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 5.4
 115K
Red Riding Hood (2011)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man – who is wealthy. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older ...
Style: fairy tale, gothic, dark fantasy, gothic horror, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, dangerous attraction, legends and myths, danger, animal attack, curse, village life, hunt down, goth, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time: middle ages, year 2011, year 2000, 2010s, medieval times
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 6.0
 5K
Oxygen (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini
Style: suspenseful, scary, psychological, surprise ending, rough ...
Plot: masochist, chase, serial killer, police investigation, murder, ransom, fbi, police station, psychopath, police detective, danger, race against time ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, miami, usa, san francisco
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The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
Style: scary, mind bending, bloody, surreal, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: monster, supernatural, creature, survival, cabin in the woods, trapped, zombie, fear, werewolf, dark humor, death, danger ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2000, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: usa
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 6.6
 33K
Shattered (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot: kidnapping, infidelity, twists and turns, cheating wife, husband wife relationship, blackmail, police investigation, mind game, manipulation, moral dilemma, secrets, daughter ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
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 6.0
 256K
The Tourist (2010)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: American tourist Frank (Johnny Depp) meets mysterious British woman Elsie (Angelina Jolie) on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye. Remake of the 2005 French film "Anthony Zimmer", ...
Style: exciting, surprise ending, twist ending, romantic, visually appealing ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love story, twists and turns, outsmarting, undercover agent, mysterious character, master criminal, female spy, female agent, femme fatale, love, manipulation, intelligence agency ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, venice, europe, iran, paris france ...
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 7.4
 62K
Who Am I (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
Style: surprise ending, suspense, clever, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: hacker, hacking, computer, computer hacker, computers and web, computer cracker, cybercrime, plot twist, dark web, split personality, deception, internet ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
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 6.5
 32K
Dead End (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, tense, christmas horror ...
Plot: time loop, forest, ghost, supernatural horror, danger, wrong place wrong time, road trip, fear, supernatural, gory, survival, time travel ...
Time: year 2003
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 6.7
 48K
Swimming Pool (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In the middle of this amusing thriller is a relationship between two different types of females, one is a well know British author and the other is a sex-crazed French teen. The two get into some relationship trouble while living together in this ...
Style: sexy, sensual, ambiguous ending, art house, suspense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: murder, twists and turns, swimming, swimming pool, writers, sex, obsession, porn, self discovery, writer's life, lust, voyeurism ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france, cote d'azur, europe, south of france, london ...
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 5.8
 46K
Morgan (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.
Style: suspense, clever, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, cloning, moral dilemma, genetics, violence, experiment, robot, artificial intelligence, chase, secret laboratory, female robot, isolation ...
Time: future, year 2016, near future
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 5.7
 20K
The Juror (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verdict, implying that he'll kill her son Oliver if she fails. She manages to do this, ...
Style: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, intense, realistic ...
Plot: courtroom drama, obsession, courtroom, trial, legal, lawyer, murder mystery, hitman, danger, unlikely friendships, single parent, blackmail ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, guatemala
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 6.6
 142K
The Recruit (2003)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A brilliant CIA trainee must prove his worth at the Farm, the agency's secret training grounds, where he learns to watch his back and trust no one.
Style: surprise ending, clever, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: spy, cia, twists and turns, secret service, espionage, double agent, basic training, undercover, hotshot hero, rookie, recruit, deception ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., boston, usa, peru, langley virginia ...
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The Bone Collector (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The ...
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, tense, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, police investigation, policewoman, mind game, murder, twists and turns, master criminal, crime scene, forensics, race against time ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, persia, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
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 3.8
 6K
The Sand (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water again, you can’t even get across the sand! BLOOD BEACH meets SPRING BREAKERS in an ace monster mash-up of smart nostalgia and up-to-the-minute visual effects. After an all-night graduation ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, disturbing, independent film, bleak
Plot: creature, beach, stranded, eaten alive, monster, high school, teenager, stupidity, desperation, party, prom, dark humor ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa
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 6.3
 13K
Shade (2003)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game. However, they first need ...
