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Plot Summary:
A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the new prime minister of Israel.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, political, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, sad, political thriller, independent film, interesting
Best tv shows and movies like Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016):
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An Acceptable Loss (2018)
Plot Summary:
Former top U.S. security adviser Elizabeth "Libby" Lamm is threatened by associates from her dark past including Rachel Burke a steely, commanding politician with an unwavering knack for achieving her goals. Colluding with Rachel is Adrian, an unyielding, patriotic chief of staff. Martin harbors another type of obsession with Libby in this story of betrayal and regret.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, tense, suspense, psychological, political, action adventure
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Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021)
Plot Summary:
Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. Suddenly he turns into an outcast, whom his former colleagues search across the whole city. At night Volkonogov is visited by a messenger from the other world, who warns him that after death he will go hell and be tormented forever. But he has an opportunity to change his fate and get to paradise if he repents, and at least one person forgives him. The Captain embarks on his way to find forgiveness. But he cannot even fathom what tests are awaiting him on this way.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, France, Estonia
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, gloomy, non-linear
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Talk Radio (1988)
Plot Summary:
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, talky, suspense, thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, clever
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Campfire (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, crying
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Picket 43 (2015)
Plot Summary:
The film dealt with the story of an Indian army officer guarding a picket alone in Kashmir, and his friendship with a Pakistani soldier.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, patriotic
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Corporate (2017)
Plot Summary:
Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Ressources, working for a huge French agro-food company. Ambitious and dedicated to her job, she is a good soldier, ready to put ruthless methods of management into practice to meet the higher-ups' requirements. But, one day, one of the employees commits suicide at the company in front of her. Afflicted by the terrific death of her colleague, she will eventually realize that the company has to take its responsibility too. While an investigation in underway, stuck between her traumatized colleagues and under pressure of a powerful hierarchy, she will have to get by on her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, social, psychological thriller
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Body Brokers (2021)
Plot Summary:
Utah and his girlfriend Opal, are drug addicts living on the streets in rural Ohio. After getting recruited by body broker Wood, and offered treatment in Los Angeles, Wood takes Utah under his wing and introduces him to treatment center mogul Vin. Wood and Vin bring Utah in on their lucrative and illegal dealings, where saving lives comes second to the bottom line.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, spiritual, unusual plot structure
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Backstabbed (2016)
Plot Summary:
A struggling housewife decides to become a real estate agent and inadvertently puts her life in danger when she takes a job with a corrupt broker who will do anything to land a deal.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing
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The Corrupted (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam (Sam Claflin), an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen (Spall), who has high-level connections in politics, finance and the police force. Liam's drive for redemption sees him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Blackout (2014)
Plot Summary:
An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight for survival, they must endure the worst of human behavior.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 810
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Samuel Bleak (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, bleak, realistic, suspenseful
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Big Bad Wolves (2013)
Plot Summary:
A series of brutal murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a religious studies teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, dark, twist ending, dark comedy, intense, rough, psychological
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Sugar Mountain (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, down on their luck, fake a disappearance in the Alaskan wilderness so they'll have a great survival story to sell, but the hoax turns out to be more real than they planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The 9/11 Commission Report (2006)
Plot Summary:
Independent writer-director Leigh Slawner helms this chilling dramatization of the findings laid out in the best-selling 9/11 Commission Report, a document that sought to analyze the circumstances surrounding coordinated terrorist attacks against American civilians on Sept 11 2001.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, mockbuster, independent film
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Fatwa (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson (Holly) ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
Plot Summary:
In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Qatar
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, emotional, intense, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Walk on Water (2004)
Plot Summary:
Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister Pia. The two men set out on a tour of the country during which, Axel challenges Eyal's values.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel, Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, intense, epic, political thriller, twisted
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Fail Safe (2000)
Plot Summary:
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, political, psychological, apocalyptic, realistic, political thriller, disaster movie
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The Parallax View (1974)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator's assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, political, intense, political thriller, serious, realistic
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Semper Fi (2019)
Plot Summary:
Cal is a dedicated cop who also serves as a sergeant in the Marine Corps Reserve. When his reckless half brother lands in jail for accidentally killing a man, Cal and his buddies hatch a plan to break him out of prison -- no matter what the cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Fail-Safe (1964)
Plot Summary:
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring. Director Sidney Lumet gives an atmospheric vision of the future with a Cold War backdrop.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, political thriller, political, realistic, bleak, black and white, emotional, suspense, serious, suspenseful
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Unthinkable (2010)
Plot Summary:
A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs while a CIA "consultant", known as H, interrogates the suspect who has allowed himself to be caught. The suspect, whose wife and children have left him and disappeared, seems to know exactly what the interrogation will entail. Even as H ratchets up the pressure, using torture over Brody's objection, the suspect doesn't crack. Should H do the unthinkable, and will Brody acquiesce? Is any Constitutional principle worth possible loss of life?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, disturbing, rough, psychological thriller, unusual plot structure, intense, tense, thought provoking, clever
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Utoya - July 22 (2018)
Plot Summary:
The movie tells the story about a girl who has to hide and survive from terrorist Anders Breivik while looking for her little sister during the terrorist attacks in Norway on the island Utøya, July 22nd.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, brutal, depressing, suspense, social, sad
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Single White Female 2: The Psycho (2005)
Plot Summary:
A warped woman takes deadly measures to help a new roommate get rid of her problems.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological thriller, realistic, psychotronic
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Arbitrage (2012)
Plot Summary:
A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic, psychological, intense, serious, captivating, clever, tricky
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Red Corner (1997)
Plot Summary:
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, political, intense, psychological, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, rough, talky
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The Debt (2010)
Plot Summary:
Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Israel
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, exciting, talky, realistic, serious, psychological thriller, political
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Power (1986)
Plot Summary:
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, clever, cynical, political, retro, talky
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Margin Call (2011)
Plot Summary:
A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 141000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, serious, captivating, political, intellectual, talky, tricky, enigmatic, suspenseful
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The Ides of March (2011)
Plot Summary:
Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 229000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political thriller, talky, political, suspense, clever, tense, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, tricky