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Parasite (2019)
Plot Summary:
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident
Duration: 132 min
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
IMDB Votes: 910000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Plot tags: poverty, wealthy family, working class, social satire, class differences, wealth, basement, plot twist, scam, tutor, poor family, unemployment, rich snob, driver, housekeeper, scheme, fraud, house, maid, murder, rain, class struggle, morse code, allergy, home invasion
Joker (2019)
Plot Summary:
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure
Duration: 122 min
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10
IMDB Votes: 14000000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Plot tags: mental illness, villain, mental disorder, psycho, loneliness, psychopath, comedian, psychological trauma, insanity, character change, social problems, social decay, mental patient, bad attitude, evil clown, clown, evil, sociopath, serial killer, revenge, rage, loner, murder, fighting the system, stand up comedian
Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya (2019)
Plot Summary:
Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya is a brilliant, underrated detective from Nellore who runs an agency called FBI which sees no business. He gets more than what he asked for when a case happens to fall right into his lap out of nowhere
Duration: 148 min
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Plot tags: murder, murder mystery, detective agency, murderer, murder investigation, private detective, heroes, investigation, violence, youth, death, investigator, graphic violence, chase, rivalry, society, who done it, interrogation, corpse, weirdo, homicide detective, evidence, testimony, police detective, suspicion
Super Deluxe (2019)
Plot Summary:
An unfaithful newly-wed wife, an estranged father, a priest and an angry son suddenly find themselves in the most unexpected predicaments, each poised to experience their destiny, all on one fateful day
Duration: 176 min
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Plot tags: cheating wife, estranged father, lgbt, priest, multiple storylines, family problems, social problems, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, satire, lifestyle, affair, disposing of a dead body, stranded, social satire, marital problem, father son estrangement, lgbtq, lgbtqi, innovation, transgender, housewife, transsexual, tamil, bollywood
The Blue Elephant 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away
Duration: 130 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Plot tags: witchcraft, demon, devil, exorcism, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, supernatural power, peril, paranormal investigation, ghost, revenge, heroes, violence, death, murder, paranormal, rescue, chase, supernatural ability, evil, fear, escapades, vengeance, society, creature
Knives Out (2019)
Plot Summary:
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death
Duration: 130 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 750000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: murder mystery, investigation, whodunit, death, murder, murder investigation, mansion, mystery killer, eccentric family, large family, plot twist, private detective, suspect, family secret, twists and turns, country house, inheritance, sibling relationship, house, high society, guilt, maid, conflict, suicide, parents and children
Just 6.5 (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story of the six-and-a-half story narrative search for the anti-drug police is to find the great glass dealer in the capital
Duration: 131 min
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Plot tags: iranian, drug overdose, prison, drug addict, drug, lawyer, rape, money, police, death, torture, betrayal, suicide, judge, deception, smuggler, brutality, death sentence, capitalism, corrupt cop, older man younger woman relationship, police station, opium, propaganda, suicide attempt
Nerkonda Paarvai (2019)
Plot Summary:
When three young women are harassed and implicated in a crime they didn't commit, a bipolar lawyer sets out to help them clear their names and prove it to everyone that a woman's consent matters
Duration: 157 min
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Plot tags: investigation, lawyer, attorney, women, legal action, criminal, court, corruption, fighting the system, false accusation, fight for justice, lawyer client relationship, criminal lawyer, righting the wronged, criminal trial, rape victim, trial, courtroom, tamil, crimes
Badla (2019)
Plot Summary:
A dynamic young entrepreneur finds herself locked in a hotel room with the corpse of her dead lover. She hires a prestigious lawyer to defend her and they work together to figure out what actually happened
Duration: 118 min
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Plot tags: lawyer, murder trial, murder, police, blackmail, interrogation, husband wife relationship, revenge, fear, witness, evidence, justice, secrets, suspicion, protagonist as suspect, character study, manipulation, impostor, women, vengeance, room, mental health, plot twist, airplane, train
Better Days (2019)
Plot Summary:
A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations
Duration: 135 min
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Plot tags: bullying, romantic relationship, friendship, grownups, love and romance, relationships, youth, social problems, dishonesty, murder, danger, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, asian, criminal, teenager, parents, chaos, traumatic childhood, coming of age, city life, life lesson, love story, escapades, couple relations
Les Misérables (2019)
Plot Summary:
With a gun at his belt and a truncheon in his hand, Pento has just joined the Seine-Saint-Denis anti-crime brigade, an inner suburb of Paris. On the same team as Chris and Gwada, two men with occasionally “peculiar” methods, he soon discovers the tensions among the different neighbourhood gangs. As they find themselves overwhelmed during an interrogation, a drone films every one of their movements
Duration: 104 min
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Plot tags: police, ghetto, thief, organized crime, life is a bitch, society, police officer, father son relationship, pursuit, danger, police investigation, gangster, dishonesty, teenager, mafia, world war one, gang, secret service, african american, juvenile delinquent, peace, foreigner, police brutality, black history, european
Lucifer (2019)
Plot Summary:
In God's own country, the supreme leader of the ruling party dies, leaving a huge vacuum, not only in the electoral and leadership sphere of the party but also that of the state. In the inevitable succession squabble and the power struggle that ensues, the thin line that separates good and bad becomes irrecoverably blurred and out of this seemingly endless mayhem, emerge forces that are hitherto unheard of
Duration: 175 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Plot tags: politics, revenge, fight, police officer, betrayal, murder, husband wife relationship, violence, police, death, hospital, fire, family relations, helicopter, father daughter relationship, rain, photograph, blood, father son relationship, cell phone, flashback, malayalam, tamil, bar, explosion
The Lighthouse (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s
Duration: 109 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 245000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Plot tags: isolation, hallucination, lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, symbolism, drunkenness, island, nightmare, fight, storm, madness, violence, death, unconsciousness, stolen identity, bird, hard labor, seagull, homoeroticism, contaminated water, human nature, rain, humiliation, killing an animal, going insane
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
Plot Summary:
John Wick is on the run for two reasons… he’s being hunted for a global $14 million dollar open contract on his life, and for breaking a central rule: taking a life on Continental Hotel grounds. The victim was a member of the High Table who ordered the open contract. John should have already been executed, except the Continental’s manager, Winston, has given him a one-hour grace period before he’s “Excommunicado” – membership revoked, banned from all services and cut off from other members. John uses the service industry to stay alive as he fights and kills his way out of New York City
Duration: 130 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 413000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: one man army, vengeance, gunfight, criminal's revenge, tough guy, murder, hitman, shooting, revenge, martial arts, danger, rescue, brutality, assassin, dark hero, complex characters, horse, chase, dog, fight, army, hotel, dog attack, badass, warrior
Kesari (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1897, an army of 21 Sikhs battles 10,000 Afghans to prevent the Saragarhi Fort from being taken down
Duration: 150 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: India
Plot tags: sikh, war, against the odds, human spirit, courage, heroism, patriot, heroic mission, fight scenes, army, battles, soldier, sword fight, brutality, culture clash, indian history, historical character, martial arts, indians, death, revolution, nationalism, patriotism, hindu, propaganda
Uncut Gems (2019)
Plot Summary:
Howard Ratner, a charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score, makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime
Duration: 135 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 309000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: jeweler, money, gambling, basketball, threat, scam, bet, infidelity, gem, auction, adultery, danger, murder, character study, debt, apartment building, mafia, organized crime, coming of age, gangster, great ending, diamond, profanity, survival, spy
The Collini Case (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case
Duration: 123 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Plot tags: courtroom drama, lawyer, courtroom, legal, nazi, nazi war criminal, murder, childhood trauma, public defender, german soldier, trial, prosecutor, childhood memory, investigation, revenge, injustice, mafia, world war two, court, revelation, judgment, german history, father figure, boxer, male nudity
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Plot Summary:
A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off people like them in order to remain immortal
Duration: 152 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 214000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: psychic power, supernatural, psychic, ghost, stephen king, murder, doctor, mind game, native american, fear, haunted house, terror, magician, hotel, vampire, little girl, death, disappearance, occult, mind control, sadism, supernatural power, eaten alive, teenager, snow
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future
Duration: 122 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 283000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: on the run, revenge, escape, drug, flashback sequence, organized crime, crime scene, monster, ghetto, police officer, gang, explosions, captive, held captive, mobster, gangsta, badass, happy ending, meth lab, drug dealer, prostitute, slavery, desert, video game, excavation
Official Secrets (2019)
Plot Summary:
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun, who prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war
Duration: 112 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Plot tags: whistleblower, spy, british politics, espionage, politics, british secret service, lawyer, legal, iraq war, expose, secret, courtroom, journalism, cafe, female secret agent, investigation, blackmail, british government, biopic, female protagonist, state affairs, female spy, political conspiracy, secrets, treason
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido, a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens, she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield her from her mysterious past
Duration: 122 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 288000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Canada, USA
Plot tags: cyberpunk, female protagonist, cyborgs, distopia, strong female lead, post apocalypse, female warrior, danger, tough girl, woman fights a man, martial arts, adaptation, bounty hunter, nanotechnology, one woman army, female robot, amnesia, uncover truth, dystopia, society, scientist, robot, memory, memory loss, space station
Bacurau (2019)
Plot Summary:
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps
Duration: 131 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: Brazil, France
Plot tags: village, revenge, flying saucer, funeral, manhunt, resistance, murder, drone, life is a bitch, survival, distopia, fight, women, lgbt, corruption, society, adaptation, dishonesty, hopes, catastrophe, danger, transsexuality, politics, time travel, past
The Report (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden
Duration: 119 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: investigation, cia, torture, politics, corruption, interrogation, spy, u.s. government, war crime, government corruption, justice, truth, humiliation, espionage, journalism, real life, international relations, international law, whistleblower, military, islam, 9/11, terrorism, white house, president
An Officer and a Spy (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island
Duration: 132 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Plot tags: spy, espionage, lawyer, trial, courtroom, french army, miscarriage of justice, french history, manipulation, officer, bourgeoisie, colonel, french politics, french military, police investigation, dishonesty, frame up, society, duel, arrest, war, mansion, intrigue, dialogue, military officer
Mosul (2019)
Plot Summary:
When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul
Duration: 86 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Plot tags: isis, war on terror, military, pow, near death experience, islam, terrorist, terrorism, islamic terrorism, guerilla warfare, police officer, civil war, battles, soldier, home invasion, mission, ex cop, war violence, terrorist group, behind enemy lines, urban decay, anti war, battlefield, war, fight
Marighella (2019)
Plot Summary:
Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure
Duration: 155 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Plot tags: dictatorship, dictator, brazilian military dictatorship, escape, journalism, violent, torture, fascism, racial issues, military dictatorship, fictional biography, kidnapping, male nudity, communist, democracy, oppression, male pubic hair, brazilian politics, terrorism, gay interest, pubic hair
Midsommar (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult
Duration: 148 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 382000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Plot tags: paganism, ritual, religious cult, folk horror, travel, community, nervous breakdown, pagan, rite, isolated community, burned alive, female protagonist, hallucinogenic drug, sacrifice, grief, unsettling, emotional breakdown, trip, human sacrifice, suicide, abused woman, hallucination, murder, death, blood
The Platform (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two people per level. An unknown number of levels. A platform with food for all of them. Are you one of those who think too much when they are up? Or of those who have no guts when they are down? If you discover it too late, you will not live out of the hole
Duration: 94 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 261000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Plot tags: survival, struggle for survival, confined, prison, food shortage, cannibalism, social differences, social injustice, rivalry, social relations, fear, danger, society, symbolism, existentialism, jail, hunger, murder, suicide, isolation, dystopia, open ending, distopia, dystopian future, locked in a room
The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil (2019)
Plot Summary:
In Cheonan, a serial murder case takes place, but the case becomes more and more of a mystery. Only Tae-suk, a cop, immediately senses that all the cases are by the same killer and starts investigation. One day, Dong-soo, a gang boss, got attacked by a suspicious man, and Tae-suk realizes that this man is the serial killer, K. Now, Dong-soo becomes the only witness and a survived victim from K
Duration: 109 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Plot tags: gang, serial killer, murder mystery, mafia, gangster, police, revenge, investigation, forensics, murderer, murder, murder investigation, serial murder, police detective, crime boss, chase, manhunt, gang war, fighting crime, criminal, psycho killer, danger, unsolved crime, police investigation, homicide detective
The Wolf's Call (2019)
Plot Summary:
Thriller set in the milieu of French nuclear submarines
Duration: 115 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: France
Plot tags: submarine, sea battle, torpedo, sea, naval battle, nuclear submarine, chain of command, nuclear threat, investigation, danger, water, supernatural ability, navy, nuclear testing, supernatural power, sea voyage, entrapment, boat, spy, wartime, disaster, isolation, marine, propaganda, white supremacy