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Plot Summary:
The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswoman about Len's son not being able to pay his sweets triggers off his persecution complex. As revenge for the believed insult, the whole family starts stalking the shop owner and her husband... until this escalates and the old man gets badly injured. Len is arrested, but gets off, free on bail. His clever attorney delays the court session for more than a year - while Rowan keeps threatening the witnesses. But then, the people feel they've had enough of this and decide to take the law in their own hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 819
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spooky
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Der Pirat (1998)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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The Sitting Duck (2022)
Plot Summary:
La syndicaliste is the true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world, she fought government ministers and industry leaders, tooth and nail to bring the scandal to light and to defend more than 50,000 jobs.. Her life was turned upside down when she was violently assaulted in her own home... The investigation is carried out under pressure: the subject is sensitive. Suddenly, new elements create doubt in the minds of the investigators. At first a victim, Maureen becomes a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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The Devil Has a Name (2019)
Plot Summary:
An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
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The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit (2017)
Plot Summary:
A woman mysteriously wakes up in a hotel handcuffed to a firefighter to find messages they left themselves the night before revealing that their lives are in danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Terror in the Shadows (1995)
Plot Summary:
Five years ago, Christine went after the baby she gave up for adoption, claiming he'd been stolen, and wound up killing Alex Williams' wife and the baby the Williams' had adopted. Now, Alex has remarried to a woman with a young son and when Christine escapes from a mental institution, she heads straight for Alex, looking for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story (1999)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based story about a Bible-quoting woman who in 1990 murdered a camp counselor, whom she learned molested her 7 year old son.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Don't Touch My Daughter (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is kidnapped and molested by a classmate's father. The man she identifies is arrested and jailed, but is later released on bail. He calls the girl's mother and threatens to kidnap her daughter again, and this time kill her and make sure her body will never be found. She goes to the authorities for help, but there's nothing they can do until he actually tries something. Afraid for her daughter's life, the mother decides to take matters into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Deadly Relations (1993)
Plot Summary:
Leonard Fagot has four daughters and loves them so much, that he usurps his control over them. He lets them know how he feels about the men they date. And if he disapproves of them, he probably will have them killed to get them out of his daughters' life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Appointment for a Killing (1993)
Plot Summary:
Joyce thought she had made the dream marriage. Her husband, Stan, is a successful, handsome dentist, and Joyce, who grew up in poverty, cannot believe her good fortune. But her charismatic husband has a dark side that is about to engulf and destroy Joyce's entire world.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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My Son Johnny (1991)
Plot Summary:
Anthony Cortino lives with his mother in a quiet suburb. His father is dead, and his violent criminal brother is a long way off, in the city, and if Anthony has his way, that's where he will stay. However, Johnny runs into trouble with the police in the city, and when he asks to come home, his mother agrees, despite Anthony's objections. A reign of terror begins for Anthony then, for as long as Johnny is around, Anthony is never safe, and never has been.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Mother Knows Best (1997)
Plot Summary:
A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice. So she goes out and hires a killer to kill her son-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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The Disappearance of Cari Farver (2022)
Plot Summary:
Dave Kroupa is shocked when his new girlfriend, Cari Farver, starts sending him demanding texts. When Dave ends the relationship, he finds himself on the receiving end of an onslaught of twisted messages from Cari, who has abruptly disappeared. Dave’s ex-girlfriend, Liz, also begins receiving harassing texts from Cari, resulting in a dangerous situation for them both. Meanwhile, Cari’s mother Nancy continually searches for her, keeping the pressure on the police who eventually uncover a shocking discovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Gone in the Night (1996)
Plot Summary:
A couple is unjustly accused of the murder of their daughter. Based on a true story and book of the same title.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min
Plot tags: dark
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Murder of Innocence (1993)
Plot Summary:
In this shocking account based on a true story, newlywed Laurie Wade finds her marriage, and eventually the rest of her life, shattered by her deep-rooted psychotic behavior. The young woman soon begins a terrifying descent into insanity and brings danger to all those around her as she goes from brief "short-circuits" to overtly murderous behavior.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, gloomy
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A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
Plot Summary:
The gory ax-murder of one mousy, suburban Texas housewife by another is nearly as shocking as the excuse offered by the bespectacled defendant's attorney: self-defense. Could it be so?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spooky, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story (1996)
Plot Summary:
A female is harassed and takes the case to court.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
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Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret (2013)
Plot Summary:
True story based on Jodi Arias, a seductive 28-year-old aspiring photographer found guilty of killing her former lover, Travis Alexander, who was found nude in his home shower with a slit throat, 27 additional stab wounds and a bullet to the head. While investigating the violent killing, Mesa, Arizona police retrieved a digital camera from Alexander’s washing machine, revealing shocking images authorities claim Arias took during their sexual escapades, as well as during and after his murder. While Jodi pled not guilty and contends she killed Alexander in self-defense, police concluded that when he broke off their relationship, she stalked her ex-boyfriend and seduced him one final time before murdering him in cold blood. Her subsequent trial has been grand theater, dominating the cable news networks as she testified in her own defense and offered explicit insight into the sex, lies and obsession that led up to Alexander’s murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, disturbing, psychological, sexy, crime thriller
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Murder or Memory: A Moment of Truth Movie (1994)
Plot Summary:
A mother fights to prove her 14-year-old son is innocent of a murder he confessed to under hypnosis.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: factual
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Plot Summary:
True life drama about a working mum (Henner) whose life is put back in jeopardy when the man who was convicted of stalking her (Savant) and killing her cousin comes up for parole.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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Before He Wakes (1998)
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Initially cleared of "accidentally" killing her husband, an idyllic wife and mother comes under suspicion when police learn that her first husband also perished under similar circumstances. As the investigation unfolds, it becomes clear that she'll stop at nothing to protect her secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Night of the Hunter (1991)
Plot Summary:
A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981)
Plot Summary:
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Plot Summary:
Three women join forces to take back their lives after they become the target of a cyberbully who harasses them and tracks their every move, so they decide to seek help from a detective.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Fields (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of a young boy and his family who are terrorized by an unseen presence.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, suspense, twisted, serious, realistic
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Playground (2016)
Plot Summary:
It's the end of the school year and today is the last chance for 12-year-old Gabrysia to tell her classmate that she has fallen in love with him. She sets up a secret meeting and blackmails the boy to show up. But what was supposed to be an intimate talk spins out of control and leads to an unexpected ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, sincere, controversial, action thriller
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The Experiment (2010)
Plot Summary:
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, tense, disturbing, reflective, thought provoking, stylized, visually appealing, clever, brutal
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Not Without My Daughter (1991)
Plot Summary:
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: factual, tense, thought provoking, touching, bleak, realistic, sad, retro, suspense, poignant
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Deadly Intentions (1985)
Plot Summary:
Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her physically and mentally. She divorces him and take their child away. He then decides to kill her but when his plot is discovered he is charged with attempted murder and brought to trial.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: spooky
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The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999)
Plot Summary:
An account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and then fled the country.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, factual
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Rampage (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rampage delves into the subject of legal insanity, so often the default defense in modern-time gruesome crime trials. Alex McArthur plays an outwardly normal guy who goes on incredible killing and mutilating sprees until (and even after, when he escapes for a short time) he's captured. When he comes to trial, the liberal DA (Michael Biehn) is torn between his own leftist leanings and the reality of the heinous crimes for which the accused is being tried. He must argue for the death penalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, cult classic, action thriller, independent film, psychological, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful