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Plot Summary:
Political thriller is based on a true story about a young student beaten to death by the police in 1980s Communist Poland.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, Czech Republic, France
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Past Life (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the fascinating new film from director Avi Nesher (The Wonders), two Israeli sisters delve into the dark mystery of their father’s former life in Poland during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, Poland, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, touching, captivating, disturbing
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25 Years of Innocence (2020)
Plot Summary:
A story of Tomasz Komenda - a man, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison, for a crime he did not commit.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, sad, emotional, suspense, poignant, inspirational
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Conviction (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering his wife. Following an appeal by the public prosecutor’s office, and fearing a miscarriage of justice, she convinces a leading lawyer to defend him during his second trial, on appeal. Together, they will put up a tenacious fight against injustice.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, atmospheric, suspense, realistic
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After (2017)
Plot Summary:
An aging man lies bleeding to death in an alley. As onlookers start to gather around, he reflects on the life that he has lived.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film, visual, poetic
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Hardkor Disko (2014)
Plot Summary:
A sociopath begins a relationship with the daughter of a couple he intends to murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, realistic
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Vital Signs (2009)
Plot Summary:
Triggered by the death of a family member a young woman embarks on a singular journey of helping people who are about to die. The dying have nothing to lose and need lasting moments of intimacy that Simone finds herself willing to give at no cost. But Boris won't let her get away with it quite that easily. He realizes how well she hides behind those intense but short lived relationships. He won't hesitate to provoke her in a violent burst.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crying
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Invisible (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two women meet by chance and discover they were both raped by rapist. Individually and together they must confront the past and finally integrate the long repressed trauma into their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, thought provoking, touching
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Required Field (2016)
Plot Summary:
Serial killer 'NO1KNOWS' managed to elude the police for years. In fact they didn't even know he existed until, by chance, his video and audio recordings were found. By examining the recordings police were able to solve a number of murders around the world - although many men featured in the recordings were never found and it is unclear how many other victims there were since most of the video and audio recordings were destroyed (presumedly by NO1KNOWS himself).
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Trees of Peace (2021)
Plot Summary:
In April of 1994, four women from different backgrounds and beliefs are trapped and hiding during the Rwandan genocide. Their fight for survival against all odds unites the women in an unbreakable sisterhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016)
Plot Summary:
Drama exploring the story of ten-year-old Damilola Taylor, who died on a housing estate in South London in 2000. After leaving Nigeria to embark on a new life in the UK, the young Damilola and his family are full of optimism. Little do they realise that their lives are about to be shattered.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, bleak, suspense
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On My Skin: The Last Seven Days of Stefano Cucchi (2018)
Plot Summary:
The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime and mysteriously found dead during his detention. In one week's time, a family is changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, tense, suspenseful, heartbreaking, suspense, social, sad
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National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III (2018)
Plot Summary:
It’s 1786 and King George III is the most powerful man in the world. But his behaviour is becoming increasingly erratic as he succumbs to fits of lunacy. With the King’s mind unravelling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to undermine the power of the Crown, and expose the fine line between a King and a man.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Guardian (2012)
Plot Summary:
After 16 years of imprisonment, 40-years-old Gogliko is released from jail. He doesn't exactly know what he did that deserved 16 years of jail time. A free man, a changed country awaits him. His personal life has drastically altered. His parents have passed and most of his friends have died during the Civil War period. Gogliko realizes that he will not be able to find his place in this "new" Georgia, only thing he has to do is to care about his passed friend's 16-years-old son.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Drama
Country: Georgia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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1921 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of a Communist Party's early history during the turbulent era, examining the remarkable Chinese revolutionary leaders' zeal and contrition for the ascension of the Chinese people.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Operation Hyacinth (2021)
Plot Summary:
Not satisfied with the result of a murder investigation in Warsaw's gay community, an officer in 1980s communist Poland resolves to uncover the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, erotic, crying
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Natural Enemy (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in Brittany, a detective called Nicolas Luhel is asked to unravel the circumstances of a teenage boy's death. The main suspect is the boy's father. Shattered by the suicide of the main witness, Nicolas lets himself get snared by the strange and fascinating influence that the father exerts on everyone around him. Eventually, Luhel discovers the truth about the murder and feels that the law is inadequate to deal with it. As a consequence, he decides to destroy the evidence and keep it a secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, gay cinema, queer cinema
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On the Farm (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal justice systems that allowed a wily psychopath to murder nearly 50 marginalised women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Herstory (2018)
Plot Summary:
A true story of a six-year-long legal conflict of 10 comfort women and 13 attorneys against 200 Fukuoka supporters association.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Tlatelolco, Summer of 68' (2013)
Plot Summary:
As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Mexico’s recent history: the massacre at Tlatelolco, 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bleak Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
There were three friends. Someone became the assailant and someone became the victim. Another swings his fists in anger at their broken friendship. Through the director’s creation of young actors and looking into the life of high school boys, the assailant and the victim come dialectically. It was a time when everyone got hurt.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: non-linear, rough, depressing, psychological, suspense, disturbing, touching
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Cops (2018)
Plot Summary:
Young and eager police recruit Chris shoots a mentally ill man on duty. He is celebrated a hero, but soon after, traumatic symptoms begin to surface. In a desperate attempt not to be exposed by his tough superior Konstantin, he resorts to excessive violence, in order to hide his trauma and fulfill his dream of becoming an elite cop.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Public (2018)
Plot Summary:
An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, motivational, dorama, political, complex
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Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
A reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Romania, France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, thought provoking, serious, realistic, political, social, factual
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The Belly of the Sea (2021)
Plot Summary:
June, 1816. A French navy frigate ran aground on a sandbar off the coast of Senegal. Attempts to free the board were futile - the crew had no choice but to abandon ship. Since the available boats were not enough to accommodate the entire crew, the team built a raft. It accommodated 147 people: soldiers, sailors, several passengers and officers. The plan was for the boats to tow the raft. But the cable broke and the raft drifted into the open sea. For those who were on the raft, a harsh and cruel struggle for life began.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009)
Plot Summary:
A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Trafficked: A Parent's Worst Nightmare (2021)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of her 16th birthday, Allison Riley disappears. When the police refuse their requests, her parents, Joanna and Case, reluctantly hire John Belton, a private investigator with a reputation for questionable procedures and a dark past. Quickly, Belton realizes that Allison was coerced by a young handsome boy she met on social media and had been trafficked, and they are on a race against time to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing
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Omagh (2004)
Plot Summary:
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, sincere, uplifting, bleak, crying, fake documentary
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Stones for the Rampart (2014)
Plot Summary:
To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. Entering adulthood in a very dramatic times, which puts them a choice - to survive at any cost, or to join the fighting for a free homeland, risking everything. The boys brought up in patriotic homes, shaped by the ideals of scouting, they decide to fight. They become soldiers, and although every scrape with death, they can live a full life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
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Dirty Pictures (2000)
Plot Summary:
A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, captivating, thought provoking, erotic, tense, realistic, talky, sexual, contemplative
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The Wall (1983)
Plot Summary:
Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal punishments, injurious harrows, tortures and sexual abuses just for taking the responsibility of their destiny on a wrong turn.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: political, art house, tense, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing