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Plot Summary:
A bride-to-be is invited to her own fiancé's bachelor party, but when uncomfortable details about their relationship are exposed, the night takes a feral turn.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min
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Force of Nature: The Dry 2 (2024)
Plot Summary:
When five women take part in a corporate hiking retreat and only four come out on the other side, Federal Agents Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper head deep into the Victorian mountain ranges to investigate in the hopes of finding their whistle-blowing informant, Alice Russell, alive.
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Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Last Night of Amore (2023)
Plot Summary:
On the night before his retirement, police lieutenant Franco Amore is called to investigate the death of a long-time partner of his in a diamond heist in which he was involved.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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Backsliding (1992)
Plot Summary:
While in prison, Jack had two momentous experiences: he got religion, and met the woman who would become his wife. He and Alison are devoted to the idea of staying in God's good graces, so they have moved to a remote power station in central Australia, far from anything. Into this possibly idyllic arrangement comes a rootless young man who the power company has hired on to be the station's handyman. Tensions escalate between the men as their conflicting values rub up against one another.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, minimal cast
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Deadly Dancer (1990)
Plot Summary:
A police detective, investigating a string of murders of strippers at a Los Angeles night club, must race against the clock to clear his name when he's wrongfully accused of being the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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To Make a Killing (1988)
Plot Summary:
Damon Kennedy (Tamblyn Lord, The River Kings) is an impressionable young man ready to begin university life.On the other side of the tracks live Terry (Craig Pearce, co-author of Strictly Ballroom), Felix (John Godden) and Benny (Kelly Dingwall) - who get their kicks out of robbing houses and chasing girls. But they're broke and all out of cash. During a routine burglary the gang discover an innocent Damon. Brushing off the intrusion and pretending they are looking for some mates, the gang flee the scene but bored Damon follows them and joins their group for the day, hoping to find some fun.When the gang picks up two girls, things become unhinged as a drunk Damon brags about some of his family's many affluent friends. Forced to take them to one of his cash-rich contacts, Damon's nightmare has only just begun. As Terry discovers that the wealthy don't always carry cash, what starts as a burglary soon turns into a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Blackrock (1997)
Plot Summary:
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, tear jerker, independent film, tearjerker
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Turtle Beach (1992)
Plot Summary:
Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes romantically involved with Kanan, and strikes up a friendship with Lady Minou Hobday, who keeps a regular vigil at "Turtle Beach" where the refugees try to land secretly in the hope that one day her own children will arrive. Accompanying Minou one night, Judith witnesses a brutal massacre by the Malaysians which spurs her on to expose the horrors of the internment camps at Bidong.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Father's Secret (2016)
Plot Summary:
Carrie Evans, a beautiful young attorney with aspirations to become partner like her fiancee Steven Riggs, learns some disturbing facts about her family and her boss Caswell Foxx as she researches a big case. She becomes so entrenched in the case that it causes her to risk her career, freedom and her relationships.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Fatal Bond (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young woman takes off with a charming stranger in Australia, then begins to think he's a killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Nitram (2021)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitting in. As his anger grows, he begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most heinous of acts.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, dark
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A Dangerous Summer (1982)
Plot Summary:
Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores certain obvious signals that his business partner is not entirely on the up-and-up. After a brush fire destroys the resort, an insurance investigator comes nosing around, whom Howard's partner deals with in a drastic manner. By the time Lloyds of London's senior investigator George Engels (James Mason in one of his last roles) arrives on the scene, Howard (Tom Skerritt) is anxious to set things to rights.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Fran (1985)
Plot Summary:
Fran, a single mother, is selflessly devoted to her children. But something is lacking in her life, and that something is the love of a man her own age. Her efforts to juggle a love life with her home life are largely unsuccessful.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Gross Misconduct (1993)
Plot Summary:
Justin Thorne is a liberal arts professor. One of his college students is Jennifer Carter. She seduces Justin, then accuses him of rape. But it turns out that she has an unusual relationship with her father.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, crying, sexy
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Cheer Camp Killer (2020)
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When Sophia gets into an exclusive cheer camp with her best friend Charlotte, she's ecstatic to show off her skills. Camp queen bee Victoria and her overbearing mother Beth do not take kindly to a newcomer taking her spotlight, so they launch a dangerous plan to get their rival out of the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Jessica (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Bergman sisters could not be more different. Jessica is a feisty tomboy who loves to help her father work their farmland. Her beautiful sister Meg is eagerly being groomed by her mother Hester (Lisa Harrow) to be the perfect wife, so that she can marry her way out of poverty. However, when the man, Jack Thomas, who Meg has set her sights on falls in love with Jessica and gets her pregnant, Hester schemes to wrench the couple apart to claim Jessica's son, Joey for Meg. Later she commits Jessica to a mental asylum. It is here that Jessica receives news of her lover's death and almost loses hope, but after enlisting the help of Mr. Runche, a down and out lawyer battling alcoholism, she is eventually released. Years later, it is the reformed Runche who gives Jessica the courage to fight for the return of her child. Eventually Meg and Hester call an uneasy truce with Jessica, and allow her to play a role in Joey's life as his aunt.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 196 min
Plot tags:
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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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False Pretenses (2004)
Plot Summary:
Falling victim to a glib con artist named Michael (Stewart Bick), Texas housewife Diane (Peta Wilson) loses all her money, a disaster that drives her husband Randal (Anthony Lemke) to suicide. Unable to get justice through the official channels, Diane mounts her own plan of revenge. This involves assuming a new identity, trading in her blonde tresses for a redheaded "do", moving to a small town, and systematically seducing the man who ruined her life. One of six "no frills" TV movies produced in Canada for the Lifetime cable network at a flat cost of 2 million each,.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Daddy's Perfect Little Girl (2021)
Plot Summary:
A 12-year-old girl becomes jealous when her adoptive father develops a budding relationship with a woman and her teenage son.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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54 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
5 people trapped in a bunker after a nuclear and biological attack are forced to make an impossible decision - either one dies or they all die.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Some Beasts (2019)
Plot Summary:
A family travels to a remote island in southern Chile. During the trip they try to convince the grandparents to support them financially to build a hotel in the place. Nicolás, the man who crossed them disappears, leaving the family trapped on the island, the smiles begin to disappear. With cold, without water and without certainties, tempers are diluted, exposing the tensions that each member of the family hides.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Wake in Fright (1971)
Plot Summary:
Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, but as one night stretches into several he plunges headlong into his own destruction.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film, disturbing, art house, christmas horror, atmospheric, psychedelic, political, surreal, controversial, grindhouse
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Joe Cinque's Consolation (2016)
Plot Summary:
In late 1997, Anu Singh, an attractive law student in Canberra, made plans to kill her boyfriend Joe Cinque after throwing a series of macabre farewell dinner parties. The dinner guests, most of them university students, had heard various rumours about her plan, but nobody warned Joe. Joe's death and the subsequent trial drew the attention of the whole country, as the broader community struggled to come terms with how a life could fall through so many hands.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Wasted on the Young (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, disturbing, independent film, realistic
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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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The Jammed (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young Australian woman reluctantly agrees to help a Chinese mother search for her missing daughter and becomes involved in human trafficking and the sex slave trade.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, psychological, captivating, rough, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blame (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of young vigilantes seeking revenge for a sexual betrayal fall far from grace. When the truth is out they find themselves on the dark side of justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic
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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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In Her Skin (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, disturbing, crime drama, inspirational, mind bending, gothic
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The Elevator: Three Minutes Can Change Your Life (2015)
Plot Summary:
A disturbing psychological thriller, that engages the audience to the point that it is always caught off guard, thus changing the point of view of the two main performers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller
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Bad Girl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Bad girl Amy, 17, is given one last chance by her adoptive parents, who think Amy's friendship with local girl Chloe is a step in the right direction. But when Amy discovers Chloe's secret she finds herself fighting for her life, and for the future of the family she herself tried to destroy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, dark