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Plot Summary:
An emotionally challenged young man named Bobby (Christian Bale) runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather who has killed his pets. He meets an old man, Mr. Summers (John Hurt), who spends his time traveling and giving burials to animals that have been killed by cars. Bobby, also having an affinity for animals, becomes friends with the old man and aids him in his task.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, psychological, touching, bleak, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, crying, allegory
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Victory (1996)
Plot Summary:
Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, Heyst becomes entranced with a member of the hotel's all-female orchestra.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, sentimental, period piece, hilarious, independent film, sexy, realistic, sexual
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Driftwood (1997)
Plot Summary:
When Sarah walks alone along the desolate beach one day she find an unconscious man, who has been brought to land by the waves. When he awakens he doesn't remember anything. He has no name and no past. His dependence lies on Sarah. A role that makes her forget her loneliness and she decides to therefore lie about their situation... She says that they are situated on an island, where no one can reach them. From now, his life lies in her hands.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic
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The Flight of the Innocent (1992)
Plot Summary:
The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: art house, serious, realistic, crying
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Secret Ceremony (1968)
Plot Summary:
A tormented rich girl hires a sex worker to act as her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, deep, psychological, tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Felicia's Journey (1999)
Plot Summary:
A solitary middle-aged bachelor and a naive Irish teenager transform one another's lives to arrive at a place of recognition, redemption and wisdom in Atom Egoyan's adaptation of William Trevor's celebrated 1994 novel. Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks a serial killer. Hilditch has murdered several young women, but he has no conscious awareness of the crimes; like Felicia, he doesn't see his true self. Felicia's Journey is a story of innocence lost and regained: Felicia awakens to the world's dangers and duplicities; and Hilditch, who grew up lonely and unloved, comes to realize what was taken from him, and what he himself has taken.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, erotic, sexy, art house, independent film, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Red (2008)
Plot Summary:
An older, reclusive man's best friend and inspiration for living is his 14-year-old dog named "Red". When three troublesome teens kill the dog for no good reason, the grieving man sets out for justice and redemption by whatever means available to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: emotional, suspense, touching, tense, serious, disturbing, psychological horror, cult classic, realistic, gloomy
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Shotgun Stories (2007)
Plot Summary:
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, depressing, suspense, harsh, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, southern gothic, independent film
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London to Brighton (2006)
Plot Summary:
It's 3:07am and two girls burst into a run down London toilet. Joanne is crying her eyes out and her clothing is ripped. Kelly's face is bruised and starting to swell. Duncan Allen lies in his bathroom bleeding to death. Duncan's son finds his father and wants answers. Derek – Kelly's pimp – needs to find Kelly or it will be him who pays.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, emotional, hood, bleak, serious, realistic, crying
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The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Plot Summary:
An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: road movie, scenic, surreal, visually appealing, erotic, sexy, independent film, retro, art film, sensual
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The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
Plot Summary:
Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on the run after a run-in with the police. Assisted by his lawyer Rina Van Niekirk and visiting British engineer Jim Keogh, he heads for Capetown where he hopes to recover a stash of diamonds, meant to finance revolutionary activities, that he had entrusted to a dentist before his incarceration. Along the way, they are followed by Major Horn of the South African State security bureau and it becomes apparent that he has no intention of arresting them until they reach their final destination.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, political
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The Great Train Robbery (1978)
Plot Summary:
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, tense, talky, exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, clever, retro
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The Field (1990)
Plot Summary:
"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell it in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it. While no local dare bid against him, a wealthy American decides he requires the field to build a highway. "Bull" and his son decide they must try to convince the American to let go of his ambition and return home, but the consequences of their plot prove sinister.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: realistic, talky, serious, bleak, psychological, suspense, rough, independent film, sentimental, road movie
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Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, talky, political, educational, tense
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Sorcerer (1977)
Plot Summary:
Four criminals from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of unstable nitroglycerin across dangerous jungle.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: road movie, neo noir, political, existential, philosophical, dark, disturbing, cynical, deep, esoteric
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Royal Deceit (1994)
Plot Summary:
A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: costume drama, tense, serious, realistic, independent film
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The Secret Agent (1996)
Plot Summary:
London of the late 19th century is a haven for political exiles of all sorts - refugees, partisans, anarchists. Verloc has made his living spying for the Russian goverment, an agent provacateur of sorts, while simultaneously providing information to the London police, specifically Chief Inspector Heat. When the new Russian ambassador demands he prove his worth or lose his salary, Verloc sets off a tragic chain of events that involves his pretty young wife Winnie, her retarded brother Stevie, and a figure called the Professor, whose fascination with explosives and destruction makes him the person to call on when Verloc needs a bomb.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, harsh, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, political thriller, bleak, light, romantic
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Instinct (1999)
Plot Summary:
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything -- even put his very life on the line -- in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, suspense, touching, emotional, tense, serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful
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Owning Mahowny (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, melancholic, enigmatic, sincere, suspenseful, independent film, thought provoking, serious, realistic
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Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Plot Summary:
48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, atmospheric, serious, dark comedy, surreal, meditative, disturbing, stylized, suspenseful
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Asylum (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, erotic, sexy, psychological thriller, dramatic, period piece
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Love's a Bitch (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three different people in Mexico City are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a gunshot Rotweiler.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 250000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: bleak, psychological, depressing, emotional, tense, realistic, non-linear, independent film, hispanic, suspense
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The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Plot Summary:
Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: touching, harsh, emotional, intense, thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful, tense, visually appealing, suspense
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Lord of the Flies (1990)
Plot Summary:
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, captivating, brutal, scenic, depressing, apocalyptic, psychological thriller, touching, epic
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Lord of the Flies (1963)
Plot Summary:
Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when the they split into two separate camps -- one led by the pragmatic Ralph and the other by militaristic Jack -- their society falls into disarray, leading to a disturbing examination of human nature and a chilling conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, black and white, atmospheric, rough, thought provoking, stylized, bleak, psychological thriller, philosophical
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The Beach (2000)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 250000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, scenic, tense, stylized, intellectual, visual, philosophical, epic, atmospheric, psychological thriller
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Final Cut (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends gather for a wake, and are shown a video shot by Jude (Jude Law) and starring them before he dies. Things go rapidly downhill.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, clever, cynical, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, experimental, tech noir
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I Am David (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy (Ben Tibber) who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark and a compass to help get him there.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, uplifting, tense, sad, serious, epic, realistic, inspirational
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The Statement (2003)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, political, intense, serious, cult classic, bleak, realistic, psychological, brutal
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Blood Diamond (2006)
Plot Summary:
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 577000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, harsh, emotional, intense, suspenseful, political, suspense, entertaining
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The Machinist (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ability to sleep. This is no ordinary insomnia.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 410000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, depressing, mind bending, surreal, bleak, neo noir, enigmatic, atmospheric