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Plot Summary:
After being stabbed in the heart by ruthless home invaders, a man is left for dead. Now weak, outnumbered, and knife sticking from his chest, he attempts to do the impossible: save his wife from these murderers before he bleeds to death.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, brutal, suspense, psychological, psychotronic
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Cold Hell (2017)
Plot Summary:
Özge Dogruol, a young Vienna based taxi driver of Turkish origin. She witnesses an extremely brutal murder. The offender seems to be a crazed serial killer and he is convinced that Özge has seen him. A life-and-death struggle ensues.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, exciting, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, noir, neo noir
Similar in 81%
No Mercy (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman seeks to take revenge when her younger sister disappears and she finds out that her sister suffered violence and sexual abuse from school bullies.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, rough, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 88%
Already Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Thomas Archer's happy & successful life is all but ruined following a horrific attack he is presented with a perfect opportunity to exact physical revenge upon the man who caused all his grief. However the immediate consequences of his actions and inactions are much more complicated than he imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, realistic
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The Contract (1999)
Plot Summary:
Anna has a bad week. Her boss is a pain to her, as is the grocery store clerk. Her friend was bad to her, her husband couldn't take his eyes off a waitress, and her babysitter annoyed her. One night at the local pub, she tells a man about her problems and he says he can solve them if she just signs a paper. The next day, her boss has been brutally murdered. Soon, Anna realizes everybody she knows is in danger, including her family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, independent film, scary, realistic
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Walking the Edge (1985)
Plot Summary:
A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 878
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, hood, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
Fighting Back (1982)
Plot Summary:
It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his team's actions are taken as racial discrimination.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Arsenal (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the deadbeat brother of a businessman is assumed to be in on his own kidnapping, his sibling must take action to rescue him.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, brutal, disturbing, anamorphic
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Degenerate (2012)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by the images of his own traumatic past, Blair O'Leary (Bobby Field) unknowingly leads his friends down a dark path of destruction. Being a good friend, Marcus (David Yost) lends a helping hand getting Blair, Ralphie (Claude Duhammel), and Kayton (William Lamar) situated in a safe house in the middle of the Arizona desert... but there's a catch. They must pull off a job in order to pay their way. In tight situations friendships can only stretch so far, and what comes around goes around in this twisted tale.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Assassins' Code (2011)
Plot Summary:
A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough, realistic
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Instinct to Kill (2001)
Plot Summary:
Escaped serial killer James Becket, who killed his own father whose expectations he never fulfilled, but now especially targets his wife Theresa 'Tess' and her family, is too good at disguising himself and other deceit for detective Diffs task force. Only one man proves able to fight back in his league: former cop J.T. Dillon, who was already training Tess in self-defense and becomes her lover. Becket decides to find hiding place by kidnapping Diffs wife, and thus enforce a final show-down.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful
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Assassins Tale (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three assassins deal with life, love, addiction and trust as each tries to find the answers to a better life. Together, they prove to be the most trustworthy in this tangled web of murder, greed, friendship and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic
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Johan Falk: Slutet (2015)
Plot Summary:
The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's family, to try to kill his wife, could be the biggest mistake the organization has done. GSI closes up around Johan's family, and the final battle begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Driven to Kill (2009)
Plot Summary:
A former Russian mobster named Ruslan, who is now a crime novelist, returns home and discovers his daughter is marrying his arch nemesis. His past also comes back to haunt him when his family is threatened. Hungry for justice, Ruslan returns to the life he once knew...with a vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Russia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, exciting, bloody, action packed, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Wrecker (2022)
Plot Summary:
John, a construction worker, moonlighting as a vigilante, grieves over the recent abduction of his wife. A detective friend, sympathetic to his plight, feeds John information about released criminals in hopes of serving them justice outside the system. After leading the bust of a drug lab containing a mysterious substance, the Kingpin of the affected cartel kidnaps the detective's girlfriend and held ransom until the mysterious "weapon" is returned. Working together on the other side of the law in an effort to find the detectives girlfriend, John realizes the Kingpin is not only behind his own wife's disappearance, but behind a plot against the entire city as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Born to Raise Hell (2010)
Plot Summary:
A hard core Interpol Agent is assigned to an Eastern European task force to target gun trafficking and dope running throughout the Balkans. While investigating a Russian gun dealer, his team is caught in a bloody street war between a Gypsy gang and the Russians, leaving one task force member dead. Fueled with vengeance, he leads us on an action packed thrill ride while avenging his friend's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tense, suspense, hood, realistic, fast
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Good Day for It (2011)
Plot Summary:
A man forced to abandon his wife and daughter years earlier must risk his life to settle an old score and reunite his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, interesting
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Trespassers (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two dysfunctional couples rent a modern luxury desert home for the weekend hoping to sort out their messed-up lives. Just as they are about to settle in for a fun night, a neighbour turns up at their front door saying she has car trouble. And that's when the murderous trouble really starts. Because without knowing it, the four friends have landed slap-bang in the wrong violent place at precisely the wrong bloody time. Hopefully your nerves of steel will hold for one of the most stylish, atmospheric and terror-filled home invasion horrors of them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, brutal, slasher
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Slasher.com (2017)
Plot Summary:
After meeting online, Jack and Kristy go on a weekend getaway to the woodlands of rural Missouri. While discovering each other, they soon learn of the terrorizing horrors that the forest has in store.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, suspense, slasher, sadistic
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Maria (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a former BlackRose cartel assassin deliberately betrays them by refusing to complete her mission, the cartel orders her execution. Unbeknownst to them, she fakes her own death and is able to create a new life of her own. When the cartel discovers she is alive, the hunter becomes the hunted as she fights to get revenge on those who took her new life away from her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, brutal, captivating
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The Brave (2019)
Plot Summary:
In an Albanian town known for drug production and trafficking an elite group of cops set out to end the war waged against the local police.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, action thriller
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Unbound (2020)
Plot Summary:
Julius Fonteneau has decided to take the law into his own hands after his daughter has gone missing. His only friend supports him while his wife resents him and the police are growing suspicious of his intentions. He must determine right from wrong and make the ultimate decision to kill the man he believes to have taken his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, independent film
Similar in 79%
Nemesis (2021)
Plot Summary:
An underworld kingpin's past catches up with him when he returns to London, igniting an explosive chain of events which ends in revenge and murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, contemplative
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Dirty Lies (2017)
Plot Summary:
An under-appreciated intern entrusted with a million dollar necklace races to find out which of his money hungry room-mates betrayed him as he battles a desperate criminal duo bent on stealing.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense
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Ten Dead Men (2008)
Plot Summary:
You can’t outrun your past. That is the extremely painful lesson that Ryan (Brendan Carr)is learning right now, as spectres of his past life of crime have returned to haunt him, destroying the only person he holds dear, and nearly killing him in the process. Ryan decides that if he cannot escape then he must confront them head-on in what can only be called a desperate suicide run.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller
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A Score to Settle (2019)
Plot Summary:
A former mob enforcer who is released from prison after serving 22 years for a crime he didn't commit sets out on a path for revenge against the people who wronged him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, rough, brutal, psychological
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Death Sentence (2007)
Plot Summary:
Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when protecting his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, harsh, rough, neo noir, grindhouse, action packed, stylized
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Criticsized (2016)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer taunts police while increasing the body count on live streaming TV.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Escape: Puzzle of Fear (2020)
Plot Summary:
Hot-shot Hollywood agent Matthew Blake has a dark past. He thinks that he is on his way to a double date with his oldest friend to a new Escape Room in Los Angeles. When the couples are locked into the Escape Room, Matthew quickly finds himself at the center of a revenge plot meant to right the wrongs of his past, with deadly results.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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I Saw the Devil (2010)
Plot Summary:
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiance Soo-hyun, a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and inhumane killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 143000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: bleak, psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, bloody, suspense, serious, twist ending, rough
Similar in 82%
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 314000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, clever, tense, serious, exciting, brutal, rough