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Plot Summary:
Leo, a guy in the seventh grade gets harassed by a two years older boy in school and seeks revenge. At the same time, Ali, the father of a girl in Leo's class (who Leo has a crush on) is contacted by a opposition group from his home country that wants Ali to assassinate an important man for them. Otherwise, they'll kill the family that Ali left when moving to Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, cult classic, crying, detective, surprise ending, cult film
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Rage (2006)
Plot Summary:
Züli Aladag's critically acclaimed, but controversial movie deals with the conflict of Can, son of Turkish immigrants, and the Laubs, a supposedly liberal middle class family. Simon Laub, professor of literature, and his wife Christa, real estate agent, live with their son Felix in a safe and quiet Berlin district. However, Felix gets in trouble with Can, son of a Turkish greengrocer, who starts to tyrannize the family. As he is annoyed by the boy's attacks, Simon -despite his political correct attitude- humiliates Can, which starts a vicious circle of anger and violence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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They Returned (2015)
Plot Summary:
They Returned is a beautifully touching and unnerving story about the unexplained disappearance of three children, two boys and one girl, and their reappearance three days later in a semi-autistic state. Not even the children themselves are able to help anyone understand what happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, captivating
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Rabid Dogs (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, surprise ending, bloody, remake of cult film
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Rasa (2009)
Plot Summary:
Following the kidnap of his ten year old daughter in Jakarta, Professor Anthony Collins is forced to recover an ancient artifact as a ransom for her life. His path is entangled with a young artist, called Rianti, whose premonitions of people before they die may help Anthony save his daughter's life. Anthony, Rianti and the love of her life are all in grave danger as the kidnappers masked agenda reaches beyond the ransom.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, touching, captivating, suspense
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Eye Catcher! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth, a voluptuous, shy and unpopular girl, is the object of ridicule at school by the cool in-crowd. Her life spirals downward after the death of her only friend, her grandmother. But she has a crush on a popular boy at school, and a deranged plan to make all her dreams come true!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, thought provoking, realistic, crying, detective
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Dead Bullet (2016)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to turn his life around, a hard-luck gambler risks everything to sell stolen casino chips to a ruthless gunslinger. It's the worst bet of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, independent film, detective, neo western
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Sand Castles (2014)
Plot Summary:
In rural Indiana, Noah and his impoverished family wrestle with the mysterious return of his now mute sister, Lauren, who was kidnapped and held captive for over a decade.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, sincere, suspenseful, independent film, surprise ending, ambiguous ending
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Killing Jesus (2017)
Plot Summary:
Paula, a young art student, witnesses the assassination of her father, a university professor. Frustrated by the local police she starts to investigate the murder herself. Driven by anger, frustration and sorrow, she commits fearless acts that put her and her family at risk.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Argentina
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking
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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.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, political, surprise ending
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Blood in the Streets (1973)
Plot Summary:
An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, retro, cult classic, action thriller, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Class of 1984 (1982)
Plot Summary:
Andy is a new teacher at a inner city high school that is like nothing he has ever seen before. There is metal detectors at the front door and everything is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, cult classic, psychotronic, entertaining, slasher, controversial, detective, crime drama, action thriller
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Fight for Your Life (1977)
Plot Summary:
A minister dispenses justice on three convicts who take his family hostage.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, terrifying, independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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American Yearbook (2004)
Plot Summary:
Will is the kid-next-door, but is relentlessly terrorized by school bullies. Then the mysterious Chance eventually convinces Will that they should get a gun and take the bullies out: pull a Columbine.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Life Not to Follow (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Neo-Noir film told in three interlacing chapters: Eric is a dead man and he knows it. Death is imminent and he must make amends for his past sins, by killing those who wronged him, no matter the price: A wiseguy willing to do anything to move up in the world must now make the ultimate sacrifice. He must kill his best friend or in turn be killed: An F.B.I.agent turned P.I. is on the trail of a missing girl. In his long search for her he comes face to face with a host of unsavory characters who will lead him to perdition or salvation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, independent film, detective, cult film
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Run Hide Fight (2020)
Plot Summary:
A 17-year-old girl uses her wits, survival skills, and compassion to fight for her life, and those of her fellow classmates, against a group of live-streaming school shooters.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, slasher, teen, psychological thriller
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Bang Bang You're Dead (2002)
Plot Summary:
Trevor is a troubled high school student, thanks to the effects of bullying. This is the story of his fight to break free.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, harsh, suspenseful, sincere, teen, psychological, philosophical, depressing, political, sad
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I Killed My BFF (2015)
Plot Summary:
A friendship between two young mothers results in murder when one develops an attraction to the other's boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Mean Creek (2004)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it suddenly goes too far. Soon they're forced to deal with the unexpected consequences of their actions.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, intense, independent film, captivating, emotional, sad, tense
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Mahaan (2022)
Plot Summary:
A man's family leaves him when he strays from the path of ideological living in his search for personal freedom. However, as he realizes his ambitions, he also misses the presence of his son in his life. Having fulfilled his dream of becoming a billionaire, does life give him a second chance to be a father?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, cult classic, independent film, epic, masterpiece, cult film
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I'm Not Scared (2003)
Plot Summary:
While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the beans to his closest friend. Michele's parents learn of his discovery and warn him to forget what he saw.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, realistic, confusing, sad, art house, twisted
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Apt Pupil (1998)
Plot Summary:
Neighborhood boy Todd Bowden discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker is nazi war criminal. Bowden confronts Denker and offers him a deal: Bowden will not go to the authorities if Denker tells him stories of the concentration camps in WWII.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, disturbing, suspense, serious, scary, psychological thriller, sincere, spiritual, epic
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The Hypnotist (2012)
Plot Summary:
After a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire family, Detective Inspector Joona Linna works with a psychiatrist to hypnotize the son who narrowly escaped death in order to find the one surviving daughter before the murderer does.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, captivating, disturbing, slasher, psychological, cult classic
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Bad Boys (1983)
Plot Summary:
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, realistic, disturbing, tense, serious, entertaining, bleak, suspenseful, epic
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A Perfect World (1993)
Plot Summary:
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, suspense, touching, neo noir, bleak, emotional, psychological, sad, crying
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Dark Blue (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, detective, harsh, intense, stylized, serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Disturbia (2007)
Plot Summary:
Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start to get weird when guests enter the Turner's house and don't come back out. Kale and his friends, Ronnie and Ashley, start to grow more and more interested in what is actually happening within the house of Robert Turner.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 245000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, intense, psychological thriller, scary, teen, clever, slasher
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The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
Plot Summary:
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 286000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: harsh, captivating, psychological, stylized, neo noir, suspense, gloomy, melancholic, atmospheric, crime thriller
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Detention: The Siege at Johnson High (1997)
Plot Summary:
A former high school student, Jason Copeland, returns to his school to take his revenge on the teachers for failing him out of school.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Elephant (2003)
Plot Summary:
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent. The film chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, psychological, realistic, controversial, non-linear, independent film, teen, meditative, enigmatic
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All Things To All Men (2013)
Plot Summary:
A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, exciting, captivating, suspense, action thriller, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending