her mother the courage to act and forces her father to make the choice of his life. A story about how a young girl finally finds the courage to have faith in herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Body of Water (2011)
Plot Summary:
Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially responsible for this. She has also split with the father of her son and tries to escape all these concerns by working hard. On a new case, she is brought back to the house near the lake where she was raised to help a group of environmentalists to protect its natural beauty against the industrial project of a power company. But by doing so she has to fight the greed of the locals, and their trust in an evil spirit that is believed to be attached to the lake.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 747
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, tense, serious, folk tale
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The Kiss (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sarah, a beautiful and gifted 15-year-old from a wealthy but chaotic family, holds on to one dream: to run away from home and to become a professional ballet dancer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful
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Death Waltz (2010)
Plot Summary:
From a policewoman broken leg seems completely slip out of the soil. Life-threatening love triangle mixed with her husband and their criminal friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, dread
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Voyoucratie (2015)
Plot Summary:
Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that leads you to delinquency as the only way to exist. The pitch: Sam, a little bandit, finds himself trapped by a corrupted police officer who forces him to get information about Ali, one of the high crime boss known to be very dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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El cartel (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based on Mexico's current criminal climate, EL CÁRTEL is a rare look into the values and practices of the world's most intriguing and enigmatic industry - the multi-billion dollar business of drug trafficking. When Jules Land, a naïve business journalist, approaches Mexico's most notorious drug cartel and requests an audience with its leader, a one-time-priest turned murderous cutthroat, he quickl.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, rough, thought provoking, suspenseful, independent film
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Transgression (2011)
Plot Summary:
Matthew and Elena are about to face the worst night of their lives when four burglars trespass into their home looking for easy money. But things don't go as planned. Tension and fear take over them all, victims and executioners, and mistrust, betrayals and unexpected lies will come to light at the worst possible time.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Nuclear (2019)
Plot Summary:
In a small village under the shadow of a nuclear power station, a toxic family with a past must face the ghosts that threaten their future.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Ape (2009)
Plot Summary:
A descent into hell, Jesper Ganslandt's disturbing and suspenseful second feature begins with a man waking up in unfamiliar surroundings, only to find the life he knew the day before is gone.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, crying
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Touchless (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jolana (18) is an object of her stepf-father's desire. She is unable to cope, especially when her own mother turns a blind eye. Those events are heavily paid for when she finds herself working in a brothel. Her inability to cope raise a question: What is it she actually wants? Are her dreams of escaping really better than the reality she finds herself in?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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Sorry, Haters (2005)
Plot Summary:
Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, realistic, suspense, erotic, multicultural, talky, surprise ending
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Hide and Seek (2019)
Plot Summary:
In an ordinary looking apartment, a father and daughter play a game of hide-and-seek. While searching for his daughter, she is nowhere to be found... Later, a video is posted which shows the girl holding a sign with a mysterious set of numbers. But what do they mean? She’s the first of several children who disappear without a trace in a small industrial town. Young detectives Varta Naumova and Maksim Shumov take on the complex case and… their own demons. Varta is a distant person and extremely protective of her personal space, while Maksim comes across as an easy-going sociable guy. Both have experienced trauma in their lives, and this case touches them on a deeper level. They become personally vested in finding the children and apprehending the kidnapper as they face their respective pasts.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Murdered (2012)
Plot Summary:
Cathy has been preparing herself since early morning. She is about to celebrate her daughter Eva's 20th birthday. But on this very day, Cathy's life is turned upside-down with the shocking news that her daughter has been murdered. At first devastated and lost when faced with the workings of the police and the justice system, Cathy becomes determined to fight to know the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Next Skin (2016)
Plot Summary:
A teenager who went missing and was presumed dead returns home after eight years to find a family deeply affected by his disappearance. Gradually, doubts arise about whether he really is the missing boy or an impostor.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, intellectual, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, serious
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The Day of the Lord (2020)
Plot Summary:
In this horror movie, a retired priest haunted by his sins is pulled back into the darkness when a friend begs him to help his possessed daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Blood and Ties (2013)
Plot Summary:
Da-eun lives a happy life with her single father, a man who sacrificed everything in his life for her. She loved her father very dearly. However, their relationship is about to take an unexpected turn. Da-eun becomes suspicious that her father might be a monstrous kidnapper. Even though she wants to believe in his innocence, she finds herself searching for evidence to the contrary. What is her father's true identity? And how will she deal with the burden of discovery if her suspicions are confirmed at the end of her final pursuit of the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, twisted
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Her Name Is Carla (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, realistic, crying
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Doctor Death (2019)
Plot Summary:
After a skiing accident, Sarah's life is saved thanks to a brilliant surgeon, Dr. Vincent. But when Dr. Vincent mistakes Sara's gratitude for love, he becomes obsessed with her, determined to have her at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, scary, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspenseful
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Monolith (2016)
Plot Summary:
A mother and her son plan a surprise visit to Los Angeles to see her husband/his father. Halfway there they get into a terrible accident in the middle of nowhere and now must fight to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, stylized, ambiguous ending, action thriller
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Nuts (1987)
Plot Summary:
A high-class call girl kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. Not helping matters is that she is very distrustful of everybody, including her court-appointed attorney, and is very disruptive during her court hearings.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, hilarious, psychological thriller, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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Below Utopia (1997)
Plot Summary:
Daniel returns to his family's mansion for the holidays along with his girlfriend Susanne. His family's seemingly-utopian existence is overshadowed by not only the death of Daniel's brother, but also by Daniel's failure to live up to his brother's potential. However, this quickly becomes inconsequential, as blood-thirsty killers soon show up.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, suspense, erotic, independent film, bleak
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Psycho BFF (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Renee's shy teenage daughter Deandra finally makes a friend, Olivia, she is thrilled. After Olivia's initial bossiness turns into emotional abuse, Renee forbids the relationship from continuing, prompting the girls to run away together. Renee embarks on a desperate search for her daughter, before she's gone for good.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Psycho Brother-In-Law (2017)
Plot Summary:
With her husband working all the time, Kate is thankful when her brother-in-law David reappears to help out. But she soon realizes that he wants to be the new head of the family, and will do anything to make that happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, unusual plot structure, disturbing, contemplative
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The Interrogation of Michael Crowe (2002)
Plot Summary:
The lives of Escondido, California residents Cheryl and Stephen Crowe change one morning when they find their twelve year old daughter Stephanie Crowe stabbed to death in her bedroom. As procedure dictates, the police take each member of the household away individually to be questioned, and the remaining children - fourteen year old Michael Crowe and adolescent Shannon Crowe - are taken into protective custody until Cheryl and Stephen can be cleared. The police end up placing much of their focus on the sullen Michael, who they question without counsel and without discussion with his parents. The tone of the police questioning is that they believe Michael did kill his sister, the police lying, harassing and coercing in the process. Under the barrage of questioning, Michael eventually confesses, as do two of his friends, both questioned under the same threatening tone. Cheryl and Stephen, who are finally made aware of the questioning and the confessions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, rough, serious, sincere, thought provoking, emotional, realistic, suspenseful
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Firstborn (1984)
Plot Summary:
Because he's the oldest, Jake has been the man of the house, since his parents divorce. When Mom starts seeing Sam, who always seems to be trying some new way to get rich quick, and declares he's the man of the house now, Jake puts up with it. Until he discovers Sam's illegal activities.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tension, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, biting, crying
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Locked In (2021)
Plot Summary:
A single mother must protect her daughter and herself during a heist gone wrong at a high-tech storage facility.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense
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The Quietude (2018)
Plot Summary:
Against the backdrop of a military dictatorship, Eugenia is reunited with her estranged family following her father’s stroke and is forced to confront dark secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, erotic
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Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, talky, political, educational, tense
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Bad Girl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Bad girl Amy, 17, is given one last chance by her adoptive parents, who think Amy's friendship with local girl Chloe is a step in the right direction. But when Amy discovers Chloe's secret she finds herself fighting for her life, and for the future of the family she herself tried to destroy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, dark