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Plot Summary:
A Catastrophe happens on the day before Emilies and Jacobs divorce. Toby their son falls into a hidden well while playing. Jacob must deal with the life threatening situation as well as deal with Mike, a firefighter and old romantic interest of Emilie together they are unsuccessful at rescuing the boy. Time and tragedy are fierce ticking bombs, and amidst Jacob and Mike's faltering ego's, the mystery of the well and the new discovery of a 100 year old tunnel defy any logical explanation.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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A Man Who Went to Mars (2003)
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Little Seung-jae stays up all night and writes letters to So-hee, pretending to be her father in Mars. Leaving Seung-jae's innocent heart behind, So-hee leaves for a big city. Both grown up to be adults, Seung-jae is a postman who writes letters to So-hee's grandma - the letters that never came from So-hee. So-hee's heart hardens after hardships in life and she comes back to her hometown and Seung-jae's heart swells up again at seeing her again.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
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Stella's oorlog (2009)
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Dutch working mother, Stella, was supportive of international mission in Uruzgan, even if that meant missing her husband Jurre for months. After her brother is killed in action there, nothing can return life to normality, not even the return home of her military husband, Jurre. Flash-backs from a trial nine months later show the tragic developments.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
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Going to Kansas City (1998)
Plot Summary:
An exchange student from Finland arrives in Kansas City. He is expecting to spend a year in the city, but ends up living on a farm in a small town. He falls in love with the sheriff’s daughter and soon finds himself in trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, Finland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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City Rats (2009)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to the world of the City Rats where eight lives collide in a Pulp Fiction style blend that reveals London‘s true dark and twisted underbelly.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
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A War Named Desire (2000)
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Younger brother from HK visits older brother, who is a mid-level mobster in Thailand. He is looking to recoup money the brother took from the family when he fled HK 15 years earlier. His pesky girlfriend, refusing to stay in HK, learns the hard way that there's more to Thailand than elephant rides. The elder brother is caught up in an internal struggle within the mob. Someone is injecting drugs into their gambling operation. His search leads to a tug of war, with the brother and girlfriend caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: heroic, romantic, captivating, neo noir, entertaining
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The Replacement (2009)
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Two young brothers who are identical twins get separated from the orphanage. Faris is adopted by a police officer and his wife and later becomes a policeman, while Nabil is adopted by a belly dancer and spends his life living in poverty and becomes a drug addict due to his relationship with Mai, the daughter of a rich drug dealer. Both brothers meet each other for the first time as Faris tries to crackdown a dangerous drug cartel. Nabil on the other hand, has to follow orders from his bosses to make sure his brother does not succeed in foiling their plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: islamic
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Murari (2001)
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Circa 1800's a Jamindar (Prakash Raj) insults Durga Devi by stealing her idol in the temple in a state of intoxication.An enraged Devi kills him and puts a curse on his heirs that she is going to take one family member each every 48 years. And one male heir dies accidentally at the end of every 48 years. And the present year denotes end of another 48 years and now it's the turn of Murari (Mahesh Babu). In another village, there lives Vasundhara (Sonali Bendre). She too lives with a big combined family.Both the families of Murari and Vasundhara are releated by blood, but separated due to the family feuds.They both fall in love and these both families makes the formal arrangement of marriage. But once his grandmother, who returns from her Teerdha Yatra, upon being informed by the family poojari that Murari is the one who would be subjected to death by Devi this year, refuses for the marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 180 min
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Tour de Force (2010)
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Frank is a police officer who loses his family in a tragedy. In desperation he turns to crime and makes a living as a hitman for the mob.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 91 min
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Longing (2006)
Plot Summary:
A melancholy 2006 German film about the life and love in the daily life of a man who’s trying to get the feeling of longing and nostalgia back into his marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: melancholic, suspenseful, tense, sentimental, captivating, contemplative, exciting
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Angry (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Realtor Sandra visits a foreclosed property with her client, the former owner Danny attacks them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, China, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Waiting (1981)
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 69 min
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What You Don't See (2009)
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Two strangers have a strong impact on a young man who's spending some time with his family in this drama from Germany. Seventeen-year-old Anton has been struggling to make sense of his life since his father committed suicide when Anton was attending boarding school. Anton's mother, Luiza, wants to mend her strained relationship with her son and introduce him to her boyfriend, Paul, so she arranges for them to take a vacation together.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, twisted, realistic
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Remember (2022)
Plot Summary:
Pil-ju, an Alzheimer's patient in his 80s, who lost all his family during the Japanese colonial era, and devotes his lifelong revenge before his memories disappear, and a young man in his 20s who helps him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 128 min
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Sainik (1993)
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Lieutenant Suraj Dutt has been in the Indian army for years. It is now time for him to take a leave of absence so that he can meet his father, Retired Colonel Yashpal Dutt, and sister, Minni. He travels home, and on the way rescues some school children held hostage by a group of armed men. The media portrays him as a hero, and it is here that he meets with a young woman named Alka, and both fall in love with each other. Alka and Suraj get the approval of their respective families' and get married. Minni also gets married to a young man named Vijay Ghai. Shortly after the marriage, Suraj leaves his pregnant wife and re-joins duty at the border. His father is the first one to get the news that he is missing, believed dead. He decides to keep his news from Alka and Minni. What Yashpal does not know that both Minni and Alka have already received this devastating news - and both have decided to keep a brave front and also hide it from each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, weeping, crying
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The Abyss (2023)
Plot Summary:
Frigga tries to balance her risky job as a security manager in the Kiirunavaara mine with her family life, her new love, and her ex, who doesn’t want to let go. But when the ground suddenly starts to shake under their feet, the puzzle of life doesn’t matter and the struggle to not be pulled into the abyss begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 103 min
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My Favorite Clown (1987)
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Sergei is a professional clown in the circus, and he knows how to make people happy. He is adopting the six-year old boy Vanka from a foster home. Sergei is a good man, who can provide unconditional love. But Sergei's wife suddenly separates from him, and Sergei is left alone with the tough decision to make.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
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How Not to Disappear Completely (2015)
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'How Not To Disappear Completely' follows a week in the life of a young photographer Tom as he returns to London after spending two years traveling in India. Tom is at a crossroads in his life. A stranger in the cold hard city, he struggles to reconnect with his friends whilst searching for his half sister. Along the way Tom is forced to face up to his past and soon realises that it may not be his life he's been running away from but himself.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, melancholic
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The Maker (1997)
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Josh is a high school guy who lives with adoptive parents and is involved in little crimes with his friends (including young lesbian Bella). Suddenly his elder brother Walter comes out of the blue (he left home 10 years ago when he was 18 and was never heard during these years). After that Walter starts to involve Josh in various new criminal activities, including robbery.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Tempting Fate (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, one of deep faith and the other buried in a life of crime have their worlds torn apart when the wrong one goes to jail and the other commits an unforgivable act.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, emotional, suspense, poignant, independent film
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Watchtower (2001)
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Orphan Mike O'Conner was abused from age three by his own dad, fled to Chicago to start a rock band but got dragged in bad mates' crime and convicted under probation. Mike's sister, Kate, managed to get him released and employed as assistant lighthouse guard under Adam Terrell, an author on sabbatical. However, Adam is murdered by serial killer Art Stoner, who takes Adam's place and identity. Art himself is the traumatized son of a prostitute, abandoned by the father, who had to watch his mother 'working' and got beaten, as if responsible, whenever her 'clients' hit her. 'Adam' seems to work out as Mike's substitute father, smacking him at worst, but their past starts catching up and Art being seen in action as Kate's lover poisons the triangle dramatically.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, independent film, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Running Away (2017)
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Sisters Maggie and Lizzie move in with mom Peg's new husband. Secrets and lies start immediately. Maggie cannot handle what follows and recruits a friend to help her plan to get out of town with her step father's secrets. When Peg discovers that her daughter has run away, she now has to find Maggie fast but must come to terms with the dark secrets that led to Maggie's fleeing and the secrets about her new husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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High School Lover (2017)
Plot Summary:
17-year-old Kelly falls in love with Christian, an older man, her father tries to intervene before the crush turns into a dangerous obsession.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Krishna (1996)
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Sunil lives a poor life-style with his mom and sister. His passion is to pilot plane and he goes for training to become a successful pilot, but in the process he got himself entangled in a drug deal which changes his entire concept of life and engulfs his loved ones forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: epic
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Pathar Ke Insan (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters, Asha and Lata, want to be successful singers and dancers, but a competition drives their rivalry to tragic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
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Aegan (2008)
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Ajith plays a special task force commander, the kind of squad only used for special tactic operations. A situation arises where he has to get back to his family members. Enthralled with rising emotions and love for his blood brother he decides to stay with that family not revealing his real identity. There he falls in love with a woman of his dreams. He is also a patriotic defender of his motherland. Caught up in a dilemma of romance and emotions he also has to protect his country from the intruders. He is the one and he will succeed but how?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
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8:28 AM (2010)
Plot Summary:
A married woman runs a successful gallery and falls for a man she met accidentally.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Loverboy (2017)
Plot Summary:
15-year-old Caro is one of the inconspicuous students in her school. One day she get noted by a handsome, wealthy Turkish guy who is 5 years older than her. Since they start seeing each other she turns into a totally different person.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, sentimental, sexy, captivating, disturbing
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Blackmail (2005)
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Inspector Abhay Rathod is a honest and diligent Police Inspector employed with Bombay Police. He was assigned the case of racketeer and criminal don, Shekhar Mohan. Abhay successfully entraps and arrests him, and has him sentenced to a long jail term. Years later, Abhay is now the Assistant Commissioner of Police; is married, and has a son named Chirag; and Shekhar Mohan has completed his jail term and is looking to seek vengeance against Abhay. He does so by kidnapping Chirag and taking him along with him. He object is not to seek any ransom money, but attempt to separate the child from his parents, as well as attempt to make a place in his heart. Shekhar finds out that Chirag loves racing and takes him on various race courses where the child is thrilled to watch fast sport cars, and soon starts a friendship with "Uncle" Shekhar. But with Abhay and the police closing in fast, will Shekhar and Chirag be able to maintain their friendship?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating
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Darr: A Violent Love Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
A woman is caught between one man's love and another man's obsession. She fears one and fears for the other. One stands for love and the other for life. Who will she choose?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, romantic, entertaining, romantic drama, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Sister, Sister (1987)
Plot Summary:
A congressional aide (Eric Stoltz) explores an old Louisiana mansion two kooky sisters (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judith Ivey) run as a guest house.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, gothic horror, sex comedy, southern gothic, psychological thriller, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, gothic