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Plot Summary:
A young man returns to Kashmir after his father's disappearance to confront his uncle - the man he suspects to have a role in his father's fate.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, suspense, inspirational, offbeat, political, thinking, patriotic
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Badlapur (2015)
Plot Summary:
After his wife and son are killed, a young man finds out the man behind the murder and fights against him, along committing some big mistakes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, realistic, rough, neo noir, offbeat, cult classic, mind blowing, suspenseful, action thriller
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Hamlet (2009)
Plot Summary:
David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed by the critics as thrilling, fast-moving and, in parts, very funny.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, emotional, stylized, crying, sincere, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, period drama
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A Wednesday (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mumbai, the financial capital of India, the city that never sleeps, the city of dreams, fast paced and ever changing, home to Bollywood! A City of beauty but also a city that got scarred! A city whose foundation is slowly crumbling beneath its façade of invincibility! 'A Wednesday!' tells the story of certain events that unfold between 2.P.M and 6 P.M on a particular Wednesday in this city.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, inspirational, patriotic, tense, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, suspense thriller, surprise ending, suspense
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Maqbool (2003)
Plot Summary:
Macbeth meets the Godfather in present-day Bombay. The Scottish tragedy set in the contemporary underworld of India's commercial capital; two corrupt, fortune telling policemen take the roles of the weird sisters, and "Duncan" is Abbaji, the head of a crime family.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic, tense, offbeat, suspense, dark, art film, suspense thriller
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Lamhaa (2010)
Plot Summary:
Kashmir... Once known as a paradise on earth, it is now a playground for blood thirsty militants. A company is generating millions of unaccountable dollars that benefit all powers - from politicians and leaders to bureaucrats in the Indian and Pakistani intelligence. From high ranking army and police officers to the militants and their supporters, everyone gets a piece of the pie.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, patriotic
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Madras Cafe (2013)
Plot Summary:
An Indian Intelligence agent journeys into a war torn coastal island, to break a resolute rebel group. He deftly maneuvers his resources to make significant breakthroughs, amidst a scenario where the enemy has no face and the only counsel is 'Don't get caught.' At various junctions, he meets a charismatic and passionate journalist who is following her will to reflect the truth behind the civil war. The story unfolds as their quest for the truth reveals a deeper conspiracy, by a faceless enemy, united to seize a common nemesis - India.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, patriotic, political, independent film, action thriller, banned
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Modern Era (2005)
Plot Summary:
The husband of a woman who commits suicide after a run-in with the adult entertainment industry seeks revenge on those who drove her to her death. In doing so, he delves into the world of international human trafficking, eventually traveling across the world to seek out the ringleaders of this horrifying enterprise.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, touching, exciting, captivating
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Truth (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young man named Satya comes to Mumbai from South India in search of a job. Jailed for something he did not do, the once-honest young man meets an underworld boss, Bhiku Mhatre in jail and joins his gang.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, dark, experimental, black comedy, suspense thriller, rough, clever, bleak, realistic
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Dushman (1998)
Plot Summary:
According to police records, a daredevil, Gokul Pandit is on the loose. He would attempts to rape and kill young and beautiful girls who are alone.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, dark, suspense thriller
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Anjaam (1994)
Plot Summary:
Vijay Agnihotri is a wealthy, spoilt man who lives with his mother in the city of Mumbai. His mother has allowed him everything and more than that he wants. One day on a mishap Vijay manages to reach up with an air-hostess named Shivani Chopra, he immediately falls head over heels in love with Shivani. He tells his mother about his love, and his mother agrees to get him married, on there way to Shivani's house they get a nasty shock for Shivani had get married to Ashok Chopra, an air-line pilot. Vijay is unable to accept this proposal and continues to persuade Shivani to marry him. He even destroys Shivani's family and has her sent to jail. When Shivani is released from jail she plans to take revenge from Vijay and to make him account for all his sins.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, entertaining, dark, surprise ending, gloomy
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Agneepath (2012)
Plot Summary:
In a small Indian village Mandwa, Vijay Dinanath Chauhan is taught about the path of fire (Agneepath) by his principled father. His life is shattered when the evil drug lord Kancha Cheena hangs his father. Vijay leaves for Mumbai with his pregnant mother, and takes an oath that he will return back to Mandwa and take revenge against Cheena. In Mumbai, Vijay is taken under the wings of the drug lord Rauf Lala. Fifteen years later, his hatred for Kancha takes him back to Mandwa.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, entertaining, cult classic, fast, powerful, masala, realistic
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Wanted (2009)
Plot Summary:
Radhe is a hardcore gangster. A sharpshooter with a sharp brain, he works for Gani Bhai, the dreaded Mafioso, but on his own terms. Totally fearless, Radhe single handedly eliminates Gani Bhai's enemies one by one; making more enemies than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: stylized, entertaining, exciting, rough, suspense, suspenseful, action thriller, powerful, masala, humorous
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Mission Kashmir (2000)
Plot Summary:
A police officer adopts the son and sole survivor of a family he has massacred while pursuing a terrorist. After some time the foster son finds out what the stepfather did.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, patriotic, political
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Johnny Gaddaar (2007)
Plot Summary:
Vikram decides to elope with his girlfriend Mini for a better life. For this purpose he decides to steal the money collected by his business partners for a drug deal. Everything goes horribly wrong when the partner carrying the money, Shiva, is accidentally killed.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic, psychological thriller, light, offbeat, epic
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Shool (1999)
Plot Summary:
Police Inspector Samar Pratap Singh is transferred to Motihari, in the Indian state of Bihar, along with his wife, Manjari and a daughter. He is honest and diligent and these attributes sets him up against his superior - the District Superintendent of Police, as well as his subordinates and fellow officers.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: dark, exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, tragic ending
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Holiday (2014)
Plot Summary:
A soldier on vacation finds himself hunting down a terrorist. A military officer attempts to hunt down a terrorist, destroy a terrorist gang and deactivate the sleeper cells under its command.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, tense, patriotic, action thriller, romantic, fast, suspense thriller
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Baby (2015)
Plot Summary:
An elite counter-intelligence unit learns of a plot, masterminded by a maniacal madman. With the clock ticking, it's up to them to track the terrorists' international tentacles and prevent them from striking at the heart of India.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, patriotic, tense, captivating, suspense, offbeat, action thriller, rough, realistic
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Family: Ties of Blood (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story is on the concept of karma and bad deeds. It follows Viren Sahai (Amitabh Bachchan), underworld don who rules over India. His son Abhir (Sushant Singh) is spoilt and believes he can do anything due to his father's power. When Viren's enemy Khan (Kader Khan) attacks Abhir, Viren demands revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious
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Gangs of Wasseypur (2012)
Plot Summary:
Shahid Khan is exiled after impersonating the legendary Sultana Daku in order to rob British trains. Now outcast, Shahid becomes a worker at Ramadhir Singh's colliery, only to spur a revenge battle that passes on to generations. At the turn of the decade, Shahid's son, the philandering Sardar Khan vows to get his father's honor back, becoming the most feared man of Wasseypur.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, France
Duration: 321 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, inspirational, touching, offbeat, intellectual
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The Youth of the Land (2004)
Plot Summary:
Michael , Arjun and Lallan are three young men in Kolkata , with different ideals and objectives . Michael is an idealistic youth leader who dreams of a better India being created by the youth power . Arjun is a self-centered , opportunistic , easygoing fellow whose objective is to immigrate to a developed country and make big money . Lallan is a goon who works for Prosenjit Chatterjee, an immoral politician . The lives of these three different people become intertwined following a murder attempt and an accident in broad daylight on the Hooghly bridge.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, inspirational, political, cult classic, epic
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Bombay Velvet (2015)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary man, who goes against all odds to forge his own destiny and become a star in the glittering sky of 'Bombay,' thriving on jazz and violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, touching, stylized, serious, neo noir, suspense, noir
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980)
Plot Summary:
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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Hamlet (2000)
Plot Summary:
Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: meditative, intense, psychological, cynical, serious, atmospheric, clever, fairy tale, spiritual, sweet
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Company (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mallik is a henchman of Aslam Bhai, a Mumbai underworld kingpin. He inducts local hothead Chandu into the gang, and the two of them soon form a formidable faction within the gang, eventually displacing Aslam. As the empire grows, however, the two of them start drifting apart.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, realistic, offbeat, entertaining, experimental, captivating, cult film
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Hamlet (1996)
Plot Summary:
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 242 min
Plot tags: stylized, costume drama, atmospheric, captivating, serious, period piece, epic, fairy tale, sad, visually appealing
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Special 26 (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1980s in India, a group of con artists rob well-known businessmen and politicians by posing as officers of the Central Bureau of Intelligence or income tax officials. The gang stages fake raids during which they steal great amounts of money from their targets.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, twist ending, exciting, tense, humorous, disturbing, entertaining
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Black Friday (2004)
Plot Summary:
Under torture, Indian gangster Tiger Memon confesses to his involvement in a plot to set off explosives throughout Bombay. The police choose not to believe him, however, and bombs tear through the city that Friday, wreaking havoc and polarizing the citizens of Bombay. Through a series of interviews, DCP Rakesh Maria comes closer to discovering who the leader of the conspiracy is, but it soon becomes clear that a foreign power must be involved.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, disturbing, offbeat, tense, cult classic, motivational, inspirational, entertaining, dark
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Fanaa (2006)
Plot Summary:
Zooni Ali Beg (Kajol) is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dance troupe to Delhi to perform in a ceremony for independence day. On her journey, she meets Rehan Khan (Aamir Khan), a casanova and tour guide who flirts with her. Although her friends warn Zooni about him, she cannot resist falling in love with him and he takes her on a private tour of New Delhi. But there is more to Rehan than meets the eye and Zooni will have to make a heartbreaking decision.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: touching, uplifting, serious, feel good, emotional, realistic, romantic, inspirational, entertaining, sad
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Martyr (1999)
Plot Summary:
Ajay Rathore is a no-nonsense police officer from Mumbai Crime Branch. Long time ago his elder brother was killed by terrorists which caused him to quit his medical studies and join Indian Police Service. He is a great admirer of Pakistan-based ghazal singer Gulfam Hassan. During one of Hassan's concerts, they meet for the first time and become great friends. Meanwhile, Ajay's investigation into the Pakistan-supported cross-border terrorism takes him to Rajasthan and reveals an unsettling truth about someone close to his heart.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: inspirational, patriotic, political, entertaining, action thriller, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, cult film
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The Uniform (2004)
Plot Summary:
Just as he is preparing for his daughter's wedding, a veteran policeman is assigned to a crack team transporting a Pakistani secret agent to trial.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, suspenseful, masala, serious, realistic, surprise ending, freeze frame