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Plot Summary:
When a strange door appears in a troubled family's house, they will have to face their darkest secrets.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tension
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The Room (2012)
Plot Summary:
Yumi moves into her boyfriend's Tokyo apartment but on the night of the move, he is called away for business in New York. The couple communicates over Skype and over the course of four nights, their relationship descends into an abyss of mistrust and lies. Yumi believes there's a ghost in the room haunting her as her only connection to the outside world is Taka on the other side of the world. Taka believes she's slowly going crazy right in front of his eyes. The story concludes with a shocking twist that will haunt both of them forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, psychotronic, tension, psychological horror
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Last Floor (2013)
Plot Summary:
When an army captain discovers a dark secret about his unit, he's soon fired. Jobless and depressed, having strong nationalist and homophobic views, he can see enemies all around him. To protect his family from the evil of the outside world, he decides to get rid of the TV set, keep the children away from school and shut all the doors to their apartment on the last floor of a tall building.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, psychological, tense, thought provoking, captivating
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The Scent of Blood (2004)
Plot Summary:
A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia are married for twenty years. But they wearily live their relationship separately; while she lives in their original flat in Rome, he lives with a young lover, Lù from time to time in his house in the country while writing a book. He does not keep his relationship hidden from his wife and even accepts that Silvia may have lovers, among them in particular a young and violent neo-fascist. But this relationship rekindles Carlo's jealousy and he becomes obsessed by knowing everything about her affairs and jealousy makes him blind. The film navigates between eroticism, decadence and perversion, in an obscure game with no wins or winners.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, psychosexual thriller, erotic drama, psycho sexual
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Can't Live Without You (2022)
Plot Summary:
A gay gym teacher wants to be a father and when his boyfriend's sister, a former addict, comes back on the scene there is now a possible solution.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Backwaters (2006)
Plot Summary:
A paralyzed woman goes missing after she and her husband travel to India for specialized medical attention.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing, scary, tense, sentimental, suspense, suspenseful, erotic
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Lucky Bastard (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lucky Bastard is a "found footage" thriller about a porn website run by Mike (Don McManus) that invites fans to have sex with porn stars. Jay Paulson plays Dave, an eager young fan given a chance to have sex with the fabulous Ashley Saint (Betsy Rue). But everyone gets more than they bargained for in the seemingly mild-mannered Dave... with gruesome results. The film is captured by the "Lucky Bastard" porn cameras for a fresh take on the "found footage" genre.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, sexy, mockumentary, crying, hot
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Demented (1980)
Plot Summary:
A woman is gang-raped in a horse's stable, and even though the rapists are caught and imprisoned, she is harassed many moons later by ghastly visions of her tormentors, while her husband philanders and every little thing frightens her out of her wits.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, grindhouse, crying, independent film
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The Harvest (2013)
Plot Summary:
Maryann moves in with her grandparents after she's orphaned. Desperately lonely, she sets out to befriend a neighboring deathly ill, bed-ridden boy, despite the outright disapproval of his mother. Maryann's persistence pays off, however, and during a series of secret visits she gradually uncovers some seriously sinister goings-on in the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, scary, cult classic, teen, disgusting
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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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Darkness Falls (2020)
Plot Summary:
After his wife's suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson becomes convinced that she has been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, he finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers and sets out to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, USA, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspenseful, scary
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Some Beasts (2019)
Plot Summary:
A family travels to a remote island in southern Chile. During the trip they try to convince the grandparents to support them financially to build a hotel in the place. Nicolás, the man who crossed them disappears, leaving the family trapped on the island, the smiles begin to disappear. With cold, without water and without certainties, tempers are diluted, exposing the tensions that each member of the family hides.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Her Name Is Carla (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, realistic, crying
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The Shift (2020)
Plot Summary:
An Islamic terror attack at a school in Brussels.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social
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A Bluebird in My Heart (2018)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con's attempts to live a quiet life are derailed when the daughter of the woman sheltering him is the victim of a vicious attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, touching, suspense
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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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The Perfect Neighbor (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Kansas City, the deranged middle-age Donna Germaine stabs and kills her lover, when he calls off their relationship to stay with his wife. Donna uses an excuse to move to the house of her aunt, and she becomes obsessed in their neighbor, the executive William Costigan. The sick Donna plots an evil scheme to take William from his wife Jeannie Costigan.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, sexy, complex
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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
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Two Summers (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends get together thirty years after one of the group members died in a tragic accident while they were on holiday. What was supposed to be a relaxing vacation changes rapidly into a nightmare, when some of the friends are blackmailed with footage from that terrible week three decades ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Pack (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the dead of the night, in the heart of a forest: a car. Inside, inhaling carbon monoxide, a man awakens. He finds himself surrounded by three other men, apparently dead. It's the image of a perfect collective suicide. But they're all in chains. He struggles desperately until he manages to turn off the engine. Little by little, his mysterious companions come to their senses. They don't know one another and nobody understands how they got there. They try to piece it all together, their last memories, the previous hours. And soon enough, conflict and mistrust rise to the surface. Nothing is as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Windcroft (2007)
Plot Summary:
On a remote farm in the sweeping hills of Pennsylvania, three lives are torn apart by love, abandonment, deception and murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The Girl on the Mountain (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a reclusive backwoodsman finds a mute little girl wandering alone in the forest, he must protect her from the evil forces determined to end her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Eden (2014)
Plot Summary:
After their plane crashes off the coast of a deserted Pacific island, the surviving members of an American soccer team find themselves in the most dire of circumstances with limited resources, dwindling food supply and no rescue coming any time soon. Team spirit evaporates as disagreements cause the group to separate into factions - a violent one lead by an unbalanced ruler, and a compassionate one led by a selfless player.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Malaysia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, exciting
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The Last Son (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sam Worthington stars as Isaac LeMay, a murderous outlaw who learns he is cursed by a prophecy: one of his children will kill him. To prevent this, he hunts down each of his estranged children including long-lost son Cal (Colson Baker). With bounty hunters and Sheriff Solomon (Thomas Jane) on his tail, LeMay must find a way to stop his children and end the curse.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Best Friends (2005)
Plot Summary:
Beth Ferrier is happy in her life - fulfilled as a wife and mother, living in a beautiful home in a safe and tranquil neighborhood. Claudia Hartnell lives across the street and seems to be the perfect best friend - kind, compassionate, and a good listener. Nobody would ever guess that behind Claudia's charming facade lies an insatiable desire to live an idealized life. Nobody would suspect that her relentless childhood obsession is about to turn to murderous rage. Claudia wants everything that Beth holds dear and will use any means necessary to take it all away from her best friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Cradle of Lies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Following a whirlwind romance, a woman begins to unravel the dark secrets of her husband's past when his obsession to produce a male heir turns deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Samuel Bleak (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, bleak, realistic, suspenseful
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The Method (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Madrid seven candidates report for a job interview that uses "the Grönholm method" of selection, as protestors rise up in public protest in the street over the IMF-World Bank Summit attempting globalisation of workers' unions.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, mind bending, clever, suspense, surreal
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Coffin Rock (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying, makes the drunken mistake of sleeping with a young stranger. The stranger then goes to terrifying lengths to prove his paternity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, psychological, captivating, slasher, disturbing, psychological horror, scary, realistic
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The Quietude (2018)
Plot Summary:
Against the backdrop of a military dictatorship, Eugenia is reunited with her estranged family following her father’s stroke and is forced to confront dark secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, erotic
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The Elevator: Three Minutes Can Change Your Life (2015)
Plot Summary:
A disturbing psychological thriller, that engages the audience to the point that it is always caught off guard, thus changing the point of view of the two main performers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller