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Plot Summary:
A married couple and their teenage twins move to Meadowlands, a friendly and seemingly safe suburban town, to start a new life. Here, they will soon realize that secrets and mysteries are plentiful, and past is a difficult thing to bury.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, cliffhanger, gloomy, psychological thriller, neo noir, crying
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The Town (2012)
Plot Summary:
Following a family tragedy, 30-year-old Mark Nicholas returns to the town where he grew up. After ten years away, coming home is harder than Mark could ever have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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The Ice House (1997)
Plot Summary:
The peaceful, secluded, country hideaway of three diverse, lonely, supposedly lesbian, women is suddenly shattered when their gardener discovers a partially decomposed corpse in the old Ice House on their grounds. The ensuing police investigation has the unfortunate repercussion of re-igniting the anger and hatred of the local community levelled against the women which started ten years previously when the husband of one of them mysteriously disappeared without trace. The same senior police officer from ten years ago is assigned the case and is determined to bring the women to justice this time around. The case is further complicated when his deputy, whose marriage is on the rocks, starts to take more than a professional interest in one of the women. What is the identity of the corpse in the Ice House? What really did happen ten years previously? Will all be revealed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 172 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, suspense, detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Hostages (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hostages is an American drama television series that airs on CBS as part of the 2013–14 American television season. The series is based on a similar Israeli series created by Alon Aranya, Omri Givon, and Rotem Shamir which will premiere on October 13, 2013, almost 3 weeks after the American version's premiere. Jeffrey Nachmanoff wrote and directed the pilot episode for the American version. The series premiered on September 23, 2013.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, detective, tension, suspense
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Doctor Foster (2015)
Plot Summary:
A woman suspects her husband of having an affair. After following several lines of inquiry far more unravels including a streak of violence below the surface.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: emotional, captivating, serious, tense, realistic, psychological thriller, atmospheric, crime drama
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A Mother's Son (2012)
Plot Summary:
A mother suspects that her son could be the killer of a recently found dead girl, and becomes caught in a torturous dilemma of whether to denounce him, or protect him and hide the act.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspense, psychological, captivating, gloomy, psychological thriller
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Undeniable (2014)
Plot Summary:
25 years ago, Jane saw a man killing her mother. Today, she's a well adjusted wife and mother herself. While having a physical, she notices a doctor who looks like the killer and reports him. No one believes her - except one cop.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, crime drama
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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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Southcliffe (2013)
Plot Summary:
Following a raft of shootings in an English market town, the crimes are retold in a nonlinear narrative structure through the eyes of a journalist and the tragedies' victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, serious, detective, grindhouse, costume drama, psychological, realistic, gloomy, suspense
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Mayday (2013)
Plot Summary:
It's Mayday in a small town steeped in pagan traditions where the crowning of the May Queen is the highlight of the day until suddenly she goes missing.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, detective, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, dark, spooky, gloomy
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Vanished (2006)
Plot Summary:
Vanished is an American serial drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox. The series premiered on August 21, 2006 on Fox and its last episode aired on November 10, 2006. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the series begins with the sudden disappearance of the wife of a Georgia senator, which is quickly revealed to be part of a wider conspiracy. The family of the missing woman, a pair of FBI agents, a journalist and her lover/cameraman, are all drawn into an evolving mystery with political and religious undertones. The show was created by CSI writer Josh Berman, and executive produced by Mimi Leder, who is also directed the show, and Paul Redford. On October 26, 2006, USA Today reported that the planned 22-episode series was ordered to be wrapped up after the 13th episode. The story arc of finding Sara Collins was to be concluded, with the mystery of a larger conspiracy left dangling in the event the series was extended. On November 16, 2006, Fox confirmed that the show would end after a final episode in December. On December 8, 2006, the final episode of Vanished appeared online. The production team was told a few months before the show was taken off the air to at least reveal Sara's fate by the 13th episode, but none of the other plotlines were resolved.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, cerebral
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The Sculptress (1996)
Plot Summary:
Olive Martin (Quirke), a heavily overweight young woman is convicted of killing and butchering her mother and sister and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, when she is assigned to write a book about her life, author Rosalind Leigh (Goodall) begins to develop a relationship with Olive and is soon convinced of her innocence. With the help of restaurant owner and former policeman Hal Hawksley (Fulford), she sets out to prove it and undo what she sees as a miscarriage of justice. However, all is not what is seems.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological thriller, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
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Marchlands (2011)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural drama telling the story of three different families living in the same house in 1968, 1987 and the present day, linked by the spirit of the young daughter of the 1960s family, who drowned in mysterious circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, mysterious, sad, scary, psychological, tense, serious, gloomy
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Requiem (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 1994, a toddler disappeared from a small Welsh village, never to be seen again. 23 years later, in London, the mother of rising cello star Matilda Gray commits suicide, without apparent reason. Among her possessions, Matilda discovers tantalising evidence, linking her mother to the Welsh girl's disappearance all those years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychological, suspense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, surreal, atmospheric, dark, lovecraft
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Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
Thriller charting the moral collapse of a police family. Two cop brothers, smothered by the shadow of their former police chief father, must investigate a crime they themselves have committed.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, detective, visually stunning, realistic, gloomy
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Innocent Lies (1995)
Plot Summary:
In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, erotic, crying, detective, mysterious, sensual
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Flowers in the Attic (2014)
Plot Summary:
After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sadistic, cliffhanger, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, mystical, sexy, dark
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State of Play (2003)
Plot Summary:
A thriller set in London, in which a politician's life becomes increasingly complex as his research assistant is found dead on the London Underground and, in a seemingly unrelated incident, a teenage pickpocket is shot dead.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min
Plot tags: political thriller, political, realistic, tense, suspense, atmospheric, talky, serious, clever, twist ending
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Safe (2018)
Plot Summary:
After his daughter goes missing, a widower begins uncovering the dark secrets of the people closest to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 356 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, witty, crime drama, thrilling, tense, talky, compassionate, psychological thriller, atmospheric
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What Remains (2013)
Plot Summary:
When the decomposed body of Melissa Young is found by a couple in their new flat, Detective Len Harper is determined to discover what happened to her and why nobody noticed she was missing.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, detective, dark, crime drama, realistic
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The Sister (2020)
Plot Summary:
Almost a decade into his new devoted married life Nathan is rocked to the core when Bob, an unwelcome face from the past, turns up on his doorstep with shocking news, triggering a series of catastrophic decisions.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, captivating, suspense, thrilling, non-linear
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Bloodline (2015)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of his parents' hotel, he threatens to expose the Rayburns' dark secrets and shameful past, pushing his siblings to the limits of family loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychological, serious, tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, neo noir
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The Stranger (2020)
Plot Summary:
A web of secrets sends family man Adam Price on a desperate quest to uncover the truth about the people closest to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 363 min
Plot tags: mind bending, clever, detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, suspense, crime drama
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The Gates (2010)
Plot Summary:
Like most families that settle inside The Gates, the Monahans are unmoored from a complicated life they abandoned in Chicago. There's something very different about this place, almost... haunting. Named the new police chief of The Gates, Nick Monahan is about to be tangled up in a mystery where he will begin to piece together the dark truth about their new home, and the supernatural elements that lurk behind the shadows of The Gates.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, captivating, exciting, gothic, detective, costume drama
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The Drowning (2021)
Plot Summary:
Since losing her son eight years ago, Jodie has been rebuilding her life but when she catches sight of Daniel, she is convinced she has found her missing son.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, thrilling, surprise ending
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Cruel Summer (2021)
Plot Summary:
An unconventional thriller that takes place over three summers — 1993-95 — in a small Texas town when a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, intellectual, thrilling, anthology, queer cinema
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Taboo (2017)
Plot Summary:
Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 147000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized, rough, realistic, captivating, costume drama, tension, period piece
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The Leftovers (2014)
Plot Summary:
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't make the cut. Based on the bestselling novel by Tom Perrotta, 'The Leftovers' follows Kevin Garvey, a father of two and the chief of police in a small New York suburb, as he tries to maintain some semblance of normalcy when the notion no longer applies.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, mind bending, offbeat, serious, touching, stylized, surreal, psychological thriller, apocalyptic, spooky
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White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, Brock, for the loss. But as time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, surreal, stylized, independent film, cynical, humorous, semi serious, grindhouse, teen
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Twin Peaks (1990)
Plot Summary:
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 211000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1505 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, mind bending, neo noir, surreal, offbeat, captivating, gloomy
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True Detective (2014)
Plot Summary:
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 618000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, atmospheric, anthology, gloomy, realistic, southern gothic, clever, stylized, captivating