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Plot Summary:
A lawyer's wife dies in his arms. Yet, another woman - identical in appearance and accused of aiding a gang of bandits - claims to be the lawyer's wife. A courtroom drama ensues.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 976
Genere: Drama, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, suspense thriller, crying, weeping
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The Third Floor (1966)
Plot Summary:
A woman blames a nightclub drummer for the suspicious death of her sister, and seeks revenge. However, the pair work together to solve the mystery and become romantically involved, after he introduces himself under another name.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 172 min
Plot tags: suspense, retro, suspense thriller
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Gazal (1964)
Plot Summary:
Agra-based atheist and revolutionary poet/editor of Inquilab, Ejaz, falls head-over-heels in love with Naaz Ara Begum after he hears her sing, and then ends up losing his job. With the assistance of his lovely sister, Kausar Ara Begum, Ejaz and Naaz meet secretly. This does not auger well with Akhtar Nawab, Naaz's paternal cousin, who plans to marry her. To make matters worse, their meeting is witnessed by her enraged dad, Nawab Bakar Ali Khan, who initially asks Ejaz to leave, and then decides to teach him a lesson - with two loaded rifles.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags:
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Pyar Ka Mousam (1969)
Plot Summary:
Bollywood classic starring Asha Parekh, Shashi Kapoor and Nirupa Roy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags:
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Coincidence (1969)
Plot Summary:
Taking place almost entirely over the course of one stormy night, a woman is terrified when an accused murderer escapes from a mental hospital and seeks refuge in her home.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, retro, suspense thriller
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Hatya (1988)
Plot Summary:
After the passing away of his wife, Sheila, and child, Raja, Sagar takes to drinking as well as singing and dancing at weddings and special occasions. Intoxicated heavily after one such event, he comes across a young male child lying in a garbage can, and takes him home. He subsequently comes to know that the child, who he decides to name Raja, is deaf-mute since birth, and decides to adopt him. Sagar's life will be turned upside down when a wealthy businessman, Kailash Nath, files a police complaint alleging that Raja is his grandson, and Sagar may have abducted and killed Raja's mom. Tortured and held in a cell, Sagar does not know that Raja's life is in danger by killer(s) who believe Raja saw them commit a murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult classic
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Reshma Aur Shera (1971)
Plot Summary:
Reshma and Shera is a romantic drama from India. Well received by the critics, it tells a Romeo and Juliet-like love story and along the way sheds light on the plight of Indian widows, who are not allowed to remarry. This film is beautifully photographed and is filled with colorful insights into Indian village life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags:
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Dahek A Burning Passion (1999)
Plot Summary:
Bengali-speaking Monalisa lives a middle-class lifestyle in Mumbai along with her mom and wheelchair-bound dad. She and her mom had to endure considerable hardships since she was six years.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags:
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The Unknown (1965)
Plot Summary:
Gumnaam is a 1965 Indian suspense thriller film directed by Raja Nawathe, starring Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Pran, Helen and Mehmood. Eight people are trapped on an island when their plane abandons them. They find a large mansion whose butler is expecting them. Then one by one, they die.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, detective, psychological thriller, retro, cult classic, suspense thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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100 Days (1991)
Plot Summary:
Devi is gifted with Extra Sensory Perception (ESP). Her gift comes to light one day while playing tennis with her friend, Sudha, when she has a vision of her sister, Rama, being shot to death by a man in a black raincoat. She telephones Rama, finds she is safe and is relieved. Shortly thereafter Rama disappears, the police are notified, but are unable to find any trace of her. Devi then meets multi-millionaire, Ram Kumar, both fall in love and get married. She moves into his once abandoned and legally disputed bungalow, and that's when she starts having visions again. These visions lead her to a wall that is loosely plastered.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, psychological thriller, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Fire (1999)
Plot Summary:
Karan is a former soldier. One day when Karan finds out that his father committed suicide in prison after he is falsely charged with a crime, he suspects Ravi Verma, a city attorney who has a wife and a kid. When Karan spots Ravi on the street with his wife Kajal, he abruptly shoots Ravi and Kajal; however, Ravi survives the murder and Kajal ends up dead. After Ravi's release from the hospital, he does not realize that he has a new and different wife who looks exactly like Kajal, later on he does. While Ravi's life continues, Karan's revenge also continues against Ravi. Ravi claims that it wasn't his idea to set Karan's father up, it may be Ravi's father-in-law and his colleagues who may be responsible.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags:
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Karthik Calling Karthik (2010)
Plot Summary:
Meet Karthik: an introvert by nature and shy by choice. Karthik suffers with huge confidence issues and is miserable at his just average job that yields less than average results.His boss treats him like dirt. Shonali, his colleague who he secretly loves doesn’t even know he exists. Karthik is a loser, knows it, and accepts it.Karthik believes his life cant get any worse and then suddenly one night, it happens; The phone rings. And Karthik speaks to someone he never though he would - He speaks to a man who also claims to be Karthik. The man on the phone says that he is here to change Karthik’s life.Karthik accepts the phone in his life and soon it becomes his guide, his mentor, friend and guardian. And most importantly it becomes the ticket to the love of his life, Shonali and Karthik’s life changes in ways that he hadn’t imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, psychological, suspenseful, dark, tense, romantic, twist ending, eros, cult classic
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Jewel Thief (1967)
Plot Summary:
Vinay, an ordinary young man who finds himself constantly mistaken for a look-alike jewel thief named Amar. Vinay works with the police to impersonate Amar and crack his crime ring--but it seems that Amar has decided to impersonate Vinay, as well, and soon their true identities are thoroughly muddled.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Musical, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, suspense thriller, retro, entertaining, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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The Heart Is a Temple (1963)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Dharmesh (Rajendra Kumar) and Sita (Meena Kumari) are in love, and hope to marry on Dharmesh's return from abroad. When Dharmesh returns, he is devastated to find that Sita has married someone else. He then decides to devote the rest of his life at a cancer clinic. One of his patients is Ram (Raaj Kumar), who is critically ill, and has to be operated upon. Things progress well, until Dharmesh meets Ram's wife - none other than Sita. Dharmesh now has to battle with his conscience, and his medical ethics to save Ram or to let him pass away, so that he can marry Sita.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags:
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Time (1965)
Plot Summary:
Members of a family are separated in a natural disaster. Several years down the line, they aren't united but their lives are strangely interconnected.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Milan (1967)
Plot Summary:
On the banks of the holy River Ganga, Gopi, a ferryman conducts an unconsummated romance with Radha, a girl from the upper classes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags:
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Gupt: The Hidden Truth (1997)
Plot Summary:
When Governor Jaisingh Sinha is murdered, the needle of suspicion points towards his estranged son Sahil who has been fighting with his father over the girl he had chosen for him to marry. Sahil is in love with Isha but the governor wanted him to marry Sheetal. Now Sahil must prove his innocence and find out who the killer is.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, psychological thriller, twist ending, surprise ending
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Aashiqui (1990)
Plot Summary:
Rahul and Anu Verghese meet on the same day, while both are held by the police on charges of creating a disturbance, and running away respectively. They meet again, and love happens. Rahul helps Anu to be independent, and seek a job. Then Anu is discovered by a talent agent to be a model, which she accepts. Rahul wants to marry Anu, but first must establish himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Musical, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Compulsed (1974)
Plot Summary:
A terminally ill man frames himself for murder to allow his family to collect the reward money. After a successful operation, he escapes police custody and searches for the real killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Jurm (2005)
Plot Summary:
Avinash Malhotra (Bobby Deol) is married to Sanjana (Lara Dutta). One night Sanjana is murdered, and Avinash is arrested for the murder of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, suspense thriller
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Who's There? (1999)
Plot Summary:
While alone in the house, a woman hears news of serial killer on the loose. And then a stranger rings the doorbell.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, dark, slasher, experimental, twist ending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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64 Squares (2016)
Plot Summary:
'Wazir' is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer. Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest games of their lives. But there's a mysterious, dangerous opponent lurking in the shadows, who is all set to checkmate them.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological thriller, twisted, surprise ending
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Fault (2001)
Plot Summary:
The film starts with the murder of Priti (Divya Dutta), wife of Shekhar (Aftab Shivdasani), a well-known journalist. Inspector Lokhande (Ashutosh Rana) investigates the case and accuses Shekhar of the murder, saying he has enough evidences to arrest him. Upon getting bail from the court, Shekhar's lawyer tells him that he will not be able to fight his case because he is a corporate lawyer. He asks him to contact Simran Bhargav (Lisa Ray), who is a criminal lawyer to fight his case.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, melancholic, surprise ending, remake of american film
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The Sight (2015)
Plot Summary:
A simple, street-smart man tries to protect his family from a tough cop looking for his missing son.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: suspense, twist ending, mind blowing, tense, captivating, suspense thriller, enigmatic, surprise ending, philosophical, intellectual
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Talvar (2015)
Plot Summary:
A hardened cop deals with three conflicting perspectives involving a brutal double murder. The case is complicated as the prime suspects are the parents who supposedly killed their teenage daughter.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, captivating, social, psychological, tense, psychological thriller, mind bending, dark, realistic
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Ghajini (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sanjay a rich tycoon suffering from short term memory loss due to being hit by a metal pole when trying to intervene on his girlfriend's murder. Because of this his memory can only last for 15 minutes and he doesn't remember events or incidents that have happened before in his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, psychological, romantic, entertaining, cult classic, psychological thriller
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Devdas (2002)
Plot Summary:
Devdas is sent away by his father so he can improve himself but upon his return his father still doesn’t welcome him back. Devdas and Paro are in love but Paro is a lower caste and is set to be married to an older widower. Devdas is devastated & leaves home. He becomes an alcoholic womanizer and falls in love with a courtesan. Paro tries to get Devdas away from drinking before he self destructs.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, weeping, sentimental, serious, captivating, romantic, rough, sincere, thought provoking
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Jagged Edge (1985)
Plot Summary:
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she hasn't handled a criminal case for many years. There's a certain chemistry between them and Teddy soon finds herself defending the man she loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, serious, psychosexual thriller, dark, twisted
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Badla (2019)
Plot Summary:
A dynamic young entrepreneur finds herself locked in a hotel room with the corpse of her dead lover. She hires a prestigious lawyer to defend her and they work together to figure out what actually happened.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, tense, atmospheric, realistic, twist ending, detective, cult classic, cute, mind blowing
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Tell No One (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, psychological thriller, psychological, suspense, detective, serious, clever, dramatic, neo noir
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Talaash: The Answer Lies Within (2012)
Plot Summary:
A cop, investigating the mysterious death of a filmstar, meets a sex-worker, while he faces some personal problems psychologically. The mystery connects these people in a way, that ultimately changes their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense thriller, psychological thriller, neo noir, suspense, surprise ending, mind bending, psychedelic