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Plot Summary:
Corniche Kennedy. In the blue of the Mediterranean, at the foot of luxurious villas, the young kids of Marseille defy the laws of gravity. Marco, Mehdi, Franck, Mélissa, Hamza, Mamaa, Julie : girls and boys dive, take flight, take risks to experience life to the fullest. Suzanne devours them with her eyes from inside her chic villa. Their free bodies, their excess. She wants to be part of them. She will be part of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Nigerian Prince (2018)
Plot Summary:
After being sent to Nigeria against his will, a stubborn Nigerian-American teenager, joins forces with an internet scammer, in order to return to the United States.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Nigeria
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Cold Front (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sasha and Ilya, a bored young couple on a verge of breakup, are spending a New Year's Eve at a secluded beach house in Northern France then a carcass of an unidentified creature is washed ashore nearby. Later that day on his way back from a local bar Ilya meets Masha, a lost Russian girl, who seems to have gotten off the train at the wrong station and has nowhere to spend the night.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Silk Road (2017)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller inspired by the life of Michael S., a small-town boy from Holland, who becomes the world's most wanted cybercriminal.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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Spaceship (2016)
Plot Summary:
When his daughter goes missing in an apparent alien abduction, Gabriel's search takes him dangerously close to her strange group of so-called friends. But the further he goes inside their computer game and fantasy-obsessed world, the more he realises that he must confront his own difficult memories if he is to get his daughter back.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, independent film, mystical
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La Migra (2015)
Plot Summary:
La Migra is a 'Romeo and Juliet' story set in the border crossing town of Imperial Beach, California - US Border Patrol Agent Diego Chavez (Michael Copon) works closely with his Uncle Manny Chavez (Marco Rodríguez) the Port Director for the San Ysidro Port of Entry, and the two have a close relationship, both professionally and personally. Currently dating San Diego Police Detective Tracy Jensen (Nikki SooHoo) ... Diego unexpectedly falls hard for Natalie Martinez (Antoinette Kalaj), his childhood sweetheart who lived next door to him. Natalie has now grownup into a beautiful woman who makes a great living as a model. However, as the CBP and Border Patrol join forces with ICE and DEA to investigate a new cartel that's popped up, Diego becomes uneasily aware that Natalie might be much more than she says.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, hispanic
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Twisting Fate (2016)
Plot Summary:
17-year-old Claire spends her vacation in South Africa with her family, when a tragic accident takes the lives of her parents and younger brother. By a stroke of luck, Claire survives, but finds herself alone, far from home in a country where everything is unfamiliar and intense. Distraught and consumed by guilt in the belief that she is somehow responsible for the death of her family, she runs away and decides to let fate, which saved her from death, guide her from now on.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: France, South Africa
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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West of Sunshine (2017)
Plot Summary:
A father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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The Collaborators (2015)
Plot Summary:
A tale of two art students who, after a horrific event, are forced to take off across country in a stolen taxi to evade the law.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, road movie
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Undercover (2015)
Plot Summary:
Young female police officer Nurgül Özdemir lives her life in a rural environment. When she gets asked for an undercover mission in Amsterdam, she grabs the opportunity to get out of the problems this place is giving her. She leaves her homesick father and dependent mother behind in an attempt to find out what she really wants with her life. In Amsterdam Nurgül gets to play a key role in the exposure of a drugdealer and learns what it is to be an undercover agent. During the mission, she finds out the secrets about her long lost brother and discovers the real reason why she was sent to Amsterdam.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating
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Murder In The Tarentaise Valley (2018)
Plot Summary:
While she was jogging Lisa Campion , the daughter of the retired police officer Fabio Campion , discovered the frozen corpse of Julien , a child who disappeared 20 years ago.The police officer Simon Beauregard is then sent to Roches Noires , a village of the Tarentaise Valley, for the criminal investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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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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A Smell of Blood (2015)
Plot Summary:
Murder strikes a family-run perfume business, and everyone is a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Partners: The Movie III (2014)
Plot Summary:
A news report circulates about a man who died after being kicked by a horse on a small island located 300km away from Tokyo. National Police Agency director Takeru Kanbe assigns Vice Director Mineaki Kai the task of making sure rumors surrounding the incident are fully investigated. Soon, partners Ukyo Sugishita and Tooru Kai are dispatched to the island to conduct the investigation. When Ukyo and Tooru arrive on the island, which is privately owned by a wealthy businessman, they discover a unit of former Self-Defense Forces personnel who have set up a small community as they participate in training exercises. While Ukyo initially expected to be investigating an accidental death, he quickly becomes convinced it was actually murder. However, when they finally manage to uncover conclusive evidence of this, the soldiers attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Young Americans (1993)
Plot Summary:
Experienced New York Police Detective John Harris is sent to London to help a local task force investigate a series of gangster killings organized by a new player in town, an American.With the help of a young teen wronged by gangsters, Harris navigates London's seedy, drug-fueled underworld in order to take down its new criminal empire.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: hood, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Paris by Night (2012)
Plot Summary:
Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s between a rock and hard place: it’s obvious that criminal gangs run rampant in his special domain, and even more obvious that they’re protected by higher-ups in the department.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, noir, crime drama, tense, rough, realistic
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Collar (2015)
Plot Summary:
Timothy James 'TJ' Williams (David Wilson) is a streetwise detective whose checkered career, family life and long standing friendship with the would-be mayor, police chief Hamilton Markham (Tom Sizemore), spins out of control and teeters on the brink of catastrophe as a result of a bust gone bad. While his life begins to crumble, his fast fading future is bartered for political gain by his former best friend and boss, a mayor with her eye on a Senate seat (Rebecca De Mornay) and an ambitious, activist 'man-of-the-cloth,' the Rev. Alonso Sparks (Richard Roundtree). The political machinery, geared to grind up Williams as a bad cop, has a wrench tossed into the works by the detective, who with the help of his partner, Angel Santangelo (Jaime Santana), gets back on the job to reclaim his reputation and his dignity in spite of their worst efforts.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Armed Hands (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lucas and his team are after a gang of Serbian criminals using NATO-issued weapons. As the investigation leads him to Paris, Lucas attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, a young narc officer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough
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The Eiffel Tower Mystery (2015)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of one of the architects who built the Eiffel Tower gets framed for a murder that has taken place there, so she and her girlfriend embark on a quest across Paris to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, historical drama, queer cinema, period drama
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Beneath the Harvest Sky (2013)
Plot Summary:
A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, tense, touching, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Circle of Atonement (2015)
Plot Summary:
A policeman discovers a love affair between his teenage daughter and her teacher which leads him back to an unsolved murder case he investigated 10 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Finding Steve McQueen (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1972, a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempt to steal $30 million in illegal contributions. Based on the true story of the biggest bank heist in US history.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, atmospheric, suspense
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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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Ekaj (2015)
Plot Summary:
EKAJ is a love story between two drifters, a naive teenager and a hustler. Ekaj meets Mecca who takes him under his care. Mecca has AIDS and multiple problems of his own. He is high all day but still manages to be the only voice of reason in Ekaj’s hopeless world. They cruise the city together looking for money and places to stay. Although Ekaj makes some money as a prostitute, he finds himself discarded, and lacking what it takes to survive in the city. Their mutual loneliness leads to genuine friendship.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sexy, sincere, captivating, lgbt cinema, suspenseful, crime drama
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The Chosen Ones (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sofia, 14 years old, is in love with Ulises. Because of him, in spite of him, she is forced into a prostitution network in Mexico. To set her free, Ulises will have to find another girl to replace her. Adapted from Jorge Volpi’s novel, set in the world of juvenile prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, sexy
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Do it Right (2017)
Plot Summary:
Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his mates at the big Parisian high school he goes to. There’s no reason for that to change. His two lives, his home life and his school life, must be kept separate at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, semi autobiographical
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Juze (2017)
Plot Summary:
Growing up tale of a young boy in the context of changing labour patterns and exploitation in Goa.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: India, France, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Divines (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca, a respected dealer. But her encounter with Djigui, a young, disturbingly sensual dancer, throws her off course.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Qatar
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, touching, sad, art house, hood, mind twisting
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The Thin Blue Line (2021)
Plot Summary:
Swedish drama series about police officers in Malmö, their tiring work and the difficulties of keeping their personal and professional life separate.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, contemplative
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Welcome to No Man's Land (2015)
Plot Summary:
Pete, Steven and Dave are good friends that have fallen on hard times; They are unemployed and hardly get by on benefits. Coincidentally, they are approached by a low-key gangster who offers them what seems like quick cash-in-hand work. One drop-off. Six bags of cocaine. Both estranged and tempted by the situation, they accept, only things don't go to plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Butterfly Kisses (2017)
Plot Summary:
We follow Jake and his two best friends, Kyle and Jarred through a world distorted by sex and porn. The leader is Kyle – he talks about girls non-stop, Jarred can’t stop cheating on his girlfriend and then there’s Jake, a quiet and shy teenager whose friends are determined to help him lose his virginity to Zara, the pretty girl on the 19th floor of their estate. All three are trying to find their way in a complex world. They all have their demons, but Jake’s secret is one that he must keep to himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, light, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative