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Plot Summary:
University lecturer Dr Leah Dale has always prided herself on her academic integrity so when final year student Rose, submits a suspiciously top-grade essay, Leah is quick to call her out. But there’s more going on than meets the eye as Rose takes the challenge as a personal affront, and what begins as a seemingly open and shut case of academic deception soon spirals out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, intense, detective, psychological thriller
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The Psycho She Met Online (2017)
Plot Summary:
When her husband is hospitalized after a car accident, EMT Karen decides to rent out their spare rooms online. All goes well until Miranda moves in. Miranda quickly infiltrates all areas of Karen’s life. When one of Karen’s renters is found murdered, Karen becomes convinced Miranda was involved but has no idea that kicking her psychotic guest out will send Miranda into a murderous rage.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, intense
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Pied Piper (2016)
Plot Summary:
Drama series follows a police crisis negotiation team as they try to solve cases without using force. The police crisis negotiation team works on such cases like attempted suicides, hostage situations and terror situations.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: semi serious, intense, psychological, emotional, suspenseful, detective
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No Good Deed (2020)
Plot Summary:
Karen never planned on being a hero. A recent widow, she has her hands full with work and parenting her son Max. Then Karen saves Jeremy's life during a drug store robbery and quickly discovers that the young man is intent on paying her back at any cost. At first, life starts improving for this good Samaritan, but as Jeremy's efforts become more extreme, Karen starts to wonder if no good deed truly goes unpunished.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Enter the Dangerous Mind (2013)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller set in the world of underground dubstep, Snap is the story of Jim Whitman, a brilliant but painfully introverted musician who develops a crush on a young social worker.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, twisted, serious, independent film
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The Perfect Stalker (2016)
Plot Summary:
Grace Winston has HPD (Histrionic Personality Disorder) - After murdering her husband, she moves to Philadelphia and finds herself in love and obsessed with her neighbor - How to make him fall for her? She invents an imaginary stalker, and she'll need his help.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, sexy, detective
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Choke (2001)
Plot Summary:
Henry, an uptight businessman who sometimes acts with questionable ethics, nevertheless rejects Ron, a scam artist who wants a partner. Ron won't let up and finds a lever to blackmail Henry, whose daughter Gina has killed a pedestrian in a hit-and-run car accident. To protect Gina, Henry disposes of Ron, but a murderous sociopath witnesses this crime. Henry and this stranger bond in an odd way, telling stories about their childhoods. Henry makes a deal with the stranger, helping to get rid of the body of one of the stranger's victims. Will this act seal a bargain between the two men and get Henry off the hook, or will the stranger threaten Henry and Gina?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Watchful Eye (2002)
Plot Summary:
Malibu detective Shannon (Renee Rea) goes undercover in a group house to discover who murdered one of the women living there. Shannon gets caught up in the sex and parties, not knowing that her every action is being secretly broadcast on satellite TV. When she learns of the broadcast, she puts the clues together and figures out that the men living in the house have sex with all the women for all the world to see. And that's when her life becomes slated for cancellation.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, detective, realistic, sexual, sexy
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You Belong to Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jeffrey has met the man of this dreams, hunky Frenchman René, he impulsively moves into the same building. The move backfires as Remé becomes cold and distant. Landlady Gladys lavishes attention on her new tenant.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Playing House (2011)
Plot Summary:
In this taut thriller, newlyweds Jen and Mitch find that three's company and four's a crowd when they ask their friend Danny to move in with them to share expenses. But a sweet situation turns sour when Danny invites a new person into the mix.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, slasher, independent film
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Layover (2001)
Plot Summary:
An airport affair of a business man turns into a nightmare when it turns out that the woman is married to a dangerous jewelry dealer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, suspense, tense, sexy, independent film
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Shadow of Fear (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a new boy is employed to work in a coffee shop, he turns out to be a schizophrenic who refuses to take his medication, and makes the life of the popular young waitress who works there a misery.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, captivating
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Harry's Game (1982)
Plot Summary:
Harry is an undercover agent for the British army sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA and find (and terminate) the assassin of a British Cabinet Minister. Harry is alone, the army hasn't been told he is being put in place, his wife is fed up with him and his job, and his one new friend, an Irish woman who falls for him will be consumed by his relentless search for the assassin.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Extremely Dangerous (1999)
Plot Summary:
Extremely Dangerous is a 1999 four part series for ITV starring Sean Bean as an ex-National Criminal Intelligence Service undercover agent convicted of the brutal murder of his wife and child who goes on the run to try and clear his name. He sets out to follow up a strange clue sent to him in prison. The boss of a local crime syndicate, a former associate, hears of his escape and sends out the word to bring him in. On the run from the police and disowned by his NCIS colleagues, he is faced with the fact that he may be guilty.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Under Suspicion (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the small town of Cienfuegos, it's a very special day for 7-year-old Alicia Vega (Aroa Palacios) and her family: her First Communion. However, when they are celebrating at the family's restaurant, closed for the occasion, she goes missing.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, surprise ending, suspense, detective, disturbing
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Dignity (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Germanic cult 'Colonia Dignidad' abused children, tortured and killed prisoners in its secret compound. Now, with Chilean dictator Pinochet gone, Leo Ramírez, a young federal prosecutor, must bring its leader Paul Schaefer to justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, Chile
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Reckoning (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sally Wilson's daughter Amanda is stricken with a brain tumour and each day, her condition appears to be worsening. Sally is at her wits end as to how to help her daughter and knows a life saving operation in America that she can't afford would be the answer. When the harassed single Mum is called to the office of a swish city lawyer, she never expects a life or death proposition. She’s been bequeathed £5 million! But in order to qualify for this amazing transfer of funds, Sally must first kill a man who deserves to die.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, serious, realistic
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The Last Weekend (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ian (Shaun Evans) and Em (Claire Keelan) receive a surprise invitation from an old friend. Ollie (Rupert Penry-Jones) invites the couple to spend a weekend in the Suffolk countryside with him and Daisy (Genevieve O'Reilly). The couples expect an idyllic holiday, but the competitive edge to the men's relationship soon rises to the surface, with irreversible consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, dark, thrilling, psychological thriller
Similar in 78%
Friend of the Family II (1996)
Plot Summary:
Alex decides to have an affair with a woman named Linda while he is on business in New Orleans. When he returns home to his wife and child, he is surprised to find that his wife has hired the off-kilter homewrecker as a nanny to their baby. Alex must find a way to stay cool and not let his wife know the true identity and intentions of Linda.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, independent film, sexual, cliffhanger
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Secret Smile (2005)
Plot Summary:
When Miranda splits up with her creepy boyfriend Brendan because he attacked her she finds out that he is now going out with her sister Kerry and later proposes to her. Miranda warns her sister, as Brendan swims his way into their family ruining peoples lives. This drama story turns into a Ultimate Terror Twist.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, realistic, tense, captivating, slasher, surprise ending, tension
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Presumed Guilty (2018)
Plot Summary:
A terrible event leads an investigator in Paris to come back to his birth town ten years after leaving it, where he has to confront the ghosts of his past and an unsolved mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, detective
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Trauma (2018)
Plot Summary:
A three-part drama set in the trauma unit of a London hospital, a grieving father blames a high-achieving trauma consultant for the death of his teenage son.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing, action thriller, medical drama, psychological thriller
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Cybergeddon (2012)
Plot Summary:
Cybergeddon follows the story of agent Chloe Jocelyn as she investigates a slew of seemingly unrelated cyber attacks with fellow agent Frank Parker and incarcerated master hacker Chase Rabbit Rosen. Chloe and her team must crack the worldwide cybercrime ring led by Gustov Dobreff before it is too late. In a world where everyone is connected, everyone is at risk.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective
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Case Sensitive (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Geraldine Bretherick and her 5-year-old daughter Lucy are found dead in the bathroom of their luxury home, the case divides new DS Charlie Zailer and her DC Simon Waterhouse. Is it a murder-suicide or something even more sinister, and how watertight is the alibi of the apparently distraught husband Mark? Meanwhile, when Sally Thorne, a young working mother with a husband and two small children hears of the deaths, she is deeply shocked. Months before she’d met a man called Mark Bretherick at a hotel and they had a brief but passionate affair. Now, against the advice of her best friend, Esther, Sally feels the need to get in touch with Mark again to offer her sympathy. Based on the bestselling novel The Point of Rescue by Sophie Hannah, this psychological thriller explores the darker side of motherhood, identity and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, detective, dark, realistic
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Riot Police (2020)
Plot Summary:
A fictionalised look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 306 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Lethal Admirer (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Megan's fiancé is killed, she moves cross country and rebuilds her life with a new boyfriend and a closer relationship with her sister. Once she befriends one of her old colleagues, Lloyd, things take a turn for the worst. She realizes he will make her his- no matter the cost. Megan moves across the country to rebuild her life after a tragedy. When she runs into one of her former colleagues Lloyd, she is pleasantly surprised and the pair become close friends. When he wants more from her, he begins sabotaging everything in Megan's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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One in the Gun (2010)
Plot Summary:
A sexy brain teaser of a thriller with nods to classic film noir of the past mixed with a post-modern flair of David Lynch-style surrealism and surprises. When Mickey Lewis, a homeless struggling artist crosses paths with Katrina, the beautiful rich wife of Arthur Webb and is enlisted to paint their home, deadly passions ignite. Soon hidden agendas, dangerous seductions, double and triple-crosses spiral Mickey's life out of control leading to a motel in the middle of nowhere filled with strange people and twisted secrets that all hold the key to the mystery of Mickey's past, present, and future. All it takes is - ONE IN THE GUN.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, psychological, surreal, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, sexy, mind bending
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Dark Hearts (2014)
Plot Summary:
When struggling artist Colson finds his muse in sultry singer Fran, their daring romance spirals out of control into a dangerous game of deception and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, stylized, captivating, sexual, sexy
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Swimfan (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Ben's rock-solid, promising future and romance are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison Bell. Madison, the new girl in town, quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the obsessive and seductive Madison wants more ... much more.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, sexy, erotic, serious, tense, slasher, sexual, disturbing
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Gold Digger (2019)
Plot Summary:
Gold Digger tells the story of wealthy 60 year old Julia as she falls in love with Benjamin, a man 25 years her junior. As this six part series progresses the impact their unconventional relationship has on her family is explored and the secrets of their past are revealed. Has Julia finally found the happiness she's always deserved? Or is Benjamin really the gold digger they think he is?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, enigmatic, psychological thriller, scenic
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Stalker (2014)
Plot Summary:
A pair of detectives investigate stalkers in Los Angeles. Strong and focused, Lt. Beth Davis is an expert in the field of repeated harassment, driven by personal experience of being a victim. She heads the LAPD's Threat Assessment Unit, which investigates cases of stalking -- including voyeurism, cyberharassment and romantic fixation. The history of recent transfer Jack Larsen -- whose personality and questionable behavior have been an issue in the past -- may help him in his assignment to her team. Her other detectives are young but eager Ben Caldwell and deceptively intelligent Janice Lawrence. Together they try to stop situations from spinning out of control -- and to keep their personal obsessions at bay.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, detective, realistic, thrilling, psychological thriller