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Plot Summary:
The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: art house, independent film
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The Disturbance (1990)
Plot Summary:
A psycho is on the prowl, and his victims are all beautiful women. The police must catch him before he kills again.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Mad Dog (1980)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: detective
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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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Dragnet (1969)
Plot Summary:
Sgt. Joe Friday is called back from vacation to work with his partner, Off. Bill Gannon, on a missing persons case. Two amateur female models and a young war widow have vanished, having been last seen with one J. Johnson. In the course of tracking down Johnson and the young ladies, the detectives wind up with two different descriptions of the suspect, one of which closely resembles a dead body found in a vacant lot. But the dead man, later identified as Charles LeBorg of France, proves not to be J. Johnson, when a third young model disappears. - Written by Michael J. Hayde.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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Black Sun (1978)
Plot Summary:
A German artist in Spain decides to revenge the death of two Nordic tourists and to defend the strikers in a bloody conflict.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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One Police Plaza (1986)
Plot Summary:
A veteran New York City Police Lieutenant's investigation of a woman's murder uncovers corruption in high places.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Enough Rope (1963)
Plot Summary:
Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men (2012)
Plot Summary:
The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring involved in extortion, religious scams, exploitation of minors and stock market speculation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 937
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, captivating, rough
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Intrusive Behavior (2013)
Plot Summary:
Years after the institutionalizing and abandoning of their mentally unstable daughter, the Kilpatrick family becomes victim to mental instabilities of their own as their past comes back to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: twisted, independent film, detective
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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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Appearances (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ève and Henri are among the happy few of the French community in Vienna. They are “la crème de la crème”. The perfect picture crumbles when Ève discovers that Henri is cheating on her. On an impulse, she finds revenge with Jonas, a perfect young Austrian guy. But he’s not who she thought he was. This will lead them to an irreversible spiral.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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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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Heads or Tails (1980)
Plot Summary:
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the suspicious death of Madame Morlaix who, according to her husband Edouard (Michel Serrault), fell from an upstairs window. Curious to find out more, Baroni begins his inquiry.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective
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Cuck (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ronnie is a young white male, struggling with the pressures of life. He’s unemployed, rejected from the military for being mentally unstable, and lives at home with his ailing and nagging mother. Ronnie finds an outlet for his frustration online. The alt-right community gives him a place to belong and absolves his personal responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, thought provoking
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The Bandit (1996)
Plot Summary:
The epic adventures of the legendary Baran the Bandit following his release from prison. After serving 35 years, it is no surprise that the world has changed dramatically. Still, Baran can't help but be shocked to discover that his home village is now underwater thanks to the construction of a new dam. He then heads for Istanbul to get revenge upon his former best friend, the man who snitched on him and stole his lover Keje. Along the way, Baran teams up with Cumali, a tough young punk who finds the thief's old-fashioned ways rather quaint. When Cumali gets into deep trouble with a crime boss, Baran adds another vengeful task to his roster.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, France, Bulgaria
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: dorama, political, art house, exciting, tense, epic, serious, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful
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Hunting Season (2010)
Plot Summary:
Veteran homicide cop Ferman (Şener Şen) and his hot-headed partner İdris (Cem Yılmaz) team up with rookie cop and anthropology major Hasan (Okan Yalabık) to investigate the murder of a young woman. The suspects include her conservative family, who might have killed her for honor, her drug-dealing boyfriend and aged billionaire Battal (Çetin Tekindor) who had taken the victim as his second wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, art house, detective, crime thriller, twisted, realistic, surprise ending
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Clean, Shaven (1993)
Plot Summary:
Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. He attempts to function in a world that, for him, is filled with strange voices, electrical noise, disconcerting images, and jarringly sudden emotional shifts. During his quest, he runs afoul of the law and an ongoing murder investigation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, controversial, art house, psychological thriller, independent film, offbeat, bleak, neo noir, detective
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Hell (1994)
Plot Summary:
Paul, an irritable and stressed-out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wife's infidelity.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, slasher, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, sexual
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Hit Me (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sonny lives with his retarded older brother, and works as a bellhop at a second-rate hotel. This changes when Monique a beautiful, suicidal nut-case checks in.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: erotic, neo noir, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, crying, tension
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In Bar (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of young high society friends, aged between 18 and 25, are gathered at a friend's bar that they regularly frequent for the night. But when they finish of their last beer and prepare to head home they find themselves held captive at gunpoint by five strangers. With their mouths, hands and feet tied, they are tortured, raped and murdered until the next morning. The gang who have captured them have no clear reason, they just want to punish these young people for everything left incomplete in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, art house, tense, realistic
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Ripley Under Ground (2005)
Plot Summary:
After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name alive in order to exploit his legacy and reap millions in the process.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, crime thriller, independent film, tense, clever, serious
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The Devil All the Time (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the 1960s after World War II in Southern Ohio, bizarre, compelling and mentally disturbed people suffer from the war's psychological damages.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 149000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, gothic, psychological, rough, suspenseful, southern gothic, exciting, psychological thriller, thought provoking
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I Stand Alone (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and moves to Lille suburbs with his mistress. She promised him a new butcher shop. She lied. The butcher decides to go back to Paris and find his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: depressing, disturbing, psychological, bleak, controversial, art house, psychological thriller, rough, realistic, philosophical
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Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart (2014)
Plot Summary:
Between 1978 and 1979, the inhabitants of the Oise are in fear of a maniac who kills several hitchhikers and escape the police. He was then dubbed "the killer of the Oise" is actually a shy young policeman who will investigate his own murder, only to lose control of the situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, bloody, suspense, neo western, weird
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The Todd Killings (1971)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into the lives of high school kids in a small California town. Girls find him attractive and are only too willing to accompany him to a nearby desert area to be his "girl for the night." Not all of them return, however. Featuring Richard Thomas as his loyal hanger-on and a colorful assortment of familiar actors in vivid character roles including Barbara Bel Geddes, Gloria Grahame, Edward Asner, Fay Spain, James Broderick and Michael Conrad.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, independent film
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The Night Stalker (2016)
Plot Summary:
An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychological horror, psychotronic
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Eye for an Eye (1996)
Plot Summary:
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, detective, rough, bleak, serious
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You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Plot Summary:
A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 126000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, neo noir, exciting, rough, psychological thriller, tense, dark, artsy, cerebral
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Plot Summary:
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 228000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, cerebral, enigmatic, psychological thriller, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, disturbing
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The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
Plot Summary:
The true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killing cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful