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Plot Summary:
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 285000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: twist ending, detective, thought provoking, neo noir, surprise ending, suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, tense
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Under the Silver Lake (2018)
Plot Summary:
Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: neo noir, black comedy, atmospheric, surreal, dark comedy, suspense, psychological, captivating, twist ending, cerebral
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The Captive (2014)
Plot Summary:
Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, serious, surreal, intense, non-linear, stylized, psychological thriller, tense
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High Crimes (2002)
Plot Summary:
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: clever, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, serious, surprise ending, tense, realistic, detective, psychological
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The Assault (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a cheerleader is sexually assaulted by the high school football team, she must overcome her shame and use the evidence gathered from the subsequent social media firestorm to piece together the night that she can't remember in her fight for justice. Based on the true story of the Steubenville, Ohio rape case.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, thought provoking, realistic, disturbing, tense, captivating, rough, suspenseful, crying
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The Tall Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, intense, slasher, twisted, psychological thriller
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The Body (2012)
Plot Summary:
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, suspense, mind blowing, detective, serious, psychological thriller, mind twisting
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The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
Plot Summary:
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 286000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: harsh, captivating, psychological, stylized, neo noir, suspense, gloomy, melancholic, atmospheric, crime thriller
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Changeling (2008)
Plot Summary:
Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 263000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: psychological, heartbreaking, sentimental, tense, bleak, disturbing, touching, suspense, detective, emotional
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Devil's Knot (2013)
Plot Summary:
The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: bleak, factual, intense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, rough, gothic, dark
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Surveillance (2008)
Plot Summary:
An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspenseful, stylized, rough, road movie, suspense, slasher, intense, detective, surprise ending
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Trust (2010)
Plot Summary:
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, teen, serious, sexy, psychological, disturbing, sincere, depressing, social
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Wind River (2017)
Plot Summary:
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, neo western, neo noir, surprise ending, bleak, sentimental, detective, psychological thriller, atmospheric
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Sicario (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 462000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, serious, tense, neo noir, enigmatic, brutal, harsh, bleak, atmospheric
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Side Effects (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 196000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, tricky, captivating, clever, serious, tense, psychological thriller, twist ending
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Unknown (2006)
Plot Summary:
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, tricky, tense, mind bending, suspense, talky, psychological thriller
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Solace (2015)
Plot Summary:
A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 68000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, intense, psychological thriller, scary, psychedelic, mysterious, smart
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Oldboy (2003)
Plot Summary:
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 619000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: twist ending, bleak, intense, psychological, neo noir, clever, mindfuck, brutal, atmospheric, surprise ending
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Mystic River (2003)
Plot Summary:
A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 477000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, emotional, twist ending, neo noir, depressing, tense, bleak, psychological thriller, disturbing
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Plot Summary:
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 487000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, rough, clever, serious, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, suspense
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Zodiac (2007)
Plot Summary:
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 584000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, tense, neo noir, stylized, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, rough, detective
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Prisoners (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 784000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric, neo noir, detective, surprise ending, psychological thriller, tense
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Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Plot Summary:
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, enigmatic, psychological thriller, dark, detective, atmospheric
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The Usual Suspects (1995)
Plot Summary:
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surprise ending, twist ending, clever, confusing, tense, suspenseful, mind blowing, mind bending, suspense
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
Plot Summary:
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 607000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, tense, noir, suspense, atmospheric, clever, suspenseful, detective, serious
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Gone Girl (2014)
Plot Summary:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, clever, twist ending, suspenseful, neo noir, tense, dramatic, psychological thriller
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Insomnia (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 313000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, detective, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, suspenseful, tense, bad ending
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The Pledge (2001)
Plot Summary:
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer. Based on a story by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, detective, suspense, enigmatic, intense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, disturbing
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No Country for Old Men (2007)
Plot Summary:
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, atmospheric, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, neo western, gloomy, rough
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Se7en (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 18000000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, detective, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, suspense, scary, tense, bad ending, atmospheric
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Shutter Island (2010)
Plot Summary:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 14000000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, cerebral, neo noir