Style: surprise ending, clever, tense, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gambling, betrayal, gangster, organized crime, dishonesty, caper, twists and turns, brutality, criminal heroes, ambition, rivalry, revenge ...
Time: year 2003
Place: usa, los angeles, california, las vegas
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 8.3
 1.2M
American Beauty (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style: melancholic, thought provoking, dark comedy, sexual, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, existentialism, age difference, obsession, loneliness, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, nymphet, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, older man young girl relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place: usa, america, los angeles, iran
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Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide'. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, surprise ending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: virus, radiation, survival, tourist, nuclear power plant, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, stranded, mutant, zombie, vacation, abandoned building, death ...
Time: year 2012
Place: chernobyl, ukraine, kiev ukraine, london, rome italy ...
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A Perfect Murder (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But ...
Style: sexy, suspenseful, clever, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: betrayal, infidelity, blackmail, murder, twists and turns, jealousy, love affair, perfect crime, adultery, husband wife relationship, greed, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
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A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style: surreal, psychological, scary, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Plot: mental illness, suicide, ghost, nightmare, losing-it hero, death, tragedy, haunted house, twists and turns, children, guilt, sisters ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
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 7.0
 22K
The Hidden (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, car chase, buddy cop, fbi, chase, mind control, violence, alien invasion, revenge, monster, space and aliens, twists and turns ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: los angeles
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 6.8
 107K
eXistenZ (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Style: surreal, psychological, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing ...
Plot: virtual reality, cyberpunk, alternate reality, twists and turns, cyberspace, dystopia, distopia, escape from reality, dystopian future, conspiracy, video game, parallel world ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1999, near future
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 3.3
 10K
Smiley (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.
Style: slasher, psychological, surprise ending, scary, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, urban legend, prank, college, internet, murder, psychopath, stalker, danger, masked killer, paranoia, library ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.9
 147K
The Firm (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the ...
Style: suspense, tense, surprise ending, clever, psychological ...
Plot: lawyer, corruption, law firm, murder, conspiracy, surveillance, investigation, legal, chase, seduction, blackmail, courtroom ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: memphis, boston, tennessee, usa, harvard university ...
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 6.6
 65K
Copycat (1995)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
Style: suspense, detective, psychological thriller, psychological, surprise ending ...
Plot: serial killer, psychology, psychopath, agoraphobia, police investigation, murder mystery, twists and turns, maniac, violence, paranoia, police detective, mind game ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: san francisco, persia, usa, california
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 6.1
 40K
Dragonfly (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
Style: suspense, psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: afterlife, hospital, supernatural, doctor, supernatural ability, medical, death, lovers apart, dealing with death, ghost, destiny, grief ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, colombia, venezuela
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 7.1
 338K
The Mist (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
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 6.4
 25K
Anna (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, tense ...
Plot: manipulation, psychic power, haunted by the past, uncover truth, twists and turns, mind game, plot twist, brutality, teenager, life is a bitch, murder, false memory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.3
 18K
Jennifer 8 (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A big city cop from LA moves to a small town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, the cop, John Berlin, meets a young blind woman named Helena, who he is attracted to. ...
Style: suspenseful, surprise ending, tense, detective, neo noir ...
Plot: serial killer, blindness, killer, murder, obsession, police investigation, small town, whodunit, hitman, blind character, surveillance, police officer ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, germany, europe, usa ...
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 6.1
 101K
Dead Silence (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style: scary, twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: ghost, doll, supernatural, macabre, murder, ventriloquist, small town, clown, investigation, urban legend, danger, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, alien, creature, survival horror, deaf, silence, survival, monster, deafness, alien invasion, child in peril, macabre ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future, near future
Place: new york, usa, new york state, atlantic ocean, america
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 5.9
 39K
Kidnap (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A mother (in her Minivan) stops at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.
Style: suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending ...
Plot: kidnapping, strong female lead, abduction, single mother, child in peril, rescue, danger, little boy, missing child, plot twist, female protagonist, determination ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa
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