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Plot Summary:
Days before the end of the school year, Liliana gives Janek an ultimatum, giving him 24 hours to either prove his love for her or forget about her altogether.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, Denmark
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, realistic, gloomy, neurotic, crying
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Fatal Charm (1990)
Plot Summary:
Valerie's (Amanda Peterson) prosecutor mom is trying to put away Adam (Christopher Atkins), an alleged serial killer on trial for murdering six women. But he's so charming that the teenage Valerie just can't believe he really did it, and soon they begin sending each other letters. Adam is caught up in a jailbreak and ends up on the run.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, crying, psychotronic
Similar in 75%
Black Journal (1977)
Plot Summary:
Black Journal (originally titled Gran Bollito) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on the real life events of Leonarda Cianciulli, the Italian serial killer best known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: entertaining, crying, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, pre war
Similar in 81%
Spoor (2017)
Plot Summary:
A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who (or what) is the murderer, but nobody believes her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden, Slovakia, France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, touching, dark comedy, crying, allegory
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Under the Tree (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Baldwin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Poland, Denmark, Germany, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, crying, surprise ending, tragic, weird
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Killing Mr. Griffin (1997)
Plot Summary:
The high school students didn't mean to kill Mr. Griffin. They wanted to make him suffer. But when their mean English teacher turns up dead, they have to find out who killed them before the police arrests them all.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, crying, detective
Similar in 83%
The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995)
Plot Summary:
Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, sexy, slasher, psychotronic, southern gothic, perverse, psycho sexual, offbeat
Similar in 83%
Darlings! (1984)
Plot Summary:
A peaceful family-life is suddenly disturbed when the children enter puberty. The children take over the house and disrupt the lives of their parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, offbeat, humorous, witty, semi serious, psychotronic, freeze frame, dark comedy
Similar in 79%
Remember My Name (1978)
Plot Summary:
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, crying
Similar in 85%
Love in the Strangest Way (1994)
Plot Summary:
Successful Julien sees his family off on holiday and at once becomes drawn into a risky relationship with Angela, whom he spies outside the cafe opposite his office. When he later finds she is to become his son's new nanny he rightly starts to worry there is more to the relationship than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sensual, neo noir, crying, freeze frame, french noir
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Nightwatch (1994)
Plot Summary:
In order to finance his law studies, Martin starts as a night watchman in a mortuary. When the victims of a serial killer of prostitutes are deposited there, scary things begin to happen. Therefore and because of a strange bet with his fellow student Jens, the police begins to think he is the murderer. Police detective Wormer wants to help him but Martin is more and more suspected.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, psychological, disturbing, creepy, ironic, slasher, neo noir, psychological thriller
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Julie Darling (1982)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, erotic, disturbing, independent film, neo noir, crying, detective
Similar in 86%
Killing of the Dolls (1975)
Plot Summary:
Paul is the son of a gardener who works in a big mansion that has returned home with his parents after failling in his medecin degree. He is emotionally unstable. He collect dolls because he was educated as a girl because his sister died. After his arrival home murders begin to happen, is him the responsible?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, surreal, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame, slasher horror, campy
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Acolytes (2008)
Plot Summary:
Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, mumblecore, suspense, surreal, psychological horror, action thriller, realistic
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The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015)
Plot Summary:
Anna Fritz is a beautiful and famous actress. Suddenly her body is found in a hotel and the news of her death goes around the planet. The young, shy caretaker Pau works at the hospital where they carried the body of Anna Fritz. He and his friends decide to take pictures of the body of Anna Fritz. They decide they could make love to her and nobody would know. They are in front of Anna Fritz ... and can do with it what they want.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, psychological, harsh, scary, tense, brutal, enigmatic, suspenseful, atmospheric
Similar in 77%
Consequences (2018)
Plot Summary:
After being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Željko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Austria
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, social, crying, gay cinema, queer cinema
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The Heroes of Evil (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three teenagers, brought together from bullying, indulge in petty theft, sex and drugs. They inevitably realize they can resort to violence to take revenge on everyone who has humiliated them: students, teachers and other outcasts. One of them escalates to killing, and desires to kill again. Anyone can become his next victim. The other two face the question: should they resort to violence to stop the killings?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, touching, psychological, lgbt cinema, crying, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Wasted on the Young (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, disturbing, independent film, realistic
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M.F.A. (2017)
Plot Summary:
An art student taps into a rich source of creative inspiration after the accidental slaughter of her rapist. An unlikely vigilante emerges, set out to avenge college girls whose attackers walked free- all the while fueling a vivid thesis exhibition.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: crying, detective, psychological, suspense, independent film, disturbing, rough, bloody, slasher, crime drama
Similar in 76%
Massacre at Central High (1976)
Plot Summary:
Maimed by bullies at a California high school, a new student (Derrel Maury) engineers acts of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, cult horror, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Tree of Knowledge (1981)
Plot Summary:
As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: cult classic, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, crying, sexy
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Shrew's Nest (2014)
Plot Summary:
Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her youth raising. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew's nest... perhaps he'll never leave.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller, sexy, surreal, controversial, hispanic
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Firstborn (1984)
Plot Summary:
Because he's the oldest, Jake has been the man of the house, since his parents divorce. When Mom starts seeing Sam, who always seems to be trying some new way to get rich quick, and declares he's the man of the house now, Jake puts up with it. Until he discovers Sam's illegal activities.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tension, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, biting, crying
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The Roommate (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Sara, a young design student from Iowa, arrives for college in Los Angeles, she is eager to fit in and get to know the big city. Her wealthy roommate, Rebecca, is more than eager to take Sara under her wing and show her the ropes. The two become close, but when Sara begins to branch out and make more friends on campus, Rebecca becomes resentful. Alarmed, Sara moves in with her new boyfriend, causing Rebecca's behavior to take a violent turn.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, intense, harsh, serious, teen, dark
Similar in 87%
Play Misty for Me (1971)
Plot Summary:
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, neo noir, tense, slasher, neurotic, psychotronic, mysterious
Similar in 78%
Psychobitch (2019)
Plot Summary:
Frida is different. Self chosen different. Marius, on the other hand is the most perfect boy in class, and likes to show off. When they have to work together at school, it's the start of a turbulent and challenging relationship. Generation Achievement meets impossible love.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, crying
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Under Your Bed (2019)
Plot Summary:
Naoto was ignored by other people. During his school days, Chihiro was the first person who called his name. Naoto dreams of seeing her again and tries to find her. Finally, after 11 years, he locates her, but she is a totally different person now. Naoto becomes obsessed with her. Naoto sneaks into her house and stays under her bed.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crying
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Swimfan (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Ben's rock-solid, promising future and romance are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison Bell. Madison, the new girl in town, quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the obsessive and seductive Madison wants more ... much more.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, sexy, erotic, serious, tense, slasher, sexual, disturbing
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The Occupant (2020)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed executive is forced to sell his apartment. When he discovers that he still has the keys, he becomes obsessed with the family that now lives there and decides to recover the life he has lost, at any price.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, twist ending, perverse, twisted
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10 to Midnight (1983)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police detective Leo Kessler (Charles Bronson) is convinced of Stacey’s guilt and, over the objections of his partner, plants evidence to get him behind bars. When Stacey is released on a technicality, he threatens to go after Kessler and his family, leaving Kessler to defend himself against a killer with little help from the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, detective, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, scary, psychological, retro
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Sleep Tight (2011)
Plot Summary:
Apartment concierge Cesar is a miserable person who believes he was born without the ability to be happy. As a result, he decides his mission is to make life hell for everyone around him. A majority of the tenants are easy to agitate, but Clara proves to be harder than the most. So Cesar goes to creepy extremes to make this young woman mentally break down. Things get even more complicated in this twisted relationship when her boyfriend, Marcos, shows up.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, disturbing, serious, suspense, mind twisting, mind blowing, twisted