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Plot Summary:
Catherine lost her memory and wound up in a convent in the care of nuns. She tries to discover the terrible events which led to her condition, not realizing that she's being watched by a wealthy and powerful man who will do anything to protect his secret - a secret that only Catherine can reveal to the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min
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Best tv shows and movies like Memories of Midnight (1991):
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Dangerous Lady (1995)
Plot Summary:
Dangerous Lady was a four-part British mini-series TV drama, which aired on ITV and was based on Martina Cole's first published novel of the same name. The series premièred in 1995 and starred Sheila Hancock, Jason Isaacs, Susan Lynch and Owen Teale. Each episode lasted 60 minutes and was a Warner Sisters production for the ITV network.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 198 min
Plot tags:
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Turn Back the Clock (1989)
Plot Summary:
After a woman fervently wishes for another chance after a terrible tragedy, she is mysteriously granted one year of her life to be lived over.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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The Castro's Abbess (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess. She has to deal with corruption in the church.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Blind Faith (1990)
Plot Summary:
Blind Faith is a 1990 television film directed by Paul Wendkos, based on the 1989 true crime book of the same name by Joe McGinniss. Originally broadcast in two parts with a total runtime of 190 minutes, the film is sometimes classified as a TV miniseries.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min
Plot tags: psychological
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Frozen Heart (2010)
Plot Summary:
At the end of an adventurous night, Attila - a gang boss- is thrown to his death from a building in Tehran. Shahrokh, a famous archaeologist is arrested for Attila's murder. Upon conviction, Shahrokh becomes cell-mates with Hamed, a man convicted of murdering his pregnant wife - Shiva- who is suffering from amnesia. Sayyeh, Shahrokh's daughter, joins forces with Mehran- a fellow history enthusiast-to try and clear her father's name. As the cat and mouse game continues, it comes to light that the illegal transfer and sale of a container of highly precious antiques seems to be at the heart of things. Is Shahrokh truly innocent? What is Mehran's real agenda? What is Hamed hiding? Is Sayyeh's only interest saving her father? As the clock counts down towards the zero hour, the story unravels, unmasking many of the characters' deceit as well as the scheme behind the greatest heist in Iranian history.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative
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Betrayal (1974)
Plot Summary:
A lonely widow hires a young woman as her companion. What she doesn't know is that the woman and her boyfriend are extortionists, who are planning on making her their next victim, then killing her when they get her money.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense
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Deadly Embrace (1989)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful but horny and neglected Beverly Hills wife hires a hot young stud as a gardener. It eventually gets through to her husband that some hanky-panky may possibly be going on, and he begins to spy on her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, surprise ending, crying, independent film, gay cinema
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A Married Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
British television movie in which a married lawyer's excursion into adultery leads to murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags:
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The Plot Against America (2020)
Plot Summary:
An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 374 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, disturbing, harsh, period piece
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Paula (2017)
Plot Summary:
A thriller about Paula, a chemistry teacher whose life is turned upside down after a one-night stand with James. They become locked in a dance of destruction. Only one can survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Vengeance (1980)
Plot Summary:
Four hoodlums break into a jeweller's house and brutally murder him, his wife and daughter. On the run they kidnap Jenny, a Senator's grand daughter and her boyfriend, but discover that the two will not be taken easily. In the melee that follows, the gang are blown away one by one, until the final vengeful confrontation between Jenny and the remaining gang member.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher
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Too Good to Be True (1988)
Plot Summary:
A self-entitled woman is determined to keep her new man to herself at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Billionaire Boys Club (1987)
Plot Summary:
The Billionaire Boys Club is based on the true story of Joe Hunt (Nelson), a shady investor who built an empire on B.S back in the early 80s. Known as the BBC, the story involves a couple of guys recruited into Hunt's company on the promise of making millions. However, everytime Hunt's lapdogs think his boss has used his cleverness to make them filthy rich, they instead find themselves with financial losses. Trying to recoup a mounting pile of debt made from giant b.s. deals, the ruthless Hunt involves select members of the BBC to aid in the worst of crimes to get what they want. But, a few, scared of how far Hunt will go, try to stop Hunt's brutal reign of terror possibly before real damage begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 943
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic
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Dime Quién Soy: Mistress of War (2020)
Plot Summary:
Amelia Garayoa gives up a comfortable life in her fight for freedom, becoming swept up in the greatest conflicts of the 20th century.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 426 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, historical drama, period drama
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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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Windmills of the Gods (1988)
Plot Summary:
When Mary Ashley is approached to become ambassador of the United States of America in Romania she does not take the offer because her husband does not want to give up his well-going doctor's office. Shortly afterward Dr. Edward Ashley gets killed in a car accident. After this Mary Ashley reconsiders the offer and finally accepts. Arrived in Romania she is confronted with a complex plot in which the American President's current plans to improve relations between the US and communist countries shall be sabotaged.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 187 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Last Thing He Told Me (2023)
Plot Summary:
A woman must forge a relationship with her teenage stepdaughter in order to find her husband, who has mysteriously disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 275 min
Plot tags:
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Obsessed with a Married Woman (1985)
Plot Summary:
Jane Seymour makes a six-course meal of her starring role as a magazine editor in Obsessed With a Married Woman--indeed, her performance is the only tangible reason for sitting through this artistically bankrupt TV movie. The story contrives to have Seymour, happily married and the mother of a wise-lipped son, fall into the sack with her star reporter Tim Matheson. It seems that Jane has assigned Matheson to do a series of articles on mistresses. He does his homework so well that Jane takes him on as her own "male mistress.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
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The Old Man (2022)
Plot Summary:
Dan Chase absconded from the CIA decades ago and now lives off the grid. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he now must reconcile his past.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dramatic, thrilling, political drama
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Devils (2020)
Plot Summary:
After being implicated in a deadly scandal, a trader at a leading London bank fights to clear his name, but instead uncovers an intercontinental conspiracy masterminded by powerful forces operating in the shadows.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Before He Wakes (1998)
Plot Summary:
Initially cleared of "accidentally" killing her husband, an idyllic wife and mother comes under suspicion when police learn that her first husband also perished under similar circumstances. As the investigation unfolds, it becomes clear that she'll stop at nothing to protect her secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Twelve (2019)
Plot Summary:
Twelve ordinary people are called for jury duty for a murder case as traumatizing as it is controversial: the respected headmistress Fri Palmers stands accused of two murders, one of whom is her own child. Gradually, as the trial gains momentum, it is not only Fri’s fate that hangs in the balance, but also the lives of the jury members that are shaken to the core.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fatal Attraction (2023)
Plot Summary:
An affair threatens the lives of Dan Gallagher and his wife, Beth, in this deep-dive reimagining of the classic psychosexual thriller which explores fatal attraction and the timeless themes of marriage and infidelity through the lens of modern attitudes toward strong women, personality disorders and coercive control.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller
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An Inconvenient Woman (1991)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by Dominick Dunne, this movie tells the story of an affair between a wealthy heir, Jules and the mistress he has kept for 18 years, Vicki. Jules' wife Betsy is aware of the affair as their marriage is one of convenience but when Jules is diagnosed with cancer, she demands an end to it. When Vicki is left broke and desperate, she threatens to expose all of Jules' sins and secrets which she has learned throughout the years. They had other plans for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Gypsy (2017)
Plot Summary:
The journey of Jean Holloway – a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, cliffhanger, erotic, captivating, suspense, psychological thriller, absurd, scenic, deep
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Condor (2018)
Plot Summary:
Young CIA analyst Joe Turner has his idealism tested when he learns that the CIA has been using an algorithm he developed to spy on American citizens, leading the organization to a terrorist plot that threatens the lives of millions. Inspired by Sydney Pollack’s 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, captivating, erotic, action adventure, political thriller
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Love, Lies and Murder (1991)
Plot Summary:
This movie, based on the true story, begins with the murder of a housewife. When troubled teenage daughter confesses the crime, it looks like a solved case. But, the investigators are suspicious because of the lack of motive and spend years trying to determine what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: detective, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Black Narcissus (2020)
Plot Summary:
Himalayas, 1934. A remote clifftop palace once known as the ‘House of Women’ holds many dark secrets. When the young nuns of St. Faith attempt to establish a mission there, its haunting mysteries awaken forbidden desires that seem destined to repeat a terrible tragedy. Adaptation of the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, powerful, period drama
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The Terminal List (2022)
Plot Summary:
Navy SEAL Commander James Reece turns to vengeance as he investigates the mysterious forces behind the murder of his entire platoon. Free from the military’s command structure, Reece applies the lessons he’s learned from nearly two decades of warfare to hunt down the people responsible.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 103000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: dark, spectacular, crime thriller, relaxing, thrilling, neo noir
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Defending Jacob (2020)
Plot Summary:
A family’s lives are irreparably disrupted when the 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a fellow classmate.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 402 min
Plot tags: suspense, detective, serious, captivating, social, philosophical, atmospheric, intellectual, slasher, anthology