Best movies like The Killing Secret
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Plot Summary:
A pregnant teen is murdered and a popular high-school senior is suspected. But will his girlfriend stick by him to prove his innocence despite the fact she has bonded with the victim's mother?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological
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Unstable (2005)
Plot Summary:
Friends become enemies after one of them is accused of committing a hate crime against a gay teenager during a weekend camping trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: cinema verite
Similar in 83%
All God's Creatures (2011)
Plot Summary:
Creature of habit, Jon Smith, spends his days mindlessly working as a barista in New York City. When night falls, this seeming everyman savagely kills "filthy women" as his social outlet. A chance encounter with Delia, a young prostitute searching for an escape from her troubled past, forces Jon to confront the most terrifying thing he has ever faced in all his dark affairs - himself. All God's Creatures examines the true nature of what it means to be a monster and reveals that love is not only for a chosen few, but for all God's creatures.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological
Similar in 81%
American Girls (2013)
Plot Summary:
The abduction and murder of numerous school girls in a quaint, all-American town. Inspired by true events.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Locked Away (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a teenager gets pregnant, her mother feels the baby should be adopted. The girl seeks advice from her school counsellor, but this woman has her own agenda.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, disturbing
Similar in 85%
Red Stone (2021)
Plot Summary:
With one bullet, Motley’s life spirals out of control as he’s forced to go on the run from the ruthless crime lord, Jed Haywood. The brother of Haywood's best friend Boons recently died in a terrible car accident and today is the funeral. He has 10 hours to bring Motley in and get to the cemetery. Over the course of a day, Motley and Boon play a game of cat and mouse as their fate brings them together for a climatic showdown.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic
Similar in 79%
Stolen from the Womb (2014)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic stalker gives a pregnant woman a labor-inducing drug, then kidnaps her newborn.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Shadows in the Storm (1988)
Plot Summary:
A daydreaming businessman named Thelonius Pitt takes a vacation in the Redwood Forests of California. The morning after he arrives, he meets a beautiful, mysterious woman named Melanie. She happens to look just like the woman he keeps seeing in his dreams. Thelonius and Melanie meet each other on the shore of a nearby river late at night. Melanie's husband finds them, and attacks Thelonius. Melanie pulls out a pistol and fires 3 shots, knocking her husband's body into the icy river below. The nightmare has begun.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, eighties
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The Perfect Student (2011)
Plot Summary:
A criminology professor becomes a target herself when she tries to establish the innocence of her star student in a murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, psychological, tense, psychological thriller, sexy, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic
Similar in 77%
Caught (2015)
Plot Summary:
A desperate housewife discovers her husband is having an affair and kidnaps his unsuspecting mistress, but what starts as a prank quickly spirals out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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Blind Valley (2011)
Plot Summary:
Vincent is an ordinary-looking cop in Descharnes province. Ten years ago, he buried a dirty business to save his skin. Stan Wilson, and share their passion for Deborah but also a dark secret. Ten years ago, they suffered a trauma that no child can recover. Wilson wants to forget. Stan wants to speak, without knowing that he then puts in motion a terrible plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, tense, captivating, disturbing
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You Get Me (2017)
Plot Summary:
After arguing with his girlfriend, Ali, Tyler lands in the arms of sexy new girl, Holly. The next morning, he finds that not only does Ali agree to take him back, but Holly is a new student at their school and is dead set on her new man.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, thought provoking, enigmatic, entertaining, tense, melancholic
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Grey Lady (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Boston police officer goes to Nantucket to investigate the murder of his partner, but he finds more than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 84%
Double Xposure (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Song Qi stumbles upon her boyfriend's affair with her best friend, her life quickly starts falling apart and she is subsequently drawn into a quicksand of revenge and murder. Though all is not as it seems and Song Qi will have to embark on a twisted journey into her past and the very depths of her own mind.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 77%
The Insomniac (2013)
Plot Summary:
John Figg has a great career and a gorgeous fiancée. When he inherits a nice house in a quiet neighborhood, he finally starts to feel like his life is coming together. Trouble arises, however, when John's house is burglarized, and the thieves steal one of his most prized possessions.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark
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The Bygone (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a young rancher crosses paths with a Lakota girl from a nearby reservation, her mysterious disappearance sparks a search that uncovers a harrowing past and hints at a dire future.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, perverse
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The Beautiful Ones (2017)
Plot Summary:
A retelling of Romeo and Juliet set within the Los Angeles underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 79%
Stalked By My Neighbor (2015)
Plot Summary:
A girl and her mother escape to suburban safety after a home invasion scares them out of the city, but they're soon menaced by a sinister figure.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller
Similar in 86%
Wild Indian (2021)
Plot Summary:
Decades after covering up his classmate’s murder, Michael has moved on from his reservation and fractured past. When a man who shares his violent secret seeks vengeance, Michael goes to great lengths to protect his new life with his wife and boss from the demons of his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Columbus Circle (2012)
Plot Summary:
An heiress who's been shut inside her apartment building for nearly two decades is forced to confront her fears after one of her neighbors is killed and a detective arrives to begin the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, dark, twisted, independent film
Similar in 76%
Accused at 17 (2009)
Plot Summary:
A teenager is accused of murdering a classmate and claims that she was framed by her best friend. Her mother must try to find the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
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Shattered Soul (2006)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, mind bending, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
Undercover Cheerleader (2019)
Plot Summary:
Autumn is a beautiful transfer student who goes undercover as a cheerleader to do an exposé on the cruel culture of the squad for her school newspaper. But when someone begins viciously attacking cheerleaders, she starts to fear for her own life.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Glass House (2001)
Plot Summary:
After the parents of Ruby and her younger brother, Rhett, are killed in a car crash, their parents' best friends, Erin and Terry Glass, become their guardians. The children hear promises of a world of opulence and California fun -- all they have to do is move into the Glasses' gated house. Before very long, though, Ruby suspects that Erin and Terry may not be the ideal guardians they seemed to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful, tense, exciting, teen, teen horror, suspense thriller, suspense, neo noir
Similar in 83%
Death Benefit (1996)
Plot Summary:
Steven Keeney is a big corporate lawyer who decides to take on a small-time murder case to discover the true circumstances behind the death of a young girl. Virginia McGinnis is the one suspected of pushing the women off the cliff to collect on a small insurance policy. The further he goes into the case the more he reveals about the background of the suspect. Keeney finds support from others who also want to find out the truth behind the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, independent film
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Skeletons in the Closet (2001)
Plot Summary:
A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Brick (2005)
Plot Summary:
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, independent film, cerebral, noir, detective, stylized, talky, teen, enigmatic
Similar in 80%
Lucky Day (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nora Barkin is an aspiring actress who supports herself by working for a courier service. No sooner has Nora's friend and coworker Bill Reagan jubilantly announced that he possesses a lottery ticket worth 13 million dollars than Bill is killed by an unknown assailant. Though discouraged from doing so by investigating detective Marinello, Nora insists upon trying to solve Bill's murder herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending
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Disturbia (2007)
Plot Summary:
Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start to get weird when guests enter the Turner's house and don't come back out. Kale and his friends, Ronnie and Ashley, start to grow more and more interested in what is actually happening within the house of Robert Turner.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 245000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, intense, psychological thriller, scary, teen, clever, slasher
Similar in 78%
The Dead Girl (2006)
Plot Summary:
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, atmospheric, suspenseful, contemplative, anthology, mysterious, grindhouse
Similar in 82%
Bird (2020)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with the meaninglessness of her life, Samantha Flores, an unassuming and shy young woman, living in the city of Los Angeles is convinced by a friend, Juliette, a vivacious call-girl, to go out one night posing as her. What was supposed to be a night of fun and excitement for Samantha, turns into a night of sheer terror after she witnesses a brutal murder. Now stranded and wandering aimlessly along a dark road, Samantha crosses paths with Greg Vargas, a reluctant criminal talked into participating in a jewel heist that is occurring nearby. After Greg initially picks her up to get her away from the crime scene, they are suddenly attacked by unknown assailants. After barely escaping with their lives, Greg and Samantha now must not only work together to solve the mystery of who is after them, but also learn to trust each other. The only clues that can help them uncover the secrets of that night are locked away in Samantha's traumatized, fragmented memories, and they are running out.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing