Top rated tense and suspenseful movies with a refreshing take

Check out today’s highest ranked tense and suspenseful movies with a refreshing take! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best tense and suspenseful movies with a refreshing take, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Head Count (2019)

Newcomer Evan joins a group of teens on a getaway in Joshua Tree. While exchanging ghost stories around the campfire, Evan reads aloud a mysterious chant from an internet site. From that moment, someone--or something--is among them.

Info

2019-06-14 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Isaac Jay, Ashleigh Morghan

Rating

rating icon 5.3
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    climactic ending
  2. Ranked #3 for
    postal
  3. Ranked #3 for
    downright creepy

Trailer

Head Count trailer
play button

2 #Alive (2020)

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

Info

2020-06-24 | Horror / Action

Cast

Yoo Ah-in, Park Shin-hye

Rating

rating icon 7.238
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    fairly easy
  2. Ranked #3 for
    saturated imagery
  3. Ranked #3 for
    Apocalypse Film

Trailer

#Alive trailer
play button

3 Fresh (2022)

Frustrated by scrolling dating apps only to end up on lame, tedious dates, Noa takes a chance by giving her number to the awkwardly charming Steve after a produce-section meet-cute at the grocery store.

Info

2022-03-03 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan

Rating

rating icon 6.974
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fresh
  2. Ranked #1 for
    dated
  3. Ranked #2 for
    horrifying

Trailer

Fresh trailer
play button

4 The Invisible Man (2020)

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

Info

2020-02-26 | Thriller / Science Fiction

Cast

Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge

Rating

rating icon 7.113
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    psychologically thrilling
  2. Ranked #2 for
    futuristic society
  3. Ranked #3 for
    domineering character

Trailer

The Invisible Man trailer
play button
download maimovie
Download
Maimovie Now

to discover other
77,189 similar movies

5 The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019)

After barely surviving a violent attack by an elusive serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su finds himself forming an unlikely partnership with local detective Jung Tae-seok to catch the sadistic killer simply known as K.

Info

2019-05-15 | Crime / Action

Cast

Ma Dong-seok, Kim Moo-yul

Rating

rating icon 7.79
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    time passer
  2. Ranked #1 for
    gritty atmosphere
  3. Ranked #1 for
    perfectly acceptable

Trailer

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil trailer
play button

6 Little Joe (2019)

Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.

Info

2019-11-01 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw

Rating

rating icon 5.702
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    use of primary colors
  2. Ranked #1 for
    bright colors
  3. Ranked #1 for
    high-pitched voice

Trailer

Little Joe trailer
play button

7 Bad Hair (2021)

In 1989, an ambitious young woman gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career may come at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.

Info

2021-05-05 | Horror / Comedy

Cast

Elle Lorraine, Jay Pharoah

Rating

rating icon 5.89
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    ingenue
  2. Ranked #1 for
    textured
  3. Ranked #1 for
    blunt

Trailer

Bad Hair trailer
play button

8 Anything for Jackson (2020)

A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but they end up summoning more than they bargained for.

Info

2020-04-04 | Horror

Cast

Sheila McCarthy, Julian Richings

Rating

rating icon 6.836
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    comedown
  2. Ranked #2 for
    decently scary
  3. Ranked #2 for
    kind of silly

Trailer

Anything for Jackson trailer
play button

9 Sputnik (2020)

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…

Info

2020-09-08 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Oksana Akinshina, Pyotr Fyodorov

Rating

rating icon 6.517
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #4 for
    competent
  2. Ranked #4 for
    creditable directing
  3. Ranked #5 for
    synchronized

Trailer

Sputnik trailer
play button

10 The Deep House (2021)

While diving in a remote French lake, a couple of YouTubers who specialise in underwater exploration videos discover a house submerged in the deep waters. What was initially a unique finding soon turns into a nightmare when they discover that the house was the scene of atrocious crimes. Trapped, with their oxygen reserves falling dangerously, they realise the worst is yet to come: they are not alone in the house.

Info

2021-06-30 | Horror

Cast

James Jagger, Camille Rowe

Rating

rating icon 6.051
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    claustrophobic
  2. Ranked #2 for
    American Gothic
  3. Ranked #2 for
    novel concept

Trailer

The Deep House trailer
play button

FAQ

According to the review analysis on Maimovie, movies in Top rated tense and suspenseful movies with a refreshing take list are rated as freaky, genuinely tense, well-paced, incredibly suspenseful, heart-pounding, like Marrowbone, favorite quote, thrilling, fearful, shocking moment.
We collect all existing reviews on the web for all movies and proceed machine learning to calculate the A.I. ranking. It ranks the movies while automatically updating new information every week.
Using Taste search, Maimovie provides a unique system which helps you search for specific results through phrases that are collected from movie reviews and information from various movie databases. You can look for movies with phrases such as “adrenaline pumping movies” or “unexpected plot twist of all time.” The Maimovie application’s database covers movie information from all 540K+ movies and connects you to all 74+ available streaming services.