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Plot Summary:
An agoraphobic, aspiring author who's taken to living in a bookstore becomes convinced that one of the customers is actually the villain from one of his unfinished stories. As a result, he faces his fears in order save his daughter and the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: mysterious, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful
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Made Me Do It (2017)
Plot Summary:
College student Ali Hooper and her little brother are attacked by a masked maniac, and the key to them surviving the night lies in unlocking a secret from the killer's past.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, dark, captivating, enigmatic, suspenseful, experimental, bizarre
Similar in 87%
The Nanny (2018)
Plot Summary:
Young Noa and Michael are put in the care of their new nanny, Leonor, who Noa suspects is a malicious supernatural being. Dismissed by those around her, Noa works to uncover Leonor's true identity, but soon finds herself with far more than she bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, spooky
Similar in 78%
Swat: Unit 887 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A non-stop, race against time action packed thriller that follows an elite SWAT Team as they try to stop a domestic terrorist from killing innocent hostages and destroying the city of Los Angeles. With 24 hours left on the clock, the team must rely on their instincts and unique skill set to stop the attack and bring justice.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Wrong Swipe (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Anna has a difficult time getting close to people, her sister creates a dating profile for her online. Anna starts to message a handsome man until she starts getting disturbing messages that a match is close by.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 81%
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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Marriage of Lies (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Rachel’s husband disappears, the police have one suspect: her. While trying to prove her innocence, she uncovers many secrets about the man she married.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark
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Paranormal Abduction (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young women suffering memory loss and psychological issues after surviving a brutal attack, tries to piece together the clues surrounding her attack and its similarities to a series of recent murders. During the investigation, she struggles to maintain her sanity as her world gets more surreal and reality starts to unwind around her. Following the clues that lead her down the "rabbit hole" she finds herself fighting to wake up from this nightmare...before she becomes the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Black Butterfly (2017)
Plot Summary:
Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, melancholic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, surprise ending, psychedelic, twist ending, costume drama, twisted
Similar in 81%
Harmony (2018)
Plot Summary:
Born with an energetic power to absorb fear from others, a young woman must find love to balance the fears of her own and fight an ever growing storm of negative energy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Outrage: Born in Terror (2009)
Plot Summary:
Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote woods of Northern Georgia...but it's also the scene of her worst childhood trauma. Things get worse when it turns out the lodge is in use by an ex-military sniper, Farragut and his three accomplice, the Loomis brothers, as a hideout who just escaped from a military prison.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, rough, serious, realistic
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Blood Ransom (2014)
Plot Summary:
Crystal, the girlfriend of Roman, Jeremiah's American boss whom he kidnaps. As Jeremiah's plans fail, Roman sends Bill, a psychopathic hitman after them. Crystal and Jeremiah tread the dangerous path of a love on the run. But as they run farther and as they fall deeper, a dark secret burns even stronger.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Dinner with the Alchemist (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1900s, a wealthy alchemist, Jacques St. Germaine travels to New Orleans to seek help from the legendary voodoo priestess, Marie Laveau. When multiple murders are uncovered, Jacques and the quarreling locals butt heads as they try to discover the identity of the killer. Featuring a cast of characters pulled from actual police reports, Dinner With the Alchemist weaves historical fact and imaginative storytelling into a mysterious supernatural drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, period drama
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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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The Dead One (2007)
Plot Summary:
Trapped between the living and the dead, Diego de la Muerte fights to rescue his soul from the evil god of death that controls him. But a bigger battle awaits him when the Aztec god demands the soul of Maria, the girlfriend Diego left behind.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Invincible (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Shadow Men are immortal beings of darkness and destruction. One such Shadow Man, Os (Zane), is confronted by the White Warrior, a being of light, and given the chance to change his ways or die. After the White Warrior bests Os in combat, she opens his heart to the power of love, and charges him to find the warriors who are the representation of the five elements and will save the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense, detective, serious
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Jinn (2014)
Plot Summary:
From the beginning, stories of angels and men have captured our imaginations and have been etched into our history crossing all boundaries of culture, religion, and time. These two races have dominated the landscape of modern mythology for countless centuries, almost washing away the evidence that a third ever existed. This third race, born of smokeless fire, was called the jinn. Similar to humans in many ways, the jinn lived invisibly among us and only under dire or unusual circumstances were our paths ever meant to cross.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, mysterious
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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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Huldra: Lady of the Forest (2016)
Plot Summary:
Nanna lives a lonely and regimented life in Berlin. When her life crashes she receives a phone call from her long lost love, Martin, who reminds her of their carefree childhood. Martin wants her to join him for a hike in the wilderness together with some of their mutual childhood friends. One of them, Peter (The Swede), has been told of a strange hermitic hippie-like society out in the Swedish wilderness and the group set off on an adventure unaware of the fact that once they reach their destination nothing will ever be the same again. As they are drawn deeper and deeper into the forest mysterious events start to unsettle the dynamics of the group. Reality begins to shift in ways none of them could have imagined and relations between the friends become strained and volatile. They had come looking for adventure, but nothing could have prepared them for what lies in wait.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dark Harbor (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dark Harbor tells the story of Olivia, a young mother on the verge of childbirth who finds her future threatened by a hidden darkness from her family's past.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Au Pair Nightmare (2020)
Plot Summary:
Trying to escape the pain from the death of her fiancé, a woman becomes an au pair in a house where she learns the family is hiding a mysterious secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Stowaway (2021)
Plot Summary:
A tenacious party girl fights to survive after three thieves commandeer her luxury yacht. Unable to escape and trapped on the yacht at high seas, the prey becomes the hunter as she turns the tables on the intruders and takes matters into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, emotional, suspense, heroic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Broken Star (2018)
Plot Summary:
Abandoned by her friends and family and with her career in jeopardy, starlet Markey Marlowe is sequestered in a duplex with a reclusive landlord who just may be more dangerous than she is.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Deadly Shores (2018)
Plot Summary:
This gripping thriller follows Anna who moves to a remote island as the new bride of a famous mystery writer. Once there, she uncovers secrets about her new husband's dead former wife and fears she may be the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Impossible Monsters (2019)
Plot Summary:
A psychology professor begins a case study with three subjects who are suffering from sleep paralysis. As the study goes on, what is real and what is dream become mingled with violent consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Mississippi Murder (2017)
Plot Summary:
An amazing murder mystery taking place in a setting that no one would expect the coast of Mississippi. A young woman tried to live a normal life despite a horrible upbringing. But she will learn her past will haunt her once more.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Garo - Kiba: The Dark Knight (2011)
Plot Summary:
The spirit of Kiba the Dark Makai Knight influenced everything since the beginning. Though he called himself a Makai Knight, Kiba was no different to a Horror. Kiba's spirit resides inside what was once a grey colored Makai Armor that's filled with the dark knowledge of Makai Power. As Barago absorbed Horror after Horror, Kiba eventually deformed into an organically pure black armor with a cape. Kiba assumed full control over his host upon Meisha's defeat by Kouga.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, dark fantasy
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Witch Hunt (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, slasher, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Spectros (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers gets unintentionally involved in a conflict between Japanese Shinto ghosts and Brazilian witchcraft.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic
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Beyond the Darkness (2018)
Plot Summary:
The movie follows the story of Jonah Thomas, a US senator, who gets trapped in an epic battle fought between life and death.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christian film, captivating, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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The Hole (2009)
Plot Summary:
After moving into a new neighbourhood, brothers Dane & Lucas and their neighbour Julie discover a bottomless hole in the basement of their home. They find that once the hole is exposed, evil is unleashed. With strange shadows lurking around every corner and nightmares coming to life, they are forced to come face to face with their darkest fears to put an end to the mystery of THE HOLE.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, scary, spooky, creepy, fairy tale, suspense, dark