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Plot Summary:
Intrepid FBI agent Beck, assigned to solve the case of a multimillionaire couple's missing daughter. As clues begin to reveal themselves, Beck draws an explosive line connecting the kidnapper and the girl's mother -- and brings to light their dark, disturbing secret. Racing against the clock, the determined agent must discover the real reason for the abduction and save the child's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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The Collector (2002)
Plot Summary:
Une policière, Maud Graham, suit un tueur en série qui agresse des femmes. En même temps, elle héberge un jeune prostitué et un fugueur de 12 ans. L'action se déroule dans la ville et capitale de la province du même nom, Québec.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, neo noir
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Every Mother's Worst Fear (1998)
Plot Summary:
Faced with her parents' recent divorce, her mother working long hours and her high school boyfriend dumping her, 16-year-old Martha looks for solace in the world of Internet chat rooms. Innocent chatting turns deadly as Martha attracts the attention of a pedophile and cyber-kidnapping ring. Martha's mother Connie suspects foul play and begins a frantic search for her daughter, enlisting the help of the police, the FBI and an expert hacker.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Protection (2001)
Plot Summary:
A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness and tries to start over, only to find he can't escape his old ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The Skulls III (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young college co-ed tries joining the elite, all-male, secret society, the Skulls, and in so doing, she uncovers some unscrupulous methods used by some of the members to get what they want.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, slasher
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Zephyr Springs (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Dawn, an overworked single mother, agrees to take her teenage daughter, Kayla, to a luxurious but isolated spa retreat, the women believe they have escaped to a paradise of spa treatments, yoga, and nature hikes until a series of disturbing incidents has Kayla questioning the perfection around her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, scary, realistic
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Deadbolt (1992)
Plot Summary:
When medical student Marty places an ad for a roommate, her ad is answered by handsome, clean-cut Alec. At first Alec seems to be a wonderful roommate; supportive, considerate and a real friend. However, Alec's affection turns to obsession as he plots to manipulate and control all aspects of Marty's life, imprison her in her own apartment and make her his.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, dark, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic
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Zoom Hunting (2010)
Plot Summary:
Yang Ruyi (32), a fashion magazine photographer, lives with her elder sister Yang Ruxing (33), a rational, introverted detective fiction author. Ruyi has inadvertently photographed a couple making madly passionately love. Few days later in a shopping center not far from her home, she finds the woman already married, leading a child and is with a different man. Ruyi shares her secret with Ruxing who is suffering from writer's block. The two sisters begin to observe the couple; gradually Ruxing even writes some of her observations into her novel, without letting Ruyi knows it. Late one night, Ruyi views two people are arguing, but as she picks up her camera to photograph she can only see two vague, dark outlines wrestling one another; Ruyi calls the police but upon arriving, nothing seems out of order. Ruyi is convinced she has mistaken nothing; she enlarges the photo and discovers a third outline looks pretty much like her older sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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From the Inside (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alone in their isolated home where no cars pass and no one lives nearby, Vincent and Tally suffer together in a loveless marriage. But what they don't know is that they are not as alone as they think -- a criminal and his psychotic brother are watching them through binoculars. They stare lustfully at Tally through the windows and plan something horrible for the unhappy couple when night falls.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, independent film
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Layover (2001)
Plot Summary:
An airport affair of a business man turns into a nightmare when it turns out that the woman is married to a dangerous jewelry dealer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, suspense, tense, sexy, independent film
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Presumed Dead (2006)
Plot Summary:
A famous crime novelist's protigie disappears before the release of author's first new book in years. Is the seeming crime an elaborate publicity stunt, or was this author so desperate for material that he created his own sinister inspiration? Despite his cunning defense on trial (the trial that made his book a best seller), Detective Cooper suspects the latter. She's determined to separate fiction from reality, but the deeper she gets in the story, the more twisted the plot becomes.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, realistic, surprise ending, detective
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Cover Story (2002)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious magazine editor gets too caught up in a high-stakes sex scandal and is framed for murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
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Final Move (2006)
Plot Summary:
The LA police are baffled: someone is killing people who have been found innocent of violent crimes. At the crime scenes, DNA evidence and clues linked to chess point to a suspect who's dead, recently executed for murders with a similar M.O. The cops call on Dan Marlowe, an ex-cop with psychic gifts, in an asylum after the trauma of the initial investigation. His wife wants him to say no; her brother is his former partner, who leans on Dan to help. Dan's ex-lover, an FBI agent, is also on the case, and behind the scenes is Myron, Dan's chess partner at the asylum. The game turns more deadly when Dan and family become the target. Did the cops initially get the wrong man?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, fast, psychological thriller, psycho film
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere (2013)
Plot Summary:
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a secret organization specializing in kidnapping children.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, action thriller
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Beyond (2012)
Plot Summary:
A detective teams with a tabloid psychic to track down a missing child.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, independent film, detective, tense, serious, captivating, suspense
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Nexus (2010)
Plot Summary:
Holly is a struggling singer whose life is torn apart when she loses custody of her daughter, Chloe. When she travels to her soon to be ex-husbands estate in the country, for a weekend visit with Chloe, she is shocked to discover that he is missing. The police are called and the following day, Holly is accused of the murder of her husband. Holly unwittingly finds herself at the center of a small town conspiracy and must harness all her inner strength to save her daughter and clear her name.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film, rough, suspenseful
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Fatal Call (2012)
Plot Summary:
Leaving his small-town roots to start a new life, Mitch meets the beautiful and seductive Amy at a happy hour and begins a tantalizing romance. Before long, Mitch learns that nothing is as it appears and, unable to trust anyone, finds himself on a nightmarish roller coaster ride, accused of murder and running from the law and a mysterious stranger out to kill him. Surviving by quick thinking and his wits, Mitch must confront both his past and present and find a solution before time runs out!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Slip (2006)
Plot Summary:
"Slip" is the story of Sarah, a young woman who witnessed her mother's murder as a child. Now grown, Sarah is haunted by her mother's memory, her restless soul, opening a gateway for the spirits of the recently departed. Sarah is compelled to do their bidding so their souls may rest in peace. One of these souls leads her to Cal, a young car thief who is one car away from going legit. Unfortunately, Cal is wrongfully accused of stealing from his partners and now they want him dead.Sarah, drawn by the spirit of Cal's murdered nephew, becomes an avenging angel, awakening a dark spirit of her past while risking all to save a total stranger. Now in a race for their lives as well as their souls, Cal and Sarah soon discover that there are far more fearsome things than men with guns.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Way of the Wicked (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lawrence Salva's script centers on a detective (Facinelli), on the trail of a murderer, who is led to believe that a local teenager, harboring some sort of strange supernatural power, may be involved. Slater plays the man's disbelieving boss, while Hauer plays a man-of-the-cloth who aids the cop on his mission.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, detective, satanic
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Teenage Bank Heist (2012)
Plot Summary:
Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real time, ticking clock thriller, as the girls are on the run from the police, we learn that the real motivation behind the robbery is something unexpected.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, realistic
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The Lost Angel (2005)
Plot Summary:
Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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For Elise (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young college is responsible for the care of an innocent little girl, but soon all he knows give a twist that will endanger his own life. All begin when crossing under the floor of the third floor to the left, a road without knowing directly the door open to the forces of evil, freeing them at will through the building. A desperate race to save the lives when terror and pure evil are in the next aisle.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, serious, scary, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Cybergeddon (2012)
Plot Summary:
Cybergeddon follows the story of agent Chloe Jocelyn as she investigates a slew of seemingly unrelated cyber attacks with fellow agent Frank Parker and incarcerated master hacker Chase Rabbit Rosen. Chloe and her team must crack the worldwide cybercrime ring led by Gustov Dobreff before it is too late. In a world where everyone is connected, everyone is at risk.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective
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Time Lapse (2001)
Plot Summary:
Clayton Pierce is an agent working under deep cover. Although he is a top agent, he is questioning his loyalty after twenty years of service. His devotion has already cost him his wife, family and personal life. During a de-briefing from his last assignment, he is unknowingly administered the drug Oblivion, which destroys brain cells causing permanent memory loss. Within a few days of injection, the drug's effects become irreversible. Clayton will not only lose his memory, he will lose his identity as well. He realizes he can no longer rely on anyone at the agency to help him, not even his boss, Agent LaNova. With nowhere left to go, he appeals to his ex-wife, Kate, for help. Clayton and Kate must locate the antidote before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, independent film, bleak, realistic, talky
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The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Plot Summary:
7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, teen, exciting, rough
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The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
Plot Summary:
A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto. With a nondescript armored truck, crudely yet somehow elaborately rigged with high explosives (and the President trapped inside), the two terrorists keep the Secret Service at bay until in the end, Assanti is killed and Shatner has to find a way into the truck anyway.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, psychotronic, political, grindhouse, independent film, rough
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Deviation (2012)
Plot Summary:
Told over one horrifying night, Deviation will take you on a white-knuckle journey into the mind of Frank Norton, a dangerous schizophrenic murderer as he escapes from Broadmoor Hospital and embarks on a murderous rampage across London. But when Frankie takes a hostage, the deadly game of cat-and-mouse truly begins.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, realistic
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Favor (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kip's perfect life is put in jeopardy when the waitress with whom he's having a casual fling is accidentally killed in their motel room. Desperate, he turns to childhood friend and loser, Marvin, to help get rid of the body. Marvin agrees which begins the unraveling of their friendship and ultimately leads both to murderous acts they never thought themselves capable of.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, twisted, realistic, independent film
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Good Chemistry (2008)
Plot Summary:
After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his nightmare only worsens.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Fatal Justice (2012)
Plot Summary:
Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the perpetrators is released, Karen decides to go on a murderous trail of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Clean Break (2008)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful