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Plot Summary:
In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, action thriller
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The Vanished Murderer (2015)
Plot Summary:
At a women's prison in the northern China in 1932, a prisoner escapes. Inspector Song Donglu is summoned to investigate the escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Loving Adults (2022)
Plot Summary:
The thin line between love and hate turns deadly when a wife discovers her husband’s affair — and they both take extreme measures to get what they want.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, crime thriller, psychological thriller, dark
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My Country, My Parents (2021)
Plot Summary:
Actress Zhang Ziyi, actor-and-director Wu Jing, comedian Shen Teng, and actor-and-director Xu Zheng come together to direct four short films as part of a new anthology drama paying tribute to China’s families.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags:
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Wrath of Silence (2017)
Plot Summary:
Northern China, 2004. When miner Zhang Baomin returns to his home, a small and isolated mining village, his wife tells him that their son has mysteriously disappeared while shepherding his small flock.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Red Amnesia (2014)
Plot Summary:
A retired widow has her daily routine derailed when she starts receiving mysterious, anonymous phone calls.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense
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Target for Killing (1966)
Plot Summary:
A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Italy, Austria, West Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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Top Secret (1967)
Plot Summary:
Top Secret is a 1967 Italian-Spanish Eurospy film directed by Fernando Cerchio and starring Gordon Scott.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, eurospy
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Russian Roulette (1975)
Plot Summary:
An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. When his prisoner is kidnapped, the officer is drawn into a complicated assasination scheme.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: political thriller, suspense, independent film
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Railway Heroes (2021)
Plot Summary:
The historical story of an enemy fighting the wits and courage of an extraordinary brave group of ordinary heroes known as the "Lunan Railway Brigade" who desperately fight to defend their homeland.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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The Cat Burglar (1961)
Plot Summary:
Unwitting pickup artist Jack Coley (Jack Hogan) nabs a briefcase holding a costly scientific formula, turning himself into a moving target for owner Alan Sheridan (John Baer), foreign agents and the fuzz -- all bent on a blistering game of finders, keepers. In this stylized crime drama, the quarry coolly eludes the pack while eliciting the aid of an unlikely party: blonde beauty Nan Baker (June Kenney), the attaché's original carrier.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Silk Road (2021)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Ross Ulbricht, the charismatic young tech-mastermind who unleashed the darknet website Silk Road, and the corrupt DEA agent determined to bring down his billion-dollar empire.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, freeze frame
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Killer Assistant (2016)
Plot Summary:
Just as a high-profile editor learns that her husband is cheating, her hot new assistant shows an interest in her. But his carefully planned seduction turns her world into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hand Rolled Cigarette (2020)
Plot Summary:
A retired British Chinese soldier, a young South Asian man, an encounter at Chungking Mansions. Coincidentally, they both offended the same gang boss. What has given them a new lease of life and how do they rediscover themselves through each other's company.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, neo noir
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People Mountain People Sea (2011)
Plot Summary:
A story of vengeance set in China’s wild Southwest, where brutality can be the norm rather than the exception.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, contemplative, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, sincere, touching, road movie
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Back in the U.S.S.R. (1992)
Plot Summary:
During Gorbachev's perestroika, a Chicago student, visits Moscow while the Soviet Union is changing from Communist to Wild West capitalist society. Purely by bad luck, he becomes a pawn in a dangerous cat and mouse game for a precious icon.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, entertaining, cynical, iconic
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Assignment K (1968)
Plot Summary:
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, eurospy
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The Sell Out (1976)
Plot Summary:
This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed world, the student wants out of the agency and oout of the U.S.S.R. But the man's choices have made him a target and now both the United States and Russia want him dead, sending their mos able hit men to do it.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Israel
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, poliziottesco
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The Pack (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the dead of the night, in the heart of a forest: a car. Inside, inhaling carbon monoxide, a man awakens. He finds himself surrounded by three other men, apparently dead. It's the image of a perfect collective suicide. But they're all in chains. He struggles desperately until he manages to turn off the engine. Little by little, his mysterious companions come to their senses. They don't know one another and nobody understands how they got there. They try to piece it all together, their last memories, the previous hours. And soon enough, conflict and mistrust rise to the surface. Nothing is as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Kimi (2022)
Plot Summary:
A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: she must leave her apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, weird
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The Silent War (2012)
Plot Summary:
An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his exceptional hearing.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, captivating
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To Commit a Murder (1967)
Plot Summary:
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
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Saving Mr. Wu (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this suspenseful crime thriller, Mr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped by six unpredictable criminals disguised as police officers. The story is based on the 2004 real-life celebrity kidnapping case in China.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, psychological, tense
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A Night in Nude: Salvation (2010)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming rich, reforming the building, and living as celebrities. With no chance of their dream coming true with just their everyday earnings, they had another face - blinding the elderly with their beauty, putting on insurance coverage and seeking to get rich quick by murdering. However, their scheme begins to collapse from one little mistake.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir
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Shanghai (2010)
Plot Summary:
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, neo noir, independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy, surprise ending
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The Message (2009)
Plot Summary:
1942, Nanjing (Nanking). Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion house for questioning. A tense game of "cat and mouse" ensues as the Chinese code-breaker attempts to send out a crucial message while protecting his/her own identity.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, realistic, tense, psychological, controversial, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Election (2005)
Plot Summary:
A drama-thriller centered on a democratic election within an organized crime society.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, captivating, suspenseful, neo noir, bloody, crime drama, tense, serious, realistic
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Protégé (2007)
Plot Summary:
Undercover officer Nick had spent the last seven years penetrating into the core of a drug ring working his way up from a street dealer post to the managerial position handling cargo deliveries for Kwan - the biggest player in the local heroin market. When the ailing Kwan makes Nick his protégé, Nick could not but sway before money and power and starts to perform his role like a real drug trafficker. This, together with his affair with heroin-addict Jane, causes Nick to becomes more and more confused about his true identity, and eventually leads to a disastrous end.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, bloody, crime drama
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The Trough (2018)
Plot Summary:
Yu Chau is a cop who has gone so deep undercover within the triad. He can no longer tell which side of the law he's on. When he accidentally kills one of his pals in an operation, he runs off into the boonies to lick his wounds. Upon his return, he teams up with fellow officers Jim and Jackie to catch a triad Boss, only to unveil collusion with government officials at the highest level. Yu Chau once again faces the dilemma of taking the law into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Election 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok (Simon Yam) faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy (Louis Koo) looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, captivating, realistic, suspense, neo noir, bloody, stylized
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Red Corner (1997)
Plot Summary:
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, political, intense, psychological, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, rough, talky