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Plot Summary:
Kanako Oba contacts a mysterious site for part-time work. Because of this, her life is soon in jeopardy. She is then forced to work at the restaurant Diner as a waitress or she will be killed. Bombero (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is the owner and chef at Diner. The restaurant is membership only and their customers are all contract killers. Based on a novel by Yumeaki Hirayama. (Asian Wiki).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Crimes of Passion: King Lily of the Valley (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spring is in the air and Puck and Einar, as well as Christer Wijk are invited to a wedding in Skoga. The day before the wedding, the bride-to-be enters a flower-shop in order to inspect her bridal bouquet of lily of the valley, but suddenly vanishes without at trace. When she eventually turns up again, it is Christer who finds her. She lies dead outside her home with a bouquet of lily of the valley in her hand. Everybody close to the bride are suspects, not least her best friend, whom Christer has just begun flirting with. Everybody seems to have something to hide. Question is: are their secrets connected to the murder?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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A Killer Walks Amongst Us (2016)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by the ghosts of the past, an ex FBI agent helps the police on a case of a murdered teenager to track the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Marks' Mountain (2010)
Plot Summary:
20 years ago a half-frozen boy was rescuded in the mountains after his parents apparent sucide. He gets released from a mental institution and his girlfriend notices him talking about a dark mountain shadow. Meanwhile a murder happens in a residential area in Tokyo. Assistant Inspector Goda Yuichiro takes on the investigation. Soon an official of the Ministery of Justice gets murdered in a similar fashion pointing towards a serial killer. Yet, Goda receives a strange order from above: he's not to further investigate in this direction. He senses a huge mystery behind the case and starts chasing after the psychopath killer called Marks. Somehow a journalist's research about a corrupt construction magnate and another unsolved murder that happend in the mountains 13 years ago are also linked to the case.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Crimes of Passion: No More Murders (2013)
Plot Summary:
Puck and Einar decide to spend the last weeks of their vacation in Einar's idyllic childhood town Skoga. Pucks father Johannes Ekstedt, professor in Egyptology, has a household cat called Thotmes III that joins the couple. They get to borrow both Einar's sisters beautiful old wooden house as well as her highly competent housekeeper. But after the first night, the idyll crumbles. Einar finds a dead body on the lawn, a young man stabbed to death by a dagger. Christer Wijk enters the stage and with the help of Pucks observations the mystery approaches its tragic solution.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, detective, period piece
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The Good Father: The Martin MacNeill Story (2021)
Plot Summary:
Weeks after his wife's suspicious death, Dr Martin MacNeill moves in his mistress under the guise of a live-in nanny. Shocked by her father's actions, his daughter begins to question everything she's known about him while uncovering a web of lies.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Crime and Punishment (2002)
Plot Summary:
John Simm stars in this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's tragic masterpiece - a profound drama of redemption and a thrilling detective story of the soul.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, philosophical, period piece, costume drama, existential, psychotronic
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Frustrated (2013)
Plot Summary:
Constant humiliation from society and a long drift into solitude slowly turn murder fantasies of Fabrice Lombard into an irrepressible impulse and Fabrice Lombard into a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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The Dark Nest (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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A Bunch of Bastards (2021)
Plot Summary:
An isolated villa, a family just like the others. Michele has remarried beautiful Damiana, and lives with her and her daughter Fiore, a seductive teen with whom he has an intricate relationship. In the middle of the night, Sergio, an ex-con, bursts in the villa and abducts the family. his mission: retrieve and bring back to Caligola, the man who hired him, some important documents, now seeminlgy buried somewhere in the greenhouse near the house.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Crime
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Signs of a Psychopath (2020)
Plot Summary:
This harrowing half-hour archive series revisits some of the most brutal killers in modern history, reviewing news footage and the words of the killers themselves to see which terrifying traits each killer exhibited. What are the signs...of evil?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Mark of a Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
All serial killers commit murder to satisfy their grand fantasies, but the murderers featured in this true-crime docuseries take it one step further, committing heinous acts that allow them to extend their fantasies and relive the excitement of their crimes again and again.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, thrilling
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Dreamland (2019)
Plot Summary:
On the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stonecold killer to bring him the finger of a fading, drug-addicted jazz legend.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, suspense, disturbing, semi serious, weird
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Sins of the Father (2019)
Plot Summary:
Police unearth a sinful conspiracy when they investigate the murder of a pastor's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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The Hooligan Wars (2012)
Plot Summary:
A bar fight leaves up-and-coming professional footballer Andy injured and out of the game. Needing money to support his pregnant wife and himself, he buys an ice cream van and gets to work. When a gang of Polish drug runners starts to irritate him, he joins a British gang involved in football hooliganism for protection.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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A Hitman in London (2015)
Plot Summary:
After his last assignment ended with the death of an innocent woman, a hitman's new job in London is compromised when he is overcome with guilt, and ends up helping a desperate woman who is caught up in a human trafficking operation.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, grindhouse, action packed
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Missing You (2016)
Plot Summary:
A girl who lost her father to a serial killer, a detective and a killer are intertwined in a chaotic relationship and are met with an unprecedented series of events.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, bloody, detective
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492: A Man Called Death (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of Júlio Santana, a professional killer who was responsible for almost 500 hundred murders in Brazil.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 696
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Muse (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a series of murders throughout the state, single-mother, Amanda, discovers that she is the muse of the infamous serial killer known as, the "Infinity Killer." Every woman killed looks like her and with every death she is sent a photo as a token of the Infinity Killer's affection for her. But when her son is kidnapped, Amanda must make a decision between asking the handsome and charming FBI agent, Carl Sayres, for help or seeking out the killer on her own. Amanda is forced to play the killer's deadly game in order to save her son. Can she outsmart a killer?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Happy Face Killer (2014)
Plot Summary:
Serial killer Keith Jesperson murders at least eight women over a five-year span and taunts authorities with disturbing letters and scribbled confessions signed with a happy face.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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CopyCat Killers (2016)
Plot Summary:
Go behind the headlines of real-life murder cases which copy memorable slayings seen in Hollywood movies. Each episode features a mystifying murder scene and law enforcement’s hunt for the killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Awakening the Zodiac (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a down-on-their-luck couple who discovers a serial killer's film reels. They decide to take the law into their own hands, risking everything for the chance at a $100,000 reward. It isn't long until they find themselves in the killer's lethal cross-hairs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense
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Cold Blood (2005)
Plot Summary:
Brian Wicklow is jailed after a killing spree so macabre that he has become one of Britain's most notorious murderers. Vilified by the popular press and despised by fellow inmates, his notoriety is compounded by the fact that detectives, including Jake Osbourne, investigating his crimes have never found the body of his last victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Turning Point (2021)
Plot Summary:
A slacker who does his best to avoid confrontation strikes up an unlikely friendship with a dangerous thug who suddenly forces his way into his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, hood
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The Katsuragi Murder Case (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Katsuragi Household that runs a small store may appear serene. But as the younger son Minoru commits a murder on the street, the family is exposed to the public. Is there anybody that is behind this murder case?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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8 of Diamonds (2006)
Plot Summary:
A diamond heist goes wrong when one of the thieves gets shot during the escape after swallowing a priceless diamond. Deception, blackmail, and murder schemes overshadow the lives of the eight people left chasing the diamond.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Essex Boys Retribution (2013)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years after Britain's most notorious gangland murders, the next generation of Essex Boys vie for control as revenge is sought by all sides.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Grasshopper (2015)
Plot Summary:
Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on her murderer. To do so, Suzuki has to infiltrate the underground world of criminals. Kujira is a contract killer for hire. He makes his targets fall into confusion and eventually commit suicide. Semi is a contract killer who uses the knife to take out his targets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Unknown Hitman: The Story of El Cholo Adrián (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on real events, the fictional story of Mexican drug lord El Chato's number one hitman, El Cholo.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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Flinch (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young Hitman who lives with his mother catches feelings for the witness of a murder he commits.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir
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El Padrino II: Border Intrusion (2011)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing