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Plot Summary:
The Financial Director for a democratic super PAC behind a frontrunner presidential candidate investigates donations, uncovering a conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags:
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The Dark Hand (2016)
Plot Summary:
While searching for his missing brother, Max Kovak stumbles upon a secret society that seems to be preparing for a catastrophic event.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Melany Rose (2020)
Plot Summary:
A dark psychological thriller following Dr. Sullivan as she attempts to expose a government conspiracy surrounding Dr. Freeman and his test subjects made up of former death row inmates. Inspired by MKUltra; the illegal CIA mind control experiment from the 1950's & 60's.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The Feminine Touch (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jenny Baron (Paige Turco) is a beautiful investigative reporter swept into a deadly conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the government. When she is assigned to get the story of charismatic Presidential candidate Senator Ashton (George Segal), her job is complicated by a string of political assassinations and attempts. After her lover (Dirk Benedict) is killed, things get personal. Jenny finds herself in possession of a computer disk that holds a list of powerful politicians marked for elimination, and the key to the massive web of death and deceit —— and now she's next on the list of targets! Pursued by hitmen and hunted by police, if she survives, she may discover a truth she's not prepared to accept.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cyber Heist (2023)
Plot Summary:
A computer expert accidentally falls into the conspiracy of online financial crime and has to seize the time to participate in the struggle.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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The Tooth and the Nail (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 1947, a magician, Seok-jin plans the most elaborate trick to find out hidden conspiracy in his fiance's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
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Blow Up My Life (2022)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced pharmaceutical employee accidentally discovers a deadly opioid vape conspiracy, sending him on the run to expose the crime with a trail of chaos in his wake.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation (1967)
Plot Summary:
A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Sightless (2020)
Plot Summary:
After an attack renders her blind, Ellen withdraws from the world to recover. But soon she plunges into paranoia, unable to convince anyone that her assailant has returned to terrorize her by hiding in plain sight.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, enigmatic, twisted, psychological thriller, detective
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Duplicates (1992)
Plot Summary:
A family falls victim to a scientific institute that removes memories and transfers them to a computer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tech noir
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North Shore (2023)
Plot Summary:
When the 19-year-old daughter of a UK politician is found dead in Sydney Harbour, cultures clash as a British and an Australian detective team up to solve a complex murder mystery. But this international investigation will expose more than murder, as the two detectives begin to uncover a conspiracy with political consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, USA, North Korea, Russia
Duration:
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MK Ultra (2022)
Plot Summary:
Set during the true and unconscionable Central Intelligence Agency MK ULTRA drug experimentations in the early 1960s. The journey of Ford Strauss, a brilliant psychiatrist, whose moral and scientific boundaries are pushed to the limit as he is recruited to run a subsect of the program in a rural Mississippi Mental Hospital.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977)
Plot Summary:
The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: political
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The Independent (2022)
Plot Summary:
It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its first viable independent candidate. Reporting history as it's made, an idealistic young journalist teams up with her idol, legendary journalist Nick Booker, to uncover a conspiracy that places the fate of the election, and the country, in their hands.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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The Letter (2012)
Plot Summary:
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, serious
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Silent Cry (2002)
Plot Summary:
A single mother's search for her stolen new born baby sends her on a journey through the underworld of London and on a collision course with her past.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Endless Game (1989)
Plot Summary:
A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them and why.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 200 min
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Death Without Consent (2007)
Plot Summary:
Chris Carrington looses his father to hereditary kidney disease. He is painfully aware he may die from it as well. While dealing with the agony of his loss, Chris is unexpectedly contacted by a mysterious Russian immigrant who tells him his father did not die from natural causes. That his father was an unwitting victim of human experiments in the development of biological weapons. Pursuing the truth behind this strange revelation, Chris learns of Dr. Gurevich, the scientist who created these viruses. He meets Gurevich's beautiful daughter Anna, whose innocence, charm and intelligence ultimately become his greatest obstacle. Unable to contact his Russian informant, unable to decipher Russian documents, unwilling to use Gurevich's daughter as a pawn, Chris struggles to fight symptoms of his own disease, caught between the ticking clock of his own illness and the consuming desire for truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Messenger (2010)
Plot Summary:
Paul, part-time laborer and amateur artist, leads an unremarkable life like any other, until his world is disrupted by vivid revelations of the afterlife. At first a welcome respite from reality, his waking visions soon reveal a demonic conspiracy at work within his own community. One by one, prominent members of high society fall victim to a series of mysterious assassination attempts. As the government scrambles to contain the rising panic of the ruling class, public disillusionment grows. Amidst the maelstrom, Paul becomes entangled in a web of powerful elite, evangelical cults, and a plot that could not only bring down the country's economy, but also incite the total collapse of society. Filmed before the 2008 Icelandic banking crash that shocked the world, Messenger is a prediction of chaos turned prophetic. While many of its projections have already been fulfilled by recent events, one can only hope that the remainder will not.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Endangered Species (1982)
Plot Summary:
Thriller about a New York ex-cop and an attractive female sheriff who fall in love while investigating a string of mysterious cattle mutilations in a small Colorado town. Urich is great as Reuben Castle, the retired alcoholic police lieutenant out visiting the town with his tomboy daughter. At first he tries to stay out of the case but finds himself involved after the mysterious death of his friend Joe Hiatt, the editor of the local paper whose theories about black helicopters have aroused the ire of cattle baron Ben Morgan. Trying miserably to stay sober, Castle finds himself back in danger and in love, as he and the sheriff work together to get to the bottom of the mystery, encountering incredible danger and resistance from the frightened locals.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, rough, mind bending, suspense, retro, scary, serious, ambiguous ending, detective
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Evidence of Blood (1998)
Plot Summary:
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Tentacle 8 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious computer virus wipes out highly classified personnel files at the NSA, prompting a top secret investigation. RAYMOND BERRY, an NSA operative is thrown into a detention center, where he is suspected of crimes against the United States. He fights to stay alive, hoping to reunite with TABITHA, a CIA agent he has recently fallen in love with. Ray discovers that Tabitha is not who she says she is, complicating his plans to escape his former life and start over in anonymity.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Blind Horizon (2003)
Plot Summary:
Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, psychological thriller, independent film
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The American Side (2016)
Plot Summary:
Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic scientist, Nikola Tesla.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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We Take the Low Road (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Wiki-Leaks release illuminates the collusion amongst politicians and the medical industry that drives the cost of medical care to an unattainable price for the middle class. With the guilty parties' names and addresses being released, a vigilante movement springs up around the Untied States. After his father loses the battle with cancer, Mason, along with Thompson and Bobbi, seek violent justice and hope for riches along the way. A shotgun blast sparks a string of unintended consequences that leads the group down a dark road.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Secret of Hidden Lake (2006)
Plot Summary:
After her dad is critically injured in a so-called hunting accident, Maggie returns to her hometown in the mountains of Colorado to be by his side. But during her stay, this devoted daughter learns that the shooting was no mistake. As Maggie attempts to unravel the mystery of what really happened, secrets start to surface that put her life in grave danger! Grab some popcorn and kick back for this thrill ride.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Coma (1978)
Plot Summary:
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, neo noir, scary, atmospheric, captivating, medical horror, creepy, psychotronic
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The Mourning (2015)
Plot Summary:
20 years after going MIA in Desert Storm, Aaron returns home under mysterious conditions, not having aged since his disappearance, and must reestablish relationships with loved ones before an imminent return to an ambiguous other-worldly existence.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mystical, psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, mysterious
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Inheritance (2020)
Plot Summary:
A patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, atmospheric, tense, surprise ending, psychological, psychological thriller, exciting, independent film, period piece
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Megachurch Murder (2015)
Plot Summary:
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a church conspiracy and threats toward her father, she is determined to prove that Hamilton's death was murder not suicide. As she gets closer to the truth, she realizes her own mother may be involved in her father's murder...and that the boy she is falling in love with is the son of his killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful
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The Firm (1993)
Plot Summary:
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, clever, psychological, serious, realistic, stylized, entertaining