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Black Sun (2017)
Plot Summary:
A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1930s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.9/10
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Plot tags: secret society, conspiracy, police detective, law enforcement, secret movement, criminal, murder investigation, undercover, politician, partner, dishonesty, female nudity, political intrigue, political conspiracy, geopolitics, interwar period, female pubic hair, nudity, gangster, police, nude, female full frontal nudity, nudity (full frontal - brief), crime, crimes
Dark (2017)
Plot Summary:
A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town
Duration: 1455 min
IMDB Rating: 8.7/10
IMDB Votes: 429000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Plot tags: time travel, investigation, time loop, time machine, mysterious past, cave, time portal, missing child, repeated event, changing the future, disappearance, alternate dimension, deja vu, small town, loss of father, mysterious disappearance, butterfly effect, corpse, time traveler, family crisis, family relations, conspiracy, nuclear waste, apocalypse, school
Mindhunter (2017)
Plot Summary:
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.6/10
IMDB Votes: 323000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: serial killer, psychopath, psychology, fbi, police, serial murder, murderer, criminal psychologist, police investigation, murder, fbi agent, killings, interview, profiler, prison, rapist, true crime, killer, lesbian, investigation, whodunit, criminal, murder mystery, sapphic, sociopath
Twin Peaks (2017)
Plot Summary:
Picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered
Duration: 1032 min
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: small town, twists and turns, surrealism, supernatural, small town life, mysterious event, gore, interdimensional travel, law enforcement, evil spirit, good versus evil, anger, love, abusive relationship, another dimension, electricity, evil, identity, special agent, time, brutality, superhero, serial killer, betrayal, house
Stranger (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hwang Shi-Mok had brain surgery when he was a child, which caused him to lack emotion. Now, Hwang Shi-Mok works as a prosecutor. He is rational, but cold and lonely. He is also one of the only prosecutors not involved in corruption. One day, a dead body is thrown in front of him. He meets Police Lieutenant Han Yeo-Jin at a murder crime scene. They work together to eradicate corruption at the prosecutor's office and solve a serial murder case
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Plot tags: prosecutor, female detective, corruption, murder mystery, murder investigation, serial killer, police, investigation, emotionless, crime investigation, police corruption, buddy cop, murderer, murder, secret, homicide detective, suspect, dark secret, criminal justice, coworker relationship, secret plan, abuse of power, police investigation, forensics, fighting crime
Ozark (2017)
Plot Summary:
A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
IMDB Votes: 337000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: money laundering, drug cartel, danger, family relations, rivalry, murder, investigation, drug, teenage girl, mafia, organized crime, violence, law enforcement, cheating wife, mind game, finance, gang, teenage boy, chase, couples, escapades, dishonesty, survival, money, apocalypse
The Punisher (2017)
Plot Summary:
A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy
Duration: 53 min
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
IMDB Votes: 258000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: vigilante, revenge, justice, vengeance, vigilantism, fight scenes, violence, superhero, one man army, murder, violent, gunfight, avenger, hacker, multiverse, weapons, brutality, villain, comic book, blood, gory, badass, death, corruption, love
The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10
IMDB Votes: 253000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: rape, sexism, surrogate mother, infertility, protest, dystopia, totalitarianism, slavery, tyranny, religion, belief, women's rights, violence, kidnapping, violence against women, torture, society, distopia, soldier, misogyny, coup d'etat, lesbian, alternate reality, alternate world, feminist
Babylon Berlin (2017)
Plot Summary:
Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties
Duration: 45 min
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Plot tags: social problems, political intrigue, espionage, german history, interwar period, conspiracy, european history, police investigation, police, national socialism, world war two, political scandal, police detective, investigation, murder investigation, crime investigation, fighting crime, adaptation, communism, society, unsolved crime, social relations, homicide detective, social realism, crime solving
Black Clover (2017)
Plot Summary:
Asta and Yuno were abandoned together at the same church, and have been inseparable since. As children, they promised that they would compete against each other to see who would become the next Emperor Magus. However, as they grew up, some differences between them became plain. Yuno was a genius with magic, with amazing power and control, while Asta could not use magic at all, and tried to make up for his lack by training physically. When they received their Grimoires at age 15, Yuno got a spectacular book with a four-leaf clover (most people receive a three-leaf-clover), while Asta received nothing at all. However, when Yuno was threatened, the truth about Asta's power was revealed, he received a five-leaf clover Grimoire, a "black clover"! Now the two friends are heading out in the world, both seeking the same goal!
Duration: 24 min
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Plot tags: magical, friendship, direction and purpose, battles, jousting, orphan, fantasy world, magic, magician, obsessive quest, wizard, chosen one, fictional reality, sword, wizards and magicians, unlikely hero, brother brother relationship, magical power, kingdom, brothers, blood, anti hero, super villain, witch, demon
Taboo (2017)
Plot Summary:
Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father
Duration: 59 min
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10
IMDB Votes: 147000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Plot tags: british empire, murder, family business, dark secret, incest overtones, brother sister incest, witchcraft, greed, investigation, conspiracy, homecoming, obsession, supernatural power, medieval, betrayal, inheritance, adventurer, corporation, sex, supernatural, apocalypse, hunting, macabre, politics, ancient
Money Heist (2017)
Plot Summary:
To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing
Duration: 70 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 516000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Plot tags: heist, perfect crime, plot twist, thief, bank robbery, hostage situation, money, professor, planning, master criminal, hostage, career criminal, robbery, criminal heroes, strategy, twists and turns, stockholm syndrome, plan gone wrong, mission, mentor, hacking, bank, tunnel, sexual tension, police
Legion (2017)
Plot Summary:
David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: superhero, mental illness, telepathy, supernatural power, telekinesis, superhuman, mutant, schizophrenia, memory, x men, power, mental institution, time travel, legion, male protagonist, reality vs fantasy, hiding place, teleportation, super powers, apocalypse, viking, psychology, psychopath, obsession, addiction
HAPPY! (2017)
Plot Summary:
Nick Sax, an intoxicated, corrupt ex-cop turned hit man, floats adrift in a world of casual murder, soulless sex and betrayal. After a hit gone wrong, his inebriated life is forever changed by a tiny, relentlessly positive, imaginary blue winged horse named “Happy”
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: hitman, gory, murder, imaginary friend, investigation, danger, kidnapping, swearing, brutality, hopes, satire, fight scenes, goofy hero, revenge, christmas, superhero, mafia, supernatural, lsd, stoner, multiverse, humour, vigilante, violent, hottie
Manhunt (2017)
Plot Summary:
An in-depth look at how an FBI profiler helped track down the terrorist Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber
Duration: 817 min
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: serial killer, terrorism, terrorist, true crime, federal bureau of investigation, psychoanalysis, mathematics, crime investigation, murder mystery, fighting crime, crime solving, homicide detective, manhunt, fbi, investigation, violence, danger, agent, fbi agent, organized crime, unsolved crime, cold case, uncover truth, special agent, mountain cabin
The End of the F***ing World (2017)
Plot Summary:
James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father
Duration: 25 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 214000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Plot tags: teenager, underage, murder, psycho, road trip, psychopath, teenage love, relationships, dark humor, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, tragic love, love, search for father, love interest, police investigation, serial killer, coming of age, forbidden love, teenage girl, apocalypse, superhero, fashion, killer, strong female lead, life
Counterpart (2017)
Plot Summary:
Howard Silk is a lowly cog in a bureaucratic UN agency who is turning the last corner of a life filled with regret when he discovers the agency he works for is guarding a secret: a crossing to a parallel dimension
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: parallel universe, espionage, spy, parallel world, secret service, twists and turns, doppelganger, time travel, deception, betrayal, murder, blackmail, murderer, gunfight, danger, nudity, survival, hacker, travel, time, revenge, supernatural, house, conspiracy, alternate reality
Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican
Duration: 50 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Plot tags: gay, mafia, organized crime, corruption, rivalry, gang, gangster, murder, female nudity, death, betrayal, dishonesty, violence, italian mafia, friendship, gunfight, vengeance, society, danger, corrupt politician, family relations, police investigation, mobster, cosa nostra, ghetto
Tabula Rasa (2017)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller about Mie, a young woman with amnesia who is locked up in a secure psychiatric hospital. Mie is visited by Detective Inspector Wolkers who claims she was the last person seen with the vanished Thomas Spectre. As a witness and prime suspect, she appears to be the sole key to this mysterious disappearance. In order to solve the puzzle and find Thomas, Mie has to reconstruct her lost memories and find her way back through the dark labyrinth of her recent past
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Plot tags: mental institution, missing person, family relations, missing man, amnesia, ghost, twists and turns, illness, memory loss, accident, memory, fear, private detective, danger, diary, female singer, memory lapse, forest, murder mystery, cheating wife, unfaithful husband, psychiatric hospital, serial killer, sketching, ghosts
The Sinner (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young mother kills in a fit of unexplainable rage a seemingly stranger. An inquisitive detective obsesses over the case, attempting to get to the bottom of the true motive behind the act
Duration: 45 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 136000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: murder, murder investigation, psychological trauma, investigation, past coming back to haunt, crime investigation, memory loss, amnesia, drug, manslaughter, forensics, sister sister relationship, mind game, legal, family problems, violence, domestic violence, child abuse, social problems, serial killer, psychology, psychopath, forest, supernatural, religion
Strike (2017)
Plot Summary:
A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving complex crimes that have baffled the police. Based on the bestselling novels written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Plot tags: investigation, private detective, multiple suspects, female partner, mind game, private investigator, danger, antisocial behavior, police investigation, riddles and clues, misfit, alienation, partner, disability, evidence, exodus, police, murder, corruption, feminist, violent, murder investigation, unrequited love, amputee, expert
Mr. Mercedes (2017)
Plot Summary:
A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again. Based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: serial killer, stephen king, murder, psychopath, investigation, police investigation, murder investigation, violence, murderer, sociopath, cruelty, killer, mother son incest, killings, forensics, psycho killer, fighting crime, homicidal maniac, sleuth, unsolved crime, crime solving, cold case, uncover truth, lesbian, supernatural
Cardinal (2017)
Plot Summary:
Detective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing 13-year-old girl whose body is discovered in the shaft-head of an abandoned mine. At the same time, he comes under investigation by his new partner, Lise Delorme, a tough investigator in her own right
Duration: 42 min
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Plot tags: serial killer, homicide detective, psychopath, murder mystery, murder investigation, police corruption, police detective, police investigation, partners in crime, psycho killer, sadist, forensic, uncover truth, child murder, police officer, police, investigation, hunting, criminal, forensics, nypd, police procedural, exodus, brutal murder, frozen body
Classroom of the Elite (2017)
Plot Summary:
Koudo Ikusei Senior High School is a leading prestigious school with state-of-the-art facilities where nearly 100% of students go on to university or find employment. The students there have the freedom to wear any hairstyle and bring any personal effects they desire. Koudo Ikusei is a paradise-like school, but the truth is that only the most superior of students receive favorable treatment. Ayanokouji Kiyotaka is a student of D-class, which is where the school dumps its "inferior" students in order to ridicule them. For a certain reason, Kiyotaka was careless on his entrance examination, and was put in D-class. After meeting Horikita Suzune and Kushida Kikyou, two other students in his class, Kiyotaka’s situation begins to change
Duration: 24 min
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Plot tags: school, teenager, society, rivalry, youth, education, teenage life, dishonesty, friendship, teenage boy, high school life, schoolboy, love and romance, slice of life, escapades, female nudity, classroom
Alias Grace (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tries to help Grace recall her past
Duration: 267 min
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Plot tags: female prisoner, female assassin, female murderer, psychiatrist, women, murder investigation, life is a bitch, maid, feminist, women in society, assassin, memory loss, historical figure, memory, amnesia, family problems, historical character, framed for murder, accused of murder, memory lapse, american history, revenge, psychology, psychopath, supernatural
13 Reasons Why (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 311000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: suicide, high school, depression, bullying, guilt, loss of friend, human relationship, loss, classmate classmate relationship, suicidal, loss of daughter, mental illness, teenage boy, death of daughter, teenage girl, self harm, troubled teen, family relations, high school student, dead teenager, abusive relationship, parent child relationship, sexual abuse, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, voice over narration
The Mantis (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jeanne Deber, known as "La Mante", the famous serial murderer who terrorized France more than 20 years ago, is forced by the police to come out of isolation to track down her copycat. She agrees to collaborate on one condition: to have only one interlocutor, Damien Carrot, her son, who became a cop because of the crimes of his mother, and who refuses all contact with her since her arrest
Duration: 52 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Plot tags: serial killer, investigation, whodunit, murder investigation, maniac, haunted by the past, killings, strong female character, sociopath, murder, murder mystery, prison, police, stephen king, killer, wannabe, supernatural horror, nordic, police officer, serial murder, heroine, race against time, cop, mind game, female hero
Black Spot (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the small bordertown of Villefranche, lost in the heart of a large forest, crime rate is six times higher than elsewhere in the area. Each new crime Major Laurène Weiss solves with the help of her unusual team makes her sink deeper and deeper into secrets of the area
Duration: 52 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Plot tags: forest, murder, supernatural, small town, police, investigation, nature, missing child, secret, isolation, danger, crime investigation, police officer, small town sheriff, mysterious event, occult, magical, strong female lead, criminal, forensic, forensics, female protagonist, judiciary, hidden truth, nordic
Tin Star (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of Jim Worth, an expat British police officer starting a new life with his family as police chief in Little Big Bear, an idyllic town near the Rocky Mountains. When his small town is overrun by migrant workers from a massive new oil refinery – the wave of drugs, prostitution and organised crime that follows them threatens to sweep away everything in its wake
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Plot tags: revenge motive, family relations, rocky mountains, danger, death, justice, life is a bitch, threat, murder, police officer, small town sheriff, abduction, investigation, religion, criminal, gentleman, organized crime, aspiration, law, female nudity, alter ego, british man, oil company, chief of police, troubled past
S.W.A.T. (2017)
Plot Summary:
Follows a locally born and bred S.W.A.T. lieutenant who is torn between loyalty to the streets and duty to his fellow officers when he's tasked to run a highly-trained unit that's the last stop for solving crimes in Los Angeles
Duration: 43 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: swat team, twists and turns, fight scenes, friendship, danger, gunfight, heroes, die hard, dialogue, police officer, police, propaganda, agent, criminal, car chase, muslim, shooter, rescue, black cast, future war, mission, emergency, armed forces, lapd, crime solving