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Plot Summary:
A CEO for a television channel finds his life torn apart after he wakes up from coma.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
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Last Night of Amore (2023)
Plot Summary:
On the night before his retirement, police lieutenant Franco Amore is called to investigate the death of a long-time partner of his in a diamond heist in which he was involved.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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The Spearhead Effect (2017)
Plot Summary:
After exposing police corruption, a journalist is drawn into an underground world of violent vigilantism.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Stranger Within (1990)
Plot Summary:
A troubled young man mysteriously appears in a rural Minnesota town from which he claims he was abducted 16 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, neo noir, crying
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Benzersiz (2017)
Plot Summary:
A pharmacist (Cemal Hunal) who lives in an Anatolian city with his mother and daughter had a terrible case in his pharmacy shop while he was on duty with his assistants. He both mentally and physically goes through a trauma. He stays in a coma for months and when he wakes up, things will never be the same again.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min
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The Hollywood Beach Murders (1992)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - Two cops are sent cross-country by train (on board the titular Hollywood Beach) to return a suspect in a murder case that's been closed. But a brutal murder that has all the earmarks of the one just solved, along with the presence of a crime boss on board the train, plants a seed of doubt in the cops' minds as to whether the original murderer is still on the loose. Stars Frank Gorshin and Rebecca Holden. Directed by Eric Straton. - Frank Gorshin, Rebecca Holden, David Regal.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Motel Blue (1997)
Plot Summary:
Kyle Rivers has joined the Dpt of Defense as an investigator. Her first assignment is to do a background check on Lana Hawking, scientist for a top secret clearance.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Body to Body (2003)
Plot Summary:
Laura Bartelli is a stripper in a French bar. She retires after a moody landscape architect named Marco Tisserand asks her to abandon her life and share his. However, after her red Volkswagen runs off the road en route to the rendezvous, she ends up scarred and comatose in a hospital. Marco stays at her bedside.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: bleak
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Private Duty Nurses (1971)
Plot Summary:
A trio of beautiful private-duty nurses that practice more than the medical arts must confront underground drug traffickers, racism and murder in their local hospital.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Nada Gang (1974)
Plot Summary:
Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: erotic, political, exciting, tense, rough, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller
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Kill the Referee (1984)
Plot Summary:
Michel,a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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The Killer Next Door (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ronnie Schwann is a 20-something with a comfortable life in a guesthouse behind his mother's home. The two share cigarettes, drugs and too much TV. During the day he works at a halfway home for the mentally ill where he develops an attraction for one of the patients, Sarah. When Sarah wanders through the neighborhood one day, lost and scared, Ronnie Ronnie brings her into his bedroom and plans to seduce her. Things go horribly wrong and Ronnie finds himself forced to cover up his plan. This edgy indie thriller explores Ronnie's 24-hour experience of life, love, death and the strong probability of a very long prison term.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Subway (1985)
Plot Summary:
Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals. Despite being pursued by the henchmen, Fred finds the time to flirt with Héléna, blow a safe, rob a train, evade the hapless Metro police, and start a rock band.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, surreal, cult classic, stylized, neo noir, action thriller, mesmerizing, surprise ending, humorous, futuristic
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The Face of Fear (1990)
Plot Summary:
Graham Harris was once one of the world's foremost mountain climbers, until a fall five years earlier left him with a lame leg, a fear of heights...and a frightening psychic ability in which he can see murders as they are happening.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Disquiet (2023)
Plot Summary:
After a near-fatal car accident, Sam wakes to discover he is trapped in an abandoned hospital by mysterious and sinister forces that have no intention of letting him leave….
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Uppdraget (1977)
Plot Summary:
Common political thriller. Swedish representative is sent to an imaginary country in South America where a revolution is erupting. His assignment: to organize and mediate a conference between the government and the revolutionaries. Reading it doesn't seem bad, but watching... things just don't work, it is boring most time. Non-charismatic Thomas Hellberg plays an unsympathetic role, a "perfect" match for the hero. And the good supporting cast can't help. A Swedish production, oddly shot in Portugal, aiming the international market.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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A Deadly Affair (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mary (Austin Highsmith) and Charlie's (Alan Powell) marriage had become a little rocky, he forgot their anniversary whilst she almost slept with their friend Trevor (Luke Edwards) whose partner, Susan (Valerie Azlynn), is always working as she is a lawyer. But Mary is becoming suspicious of Charlie when he says he is working late on a property he is renovating and decides to show up there unannounced only to find him dead. With Charlie's sister, Crystal (Lorna Street Dopson), suspecting that Mary might have done it and with police investigating she turns to Susan for legal help.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Badge Of Fear (1997)
Plot Summary:
A policewoman gets involved with the actor she was supposed to protect.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Wicked Temptations (2002)
Plot Summary:
With a name like Sam Sharp, people expect a detective -- not a gorgeous woman. For the most part, Sam's cases are pretty tame, so when she receives a request to track down the sexy young wife of a magazine publisher, it seems easy enough. But when her investigation turns up a corpse at the bottom of the pool, it becomes clear that not everyone is telling the truth -- and that she must use more than just her investigative skills to uncover the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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The Perfect Bride (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young woman begins to suspect that her brother's young fiancée, an attractive Englishwoman, is actually a serial killer who kills men on the eve of their weddings.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Paul Sanchez Is Back! (2018)
Plot Summary:
The reappearance of notorious criminal Paul Sanchez becomes an obsession for a young police officer who will do anything to catch him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Money Is Money (2017)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three thieves attempting to rob a house are altered by what they see inside.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Ablations (2014)
Plot Summary:
Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit. He wakes up in the middle of a field without any memory at all of how he got there. Even stranger is the ugly scar on his back. But what really drives him out of his mind is that the stitches from the operation are still fresh. Has he become the victim of on organ theft? Is he missing a kidney? Pastor starts to put everything in Question; being a father, a husband, a salesman... The only thing he wants is to find out what has happened to him and nothing and nobody will stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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All That Divides Us (2017)
Plot Summary:
A middle-class house in the middle of nowhere. A council estate in Sète. A mother and daughter. Two childhood friends. A vanishing. Blackmail. A clash between two worlds.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (1992)
Plot Summary:
A man (Rick Worthington) assaults the Alta Vista Hospital taking four women, a man and two babies as hostages. He wants to kill Dr. Garrick, who, according to Worthington, ruined his life sterilizing his wife. He threatens to detonate a bomb. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Three Men to Destroy (1980)
Plot Summary:
A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Visions (2023)
Plot Summary:
An experienced airline pilot, Estelle leads a perfect life between long-haul flights with her loving, protective husband Guillaume. One day, by chance, in an airport corridor, she crosses paths with Ana, a photographer with whom she had a passionate affair twenty years earlier. Little does Estelle know that this reunion will send her into a nightmarish spiral, turning her life upside down and irrational.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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Paris Under Watch (2012)
Plot Summary:
An anonymous hacker has hacked all of Paris' cameras and observes the city unbeknownst to its inhabitants. Petty crimes and moments of stolen intimacy, he sees everything. Until the day that an explosion lays wasted to the Gare d'Austerlitz. The police starts tracking down an Al Queda satellite group. The hacker succeeds in finding images of the explosion and discovers that it was a young couple who planted the bomb. Using the city's cameras, he decides to hunt down the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Picture Claire (2001)
Plot Summary:
After her Montreal apartment burns down and her possessions are reduced to ash, Claire Beaucage heads to her boyfriend's place in Toronto, only to find that he's missing. Then the police mistake her for Lily Warden, a sinister woman who killed a local gangster and happens to live in the same building as Claire's boyfriend. The police pursue a bewildered Claire while a gang of criminals chases after Lily.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, noir, independent film
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Six-Pack (2000)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is on the loose in Paris and he seems to be an american citizen working in the US embassy and being in the middle of a french-american economical affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, perverse, scary, mind bending, bleak, neo noir, realistic
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Inexorable (2021)
Plot Summary:
Desperately seeking inspiration for the follow-up novel to his bestseller "Inexorable", Marcel Bellmer moves in his wife's old family mansion with his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, biting