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Plot Summary:
A young woman takes in her estranged father after he suffers a stroke, but his home-care nurse's attentive dedication may be masking a dark and dangerous secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, erotic
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Grandma Dearest (2020)
Plot Summary:
Barbara wants nothing more than to be a grandmother. When her son, Ethan, meets Kendall, a divorced mother of two, Barbara quickly becomes an ever-present force in their lives. Unannounced visits escalate to murder, and Barbara will do anything to protect her relationship with her grandchildren. With her life in danger, Kendall must outsmart her mother-in-law to save her children and expose Barbara for who she really is… before it’s too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Shattered (2017)
Plot Summary:
Shattered is a story based on true events about family betrayal, love lost, and a dark destructive secret that swirls around a high powered political family in the Deep South. Kate Stenson dreams of an enviable life as the quintessential Southern Belle. She marries Ken Burnett, the son of the town's powerful Mayor - a controlling father who will do anything to protect his position. Kate has two children with Ken - a biological daughter, and an adopted son, named Logan (Tate Birchmore). But Kate's seemingly perfect lifestyle begins to fray at the edges as she discovers that Logan suffers from severe mental health issues. Kate's journey to uncover the true story of Logan's past reveals a dark secret that can destroy the entire Burnett legacy. As Kate investigates - with the aid of a new friend - to unmask the history behind Logan's illness, these unimaginable family secrets surface, putting her in unforeseen danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Fatal Following (2021)
Plot Summary:
Heather discovers her daughter, who was presumed dead, has actually joined a sinister cult.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, twist ending
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Killing Your Daughter (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a DNA test helps Candace connect with her birth parents, she realizes some family histories are better left untold.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Marriage of Lies (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Rachel’s husband disappears, the police have one suspect: her. While trying to prove her innocence, she uncovers many secrets about the man she married.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark
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One Small Indiscretion (2017)
Plot Summary:
Years ago, heartbroken and officially separated from her husband, Caroline briefly turned to the arms of another man. It was only one small indiscretion - a brief affair, forgotten after she and her husband reunited. But beautiful Elle, daughter of Caroline's lover, hasn't forgotten. She rents a guesthouse from Caroline, her husband, and teenage son with one purpose: to destroy their lives the way Elle thinks Caroline destroyed hers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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A Mother Betrayed (2015)
Plot Summary:
Newlywed Monica is committed to a mental hospital for hallucinations, but soon finds out that her husband has a devious plan to steal her life, including her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Chehere: A Modern Day Classic (2015)
Plot Summary:
Chehere is a period drama set in the 1950s that revolves around the life of a retired silent era actor. The actress in the film has a bitter relationship with her sister, a poetess. It revolves around clash of ideas and perspectives and an ensuing mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, 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 Boathouse (2021)
Plot Summary:
When an emotionally-fragile young woman takes a job as nanny to two troubled children at a remote summer cottage, she falls in love with the children's father, while becoming enmeshed in the mystery of their estranged mother - with whom, it turns out, the young woman has her own fraught history. As the summer progresses, she begins to suspect that the family has a dark history that they are desperate to keep secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Mommy Be Mine (2018)
Plot Summary:
A psycho killer teenage girl will stop at nothing to replace her dead mother's love.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Psycho Granny (2019)
Plot Summary:
After Samantha's mother passes away, her spirits are lifted with the sudden appearance of her long lost Grandmother, Colleen. All is well until Colleen's dark past reveals itself and Sam is forced to fight for her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, psychotronic
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The Wrong Son (2018)
Plot Summary:
Thirteen years after disappearing and presumed drowned, Matt returns home to his mother Sarah. Suspicions grow when her older son Ian is injured in a car accident similar to the one that recently killed his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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A Daughter's Plan to Kill (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Katie and Greg Carlyle invited Greg's estranged daughter to live with them, they had no idea that they would be inviting jealousy, violence, and deceit into their home to wreak havoc on their perfect life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Time Is a Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1994, at the age of sixteen, Clotilde Idrissi suffered a road accident. Clotilde is the only survivor, unlike her brother Nicolas and his parents, who died instantly. Twenty-five years later, she returns to the scene of the tragedy with her husband and daughter. But strange incidents occur until a letter sent by his mother is received by Clotilde, when she thought she was dead. Therefore, she decided to find out what really happened during the accident and find out the truth and if her mother is alive 4.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, 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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Hostile Border (2015)
Plot Summary:
When she’s deported to México, Claudia must choose between reconciling with her estranged father or partnering with a dangerous smuggler to return to the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Unbridled (2018)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to keep her husband’s secret, a devoted politician’s wife struggles to stave off threats that could ruin their promising new life.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Home Is Where the Killer Is (2019)
Plot Summary:
What if Dee Dee Blanchard was a rich lady doctor who preyed on her roommates and also loved to watch Downton Abbey?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, sinister, creepy
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The Captive Nanny (2020)
Plot Summary:
Chloe (Karynn Moore) is a nanny who desperately wants to adopt but needs to get her life together first. She finds the perfect live-in nanny position with the Brown family - Emily (Austin Highsmith), Michael (Michael Aaron Milligan) and their son - that will help get her life back on track. She quickly learns they're oddly strict about security, with coded locks on all doors. Emily explains it's due to her famous musician ex named Baz (Jason Skeen), who stalks her. Horrified, Chloe agrees to help Emily and Michael keep their son safe. But when Chloe notices things seem a bit off with the Browns, Emily and Michael turn on Chloe and accuse her of being a spy for Baz. They lock her up to force a false confession out of her, but Chloe soon learns that it's not Baz that's making bad things happen - it's Emily, who is determined to win back Baz by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, 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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Dark Harbor (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dark Harbor tells the story of Olivia, a young mother on the verge of childbirth who finds her future threatened by a hidden darkness from her family's past.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Twin Betrayal (2018)
Plot Summary:
A struggling single mother, in the midst of a fierce custody battle, is framed for the murder of her wealthy father by her ambitious identical twin.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Au Pair Nightmare (2020)
Plot Summary:
Trying to escape the pain from the death of her fiancé, a woman becomes an au pair in a house where she learns the family is hiding a mysterious secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Deadly Shores (2018)
Plot Summary:
This gripping thriller follows Anna who moves to a remote island as the new bride of a famous mystery writer. Once there, she uncovers secrets about her new husband's dead former wife and fears she may be the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 78%
Hidden Truth (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a teenage girl is found murdered in a California town, a young woman is forced to prove her brother is innocent of the crime, discovering a disturbing dark side to the community.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 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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Murder In-Law (2019)
Plot Summary:
Claire has always loved her son Jim and her granddaughter Sydney, but struggles to connect with her daughter-in-law, Allison. When Allison announces a big job promotion that will relocate them far away, Claire's motherly instincts are pushed to an unsettling level where she will scheme, lie and even murder to keep her son and granddaughter from moving away.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Strangler's Wife (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mae thought she had the perfect husband. Until she found out about his other women. But now she suspects an even more horrible truth. He isn't cheating with these other women... he's killing them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Cyber Case (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman uses geotagged pictures to help rescue her kidnapped brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing