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Plot Summary:
Winter, 1843. A young woman is under investigation following the mysterious death of her family's matriarch. Her recollection of the events sheds new light on the ageless forces behind the tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, intellectual, dark drama, queer horror
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Gwen (2018)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, gothic, slasher, demonic, bleak, psychotronic
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A Child's Voice (2018)
Plot Summary:
A homeless teen answers the voice of a child calling out for help and is sent on a journey to find a human trafficking network run by the child's killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, satanic, independent film
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Is There a Killer in My Family? (2020)
Plot Summary:
True-crime author, Carly, and her husband Kevin take a vacation at a historical mansion on Crawford Island. Kevin thinks it will be a chance for them to reconnect, but Carly plans to research the puzzling unsolved murder of Diana Crawford.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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*69 (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends fall victim to tragic events after one of them dials *69 in response to a crank call. Tina, who's finally putting the missing pieces of her life back together after a car accident robbed her of her memory a year prior, uncovers that these events are somehow linked to her past. Now, she must find a way to unlock the truth that is buried deep within in order to put an end to the nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Harrow (2016)
Plot Summary:
Miller lives alone in an abandoned Alabama slaughterhouse. His memory and sanity are shattered and his only company is the spirit of his lover, who was murdered a decade ago. Ruth arrives, desperate to discover the truth about her mother's death. She stays with Miller for three nights. Together they piece together the fragments of his memory, but they are horrified at what they uncover.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Last Case of August T. Harrison (2015)
Plot Summary:
August T. Harrison, private eye, comes out of retirement to solve a bizarre missing persons case, but finds himself caught in the middle of a dark conspiracy involving the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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The Accursed (2021)
Plot Summary:
Hana spends twenty years suppressing a maleficent curse that was placed upon her bloodline, only to have a family member knowingly release it forcing her to kill or to be killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Skin Walker (2019)
Plot Summary:
When her grandmother is brutally murdered, Regine, a fragile young woman must return to the countryside she has struggled to escape in order to engage with the family guilt she’s tried to shut out of her life - and to connect with the brother she has never known.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, gothic horror, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, splatter
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Hurt (2009)
Plot Summary:
There are terrible things happening in the desert...unexplainable, frightening things. Tragic, inexplicable incidents… ever since she arrived.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, scary, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The deaths from the Black Forest (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman disappears mysteriously in the middle of a forest. Police begins his search, in addition to her husband, a forensic expert. When officers asked to provide them with a photograph of the missing, he discovers that someone has entered her house and stole all the images of women.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Tethered (2022)
Plot Summary:
Miles from civilization, a blind teenager and the hunter he befriends are tormented by a mysterious creature lurking in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Eun Ji (2019)
Plot Summary:
Yeonmo Island is a small and serene island. Eun-ji enters the island for some peace, with a guitar and some scuba gear. The men in the fishing village start stirring, as a beautiful woman appears. Especially Yong-tae, the president of the island, and his subordinates, Yoon-gil and Byeong-sam, look creepily at her. One day, Eun-ji finds out that the men in the village have blocked the boat that is supposed to get her off the island. The residents, the police and everyone else gathers around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hollow in the Land (2017)
Plot Summary:
With their father in prison for murder, siblings Alison and Brandon are instantly considered suspects when a string of killings plagues their town, and they must fight to clear their names.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Who's Stalking Me? (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following a near-death experience when an attacker breaks into her home, Amanda can't shake the feeling that she's still in harm's way. In comes the handsome and stern Detective James Dawson to save the day and keep an especially close eye on Amanda. Taken by his generosity and commitment, Amanda begins to feel safer--unaware that she's letting the real threat get closer than ever.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
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The American Side (2016)
Plot Summary:
Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic scientist, Nikola Tesla.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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His Double Life (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young woman returns Home from college and become suspicious of her new stepdad, her late father's business partner, after she discovers him meeting with a mysterious woman who turns up dead the following day.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
Murder.com (2008)
Plot Summary:
Devastated upon receiving news that her estranged sister has been brutally murdered and frustrated that local police refuse to offer much help, a promising South Beach lawyer unearths some sordid details about her late sibling in this thriller highlighting the dangers of online dating.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Head Hunter (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1972 the tranquility of a coastal town in California is broken as hitch-hiking girls begin to go missing and corpses start showing up. Welcome to Murder City.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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She Will (2021)
Plot Summary:
Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological horror, supernatural thriller, psychological
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The Cursed Lesson (2020)
Plot Summary:
Online fashion model Hyo-jeong faces imminent threat of being unemployed because of the younger and more fashionable generation coming after her. While relying on surgical procedures and treatments, Hyo-jeong hears about a mysterious yoga class that helps make perfect body shape from her old high school classmate, Ga-yeong. Hyo-jeong eventually attends the yoga class with three classmates: Mi-yeon, a boxer who failed to keep her body fit, Ji-won, who has unstable mental condition, and Ye-na, a movie star who is morbidly obsessed with her appearance. Meanwhile, police start to investigate the enigma behind this yoga class after finding out that a murder in the neighborhood was committed by a woman named Bo-ra, a former yoga class student.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, sexy
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The Secret of Hidden Lake (2006)
Plot Summary:
After her dad is critically injured in a so-called hunting accident, Maggie returns to her hometown in the mountains of Colorado to be by his side. But during her stay, this devoted daughter learns that the shooting was no mistake. As Maggie attempts to unravel the mystery of what really happened, secrets start to surface that put her life in grave danger! Grab some popcorn and kick back for this thrill ride.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Veil (2017)
Plot Summary:
The temptation to have a one night stand leads a man to a distant town and a woman with a dark agenda. When he doesn't return, it falls upon his black sheep sister to uncover the truth of what happened.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blood (2018)
Plot Summary:
Cat Hogan returns to West Meath upon her mother's sudden death - she has an accident at home and died (or was it an accident?). Blood is about old secrets, older betrayals, mind games and the lies family tell each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Grudge (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ahead of a promotion, a police chief becomes entangled in a deadly incident and uncovers an intrigue fueled by grudge that threatens his colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, tense, confusing, suspenseful
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We Go On (2016)
Plot Summary:
WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that can prove that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. Along with his fiercely protective mother, he embarks on an adventure that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, scary, psychological thriller, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, spooky, psychological, atmospheric, intellectual
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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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The Maid (2020)
Plot Summary:
Joy is the new maid of a royal house, whose previous maid disappeared under mysterious circumstances and is now haunting and terrorizing the family. Joy works to uncover the reason behind the former maid’s disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, dark fantasy, contemplative
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White Orchid (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shy and reserved, Claire Decker, 30ish, is a part-time investigator for Social Services. Typically, she solves cases where senior citizens have died alone, leaving no indication of who must handle their estate. This time however, Claire is reluctantly drawn into a puzzling murder case. The local police have been unable to solve the horrific crime, or even decipher the victim's true identity. A beautiful and enigmatic young blond, known only as "The White Orchid," has been brutally murdered. As Claire is drawn deeper and more intimately into the dead woman's life, she finds herself taking dangerous chances and pushing personal and professional boundaries. As she gets closer to the truth, Claire must effectively become the charismatic "White Orchid" in order to solve the mysterious crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense
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The Confessions (2016)
Plot Summary:
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the monk to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè is found dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing