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Plot Summary:
Elizabeth June tries to put the loss of her eight-year-old daughter behind her by going back to teaching. Under the stress of the tragedy her husband Brian has moved out while Elizabeth is desperate to save her marriage and return to a life of normalcy. In her new job she is assigned a mentor, Paul Allenham, who is hiding a deep dark violent past. Paul has an immediate and unsettling attraction to Elizabeth; he will do anything to secure her love. Jes Macallan, Aaron Douglas, and Nic Bishop star.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, unusual plot structure
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A Sister's Nightmare (2013)
Plot Summary:
Police officer Jane Rydert's life goes into a tailspin the day her older sister, Cassidy, shows up at her door after sixteen years of confinement in a psychiatric hospital.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, captivating, contemplative, dark, entertaining
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Deadly Honeymoon (2010)
Plot Summary:
Handsome silver spoon Texan Trevor Forrest can't always control his tendencies to flirt and gamble, even on honeymoon cruise to Tahiti with Lindsey Ross Forrest, which may compromise their business ambitions. The ship captain asks FBI agent Gwen Merced, on cruise, to investigate discretely when Trevor goes missing, probably fallen or pushed overboard as blood traces are found. It's unclear whether the Hungarian business trio Luka, Max and Ben are innocent flirtatious gamblers like Trevor or criminals, but others have hidden agendas too.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 973
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, surprise ending
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Nightmare Nurse (2016)
Plot Summary:
After Brooke and her boyfriend Lance have a car accident, Lance’s leg injury requires him to be bedridden with at-home care. When an attractive nurse, Chloe, is recommended to them, she seems perfect for the task. However, when her troubled past comes to light, it becomes apparent to the happy couple that someone is out to destroy their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychotronic, tense, suspenseful, sexy, medical horror
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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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Wasteland (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Hana Sikorova, mayor of a northern Bohemian village, stands up to a large coal mining concern that offers villagers large compensation in exchange for abandoning their houses built on land containing brown coal deposits, her fourteen year old daughter Misha disappears. The search for her daughter makes Hana suspicious of the whole community, after years of peaceful coexistence. Under the pressure of unfolding events, the community starts to fall apart and show its true face. Solving the mystery divides the story into several interweaving narratives that ultimately connect in unexpected ways.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, detective, poliziottesco, interesting
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Biology 101 (2013)
Plot Summary:
A College professor finds his life unraveling when a new student joins his class, a student who may or may not be the very subject of his darkest secret. His obsession could kill him and his family.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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After (2014)
Plot Summary:
A haunting and powerful psychological thriller. Set in icy upstate New York in the winter of 2002, "After" is about the Valentinos, a middle class clan facing financial hardship--their family stone cutting business is slowly failing--and coping with the usual rivalries and resentments that affect all but their absent daughter, Samantha, who has recently escaped Rochester for a new life in lower Manhattan. At their center is matriarch Nora (Quinlan), whose cheerful exterior masks an emotional fragility of which the entire family is painfully aware and fiercely protective. But, their delicate balance is threatened by a carefully concealed secret that, once revealed, will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, sentimental, captivating, independent film, tense, serious, gloomy, crying
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Three Bedrooms, One Corpse: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2016)
Plot Summary:
While Aurora "Roe" Teagarden searches for her piece of the American dream, she decides to test the waters of the family business - real estate sales. Only thing is there's a dead body in the first house she shows. When a second body shows up in another home, Roe realizes there's more to real estate than she thought.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, psychological
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Golden Exits (2017)
Plot Summary:
An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, art house, independent film
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Out of Blue (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Detective Mike Hoolihan is called to investigate the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert, Jennifer Rockwell, she is affected in ways she struggles to comprehend.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, powerful
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The Bachelor Next Door (2017)
Plot Summary:
A newly engaged couple becomes intrigued by the young stranger who moves in next door. He's handsome, friendly and very helpful, but he's no stranger.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Nightlife (2016)
Plot Summary:
The lives of a wealthy married couple radically change in an instant. While the husband is in critical condition after an accident that occurred under strange circumstances, the wife tries to understand the situation and to salvage what she can… In this constricted, small-scale drama by a renowned Slovenian filmmaker, Pia Zemljič excels in the role of the resourceful wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, exciting, tense, rough, suspense, tragic
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McBride: The Doctor is Out...Really Out (2005)
Plot Summary:
In this particular episode, McBride's client is double-crossed during a custody case by his psychiatrist. The client later confesses to McBride that he believes he accidentally shot the doctor when he confronted him in his home. When McBride goes to the murder scene, the doctor is, as the title says, out - as in gone! A search for the body begins, with time of the essence. David Bowe has a nice comic turn as the panicked client. Former child star Sydney Penny plays one of the suspects, and she has grown up to be a very beautiful young woman. Soap star John Ingle is the confused head of the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspense, realistic
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Poppy Shakespeare (2008)
Plot Summary:
N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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We Don't Belong Here (2017)
Plot Summary:
A matriarch of a dysfunctional family is pushed to her tipping point by the disappearance of her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Stolen (2009)
Plot Summary:
A detective becomes obsessed with solving a child's 50-year-old murder, uncovering striking similarities between the case and his son's disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy, detective, extraordinary
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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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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
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Abandoned (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify... as the house reveals secrets of its own.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological horror
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Bordertown: The Mural Murders (2021)
Plot Summary:
A mural painted with blood is found on the wall of Pasila train station, which depicts Finland's best-known serial killer Lasse Maasalo. The text in the mural, “Making the world a better place”, is linked to a voting circulating in social media, where people can vote for persons that world would be a better place without. Soon the first body is found and Sorjonen must find the person who has named himself as The Judge.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Betrayed by Lies (2018)
Plot Summary:
A married woman discovers her husband is living a double life in Paris, jeopardizing not only her marriage but her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Innocent (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bill Pullman (Independence Day, Torchwood) stars as Rusty Sabich, a judge charged with the murder of his wife, a situation that comes 20 years after he was cleared in the death of his mistress. During this latest trial, a secret affair from Rusty's recent past threatens to hamper his defense and fracture his relationship with his son. Oscar® winner Marcia Gay Harden (Pollack, Damages) plays Rusty's wife, while Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2, Law & Order: LA) is his friend and defense attorney. Scott Turow's Innocent is a sequel to Turow's bestseller Presumed Innocent. The movie is written and directed by Mike Robe.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Of Two Minds (2012)
Plot Summary:
Follows the story of the challenging relationship between Billie and her younger schizophrenic sister, Elizabeth Baby. After their mother dies, Billie takes responsibility by moving Baby in with her family, including her husband, their teenage son and young daughter. At first, Baby and the family work to adjust to their new living arrangement. However, after a disturbing incident involving her son and Baby, it becomes clear to Billie that she and her family are not equipped to handle Baby's illness, ultimately forcing her to make the difficult decision to do what's best for her sister and her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating
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Winter's Bone (2010)
Plot Summary:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: depressing, atmospheric, harsh, bleak, disturbing, tense, gloomy, serious, neo noir, independent film
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Deceived (1991)
Plot Summary:
A marriage that seemed perfect comes crashing down after the supposed death of Jack Saunders, husband of Adrienne Saunders. After his supposed death, strange developments begin to be discovered by Adrienne regarding Jack's past. Developments that lead her to believe she has been Deceived.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, spectacular, twisted, crying, psychological, tense, bleak
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Blink (1993)
Plot Summary:
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, suspense, neo noir, enigmatic, erotic, psychological thriller, gloomy
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The Woman in the Window (2021)
Plot Summary:
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, dark, disturbing, thrilling, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, confusing
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Side Effects (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 196000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, tricky, captivating, clever, serious, tense, psychological thriller, twist ending
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Hunger Point (2003)
Plot Summary:
Meet the Hunters your typical all-American family: two committed parents and two lovely daughters. However, looks can be deceiving because this family is plagued by the nit-picking comments of an overzealous mother determined to keep her daughters thin. The results of this mother's tyranny is unimaginable. This movie really captures the dangers of eating disorders like no other. Based on the best-selling book of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Phoebe in Wonderland (2008)
Plot Summary:
The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher, even as her brilliant but anguished mother looks to Phoebe herself for inspiration.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, emotional, sincere, sad, uplifting, thought provoking, depressing, spiritual, atmospheric