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Plot Summary:
Antonio Decoud is a conservative family man who is forced by destiny to face an unexpected situation that shakes him to the core, scrambling up his life and his priorities, pushing him to forget his beliefs and his way of understanding life and follow the most basic instinct: the animal instinct.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Guard No. 47 (2008)
Plot Summary:
A WW I veteran still haunted by his time in the trenches settles in a small town to work for the railroad company. His pretty wife attracts the attention of the lonely young gravedigger.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: crying
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Last Exit (2003)
Plot Summary:
An out of luck English man, Nigel, arrives in Copenhagen hoping to start a new life. When he falls for a gorgeous prostitute, his life takes a very dark turn and his life begins to spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: splatter, neo noir, independent film
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The Incident (2015)
Plot Summary:
Shrewdly structured psychological British drama starring Tom Hughes and Ruta Gedmintas as a well-to-do young couple whose comfortable life is disrupted when a troubled teenage girl (Tasha Connor) becomes part of their ordered life. It is a tense and cleverly off-kilter drama, well performed and astutely thought-provoking. It makes great use of its Yorkshire locations, creating a tense and memorably intriguing atmosphere.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Girl in the Ice (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young German woman is searching for the man she loves in northern Russia.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Russia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, absurd, bizarre
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Tour de Force (2010)
Plot Summary:
Frank is a police officer who loses his family in a tragedy. In desperation he turns to crime and makes a living as a hitman for the mob.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Cahoots (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two men who were "best friends" while growing up together and into their 20's, reconnect after years apart. On the surface, their lives have gone in opposite directions, one married, successful, respectful and settled; the other divorced, footloose, unemployed and prowling. The narrative is not linear but vertical as simple get together to "have a drink" leads to a nihilistic descent into macho hell. The only thing that survives their reunion is their love for one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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DogMan (2023)
Plot Summary:
A boy, bruised by life, finds his salvation through the love of his dogs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Maracaibo (2017)
Plot Summary:
The crime of Facundo provokes in Gustavo and Cristina, his parents, an irreparable vacuum. The tragedy demonstrates everything that could not be in the link between Gustavo and son and disarms appearances with his wife; Cristina Gustavo undertakes a desperate attempt to understand his guilt: a tortuous guilt that provokes a deep sense of revenge. You need to find the person responsible for that crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Deadly Virtues: Love.Honour.Obey. (2014)
Plot Summary:
A home invasion irrevocably changes the lives of all involved in ways neither victims nor perpetrator could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, erotic, experimental, disturbing, controversial, ambiguous ending, sexy, eros, hot
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Rebecca's Secret (1997)
Plot Summary:
A detective suspects that the wife and mistress of an abusive man conspired to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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The Lithium Conspiracy (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the power of governments behind the events has been replaced by the power of holding companies. Nowadays you don't conquer a country. You buy it. "Short story of long betrayals" is again set in the Republic of Queimada, where in the "Salar de Queimada" (a salt lake) lies 50% of lithium in the whole world. Not surprisingly, there is an international interest in its fate and a breathless fight to seize it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exotic
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Callback (2016)
Plot Summary:
Larry is an ardent evangelical Christian, lives in New York, works as a mover, and dreams of breaking into the world of commercial acting. As he seeks his big break, he argues with his boss and leads a solitary life. His fate takes an unexpected turn the day he meets Alexandra.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, psychological thriller
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Tin God (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ethan is a young man searching for meaning in life and he thinks he has found what he is looking for in the new girl, Sasha. But Sasha has a dark side that will be his undoing.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Far from the Sea (2015)
Plot Summary:
A love story between a terrorist and his victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, disturbing, contemplative
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The Other Wife (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kate is devastated to learn that her husband Billy has been living a double life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful
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Istanbul Tales (2005)
Plot Summary:
Five interconnected stories set in modern-day Istanbul based on the fairytales Snow White, Cinderella, Pied Piper, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating, anthology, art house, offbeat, realistic
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Transgression (2011)
Plot Summary:
Matthew and Elena are about to face the worst night of their lives when four burglars trespass into their home looking for easy money. But things don't go as planned. Tension and fear take over them all, victims and executioners, and mistrust, betrayals and unexpected lies will come to light at the worst possible time.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Midnight Heat (2007)
Plot Summary:
A story of cops, hookers, killers, and pimps; all centered around one sleazy night in the late 1980's. A cocaine addicted homicide detective (Jake Norvell) is brought out of suspension in order to trail a local prostitute (Bianca Queen) who may become the next victim of The Scalper (Nick Foster), a serial killer who preys on the city's hookers. Meanwhile, her burnt out pimp (Brad Jones) attempts to get out of the business while finding it harder to protect his girls from both the killer and from an abusive rival pimp (Buford Stowers).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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What a Wonderful World (2014)
Plot Summary:
After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Moldova
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mirror Images II (1993)
Plot Summary:
Shannon Whirry stars as Carrie and Terrie, a pair of twins who were separated in youth when their father murdered their mother and was in turn killed by his own bad twin daughter. Now the sweet-natured "good" sister has grown up to marry an abusive louse. Trapped in a sexless relationship, she seeks solace with a therapist (Kristine Kelly), but her problems are about to be compounded when her wicked sister arrives in town, intent on avenging herself on her double for past wrongs. Even the help of a private detective on her side may not be enough when her sister becomes allied with her own husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psycho sexual, detective, tension, independent film, suspense
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Beyond Honor (2004)
Plot Summary:
A strikingly bold portrait of oppression and high tension in suburban America. It is the story of Sahira Abdel-Karim (Osuna), a young Egyptian-American woman in a California wedged between two distinct worlds, haunted by memory and bount by tradition. Beyond Honor is an emotionally resonant meditation on gender roles and the dynamics of power within a small community.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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The Longest Night (2019)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman turns to prostitution. She must surrender her income to the leader of a human trafficking ring, but her daughter’s illness and a drug addiction prevent her from delivering her usual share. An unexpected event will give her the opportunity to stop obeying and take justice into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ecuador, Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Saturn Bowling (2022)
Plot Summary:
When their father dies, the ambitious police officer Guillaume offers the management of the bowling alley he inherited to his outcast half-brother Armand. The inheritance is cursed, and the two men wind up in a world of violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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Paulina (2015)
Plot Summary:
Paulina is a young lawyer with a promising career in Buenos Aires, who chooses to go back to her home town. Her father, Fernando, is a well known judge. Against his will, Paulina decides to teach in a suburban high school as part of an inclusion program. One night, after the second week working there, she's brutally assaulted by a gang. With the disapproval of the people around her, she decides to go back to work, in the neighborhood where she was attacked, without realizing that her attackers may be even closer than she thought.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, non-linear
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Neon Flesh (2010)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless buddies.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Sweden, Argentina
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, surprise ending, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Touchless (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jolana (18) is an object of her stepf-father's desire. She is unable to cope, especially when her own mother turns a blind eye. Those events are heavily paid for when she finds herself working in a brothel. Her inability to cope raise a question: What is it she actually wants? Are her dreams of escaping really better than the reality she finds herself in?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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Nowhere (2023)
Plot Summary:
A young pregnant woman named Mia escapes from a country at war by hiding in a maritime container aboard a cargo ship. After a violent storm, Mia gives birth to the child while lost at sea, where she must fight to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense thriller
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Moebius (2013)
Plot Summary:
A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son, as the family heads towards horrific destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, semi serious, erotic, controversial, scary, psychological thriller, brutal, dark
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Public Access (1993)
Plot Summary:
Brewster seems to be an almost too perfect example of idyllic small-town America, with everyone living in peace and harmony. So when newcomer Whiley Pritcher starts up his own local cable TV show with the question "what's wrong with Brewster?", there surely can't be any deep dark secrets in the town that are just waiting to come to the surface - or can there? And when the question becomes "who's wrong with Brewster?" things start getting seriously nasty.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 973
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, talky, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, sexy, thought provoking, clever
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The Clan (2015)
Plot Summary:
When it was first released in Argentina, Pablo Trapero’s film had the highest opening box-office of all time. The key to that success is simply that The Clan is based on one of the most shocking crimes in the country’s history, the Puccio Clan case. In 1985, the news broke that the Puccios, a well-established Catholic family with five children from San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnapped and held people hostage for ransom in their own home. The film is a disturbing, impressive, and beautifully controlled interpretation of those events, with Guillermo Francella's magnificent depiction of the father, a performance for the ages.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, social, hispanic