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Plot Summary:
Germany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed of their existence and their entire families were killed by the Nazis. They dream of retaliation on an epic scale for the Jewish people. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Max starts identifying with the group's monstrous plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, Israel
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, emotional, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Exam (2011)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, shaken and insecure by the defeated revolution of 1956 and prodded by a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security personnel must take an exam to challenge and verify their loyalty. But to be effective in this shadowy world of suspicion and lies, of secrets within secrets, where nothing and no one can be trusted, the subjects must be unaware they are being tested. Focused on the secret machinations of a totalitarian state’s paranoid need for absolute control, The Exam is a fascinating, Kafka-esque portrait of an era gone by – but it’s a mindset still very much active today.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, visual, surprise ending
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Miriam (2006)
Plot Summary:
Heart-wrenching story of a woman who takes another's identity to survive the most horrible time of the 20th Century. Miriam is the triumphant story of one woman's survival and success, which takes place in Lithuania over a period of forty years, from the German occupation of World War II through the Soviet era, and is based upon the true story of Miriam Shafer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Angel of Auschwitz (2019)
Plot Summary:
This is a tale of how the angel of life was confronted by the angel of death. Set in Auschwitz Birkenau, 1944.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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An Enemy to Die For (2012)
Plot Summary:
Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi national geologists embark enthusiastically on their research mission, the growing political tension between their countries soon affects their work. With Britain and France declaring war on Germany, the civilian scientists now find themselves mere pawns in a global power struggle.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: History, Thriller, War
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories (2019)
Plot Summary:
One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows-Primo Levi. The Oscar®-winning Helen Mirren will introduce audiences to Anne Frank's story through the words in her diary. The set will be her room in the secret refuge in Amsterdam, reconstructed in every detail by set designers from the Piccolo Theatre in Milan. Anne Frank this year would have been 90 years old. Anne's story is intertwined with that of five Holocaust survivors, teenage girls just like her, with the same ideals, the same desire to live: Arianna Szörenyi, Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard, Helga Weiss and sisters Andra and Tatiana Bucci. Their testimonies alternate with those of their children and grandchildren.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Witnesses (2018)
Plot Summary:
The film tells about the history of the Holocaust through the stories of its unwitting Witnesses.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia, Belarus, Czech Republic, France, Poland, Israel, Ukraine
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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False Pretenses (2004)
Plot Summary:
Falling victim to a glib con artist named Michael (Stewart Bick), Texas housewife Diane (Peta Wilson) loses all her money, a disaster that drives her husband Randal (Anthony Lemke) to suicide. Unable to get justice through the official channels, Diane mounts her own plan of revenge. This involves assuming a new identity, trading in her blonde tresses for a redheaded "do", moving to a small town, and systematically seducing the man who ruined her life. One of six "no frills" TV movies produced in Canada for the Lifetime cable network at a flat cost of 2 million each,.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Rose in Winter (2018)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Edith Stein, a German Jewish philosopher and feminist who converted to Christianity and became a nun, and died in Auschwitz to became Saint and Martyr, the Patron of Europe with the name Saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Swallow (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1980s, Tolani Ajao is a bank secretary in Lagos, who finds herself persuaded by her friend Rose Adamson to enter the world of drug trafficking.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Man Standing Next (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of the President Park who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA, KIM Gyu-pyeong, is the seemingly most prospective second-in-command. In the midst of reign of fear, a former KCIA director, PARK Yong-gak who knows all about the government’s obscure operations, exiles to the U.S. where the investigation of ‘Koreagate’ is underway. As the tension escalates, the stifling political maneuvering by the all second-in-command’s unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending
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My Daughter's Disgrace (2016)
Plot Summary:
A high school senior’s life is turned upside down when photos of her naked body are distributed to a revenge porn website. Frustrated by police inaction, her mother takes the investigation into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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The Good Neighbour (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Good Neighbour is a 2011 German film directed by Stephan Rick. It premiered in competition at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival and was screened at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival and the Hof International Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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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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Sadistic Yoga (2007)
Plot Summary:
The female instructor Mariko gives yoga classes at a high-class club in Tokyo. She has a crush on Rika whom she gives private lessons to. When she notices bruises on Rika's body, Mariko learns that the young woman is involved in a highly abusive S&M relationship. On order to gain the affections of her student, Mariko decides to take revenge against the men in Rika's life.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Guard of Auschwitz (2018)
Plot Summary:
Nazi occupied Poland, during the World War II. Hans, a former brilliant student, has become an SS officer stationed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. When he is commissioned by his superior officer to build an efficient gas chamber, Hans, facing the harsh reality, begins to realize the magnitude of the atrocious acts of which he is being accomplice.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Return to the Hiding Place (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a young resistance fighter witnesses atrocities towards the Jews, he's drawn into a web of espionage and clandestine activities. When he meets a young physics students and resistance journalist - Hans Poley - they embark on a hunt through underground tunnels, Gestapo hijacks and daring rescues.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland (1989)
Plot Summary:
A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Stolen by Their Father (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story of a mother whose two young daughters are kidnapped by her abusive ex-husband—and her all-consuming fight to get them back.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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7:19 (2016)
Plot Summary:
At 7:19 a.m., on September 19th of 1985, the most destructive earthquake hit Mexico's City. Inside what's left of a building, a group of survivors fight for their lives waiting for rescue.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, hispanic
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Never Forget (1991)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Mermelstein (Leonard Nimoy) and Mrs. Mermelstein (Blythe Danner) a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. He is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and she is a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts. When challenged by a hate group to prove that Jews were actually gassed at Auschwitz, Mel Mermelstein rises to the occasion with the support of his wife and children, in spite of the dangers to himself, his business, and his family. William John Cox (Dabney Coleman) provides legal help (pro bono) as a lawyer, originally a Roman Catholic from Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: political
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The Invisibles (2017)
Plot Summary:
Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible.".
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, sincere, thought provoking, art house
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Munich: The Edge of War (2021)
Plot Summary:
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dramatic, political
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The Conference (2022)
Plot Summary:
On January 20, 1942, the Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: The Final Solution, the organization of the systematic mass murder of eleven million European Jews.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, disturbing, tense, captivating
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The Elevator: Three Minutes Can Change Your Life (2015)
Plot Summary:
A disturbing psychological thriller, that engages the audience to the point that it is always caught off guard, thus changing the point of view of the two main performers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller
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Alcoholist (2016)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic spends all his time spying on his neighbor, waiting for the right moment to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Revenge (2015)
Plot Summary:
Rebekka travels back to a hotel by the Norwegian fjords seeking revenge on the man who ruined her sister's life. Under false identity, she seeks out her deceased sister's violator and embeds herself into his idyllic family to destroy his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Birdcatcher (2019)
Plot Summary:
Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, rough, thought provoking, heartbreaking, suspenseful, factual, period piece
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Sobibor (2018)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story, international historical project “Sobibor” is dedicated to the heroism of the Soviet o cer Alexander Pechersky. During the great Patriotic war, being in a Nazi concentration camp Sobibor he managed to do the impossible — for only three weeks to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Part of the escapees were caught and shot, and the rest led by Pechersky managed to escape and joined the partisans.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: rough, factual, suspenseful, philosophical, political
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Labyrinth of Lies (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, heartbreaking, emotional, social, crying, tense
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The Counterfeiters (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, brutal, bleak, harsh, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic, intense, sincere