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Plot Summary:
Antoine has agreed to follow a writing workshop where some young people in insertion must write a black novel with the help of Olivia, a recognized novelist. The work of writing will bring to life the working-class past of the city. Its shipyard is closed for 25 years, a nostalgia that does not interest Antoine, influenced by the anxiety of the present world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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America Latina (2021)
Plot Summary:
Massimo is a reputable professional with a nice house, a happy marriage, and two loving daughters, whose life is turned upside down when one day he finds a little girl tied up in his basement.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Echoes (2022)
Plot Summary:
Julián Lemar, a best-selling suspense writer, goes on vacation with his family to a cabin in the woods. During a strong storm, the power goes out and a woman shows up desperately asking for help: her husband killed her son and now he wants to kill her. From that moment on, danger and deception are a constant threat and for Julián a hellish night begins until he discovers the truth.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, enigmatic
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RangiTaranga (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious events begin to unfold after a reclusive novelist and his wife move back to her ancestral village, followed by a journalist.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: kannada, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, experimental, suspense thriller, twisted
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Based on a True Story (2017)
Plot Summary:
A writer goes through a tough period after the release of her latest book, as she gets involved with an obsessive admirer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, meditative, disturbing, suspense, art house, psychosexual thriller, erotic drama, inspirational, enigmatic
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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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Blind Valley (2011)
Plot Summary:
Vincent is an ordinary-looking cop in Descharnes province. Ten years ago, he buried a dirty business to save his skin. Stan Wilson, and share their passion for Deborah but also a dark secret. Ten years ago, they suffered a trauma that no child can recover. Wilson wants to forget. Stan wants to speak, without knowing that he then puts in motion a terrible plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, tense, captivating, disturbing
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You Get Me (2017)
Plot Summary:
After arguing with his girlfriend, Ali, Tyler lands in the arms of sexy new girl, Holly. The next morning, he finds that not only does Ali agree to take him back, but Holly is a new student at their school and is dead set on her new man.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, thought provoking, enigmatic, entertaining, tense, melancholic
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Is There a Killer in My Family? (2020)
Plot Summary:
True-crime author, Carly, and her husband Kevin take a vacation at a historical mansion on Crawford Island. Kevin thinks it will be a chance for them to reconnect, but Carly plans to research the puzzling unsolved murder of Diana Crawford.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bring Me Home (2019)
Plot Summary:
Six years after her son went missing, dedicated mother Jung-Yeon still hasn't lost hope - even after her husband's shocking accident while rushing to follow up on a potential sighting. Although she's in mourning, drowned in despair for her losses, she doesn't give up. Just when everything feels like it's in vain, she hears about a young boy living in a fishing community outside the city who seems to resemble her lost son. Facing strange surroundings and corrupt cops covering up child abuse, Jung-yeon may not be able to handle all the obstacles in her way, let alone fend for herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, heartbreaking, disturbing, suspense, social
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Savage (2018)
Plot Summary:
It's summer, somewhere in the Dordogne, young people disappear. The wildest rumors circulate, we are talking about a feline prowling. Laura, seeks to elucidate the mystery and meets Paul, a strange writer who attracts him as much as he scares her. As they get closer, a lover spurned by Laura disappears in turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful
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Sins of the Preacher (2013)
Plot Summary:
After the apparent suicide of her daughter, a woman tries to prove that her son-in-law killed her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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School's Out (2018)
Plot Summary:
Pierre Hoffman joins St Joseph’s College to stand in for a young French teacher who threw himself from the window of his classroom. But he soon starts noticing strange behaviour from his Year 10 class.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, avant garde, ambiguous ending, enigmatic, captivating, tense, social, crying, independent film, weird
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Corporate (2017)
Plot Summary:
Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Ressources, working for a huge French agro-food company. Ambitious and dedicated to her job, she is a good soldier, ready to put ruthless methods of management into practice to meet the higher-ups' requirements. But, one day, one of the employees commits suicide at the company in front of her. Afflicted by the terrific death of her colleague, she will eventually realize that the company has to take its responsibility too. While an investigation in underway, stuck between her traumatized colleagues and under pressure of a powerful hierarchy, she will have to get by on her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, social, psychological thriller
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Angel of Mine (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, sentimental, psychological thriller
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Blast (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a Parisian parking lot Sonia finds herself trapped in her car with her son and the daughter of her boyfriend Fred, who has been left outside, powerless to deal with the situation: an anti-tank mine has been set under the car. Sonia is a bomb-disposal expert, who works for a NGO with Fred. She just got back from a mission in Ukraine and, while she's used to face dangerous situations, with the children's lives on the line the stakes have never been higher. Along with colleagues Igor and Camille, who came to the rescue, Sonia and Fred have 30 minutes to defuse the bomb and work out who could be the mastermind behind this. Will they stand united until the end or will the family implode under pressure?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Pray for Rain (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Emma Gardner, a whip smart NYC reporter learns of her father's untimely death, she returns to her home town to find that the idyllic farming community of her childhood has been ravaged by drought and has become a place tormented by gangs and the ill effects of extreme poverty. She quickly figures out that her dad's accidental death was not accidental at all. The lists of possible suspects include overly zealous environmentalists, a local war lord and other farmers jealous of her father's outstanding reputation.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Who's Stalking Me? (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following a near-death experience when an attacker breaks into her home, Amanda can't shake the feeling that she's still in harm's way. In comes the handsome and stern Detective James Dawson to save the day and keep an especially close eye on Amanda. Taken by his generosity and commitment, Amanda begins to feel safer--unaware that she's letting the real threat get closer than ever.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
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Causality (2021)
Plot Summary:
Claudia shows up at a bar to meet Luis, a doctor who contacted her through a dating app. Claudia doesn't suspect what fate has in store for her. A kidnapping that ends with an inevitable and unpredictable death. A suspense story with surprising twists until the last second, narrated in a sequence shot without cuts.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Thirteenth Tale (2013)
Plot Summary:
Margaret Lea, a young biographer, attempts to interview writer Vida Winter, whose health is deteriorating. Vida has previously denied access to the secrets of her life and childhood home. Vida tells her story to Margaret, helping Margaret to confront her past.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, captivating, touching, serious, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, sentimental
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Valley of Shadows (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young boy ventures into the forest in search of mysterious creatures that eat sheep, in this delightfully creepy Scandinavian Gothic fable from Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, art house, post-horror
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Lights Out (2010)
Plot Summary:
March 1992, in a small town in the suburbs of Paris. During an alcohol fueled party, teenagers discover a body hidden in the bushes of a forest. A body that seems lifeless. Two weeks earlier. Simon, a 16 year-old teenager, has not shown up for class. Blood stains are found in a class-room. Run-away, kidnap, suicide, murder? A few days later, Laetitia, a student from the same class goes missing without her parents knowing where she has gone. A young girl with no dark background or connection to Simon. The next day, Jean-Baptiste, a third student, also disappears. Rumors start to spread. The psychosis begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, bleak, psychological thriller, serious, realistic, disturbing, weird
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Black Island (2021)
Plot Summary:
The dark secrets of a seemingly peaceful island threaten to swallow up an orphaned student when he grows close to a mysterious new teacher.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark
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Jasper Jones (2017)
Plot Summary:
On the night that Jasper Jones, the town's mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishart, Charlie's life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer. Set over the scorching summer holidays of 1965, Charlie defeats the local racists, faces the breakup of his parents and falls head over heels in love as he discovers what it means to be truly courageous.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, independent film, tension
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The Mourning (2015)
Plot Summary:
20 years after going MIA in Desert Storm, Aaron returns home under mysterious conditions, not having aged since his disappearance, and must reestablish relationships with loved ones before an imminent return to an ambiguous other-worldly existence.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mystical, psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, mysterious
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Megachurch Murder (2015)
Plot Summary:
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a church conspiracy and threats toward her father, she is determined to prove that Hamilton's death was murder not suicide. As she gets closer to the truth, she realizes her own mother may be involved in her father's murder...and that the boy she is falling in love with is the son of his killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful
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Mothers' Instinct (2018)
Plot Summary:
Brussels, early 60’s. Alice and Céline live in twin bourgeois houses. They are best friends as are their children, Theo and Maxime, who have grown up like brothers. Both families spend all their time together. This perfect harmony is broken when an accident creates strong divisions between the two families.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, melancholic, psychological, captivating, ambiguous ending, tragic
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Utoya - July 22 (2018)
Plot Summary:
The movie tells the story about a girl who has to hide and survive from terrorist Anders Breivik while looking for her little sister during the terrorist attacks in Norway on the island Utøya, July 22nd.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, brutal, depressing, suspense, social, sad
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Horse Girl (2020)
Plot Summary:
A socially awkward woman with a fondness for arts and crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, surreal, sincere, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller, cliffhanger, dark, experimental
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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