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Plot Summary:
Cho-In can control other people's minds when they are within his field of sight. Except one man.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, gloomy, psychotronic
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Maattrraan (2012)
Plot Summary:
Akilan and Vimalan are the conjoined twins of genetic scientist Ramachandran, whose company makes Energion, a dietary supplement that promises to make geniuses out of children. When Russian journalist Volga tells them that there is something fishy about Energion and is mysteriously found dead, their lives are turned topsy-turvy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting
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Lucid Dream (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid dreaming techniques.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing, tricky, twist ending, detective
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The Collectors (2003)
Plot Summary:
Logan wanted to follow in his father's footsteps as a kickboxing champion. But his dreams are literally shattered when an automobilie accident leaves him without the use of his legs. His family and former friends watch helplessly as he withdraws from the world and shuts himself off from life for two years. The only person who can talk to him is his grandfather, a pioneering mathematician and computer game programmer. Logan's grandfather designs a game specifically for him, called "The Collectors," which gives him a glimpse at the adventure and athleticism he longs for. But Logan soon encounters danger and intrigue as the barriers between his real and virtual lives seem to break down.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, serious, suspenseful, independent film, mind bending
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Howling (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man is found burned to death inside of a car. Detective Sang-Gil (Song Kang-Ho) and his co-workers investigate the scene. Sang-Gil doesn't want to take the case, because it looks like a simple suicide case and won't help him get the promotion that he desperately wants. Furthermore, rookie female detective Eun-Young (Lee Na-Young) is selected as his partner for the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, dark, action thriller, crime thriller, twisted, serious
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A Company Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
A contract killing organization is managed like a normal company. Hyung-do who regards killing as nothing more than repetitious routine is working for this company. A man loyal to his company and accepted as the firm’s best killer, Hyung-do one day starts feeling doubts about his job and decides to quit his job for a woman he is in love with. Instantly, he is under the threat of being hunted down by his former colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, brutal, suspense, crime drama, realistic
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Guardian (2001)
Plot Summary:
With a spate of violence that rocks the inner city, L.A.P.D. and ex-Marine John Kross investigates its cause: a new drug called Chaos. With help from his partner Carpenter, they delve into the mystery, only to discover a link between the drug and a terrifying supernatural power unleashed during the gulf war, witnessed by Kross twelve years ago. Now, Kross must race against time to stop the destruction, battle his own demons and come to grips with his destiny as he discovers that his reality has been mapped by a power much greater than himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense
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Cold Steel (1987)
Plot Summary:
Detective Johnny Modine gets his Christmas celebration spoiled with news of his father's death, which seems the work of psychopathic junkies.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film, fast
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Fists of Legend (2013)
Plot Summary:
On a television show billed as “the greatest fight show on Earth,” eager amateurs with lots to prove boldly step into the ring and expect to leave bloody but victorious. The ratings hungry producers seek out “legendary” but largely forgotten streetfighters and mine their desperation for recaptured glory and redemption into ratings gold.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: South Korea
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, rough
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Assassins' Code (2011)
Plot Summary:
A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough, realistic
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Scavengers (2013)
Plot Summary:
A team of space scavengers discovers superior alien technology that threatens the balance of the known universe. Hotly pursued by a rival crew of intergalactic mercenaries, the Revelator crew must fight through the deepest reaches of space to locate and protect the life-altering device.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting, serious, futuristic
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Viral Assassins (1997)
Plot Summary:
To some, it’s murder. To them, it’s just work. The Troma Team is proud to present Robert Larkin’s intense sci-fi thriller Viral Assassins. In the not so distant future, a terminal disease will make cancer look like the common cold. The government’s solution to this epidemic is to make carrying the disease a capital crime, punishable by death through a team of highly trained assassins. This not only lowers the risk of the disease spreading but also greatly lowers health costs for the average Joe. But what happens if the government becomes infected? The only hope for a vaccine is trapped within the diseased body and mind of a government lab technician. Unfortunately, the government hires their most dedicated and trigger-happy assassin to eliminate her. Will the assassin uphold the government’s heinous order, or will he jeopardize his own life, reputation and health insurance by eliminating her?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, mockbuster, exciting, bleak, political thriller
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Dark Island (2010)
Plot Summary:
After losing contact with its researchers on a remote island, a military corporation hires a group of scientists and soldiers to find out what went wrong. But when they arrive, the team quickly discovers that the weapons testing performed on the island has unleashed and powerful and deadly entity that will stop at nothing to destroy them all.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, scary, serious
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The Hit List (2011)
Plot Summary:
A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, captivating, disturbing, neo noir
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The Red Eagle (2010)
Plot Summary:
Year 2016, Bangkok is a rotten capital infested with chaos and criminals. Widespread corruption by politicians has dipped the moral compass to a new low, and the government's hasty plan to construct a nuclear power plant has spread fears among villagers and enivironmental activists. Amidst the mood of despair, a hero emerges. He goes after filthy politicians and vile criminals, handing out his own brand of justice when the law fails to fuction. No one knows his true identity. Every time he kills, he leaves a name card which says: The Red Eagle. But Red Eagle is a hunter who's also being hunted. An assassin, called Black Devil, has been sent by a crime lord to kill him. As his past returns to haunt him, the tortured hero is facing a conflict that will decide not just his own destiny, but the destiny of his entire nation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Nemesis 3: Time Lapse (1996)
Plot Summary:
Using footage left over from Nemesis 2 and a very thin story line sees Alex again fighting the cyborg mercenaries in 1998 East Africa. This time, Alex finds that she has 20 half sisters who are waiting for her to return to 2077. Central Command wants Alex captured alive and scanned to see if her DNA is a strong and more powerful strain than the normal. But Alex may be too tough for Farnsworth to capture.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, independent film
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The Call Up (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving at the test site, the group step into hi-tech gear and prepare for a revolutionary, next-level gaming experience that brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism. At first it’s a unique and exhilarating experience. But what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge technology quickly takes a turn for the sinister. Once the group are attacked by enemy combatants, they soon realize this is no game after all. Make a mistake here and you pay with your life. Now these masters of the shoot ‘em up will have to fight for survival within a game gone bad, but this time it’s for real.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic, mind bending, scenic
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Hologram Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
Five years after the mad terrorist Norman Galagher was sentenced to holographic stasis, he is given a parole hearing. But an equipment failure engineered by his cronies transforms the criminal into a living hologram with god-like powers. Now, stopping him is up to Kurt Decoda, the man who as a police rookie was responsible for arresting Galagher.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, disturbing, tech noir, independent film, scary, bleak
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Animal World (2018)
Plot Summary:
Drifting aimlessly through life, Kaisi (Li Yi Feng) has racked up debts of several million having borrowed money from his friends. Lured with the promise of writing it all off, Kaisi leaves his ailing mother and childhood sweetheart Qing (Zhou Dongyu) to board the ship Destiny and attend a gambling party controlled by the mysterious Anderson (Michael Douglas). All players join the game with stars. For each game they lose, their opponent captures a star. Everyone is holding daggers behind their backs plotting dirty means by which to overcome their opponents. The game quickly deteriorates into a slaughter and Kaisi must battle save his own skin….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, surprise ending, disturbing, surreal, underground film, aesthetic, twisted
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White Wall (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, everything has changed. Basic human rights have become the rarest of luxuries. No one knows when this started but everyone knows how. The VXII, the deadliest virus ever created, spread like wildfire and decimated the majority of the world's population. The non-infected survivors now cling to life in four quarantined cities behind a wall. Shawn Kors and his brother, Jude, survived the VXII only to grow up in a squalid internment camp for orphaned children. Under the care of the militia, they were pitted against other children in backwoods death matches. Shawn, Jude, and the few who escaped became notorious for their incredible fighting skills. They have since parted ways. Shawn now makes a comfortable living as a janitor at the local medic station. He spends his days dreaming of curing the VXII. When Shawn discovers the discarded body of a fellow internment camp friend, he is forced out of hiding and pulled into a rabbit hole of conspiracy and violence.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, independent film, exciting
