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Plot Summary:
A look at the impact of Spain’s Basque conflict on ordinary people on both sides, such as the widow of a man killed by the ETA who returns to her home village after the 2011 ceasefire between the separatist group and the Spanish government, and her former intimate friend, the mother of a jailed terrorist.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 463 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, sad, suspenseful, compassionate, exciting
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Fire (2014)
Plot Summary:
One day, someone puts a bomb on Carlos car and kill his wife and leaves his daughter of 10 years old without legs. Eleven years later, he lives in Barcelona with his daughter but he never forgot the past, the hate, the suffering of that accident. Now he is planning his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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The Terrorist (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young female terrorist goes on a suicide assassination mission, but her resolve to complete it is put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, sexy, thought provoking
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Zamudio (2015)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the case of Daniel Zamudio, a young man who was brutally beaten in the Parque San Borja of Santiago just for being homosexual. In this story, everyone has something to say but too much to hide.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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The Endz (2011)
Plot Summary:
Portrayal of life on the streets of Manchester, giving an insight into the young unsettling lives of city kids.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing
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La caza. Monteperdido (2019)
Plot Summary:
The unsolved case of two girls who disappeared from the Pyrenee town of Monteperdido five years ago is reopened when one of them reappears.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, disturbing, tense, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic
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22 July (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story about the people working on July 22 2011, when a terror attack happened in Norway.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, thought provoking, bad ending, suspense
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Blackout (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a nuclear plant is sabotaged, the power grid in Belgium crashes. Prime Minister Annemie Hillebrand is forced to prolong the blackout, otherwise her daughter -who has been kidnapped- will die. Can Michael Dendoncker of the counter terrorism unit, rescue the girl in a country that's off the grid.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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BG: Personal Bodyguard (2018)
Plot Summary:
Akira Shimazaki (Takuya Kimura) lives with his middle school student son. He used to work as a bodyguard, but, due to an incident, he now works as a security guard at a construction site. The private security company where he works establishes a new bodyguard division. Hiding his past as a bodyguard, Akira Shimazaki begins work as a novice bodyguard.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Prom Queen (2007)
Plot Summary:
Prom Queen is the first web television series produced by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner's new production company Vuguru and veteran web television production company Big Fantastic, the creators of Sam Has 7 Friends. The series, consisting of 80 episodes of 90 seconds each, is one of the best-funded entrants into the world of original programming designed exclusively for online video. The show generated revenue through sponsorships, by selling some of the clothing worn by the characters, and by carrying advertising for Hairspray. The series premiered April 1, 2007 on MySpace, and supplemental scenes can be seen on MySpace as each of the characters has a MySpace page that includes blogs, Vlogs, and comments between the characters. According to the Financial Times, it marks MySpace's boldest push into original video content. The series was also distributed on YouTube, Veoh, and on an original Prom Queen website. The first season ended on June 20, 2007, with over 15 million views of the episodes during the original 12-week run, and has been viewed by over 40 million people to date. A 15-episode spinoff series, Prom Queen: Summer Heat, debuted on August 27, 2007. On May 7, 2008, a Japanese remake of the series, titled Tokyo Prom Queen, began airing in a similar format.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 1 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, realistic
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Cain's Father (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Basque Country, Spain, 1980s. In an atmosphere of tension and fear, where the harassment of separatist nationalism and the violence of ETA terrorist gang are a constant in life, Eloy, a young civil guard from Madrid, arrives at the Intxaurrondo base, in San Sebastián, as a volunteer; a hostile environment that causes havoc among his companions: alcoholism, depression and suicides reign. The so-called “Northern Syndrome” kills as much as bombs do.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ice Adonis (2012)
Plot Summary:
"Yellow Boots" is a drama about the revenge of a woman who lost everything after being framed for a crime.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, compassionate
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Our Boys (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three Jewish teenagers are kidnapped and murdered by Hamas militants in the summer of 2014, leading to the retaliatory killing of 16-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Abu Khdeir and a conflict that forever changes the lives of Jews and Arabs alike.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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Disappeared (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of six police officers solve disappearance cases that everyone else has already given up on.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, intellectual, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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New World (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set in the city of Beiping during the 22 days before the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 is a story about the drastic changes in the lives of three brothers Jin Hai, Tie Lin, and Xu Tian as well as a romance between Xu Tian and Tian Dan. In investigating the murder that claimed the life of his fiancee, policeman Xu Tian starts on a trail that will eventually lead to his involvement in the liberation of Beiping. Jin Hai, Tie Lin, and Xu Tian are three friends who are as close as brothers. In the face of historic changes and conflicting beliefs, they make choices that take them on diverging paths. Xu Tian and communist member Tian Dan meet during their lowest moments and find a common goal that brings them together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Enemy Within (2019)
