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Plot Summary:
On a remote island off the coast of Maine, Liv, after years of silence, begins to weave a language out of Shakespeare's words. A driven neurologist, brought to the island to protect her, commits her to a psychiatric hospital. She becomes a full-blow rebel in the hospital; her increasing violence threatens to keep her locked up for life as she fights for her voice and her freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
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The Mentor (2014)
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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Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of her mother, a young woman returns home to Niagara Falls and becomes entangled in the memory of a kidnapping she claims to have witnessed as a child.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, surprise ending, bleak, suspense, intellectual, neo noir, cult classic, twisted, weird
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An Imperfect Murder (2017)
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Successful actress Vera Lockman thrashes during a nightmare in which she struggles with, shoots and kills her drug-dealer ex-boyfriend. Jolted awake, she reveals in her journal that the killing actually occurred the day before and that Sal, dead, lies in a trunk in her living room.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
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Elizabeth Blue (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, is coping with ongoing episodes of schizophrenia.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Other Side of the Underneath (1972)
Plot Summary:
A surreal look at the schizophrenia of a group of girls in a therapy session.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, weird, cult film
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The Audience (1972)
Plot Summary:
Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: grotesque
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Yellow (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young substitute teacher escapes from her drudging everyday life by fantasizing about bizarre parallel realities.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, stylized, psychological, offbeat
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The Girl on a Bulldozer (2022)
Plot Summary:
Haeyoung is a hopeless girl. She lives with her father who runs a Chinese restaurant, and a younger sibling. One day, her father has a mysterious accident, which places her in a position of responsibility. She is now not only the head of the house and must look after her younger sibling, but also an investigator tasked with finding the truth about the accident, and a fighter standing against the ugly world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Conjuring: The Beyond (2022)
Plot Summary:
A sleep study goes awry when participants start to go missing.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Murder Without Conviction (2004)
Plot Summary:
Recently released from her vows as a nun, Christine Bennett is discovering "life on the outside." After a visit to her mentally-handicapped cousin Gene, Christine becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder mystery surrounding James and Edward Talley, twin savant brothers accused of killing their mother on Good Friday.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, gloomy
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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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Room (2005)
Plot Summary:
Julia Barker, an over-worked, middle-aged Texas woman is haunted by psychic visions which drive her to New York in search of the Room.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, contemplative, enigmatic, captivating, ambiguous ending, experimental, gloomy, crying
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A Gentle Creature (2017)
Plot Summary:
Loosely inspired by Dostoyevsky’s short story A Gentle Creature about a woman who travels to a prison in a remote region to track down her incarcerated husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, art house, weird
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The Stratosphere Girl (2004)
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In this imaginative independent drama, Angela (Chloé Winkel) is a French art student living in Germany who loves to draw comics and creates elaborate tales drawn in a soft and romantic style. One night, Angela meets Yamamoto (Jon Yang), a club DJ from Japan, who invites her to come to Tokyo with him. Infatuated with Yamamoto, Angela impulsively agrees, and is soon sharing an apartment with a handful of Western expatriates who work at a nightclub where Japanese businessmen drink, sing karaoke, and date the "hostesses" for a fee.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany, Switzerland, UK, Italy, Netherlands
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, atmospheric, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, contemplative
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The Book of Vision (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eva, a mysterious doctor, searches for an answer to her urgent dilemma as she unravels Dr. Anmuth's Book of Vision. Henry gets involved in her life and is forced to confront his own nature, as Eva faces the biggest decision of her life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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All My Puny Sorrows (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is a world-famous concert pianist.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Violet (2021)
Plot Summary:
Violet realizes that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, art film
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Eileen (2023)
Plot Summary:
In 1960s Massachusetts, an unhappy prison secretary is beguiled by a new co-worker who pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, period piece, interesting
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The Uncle (2018)
Plot Summary:
The life of Ipse, a 19-year-old girl who cannot get out of her own bed due to psychological trauma, is as motionless as a plant. Having no family and no clue of her family's mysterious history, she lives completely dependent on her neighbors, but starts to feel suffocated under the abuse and the looks she gets as if she was something to be eaten up. One day, in the midst of her hellish everyday life, a stranger comes to her house.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Ash Wednesday (1973)
Plot Summary:
Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark, and begins getting attention from young men. Her daughter tries to warn her that even though she has had the surgery it might be too late for her marriage, but she clings to the hope that Mark will come back once he sees her new look. Meanwhile, she must decide whether or not have an affair with a young man she's met.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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The Rapture (1991)
Plot Summary:
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God — only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, psychological, biblical, philosophical, stylized, talky, thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)
Plot Summary:
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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American Woman (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, social, detective
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Equus (1977)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, surreal, sexual, talky, controversial, tricky
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The Gabby Petito Story (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows Gabby's tragic murder. Centering in her complicated relationship with her fiancé Brian Laundrie and what may have gone wrong during their cross-country trip. The disappearance of Gabby Petito captured America’s attention, setting off a nationwide search for the 22-year-old travel blogger after her parents reported her missing in September 2021, when she failed to return home following her cross country “van-life” trip with her fiancé Brian Laundrie. Non-stop coverage on the news drove amateur sleuths to dissect Gabby’s social media posts for clues about what happened to her during her trip, leading to the eventual discovery of her body in Wyoming. As the one-year anniversary of her tragic death approaches, the movie will bring to life Gabby and Brian’s doomed love story, including the warning signs that Gabby’s life was in danger, the ensuing search for her, the eventual discovery of her murder and ultimately, Brian’s suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Shock Corridor (1963)
Plot Summary:
Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself recognition. With the assistance of a psychiatrist and his girlfriend, Barrett convinces the doctors at the institution to commit him. Once inside, he begins his investigation -- and gradually loses his mind.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, psychological, bleak, atmospheric, surreal, harsh, grindhouse
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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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White Orchid (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shy and reserved, Claire Decker, 30ish, is a part-time investigator for Social Services. Typically, she solves cases where senior citizens have died alone, leaving no indication of who must handle their estate. This time however, Claire is reluctantly drawn into a puzzling murder case. The local police have been unable to solve the horrific crime, or even decipher the victim's true identity. A beautiful and enigmatic young blond, known only as "The White Orchid," has been brutally murdered. As Claire is drawn deeper and more intimately into the dead woman's life, she finds herself taking dangerous chances and pushing personal and professional boundaries. As she gets closer to the truth, Claire must effectively become the charismatic "White Orchid" in order to solve the mysterious crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense
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Proof (2005)
Plot Summary:
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father’s mental illness along with his mathematical genius. When Robert’s work reveals a mathematical proof of potentially historic proportions, it sets off shock waves in more ways than one.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, inspirational, clever, intellectual, enigmatic, serious, heartbreaking, realistic, depressing