Top rated extremely tense movies with a paper-thin plot
Check out today’s highest ranked extremely tense movies with a paper-thin plot! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best extremely tense movies with a paper-thin plot, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Last Seen in Idaho (2019)
A woman awakens from a coma after a car accident and begins having shocking visions of her future murder. It's a race against the clock as she tries to solve and prevent her own murder.
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- 2019-08-22 | Crime / Mystery
Cast
- Hallie Shepherd, Casper Van Dien
Rating
- 5.1
2 The Owners (2020)
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.
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- 2020-08-27 | Horror / Mystery
Cast
- Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy
Rating
- 5.6
3 Fatal Affair (2020)
Ellie tries to mend her marriage with her husband Marcus after a brief encounter with an old friend, David, only to find that David is more dangerous and unstable than she'd realized.
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- 2020-07-16 | Thriller
Cast
- Nia Long, Stephen Bishop
Rating
- 5.6
4 The Isle (2019)
1840 and another ship crashes on the rocks of an almost deserted island in Scotland. Three sailors survive the wreck and make it to shore where the few locals take them in as they wait for the mainland boat to come for them. But the sailors' survival story has only just started as they uncover the strange past of the once vibrant island.
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- 2019-02-08 | Thriller / Adventure
Cast
- Conleth Hill, Alex Hassell
Rating
- 4.7
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5 Vanquish (2021)
Victoria is a young mother trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon forces Victoria to do his bidding by holding her daughter hostage. Now, Victoria must use guns, guts and a motorcycle to take out a series of violent gangsters—or she may never see her child again.
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- 2021-04-16 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- Ruby Rose, Morgan Freeman
Rating
- 5.411
6 Infinitum: Subject Unknown (2021)
Jane is the subject of a twisted science experiment where she is placed in a parallel world and is forced to find a way to either alter her reality or be stuck in a time-loop, destined to repeat the same test over and over again, with no memory of her doing it before. But with each 'reset' she starts to retain fragments of memory. With clues pointing to the mysterious Wytness Quantum Research Centre, she tries to find a way out. (The film was shot entirely on an iPhone during the UK’s first lockdown.)
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- 2021-03-03 | Science Fiction / Thriller
Cast
- Tori Butler-Hart, Conleth Hill
Rating
- 5.4
7 The Host (2020)
A chance opportunity arises for Robert Atkinson, a London banker who risks his bank's money to leave the mundane behind and start a new life. To take advantage, he unwittingly signs up with a Chinese cartel to transport a briefcase to Amsterdam. But all is not as it seems in a city veiled by dark secrets. Fuelled by power players, drugs, seduction and violence, Robert awaits his turn in a deadly game of choice and consequence.
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- 2020-01-17 | Thriller / Mystery
Cast
- Maryam Hassouni, Mike Beckingham
Rating
- 5.9
8 Playhouse (2020)
Reckless Jack Travis is an irreverent horror writer notorious for scaring audiences. But as he obsesses over creating a new theatre show set in a haunted Scottish castle, demonic disturbances from deep within the walls begin to prey on his troubled daughter. When the alarming supernatural forces start to close in on him too, Jack is forced to reckon with the terrifying consequences of creating such a dark and macabre play. But will he realise the danger of unearthing a historic curse and stop writing before he damns himself, his personal sanity and those he loves forever?
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- 2020-11-17 | Horror / Thriller
Cast
- William Holstead, Grace Courtney
Rating
- 5.0
9 The Outwaters (2023)
Deep in the Mojave desert, under a scorching blood-red sun, four travelers have set up camp to make art. One fateful night, the group is thrust into a feverish tornado of flayed flesh and mind-boggling monstrosities, the likes of which mere humans simply cannot fathom.
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- 2023-02-09 | Horror / Science Fiction
Cast
- Robbie Banfitch, Angela Basolis
Rating
- 4.4
10 Mid-Century (2022)
A husband and wife's weekend in a mid-century modern vacation rental turns deadly when the husband discovers the owner is a psychopath with a backyard of buried secrets and designs on his wife.
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- 2022-06-17 | Horror / Thriller
Cast
- Shane West, Sarah Hay
Rating
- 4.44