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Plot Summary:
After a random school shootout leaves a scientist's daughter and the shooter dead, he uses nano-robots to look into a psychopath's memories to find reasons for violence and a way to treat it.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Arbiter (2013)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant but misguided man feels that he has the right to decide who is worth their place on earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, Estonia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Chernobyl: Exclusion Zone. The Movie (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the anomalous zone of Chernobyl, under the protective sarcophagus of the fourth power unit, the Global Kintek Corporation is carrying out illegal construction. A special interstate commission is trying to prevent these plans, but right during a press conference, a group of unknown terrorists attack its leader. And none other than Pasha leads them - he once successfully fought with the Zone, but it seems that now the Zone itself has captured it. His four friends - Ana, Lyokha, Nastya and Gaucher - have no choice but to jump back into the old Volga and go to Pripyat to try to save Pasha and prevent a global catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, intense, mysterious
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Incontrol (2017)
Plot Summary:
Incontrol follows a group of university students who discover a device that allows them to take control of others, and experience the world through someone else. As they push the machine's abilities to its limits, they begin to question the device itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing
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Algorithm: BLISS (2020)
Plot Summary:
Vic Beckett, a brilliant researcher, creates the ultimate App that taps into the pleasure center of the brain and transmits a feeling of nirvana to the user.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful
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Glenn, the Flying Robot (2010)
Plot Summary:
Henry and Jack are two famous and talented pianists: they are rivals and try to outdo each other in the various music events where they regularly compete. The former friends will clash with no mercy, from contest to contest until the day a domestic robot, GLENN, enters their lives. GLENN will jeopardize everybody and everything around them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, offbeat, serious
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Dark Reprieve (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two people Matt and Kate wake up in a closed down prison. They have no idea how they got there, or why they are there. In the prison they encounter several terrors as they look for an exit.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious
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Easy Land (2019)
Plot Summary:
Follows a Serbian refugees mother and daughter, as they struggle to navigate the many obstacles facing newcomers to Canada.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, sincere, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, independent film
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Realive (2016)
Plot Summary:
Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the first cryogenic resuscitated person in history. But this doesn't happen in the idealized way he dreamt of.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, captivating, mind bending, realistic, surreal
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I'll Follow You Down (2013)
Plot Summary:
After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one that may bring him home.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, funny, philosophical, suspense, mind bending, psychotronic, independent film
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Looking for Alexander (2004)
Plot Summary:
Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, stylized
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Extracted (2012)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Jacobs invents a way to watch people's memories from the inside. Going against his morals, he accepts an offer to enter a heroin addict's memories to literally see if he committed a crime. However,a malfunction causes his consciousness to become trapped inside the criminal's mind. He remains a prisoner in the addict's memories for more than four years until he discovers the possibility of escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful, confusing, melancholic, futuristic, surreal, twist ending, mind blowing
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Hinokio: Inter Galactic Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
A recent accident has left Satoru Iwamoto, an elementary school student, temporarily wheelchair-ridden. In addition, the recent loss of his mother has thrown Satoru into a reclusive state, locking himself from the outside world. However, in an effort to help Satoru recover from his injuries, his father, Kaoru, has designed a remote-controlled robot that will go to school in his place and allow him to interact with people and do normal things.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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The Corrupted (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of twenty-somethings are enjoying their stay at a lakeside cabin when a series of frightening and bizarre events derail their weekend.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, silent, silent film
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Serena and the Ratts (2012)
Plot Summary:
After years of killing for a man only known as "The Boss", Serena is burnt out. When she is hired for one final job, she teams up with an underground renegade group to stop her replacement from executing the assassination.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, tense, rough, serious
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For the Good of Others (2010)
Plot Summary:
Diego is a doctor so used to working in extreme situations that he has immunized himself to others' pain. He has switched off from his work, his partner and his commitment as a father. Over the course of a disturbing meeting, Diego is threatened with a gun. Hours later, he can only remember the sound of a bang and the strange feeling of having being hit with something more than a bullet. Diego has to take an irreversible decision which will affect his own life and that of his loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, tense, suspenseful, social, mind bending, bleak, serious, psychotronic
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The Last Death (2011)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Alexanderson finds an unconscious young man by the doorstep of his cabin. He will try to piece together the mans broken memory without knowing the dangers his family and friends will be exposed to in this psychological revenge thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, tense
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The White King (2016)
Plot Summary:
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Public (2018)
Plot Summary:
An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, motivational, dorama, political, complex
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Pioneer One (2010)
Plot Summary:
Pioneer One is a 2010 American web series produced by Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith. It has been funded purely through donations, and is the first series created for and released on BitTorrent networks.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, realistic, suspenseful
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Her Husband's Betrayal (2013)
Plot Summary:
Cathy Coulter is looking forward to a bright future with new husband Riley and her son Billy. Settled in their new home, Cathy becomes disheartened with Riley's frequent work trips and her intuition tells her something is amiss. When Riley leaves for his next job, Cathy follows him...all the way to another family's home! When Cathy storms in to confront him, she finds a dead body and receives a call from Riley saying she must confess to the crime or her son will be killed. With the police hot on her tail, Cathy goes on the run to unearth the truth before it is too late to save her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, suspense
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Cyberstalker (2012)
Plot Summary:
After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Judicial Indiscretion (2007)
Plot Summary:
Monica Barrett, a successful Federal judge, learns she is on the President's shortlist to fill the new vacant spot on the Supreme Court. When her lover turns out to be a male prostitute, Monica's life is shattered by blackmail and sexual intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Last Screening (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sylvain, a film-obsessed 31-year-old, lives in the basement of a small art-house theater where he works as a programmer, projectionist and cashier. Each night, after the last showing, he goes out for a murderous ritual.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, scary, bleak, serious, realistic, slasher
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Pig (2011)
Plot Summary:
A man wakes up alone in the middle of the desert with a black hood on his head and his hands tied behind his back. At death's door, he is discovered by a woman living alone in the desert and is nursed back to health. Upon regaining consciousness, the man realizes he has amnesia, and has no idea who he is. His only clue, a piece of paper in his pocket with the name "Manny Elder" on it, sends him on a journey to Los Angeles to discover his past. But things and people are not what they seem and clues lead to something bigger and more unusual than the man could have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, surprise ending, captivating, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, twisted, mind bending, serious, independent film
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Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009)
Plot Summary:
A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Embers (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social, realistic
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Dark Blood (2021)
Plot Summary:
A father is imprisoned after committing a brutal revenge crime. During his confinement he must adapt to a new life of abuse, including injury and humiliation by guards and other prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Monsterz (2014)
Plot Summary:
A somber paranormal thriller that offers an original, exciting variation of the tale of two men with supernatural abilities, locked in a duel to the death. A battle between a man who can control people with a stare, and the only man he cannot control. When their fate cross, the survival battle begins. The two men with inevitable fate, who will survive?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, dark fantasy, weird
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Courage (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jason Priestley (TV's "Beverly Hills, 90210") and Andrea Roth star in this inspirational adventure story about courage, love and the power of family. Aspiring author Robert (Priestly) organizes a quick getaway with his wife and daughter designed to rebuild their estranged relationship with his daughter, but when a powerful storm hits they are forced to make a crash landing on the ominously named Bear Island. With Robert seriously injured and no way to reach the mainland, the three castaways find that they must rely on their faith -- and each other -- to survive the ordeal.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
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Ex Machina (2014)
Plot Summary:
Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 575000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, futuristic, twist ending, mind bending, thought provoking, intellectual, tense, minimal cast, cerebral