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Plot Summary:
A bright student in Nigeria takes on the academic establishment when she reports a popular professor who tried to rape her. Based on real events.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags:
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Midnight Sonder (2016)
Plot Summary:
A student with blood complications believes that his medication is the cause of his recent hallucinations. Desperate to find out what they mean, he collides with and injures an innocent woman, sparking her son to pursue the identity of the man responsible for his Mother's injury.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Summoning (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a law student uncovers chilling secrets and places her life at risk, a bitter, rough-around-the-edges detective gets assigned to her case.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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My Lonely Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
I am aged 7, I fear for my life. I run to a convent door. Cry for my Mother and Father. But they are no more... Now I am 21, locked in a swirling mist. Music is the only key that will unlock. My Lonely Me.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Drama, Musical, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Dead Silence (1991)
Plot Summary:
Three young students go into a holiday which rapidly turns into horror as they hit-and-run a lonely hitchhiker in desert. They decide to keep the accident a secret, but as more and more evidence begins to turn up, they face the contradiction between morals and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Assata aka Joanne Chesimard (2008)
Plot Summary:
Through dramatic re-creation, archival newsreel footage and revealing interviews, director Fred Baker's docudrama explores the controversial murder case centered on Black Panther activist and political exile Assata Shakur. In 1977, Shakur was dubiously convicted for the shooting death of a New Jersey state trooper and was sentenced to life in prison, only to escape two years later and seek refuge in Cuba.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: political
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Rat King (2012)
Plot Summary:
18 year old Juri is seriously addicted to online gaming, so much so he becomes isolated from his single mother and pushes his girlfriend to the brink of leaving him. He decides to quit, but is soon lured back by one of his net-mates, Niki, who - when they meet for the first time - turns out to look strikingly like Juri. Niki has a web-address tattooed on his arm and when Juri types it into his computer, he gets drawn into a curious game that grants him the username RAT KING. As the game becomes increasingly dangerous, Niki vows to help Juri get through it. But the game triggers a series of life-threatening events and pretty soon Juri realizes that he is gaming for his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Estonia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Year I Lost My Mind (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tom is a lonely young man, during a burglar with his best friend: Rachid, he falls in love with Lars, a young history lecturer who lives in the apartment. Tom starts to observe Lars secretly, and pursue him without revealing his existence or feelings for him. At the same time, Tom is developing a second obsession to a motorcyclist , that he meets on and on. More and more Tom gets lost in a labyrinth of passions. As Lars discovers him, the persecutor becomes the persecuted for a moment, but then things turn again into another direction.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: twisted, queer cinema
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The Guardian Angel (1990)
Plot Summary:
It is the turn of the century in Russia, and the revolution (at this time not yet a communist one) has sentenced government minister Joel Birkman (Etienne Glaser) to be assassinated for his role in quelling a student rebellion. To that end, they have arranged for one of their number, Jacob (Philip Zanden), to do the deed. In order to get close enough to accomplish this, he takes a job as the minister's secretary, and joins him and his family at his summer home. As he grows acquainted with the man and his family, he discovers that this is not a case of black versus white, but rather of varying shades of gray. Nonetheless, by the end of the film it is clear that no matter how much Jacob likes the man and his family, he is going to do what he believes to be his duty.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Heart Beats (2021)
Plot Summary:
When Tsukasa was a middle school student, she had a crush on transfer student Hayato and even confessed her feelings to him. She was turned down by Hayato. Now, Tsukasa and Hayato are classmates in high school. Hayato treats Tsukasa as just a friend, but Tsukasa still has feelings for him. Meanwhile, Hayato becomes attracted to Tsukasa.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Twisted Twin (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tess loves her mom Patricia and the horse ranch she was raised on, but she’s ready for the next chapter. Attending her college orientation weekend, she gets the surprise of a lifetime when she’s approached by Sammy Crain, who happens to be her identical twin sister! After learning the story of how they were separated at birth, Tess is excited to connect with Sammy, but when Sammy’s adoptive parents turn up dead and Tess is mistaken for her sister, she realizes she’s been duped by her twin as part of Sammy’s devious plan to steal Tess’s identity, take the family fortune and get away with murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Fallen Angels Murder Club: Heroes and Felons (2022)
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The members of the Fallen Angels Murder Club must band together again as they search for answers surrounding the death of one of their own. Hollis Morgan finds herself at the center of the investigation when a journalist reporting on the murder also winds up dead. As bodies begin to stack up, and Hollis connects the dots, she must solve the murders before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Envy: A Seven Deadly Sins Story (2021)
Plot Summary:
Gabrielle seems to have it all - a devoted husband, a beautiful daughter, and a successful career in public relations. However, she soon stands to lose everything when she meets Keisha, her devious half sister who wants everything Gabrielle has.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
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A Handsome Tamil Son (2007)
Plot Summary:
Guru has the ability to predict future events. With his unique ability, he identifies several future events, including the attempted murder of his lover by a look-alike.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags:
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Mandela (1987)
Plot Summary:
Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revolution in that country.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags:
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Grandma's House (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based upon the true story of Kimberley T. Zulkowski's Grandmother, Margie Ree Harris. "Grandma's House" gives a compelling insight into how the Executive Producer's life changed when she moved into her Grandmother's home, and their generations became one under the same roof. Chock-full of passion, Faith, and Family, the Film demonstrates the trials and tribulations she faced living with a Grandparent who stood as an inner-city Matriarch and Pillar of Strength to selflessly serve her Family, and surrounding community.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
Plot Summary:
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel, UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, rough, emotional, suspense, erotic, sad, art house, tension, weird
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The Mind Benders (1963)
Plot Summary:
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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American Skin (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Marine veteran working as a school janitor tries to mend his relationship with his son after a divorce. When his son is killed by a police officer found innocent without standing trial, he takes matters into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Next Sohee (2022)
Plot Summary:
Sohee is a high school student training for a subcontracted position at a call center, when a mysterious incident occurs leading to Sohee's death. Detective Oh Yu-jin takes charge of her case and slowly uncovers the harsh realities surrounding Sohee’s passing.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: detective
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A Touch of Spice (1986)
Plot Summary:
he film opens with an arrogant subedar (Naseeruddin Shah) (local tax collector in colonial India) and his soldiers rampaging through a village. The subedar has an eye for women and soon spots Sonbai (Smita Patil) on the riverbank. Sonbai is an intelligent, beautiful and strong woman. Her confidence intrigues the subedar.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: offbeat, experimental, art film, parallel cinema, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, witty, gloomy
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Sister of Mine (2017)
Plot Summary:
Oliver, a young film director, discovers on a porn Web site one night that the protagonist of one of the erotic videos is his younger half-sister Aurora. In the process of finding out what she was doing there, Oliver will become fascinated by his sister.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Colombia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, meditative, erotic, teen horror
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The Flatterer (2015)
Plot Summary:
Story about Park Gun, who starts attending a high school full of troublemakers and former dropouts. ~~ Based on a webtoon of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags:
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If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
Plot Summary:
If These Walls Could Talk follows the plights of three different women and their experiences with abortion. Each of the three stories takes place in the same house in three different years: 1952, 1974, and 1996.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, sentimental, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing, political, mystical, retro
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Sensation (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lila a college student discovers a latent ability to see into the past. When a professor hires her for some psychological tests she becomes the target of the killer of the woman she sees in her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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White Man's Burden (1995)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While delivering a package for black CEO Thaddeus Thomas, he is mistaken for a voyeur and, as a result, loses his job, gets beaten by black cops and his family gets evicted from their home. Desperate Pinnock takes a gun and kidnaps Thomas, demanding justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, rough, feel good, unusual plot structure, bad ending, political
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The Blackout (2014)
Plot Summary:
An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight for survival, they must endure the worst of human behavior.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 810
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Don't Cry, Mommy (2012)
Plot Summary:
Divorced mother Yoo Rim (Yoo Seon) lives with her teenage daughter Eun Ah (Nam Bo-Ra), who is having a tough time at her new school. She has a crush on classmate Jo Han (U-Kiss's Shin Dong Ho), but he turns out to be different than what she expected. He and his friends rape her and then threaten her with a videotape of the assault. Eun Ah eventually takes her own life, leaving Yoo Rim alone and devastated. As minors, Jo Han and his friends are let off with light punishments. Yoo Rim takes matters into her own hand to get revenge for her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, tense, touching, harsh, twisted
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Scorned 2 (1997)
Plot Summary:
Amanda Foley has confusing nightmares and flashbacks that lead her to seek professional help. Nothing can shed light on her repressed memories, until she happens to catch her husband a college professor, having sex with one of his students. Then the past becomes dangerously clear.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, sexy, independent film, detective, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Dry White Season (1989)
Plot Summary:
Taking place during the 1976 Soweto uprising, the story follows a white school teacher whose life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: talky, emotional, disturbing, rough, thought provoking, serious, realistic, political, retro, thinking
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The Confession (1999)
Plot Summary:
After his young son dies from the negligience of medical professionals at a hospital, Harry Fertig (Kinglsey) takes matters into his own hands and kills the negligent doctors responsible. Slick lawyer Roy Bleakie (Baldwin), looking only to win a case and not caring of the matters involved, is assigned Fertig's case. Shocked to hear that his client wants to plead guilty, the case causes Bleakie to question his own morals by defending an honorable man.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, suspense, inspirational, independent film