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Plot Summary:
A back to back treatment of a malaise which has shocked Philippine society for the past so many years: the mysterious disappearances and killings of Filipino journalists and activists. The film focuses on a hard-hitting radio commentator and his conflict with a former classmate who is a suburban town mayor. The radioman’s story runs parallel to the tale of a student-activist on the run with his activist-girlfriend. These parallel stories are interwoven with a third story, that of the former military man , now their would-be assassin. This killer’s unexpected obsession with his wife leads to a climax of murder and mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Invasive (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young couple, Pauline and Alex, moves from Paris to a quiet neighbourhood in the French countryside. Pauline loves to take care of her garden and the plants. She is also fascinated with her older neighbour Gilles who lives alone. They spend much time together and he helps her with her garden. Finally, he gives her a special plant from Brasil as a gift. The plant needs a lot of attention and is sensitive to the mood around it. As the plant grows, it takes up all of Paulines time which endangeres her relationship with Alex.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, touching, captivating, contemplative
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Escape (1995)
Plot Summary:
Set during the terrifying reign of Filipino despot, Marcos, two upper caste but very different strangers team up to try and survive the physical and mental torture they undergo after they are suddenly jailed. Geny is the conservative businessman while Serge is more sensitive and outgoing. Both of the young men's parents give all of their money, but the government refuses to free them. Even a mutual hunger strike fails to move their jailers. In desperation, Geny and Serge begin plotting their escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: political drama
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The Exception (2019)
Plot Summary:
When four female colleagues receive an email death threat each, they are convinced the sender is a war criminal, whom they have exposed. But what if the threats come from within their own office at the Danish Center for Information on Genocide?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, period drama
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Fistful of Flies (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sixteen-year-old Mars wants more from her life than just a fistful of flies which, to her, is a fistful of nothing. Stifled and dominated by her family, Mars just wants to be free. Denied relationships with the people who truly understand her, Mars battles her family on her own, and in her quest to be treated as a grown-up she gives her mother the courage to act and forces her father to make the choice of his life. A story about how a young girl finally finds the courage to have faith in herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Eminent Domain (1990)
Plot Summary:
A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Israel, Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Mind Benders (1963)
Plot Summary:
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Armed and Innocent (1994)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, an eleven year old boy left home alone, kills two intruders in self defense. He and his family then try to cope with the boy's anguish and the dead intruders' friends who want revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Running Away (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sisters Maggie and Lizzie move in with mom Peg's new husband. Secrets and lies start immediately. Maggie cannot handle what follows and recruits a friend to help her plan to get out of town with her step father's secrets. When Peg discovers that her daughter has run away, she now has to find Maggie fast but must come to terms with the dark secrets that led to Maggie's fleeing and the secrets about her new husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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And Baby Will Fall (2011)
Plot Summary:
Expectant parents become prime suspects in the disappearance of a pregnant woman who was last seen at their garage sale. Model citizen David Rose runs a garden center and is a devoted house-father. Like his wife Ivy, who suffered two stillbirths, their new neighbor Melinda is near to giving birth. Just after David showed her around in the Rose home, Melinda goes missing. Although no corpse is found, just circumstantial evidence more likely to be planted then stupidly left behind, police detective Blanchard treats David as his sole suspect, soon arrested, even after nosy neighbor Bindel is knocked down while David is in jail. School buddy Theo does his best to counsel the couple, yet Ivy doubts her husband's innocence just because of indications he may have had an affair with Melinda since high-school, and starts snooping with her best friend Jody. The worst crime is still being hatched.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, crime thriller, rough, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful
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A Deadly Adoption (2015)
Plot Summary:
Things go awry when an author and his wife welcome a pregnant woman into their home, with plans to adopt her baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, cult film
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Phone Sex (1999)
Plot Summary:
A bored young housewife falls prey to the sexy charms of a prank caller. As she finds herself deep into the secret carnal pleasures of phone sex, she likewise finds herself consumed by the fires of the dark, wild and dangerous thrills of promiscuity.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Just the Two of Us (2023)
Plot Summary:
When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Iris (2016)
Plot Summary:
The sudden disappearance of a wealthy banker's wife cracks open a dizzying world of secret fetishes, desperate acts and elaborate deceptions.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, sincere, crime drama
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Autobus (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bruno's girlfriend, who lives in another town, doesn't believe he loves her. Therefore, he decides to prove his love by doing something "crazy" and ends up hijacking a school bus full of children at gunpoint to go see her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Pulse (2018)
Plot Summary:
A cheating husband decides to seek revenge against the woman who infected him with HIV.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Justice (2014)
Plot Summary:
A foul-mouthed woman fights for her soul in the belly of the city. Working for a human trafficking agency controlled by a powerful syndicate, she sees no evil, hears no evil. In a society like ours, you have only two choices—to be a victim or a victimizer. She makes her choice.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak
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Kidnapped (2021)
Plot Summary:
Savannah Duke-Morgan realizes her lifetime dream to bring her husband Brad and her five-year-old daughter Aria back to her birthplace on the Gold Coast of Australia until it turns into her worst nightmare when Aria goes missing from the resort’s Kidz Klub.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
Plot Summary:
If These Walls Could Talk follows the plights of three different women and their experiences with abortion. Each of the three stories takes place in the same house in three different years: 1952, 1974, and 1996.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, sentimental, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing, political, mystical, retro
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Chinese Roulette (1976)
Plot Summary:
A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family's country house with their lovers.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, art house, aesthetic, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, confusing
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The Deal (2022)
Plot Summary:
Kat and Borja appear to be a perfect couple, but as in every marriage they keep secrets, lies and infidelities that will come to light the night an unexpected visitor arrives.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Her Infidelity (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a one-night stand with her son's attractive teacher, a troubled wife finds herself stalked by the dangerously obsessed man.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Cradle of Lies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Following a whirlwind romance, a woman begins to unravel the dark secrets of her husband's past when his obsession to produce a male heir turns deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Coffin Rock (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying, makes the drunken mistake of sleeping with a young stranger. The stranger then goes to terrifying lengths to prove his paternity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, psychological, captivating, slasher, disturbing, psychological horror, scary, realistic
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The Flower of Evil (2003)
Plot Summary:
Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, political thriller, suspense, clever, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Half Moon Street (1986)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts moonlighting at the Jasmine Escort Service, where she has more control over men and money than she does at the office. On one of her 'dates', Lauren meets the politician Lord Bulbeck who is trying to mediate a peace accord between the Arabs and Israelis. Bulbeck falls in love with his escort, and unwittingly, Lauren becomes a pawn in some very dirty politics.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: political thriller, psychological, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, sexual, erotic, light, romantic
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The Company You Keep (2012)
Plot Summary:
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, captivating, light, serious, suspenseful, tricky, social, political thriller, detective
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The Statement (2003)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, political, intense, serious, cult classic, bleak, realistic, psychological, brutal
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Topaz (1969)
Plot Summary:
A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological, political thriller, enigmatic, psychological thriller, exciting, retro, art house
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The Tailor of Panama (2001)
Plot Summary:
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: political, talky, stylized, suspense, sexy, realistic, serious, clever, cynical, entertaining
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Rendition (2007)
Plot Summary:
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, dramatic, realistic, psychological thriller, sincere, sexy