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 6.0
 33K
Erased (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Belgium, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A former agent of the CIA and his estranged daughter go on the run after his employers target them for assassination.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, rough, action thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: cia, father daughter relationship, spy, espionage, family relations, secret agent, hitman, secret service, conspiracy, on the run, family in danger, chase ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: belgium, usa, antwerp, brussels belgium
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Fatal Attraction (1987)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Style: sexy, psychological thriller, sensual, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, infidelity, stalker, mental illness, femme fatale, adultery, fatal attraction, sexual obsession, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, insanity, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.4
 2K
The Oath (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, UK, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When his daughter's criminal boyfriend becomes an increasing threat to the family, a father must take action to protect them.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, exciting ...
Plot: investigation, father daughter conflict, husband wife relationship, drug addict, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, young woman, family in danger, police detective, blackmail, drug, murder ...
Time: 2010s
Place: iceland, reykjavik iceland
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Seattle Superstorm (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An object is shot down over Seattle and the debris begins to effect the local weather ultimately threatening the whole world.
Style: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Plot: disaster, storm, family in danger, weather, tornado, catastrophe, save the day, forces of nature, chaos, soldier, heroes, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, seattle, washington state, washington d.c.
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Adopting Terror (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tim and Cheryl Broadbent are excited to finally adopt Mona, a beautiful baby girl. But when the baby's biological father starts stalking them, their world turns upside down: through intimidation, manipulation, and violence, he is determined to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: psychopath, stalking, murder, family in danger, family problems, danger, adoption, parents and children, husband wife relationship, child, wrestling, parents ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.8
 59K
Firewall (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: State-of-the-art security system creator, Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal finds a way into Jack's personal life, everything Jack holds dear is suddenly at stake.
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, robbery, rescue, family in danger, computer hacker, bank, hacking, blackmail, home invasion, kidnapped, computer ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: washington state, usa, seattle
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 6.3
 72K
The Collector (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, trap, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, homicidal maniac, mystery killer ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
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 4.4
 1K
The Cottage (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A romance novelist (David Arquette) moves into a "cottage" behind the home of a composer and his family. He seems sweet, but what do they really know about him?
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: tenant, psychopath, family in danger, couples, parents and children, twists and turns, suburbs, cabin in the woods, kidnapping, writers, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Open Water 2: Adrift (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A weekend cruise on a luxurious party yacht goes horribly wrong for a group of old high-school friends. They forget to let the ladder down before they jump into the ocean for a swim. The boat proves impossible to climb. They are stuck in the water ...
Style: scary, psychological, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: survival, human nature, yacht, danger, social relations, uninhibited rivalry, family in danger, drowning, diving, water, shark, isolation ...
Place: mexico, latin america
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 5.7
 18K
The Hallow (2015)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A family who moved into a remote mill house in Ireland finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, creepy, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: folk horror, supernatural, creature, monster, forest, woods, legend, survival horror, transformation, survival, family in danger, folklore ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
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 5.4
 15K
Emelie (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After their regular babysitter Maggie can’t make it, the Thompson family turns to her friend Anna to supervise their children while the parents go out to celebrate their anniversary. At first Anna seems like a dream come true to the kids, allowing ...
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: date night
Plot: babysitter, babysitting, kidnapping, family in danger, female psychopath, fake identity, husband wife relationship, family home, trophy, incest, children, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.2
 24K
Silent House (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Sarah returns with her father and uncle to fix up the family's longtime summerhouse after it was violated by squatters in the off-season. As they work in the dark, Sarah begins to hear sounds from within the walls of the boarded-up building. ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak, twisted ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, survival, family in danger, home invasion, uncover truth, haunted by the past, country house, confined, twists and turns, isolation, parents and children ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
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 4.9
 5K
Jackals (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set in the 1980s, an estranged family hires a cult deprogrammer to take back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot: isolated house, home invasion, family in danger, brother brother relationship, baby, kidnapping, father son relationship, family home, night, terror, siege, murder ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
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 4.7
 458
Dark Desire (2012)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young man desperate to be connected to the people close to him resorts to devious measures to achieve that desire
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: obsession, family in danger, investigation, murder, uncover truth, dishonesty, love affair, couples, sociopath, relationship problems, criminal, pursuit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.3
 2K
The Fields (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tells the story of a young boy and his family who are terrorized by an unseen presence.
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, twisted, serious ...
Plot: youth, farm, family in danger, murder, danger, small town, religions or cults, family relations, redneck, child in peril, serial killer, boy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: pennsylvania
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Just the Wind (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drawing inspiration from the death-squad murders of several Gypsy families in Hungary in 2008, director Bence Fliegauf's chilling and unforgettable real-life horror story follows a family whose dreams of emigration and escape are suddenly, ...
Style: serious, sincere, bleak, realistic, aesthetic ...
Plot: gypsy, racism, family in danger, social decay, murder, family life, life is a bitch, social misfits, realism, society, danger, secret place ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, hungary
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Keep Watching (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, mind game, serial killer, hidden camera, murder, family in danger, danger, isolation, psychopath, manipulation, family secret, strangulation ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.2
 4K
Komodo (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During the 70's, some Komodo Dragon eggs were dumped on an North Carolina island. Somehow, the baby Komodos survived, and twenty years later they have grown up and taken over the island for themselves. Young Patrick has lost his parents and his ...
Style: serious, rough, exciting, scary, natural horror ...
Plot: dangerous animal, animal attack, creature feature, island, family in danger, monster, giant monster, killer animal, isolation, teenage boy, mutant, creature ...
Time: 90s, jurassic
Place: north carolina
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 4.2
 6K
Mortuary (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A family moves to a small town in California where they plan on starting a new life while running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, which is suspected to be on haunted ground
Style: slasher, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: afterlife, family in danger, murder, funeral home, small town, supernatural, mysterious character, family problems, starting over, curses spells and rituals, haunted house, zombie ...
Place: california, texas, usa
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 7.2
 15K
To the Lake (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Mini-series in which an unknown virus turns Moscow into a city of the dead. There is no electricity, money has lost all value and those who are still not infected, are desperately fighting for food and fuel. The main character, Sergei, lives outside ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, serious
Plot: virus, epidemic, apocalypse, survival, panic, post apocalypse, extinction, dystopia, infection, snow, family in danger, zombie ...
Place: moscow russia, russia
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Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, surreal, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, plague, danger, life is a bitch, undead, society, chaos, post apocalypse, survival, parents and children ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A twisted new tale of terror begins for a teenage girl and her family, predating the haunting of the Lambert family in the earlier movies and revealing more mysteries of the otherworldly realm The Further.
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, demonic, intense ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, supernatural horror, ghost, demon, psychic, curses spells and rituals, family in danger, family problems, haunted, supernatural power, evil spirit ...
Time: year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.3
 85K
The Uninvited (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns ...
Style: twist ending, scary, surprise ending, slasher, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, mental illness, ghost, family problems, woman in danger, parents and children, uncover truth, family in danger, siblings relations, pretense, sisters, blood ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, year 2000, year 1986, 80s ...
Place: maine, new england
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The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 572 min.
TV show
Story: The Crains, a fractured family, confront haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
Style: scary, enigmatic, disturbing, surreal, demonic ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, mysterious past, supernatural horror, addiction, sibling relationship, old dark house, lesbian, past coming back to haunt, spirit, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
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Curse of the Witching Tree (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An innocent woman, accused of murdering her son and hanged as a witch, curses a tree and the children who play around it. The effects of this act of revenge echo through the years .....
Style: tense, scary, psychotronic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: paranormal phenomena, supernatural, family in danger, curse, ghost, vengeance, paranormal, violence, society, dishonesty, spirit, exorcism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain
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 6.2
 93K
Case 39 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, evil child, demon, social worker, supernatural horror, twists and turns, child abuse, creepy child, uncover truth, mental institution, mysterious character, murder ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
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 7.0
 14K
Black Sabbath (1963)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three short tales of supernatural horror. In “The Telephone,” a woman is plagued by threatening phone calls. In "The Wurdalak,” a family is preyed upon by vampiric monsters. In “The Drop of Water,” a deceased medium wreaks havoc on ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, disturbing, anthology, suspenseful ...
Plot: vampire, vengeance, murder, macabre, afterlife, ghost, lesbian subtext, family in danger, visceral, supernatural horror, death, revenge ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 1800s, 60s, 19th century
Place: russia
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The New Daughter (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa, who's entering ...
Style: scary, tense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: evil child, teenage girl, supernatural, indian burial ground, single parent, danger, curses spells and rituals, life turned upside down, parents and children, family in danger, father daughter relationship, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa
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 4.7
 2K
Joey (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A nine year old boy named Joey, who after the tragic death of his father, begins to experience psychic powers such as allowing him to move inanimate objects with his mind, set things on fire, and even communicate with his dead father. However, not ...
Style: serious, bleak, suspense, slasher, scary ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: telekinesis, ghost, evil doll, puppet, good versus evil, afterlife, monster, doll, young heroes, battles, family in danger, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
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Flowers in the Attic (1987)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: incest, children, confined, survival, siblings relations, family life, estate, old mansion, child abuse, life is a bitch, danger, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
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