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Plot Summary:
The brutality of winter and the power of the mind are aptly portrayed in this dark comedy set in Northern Quebec. Bruce (Thomas Haden Church) is merely trying to survive a harsh winter when he meets Jean. Conflict leads to an accidental death, and Bruce finds himself in a complicated and unexpected place. Grappling with his guilt, Bruce creates a prison from which he cannot escape. Haden Church perfectly utilizes his comic talent in this wry, well-crafted film.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, mind bending, offbeat, realistic, independent film
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The Wild Hunt (2009)
Plot Summary:
A medieval reenactment game turns into a Shakespearean tragedy when a non-player crashes the event to win back his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, tense, serious, dark fantasy, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, offbeat, realistic
Similar in 83%
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is the portrait of two recently released prisoners (Pierrette Robitaille and Romane Bohringer) who learn to live in a sugar shack deep in the forest.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, atmospheric, bleak, realistic, slow cinema, aesthetic, offbeat, queer cinema
Similar in 81%
A Second Chance (2014)
Plot Summary:
Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine – until Andreas finds the couple's infant son, crying in a closet. The usually collected policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on justice, it suddenly becomes up to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, tense, serious, rough, realistic, suspense, dark, tear jerker, poignant, bleak
Similar in 77%
That Beautiful Somewhere (2006)
Plot Summary:
A detective teams up with a young female archaeologist to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumoured to have curative powers. It is the story of two wounded souls searching for healing and redemption.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, psychological, bleak, suspenseful, detective, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, gloomy
Similar in 76%
Perfidy (2009)
Plot Summary:
Perfidia, begins with a heartfelt version of the immortal title track, while the camera records the journey by a route through a snowy landscape and melancholy, the traveler is the enigmatic and silent Gus Chilean Gonzalo Valenzuela, in his first international role in cinema, who arrives in a city in upstate New York, to a hotel where he is staying for a day, while developing meticulous grooming and cleaning routines and expect a phone call that can change your life.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Bolivia, USA, Chile
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, stylized, tense, offbeat, contemplative, independent film
Similar in 77%
9:06 (2009)
Plot Summary:
A police inspector investigates an unusual suicide case. The investigation develops into an obsession, inspector starts living in the apartment of the deceased, digging through his life and gradually taking over his identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Slovenia, Germany
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspense, mind bending, offbeat, captivating, gloomy
Similar in 86%
Blackwoods (2001)
Plot Summary:
Matt is haunted by the death of a girl from a car accident he caused years ago. Matt was drunk and as he reached for the car radio, he struck the girl as she crossed the road. The guilt that he feels has altered his sense of reality, making Matt's life a mystery full of shadows and phantoms. Now, years later Matt goes away for weekend with his new girlfriend Dawn. After a wild session of lovemaking, Dawn goes for a walk. While she is away a strange man with an ax comes into the motel room and attacks Matt. After that incident Matt goes into the woods, looking for Dawn. There he encounters Dawn's family who tie him down and put him on trail for the murder of the girl years before. They find him guilty and he is sent back into the forest to be hunted down by the family. The deeper Matt runs into the forest the farther his mind is lost to the Blackwoods.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, colorful, realistic, independent film
Similar in 75%
Of Silence (2014)
Plot Summary:
An ailing former scuba diver, who faces extremely tough times, begins experiencing otherworldly incidents.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: mind bending, tense, scary, psychological, serious, gloomy, independent film
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The Girl He Met Online (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man's relationship with a bipolar woman becomes dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, deep, realistic, suspenseful, inspirational, complex
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And Baby Will Fall (2011)
Plot Summary:
Expectant parents become prime suspects in the disappearance of a pregnant woman who was last seen at their garage sale. Model citizen David Rose runs a garden center and is a devoted house-father. Like his wife Ivy, who suffered two stillbirths, their new neighbor Melinda is near to giving birth. Just after David showed her around in the Rose home, Melinda goes missing. Although no corpse is found, just circumstantial evidence more likely to be planted then stupidly left behind, police detective Blanchard treats David as his sole suspect, soon arrested, even after nosy neighbor Bindel is knocked down while David is in jail. School buddy Theo does his best to counsel the couple, yet Ivy doubts her husband's innocence just because of indications he may have had an affair with Melinda since high-school, and starts snooping with her best friend Jody. The worst crime is still being hatched.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, crime thriller, rough, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful
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Sea Fog (2014)
Plot Summary:
A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, psychological, sexy, social, art house, crime drama
Similar in 84%
Resilience (2006)
Plot Summary:
An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
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Nor'easter (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young and inexperienced priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest's commitment to church doctrine over the laws of the natural world.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, mumblecore, gloomy
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One Way Out (2002)
Plot Summary:
Harry Woltz is a homicide cop with a gambling problem; a problem that leaves him owing a great deal of money to the Russell brothers. To clear the debt they ask him to train John Farrow to murder his wife, Evans, without leaving the usual clues or making the usual mistakes. However when Harry's ex-partner is put on the case, she begins to get closer than Harry had thought before the case takes some unexpected twists.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, suspense
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Roulette (2012)
Plot Summary:
When three very different people (Mike Baldwin, Will Haza, Ali Lukowski) from three completely different worlds begin a deadly game of Russian Roulette, they soon discover that their pasts are a trilogy of overlapping events that have brought them together for one last session of group therapy.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, non-linear, independent film
Similar in 76%
Blood and Ties (2013)
Plot Summary:
Da-eun lives a happy life with her single father, a man who sacrificed everything in his life for her. She loved her father very dearly. However, their relationship is about to take an unexpected turn. Da-eun becomes suspicious that her father might be a monstrous kidnapper. Even though she wants to believe in his innocence, she finds herself searching for evidence to the contrary. What is her father's true identity? And how will she deal with the burden of discovery if her suspicions are confirmed at the end of her final pursuit of the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, twisted
Similar in 89%
Sorority Surrogate (2014)
Plot Summary:
A surrogate mother faces an uncertain future when the couple who hires her dies in an accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 83%
The Frozen (2012)
Plot Summary:
After a harrowing snowmobile accident, a young couple is stranded in the woods and must survive while waiting for help to arrive. Events take a turn for the worse after the disappearance of Emma's boyfriend, leaving her on her own not only to battle the elements, but also to elude a mysterious hunter who is tracking her through the forest.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, slasher, minimal cast, psychological thriller, tense, captivating, exciting
Similar in 86%
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
Similar in 75%
The Dead Will Tell (2004)
Plot Summary:
Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, mind bending
Similar in 84%
Edge of Winter (2016)
Plot Summary:
When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, exciting, tense, suspenseful, neo western
Similar in 76%
Wilderness Survival for Girls (2004)
Plot Summary:
Three girls take a pre-college trip to a cabin in the woods. Their night is interrupted by a visitor who, they begin to believe, may have killed a babysitter some years before. An original twist on the teens-in-peril film.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, dark, slasher, queer horror, erotic, scary, mind bending
Similar in 82%
Under Still Waters (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple encounters a stranger who threatens their marriage and their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, independent film
Similar in 79%
The Mortician (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as part of his parole.Noah brings the notorious gangster, Carver (Dash Mihok), and his crew to the mortuary door. The Mortician's attention is pricked by the tattoo of Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus' inked on the body of a murdered woman (Judy Marte), that arrives at the morgue, triggering a series of haunting dreams from his childhood. Discovering a scared child, Kane (Cruz Santiago), fleeing the morgue, he's forced to act. They become reluctant allies, struggling for redemption as they run. Through his awkward heroism, the Mortician reconnects with his long forgotten past, and finds the answers he's been searching for. He find redemption and peace.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Fear Me Not (2008)
Plot Summary:
Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig - without telling his family. Because of dangerous side effects, the trial is subsequently abandoned but Michael continues to take the pills. Having lost all control, Michael's repressed instincts resurface with a force and violence that no-one could have predicted.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, disturbing, psychological thriller, mindfuck, experimental
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Tangled (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, teen horror, tense, slasher, detective, non-linear, surprise ending
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Shadow of the Wolf (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930's, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northen Quebec.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, independent film
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Locked in a Room (2012)
Plot Summary:
"Locked in a Room" is a story about three teenagers that are trapped in three separate rooms. They are monitored and watched by a masked man who takes notes on paper as to their every move and emotion. They are further tormented by an eerie voice of someone outside of the room. Throughout, they use their minds to try to think as to why they are there. As time elapses the stakes and chances for survival are slim, but the question remains: who is behind this - the end reveals a startling answer.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Blood and Money (2020)
Plot Summary:
A retired veteran hunting in the Allagash backcountry of Maine discovers a dead woman with a duffle bag full of money. He soon finds himself in a web of deceit and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, ambiguous ending
Similar in 76%
Zero Kelvin (1995)
Plot Summary:
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the Arctic winter sets in, a complex and intense love/hate relationship develops between Randbæk and Larsen, who are more similar than either would like to admit. A powerful psychological and physical drama set against stunningly bleak Arctic scenery.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic