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Plot Summary:
Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other people's tragedies from tabloid newspapers. Obsessed by the story about a young single mother whose husband was killed and the killer got away with it, she befriends the young widow who would rather forget the whole event and go on with her life. Gradually, however, persistent Maire convinces her that the man must be made to pay for what he did.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Hush (2012)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Absolution (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kiia and Lauri, speeding toward the hospital overnight. Kiia in pain, holding the wheel with one hand and another in his stomach - the birth has started ahead of schedule. Surprisingly, the vehicle collides with something. Kiia fright and brakes, the car swerves before coming to a stop. Lauri rises to the car to check the situation and says he did not see anything. Kiia give birth to a healthy child in the hospital and befriends Hannah with. Hanna's husband has been in the same region hit by a car and drove onto the driver fled from the scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Ireland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Video Man (2018)
Plot Summary:
A VHS collector with a drinking problem finds a valuable movie that could save his terrible economical situation. The film disappears. He suspects it is stolen and starts a hunt after a perpetrator.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 907
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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Night by the Seashore (1981)
Plot Summary:
Middle-aged municipal architect Mikko is frustrated with his job and his marriage, so for years he has directed his energy into renovating a turn-of-the-century wooden villa on the seaside. One beautiful summer evening Mikko and his wife Liisa invite old friends to a party in the villa: divorced intellectual Erik who gets along a little too well with Liisa; and noisy building contractor Hessu with his young and sexy new wife Pirre. Their increasingly drunken discussions are interrupted by a surprise visit from Mikko's and Liisa's daughter Jonna and her husband Pete. A conflict between the father and the daughter ensues in front of the guests.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Domingo Salvaje (1967)
Plot Summary:
Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Collector (1997)
Plot Summary:
Eevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Haven (1997)
Plot Summary:
Police detective Jacques Laniel's life becomes a nightmare the day drive-by shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin. His colleagues make matters worse by blaming him for the death, and after his wife leaves him, Laniel decides to quit the force and launch a private investigation into Colin's murder. Soon afterward, Laniel finds the bullet-riddled body of famed author and literature professor Zachary Osborne tied to his car hood. The professor's wife hires Laniel to solve the murder, but what the detective finds is ugly: Osborne was a part of a lucrative land-speculation deal that involved the sale of a crumbling old rectory that had been turned into a halfway house called the Haven of the Monsters. The name is apt, for all the residents are convicted killers who were given inordinately light sentences. When Lanier starts questioning the Haven's tenants and their crimes are revealed via flashback, it takes on the character of a David Lynch production.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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Ring of Deception (2017)
Plot Summary:
Single mom Julie Stevens' life is turned upside-down when international con man Martin moves to her neighborhood. As Julie begins to open up to Martin's charms, another woman - Sloane - is determined to kill Martin for having left her and robbed her blind. Will Julie survive Martin's affections and Sloane's revenge?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Priest of Evil (2010)
Plot Summary:
Detective Sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crimes Unit is an honest and conscientious cop;one of the city's very best;who loses his daughter in tragic circumstances. Despite the support he receives;Timo is unable to recover from his loss.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: twist ending, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, neo noir, detective, twisted
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The Hawk (1993)
Plot Summary:
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Kiss of Evil (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interesting turn when the girls family asks him to investigate the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective
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An Ethics Lesson (2013)
Plot Summary:
A bad guy, a cruel guy, a lame guy, a cowardly guy and the meanest woman gets involved in a beautiful university student's murder case.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, weird
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Midnighters (2017)
Plot Summary:
Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, mumblecore, cult classic, gothic
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Life for Sale (2011)
Plot Summary:
Life for Sale is the story of one unlucky man's descent into disaster, a dramatic, human-destiny thriller with contemporary social undertones.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, contemplative, tragic
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Late Bloomer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Late Bloomer is the story of Sumida-san, a severely handicapped man, and his downward spiral into hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, black and white
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Beyond the Law (1987)
Plot Summary:
On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own hands.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: crying
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Vares: Gambling Chip (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jussi Vares falls in love with a beautiful brunette - only to lose her in a horrible way. After dating Sole a few weeks, her body is found in a bird-watching tower. The investigations come to a standstill, until Vares promises to solve a mystery of messy denunciation letters. Before the letters reveal their secret, a lot of things happen. A gun-for-hire, Stahanov, gets an assignment. Sole's brother finds his wife in the arms of a wrong man and goes on a rampage, accompanied by a black cat. In the end the clues lead to a familiar person and more death in unavoidable.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful
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Pendulum (1969)
Plot Summary:
On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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The Perfect Wife (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Leah's brother dies in a car accident, she vows revenge on the doc who failed to save him.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, twisted, scary, realistic
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Garter Snake (2011)
Plot Summary:
In the heat of the night, a man from faraway plays the piano. In the local hillside prison, a bitter double-crossed convict stares at the city life over the roofs. A revenge is brewing in his mind; the blood-thirsty killer prepares his escape. Vares gets a client who needs private investigations. Despite the beautiful wife, Vares smells a rat... In the middle of the summer night, a shot rings out. One life comes to an end and Vares finds changes in his assignment. The clues lead him to first-hand encounters and second-hand bookshops; a visit to the gym reveals a drug-smuggling route from Stockholm... Vares finds himself entangled in hot money and cool silk. In the background slithers a cunning garter snake.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Governance (2021)
Plot Summary:
Renzo Petrucci is forced to leave his job as general manager of a multinational oil company after corruption charges. Convinced that the woman who has taken his place has betrayed him, Renzo takes his revenge by killing her. Reinstated by the Board, he works his way up to the top, driving his company to new heights despite the growing suspicion and mistrust.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Crossing Guard (1995)
Plot Summary:
After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time to try and make peace with himself and his entourage, and even finds romance. Gale, whose life is spiraling down because of his obsession towards Booth, will bring himself on the very edge of sanity. At he end of the week, both men will find themselves on a collision course with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, emotional, suspense, intense, psychological, serious, existential, sentimental, cult classic
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Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
Plot Summary:
This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to take revenge. The events that follow are a mix of dark humor and an exploration of modern morality as Roseanne faces not only a fellow suburbanite who knows, but her own conscience as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, clever, teen, independent film, realistic, cynical, gloomy, sexy
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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
Plot Summary:
A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize Peyton's true intentions -- to destroy Claire and replace her in the family. The nail-biting suspense builds quickly in this chilling psychological thriller about deception and bitter revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological, neo noir, sexy, psychological thriller, serious, psychosexual thriller, dark
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In Her Skin (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, disturbing, crime drama, inspirational, mind bending, gothic
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Alcoholist (2016)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic spends all his time spying on his neighbor, waiting for the right moment to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Silencer (2018)
Plot Summary:
A retired hitman must reawaken all his deadly skills and fight a one-man war against his former employer.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
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One Hour Photo (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sy "the photo guy" Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he's part of their family. When "Uncle" Sy's picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next "has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological thrillers!".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 130000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, intense, creepy, contemplative
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Fatal Attraction (1987)
Plot Summary:
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sexy, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sensual, erotic, psychological, tense, neo noir
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Stoker (2013)
Plot Summary:
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, gothic, tense, suspense, disturbing, erotic, surreal, visual