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Plot Summary:
When the daughter of a minister gets kidnapped, Christy is called upon to rescue her. Although he manages to save her, he himself gets embroiled in the kidnapper's murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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Kireedam (1989)
Plot Summary:
Sethumadhavan, the son of Achuthan Nair, a Police Constable who wishes to make his son an Inspector one day. Sethu, a recent college graduate, has many opportunities to enter different fields but he goes with his father's dream of becoming an Inspector.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: touching, sad
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Someone to Carry Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dan Webster lives a privileged life where everything is carefully managed for him. He dreams of becoming a professional musician in spite of his fathers intentions. His pampered world is shattered when he witnesses a brutal murder and is forced to run. Hunted by those he once trusted he is propelled into a world that is alien to him. He takes refuge in a small town where his only plan is to survive and his only friend is out of reach. Alone and with no one to look after him, Dan reaches out to Michael for strength and Angelica for love, inadvertently placing them in peril. Dan has underestimated the ruthlessness of his enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, fairy tale, independent film
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Nirnayam (1995)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Roy (Mohanlal) is a surgeon who works in a private hospital. He falls in love with his colleague Dr. Annie (Heera Rajgopal). When Annie discovers a frightening organ-smuggling operation in her hospital, it proves to be a turning point in the story.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags:
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Voyoucratie (2015)
Plot Summary:
Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that leads you to delinquency as the only way to exist. The pitch: Sam, a little bandit, finds himself trapped by a corrupted police officer who forces him to get information about Ali, one of the high crime boss known to be very dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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Disposable (2017)
Plot Summary:
What if a man with a mental condition, living in a fantasy world and detached from all emotional responsibility, is in real life the prime suspect for a series of murders targeting young women? Bill Thompson awakens to reality when forced to confront the truth about himself. Is he really the serial killer behind these murders? Or just the perfect fall guy? But it's not easy to find those answers when you can't differentiate between fact and fiction. Now, Bill must struggle to ground himself in reality and unfold the mystery behind the killings, as the only way to prove his innocence. "DISPOSABLE": the story of a man who must confront the truth about himself in order to save himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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Oppam (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jayaraman (Mohanlal) is born as a blind man but with heightened senses of smell, sound and touch. He is trained in the martial art of Kalaripayattu. He works as an elevator operator in an apartment where many reputed people live. One day he happens to encounter a murder in a flat. The killer escapes and Jayaraman is charged with the murder. To prove his innocence to the law, Jayaraman must now find and kill the true murderer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense thriller, twisted
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Twenty 20 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Advocate Ramesh saves Devan from a murder case. Later, he realize Devan was the actual culprit. Ramesh tries for a payback, unaware of Devan's real intentions and the reason for the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 195 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Narasimham (2000)
Plot Summary:
Poovalli Induchoodan (Mohanlal) is sentenced for six years prison life for murdering his classmate. Induchoodan, the only son of Justice Maranchery Karunakara Menon (Thilakan) was framed in the case by Manapally Madhavan Nambiar (Narayanan Nair) and his crony DYSP Sankaranarayanan (Bheeman Raghu) to take revenge on idealist judge Menon who had earlier given jail sentence to Manapally in a corruption case. The story begins with Induchoodan released and his father & mother coming to stay with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, suspenseful, crying, weeping, entertaining
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Run Baby Run (2012)
Plot Summary:
Venu, a cameraman working for Reuters, happens to meet Renuka, his old lover, while trying to cover a case involving a politician. Together they go to investigate a murder planned by Bharatan Pillai.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, tense, suspense, twist ending, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Grandmaster (2012)
Plot Summary:
Chandrashekhar lives alone in a dark and violent city. Even with crime occurring all around him, he withdraws from all responsibility and lives quietly. Soon, change is forced upon him in order to catch a serial killer. Like a grandmaster who anticipates his opponents moves well in advance, he proceeds forward. But only once, just once, he makes a fatal mistake.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, suspense thriller, captivating, exciting, realistic, detective
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The Great Father (2017)
Plot Summary:
A businessman who is trying hard to be a good father to his daughter has a run-in with malevolent policeman.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing
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Villain (2017)
Plot Summary:
ADGP Mathew Manjooran, returns to work after a seven-month sabbatical, only to take voluntary retirement. His last day has him investigating a case involving triple murder, including a police officer. Soon a pattern emerges and each clue also links Mathew. How is the veteran police officer tied to the murders and who is the real villain?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Iravukku Aayiram Kangal (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three strangers, who were cheated by a three-member fraud gang, hatch plan to take revenge on their leader, and go to his home around same time. All of them get the shock of their life when they find someone murdered at the home.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, twisted
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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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Krack (2021)
Plot Summary:
Pothuraju Veera Shankar is a hot-headed circle inspector from Andhra who doesn’t like to hear the word ‘background’. Wherever he is appointed in the state, he brings all the notorious gundas to their knees with his signature policing style. When Shankar is appointed in Ongole, the brutal Katari commits a spine-chilling murder and angers Shankar. How the rivalry between Pothuraju Veera Shankar and Katari turns worse is what Krack is all about.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Murdered (2012)
Plot Summary:
Cathy has been preparing herself since early morning. She is about to celebrate her daughter Eva's 20th birthday. But on this very day, Cathy's life is turned upside-down with the shocking news that her daughter has been murdered. At first devastated and lost when faced with the workings of the police and the justice system, Cathy becomes determined to fight to know the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Vinaya Vidheya Rama (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ram is one among the five orphaned boys in Visakhapatnam, adopted by a doctor who ensures them a roof to live under, with dignity. Ram goes to any extent to protect his family and he's a handful for the baddie to handle in a time of crisis. How does Ram protect his family when they need him the most?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense
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The King Is Here (2016)
Plot Summary:
Samraat, an underworld mafia, is coming to Bangladesh. Bangladeshi mafia Musa has interest in this because Samraat can ruin his business. So he wants Samraat dead by any means but failed. Samraat finally lands and has bargain with one of Musa's man about the share. As Musa fails again and again, he needs a man smarter and stronger than Samraat. Kabila introduces Raja to him who becomes his first hand. But who is this Raja and what is his interest with Musa.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Rescue Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Robyn the daughter of Special Agent in Charge Alex Campbell of the FBI is kidnapped along with her best friend Chloe Hart, Alex is forced to take a close look at those around him to help determine who he can trust and who he can't if he hopes to bring his daughter home alive. As each hour goes by the mad man who take these girls become more unstable and not following the typical patterns kidnappers usually do, making it harder for Alex and his team to plan their next move. With the help of Matt and Kyle his two most trusted associates; Alex will do whatever it takes to get his daughter home even if it means having to bend the law to favor his decisions. Will the FBI bring these two girls home safe or is certain death now a part of their future? Rescue Me is an Action-Drama-Thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, contemplative
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Deep Dark Canyon (2013)
Plot Summary:
Bloom Towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential Mayor Dick Cavanaugh's family. When Bloom's two teenage sons, Nate and Skylar accidentally shoot and kill Dick during a deer-hunt, Bloom's long-held allegiance to the reigning Cavanaugh clan is tested. Skylar (still a minor) decides to take the wrap for his older brother Nate, claiming he fired the fatal shot. The Cavanaugh family's quick retaliation sends Skylar on his way to county jail, soon to be tried as an adult. Desperate and guilt-ridden, Nate breaks Skylar out of jail and sets off a chain of lawless acts, which send them deep into the woods and on the run. Bloom's choice between the law and his sons leads to revelations of old family secrets that threaten to destroy everything he loves.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic, independent film
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Unnaipol Oruvan (2009)
Plot Summary:
A common man tries to fight terrorism by making anonymous calls to cops. Will he succeed ?.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, surprise ending
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Shikkar (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of Shikkar takes place at Chittazha, a mountainous terrain where bamboo reeds flourish. After much wandering from place to place, Balraman (Mohanlal) a lorry driver has finally settled down with his daughter (Ananya) at Chittazha. Peace evades the man as his past catches up with him, and Balaraman has to take risky everything to safeguard his own life and that of his daughter's.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, serious, captivating
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Pistolera (2020)
Plot Summary:
When ruthless drug lord Raffaello murders the family of the little girl named Angel in a gangland hid in Spain, he makes one fatal mistake : Letting her live. Thus Raffaello sets in motion a bloody chain of events in this gritty street tale of revenge and its cost.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Close Enemies (2018)
Plot Summary:
Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense, crime drama
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Man of Vendetta (2010)
Plot Summary:
One day, Hye Lin, the five-year old daughter of a devoted pastor, Joo Young Soo, is kidnapped. Pastor Joo, who has a rock solid faith in God at this time, prays wholeheartedly for her safe comeback, but she does not return. Eight years later, Joo Young Soo, who now does not believe in God and leads a completely secular life, receives a call. Hye Lin is still alive and is with the kidnapper. Joo Young Soo’s resolute attempt to rescue his daughter begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, serious
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Drishyam (2013)
Plot Summary:
Georgekutty lives a happy life with his wife and daughters. Things take a turn when his daughter gets indecently filmed using a hidden camera, by the son of a police inspector.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: suspense, twisted, tense, suspenseful, suspense thriller, captivating, twist ending, psychological thriller, surprise ending, epic
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If You Knew Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sathyadev, who is on a career break, is forced to put on his cop shoes ones again to save Thenmozhi, a young woman who is the target of a criminal organ harvesting group, led by a ghost from his past.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, thrilling, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Jilla (2014)
Plot Summary:
A cop decides to take on his godfather, who raised him from childhood, and make him realize the error of his ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, cult film
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Semper Fi (2019)
Plot Summary:
Cal is a dedicated cop who also serves as a sergeant in the Marine Corps Reserve. When his reckless half brother lands in jail for accidentally killing a man, Cal and his buddies hatch a plan to break him out of prison -- no matter what the cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Villain (2020)
Plot Summary:
After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, and he ends up using his life savings to calling in favours with mobster friends to try and help.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, social, hood