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Plot Summary:
A self-entitled woman is determined to keep her new man to herself at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like Too Good to Be True (1988):
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My Love and I (1964)
Plot Summary:
'The King's Mountain Path' is a long line for wandering, with unmanned sleeping accommodation cabins at appropriate distances. It is not without dangers, in particular when narrow and shallow but speedily running creeks must be crossed. - When they were teenagers, a boy and girl wandered along this path, and had a sexual relation. They decided to meet again after exactly ten years, and at exactly this path. Both kept the promise.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Domingo Salvaje (1967)
Plot Summary:
Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 86%
Sorry, Wrong Number (1989)
Plot Summary:
Based on a famous play, follows a bedridden wife who overhears a murder plan on her phone. She tries to piece the puzzle together and prevent it.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, eighties
Similar in 81%
A Brand New Life (1973)
Plot Summary:
After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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The Collector (1997)
Plot Summary:
Eevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 84%
Sisters and Other Strangers (1997)
Plot Summary:
A woman (Joanna Kerns), at odds with her eccentric sister (Debrah Farentino) over a real-estate deal, becomes the prime suspect when the latter is found dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 78%
Better Off Dead. (1993)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer fights a losing battle against the courts to overturn the death sentence for a convicted female robber/murderer despite demands from the woman that her death sentence be carried out.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 87%
Maternal Instincts (1996)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant doctor's life is made hell by the deranged patient to whom she gave a hysterectomy, without the patient's consent.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 77%
The Hawk (1993)
Plot Summary:
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Midnighters (2017)
Plot Summary:
Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, mumblecore, cult classic, gothic
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The Other Wife (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kate is devastated to learn that her husband Billy has been living a double life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful
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Having Babies III (1978)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Julie Farr presides over three impending births and cannot help but get involved in the lives of her troubled patients.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie (1972)
Plot Summary:
A traveling salesman is lured by a precocious teenage girl to her shack in the desert for some sexual escapades. However, a scuzzy biker comes along and they both find themselves dominated and tormented by him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: minimal cast, surprise ending
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The Stepsister (2016)
Plot Summary:
Nicole and Mark get engaged, but his stepsister believes she has a claim on him and is willing to do anything to be his bride.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, sexy
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Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971)
Plot Summary:
It's 1956 in the beach town of Trilby. After asking the questions pertaining to the situation, sixteen year old working class Robert Joseph Jones - who prefers to be called Bo Jo - asks his same aged girlfriend, upper middle class Julie Greher, to marry him in doing what he believes to be the right thing after she tells him that she is ten weeks pregnant from their one and only sexual encounter, the secret wedding which happens the following day. These are only the first steps in both Bo Jo and Julie doing and saying what they believe are the right things under the circumstance regardless of what they may actually feel. Their life inexperience is shown in the process, which includes each finding out what little he/she really knows of the other. They both to some extent realize that being married means the loss of their innocence and the loss of their individual planned futures - which for both was college and Bo Jo working toward a football scholarship on the hopes of becoming All.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Intrusive Behavior (2013)
Plot Summary:
Years after the institutionalizing and abandoning of their mentally unstable daughter, the Kilpatrick family becomes victim to mental instabilities of their own as their past comes back to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: twisted, independent film, detective
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A Deadly Adoption (2015)
Plot Summary:
Things go awry when an author and his wife welcome a pregnant woman into their home, with plans to adopt her baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, cult film
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Sinful (2006)
Plot Summary:
An unhappily married young woman plots to steal the unborn baby of her single and pregnant next door neighbor by befriending her and waiting for the right time to act. Lilith is a young woman who longs for having a family and the perfect child. But that all changes when Lilith strikes a new friendship with her pregnant next door neighbor Aisha which transforms her maternal instinct into madness. As her psychological world quickly comes crashing down, Lilith lets her twisted jealousy of Aisha's perfect life consume her leading to a shocking climax.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Mirror Images (1992)
Plot Summary:
A pair of beautiful twins gets involved in a murder case with a psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, queer horror, independent film, sexploitation film
Similar in 82%
Vengeance (1980)
Plot Summary:
Four hoodlums break into a jeweller's house and brutally murder him, his wife and daughter. On the run they kidnap Jenny, a Senator's grand daughter and her boyfriend, but discover that the two will not be taken easily. In the melee that follows, the gang are blown away one by one, until the final vengeful confrontation between Jenny and the remaining gang member.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher
Similar in 77%
Face of Evil (1996)
Plot Summary:
On her wedding night, twenty-year-old Darcy Palmer empties her fiancé's bank account and flees to New York City. Along the way, she tries robbing Brianne Dwyer, who's heading to a New England college for her freshman year, and ends up killing her. Darcy assumes Brianne's identity, enrolls in her place at college, and kills anyone who gets in her way. When Darcy becomes interested in her roommate Jeanelle's wealthy widowed father, she poisons Jeanelle so that she's too sick to spend time with him when he visits the campus, and Darcy takes her place. Suspecting her dirty deeds, Jeanelle confronts her roommate, who coolly admits to killing many people and stealing their identities. Then, Darcy attacks... Just in the nick of time, Jeanelle's father rescues her from harm. Darcy escapes but is caught just as she's about to snare her next victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, sexy, surprise ending
Similar in 76%
The Perfect Wife (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Leah's brother dies in a car accident, she vows revenge on the doc who failed to save him.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, twisted, scary, realistic
Similar in 88%
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
Similar in 79%
Night of the Hunter (1991)
Plot Summary:
A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Blind Obsession (2001)
Plot Summary:
Police officer Jack Fletcher is injured in a gun battle resulting in the loss of his sight.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
Similar in 79%
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
Similar in 82%
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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Devious Nanny (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to protect her family after her husband has an affair with their nanny. As her husband's co-workers are killed, she discovers everything is not what it appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, intense, sexy
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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 Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
Plot Summary:
A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize Peyton's true intentions -- to destroy Claire and replace her in the family. The nail-biting suspense builds quickly in this chilling psychological thriller about deception and bitter revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological, neo noir, sexy, psychological thriller, serious, psychosexual thriller, dark