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Plot Summary:
When a law student uncovers chilling secrets and places her life at risk, a bitter, rough-around-the-edges detective gets assigned to her case.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Under Surveillance (2006)
Plot Summary:
After 10 years, Justin Besler moves back to his father's house. But it's not as he remembered. His father's house has been renovated to support four apartments with seven residents. And among them... resides a killer. When the victim of a ritualistic cult turns up on his property, Justin secretly places the tenants under video surveillance. The deeper he digs, the more he puts his own life in danger. It's an ever bending mystery-thriller with an ending to die for!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Midnight Sonder (2016)
Plot Summary:
A student with blood complications believes that his medication is the cause of his recent hallucinations. Desperate to find out what they mean, he collides with and injures an innocent woman, sparking her son to pursue the identity of the man responsible for his Mother's injury.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film
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No Place to Hide (1981)
Plot Summary:
Amy is the Mannings only daughter. After the death of her rich father, she lives together with her stepmother. Recently she sees a man in black following her, waiting for her in her car, wanting to kill her. The police can't help her. But who is this man in black? Is it the strange young man whom she recently dated? Or the psychologist her mother told her to visit? Or is she really insane...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher
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My Lonely Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
I am aged 7, I fear for my life. I run to a convent door. Cry for my Mother and Father. But they are no more... Now I am 21, locked in a swirling mist. Music is the only key that will unlock. My Lonely Me.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Drama, Musical, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Citation (2020)
Plot Summary:
A bright student in Nigeria takes on the academic establishment when she reports a popular professor who tried to rape her. Based on real events.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags:
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Heart Beats (2021)
Plot Summary:
When Tsukasa was a middle school student, she had a crush on transfer student Hayato and even confessed her feelings to him. She was turned down by Hayato. Now, Tsukasa and Hayato are classmates in high school. Hayato treats Tsukasa as just a friend, but Tsukasa still has feelings for him. Meanwhile, Hayato becomes attracted to Tsukasa.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Twisted Twin (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tess loves her mom Patricia and the horse ranch she was raised on, but she’s ready for the next chapter. Attending her college orientation weekend, she gets the surprise of a lifetime when she’s approached by Sammy Crain, who happens to be her identical twin sister! After learning the story of how they were separated at birth, Tess is excited to connect with Sammy, but when Sammy’s adoptive parents turn up dead and Tess is mistaken for her sister, she realizes she’s been duped by her twin as part of Sammy’s devious plan to steal Tess’s identity, take the family fortune and get away with murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Master (2022)
Plot Summary:
At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, two black women strive to find their place. Navigating politics and privilege, they encounter increasingly terrifying manifestations of the school's haunted past… and present.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, spooky, independent film, black cinema
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Photocopier (2021)
Plot Summary:
When photos of her at a party cause her to lose a scholarship, a student investigates whether something devastating happened to her that night.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark, cult film
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The Vanishing Point (2007)
Plot Summary:
Lucie Audibert, a student of Art History, does research work on Watteau and is certain that a hidden sense that nobody has ever deciphered can be found in a few of his paintings. The further she explores this the more Professor Jean Dussart - for unclear reasons - tries to discourage her.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, mind bending, realistic, contemplative, sexual, sexy
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Mystification (2010)
Plot Summary:
An expelled university student investigates the suicide of Witkacy and tries to prove that the famous artist is still alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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Damaged (2014)
Plot Summary:
An English teacher's life turns upside-down once a new student moves in across the street.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Intoxicating (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dorian Shanley, is a heart surgeon who abuses alcohol and drugs. Dorian trades stolen pharmaceuticals for cocaine , provided by his best friend and enabler, Teddy. While Dorian's life and career take a nosedive, Shanley numbs the pain of losing his father, William Shanley, to a form of Alzheimer's common in prizefighters. To further complicate circumstances, Dorian falls in love with his girlfriend's best friend from college, Anna. The film follows Shanley through a maze of pharmacies, clubs and binges and surgeries, into the heart of drug abuse.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, bleak, serious, sincere, biting, suspense
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Exposed (2017)
Plot Summary:
Annie has a plan for her 300k student loans: become a porn star.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Secret Campus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Modern students experience considerable stress during their school years; there is a strong focus on positive presentation and personality, as well as achieving good grades and encouraging athleticism. These demands are made without considering each student's individuality and strengths. This school-centered drama discusses the central theme outlined above and depicts the lives and relationships of six high school students— Moon Seung-jae, Oh Soo-ah, Park Doo-hyun, Cha Ah-rang, Yoon Se-in, Seo Jin-woo — each of whom has different dreams and goals which they struggle to achieve, despite trials and tribulations.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Fatal Desire (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fatal desire tells the story of the first Internet-related murder in the United States. Sharee Miller is a 27-year-old fiancee, when interviewing with Jerry Cassaday in an Internet chat room. Soon they are in the real life begin a passionate affair. Cassaday plan to have a second chance to fall in love with Miller, and makes plans for their future together. During this time, Miller leads a double life full of lies. His talent for deception and manipulation reach their summit with the murder of the husband of Miller and the suicide of his lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 789
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological thriller, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Social Nightmare (2013)
Plot Summary:
A student's chances of getting into a good college hang in the balance when inappropriate photos of her are posted on the Internet.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy
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Sensation (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lila a college student discovers a latent ability to see into the past. When a professor hires her for some psychological tests she becomes the target of the killer of the woman she sees in her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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The Serpent's Egg (1977)
Plot Summary:
The Serpent's Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work American circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin following Germany's defeat in World War I.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: philosophical, mind bending, psychedelic, political, suspense, political thriller, surreal, art house, psychological, atmospheric
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Deep (2021)
Plot Summary:
Four insomniac med school students are lured into a neuroscience experiment that spirals out of control and must find a way out before it’s too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, deep
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The Blackout (2014)
Plot Summary:
An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight for survival, they must endure the worst of human behavior.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 810
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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New Best Friend (2002)
Plot Summary:
Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into Hadley's clique where she is introduced to a world of privilege and dangerous thrills. But her attempts to become one of them ultimately land her in the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: intense, stylized, psychological, serious, realistic, teen horror, sexual, crying, erotic, sexy
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Dirty Teacher (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a high school senior discovers her teacher is seducing her boyfriend, events turn deadly after the teacher tries to cover it up.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, detective
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Deadline (2012)
Plot Summary:
Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an idealistic young blueblood bent on discovering the truth. Harper undertakes the investigation despite the opposition of his publisher, violent threats from mysterious forces, a break-up with his fiancée, and his father's cancer diagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Rumors of Wars (2014)
Plot Summary:
A suspenseful, genre-bending film with two converging storylines. An aspiring college journalist records events in a diary about the turmoil of a society due to the insertion of a RFID chip mandated by the government. ? Years later in the rubble of a post apocalyptic society filled with decay and violence, the diary finds its way into to the hands of an officer in the New World Army who uncovers the truth about the past and discovers everything he stood for was a lie. But what will he do now?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, christian film, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, futuristic
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The Steam Experiment (2009)
Plot Summary:
A deranged scientist locks 6 people in a steam room and threatens to turn up the heat if the local paper doesn't publish his story about global warming.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, serious
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The Firm (1993)
Plot Summary:
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, clever, psychological, serious, realistic, stylized, entertaining
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In the House (2012)
Plot Summary:
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, tense, psychological, witty, disturbing, surreal, intellectual, dark comedy, mind twisting
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The Village (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, atmospheric, captivating, psychological thriller, psychological, mindfuck, clever, bad ending, enigmatic, romantic
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Stay (2005)
Plot Summary:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 85000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, gloomy, mindfuck, suspense, mind blowing, mind bending