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Plot Summary:
Dinah St. Clair lives the charmed life as the daughter of a wealthy record producer. Enter Joe Dobson, a friend from Dinah's past that has mental problems. Joe's mother killed herself when he was young. Since then, he has been obsessed with death by falling. Joe breaks out of the mental ward he was in to meet Dinah. Unluckily, Dinah doesn't know about his past and lets him in. He holds her hostage, while the police and her father try to forge a plan to get her out of this sticky situation. Can Dinah be saved while she tries to save Joe?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Manipulator (1971)
Plot Summary:
An insane Hollywood makeup man kidnaps a woman, keeps her prisoner in his warehouse full of props.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, suspense, independent film, cult film
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Hostile Takeover (1988)
Plot Summary:
A man takes three co-workers hostage while working overtime on Thanksgiving weekend. He has no demands.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 81%
He's Out To Get You (2019)
Plot Summary:
Megan suffers a major tragedy when her son and husband are killed in a car crash. After four years in a mental health institution, she goes to stay with her brother in her hometown, to attempt to get her life back together. But once Megan arrives, her brother disappears. And now none of the townspeople remember him ever existing! Is Megan losing her mind, or is there something more nefarious at work here?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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HUSH LITTLE BABY (1994)
Plot Summary:
Eddie's baby girl, Susan, was taken from her arms when she was put into a mental hospital for attempted murder on her baby daughter! Thirty five years down the track Eddie is released and tracks her daughter down. She enters her daughters household and destroys her relationship with her adoptive parents. She is eventually found to be evil, in Susan's eyes and must face a harsh reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Lower Level (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young female architect is left stranded in an empty highrise while her secret "admirer" stalks her.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, independent film, cult film
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The Institute (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute. Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, retro
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969)
Plot Summary:
A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, mad
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Prisoner of Love (1999)
Plot Summary:
Supermodel Naomi Campbell sizzles in this suspense-charged erotic thriller that delves into the dark world of obsession, seduction and crime. When a small time hood makes a hit, beautiful Tracy becomes his unwitting witness... and the object of his desire! His boss orders her dead, but he realizes the only chance to save her life is to abduct her and go into hiding. But will his world close in? Or will she slowly succumb to his burning desire? The suspense will hold you captive.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Legal Deceit (1997)
Plot Summary:
Sydney Banks learns the hard way that being driven and educated is not the path to success. With the help of Todd Hunter her career takes off. Sydney gets pulled into corporate blackmail and murder. With the help of boyfriend Derek, she begins her own deception.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Captive (1991)
Plot Summary:
Paul and Kathy Plunk buy a small motel in a lonesome mountain region in Oregon. Their newfound tranquility is broken by a pair of guests who turn out to be wanted criminals on run from the police. They need money, so they assault the Plunks, force them to withdraw all their money from the bank. But the nightmare just begins as they take the Plunks and their baby with them as hostages.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Deadlines (2010)
Plot Summary:
Travis Levon (Rickey Bird) is forced to finish a novel from famous author, Simon Woodburn (Robin Steffen) after he suddenly dies, in order to meet a deadline. Gavin Stone (James MacPherson), his callous boss, reminds Travis of the importance of this finale to an epic saga of books. "The Deadlines" will be the highest grossing book in history with pre-sales, and Mr. Stone won't let a petty thing like death stop it from hitting shelves. Once Travis steps into the writer's seat in Woodburn's home, there is no turning back. As he types away at the computer, the twists and turns in the novel write themselves and come to life. Without warning, Travis and his girlfriend Kelly Hughes (Jenna Marie Bowers) are stuck in a world they have no escape from. Writing a way to survive will be harder than he thought. You might make it out of the house, but not out of the story.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Dangerous Isolation (2006)
Plot Summary:
A weekend vacation turns terrifying when computer scientist Samantha (Alexandra Paul) and her daughter are lured into the hands of a killer. Kidnapped and held hostage, Samantha is given a choice: she must use her expertise to help her captors carry out an unspeakable crime, or let her daughter die. Nothing is as it seems in this twisting thriller, where high-stakes and high-tech collide for an edge-of-your-seat movie experience that will keep you guessing until the very end!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, tense, captivating, suspense
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A Kiss Goodnight (1994)
Plot Summary:
Advertising exec Natalie engages in a passionate, but brief, love affair with a stranger named Kurt. When Natalie returns to her boyfriend, she finds that Kurt isn't so easily dismissed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Distant Cousins (1993)
Plot Summary:
Kate's husband Richard hasn't seen his cousin Harry for 20 years. So when he comes to stay with his fiancee Connie they are welcomed. But Kate senses her family is at risk when they start behaving suspiciously.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dynamite (2004)
Plot Summary:
A woman's life is turned upside down when three armed robbers invade her home.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Deadbolt (1992)
Plot Summary:
When medical student Marty places an ad for a roommate, her ad is answered by handsome, clean-cut Alec. At first Alec seems to be a wonderful roommate; supportive, considerate and a real friend. However, Alec's affection turns to obsession as he plots to manipulate and control all aspects of Marty's life, imprison her in her own apartment and make her his.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, dark, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic
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Nowhere in Sight (2001)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - Helen Slater, Christopher Heyerdahl, Andrew McCarthy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, independent film, tense
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Relentless (2018)
Plot Summary:
An American mother searches for her daughter who was kidnapped by human traffickers in Central America.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, El Salvador
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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You Belong to Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jeffrey has met the man of this dreams, hunky Frenchman René, he impulsively moves into the same building. The move backfires as Remé becomes cold and distant. Landlady Gladys lavishes attention on her new tenant.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? (1996)
Plot Summary:
Laurel has the boyfriend of her dreams, Kevin. He can and will do anything for her. He is totally devoted to her but the downside is that he won't leave her alone. When she tries to get some distance he responds with aggressiveness. It finally dawns on Laurel that he is not good for her. Laurel's mother Jessica has already started to suspect that something is wrong with his background.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tension, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, ridiculous, cult film
Similar in 85%
The Seduction (1982)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful newscaster is stalked and tormented by a photographer obsessed with her beauty.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, sexual, independent film, erotic
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Final Move (2006)
Plot Summary:
The LA police are baffled: someone is killing people who have been found innocent of violent crimes. At the crime scenes, DNA evidence and clues linked to chess point to a suspect who's dead, recently executed for murders with a similar M.O. The cops call on Dan Marlowe, an ex-cop with psychic gifts, in an asylum after the trauma of the initial investigation. His wife wants him to say no; her brother is his former partner, who leans on Dan to help. Dan's ex-lover, an FBI agent, is also on the case, and behind the scenes is Myron, Dan's chess partner at the asylum. The game turns more deadly when Dan and family become the target. Did the cops initially get the wrong man?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, fast, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Teenage Bank Heist (2012)
Plot Summary:
Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real time, ticking clock thriller, as the girls are on the run from the police, we learn that the real motivation behind the robbery is something unexpected.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, realistic
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The Cursed (2000)
Plot Summary:
A woman desperate to save her injured husband is taken hostage by an escaped mental patient.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, tense, bleak, realistic
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Held for Ransom (2000)
Plot Summary:
Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, scary, tense
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Broken Star (2018)
Plot Summary:
Abandoned by her friends and family and with her career in jeopardy, starlet Markey Marlowe is sequestered in a duplex with a reclusive landlord who just may be more dangerous than she is.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lethal Admirer (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Megan's fiancé is killed, she moves cross country and rebuilds her life with a new boyfriend and a closer relationship with her sister. Once she befriends one of her old colleagues, Lloyd, things take a turn for the worst. She realizes he will make her his- no matter the cost. Megan moves across the country to rebuild her life after a tragedy. When she runs into one of her former colleagues Lloyd, she is pleasantly surprised and the pair become close friends. When he wants more from her, he begins sabotaging everything in Megan's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Red Eye (2005)
Plot Summary:
After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, the Lux Atlantic Hotel manager Lisa is waiting for a flight to Miami. Due to the bad weather and consequent flight delay, she meets in the airport bar Jack Rippner, who is also in the waiting list. They sit together in the plane, and Jack reveals that he wants Lisa to change the room in Lux of an important American politician to facilitate a terrorist attempt against him. Otherwise, Lisa's father will be killed by a hit man. Lisa has to decide what to do with the menacing man at her side.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 133000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, psychological, tense, suspense, intense, psychological thriller, serious, realistic, scary
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Captors (2020)
Plot Summary:
Alys - a human trafficking victim who narrowly escaped her captors ten years ago - confronts her traumatic past when a relative leaves her his remote, snowbound mansion. Although the new house first presents the promise of a new chapter in her life, Alys is soon besieged by strange hallucinations and deadly adversaries and must fight to survive while keeping her sanity intact.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Blind Heat (2001)
Plot Summary:
An industrialist's wife is kidnapped and held for ransom.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic