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Plot Summary:
The year is 2016. TV sucks. Ratings - at least at one major network - are at an all-time low. Desperate to save their jobs, the executives make an unprecedented decision: It's time to pull the plug. On everything. All programming must go. But what will replace it? Enter "The Vault," the greatest reality television competition in history... Or at least that's how they're selling it. A 24/7 game show that offers more questions than answers. The contestants, college students chosen from all over the country, will have 7 days to uncover its secrets and win a multi-million dollar prize. But once they're locked inside, they'll discover a game that's bigger and stranger than they could have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: game show, futuristic, suspenseful, cliffhanger, tense, captivating, serious
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One of Us (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young journalist goes deep undercover within a mountain commune and becomes manipulated by a duplicitous cult leader.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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The Nightmare Nanny (2013)
Plot Summary:
Stay-home mom Annie is reluctant to return to work, until she finds Amber, the perfect nanny for her 3-year-old daughter Jenny. But as Annie's young daughter grows closer and closer to Amber, Annie begins to feel like she's being pushed out of her own life. When Jenny suddenly vanishes one day,Annie's search for her missing daughter leads her to the terrifying truth about the dark past of the woman she trusted with her child.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, enigmatic, captivating, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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The Book of Jer3miah (2009)
Plot Summary:
A college freshman, Jeremiah Whitney, accepts the undertaking to protect a mysterious Mesoamerican box. When Jeremiah's parents are mysteriously murdered, Jeremiah learns that he is the target of a frightening conspiracy. Every facet of his life is called into question, and now he must uncover the truth about the box, the conspiracy, and his very identity.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, cliffhanger, spiritual
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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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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
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, realistic
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Plot Summary:
The story of a veterinarian killer who saves animals and a detective who saves people.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, dorama, tense, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspenseful, detective
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Plot Summary:
Kaitlyn, an ER nurse who is tending to a young stabbing victim, is accidentally electrocuted by the defibrillator that is used in an effort to save the woman's life. Almost immediately Kaitlyn starts to experience the victim's memories. She turns to family, friends, and the police, but no one takes her seriously. She decides that she must take it upon herself to try to solve the crime - or risk the terrifying visions ending in her own sanity being at stake. Ultimately Kaitlyn teams up with the detective on the case and weaves her way through the victim's past - to discover not only the brutal truth, but also some very unexpected lessons about life, love, sorrow and forgiveness along the way. (official website).
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological, rough, serious
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Plot Summary:
Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Duration: 60 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, mystic, offbeat, bleak
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, captivating
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 764
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile, Spain, Mexico
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 954
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, intellectual, suspenseful, detective
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The Bridge (2013)
Plot Summary:
A murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross and Chihuahua State Police detective Marco Ruiz.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
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Country: USA, Mexico
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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