Top rated extremely tense movies on Magnolia Selects
Check out today’s highest ranked extremely tense movies on Magnolia Selects! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best extremely tense movies on Magnolia Selects, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Mother (2009)
A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.
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- 2009-05-28 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin
Rating
- 7.7
2 Compliance (2012)
On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee has stolen money from a customer.
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- 2012-08-23 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker
Rating
- 6.362
3 Headhunters (2011)
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
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- 2011-08-26 | Thriller / Crime
Cast
- Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund
Rating
- 7.242
4 The Sacrament (2013)
Two journalists set out to document their friend's journey to reunite with his estranged sister. They track her to an undisclosed location where they are welcomed into the remote world of "Eden Parish," a self-sustained rural utopia composed of nearly two hundred members and overseen by a mysterious leader known only as "Father." It quickly becomes evident to the newcomers that this paradise may not be as it seems. Eden Parish harbors a twisted secret. What started as just another documentary shoot soon becomes a fight for survival.
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- 2013-09-02 | Horror / Thriller
Cast
- Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen
Rating
- 5.959
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5 Pioneer (2013)
Pioneer is set in the early '80s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A professional diver, Petter, obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea has the discipline, strength and courage to take on the world's most dangerous mission. But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. Petter is sent on a perilous journey where he loses sight of who's pulling the strings. Gradually he realizes that he is in way over his head and that his life is at stake.
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- 2013-08-30 | Thriller
Cast
- Aksel Hennie, Wes Bentley
Rating
- 5.8
6 The Wave (2015)
Although theorised, no one is really ready when a mountain pass above the scenic and narrow Geiranger fjord in Norway collapses and creates a tsunami over 300 feet high. A geologist is one of those caught in the middle of it.
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- 2015-08-28 | Action / Thriller
Cast
- Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp
Rating
- 6.7
7 White Settlers (2014)
Young urban couple Ed and Sarah are set to begin a new life when they move from London into an isolated borders Scottish farmhouse. After falling in love with the 19th century Castle Farm and seeing its potential as a fixer-upper they are anxious to get started on the renovations. In bed on their first night Sarah thinks she can hear noises in the darkness but Ed is disbelieving saying it’s her imagination playing tricks. Persisting in her fear they are not alone in the house, she forces Ed to investigate. When he doesn’t return after a scarily long period, she goes downstairs to investigate only to be confronted by a welcoming committee of masked intruders. As she desperately searches for Ed, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues with the mysterious assailants. But what do they want and what horrors do they have planned for the two newcomers?
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- 2014-09-05 | Mystery / Thriller
Cast
- Pollyanna McIntosh, Lee Williams
Rating
- 4.585
8 Force Majeure (2014)
While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
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- 2014-08-15 | Drama
Cast
- Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli
Rating
- 6.866
9 The Hunt (2012)
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
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- 2012-10-25 | Drama
Cast
- Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen
Rating
- 8.099
10 V/H/S/2 (2013)
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.
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- 2013-06-06 | Horror / Thriller
Cast
- Adam Wingard, Hannah Al Rashid
Rating
- 6.23