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Plot Summary:
Afghanistan 2014 As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antarès Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antarès and his men’s determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. One dark night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, weird
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Disorder (2015)
Plot Summary:
An ex-soldier with PTSD is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he's out of town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, existential, ambiguous ending, weird
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Gutland (2017)
Plot Summary:
Early one summer morning a young man, with a secret stashed away in a duffel bag, emerges from the forest. In a nearby village he asks around for work, but the farmers, suspicious to the point of hostility, are not very forthcoming. Only when Lucy, the mayor’s unruly daughter, takes a liking to him, does the village change its attitude: he is promptly offered a job as a farmhand and a caravan to live in. As time passes and he is gradually integrated into the community, it emerges that he’s not the only one with a past to hide. Something sinister is lurking under the immaculate surface of this picturesque little world - and it is slowly drawing him in.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, melancholic, suspenseful, psychological horror, weird
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Alice or the Last Escapade (1977)
Plot Summary:
One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice is forced to seek shelter in an old mansion. She is warmly welcomed but soon realises that strange things are happening. She tries to escape but it seems there's no way out.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, suspense, anthology, mind bending, bleak, serious, stylized, psychotronic, weird
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The Torturer (2008)
Plot Summary:
Rick (Andrew W. Walker) is a man raised with solid American values, who was trained as a "special interrogator" in Iraq. He does and experiences things there that cause him PTSD. When he is debriefed by a therapist (Doc), strange things begin to be revealed, and as the creepiness factor starts to rise we realize that all is not as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, slasher, captivating, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Unknown Girl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jenny, a young doctor who feels guilty after a young woman she refused to see winds up dead a few days later, decides to find out who the girl was, after the police can't identify the young woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, social, unusual plot structure, contemplative, psychological thriller, independent film, visually appealing
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Storm (2005)
Plot Summary:
DD is a smug fellow, almost 30 years of age, who can manage all by himself. At least that's what he thinks. However, a strange woman - Lova - enters his life, hunted by evil men who want to hurt her. Against his will, DD is forced into a series of horrific events.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, freeze frame, urban fantasy
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Escape From Raqqa (2019)
Plot Summary:
Paris, spring 2015. Faustine travels to Syria with her little son to join ISIS; but, once in Raqqa, she soon realizes the hell she is gotten herself into. Her husband Sylvain quickly understands that the French government is powerless to help him, so he plans with some friends a high-risk extraction operation to get his family back.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Turkey
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Mine (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a failed assassination attempt, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical toll of the treacherous conditions.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, psychological thriller, captivating, touching, clever, suspense, minimal cast
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Inbetween Worlds (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jesper is a soldier in the German army, who reports for a new tour of duty in Afghanistan. His unit is to protect a village from the Taliban.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, tense, captivating, sincere, rough
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The Mark of Cain (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detainees. Back home, the press gets the story and the pair achieves instant infamy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic
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A Hero's Welcome (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, captivating, tense, serious, gloomy
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The East (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite squad.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Indonesia, USA, France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, controversial
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The Club (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, melancholic, bleak, thought provoking, spiritual, social, disturbing, cynical, independent film
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White Material (2009)
Plot Summary:
Maria is a White farmer who runs a failing coffee plantation in an unnamed African country in the present day. Civil war has broken out and rebel soldiers, many of them child soldiers, are advancing on the area. Rebels on the radio advocate attacks on emblems of colonialism. Maria's workers leave, but she refuses to abandon the plantation, and searches for men to finish harvesting of the coffee.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France, Cameroon
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, rough, emotional, realistic, depressing, controversial, stylized, art house, odd
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Desperation (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, demonic, splatter, lovecraft, cult horror, crying
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Man Down (2015)
Plot Summary:
A haunted Afghanistan war veteran attempts to come to terms with his past while searching for his family in a post-apocalyptic America.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, sad, apocalyptic, anamorphic, twisted
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The Bunker (2001)
Plot Summary:
In 1944, in the Belgian - German border, seven German soldiers survive an American attack in the front and lock themselves in a bunker to protect the position. Under siege by the enemy and with little ammunition, they decide to explore underground tunnels to seek supplies and find an escape route. While in the tunnel, weird things happen with the group.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, psychological, disturbing, spooky, suspense, psychotronic, psychological horror, scary, tense
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Red Lights (2004)
Plot Summary:
A cross-country trip turns out to be a nightmare for a troubled couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, transgressive, psychological, sexual
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Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (1999)
Plot Summary:
After fifteen years of absence, a man returns to his family. Five-year-old Aurelie watches the stranger arrive and develops an immediate affinity with him. Her older sister, however, is very suspicious of the intruder and certain that misfortune will follow. The adults see nothing, but struggle with all their might when tragedy strikes. Naturally, the two girls bear the brunt of the impact. The film is an homage to the distant and primitive world of childhood, which shapes each of us.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, fairy tale
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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)
Plot Summary:
During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 144000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, powerful, interesting, extraordinary
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Brothers (2009)
Plot Summary:
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, emotional, tense, melancholic, suspense, heartbreaking, poignant, intense, rough
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Kajaki (2014)
Plot Summary:
British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: bleak, tense, rough, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tension, suspense
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Special Forces (2011)
Plot Summary:
Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit begins between her kidnappers who have no intention of letting their prey escape them and a group of soldiers who risk their lives in pursuit of their single aim – to bring her home alive. This strong, independent woman and these men of duty are thrown together and forced to confront situations of great danger that inextricably bind them – emotionally, violently and intimately.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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A War (2015)
Plot Summary:
Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in Helmand, Afghanistan. Meanwhile back in Denmark, with a husband at war and three children missing their father, everyday life is a struggle for Claus' wife Maria. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy Taliban crossfire. In order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that ultimately sees him return to Denmark accused of a war crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: social, psychological, tense, captivating, realistic, art house
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Good Kill (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game–only with real lives at stake. After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned bunker in the Nevada desert. But as he yearns to get back in the cockpit of a real plane and becomes increasingly troubled by the collateral damage he causes each time he pushes a button, Egan’s nerves—and his relationship with his wife—begin to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, intense, thought provoking, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, social, action thriller, serious
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Mirage (2018)
Plot Summary:
On November 9, 1989 (the same day that Wall of Berlin falls), Nico is a 12 years old boy passionate to videotape himself playing guitar, being care lovely by her single mother María. This same night, when starts a 72-hours storm, Nico watches a violent scene through the window in the house of his neighbor Ángel Prieto. Moving to the house, he discovers Hilda Weiss, Prieto's wife, dead in the house. Running from Prieto, Nico is run over by a car, dying in the crash. 25 years later, November 9, 2014, Vera Roy is a woman who divides her time between her work as nurse in the hospital and the family with her husband David Ortiz and her little daughter Gloria. To celebrate their moving to a new house in the suburb, they invite her friend and former boyfriend Aitor Medina and his mother Clara, where Vera learns that she and David are in Nico's house and that after Nico's death, Ángel Prieto was arrested and he committed suicide three months later in prison. This night after the dinner, Vera.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller, twisted, detective, philosophical, clever
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Dragonfly (2002)
Plot Summary:
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, scary, tear jerker, serious, mystical, spiritual, exciting
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The Outpost (2019)
Plot Summary:
A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, brutal, perverse, cult classic, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, captivating
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The Hurt Locker (2008)
Plot Summary:
Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 468000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, emotional, tense, serious, rough, psychological, political, sad, factual
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Searching (2018)
Plot Summary:
After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her. A thriller that unfolds entirely on computer screens.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, tension, detective, slasher, sad