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Plot Summary:
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, tricky, tense, mind bending, suspense, talky, psychological thriller
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Similar in 89%
The Betrayed (2008)
Plot Summary:
Kidnappers force a young mother (Melissa George) to recover money stolen by her shady husband (Christian Campbell).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending, realistic, surprise ending
Similar in 85%
Die (2010)
Plot Summary:
Six people, each of them is on the road to self-destruction. They wake up in cells in a surreal facility, without knowing how they got there or why.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, emotional, grindhouse, cult horror, realistic
Similar in 76%
Ten Little Indians (1987)
Plot Summary:
A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, tension, suspenseful, realistic, tense, bleak, scary, fairy tale
Similar in 77%
Buried (2010)
Plot Summary:
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, surprise ending, depressing, dark, bad ending, minimal cast, twist ending
Similar in 89%
Shattered (1991)
Plot Summary:
Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who is supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, erotic, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, sexy, suspense, psychosexual thriller, noir
Similar in 86%
Panic Room (2002)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 293000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, neo noir, suspenseful, psychological thriller, stylized, psychological, tricky, suspense thriller, scary
Similar in 76%
Breakdown (1997)
Plot Summary:
When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never seen Amy. Johnathan Mostow's tense thriller then follows Jeff's desperate search for his wife, which eventually uncovers a small town's murderous secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, road movie, psychological thriller, tense, scenic, intense, neo noir, scary
Similar in 77%
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
Plot Summary:
Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past in 1969. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption... before everything goes to hell. A young concierge greets the strangers: a down-on-his-luck priest, a singer, an impressionable Southern girl and her older sister, a vacuum cleaner salesman, and a charismatic cult leader.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 161000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, neo noir, psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, visually stunning, slasher, crime thriller, twisted
Similar in 81%
Wrecked (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man awakens in a car wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff. He can't remember who he is or how he got there, but a report over the radio fills in some of the blanks, as it describes a violent bank robbery and names a perpetrator who happens to be sitting dead in the back seat.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, clever, captivating, minimal cast, psychological thriller, twisted, atmospheric, mind bending, sad
Similar in 81%
Untraceable (2008)
Plot Summary:
Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particularly sadistic criminal arises on the Internet. This tech-savvy killer posts live feeds of his crimes on his website; the more hits the site gets, the faster the victim dies. Marsh and her team must find the elusive killer before time runs out.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: clever, psychological thriller, intense, surprise ending, scary, psychological, disturbing, detective, suspenseful, serious
Similar in 75%
Flightplan (2005)
Plot Summary:
A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 170000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, exciting, intense, psychological thriller, clever, tense
Similar in 87%
Basic (2003)
Plot Summary:
A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, twisted, clever, confusing, suspenseful, psychological, enigmatic, tricky
Similar in 87%
The Hole (2001)
Plot Summary:
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, twist ending, tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark, serious, disturbing, teen
Similar in 82%
A Perfect Getaway (2009)
Plot Summary:
For their honeymoon, newlyweds Cliff and Cydney head to the tropical islands of Hawaii. While journeying through the paradisaical countryside the couple encounters Kale and Cleo, two disgruntled hitchhikers and Nick and Gina, two wild but well-meaning spirits who help guide them through the lush jungles. The picturesque waterfalls and scenic mountainsides quickly give way to terror when Cliff and Cydney learn of a grisly murder that occurred nearby and realize that they're being followed by chance acquaintances that suspiciously fit the description of the killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, suspense, twist ending, clever, scenic, tricky, slasher, psychological thriller
Similar in 80%
Trance (2013)
Plot Summary:
A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 117000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, neo noir, clever, surreal, mind bending, serious, sexy, mindfuck
Similar in 90%
Forgotten (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model for Jin-seok. One night, his beloved brother is kidnapped by unidentified assailants before Jin-seok’s eye. Jin-seok can’t recognize their faces, but can remember only the VIN that matches with no car. After long silence of 19 days, suddenly Yu-seok returns home, but remembers nothing which had happened in the meantime. And soon Jin-seok feels Yu-seok is a total stranger….
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, mind twisting, tense, twisted, exciting, mindfuck
Similar in 84%
House of 9 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, tense, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, realistic, psychological thriller, mind bending
Similar in 81%
Saw (2004)
Plot Summary:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or die trying.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 459000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, disturbing, psychological thriller, mind bending, clever, splatter
Similar in 81%
Phone Booth (2002)
Plot Summary:
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 282000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious, psychological thriller, surprise ending, rough, twist ending, clever
Similar in 81%
The Killing Room (2009)
Plot Summary:
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, clever, psychological thriller, rough, intellectual, mindfuck, surreal
Similar in 89%
Fermat's Room (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time what connects them all and why someone might wish to murder them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, mind bending, psychological thriller, mind blowing
Similar in 78%
Cube (1997)
Plot Summary:
Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 244000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller, twist ending, cerebral, futuristic, clever, exciting
Similar in 82%
Nine Dead (2009)
Plot Summary:
Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, twist ending, suspense, mind bending, psychological thriller
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Mr. Brooks (2007)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 155000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, psychological thriller, twist ending, serious, melancholic, intense, detective, enigmatic
Similar in 79%
Prisoners (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 784000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric, neo noir, detective, surprise ending, psychological thriller, tense
Similar in 88%
Secret Window (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 207000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, tense, dark, atmospheric, bad ending, psychological thriller, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
Dream House (2011)
Plot Summary:
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a horrifying chain of events.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological, scary, serious, enigmatic, intense
Similar in 79%
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Plot Summary:
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 285000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: twist ending, detective, thought provoking, neo noir, surprise ending, suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, tense
Similar in 86%
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Plot Summary:
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surprise ending, twist ending, clever, confusing, tense, suspenseful, mind blowing, mind bending, suspense
Similar in 81%
Exam (2009)
Plot Summary:
The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 123000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, mind bending, suspense, twist ending, tricky, tense, serious, psychological thriller, captivating