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Plot Summary:
In the not-too-distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty, with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools while the other remains with the gold. The man who remains must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders, while battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, slasher, apocalyptic, psychological thriller
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Higher Power (2018)
Plot Summary:
When the Universe decides what it wants, it's pointless to resist. With his family's life at stake, Joseph Steadman finds himself the unwilling test subject of a maniacal scientist in a battle that could save the world – or destroy it.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Blast Vegas (2013)
Plot Summary:
Thieving Spring Breakers steal an ancient relic that unleashes a disastrous curse upon Las Vegas. Stars: Frankie Muniz, Maggie Castle, and Barry Bostwick.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, romantic, scenic, humorous, semi serious, disaster movie
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Collision (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set around a wife and husband on vacation in Morocco with the wife plotting to murder her husband with help from her lover. The plan goes terribly wrong when her lover and husband get into a terrible car accident on a remote desert road. They escape the multi-car pileup at a desert intersection and encounter the group of survivors, including a wanted smuggler, an undercover cop, a kidnapper, a baby and an unconscious Australian. They embark on a journey of deceit and revelation that culminates in a Tangiers souk.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, captivating, suspense, rough, suspenseful, fast
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Martian Land (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future, mankind lives on Mars, in cities that resemble those once found on Earth, protected from the alien atmosphere by dome-like force-fields. When a massive sandstorm breaks through the dome and destroys Mars New York, those in Mars Los Angeles must figure out how to stop the storm before it wipes them out next.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, mockbuster, apocalyptic, psychotronic
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The Graves (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two inseparable sister's visit to a remote mine town turns into a mind-bending fight for survival against menaces both human and supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, serious, captivating, slasher, dark, scary, gothic, suspenseful
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Dead Sea (2014)
Plot Summary:
A Marine Biologist is assigned to investigate the mysterious deaths of marine life in an inland salt water lake that have been attributed to a creature thought to have been the stuff of legend.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful
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The Blackout (2019)
Plot Summary:
No meteorites hit Earth, no terrorists put the world in danger, no atomic war was started, but something did go wrong. Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from the Space. What military forces find outside the Ring is shocking. There are dead corpses everywhere: in stores, in cars, on roads, in hospitals and railway stations. Who or what is destroying all life on Earth? How long will the last outpost of mankind survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, apocalyptic, suspenseful, psychedelic, action thriller, action adventure
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Thirst (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of wayward teens at a wilderness boot camp must fight for their lives against the attacks of a ruthless blood-sucking alien. The attacks begin after they discover a strange "orb" in the middle of the desert. With no communication, and nowhere to hide, they realize their only chance for survival is to fight.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, spooky
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Caught Inside (2010)
Plot Summary:
Surfing charters are meant to be a trip to Paradise. With six male surfers stuck on a boat, there's bound to be some friction. When two of the surf crew are replaced at the last minute with girls - the heat is turned way up. The one single girl on board - SAM - enjoys the attention. She has Bull and Rob wrapped around her finger. The frustrated, psychotic, Bull soon decides, "she'll get what she's asking for" and molests her. Outraged, the others abandon him on an island, but the ever-determined Bull returns, and takes control of the boat. He attacks the crew and holds them hostage. He harasses Sam and tortures the others. It's a nightmare battle of wits, on board the yacht, as the five imprisoned friends must survive the fury of the psycho at the helm.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, cliffhanger, slasher, realistic
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Survivor (2014)
Plot Summary:
During their search for a habitable planet the last living humans crash-land on a barren world, inhabited by bloodthirsty aliens and mysterious post-apocalyptic warriors.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, exciting, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic
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252: Signal of Life (2008)
Plot Summary:
At some point in the distant future, a massive, catastrophic earthquake strikes Tokyo, causing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to rise meteorically and the largest typhoon in recorded Japanese history to sweep toward the city and inundate it with water. The Tokyo Fire Department and its team of crack rescuers swing into action, and shortly after they do, a distress call arises from an underground subway station - with repeated indications of the rescue code, 252 252, and the exclamation "We Have Survivors." It soon becomes apparent that the local rescue squad must attempt to save the survivors, doing so at the expense of their own lives and safety. Written by Nathan Southern.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, inspirational, sincere, captivating, suspense, harsh
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Trapped (2014)
Plot Summary:
A soldier is stuck in a combat zone after stepping on a mine.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Skull Forest (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four female friends embark on a weekend camping expedition into the woods. Things go horribly awry when the quartet runs afoul of a group of wicked rich folks who enjoy hunting humans for sport. Will any of these ladies make it out of the forest alive?.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense
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Stash House (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dave and Emma have found the perfect house, until they discover a stash of heroine and end up imprisoned in it by violent thugs.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, dark, serious, realistic
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The Blackout (2014)
Plot Summary:
An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight for survival, they must endure the worst of human behavior.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 810
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Air Collision (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a solar storm wipes out the air traffic control system, Air Force One and a passenger jet liner are locked on a collision course in the skies above the midwest.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mockbuster, realistic, independent film, disaster movie
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After Effect (2012)
Plot Summary:
College students sign up for what seems a simple paid research study, they soon realize their lives are in danger. Unfortunately they've unknowingly volunteered their bodies as human collateral in an ongoing U.S. Military experiment.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, serious
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The Tunnel (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it's every man for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Survive the Game (2021)
Plot Summary:
When cop David is injured in a drug bust gone wrong, his partner Cal chases the two criminals who shot him. They all land at a remote farm owned by troubled vet Eric, and as Cal and Eric plot their defense, more of the gang arrives - along with a wounded David. Outnumbered, the three heroes must use stealth, smarts, and good shooting to take down the drug-dealing mob.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blue World Order (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce resources. Society crumbles and an infectious bacteria threatens to destroy those who remain. In an attempt to rebuild civilization, a self appointed government called 'The ORDER' distributed an immunization to the bacteria, via a massive Electro-Macnetic Pulse (EMP). Secretly, the Order also delivered a bio-tech virus through the EMP, giving them the power to control the population. One man remains immune to the Order's virus - Jake Slater. Now Jake scavenges the wasteland searching for a way to keep his unconscious daughter alive, unaware she is the last child on Earth, and the key to the survival of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
Plot Summary:
It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: suspense, controversial, disturbing, splatter, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, psychological
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The Colony (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the not-too-distant future: after a global catastrophe has wiped out nearly all of humanity on Earth, an elite astronaut from Space Colony Kepler must make a decision that will seal the fate of the people on both planets.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, anamorphic
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Endangered Species (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jack Halsey takes his wife, their adult kids, and a friend for a dream vacation in Kenya. But as they venture off alone into a wilderness park, their safari van is flipped over by an angry rhino, leaving them injured and desperate. Then, as two of them go in search of rescue, a bloody, vicious encounter with a leopard and a clan of hyenas incites a desperate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Kenya, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological
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The Ice Road (2021)
Plot Summary:
After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, an ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the trapped miners.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, dramatic, psychological, road movie, feel good, entertaining
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Beyond the Reach (2014)
Plot Summary:
A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, exciting, serious, realistic, psychological, suspense, minimal cast, independent film
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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
Plot Summary:
The blood orchid - A rare flower that holds the secret of eternal life and a fortune to the pharmaceutical company that finds it. Led by a two-fisted soldier of fortune, a scientific expedition is sent deep into the jungles of Borneo to locate and bring back samples of the legendary plant. Battling their way upriver, the explorers brave poisonous insects, ferocious crocodiles and savage headhunters, unaware they're being stalked by an even greater danger: a nest of giant anacondas, voracious, fifty-foot-long flesh-eaters who'll stop at nothing to protect their breeding ground, the blood orchid's home.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, intense, suspenseful, exciting, natural horror, dark, saga, perverse, rough
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The Hunter (2011)
Plot Summary:
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, melancholic, atmospheric, thought provoking, psychological thriller, scenic, cerebral, visually stunning
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Plot Summary:
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There's Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: road movie, visually stunning, exciting, surreal, suspense, apocalyptic, cult classic, stylized, epic, visually appealing
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The Grey (2011)
Plot Summary:
An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 261000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bad ending, harsh, tense, exciting, emotional, psychological, suspense, rough, scenic
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Sanctum (2011)
Plot Summary:
The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea. Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team--including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd)--are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, breathtaking, tense, realistic, sad, entertaining, stylized