Plot Summary:
Erica Shepherd is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prison. Against every fiber of his being but with nowhere else to turn, FBI Agent Will Keaton enlists Shepherd to help track down a fiercely dangerous and elusive criminal she knows all too well. While Shepherd and Keaton have different motivations for bringing the enemy to justice, they both know that to catch a spy… they must think like one.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, disturbing, suspense, captivating, detective, action adventure, suspenseful
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The Invisible Line (2020)
Plot Summary:
The birth of the Basque terrorist gang ETA and its first attack, of which José Antonio Pardines, a Guardia Civil traffic officer, was the victim.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: political thriller, suspense, psychological, tense, thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful, political
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Acacias 38 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Acacias 38, the address of a stately apartment building where our stories unfold, is set in 1899 and tells the story of a group of maids and the bourgeois families they serve, in a single block in a distinguished neighborhood of a large Spanish city. Two worlds colliding in a universe of crossed lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, family saga, telenovela
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Horses of God (2012)
Plot Summary:
The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Tunisia, Morocco
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, social, islamic, tense, bleak, suspenseful
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Trigger Point (2022)
Plot Summary:
For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, tension
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When the Dust Settles (2020)
Plot Summary:
The equally important and heartbreaking story of eight strangers whose lives and fates intertwine after a tragic terrorist attack shocks Copenhagen.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tragic
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Caliphate (2020)
Plot Summary:
National Security agent Fatima receives a tip that a terrorist attack against Sweden is in the planning stage. Meanwhile Sulle, a teenage girl in Stockholm, gets interested in her student assistent who opens doors to a new and fascinating world - the true path. Kalifat is a thriller about the intermingled fates of five young women who get caught up in the seducing and destroying force of religious fundamentalism.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, disturbing, tense, slasher, dramatic, masterpiece
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The Girl from Oslo (2021)
Plot Summary:
When her daughter is abducted, a Norwegian diplomat travels to the Middle East, banking on old friends — and a deep secret — to help free her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Israel
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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October (1994)
Plot Summary:
In October 1970, one group from the Front de Liberation du Quebec kidnapped the British Consul in Montreal. Few days later, a second group did the same with one of the Minister of the Quebec Government. If the first was released, the second was murdered. This is the story of the second group from the stand point of the political kidnappers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: political, sad, psychological, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Out of the Blue (2008)
Plot Summary:
Out of the Blue is an Australian serial drama commissioned by the BBC, produced by Australia's Southern Star Entertainment. It began screening on BBC One on weekday afternoons on 28 April 2008. The programme attracted lower than desired ratings figures, prompting the broadcaster to shift it to its second channel BBC Two from 19 May 2008. The BBC eventually decided not to commission a second series, and the final episode aired on 29 January 2009. The rights to show the first series in Australia were purchased by Network Ten, while in the UK, Channel 5 has picked up the repeat rights to Out of the Blue, and began airing all 130 episodes on digital sister channel Fiver in February 2009.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Love Lasts Two Minds (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the first year of Later Liang lived Yuan Qingli, the daughter of a general. While on the road to a nunnery to reflect and meditate, she is abducted and knocked unconscious. After her rescue, Yuan Qingli wakes up days later without her memories and with a new personality. To escape from her own wedding, she dresses as a man and becomes a constable of Qinhe County.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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King Of Duval County (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Black Family a once powerful respected family has lost power in the city of Jacksonville.11 years has past and now the city is controlled by 4 family's.Young Antonio must return to the city and reclaim the Black family's respect and power.
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IMDB Votes:
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak, disturbing
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Games People Play (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three ambitious women navigate the highly competitive world of professional sports.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Judgement (2019)
Plot Summary:
The tragic death of Gabrielle and the acquittal of her killer plunges the Dessureaux family into a living hell.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Bloody Monday (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bloody Monday is a Japanese manga series written by Ryumon Ryo and illustrated by Megumi Koji. The series had been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine by Kodansha from April 2007 to May 2009, with individual chapters collected into eleven tankōbon volume as of May 15, 2009, and a total of 96 chapters altogether. The manga has also been adapted into a drama series, which aired on October 11, 2008, starring Haruma Miura. The second season of the manga began in Weekly Shōnen Magazine number 46 released on October 14, 2009, and the second season of the drama adaption began airing on January 23, 2010. Kodansha's USA division will release the first volume in June 2011.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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Ties of Shooting Stars (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by mystery writer Keigo Higashino, Ryūsei no Kizuna tells the story of three orphans, whose parents were murdered long ago. Together, the three vowed on a shooting star to one day avenge their parents. After many years, the two brothers have found the murderers, and are set to carry out their plan for vengeance when they realize they've made a serious miscalculation; you see, their sister.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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