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Plot Summary:
Renzo Petrucci is forced to leave his job as general manager of a multinational oil company after corruption charges. Convinced that the woman who has taken his place has betrayed him, Renzo takes his revenge by killing her. Reinstated by the Board, he works his way up to the top, driving his company to new heights despite the growing suspicion and mistrust.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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American Skin (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Marine veteran working as a school janitor tries to mend his relationship with his son after a divorce. When his son is killed by a police officer found innocent without standing trial, he takes matters into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Laguna (2001)
Plot Summary:
Raised by an uncle in New York after his parents died in an attack orchestrated by the mafia, Thomas, now an adult, is sent to live in Italy. There, while his tortured past and the death of his parents come back to haunt him, he feels increasingly drawn to Thelma, his uncle's mysterious wife. Soon Thomas will learn the truth about the death of his parents and foment a vengeance of great heights.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Canada, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, suspense, action adventure
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26 Years (2012)
Plot Summary:
26 years ago, state troops were ordered to open fire on civilians in the city of Gwangju who were demonstrating as apart of a democratic movement. Thousands of civilians were killed. Now, a shooter from the national team, a gang member, a policeman, CEO from a large company and director of a private security outfit get involved in a plan to convict the person responsible for the massacre.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Stand at Paxton County (2020)
Plot Summary:
A military veteran comes home to find her father harassed by a sheriff intent on confiscating the livestock on their ranch under shady pretenses.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Death of a Cheerleader (2019)
Plot Summary:
A remake of the cult classic, inspired by Randall Sullivan’s Rolling Stone article of the same name about the real life murder of a popular, affluent and beautiful Northern California high school cheerleader at the hands of a classmate.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Causality (2021)
Plot Summary:
Claudia shows up at a bar to meet Luis, a doctor who contacted her through a dating app. Claudia doesn't suspect what fate has in store for her. A kidnapping that ends with an inevitable and unpredictable death. A suspense story with surprising twists until the last second, narrated in a sequence shot without cuts.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Double Cross (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two women jokingly agree to kill each others' husbands. Then one really does and blackmails the other into killing her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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My Daughter's Disgrace (2016)
Plot Summary:
A high school senior’s life is turned upside down when photos of her naked body are distributed to a revenge porn website. Frustrated by police inaction, her mother takes the investigation into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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The Invisible Witness (2018)
Plot Summary:
A businessman must explain to his lawyers how he came to be found in a locked hotel room with his dead partner, whose body was covered in money.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, realistic, enigmatic
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We Take the Low Road (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Wiki-Leaks release illuminates the collusion amongst politicians and the medical industry that drives the cost of medical care to an unattainable price for the middle class. With the guilty parties' names and addresses being released, a vigilante movement springs up around the Untied States. After his father loses the battle with cancer, Mason, along with Thompson and Bobbi, seek violent justice and hope for riches along the way. A shotgun blast sparks a string of unintended consequences that leads the group down a dark road.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Russian Triangle (2007)
Plot Summary:
A big Russian city- not necessarily Moscow, but the kind that is bustling with all types of life including criminal so the police are not without business. A young agent by the name of Nikolay, whose ancestors on his mother's side are Georgian, walks into the department which is busy with the investigation of a murder committed by a mysterious blind killer. His intuition leads him to a group of people whose destiny was broken by the Chechen War. This peaceful town finds its sinister inside, and Nikolay's noble impulses runs into the cruel and corrupt reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Thriller
Country: Georgia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Moving Forest (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Elias is a successful executive who works in the second largest private bank in Brazil. One day, Elias meets a mysterious woman who claims to be able to predict his future and says he will become vice president that day and the next day, he will become president of the Bank. The wheel of fortune is bound activated and a series of murders is committed by Elias and his wife Clara, leaving a trail of blood on his way to power and making them executioners and victims of their own destinies.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Next Stop Murder (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman discusses her family problems with a stranger she meets on a bus, but is horrified when her confidante suggests each of them kill the person making the other's life difficult.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspense, disturbing
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InstaPsycho (2020)
Plot Summary:
An unhinged social media super fan frames her best friend for murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark
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Pool Boy Nightmare (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Gale as she has a brief affair with pool cleaner Adam, but quickly turns down his continued advances. Insulted at being rejected, Adam starts dating Gale's high school age daughter Becca, using her as an unsuspecting pawn in a twisted game of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam 2 is the sequel to the movie of the same title in 2004. The story continues after the "pontianak" (banshee/vampire) has avenged her death by eliminating her murderer (Marsani) and his entire bloodline. The story also explains her possesion of her own daughter and the end of her revenge. The story also sees Meriam coming to terms with her death before releasing her daughter from possesion and dealing with the obsession of her killer's son (Zali). Although the movie is still classified in the horror genre, this sequel delves more into sad emotions compared to the rage inflicted in the first movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Moderator (2022)
Plot Summary:
After the murder of her two Scandinavian friends in Morocco, a Russian blogger decides to do her own justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Morocco, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Last Son (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sam Worthington stars as Isaac LeMay, a murderous outlaw who learns he is cursed by a prophecy: one of his children will kill him. To prevent this, he hunts down each of his estranged children including long-lost son Cal (Colson Baker). With bounty hunters and Sheriff Solomon (Thomas Jane) on his tail, LeMay must find a way to stop his children and end the curse.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Goodbye, Butterfly (2021)
Plot Summary:
After his five-year-old daughter is murdered, a loving family man becomes convinced that the oddball down the street is guilty.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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River Runs Red (2018)
Plot Summary:
When the son of a successful judge is killed by two police officers and the system sets them free, a hardened veteran detective finds some incriminating files on the officers and the judge teams up with another mourning father to take the law into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Fatal Intuition (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jang-woo had only his sister to live for until she is brutally murdered. During a ritual to send her spirit to heaven, he comes across a suspicious man, who manages to escape from the scene. He begins to suspect a local pharmacist and keeps an eye on him. Although Jang-woo is absolutely convinced that the pharmacist is the killer, no one believes him because the pharmacist is considered the kindest man in town. But he gets help from a possessed woman named Si-eun who foresees how people die. Their pursuit begins and Si-eun predicts yet another murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Psycho Storm Chaser (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a massive hurricane threatens the Brody Peninsula, Abby Fields, a full-time nurse to a housebound coma patient, is forced to stay behind to care for her. This puts her directly in the hurricane's path, but even worse - it puts her directly in the path of Dr. Carl Highstrom, a storm chasing serial killer who uses storms to cover up his heinous crimes.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Confessions (2016)
Plot Summary:
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the monk to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè is found dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dancing Trees (2009)
Plot Summary:
Martha (Katie Boland), 18, sees the world as animated and fun. She has a form of autism that means she is a mathematical genuis whilst incapable of looking after herself. Living in a dull routinewith her cousin Nicole (Brooke Burns), and mother Josephine (Amanda Tapping), she sees the good in everything and everyone. But suddenly, her mother is the casualty of a brutal crime before her eyes and Martha is sent to a foster home. Nicole is distraught and battle for custody of her cousin, but the police constantly block her requests. Finally, Detective Velez relents, on one condition: Martha must help solve the crime and find justice for her fallen mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Alcoholist (2016)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic spends all his time spying on his neighbor, waiting for the right moment to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blood and Money (2020)
Plot Summary:
A retired veteran hunting in the Allagash backcountry of Maine discovers a dead woman with a duffle bag full of money. He soon finds himself in a web of deceit and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, ambiguous ending
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Genome Hazard (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion. Unexplainable things keep happening as Ishigami struggles to find his wife. Gradually, Ishigami realizes all his memories are gone and finds himself acting like someone else. What is his true identity?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, action thriller
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Silencer (2018)
Plot Summary:
A retired hitman must reawaken all his deadly skills and fight a one-man war against his former employer.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
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Sexual Intrigue (2008)
Plot Summary:
A mystery start when all the psychologist's patient are murdered, exactly after each one of them have a session. Who is the killer?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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Revenge (2015)
Plot Summary:
Rebekka travels back to a hotel by the Norwegian fjords seeking revenge on the man who ruined her sister's life. Under false identity, she seeks out her deceased sister's violator and embeds herself into his idyllic family to destroy his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing