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Plot Summary:
A psychologist interviews a death row inmate to determine whether or not a stay of execution should be granted.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, crime drama, twisted, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Instinct (2019)
Plot Summary:
In spite of her expertise and experience, a seasoned psychologist is completely infatuated with the sex offender she is treating in a penal institution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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House of Manson (2014)
Plot Summary:
An unflinching chronicle of Charles Manson, the ex-con who was able to amass a dedicated following of young people in the late 1960s. The era of peace and love was ultimately brought to its knees following his orchestration of the notorious Sharon Tate and LaBianca murders, which sent a shockwave throughout the U.S.A and the world. To this very day, Manson remains a fascinating figure in today's world and remains incarcerated... Prepare to enter the mental and depraved world of Charles Manson.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful
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Safer at Home (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two years into the pandemic, a group of friends throw an online party with a night of games, drinking and drugs. After taking an ecstasy pill, things go terribly wrong and the safety of their home becomes more terrifying than the raging chaos outside.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, cyber, crime drama, dark drama
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Laugh Killer Laugh (2015)
Plot Summary:
A jewel thief named Frank Stone is a very deeply disturbed, anti social, milquetoast who finds no joy or humor in anything - until he awakens from a deep coma.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Collection (2021)
Plot Summary:
A grieving father grapples with the seedy, manipulative world of high stakes debt collection while struggling to shed the tragedies of his past. He find's himself pitted against his best friend with troubling consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crime thriller
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Phantom Halo (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers barely scrape by as their father continues to gamble and drink away the money they do bring home. They hatch a plan for a robbery but at what price?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 978
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, corny
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Symmetry (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dwudziestosześcioletni Łukasz, niesłusznie posądzony o napad na starszą kobietę, trafia do aresztu śledczego. Adwokat wynajęty przez matkę bezskutecznie próbuje go stamtąd wydostać. Pod wpływem dramatycznych wydarzeń w celi przejściowej Łukasz za wszelką cenę chce znaleźć się wśród grypsującej części więźniów. Świat gitów wymaga jednak przestrzegania panujących tu twardych zasad. Reżyser uzyskał zgodę Ministra Spraw Wewnętrznych na realizację zdjęć w więzieniu na Białołęce.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Interview (1998)
Plot Summary:
A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: clever, suspense, surprise ending, dark, independent film, detective, psychological, tense, suspenseful, talky
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American Bully (2009)
Plot Summary:
A middle-American teenage boy who is affected by 9/11, terrorism, and the war in Iraq becomes involved in an isolated high school altercation that escalates into a hate crime that shocks the entire nation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Deathrow (2000)
Plot Summary:
A neglected and unloved orphan raised by poor relatives in the slums of Manila is wrongfully convicted of murder that resulted from a heist he was compelled to join. Unable to prove his innocence and his minor age, he is thrown into the cruel, perilous and horrifying world of death row where he is introduced to other inmates all awaiting their execution by lethal injection. One of them is a 70-year-old man who detests the jungle of jail and is feared by all the convicts. He would serve as the boy’s protector and savior and in the process touch and shape enormously the violated youth’s life in prison and beyond.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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The Jingoist (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of September 11th, two brothers believe they have stopped a mass terrorist attack in New York. Now they must face the consequences of taking justice into their own hands.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, talky
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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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The Corrupted (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam (Sam Claflin), an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen (Spall), who has high-level connections in politics, finance and the police force. Liam's drive for redemption sees him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Deal (2015)
Plot Summary:
A cop catches a serial killer who murdered his sister but never finds her body. The lack of closure torments him and drives his brother-in-law insane, who makes a deal with the mafia for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Stray Bullets (2016)
Plot Summary:
In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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King of the Ants (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young drifter, struggling to makes ends meet, accepts a job to kill a prominent accountant. When he isn't paid for the hit, revenge is now his path.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, rough, serious, scary, suspenseful, heartbreaking, bleak, suspense
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Cut Bank (2014)
Plot Summary:
25 year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in moton a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the town forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, semi serious, suspense, teen, twisted, clever, offbeat
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The Last Rampage (2017)
Plot Summary:
The true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, in the summer of 1978.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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Locked In (2021)
Plot Summary:
A single mother must protect her daughter and herself during a heist gone wrong at a high-tech storage facility.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense
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The Guilty (2021)
Plot Summary:
A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 143000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychological, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, touching, entertaining, dark
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Shattered (2007)
Plot Summary:
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, mindfuck, psychological thriller, entertaining
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True Crime (1999)
Plot Summary:
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, serious, tense, clever, thought provoking, mysterious, action thriller, crime thriller
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Dark Blood (2021)
Plot Summary:
A father is imprisoned after committing a brutal revenge crime. During his confinement he must adapt to a new life of abuse, including injury and humiliation by guards and other prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Empire (2002)
Plot Summary:
A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has been double crossed and his last option is to get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: intense, suspense, melancholic, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, hood, tense, realistic
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Ray Donovan: The Movie (2022)
Plot Summary:
A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the Donovans find themselves drawn back to Boston to face the past. Each of them struggles to overcome their violent upbringing, but destiny dies hard, and only their fierce love for each other keeps them in the fight.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, neo noir, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, tense, rough, psychological, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime thriller
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Unthinkable (2010)
Plot Summary:
A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs while a CIA "consultant", known as H, interrogates the suspect who has allowed himself to be caught. The suspect, whose wife and children have left him and disappeared, seems to know exactly what the interrogation will entail. Even as H ratchets up the pressure, using torture over Brody's objection, the suspect doesn't crack. Should H do the unthinkable, and will Brody acquiesce? Is any Constitutional principle worth possible loss of life?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, disturbing, rough, psychological thriller, unusual plot structure, intense, tense, thought provoking, clever
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Bird (2020)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with the meaninglessness of her life, Samantha Flores, an unassuming and shy young woman, living in the city of Los Angeles is convinced by a friend, Juliette, a vivacious call-girl, to go out one night posing as her. What was supposed to be a night of fun and excitement for Samantha, turns into a night of sheer terror after she witnesses a brutal murder. Now stranded and wandering aimlessly along a dark road, Samantha crosses paths with Greg Vargas, a reluctant criminal talked into participating in a jewel heist that is occurring nearby. After Greg initially picks her up to get her away from the crime scene, they are suddenly attacked by unknown assailants. After barely escaping with their lives, Greg and Samantha now must not only work together to solve the mystery of who is after them, but also learn to trust each other. The only clues that can help them uncover the secrets of that night are locked away in Samantha's traumatized, fragmented memories, and they are running out.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Rust Creek (2018)
Plot Summary:
When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, psychological, philosophical, bloody, political, disturbing
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Shot Caller (2017)
Plot Summary:
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: clever, suspense, harsh, twist ending, crime thriller, hood, crime drama, tense, inspirational, sincere