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Attack Force (2006)
Plot Summary:
Marshall Lawson is the commander of an elite military unit. Marshall Lawson loses his strike-team in a cold-blooded and seemingly random attack, and he takes it upon himself to investigate the attack, with the help of his girlfriend Tia and his friend Dwayne.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting, captivating, detective, fast
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Phantom Force (2004)
Plot Summary:
A squad of soldiers must protect the human race from the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, serious, psychotronic
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Soo: Revenge for a Twisted Fate (2007)
Plot Summary:
Tae-soo tries to steal from a gang. The gang catches Tae-Soo's brother, Tae-Jin, instead. The incident causes the brothers to separate. Tae-Soo becomes a mob fixer and an assassin. Tae-Jin becomes a police detective. When a call brings the brothers together, they get ready for brotherly bonding, but Tae-Jin gets killed. Tae-Soo decides to get revenge on his brother's killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, crime drama, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Monster (2014)
Plot Summary:
Bok-Soon (Kim Go-eun-I) runs a street stall while taking care of her younger sister. Bok-Soon may not be the brightest girl but what she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in uncontrollable rage. She’s infamously known as the “psycho bitch” in her neighborhood. Bok-Soon’s relatively peaceful life with her sister is disrupted when they cross paths with a serial killer named Tae-Soo (Lee Min-ki). Tae-Soo kills Bok-Soon’s sister because she may have stumbled upon the truth of his murderous lifestyle. Bok-Soon’s rage consumes her completely, leading her to plot her revenge on Tae Soo.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, psychological, realistic, psychotronic
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Automatic (1995)
Plot Summary:
Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks. But one night, an Automatic named J269 discovers a Robgen executive trying to rape a female employee named Nora Rochester. While trying to stop the crime, he inadvertently kills the executive. At this point, J269 then calls Goddard Marx (his creator and a Robgen chairman) to inform him of the incident. Marx tells the android to stay there with Rochester until help arrives, but Marx is intent on sweeping the fiasco under the rug by sending mercenaries to eliminate both J269 and Rochester. Now the two are fugitives on the run from a para-military hit squad.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, psychotronic, independent film, bleak
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Assassin (1986)
Plot Summary:
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically built to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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City Under Siege (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sunny is a naïve circus performer who dreams of inheriting his father's knife-throwing skills. However, his hostile colleagues continue to bully him, relegating him to a lowly clown. On a tour to Malaysia, Cheung and other performers discover a cave occupied by the Japanese army during World War II. Instead of finding treasure, the performers - including Sunny - are sprayed with a mysterious chemical that turns them into superhuman mutants.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 984
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, crime drama, offbeat, humorous, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Death Squad (2014)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2047. Our planet is ruled by the repressive Confederate Central Government (CCG). Ryan is a Green War rebel agent sent on a mission by Sponge to collect evidence against the CCG for its heinous crimes. Ryan soon faces the sinister Colonel Asimov, Major Anderson and a group of mercenaries lead by Lobo. His mission quickly turns chaotic when he meets Tuage, a mutant survivor of the CCG rebellion who swears to help Ryan save what is left of their world … or does she?.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, futuristic, tense, apocalyptic, bleak
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Alien Raiders (2008)
Plot Summary:
It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, a grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But just before closing, a group of masked and armed to the teeth militants invades the store and take everyone hostage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, christmas horror, intense, captivating, futuristic, cult classic
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Biohazard: Patient Zero (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two young scientists are swept up in a government plot to suppress the truth about a biological disaster at a genetic research facility.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspense, psychological, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic
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Illang: The Wolf Brigade (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 2029, the elite police squad Illang combats a terrorist group opposing reunification of the two Koreas. But another enemy may be lurking nearby.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, philosophical, captivating, futuristic, psychotronic