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Plot Summary:
A garage mechanic out in the middle of the outback gets involved with the girl friend of a jewel smuggler who is on the run.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Best tv shows and movies like Back of Beyond (1995):
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Kill the Referee (1984)
Plot Summary:
Michel,a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Dream Kiss (1992)
Plot Summary:
The gorgeous Margot supports her aged father by seducing men on trains, slipping them a Mickey Finn (a beso de sueño) and robbing them. One night her victim is a currency smuggler taking 100 million pesetas out of Spain. He's being watched by a cop and by a burned-out alcoholic.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful
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The Fall (1999)
Plot Summary:
In Budapest, two Americans live together. Adam, a former Manhattan prosecutor at work on his first novel, and Lisa, a cool hard-working financier who idolizes her boss (former Communist turned deal maker, Kovacs) as she tires of Adam's lifestyle. Cut to the subway, where two tough guys are pursuing Marta, a blond waif. She manages to surprise one of them in a hallway, dispatching him with a straight razor, and she barges into Adam's apartment to elude the other. She tells Adam why she is running, a story that implicates Kovacs, and she seeks Adam's help and affection. He takes her side, and slowly Lisa, Adam, Kovacs, Marta, and her pursuer draw toward a showdown.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, Hungary, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Protection (2001)
Plot Summary:
A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness and tries to start over, only to find he can't escape his old ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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White Snow (2010)
Plot Summary:
Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, realistic, neo noir
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Sweet Angel Mine (1996)
Plot Summary:
Paul, a young man from London, arrives in the small Nova Scotia town of Milestone, where his long lost father was last seen years earlier. Paul is eager to find out what brought his father to this remote community. He meets Rauchine, a young, beautiful and unaffected girl who lives with her unstable mother and domineering grandmother on a nearby island, who is eking out a harsh and isolated living. Paul finds himself enmeshed in a web of jealousy, bitterness and fear as his attraction to Rauchine begins to grow. After a failed attempt to leave the island with Paul, Rauchine must make a crucial decision and break the cycle of violence and death that has marked her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The Secretary (1995)
Plot Summary:
Her boss made ​​a big mistake by not promoting it. Now is the perfect secretary in the service of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: depressing, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Exit Speed (2008)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas. Far out in the wilds they collide with a meth-addicted biker.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, exciting, realistic
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Second Skin (2000)
Plot Summary:
A tough guy named Tommy Gunn, with "kaos" tattooed on his neck, a beautiful blond named Crystal Ball who's struck by a car and can't remember her past, a sadistic scalpel-wielding mobster in Cleveland, a balding schmuck gambling in Las Vegas, a reclusive bookstore owner in a small coastal town who discourages customers, and the hit-and-run driver of the SUV that hits Crystal: what connects them? Sam, the bookstore owner, comes to Crystal's aid after the accident; an affair begins. When she's menaced by Tommy, Sam tries buying him off. As Crystal begins to remember her past, the question arises about Sam's: why is he in hiding?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, South Africa, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, neo noir
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Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear (1998)
Plot Summary:
A neglectful mother overhears her husband on the telephone at their workplace talking with their babysitter. She discovers they are having an affair and are going to have a baby. She concocts an evil plan to win back her husband and remove the girl and baby. Two men are hired to kill the girl and hold the son hostage in order for her to play the hero and reclaim her husband. The plan hits a snag when the criminals enter the wrong apartment.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense, ridiculous
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Dream Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
Kris is a homicide cop with psychic abilities. She works to prove that the prime suspect in her latest case (the much younger husband of the millionaire victim) is innocent. But are her visions true, or planned by someone who knows what she can see?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Thunder Point (1998)
Plot Summary:
Former IRA agent Sean Dillon comes to the rescue when a woman discovers a briefcase containing plans that could destroy all of Europe. Dillon's assignment is to protect her until the plans can be properly destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Chameleon (1995)
Plot Summary:
An undercover agent (Anthony LaPaglia) uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Juncture (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Anna Carter is diagnosed with a terminal illness, she sees her final three months as an opportunity to enact some vigilante justice. Racing her deteriorating health and trying to stay one step ahead of the police, Carter furiously tracks down vicious criminals whom she feels unjustly eluded jail time.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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House Under Siege (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two young boys and a girl commit a diamond robbery on Halloween. During escape the girl is fatally shot. One of the boys knows a doctor (Jeremy London) who has a private clinic in his house. They decide to go to his house instead of the hospital where they will expect the police. They enter the house quietly with no drama. But when the doctor tells them she needs an ambulance to the hospital or else she will die, and his co-worker picks up the phone ready to call, the boys bring their guns out. The doctor along with his family are taken hostages, and the boys threaten him to save the girl if they all want to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, serious, realistic
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Sicarivs: The Night and the Silence (2015)
Plot Summary:
A hit man receives the assignment to kill a woman. But what seems as another job complicates when he is about to execute her, but does not. He will have to go after those who gave him the contract, for, in his profession, those who do not comply with their duty end up dead. But the question remains, why did he not kill the woman?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, exciting, captivating, suspense
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Moscow Chill (2007)
Plot Summary:
A loner American computer hacker is brought to Russia to commit bank fraud, only to find a family and love in the incomprehensible, violent, and chaotic Moscow underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dog Eat Dog (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the crime world of Colombia, there is an unwritten code. When VĂctor and Eusebio, two hoods who bungle a shake-down job, break that code, they unwittingly sign their own death sentence.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hood, crime drama
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The Heavy (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister, the other a henchman for a successful, yet shady businessman. Presented with an opportunity to take revenge against his brother, our anti-hero must come to terms with the truth in a world where you can trust no one and loyalty is rare.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, perverse, non-linear
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The Collectors (1999)
Plot Summary:
Shifting alliances put a pair of hardnosed hit men in jeopardy in this 1999 crime caper. A New Orleans mob boss looking to settle scores sends Ray (Rick Fox) and A.K. (Casper Van Dien) to New York City to collect overdue debts.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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No Through Road (2008)
Plot Summary:
The serenity of another quiet evening is shattered for an amateur photographer when a desperate woman takes refuge in his humble suburban home. Reluctantly, he is pulled into a cat and mouse game with her pursuers. Only dawn will reveal the blood-soaked fallout of being alone in the middle of suburbia.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film, scary, realistic, suspenseful, slasher
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Slow Burn (2000)
Plot Summary:
A woman's lifelong pursuit of lost family diamonds is interrupted by the appearance of two escaped convicts.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, road movie, sexy, independent film
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Bad Karma (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ray Liotta stars as Jack Malloy, a hardcore career criminal until a near-death experience causes him to turn his world around. But when his former partner Drake is released from prison, he tracks Jack down to blackmail him into one last job. Jack is a new man determined to lead an honest life. Drake is a charming psycho intent on vengeance. Sometimes, old friends can carry some extreme baggage. And for one of them, coming to terms with the past is going to be murder. Vanessa Gray and Andy McPhee co-star in this taut action/drama about good intentions, dark secrets and the harsh consequences of BAD KARMA.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
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The King of the Hill (2007)
Plot Summary:
Quim drives around an isolated rural area through a maze of lanes. When he drives into the woods, he gets lost. Trying to find his direction, he suddenly gets shot from the hill. On his escape from gunshots, he meets Bea, an attractive young woman, who apparently is lost as well. Suspicious of each other, they join forces to run away through the forest, unprotected, cold, hunted.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, suspense, disturbing, tense, hispanic, dread, slasher, road movie
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In the Shadows (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach him to do stunts. While waiting for the word to kill this mentor, Eric discovers the joy of stunt work and of being part of a family. Meanwhile, several people are looking for the dead man's briefcase of money and a cloth bag of illegal drugs that he stole from an undercover FBI agent now desperate to get the borrowed drugs back to the bureau. The stunt coordinator says that 'we dance in the shadows of death.' Can Eric step out into the sun?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Avalanche (1994)
Plot Summary:
Duncan (Hasselhoff) is a murderous thief. When he jumps out of his plane, it crashes into the Rockies and produces an avalanche. A quiet family trapped inside their house will rescue him. They will have to survive the disaster and the madman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Tripfall (2000)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer turns the life of a family on vacation into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, realistic, fast
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The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Plot Summary:
7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, teen, exciting, rough
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Full Disclosure (2001)
Plot Summary:
A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic
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Nowhere to Land (2000)
Plot Summary:
A pilot must safely land a 747 on which deadly nerve gas has been planted.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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