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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 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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Deadly Breed (1989)
Plot Summary:
The flames of racism burn hot as a murderous band of skinheads wreak havoc on the Los Angeles landscape and only one man can put an end to their explosive evil. Stars Blake Bahner, William Smith, Addison Randall.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
The Snake (2006)
Plot Summary:
A ruthless gang led by private detective Joseph Plender is extorting rich people and famous fashion photographer Vincent Mandel seems the next victim. He is married to Hélène, daughter of one of the richest people in Europe, but not quite happily. In fact the marriage is on the brink of a divorce and a judge is deciding who will take the two children. Can Hélène take them to Germany or will they stay with Vincent? Vincent has a lot on his mind and he improvises when model Sofia Kippiani comes to his studio, but his makeup crew doesn't show up. Before he knows it, he is accused of a rape. Things go worse and worse for Vincent, he sees his entire life slipping away and, most importantly, he might lose his children. But why does his former schoolmate Joseph Plender seek contact with Vincent and even solve a nasty problem for him? Does Plender want something more than money?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, detective
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Back of Beyond (1995)
Plot Summary:
A garage mechanic out in the middle of the outback gets involved with the girl friend of a jewel smuggler who is on the run.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Slipping Into Darkness (1988)
Plot Summary:
Three spoiled college girls are held responsible for a handicapped boys death.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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The Collector (2002)
Plot Summary:
Une policière, Maud Graham, suit un tueur en série qui agresse des femmes. En même temps, elle héberge un jeune prostitué et un fugueur de 12 ans. L'action se déroule dans la ville et capitale de la province du même nom, Québec.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, neo noir
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Deathly Compulsion (1999)
Plot Summary:
A present-day thriller about a man with a needle in his brain. This needle poisons his mind and tortures him with morbid thoughts and an urge to kill. When he finally commits a murder there is a witness, who is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Fall (1999)
Plot Summary:
In Budapest, two Americans live together. Adam, a former Manhattan prosecutor at work on his first novel, and Lisa, a cool hard-working financier who idolizes her boss (former Communist turned deal maker, Kovacs) as she tires of Adam's lifestyle. Cut to the subway, where two tough guys are pursuing Marta, a blond waif. She manages to surprise one of them in a hallway, dispatching him with a straight razor, and she barges into Adam's apartment to elude the other. She tells Adam why she is running, a story that implicates Kovacs, and she seeks Adam's help and affection. He takes her side, and slowly Lisa, Adam, Kovacs, Marta, and her pursuer draw toward a showdown.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, Hungary, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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The Candidate (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jonas Bechmann, a defense attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But nothing is what it appears to be, and the blackmail links back to his father's death under mysterious circumstances a year and a half earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Exit Speed (2008)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas. Far out in the wilds they collide with a meth-addicted biker.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, exciting, realistic
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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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The Contract (1999)
Plot Summary:
Anna has a bad week. Her boss is a pain to her, as is the grocery store clerk. Her friend was bad to her, her husband couldn't take his eyes off a waitress, and her babysitter annoyed her. One night at the local pub, she tells a man about her problems and he says he can solve them if she just signs a paper. The next day, her boss has been brutally murdered. Soon, Anna realizes everybody she knows is in danger, including her family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, independent film, scary, realistic
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Brotherhood of Tears (2013)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel Chevalier, 45 years old, is an ex-policeman. Unemployed, lonely and depressed,he lives like a ghost and hardly takes care of his only teenage child Juliette. One day, by pure chance, he finds a suspicious but extremely well paid job: his daily mission consists of delivering a briefcase exactly where he is told. The only rule being to never open it. These deliveries will bring him to meet weird people in strange places. Gradually, his cop instinct resurfaces.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious, entertaining
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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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House Under Siege (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two young boys and a girl commit a diamond robbery on Halloween. During escape the girl is fatally shot. One of the boys knows a doctor (Jeremy London) who has a private clinic in his house. They decide to go to his house instead of the hospital where they will expect the police. They enter the house quietly with no drama. But when the doctor tells them she needs an ambulance to the hospital or else she will die, and his co-worker picks up the phone ready to call, the boys bring their guns out. The doctor along with his family are taken hostages, and the boys threaten him to save the girl if they all want to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, serious, realistic
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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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Intimate Stranger (1991)
Plot Summary:
A policeman (James Russo) guards a barroom singer (Deborah Harry) whose phone-sex sideline has put a killer (Tim Thomerson) on her trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Freeway (1988)
Plot Summary:
A deeply-disturbed priest goes on a murderous night-time rampage across America's highways.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Sicarivs: The Night and the Silence (2015)
Plot Summary:
A hit man receives the assignment to kill a woman. But what seems as another job complicates when he is about to execute her, but does not. He will have to go after those who gave him the contract, for, in his profession, those who do not comply with their duty end up dead. But the question remains, why did he not kill the woman?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, exciting, captivating, suspense
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Fatal Call (2012)
Plot Summary:
Leaving his small-town roots to start a new life, Mitch meets the beautiful and seductive Amy at a happy hour and begins a tantalizing romance. Before long, Mitch learns that nothing is as it appears and, unable to trust anyone, finds himself on a nightmarish roller coaster ride, accused of murder and running from the law and a mysterious stranger out to kill him. Surviving by quick thinking and his wits, Mitch must confront both his past and present and find a solution before time runs out!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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The Heavy (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister, the other a henchman for a successful, yet shady businessman. Presented with an opportunity to take revenge against his brother, our anti-hero must come to terms with the truth in a world where you can trust no one and loyalty is rare.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, perverse, non-linear
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Taped (2012)
Plot Summary:
Johan and Saar make a final attempt to save their marriage by going on vacation to Buenos Aires. In keeping a promise to their daughter they will make a video of their activities there. When they accidentally witness (and videotape) a brutal murder they will have to run to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, exciting, serious, fast
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Held for Ransom (2000)
Plot Summary:
Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, scary, tense
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The Fighter (1983)
Plot Summary:
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, poliziottesco, suspense
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Under Suspicion (1981)
Plot Summary:
A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, neo noir, psychological thriller, serious, gloomy, twist ending, anthology, crime drama
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The Loner (1987)
Plot Summary:
A cop is looking for the killer of his friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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Full Disclosure (2001)
Plot Summary:
A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic
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Who's Got the Black Box? (1967)
Plot Summary:
The widow of a murdered undercover NATO officer in Greece is the prime suspect in his killing. She finds herself embroiled in a bigger conspiracy about the sabotage of U.S. radar installations while trying to prove her innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
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American Roulette (1988)
Plot Summary:
Carlos Quintas, the democratically-elected president of an unnamed South American country, has been deposed by a military coup. He is in London, the head of a government in exile, rallying international support. He is also a poet of talent and reputation, in love with Kate, his assistant, who has a secret of her own and keeps Carlos at a distance. The generals have a team of professionals in London bent on kidnap and assassination. Hovering around Carlos are two Russians, who may be KGB, an American book publisher, who may be CIA, an elusive Brit, probably from her majesty's secret service, and his own few supporters. Is Carlos doomed? Whom can he trust?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film