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Plot Summary:
Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed by his own yakuza gang for failing to repay his debts. Described as a love poem to Japanese films of the past, as well as a protest at the present, CUT is an exploration of one man’s obsessive relationship with cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, France, USA, South Korea, Turkey
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, serious, art house, islamic, bleak, realistic, stylized
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Snow in Paradise (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hard-hitting character study that's based on the real story of one man's journey to control his violence through religion. It takes us from the blood soaked East End of London to the world of the Islamic whirling dervishes.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, serious, bleak, realistic, islamic
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Waste Land (2014)
Plot Summary:
A Brussels homicide cop (Jérémie Renier) begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, bleak, realistic, stylized, gloomy, detective
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El cartel (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based on Mexico's current criminal climate, EL CÁRTEL is a rare look into the values and practices of the world's most intriguing and enigmatic industry - the multi-billion dollar business of drug trafficking. When Jules Land, a naïve business journalist, approaches Mexico's most notorious drug cartel and requests an audience with its leader, a one-time-priest turned murderous cutthroat, he quickl.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, rough, thought provoking, suspenseful, independent film
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The Other Side of the Street (2004)
Plot Summary:
Regina, a lonely 65 year old who works on the neighborhood watch for the police in Copacabana, believes to have witnessed a murder in the building across the street, and ends up getting involved with the suspect in a potentially dangerous chain of events that will force her to take stock of her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, romantic drama, gloomy
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Blood and Bones (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 1923, the young Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island (South Korea), to Osaka (Japan). Through the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko (processed seafood products) in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees. He makes a fortune, abuses and destroys the lives of his wife and family, has many mistresses and children and shows no respect to anyone. Later he closes the factory, lending out the money with high interest and becomes a loan shark. His hateful behavior remains unchanged to his last breath, alone in North Korea. The film is told from the perspective of Masao, his legitimate son by his abused and degraded wife, who knows nothing about his father other than to fear him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, realistic, bleak
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Katalin Varga (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her. For years, Katalin has been keeping a terrible secret. Hitchhiking with two men, she was brutally raped in the woods. Although she has kept silent about what happened, she has not forgotten, and her son Órban serves as a living reminder.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: bleak, tense, serious, realistic, psychological, road movie, dark, art house, disturbing, gloomy
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A Killer Within (2004)
Plot Summary:
Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is turned upside down when he arrives home from work late one night to find his wife brutally murdered and his son unconscious in critical condition at the hospital. Now, fingered as a suspect by the police, Addison must race to find the real killer and prove his innocence before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, mind bending, tense, rough, serious, psychological, bleak, realistic, surprise ending
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Sea Fog (2014)
Plot Summary:
A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, psychological, sexy, social, art house, crime drama
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Bashing (2005)
Plot Summary:
Yuko is a Japanese girl who was taken hostage in Iraq while volunteering there as an aid worker. Finally released and back in her hometown, Yuko finds herself ostracized as a national disgrace by society that sees her helping a country other than Japan, and the embarrassment of getting captured but not killed, as things of which to be brutally ashamed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, bleak, serious, gloomy
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The Fold (2013)
Plot Summary:
Struggling with her grief, Anglican priest Rebecca Ashton tries to replace her deceased daughter with another girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, gloomy
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Resilience (2006)
Plot Summary:
An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
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Nor'easter (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young and inexperienced priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest's commitment to church doctrine over the laws of the natural world.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, mumblecore, gloomy
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The Resurrection of a Bastard (2013)
Plot Summary:
A criminal from Amsterdam barely surviving a liquidation. An old Frisian farmer bent on revenge. An illegal immigrant with uncertain prospects. Eventually, they meet under an ancient oak tree. Beyond the last town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, stylized, anthology, offbeat, realistic, witty, contemplative
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The Thief & the Stripper (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jack just lost his P.I. license and his life is on a downward spiral. He decides to steal a cash briefcase from the local gangsters. He hides in a strip joint owned by a local mob legend Jimmie D and pays a stripper to help him escape. The gangsters find her and want her to lead 'em to him. She is also interested in the case, as well as other local mobsters and dirty cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense
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Roulette (2012)
Plot Summary:
When three very different people (Mike Baldwin, Will Haza, Ali Lukowski) from three completely different worlds begin a deadly game of Russian Roulette, they soon discover that their pasts are a trilogy of overlapping events that have brought them together for one last session of group therapy.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, non-linear, independent film
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Blood and Ties (2013)
Plot Summary:
Da-eun lives a happy life with her single father, a man who sacrificed everything in his life for her. She loved her father very dearly. However, their relationship is about to take an unexpected turn. Da-eun becomes suspicious that her father might be a monstrous kidnapper. Even though she wants to believe in his innocence, she finds herself searching for evidence to the contrary. What is her father's true identity? And how will she deal with the burden of discovery if her suspicions are confirmed at the end of her final pursuit of the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, twisted
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PVC-1 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Shot in real time, PVC-1 is based on the true story of a woman who is turned into a human time bomb in a bizarre act of terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, realistic, tense, bleak, serious, tragic ending
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Tucked Away (2007)
Plot Summary:
On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are giving way to visions of his abusive father, unlocking a suppressed violence he's unable to control. When ray brutally assaults a man in a parking lot, it leads to an investigation by an aging detective with a connected past. Neither is prepared as the secrets begin to unfold over a thirty-year-old murder they've both struggled to keep buried.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Last Screening (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sylvain, a film-obsessed 31-year-old, lives in the basement of a small art-house theater where he works as a programmer, projectionist and cashier. Each night, after the last showing, he goes out for a murderous ritual.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, scary, bleak, serious, realistic, slasher
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Perfect Witness (1989)
Plot Summary:
A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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The Mortician (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as part of his parole.Noah brings the notorious gangster, Carver (Dash Mihok), and his crew to the mortuary door. The Mortician's attention is pricked by the tattoo of Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus' inked on the body of a murdered woman (Judy Marte), that arrives at the morgue, triggering a series of haunting dreams from his childhood. Discovering a scared child, Kane (Cruz Santiago), fleeing the morgue, he's forced to act. They become reluctant allies, struggling for redemption as they run. Through his awkward heroism, the Mortician reconnects with his long forgotten past, and finds the answers he's been searching for. He find redemption and peace.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Fear Me Not (2008)
Plot Summary:
Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig - without telling his family. Because of dangerous side effects, the trial is subsequently abandoned but Michael continues to take the pills. Having lost all control, Michael's repressed instincts resurface with a force and violence that no-one could have predicted.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, disturbing, psychological thriller, mindfuck, experimental
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Clean Break (2008)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Bullet Ballet (1998)
Plot Summary:
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man (Shinya Tsukamoto) becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white, neo noir, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, controversial, art house, deep, cult classic, psychological
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One on One (2014)
Plot Summary:
On May 9th, a female high school student was brutally murdered. There are 7 suspects and 7 shadows that terrorize them. Who are they and which one of them is you?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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24 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, sincere, realistic, tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Dirty Hearts (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For eighty percent of the Japanese community in Brazil, Japan had won the war and defeat was nothing more than American propaganda. The few immigrants that accepted the truth were persecuted. Some were hunted down and assassinated - by their own countrymen - causing the start of a new, private war. Dirty Hearts is a thriller and love story told by the wife of one of the fanatics dedicated to preach Japanese victory. Little by little, she watches her husband, a hard-working immigrant, become an assassin and their love story fade away.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, disturbing, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Smuggler (2011)
Plot Summary:
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, psychological, captivating, heavy, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful