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Plot Summary:
Set during the true and unconscionable Central Intelligence Agency MK ULTRA drug experimentations in the early 1960s. The journey of Ford Strauss, a brilliant psychiatrist, whose moral and scientific boundaries are pushed to the limit as he is recruited to run a subsect of the program in a rural Mississippi Mental Hospital.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Tooth and the Nail (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 1947, a magician, Seok-jin plans the most elaborate trick to find out hidden conspiracy in his fiance's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Time Bomb (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jason tragically lost his young son when their SUV exploded. Now fighting as a soldier in Iraq, the suicide bombings that occur around him on a daily basis constantly remind him of losing his son. An army scientist approaches Jason about an experimental virus that would create a squad of suicide bombers they could use against the enemy. Uncertain if he has already been infected by the virus, Jason must struggle to decipher which explosions are real and which are in his head.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Edge of Power (1989)
Plot Summary:
The worlds of journalism and politics collide in this story about an experienced journalist who desperately needs to scoop a big story in order to revamp his career. Deciding he'll take matters into his own hands, he frames a politician and arranges to be there when the story is leaked to the public. What he doesn't realize is that his own devious behavior is about to get him caught in the middle of a dangerous web of lies and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Blow Up My Life (2022)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced pharmaceutical employee accidentally discovers a deadly opioid vape conspiracy, sending him on the run to expose the crime with a trail of chaos in his wake.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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The Lords of Discipline (1983)
Plot Summary:
Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the form of The Ten, a secret group of the elite students. They want Pearce to leave on his own free will, but are prepared to torture him to make it 'his free will'. Will is forced to help Pearce and he is prepared to risk his own career to do so.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: cult classic, tense, sincere, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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88 (2022)
Plot Summary:
The Financial Director for a democratic super PAC behind a frontrunner presidential candidate investigates donations, uncovering a conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags:
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The Aviary (2022)
Plot Summary:
A twisted journey of two women’s desperate flee to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by the promise of “freedom” in the isolated desert campus called The Aviary, Jillian and Blair join forces to escape in hopes of real freedom. Consumed by fear and paranoia, they can’t shake the feeling that they are being followed by the cult’s leader, Seth, a man as seductive as he is controlling. The more distance the pair gains from the cult, the more Seth holds control of their minds. With supplies dwindling and their senses failing, Jillian and Blair are faced with a horrifying question: how do you run from an enemy who lives inside your head?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller
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The Art of Murder (2018)
Plot Summary:
When art gallery assistant Kate Miller meets the heir to a run-down estate, she stumbles upon a previously undiscovered masterpiece, and finds herself thrust into the high-stakes auction world of priceless art. But those high-stakes turn deadly when the painting's integrity and authenticity come into question. Kate and the gallery soon discover they're caught in the middle of a million-dollar conspiracy. As the auction date closes in Kate finds herself in mortal danger when a desperate stalker will stop at nothing to keep the truth from coming to light.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful
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North Shore (2023)
Plot Summary:
When the 19-year-old daughter of a UK politician is found dead in Sydney Harbour, cultures clash as a British and an Australian detective team up to solve a complex murder mystery. But this international investigation will expose more than murder, as the two detectives begin to uncover a conspiracy with political consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, USA, North Korea, Russia
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Kill Plan (2021)
Plot Summary:
A weathered CIA agent is thrown into a web of deception when he uncovers a rogue government plot to unleash a deadly drug on humanity.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, black cinema
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The Skulls II (2002)
Plot Summary:
After joining the Skulls, Ryan Sommers (Robin Dunne) is warned not to betray any secrets about the organization or its high-powered members. However, when Ryan witnesses a murder within the Skulls' private chambers, he finds that the closer he gets to revealing the truth - the more dangerous life becomes.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, independent film
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The Independent (2022)
Plot Summary:
It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its first viable independent candidate. Reporting history as it's made, an idealistic young journalist teams up with her idol, legendary journalist Nick Booker, to uncover a conspiracy that places the fate of the election, and the country, in their hands.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Presumed Dead in Paradise (2014)
Plot Summary:
A rebellious teen becomes embroiled in a dark conspiracy that involves her late father, after everyone thinks she drowned while vacationing with her estranged stepmother on an island.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Fiance Killer (2018)
Plot Summary:
Nicole is stunned when her daughter Cameron returns from a vacation in Mexico engaged to handsome Brent. But Brent has a secret girlfriend, Lexi, and together they're planning to kill Cameron for her money right after her honeymoon.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Perfect Wedding (2021)
Plot Summary:
Lindsay is about to marry the man of her dreams- until everything spirals out of control at her bachelorette party. With the wedding called off, she soon uncovers her friends devious scheme to steal away the man she loves.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Suspect (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two African American social scientists pose as bank robbers in an effort to understand the racial dynamics of small-town law enforcement. However, their experiment takes an unplanned turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, captivating, clever, realistic
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Dark Power (2013)
Plot Summary:
When the mayor of a crime-ridden city and his opponent are both assassinated while seeking election, two FBI agents, John Archer and Mila Driver, reluctantly join forces to investigate the murder only to discover that City Hall holds more secrets than the identity of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, psychological thriller, psycho film
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The Passage (2007)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his girlfriend Tracy, the American Luke travels to Morocco with his British friend Adam to spend vacation and recover his loss. While in Medina, Luke meets the gorgeous Moroccan nurse Zahra and he offers to walk her home. However, she is offended by a group of men due to her Western companion and Luke defends her. Zahra offers to be his tourist guide and suggest him to travel to Atlas Mountain to the see the sunset and spend the night in a hotel. Adam decides to meet the couple in the next morning to let Luke alone with Zahra. However, the hotel manager does not accept their check-in and a local lodges the couple in a cabin of his own. During the night, Luke goes to the bathroom and finds a mace of tunnels linking the cabins in the mountain. Zahra meets him in the tunnel and he discovers a dark secret about the place.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Dogs of Riga (1995)
Plot Summary:
A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia. One of their officers travel to Sweden to to help but when he returns to his home country he is mysteriously murdered. Kurt flies to Riga to find out why and is drawn into complex conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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The Idealist (2015)
Plot Summary:
A whistle blower attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, tense
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Games (1967)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious woman (Simone Signoret) in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers (James Caan, Katharine Ross) and helps one trick the other.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Marriage Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
a married couple decide to explore a "member's only night club" but quickly realize the deadly consequences of their actions.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Executive Power (1997)
Plot Summary:
While protecting the U.S. President, Secret Service agent Nick Sager helps him to dispose of the body of a young girl, who accidentally died during an adulterous encounter. Some time later, a few weeks before the elections, the disillusioned ex-agent is approached by his former partner. The President's former aide, and one of few people who knew about the cover-up, is found dead in mysterious circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller
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Home Invasion (2016)
Plot Summary:
Terror arrives at the one place we all feel safest in this taut psychological thriller starring Natasha Henstridge, Jason Patric and Scott Adkins. When a wealthy woman and her stepson are targeted by a trio of expert thieves in their remote mansion, her only form of help comes from a call with a security systems specialist. But as the intruders become increasingly hostile and the connection wavers, will she trust him to be her eyes and navigate her to safety?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, enigmatic, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller
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Not Safe for Work (2014)
Plot Summary:
An office worker is trapped inside the building where a killer is on the loose.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, suspense, crime thriller, vintage
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The Student (2017)
Plot Summary:
After leading a jury to wrongly sentence a man, Abigail enters her new teaching job at the law school with a newfound commitment to ethics. When she takes over her new class, it includes Vincent, an intensely ambitious student who will do anything for an A. When Abigail fails him for academic dishonesty, Vincent threatens that he will stop at nothing to get what he wants. As Vincent's devious plot begins to unravel, she must take her life into her own hands, or Vincent will take it himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Soviet Sleep Experiment (2019)
Plot Summary:
Russian researchers in the late 1940s keep five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental stimulant. Based on the popular internet horror story (Creepypasta) “The Russian Sleep Experiment”.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Red Eye (2005)
Plot Summary:
After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, the Lux Atlantic Hotel manager Lisa is waiting for a flight to Miami. Due to the bad weather and consequent flight delay, she meets in the airport bar Jack Rippner, who is also in the waiting list. They sit together in the plane, and Jack reveals that he wants Lisa to change the room in Lux of an important American politician to facilitate a terrorist attempt against him. Otherwise, Lisa's father will be killed by a hit man. Lisa has to decide what to do with the menacing man at her side.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 133000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, psychological, tense, suspense, intense, psychological thriller, serious, realistic, scary
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Obsession (2019)
Plot Summary:
Before meeting George Good (Brad Dourif), Sonny Jordan (Mekhi Pfeiffer) was just a lost drifter with a troubled past floating from town to town, looking for work. As fate would have it, Sonny ends up saving George's life from a murderous back-alley mugger. As thanks, George gives Sonny a home and a job as a mechanic on his farm in the lonely Louisiana Bayou. Sonny quickly settles in and makes himself useful around the place but then Sonny meets Larissa, (Elika Portnoy) George's alluring wife. She has a mysterious past and the two are irresistibly drawn to each other. The two begin a passionate affair leading them to construct a twisted plot to take George's life in cold blood in order to be together. As their despicable plan unravels, they learn how far they are willing to go to cover their misdeed.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, sexy
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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