Top rated tightly wound movies on IndieFlix

Check out today’s highest ranked tightly wound movies on IndieFlix! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best tightly wound movies on IndieFlix, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Ghost Writer (2010)

A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.

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2010-02-12 | Thriller / Mystery

Cast

Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #138 for
    mysterious
  2. Ranked #149 for
    like The Da Vinci Code
  3. Ranked #214 for
    noir atmosphere

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2 In the Heat of the Night (1967)

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

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1967-08-02 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger

Rating

rating icon 7.627
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #56 for
    like Knives Out
  2. Ranked #57 for
    deservedly won awards
  3. Ranked #65 for
    remarkable

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3 Capsule (2015)

Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain's first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is alone in space with a malfunctioning capsule. He has limited contact with the UK, some unusual communication with the US and some unorthodox communication with Roscosmos deep in Soviet Russia. Who will help him? Will he make the right choice?

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2015-12-23 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Edmund Kingsley, David Wayman

Rating

rating icon 5.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #61 for
    harsh sound
  2. Ranked #146 for
    like The Twilight Zone
  3. Ranked #166 for
    direct-to-DVD

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4 Numb (2015)

Husband and wife, Will and Dawn, are in financial crisis after learning the job Will was counting on to salvage their financial future has disappeared in the midst of a market collapse. They set out to drive home on the winter highway back to their city, and in a moment of altruism, pick up siblings Lee and Cheryl, a pair of hitchhikers on their way to start a new life. In the midst of the night they nearly collide with an old man wandering on the snowy highway, hyperthermic and horrifically frostbitten. While searching for his ID they discover a wad of cash, a hand drawn map with GPS coordinates, and a single gold coin inside his coat. Will and Dawn reluctantly go along with Lee’s plan to report him to the police as a John Doe and pocket the money. In an attempt to save their financial struggles, all four venture off into the snowy wilderness in search of the buried gold.

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2015-12-06 | Thriller

Cast

Jamie Bamber, Marie Avgeropoulos

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #33 for
    Treasure Hunt
  2. Ranked #165 for
    misty
  3. Ranked #179 for
    Survival Movie

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5 The Hustler (1961)

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

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1961-09-25 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason

Rating

rating icon 7.686
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #21 for
    cocksure
  2. Ranked #44 for
    tremendously talented
  3. Ranked #65 for
    devil-may-care

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6 Gaslight (1944)

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

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1944-05-04 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman

Rating

rating icon 7.479
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    with cockney accent
  2. Ranked #36 for
    bludgeoned to death
  3. Ranked #54 for
    flirtatious

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7 The Savages (2007)

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

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2007-11-28 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Rating

rating icon 6.826
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #148 for
    exceptional
  2. Ranked #282 for
    great story
  3. Ranked #375 for
    lugubrious

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8 Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance (1993)

In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness.

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1993-07-12 | Documentary

Cast

Alanis Obomsawin

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #190 for
    raising eyebrows
  2. Ranked #247 for
    sensory overload
  3. Ranked #375 for
    highly quotable

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9 Life with Father (1947)

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

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1947-09-13 | Comedy / Family

Cast

William Powell, Irene Dunne

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #18 for
    prissy
  2. Ranked #67 for
    waggish
  3. Ranked #91 for
    cantankerous

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10 Scanners (1981)

After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

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1981-01-14 | Science Fiction / Horror

Cast

Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack

Rating

rating icon 6.731
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #134 for
    cult-favorite
  2. Ranked #186 for
    eschatological
  3. Ranked #195 for
    renegade

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