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Plot Summary:
A man falls down the stairs, but instead of helping him, the bystanders just take photos with their phones. Lao Shi is a taxi driver and he’s fighting for justice in the darkest recesses of Chinese society. The man who pushed him got into his taxi drunk not so very long ago, grabbed the steering wheel and caused an accident. The victim of the crash has been in a coma ever since, and because his family is destitute, Lao Shi is paying the hospital bills. The insurance company is refusing to cover the costs because the taxi driver left the scene of the accident with the injured man because no help was in sight. Now Lao Shi needs the testimony of his passenger, who angrily refuses to cooperate.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, China
Duration: 80 min
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The Scythian Lamb (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, where 6 former criminals were sent to live there by the government, with the intention of re-socialising them. Aside from the few who know about the project, the general townsfolk has no idea of the former convicts' identities. Tsukisue is the pleasant and efficient municipal official put in charge of the programme. As he slowly learns about their past, a body is discovered.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
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Kill Me Twice (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman stages her own suicide but still lives in fear of her abusive ex-boyfriend tracking her down and stealing the son he never knew he had.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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K.O. (2017)
Plot Summary:
A CEO for a television channel finds his life torn apart after he wakes up from coma.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Passenger 23 (2018)
Plot Summary:
It's been five years Martin's family vanished without a trace from a cruise ship. Ever since, the police psychologist is tortured by the thought of his wife having committed a murder-suicide, taking their son with her. He is the only one not willing to believe this. Suddenly, a new lead takes him back aboard the very same luxury cruiser, where once again, a mother and her child have vanished. But this time, the girl reappears - holding a teddy bear that used to belong to Martin's son. Martin soon learns that things are handled differently on the open sea. Not to disturb his passengers' enjoyment of the lavish luxuries of their cruise, the rich owner of the cruiser wants to keep the child out of sight and hides her deep under deck in the quarantine bay. Here, Martin tries to get the traumatized girl to talk to him. But even deeper in the dark underbelly of the ship there is something lurking. And all signs point to a serial killer, just waiting to strike again.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, disturbing
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Deadly Strangers (1975)
Plot Summary:
After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to get away from a lecherous trucker, she is given a ride by a good-looking but somewhat mysterious young man, who she comes to suspect may be a dangerous escapee from a mental asylum.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: road movie, offbeat, neo noir, independent film, rough, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, twist ending, freeze frame
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Gunpoint (2021)
Plot Summary:
It is a disturbing thriller about a home invasion of a wealthy family that lives in a small-high end apartment. The family is taken hostage as the invader psychologically tortures David, the head of the household, by causing harm to his family members as he watches.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, sad
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The Stranger Within (1990)
Plot Summary:
A troubled young man mysteriously appears in a rural Minnesota town from which he claims he was abducted 16 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, neo noir, crying
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My Husband's Deadly Past (2020)
Plot Summary:
A woman haunted by visions that suggest she killed a missing co-ed discovers that her psychiatrist husband has manipulated her memory to hide his own role in the murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Wedding Guest (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding—armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Jay and his hostage end up on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, melancholic, neo noir, erotic, suspense, surprise ending
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The Student Connection (1974)
Plot Summary:
The director of a school is surprised when a student commits a murder, so there are no alternative but to also eliminate the only eyewitness.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, detective, freeze frame
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The Working Girl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in London's world of high class call girls, Amoureux Solitaires tells the story of London based French escort Virginie, and Rupert, a man who rescues trafficked girls.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, serious, captivating, melancholic, suspense
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Deception (2003)
Plot Summary:
thriller by max fischer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Captive (1991)
Plot Summary:
Paul and Kathy Plunk buy a small motel in a lonesome mountain region in Oregon. Their newfound tranquility is broken by a pair of guests who turn out to be wanted criminals on run from the police. They need money, so they assault the Plunks, force them to withdraw all their money from the bank. But the nightmare just begins as they take the Plunks and their baby with them as hostages.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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True Nature (2011)
Plot Summary:
Part drama and part supernatural thriller, TRUE NATURE tells the story of a family reunited when their college-age daughter is found after a year-long disappearance. With no memory of what happened to her, she soon discovers that her very presence threatens to expose the secrets and fragile lies by which her family has lived.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crying, detective
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Straight on Till Morning (1972)
Plot Summary:
Brenda moved to London to begin living those intoxicated fantasies that all young women imagine city life to offer. Soon after her arrival she begins a relationship with Peter with whom she is tremendously happy. When she becomes pregnant Peter's behaviour towards her alters as he reveals the most frightening and unpredictable side of his personality. He forces Brenda to listen to a series of recordings, exposing a past of shocking cruelty of sadistic murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, noir, independent film, psychological thriller, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neurotic
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Revenge on the Highway (1992)
Plot Summary:
At his wedding Claude Sams has an argument with his son about his life-style; in anger Paul leaves. Together with a friend he sets out for Vegas to search a job. While changing a tire on the highway, he's killed by a passing truck. The police believes it's been an accident, but Claude doesn't accept this and frantically searches for a yellow truck and it's crazy driver at all truck stations.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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This Is Not a Love Song (2002)
Plot Summary:
The small time criminal Heaton is anxiously waiting for the release of his close friend Spike, after spending a couple of months in prison for being caught with 87g of marijuana. Heaton robs a truck, meets Spike outside the penitentiary and travels with him through the country to drink some beers and celebrate his freedom. However, they run out gas and try to steal from a farm, but the owner arrives and arrests Heaton. Spike takes his shotgun and accidentally kills his daughter. They runaway through the wilderness while the locals organize a militia to hunt the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, crying, freeze frame
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Nowhere to Hide (1987)
Plot Summary:
Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashed because a defective part, a C-ring, has been made of a weaker, less expensive alloy. Before Rob can go public with this, Rob is killed on the orders of corrupt General Howard, who did not want Rob to go public with the defective part. Howard believes that Barbara, who is also a marine, now has the part, so Howard and his henchmen set out to kill Barbara and Johnny and get the part, but Howard is underestimating what Barbara is willing to do to protect Johnny.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, retro, cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic
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The Wings of the Kirin (2011)
Plot Summary:
A man's body is found under the statue of a winged kirin in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls unconscious while he is attempting to run away. Yashima's lover Kaori comes from Fukushima and tells detectives that he is absolutely not a criminal. Meanwhile, Detective Kyoichiro Kaga's (Hiroshi Abe) investigates and uncovers a point of contact between the dead body and Yashima. A hidden fact of the victim is revealed which even his children did not know about.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, detective, visually appealing
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Money Is Money (2017)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three thieves attempting to rob a house are altered by what they see inside.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Forget and Forgive (2014)
Plot Summary:
After being left for dead, Anna Walker awakes in the hospital to find she has full blown amnesia.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dig (2022)
Plot Summary:
A widower and his deaf daughter are held hostage and forced to dig under their house, revealing dark secrets from the past.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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All That Divides Us (2017)
Plot Summary:
A middle-class house in the middle of nowhere. A council estate in Sète. A mother and daughter. Two childhood friends. A vanishing. Blackmail. A clash between two worlds.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Shadow of Fear (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a young man accidentally kills someone, he is plunged into a rich man's world of blackmail, betrayal, adultery and ...murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, independent film, realistic, detective, freeze frame
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Picture Claire (2001)
Plot Summary:
After her Montreal apartment burns down and her possessions are reduced to ash, Claire Beaucage heads to her boyfriend's place in Toronto, only to find that he's missing. Then the police mistake her for Lily Warden, a sinister woman who killed a local gangster and happens to live in the same building as Claire's boyfriend. The police pursue a bewildered Claire while a gang of criminals chases after Lily.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, noir, independent film
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The Obsession (2006)
Plot Summary:
A ballet teacher's obsession with a young student leads him to date the girl's unaware mother in order to get closer to the object of his twisted affection.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Two Wrongs (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sarah, a single mother working as an in-home nurse, confronts a parents worst nightmare when her daughter is abducted and she has to do the unthinkable to find her.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Night Drive (1977)
Plot Summary:
A housewife is stalked by a psycho after she sees him a murder a highway patrol officer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: road movie, suspense, slasher, spooky, crime thriller, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Shady (2012)
Plot Summary:
Because of her last name "Kumada" (bear + rice paddy) and her appearance, Misa's high school classmates call her "Pooh" disparagingly. She obviously has no friends and can only let down her guard around her pet parrot and the goldfish in the science room at school. But, then she finds herself quickly becoming best friends with Izumi who is a cute and popular classmates. Although somewhat puzzled by Izumi's interest in her, Misa is excited about having a friend for the first time ever. But, Izumi's initial angelic demeanor gradually transforms into a demonic one.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, bloody, crying, psychotronic
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Wait Until Dark (1967)
Plot Summary:
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, psychological, clever, serious, psychological thriller, atmospheric, talky, suspense, scary