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Plot Summary:
In Liar game: Final Stage, Players are encouraged to trust each other to win the tournament. However, a mysterious player named X is secretly plotting to sabotage everyone of their chances to win the LGT.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dorama, surreal
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You Bet Your Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
A compulsive gambler is forced to take a chance with his own life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, erotic
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Bait (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dominic Brunt’s impressive second feature after the beloved ‘Emmerdale’ actor took the genre by storm with BEFORE DAWN is a tense female revenge saga - a frightening true-life crime thriller graced by a scalpel-sharp screenplay and extraordinary performances. Two women who dream of opening their own café in a work-depressed northern town go to the wrong person for a loan in this chilling allegory of the economic brutality independent businesses face within the austerity-led banking system. Unable to meet the outrageous payment demands, the hardened duo must find it within themselves to take pitiless, bloody retribution on their malicious aggressor.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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Art of Revenge (2003)
Plot Summary:
After Matt Kane leaves his wife Lara after seven years of marriage for the single, fast life that he wanted all his life after getting a promotion at work, she plots revenge against him by hiring an female ex-con and grifter, named Tuesday, to romance and bring him down in a series of encounters and plots while loyalties begin to be tested as to who is plotting against who.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, independent film
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Seduced (2016)
Plot Summary:
Caroline and Margo respond to a "Missed Connections" ad on Craigslist, only to realize that there whirlwind romance was a trap, and the man of her dreams is leading a secret life. The Two women join forces to bring down the dangerous con man who simultaneously romanced and duped them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Fantasten (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Claus, a car salesman and a passionate gambler, gets his 19-year-old son Silas mixed up in considerable gambling debts owed to criminals, he is forced to put his own life at risk to save his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Agnosia (2010)
Plot Summary:
The protagonist is a young woman, Joan Prats suffering from agnosia, a strange, primary visual disease that is one of the neuropsychological disorders of perception. Although her eyes and ears are in perfect condition, her brain is not able to correctly interpret the stimuli it receives. Joan is the only person to know an industrial secret left behind by her late father and becomes the victim of a sinister plan to extract this information. Her captors plan to use her sensory condition to help extract the information that they so desperately want.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, gothic, realistic, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
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Finder's Fee (2001)
Plot Summary:
After finding a wallet in the street tepper calls the owner in order to return it. After making the call he discovers that the lottery ticket inside is a $6 million winner. To add to things his friends are on their way over for their weekly poker night & the groups tradition is to bet their lottery ticket.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, neo noir, independent film
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Animal World (2018)
Plot Summary:
Drifting aimlessly through life, Kaisi (Li Yi Feng) has racked up debts of several million having borrowed money from his friends. Lured with the promise of writing it all off, Kaisi leaves his ailing mother and childhood sweetheart Qing (Zhou Dongyu) to board the ship Destiny and attend a gambling party controlled by the mysterious Anderson (Michael Douglas). All players join the game with stars. For each game they lose, their opponent captures a star. Everyone is holding daggers behind their backs plotting dirty means by which to overcome their opponents. The game quickly deteriorates into a slaughter and Kaisi must battle save his own skin….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, surprise ending, disturbing, surreal, underground film, aesthetic, twisted
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The Show (2017)
Plot Summary:
An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, philosophical
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Stray Bullets (2016)
Plot Summary:
In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Employer (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five highly qualified applicants interview for a coveted job with the Carcharias Corporation, a powerful conglomerate whose business practices are shrouded in mystery. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and drugged. The next day, they wake up trapped together in a locked room without any hope of escape. Soon the true nature of their situation is revealed when they receive a phone call from the mysterious CEO of Carcharias, known only as The Employer. He informs them that they are about to experience the final interview, but it's not at all what they were expecting.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, psychological, realistic, independent film
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The Method (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Madrid seven candidates report for a job interview that uses "the Grönholm method" of selection, as protestors rise up in public protest in the street over the IMF-World Bank Summit attempting globalisation of workers' unions.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, mind bending, clever, suspense, surreal
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Prophecy (2015)
Plot Summary:
The cyber crime investigation division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department finds a video on website "YOURTUBE." In the video, a man covered by a newspaper, warns that a fire will be set at a food processing company. More crime notices are soon found involving violent crimes. Geitsu is the main guy behind the group "Shinbunshi," which has posted the videos. He used to work as a temporary employee at an IT company, but was unfairly dismissed. He then begins doing manual labor work and meets the other members of "Shinbushi.".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
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Limbo (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Ana, a young compliance manager, discovers unusually high bills among her company's records, she can't imagine what an avalanche her research will set off. Not only does she cross paths with an aging small-time crook and a Viennese Mafia lord at an illegal bare-knuckle fight, she also runs into Carsten, an undercover investigator. He has long been on the trail of a network of money launderers and now faces a difficult decision — since he knows Ana all too well.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Homunculus (2021)
Plot Summary:
A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, surreal
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Kakegurui (2019)
Plot Summary:
Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you're the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it's not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. It's reading your opponent, the art of the deal. What better way to hone those skills than with a rigorous curriculum of gambling? At Hyakkaou Private Academy, the winners live like kings, and the losers are put through the wringer. But when Yumeko Jabami enrolls, she's gonna teach these kids what a high roller really looks like!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, atmospheric, captivating, suspense
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Kaiji: Final Game (2020)
Plot Summary:
Kaiji (played by Tatsuya Fujiwara) is about to ave his life changed. The thrill is beyond anything hr, or most people, have experienced. The adventure is not without risk and danger however. he is given four games, which are challenges, and include life and death situations. The film follows its prequels and things will get both mental and physical.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Usogui (2022)
Plot Summary:
Madarame Baku is a mysterious gambler. His nickname is Usogui (literally The Lie Eater). Club Kakerou is the top illegal gambling den, where gamblers vie to become the best in their profession. Seeing through the lies of others, Madarame Baku challenges a variety of high stakes games at Club Kakerou.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Werewolf Game: The Villagers Side (2013)
Plot Summary:
Airi is a high school student. On the way home from school, Airi is kidnapped by someone. Then, 9 more high school students are all kidnapped like Airi. Those kidnapped students are forced to participate in Jinroh Game, with their lives at stake.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, asian horror
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Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (2008)
Plot Summary:
In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government issues death messages, or "ikigami", informing them that they have only 24 hours left to live. The film follows a young man tasked with delivering these messages, as well as the victims.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, philosophical
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Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler (2011)
Plot Summary:
3 years after the ultimate life-or-death game with Teiai Group, Kaiji was entrapped by Teiai and again back in the underground, forced to do hard labour. One day, Kaiji wins a bet to get out of the underground with 1 million yen, and promises the other workers that he will save them. But to do so, he only has 14 days and needs 200 million yen! Kaiji meets his former rival Tonegawa and learns that there is a chance to turn the tables in the game. It was a monster casino machine that will make 1 billion yen if you win.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Liar Game: Reborn (2012)
Plot Summary:
To exact revenge, the Liar Game office is revived. The target is only one person: Shin'ichi Akiyama. Because of new heroine Shinomiya, Shin'ichi, who kept refusing to take part in the game, finds himself in the game. Along with Akiyama, there's 19 other players competing for the prize of two billion yen. Omega, who revived the game, plays the game at the Liar Game office with Alice. Alice sets up the game, chooses the players, and sets the traps.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Death Note: Light Up the New World (2016)
Plot Summary:
10 years has passed since the confrontation between Kira and L. Again, Shinigami sends death notes to the ground and due to this, the world soon falls into chaos. Tsukuru (Masahiro Higashide) is a member of the Death Note special task force team with 6 other investigators including Matsuda who experienced the Kira case of 10 years ago. Mass murders caused by the death note takes place on Wall Street in the U.S., Shibuya in Japan and other places. World famous private investigator Ryuzaki (Sosuke Ikematsu), who is the rightful successor of L, also investigates the mass murders. They discover that 6 death notes exists in the world. A computer virus called Kira spreads in the world. A message in the Kira virus says to turn in 6 death notes. A person who has 6 death notes overwhelm the world. The confrontation begins between the person who wants Kira’s revival and the people who want to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: intellectual, anime, psychological, bleak, serious, neo noir, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Death Note: L Change the World (2008)
Plot Summary:
"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari (Shunji Fujimura), L has to solve the case all by himself for the very first time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, captivating, anime, mind bending, psychedelic, suspense, surreal, exciting
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Choose or Die (2022)
Plot Summary:
In pursuit of an unclaimed $125,000 prize, a broke college dropout decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game. But the game curses her, and she’s faced with dangerous choices and reality-warping challenges. After a series of unexpectedly terrifying moments, she realizes she’s no longer playing for the money but for her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, perverse, tech noir, supernatural thriller, interesting
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Genome Hazard (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion. Unexplainable things keep happening as Ishigami struggles to find his wife. Gradually, Ishigami realizes all his memories are gone and finds himself acting like someone else. What is his true identity?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, action thriller
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Zero: The Bravest Money Game (2018)
Plot Summary:
The winner of a secret survival game stands to win a large sum of money. However, one player does not seem to be in the game for the money.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
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Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009)
Plot Summary:
Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself Endou) is a debt collector. The reason for his visit is an unpaid loan which kaiji had previously co-signed for a work-mate (Furuhata Takeshi). The original loan was 30000 yen and once Takeshi had disappeared, the loan then fell on Kaiji. Kaiji is then told of a way to clear the interest compounded debt (which stood at 3,850,000 yen), which involved getting on a boat with others in his position. Once on the boat the debtors would then have to gamble with loaned money, which would end with a few winning, and others getting into deeper debt and having to work to pay of their debts. After some coercing kaiji accepts a position on the boat, in order to clear himself and make a bit of money as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, anime, atmospheric, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Liar Game (2014)
Plot Summary:
This drama is about various contestants take part in a game show with a prize of 10 billion won wherein contestants are encouraged to cheat and lie. The contestants who able to cheat the others will wins the prize but debt if he/she loses the game. Contestants include genius swindler Cha Woo Jin and naive college student Nam Da Jung. Meanwhile, Kang Do Young will play the MC and planner of this game show.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: suspense, dorama, tense, captivating, disturbing, game show, psychological
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Liar Game (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Liar Game is a Japanese manga series originally written and illustrated by Shinobu Kaitani. The manga was first serialized in 2005 in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Young Jump, published by Shueisha. It was adapted into a TV series, which started airing on April 14, 2007 on Fuji TV, achieving a 11.4 viewership rating in Japan's Kantō region. A sequel, Liar Game 2, ran from 2009 to 2010. It was also adapted into two live action films: Liar Game: The Final Stage in 2010, and Liar Game: Reborn in 2012. The manga has also been translated into Chinese and into Dutch. In Italy the series is licensed by J-Pop and in France it is licensed by TONKAM.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 36 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, disturbing, tense, intellectual, captivating, philosophical, dorama, manga