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Plot Summary:
A Parisian couple decides to sell an unsanitary basement in their building. A very ordinary, nondescript man, Mr. Fonzic, shows up to buy it. Nothing unusual there, until the man moves into the cellar and makes it his permanent residence. The couple tries desperately to cancel the sale but to no avail. Worse, Mr. Fonzic becomes a threat to their family as he befriends their teenage daughter on whom he seems to exert a perverted influence.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Broken (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young female escapes her past and absconds to England in search of a new life. She takes a job caring for a tetraplegic, but burden of the job stirs up her past. It seems the limits of caring are not always as clear as they should be.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Deadly Delusion (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hoping for a fresh start, Julia moves to Los Angeles with her boyfriend. After settling into a fancy new home, it seems her demons have come back to haunt her when mysterious things begin to happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hana-Dama: Phantom (2016)
Plot Summary:
“Hana-Dama”—a flower in the wasteland. This flower is a symbol of earthly desires and every human is overwhelmed by desire and their rationality collapses wherever the flower is in bloom. And even today, the “Hana-Dama” continues to blossom profusely somewhere in the world. The story is set in a film theater, the facility keeps on closing one after another during recent years. The last day has come to a film theater which has been maintained by a film-loving owner, the staff, and their unique audiences. The symbol of human desire, “Hana-Dama,” blossoms at the theater and instigates people’s erratic behavior. Upon facing its closure, tremendous chaos that will be noted in the history of Japanese film takes place within this film theater.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Aurora Borealis: Northern Light (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Aurora Borealis is a story of family that is rich in twists and turns. It breaks the depths of the relationship between mother and daughter. A successful lawyer in Vienna, Olga is called back to Hungary when her old mother, Mary suddenly falls into a coma. While Mary is floating between life and death, Olga finds a deeply silent secret. The increasingly passionate research leads back to the post-war Europe of the '50s.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, motivational, thought provoking
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Elisa K (2010)
Plot Summary:
Eleven-year-old Elisa (Claudia Pons) lives with her father (Hans Richter) in Spain following the breakup of her parents. Elisa goes to a fair with her father, and meets one of his friends (Jordi Gracia), a successful jeweler. Days later, a change comes over Elisa -- her mother (Lydia Zimmermann) notices she seems distant and withdrawn, and her teacher (Pep Sais) watches as she grows disinterested in her studies and her grades drop dramatically. Fourteen years later, Elisa (now played by Aina Clotet) is a grown woman who suddenly and unexpectedly recalls the traumatic event changed her life when she was a girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Nocturnal Agony (2011)
Plot Summary:
A highly successful upper middle class woman with a loving family has her seemingly “perfect” world turned upside down when the hidden secrets from her past suddenly resurface, forcing her and her beloved mother into a painful examination of their lives, their relationship with one another, and their faith in God.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, christian film
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Break-Up Nightmare (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Barbara learns that nude photos of her daughter have been put up on a revenge porn site, she vows to get them taken down. But the site's administrator and his followers refuse, threatening Barbara's family in retaliation. Barbara doesn't back down, but in doing so, her and her daughter's lives are systematically destroyed both online and off.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Return (2003)
Plot Summary:
A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a different turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Vows of Deceit (2018)
Plot Summary:
When blushing bride Sara Ross ties the knot with her seemingly perfect, handsome newlywed husband Leo, she soon starts to suspect that not only is Leo a thief and a conman but also quite possibly a killer, and that she just might be the next bride up on his chopping block. Written by Jake Helgren.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Red Dress (2015)
Plot Summary:
Rainer and Patricia move to Malta to reinvigorate their marriage after the loss of their child.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Malta
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Amber Alert (2016)
Plot Summary:
A 20 year old man takes a bus full of young children hostage in exchange for money to help his sick mother. Meanwhile a detective must over come doubt from family and co-workers while she tries to negotiate with the hostage taker.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dying for the Crown (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Isabelle Wagner takes the plunge to attend her twenty-year high school reunion with her daughter, Sierra, she comes face to face with her past when she is reunited with her former classmate rival, Andrea Turner. When a seemingly changed Andrea insinuates herself into their lives, Isabelle's world comes crashing down and she soon realizes that twenty years hasn't changed Andrea after all.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Last Night in Rozzie (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a New York lawyer returns to his Boston hometown to reunite his dying friend with his young son, he is forced to finally confront a childhood trauma.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Early Release (2017)
Plot Summary:
Taylor Reynolds, a typical suburban mom, who made some bad life decisions and was sentenced to three years in jail for a DUI and possession of drugs. After her release, Taylor fights the stigma of her past misdeeds, works to regain the support of her daughter Bianca and husband Jeff, and once again become a contributing member of society. But just when Taylor's life is getting back on track, her former cellmate and career criminal, Meghan Flanagan, unexpectedly appears and invades Taylor's world. Meghan has a devious plan. She wants Taylor to come clean and confess the truth behind her early release. Taylor will stop at nothing to keep her family safe from Meghan, even if it means stepping back into the world she ultimately escaped.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Nights of a Shemale: A Mad Man Trilogy 1/3 (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ah Fat, a lonely man arrives in a strange country, escaping from his past and seeking salvation. Living in a constant state of psychological turmoil, redemption was never quite in reach. Making friends with Miumiu, a coworker who is a gogo girl and a male gigolo Pumpkin turns Ah Fat's life around; he finds a strange, unique sort of happiness in friendship that had evaded him for a long time. Then comes a turn of events that changes everything; Ah Fat will have to choose between saving his friends by killing the evil shop owner, and standing idly by. This is the final straw; Ah Fat is pushed to the brink, all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, queer cinema
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Home (2020)
Plot Summary:
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Netherlands, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Guilt (2022)
Plot Summary:
After being sexually assaulted by an acquainted and incapable of dealing with the situation, a woman leaves her whole life behind and hides herself away in an isolated cabin in the mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Savage Beauty (2022)
Plot Summary:
In Savage Beauty, Rosemary Zimu plays Zinhle - a first young woman with a tragic past who is determined to take revenge on the Bhengus family, who destroyed a lot of lives with their infernal vision. Don and Grace Bhengu once used street children to test a toxic beauty product. Many of those children do not have children, but one of the survivors has developed and particular vengeance. But she knows she has to play it smart to play the powerful family.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark
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Euphoria (2013)
Plot Summary:
Euphoria brings together two intersecting road stories about the same person - a little girl called Lily who is taken away from home by her mother Celeste, and a young woman, Michelle, who journeys home to unravel the truth about her mysterious past.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Man in Room 301 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Summer 2007, Finland. While the Kurtti are spending their annual holidays in their cabins in the land of a thousand lakes, the family is struck by a tragedy: Tommi, 2 years old, is killed by a gunshot. Elias, a 12-year-old neighbour, is blamed for the death of the child. 12 years later, the family receives a threatening anonymous letter and the secrets start to unravel, and show how far each of them are willing to go for their loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Miss Baek (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman's past as a convict follows her everywhere and because of this she doesn't open up to others. But then she strikes up a friendship with a broken child who has suffered from domestic violence and decides to save the girl from the cruel world. A man who holds feelings for the woman, tries to protect her in his own way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Collection (2021)
Plot Summary:
A grieving father grapples with the seedy, manipulative world of high stakes debt collection while struggling to shed the tragedies of his past. He find's himself pitted against his best friend with troubling consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crime thriller
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Next-Door Nightmare (2021)
Plot Summary:
When young couple Sarah and Kyle move next door to Helen, a charismatic older woman, they have no idea she's a deeply disturbed psychopath who will stop at nothing to become Sarah's surrogate mother, and grandmother to the child she is expecting. Julia Borsellino, Mark Taylor, Deborah Grover, Marium Carvell star. (2021).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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American Bully (2009)
Plot Summary:
A middle-American teenage boy who is affected by 9/11, terrorism, and the war in Iraq becomes involved in an isolated high school altercation that escalates into a hate crime that shocks the entire nation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Midwife's Deception (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jina, a midwife, is a dream come true for seven-month pregnant Sara until secrets unfold and Jina may want more than only delivering the baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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The Wrong Crush (2017)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl must try to keep her past life of killing her best friend a secret from a guy who likes her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Echoes of Violence (2021)
Plot Summary:
An immigrant travels from Sedona to Los Angeles to seek revenge against the immigration lawyer who ruined her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dying for a Baby (2019)
Plot Summary:
Amber and Kyle are ready to move on after a car accident two years ago. But their world turns upside down when Jessica, the other driver who lost her unborn baby in the accident, moves in next door and gets a job with Amber's doctor -- all in a plan to seek a cold form of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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My Daughter's Disgrace (2016)
Plot Summary:
A high school senior’s life is turned upside down when photos of her naked body are distributed to a revenge porn website. Frustrated by police inaction, her mother takes the investigation into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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Reaching Distance (2018)
Plot Summary:
Logan, a cynic with a photographic memory, follows his sister's killer onto a night-rider bus. As the line between past and present begins to blur on the journey, Logan uncovers he has a complex past with much more than one passenger.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing