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Plot Summary:
A university professor, who wants to slow down a little, moves with his wife and daughter, from the big city to a small town and starts a new job as a teacher in a girls' gymnasium. Something weird is happening with the class, they seem to hide a secret. As it turns out, these girls don't play with dolls.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, captivating, suspenseful, exciting
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Knockdown (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six years ago Jack "The Ripper" Stemmons, an American boxer had his career destroyed by a St. Louis bookie. After Jack seeks revenge he is forced into hiding. Jack disappears half way around the world in Thailand. There he falls victim to the addictive spell of Bangkok's exotic and dangerous underworld. Eventually he finds solace in the arms of a beautiful prostitute who has been set in his path by a Russian gangster in order to get Jack back in the ring, This time in Bangkok's notorious underground fight clubs. No matter how hard Jack tries to distance himself from his past, it always hunts him down like a Bad Penny. When a mysterious fight fan appears, it's only a matter of time before Jack's past, present and future accelerate and collide into a twisted climax.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, independent film, tense, psychological, captivating, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 87%
Playmaker (1994)
Plot Summary:
A would-be actress uncovers horrifying files on other starlets.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, mind bending, realistic
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The Girl from the Naked Eye (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jake is a driver for a seedy escort service operating out of 'The Naked Eye strip club', he's a street thug type who falls for a witty high-class escort named Sandy. Except one night Sandy is found murdered, the only clues left behind are cell phone calls made the night she died. To avenge Sandy's death Jake must risk everything and walk a bloody path to find her killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, tense, crime drama, independent film, realistic
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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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Bikini Girls on Ice (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a bus-load of women's college soccer players get stranded on their way to a bikini car-wash fundraiser, they decide to set-up shop in front of an abandoned gas station on the edge of town. Little do they know the place is the stalking-grounds for a homicidal maniac mechanic named Moe.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, sexy, horror comedy, scary
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Death Warrior (2009)
Plot Summary:
A gritty MMA fighter is forced into a twisted, underground gambling ring in which he must fight to the death with other MMA fighters in order to save his wife from certain death at the hands of a maniacal crime boss. In a desperate race against time, he is forced into a series of increasingly violent life and death matches while simultaneously piecing together the puzzle which leads him to uncover.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, rough, realistic
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Fate (2008)
Plot Summary:
Four friends bound by destiny and unbeatable in the dark world. When a casino attack goes wrong as a result of betrayal, fate turns them into enemies. Now, forced to aim the gun at each other's hearts, their unavoidable battle begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough, suspenseful
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Furnace (2007)
Plot Summary:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, detective, scary, rough, bleak, serious
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A martfűi rém (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on real-life events, this psycho-thriller is set in the provincial Hungary of the 1960s, when a series of atrocious murders shock the small town of Martfü. A psychotic killer is on the prowl, who continues to slaughter young women while an innocent man is wrongly accused and sentenced for crimes he could never have committed. A determined detective arrives on the scene and soon becomes obsessed with the case while under pressure from the prosecutor to see a man hang. Stuck in the suffocating social, political and psychological world of socialist Hungary, we soon find ourselves entangled in a web of intricate conspiracy and disturbing drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychological thriller, noir, neo noir, action thriller
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The Last Boy (2019)
Plot Summary:
The world at an end, a dying mother sends her young son on a quest to find the place that grants wishes.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, apocalyptic, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, mystical, road movie, dark, minimal cast
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The Bates Haunting (2012)
Plot Summary:
One year ago, Agnes Rickover attended opening night at the Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride to see her best friend Lily's dramatic debut. A horrific accident resulted in Agnes witnessing Lily's fiery death in a spectacle gone wrong. After a year of obsessing over a murder investigation everyone else thinks is open and shut, Agnes goes to work at the Haunt in an attempt confront her trauma. Horrific events begin to claim the lives of her coworkers and Agnes must figure out what is behind all of the "accidents" before more people die.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic
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Methodic (2007)
Plot Summary:
Methodic tells the story of a boy who becomes demonically possessed by an ominous presence known as "The Dollman". Forced to obey his dark half, the boy ultimately murders his parents on his birthday and is sentenced to a life under a microscope at the state mental hospital. But evil cannot be contained so easily.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, serious, independent film
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Camp Dread (2014)
Plot Summary:
The “Summer Camp” horror trilogy was one of the most popular franchises of the 1980s. However, the decade ended and so did director Julian Barrett’s career. Now Barrett plans to resurrect his gory series via a modern reboot patterned after reality filmmaking. With his former leading lady and an eclectic group of 10 young “contestants,” Barrett returns to the same locale where his old splatter-fests were filmed. When one of the campers is found savagely murdered, they realize there’s more at stake than just fame and fortune. Each of them is in a fight for their lives as they realize summer is over – forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, rough, serious, teen horror, slasher horror
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Deadly Still (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends decide to spend a weekend together at a country house, but an unexpected accident forces them to stop at a strange and remote estate. In this abandoned and eerie place, a rare antique camera is discovered. Slowly the camera draws them into a mystical and tragic chain of events that none of them could have seen coming. Anyone who has their picture taken by the camera sees a photo revealing their death. Many of them lose their lives in excruciating ways, as they race to solve the mystery of the camera.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense, intense, surprise ending, rough
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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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Abducted (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, exciting
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Rise of the Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the sleepy small town of Dudley, Ohio, a terrifying future awaits. Laura is almost raped by a normal lawyer who appears to have gone crazy. When her boyfriend, Jack Walther saves her by running him over with her car, the cops don't buy the story. Things get complicated when Laura's roommate is murdered and the local police start asking questions that they can't answer.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Thompsons (2012)
Plot Summary:
On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, suspense, captivating, erotic, psychological, gothic, dark
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Greetings to the Devil (2011)
Plot Summary:
A former guerrilla is reluctantly drawn into the vengeance scheme of one of his victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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213 (2009)
Plot Summary:
A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage. Fighting to keep buried the trauma of his childhood, he must confront the all too-familiar flesh masks that the killer leaves on the faces of his victims. He must face his own demons along with the killer to save his small eroding existence.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Canal Street (2018)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, spiritual, sad, independent film
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Inside (2006)
Plot Summary:
Alex has a disturbing hobby of following strangers...until one night he gets caught. Instead of calling the police, the couple--fascinated by Alex's resemblance to their dead son--asks him to stay, and Alex finds himself trapped in a horrifying existence of desperation, despair, and insanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, emotional, dark, rough, serious, realistic
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Megachurch Murder (2015)
Plot Summary:
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a church conspiracy and threats toward her father, she is determined to prove that Hamilton's death was murder not suicide. As she gets closer to the truth, she realizes her own mother may be involved in her father's murder...and that the boy she is falling in love with is the son of his killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful
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A Near Death Experience (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ellie suffers a strong shock to discover that, after suffering a near-death experience, can hear voices from beyond. He soon realizes that it is a gift with which you can help others.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Fatal Reunion (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jessica is a housewife, unhappy in her marriage, who decides to "spice it up" a little bit. But she gets more than she bargained for when she contacts an old high school classmate she once had a crush on.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Diary (2006)
Plot Summary:
Winnie Leung becomes more disturbed and depressed after her boyfriend Seth Lau breaks up with her and she turns schizophrenic - imagining events which never occurred, and often living in her own world- until one day she meets a guy named Ray, bearing a close resemblance to Seth. Seeing this, her best friend Yvonne encourages her to go out with Hou so she can forget her misery and start over. As time passes, Winnie realises that the relationship with Ray is so alike her previous relationship with Seth, and when things seem to be running smoothly, the relationship begins to sours, just like with Seth. She begins to doubt his feelings and the lines between reality and fantasy start blurring again for her, leading her to question: did this all exist in the first place?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, psychological thriller, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Watch (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cassie, a psych student, was kidnapped and traumatized as a child by a disturbed person. To exorcise her demons and to finish her thesis, she decides on an experiment in isolation, working at a secluded watch tower as a fire lookout. But once she's alone, strange things start happening. Or is she just paranoid? Cassie is terrified that her past may be coming back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic, psychological, serious
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American Backwoods: Slew Hampshire (2013)
Plot Summary:
In June of 1994, one of the most brutal mass slaughters in history occurred in the backwoods of northern New England. Four months later, history is about to repeat itself. The end of summer signals the brink of manhood for a group of lifelong friends who proudly call New Hampshire their home. But when they embark upon a local rite of passage - traveling north for one final weekend of debauchery together - it just might prove to be their final weekend PERIOD, as this rite is doomed to go frightfully wrong. When they find themselves ensnared in a struggle for survival amongst a sinister hunting party, a bloodthirsty tribe AND a mythical beast, what began as a comedy of errors devolves into an all-out Darwinian duel to the death, and less than 24 hours will pass before a slew of lives have been claimed and the last of the living remains.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, rough, captivating, suspenseful, bizarre
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Case 39 (2009)
Plot Summary:
In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily assumes custody of Lilith while she looks for a foster family. However, Emily soon finds that dark forces surround the seemingly innocent girl, and the more she tries to protect Lilith, the more horrors she encounters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, gloomy, atmospheric, serious, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, intense