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Plot Summary:
Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers a dark secret that changes everything she thought she knew about her family. Then tragedy tears her world apart and she must forge her own way in the cruel, unknown world.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like V.C. Andrews' Heaven (2019):
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Gates of Paradise (2019)
Plot Summary:
Heaven's daughter Annie finds herself orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by Tony Tatterton, Annie pines for her lost family, especially for her half-brother Luke. Without the warm glow of Luke's love, she is lost in the shadows of despair and forced into submission by nurse Broadfield. When Annie discovers a cottage hidden in Farthinggale's woods, the mystery of her past deepens. Even as she yearns to see Luke again, her hopes and dreams are darkened by the sinister Casteel spell.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: emotional
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Fallen Hearts (2019)
Plot Summary:
Heaven is now happily married and ready to settle back in her hometown. But after a trip to Farthinggale Manor, Heaven is persuaded to stay. Lured by her grandfather to live amidst the wealthy and privileged Heaven seems to have it all until the ghosts of her past rise up once more, threatening her precious new life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Trade Of Innocents (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man. Alex (Dermot Mulroney), a human trafficking investigator, plays the role of her next customer as he negotiates with the pimp for the use of the child. Claire (Mira Sorvino), Alex's wife, is caught up in the flow of her new life in Southeast Asia and her role as a volunteer in an aftercare shelter for rescued girls where lives of local neighborhood girl's freedoms and dignity are threatened. Parallel story lines intertwine and unfold twists against the backdrop of the dangerous human trafficking world, in a story of struggle, life, hope and redemption in the "TRADE of INNOCENTS.".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere, thought provoking, crime drama, crime thriller, interesting
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If There Be Thorns (2015)
Plot Summary:
The third installment in V.C. Andrews’ bestselling series that began with "Flowers in the Attic," "If There Be Thorns" follows Christopher and Cathy Dollanganger as they live together as man and wife with Cathy's two sons who are unaware of the incestuous nature of their parents' relationship. But when a mysterious woman moves in next door and befriends the younger boy, Bart, he begins a strange transformation and displays accusatory behavior towards Cathy and Christopher. When Christopher discovers their mysterious neighbor is, in fact, his mother Corrine Dollanganger, all of the family's long-hidden secrets are revealed in a tragic climax.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, emotional, realistic
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My Sweet Audrina (2016)
Plot Summary:
Living in her family's secluded mansion, Audrina is kept alone and out of sight and is haunted by nightmares of her older sister, First Audrina, who was left for dead in the woods after an attack. As she begins to question her past and her disturbing dreams, the grim truth is slowly revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: captivating, bleak, suspenseful, romantic, scenic, enigmatic
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Little Women (2022)
Plot Summary:
Three sisters, who only have each other and never enough money, get entangled in a conspiracy involving the rich and powerful.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Devil in Ohio (2022)
Plot Summary:
Determined to protect a young patient who escaped a mysterious cult, a psychiatrist takes the girl in, putting her own family — and life — in danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 356 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspense
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NOS4A2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young Victoria "Vic" McQueen discovers she has the power to unlock portals that help her find lost objects. As she delves further into this hidden universe, she encounters many other "inscape travelers" - some benevolent, and some who have been corrupted by their power. When Vic encounters Charlie Manx, an immortal who stays that way by feeding off of the souls of children, she makes a sworn enemy of Manx.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, spooky, bleak, dark drama, dark fantasy, psychological horror, scary, psychological
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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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The Changeling (2023)
Plot Summary:
Apollo and Emma's love story is a fairy tale—until Emma mysteriously vanishes. Bereft, Apollo finds himself on a death-defying odyssey through a New York City he didn't know existed.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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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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Petals on the Wind (2014)
Plot Summary:
This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escape Foxworth Hall.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, emotional, realistic, mystical, action thriller, dark drama
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The Woman in White (2018)
Plot Summary:
The lives of two half-sisters and their drawing master get caught up in a deadly conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed all in white.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, historical drama, period drama
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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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The Bronze Garden (2017)
Plot Summary:
Architect Fabián Danubio desperately tries to find his daughter, who has inexplicably disappeared leaving no trace.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, detective, psychological, thought provoking, suspense, tense, novela
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The Midnight Club (2022)
Plot Summary:
At a manor with a mysterious history, the 8 members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: supernatural thriller, spooky
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Brand New Cherry Flavor (2021)
Plot Summary:
A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early ’90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge — and kittens.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 342 min
Plot tags: sexual, suspense, psychological thriller, surreal, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, offbeat
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a town full of secrets, a group of teenagers are stalked by a mysterious killer a year after a fatal accident on their graduation night.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, teen horror, slasher horror
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Seeds of Yesterday (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, rough, enigmatic, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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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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Rosemary's Baby (2014)
Plot Summary:
Modern 3 hour mini-series adaptation of the classic novel by Ira Levin focusing on young Rosemary Woodhouse's suspicions that her neighbors may belong to a Satanic cult who are hell bent on getting one thing: the baby she is carrying.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, surreal, suspense, feel good, mystic, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful
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Flowers in the Attic (1987)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritence she plans to win back from her dying father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, cult classic, controversial, serious, mystical, psychological thriller, gothic
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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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Chance (2016)
Plot Summary:
San Francisco-based forensic neuropsychiatrist Eldon Chance reluctantly gets sucked into a violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, detective, interesting
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The Watcher (2022)
Plot Summary:
A family moves into their suburban dream home, only to discover they've inherited a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 332 min
Plot tags: suspense, historical drama, thrilling, masterpiece
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The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978)
Plot Summary:
A young couple moves to a quiet New England village, only to soon find themselves mixed up in mysterious rituals.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, satanic, spooky, thrilling, scary, tense, atmospheric, rough, mind bending
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Chapelwaite (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 516 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, exciting, gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, historical drama, spooky
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Salem's Lot (2004)
Plot Summary:
Writer Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot and discovers that it is being terrorized by vampires.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, slasher, splatter, psychotronic, spooky, surprise ending
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Little Fires Everywhere (2020)
Plot Summary:
The intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Explore the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 463 min
Plot tags: suspense, social, captivating, psychological, intellectual, novela, pink cinema, queer cinema
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The Mist (2017)
Plot Summary:
A small town family is torn apart by a brutal crime. As they deal with the fallout an eerie mist rolls in, suddenly cutting them off from the rest of the world, and in some cases, each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, breathtaking, psychological thriller, apocalyptic, sitcom, grindhouse, lovecraft, interesting