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Plot Summary:
A young corporate lawyer becomes fast friends with a maintenance man who works in his building after the maintenance man comes to him for help with a seemingly innocuous criminal matter. The lawyer's life then spirals out of control when he discovers the truth about the maintenance man and the criminal matter and his and his law firm's connection to them.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, tense, independent film
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Retribution (2016)
Plot Summary:
A hardened debt-collector goes on a 24-hour rampage through London in an attempt to avenge the brutal attack on his teenage daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Mommy I Didn't Do It (2017)
Plot Summary:
After finishing law school, Ellen Plainview is looking forward to spending some much needed time with her seventeen-year-old daughter, Julie. But when Julie is charged with the murder of a teacher she was rumored to be having an affair with, Ellen stops at nothing to clear her daughter's name, even when all the evidence seems to point to Julie’s guilt.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, serious, suspense, mysterious
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Silk Road (2021)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Ross Ulbricht, the charismatic young tech-mastermind who unleashed the darknet website Silk Road, and the corrupt DEA agent determined to bring down his billion-dollar empire.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, freeze frame
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Jazba (2015)
Plot Summary:
After her daughter is kidnapped, a lawyer is forced to defend a criminal in exchange for her daughter's freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, twisted
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Darkness Falls (2020)
Plot Summary:
After his wife's suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson becomes convinced that she has been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, he finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers and sets out to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, USA, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspenseful, scary
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The Stand at Paxton County (2020)
Plot Summary:
A military veteran comes home to find her father harassed by a sheriff intent on confiscating the livestock on their ranch under shady pretenses.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Narrows (2008)
Plot Summary:
A 19 year old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds when his photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to NYU. He must figure out how to balance his Italian neighborhood roots with the expansive, sophisticated world on the other side of the East River. Based on Tim McLoughlin's novel "Heart of the Old Country".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic
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Death of a Vegas Showgirl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two talented dancers become swept up in a tumultuous association that spirals into compulsion.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Contractor (2013)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth Chase is busy remodeling her new home with her lawyer husband, Paul and daughter, McKenzie. To make sure it's finished before a charity event they're hosting, the couple hire a contractor, Javier, to help. However Elizabeth starts to grow suspicious of Javier and learns that he'd targeted the family all along. Now, to save her family, Elizabeth will have to take matters into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense
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The Power of Few (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spies, cops and armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. Five unusual characters are unknowingly connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation, as religious conspiracy collides with urban crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, interesting
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Duress (2009)
Plot Summary:
Haunted with nightmares of his wife's recent suicide and struggling to mend the relationship with his only daughter, Richard is caught as a witness to the violence of Abner Solvie. He finds himself at the mercy of a charismatic killer and plagued by his involvement in the city's recent murders. As Abner's new found protégé, Richard is forced to adopt the mind of his sociopathic mentor in order to protect the one he loves. Richard must decide if he's willing to kill in order to keep his daughter alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Blood Money (2012)
Plot Summary:
In South Africa, a young man living with his wife becomes embroiled in an illegal diamond business and with time finds his life changing.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hot
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Justice (2006)
Plot Summary:
Justice is an American legal drama produced by Jerry Bruckheimer that aired on Fox in the USA and CTV in Canada. The series also aired on Warner Channel in Latin America, Nine Network in Australia, and on TV2 In New Zealand. It first was broadcast on Wednesdays at 9:00 but, due to low ratings, it was rescheduled to Mondays at 9:00, in the hope viewers of the hit series Prison Break would stay tuned. On November 13, 2006, the show was put on hiatus, but two days later the network announced it was shifting it to Fridays at 8:00 to replace the canceled Vanished. Fourteen episodes of the series were ordered, of which 13 episodes were produced. Twelve of the episodes of Justice have aired in the United States with the final episode airing in Mexico, the UK and Germany.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, captivating
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Shikkar (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of Shikkar takes place at Chittazha, a mountainous terrain where bamboo reeds flourish. After much wandering from place to place, Balraman (Mohanlal) a lorry driver has finally settled down with his daughter (Ananya) at Chittazha. Peace evades the man as his past catches up with him, and Balaraman has to take risky everything to safeguard his own life and that of his daughter's.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, serious, captivating
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Echoes of Violence (2021)
Plot Summary:
An immigrant travels from Sedona to Los Angeles to seek revenge against the immigration lawyer who ruined her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Murder Unresolved (2016)
Plot Summary:
A woman is the prime suspect in the mysterious drowning death of her anchorwoman sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Knifepoint (2011)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas Eve, two sisters sharing a Venice apartment discover their home is the final target of a brutal gang of criminals led by Jess and his sadistic sister Lorraine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, tense, rough, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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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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Zyzzyx Road (2006)
Plot Summary:
A married man (Leo Grillo) meets a beautiful woman (Katherine Heigl) in a Las Vegas casino and allows her to seduce him. When her jealous boyfriend (Tom Sizemore) finds them together, a scuffle results in the boyfriend's death. The lovers head to the desert to bury the corpse, but it disappears.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, weird
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Marseille (2014)
Plot Summary:
Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out on him by the Corsican Mafia. Four years later, Alex deserts and returns to Marseilles to get back together with Katia, his former girlfriend. But in the city, relationships have changed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, rough, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful
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Seven Days (2007)
Plot Summary:
A successful lawyer who, in order to save her daughter, is pressured into defending the innocence of a man slated to receive the death penalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, action thriller, twisted
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Black Money (2019)
Plot Summary:
A prosecutor is falsely accused of sexual assault in a suicide note from a woman that he is convinced was actually murdered. As he investigates her death to clear his name, he realizes that the truth lies in a huge financial scandal.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Miami Heat (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yuri, a retired special forces agent, is reluctantly forced into utilizing his old skills when his daughter, Julia, gets kidnapped by a human trafficking conglomerate just days before Christmas in Miami.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Music Box (1989)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, emotional, political, heartbreaking, talky, sincere, realistic, serious, suspense
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Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm’s frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: suspense, inspirational, tense, captivating, suspenseful, serious, dramatic, cult classic, black cinema
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West 32nd (2007)
Plot Summary:
When John Kim, an ambitious young lawyer, takes on a pro bono case to exonerate a fourteen-year-old boy from a first degree murder charge, he finds a world he never knew existed in the underbelly of Manhattan - the Korean underworld.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, suspense, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Beautiful & Twisted (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Papanasam (2015)
Plot Summary:
A cinephile tries to protect his family by hiding a heat-of-the-moment murder committed by his daughter by taking cues from the films he has watched. With the victim the son of a cop, can he get away with it?.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspense thriller
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Perez. (2014)
Plot Summary:
Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso’s son, Perez has to cut through the morality of his law-abiding roots and become as dirty as the dangerous criminals he represents.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, psychological, captivating, suspense, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful
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Class Action (1991)
Plot Summary:
Liberal activist lawyer Jedediah alienated daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, talky, emotional, clever, contemplative, exciting