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Plot Summary:
Set in present day Mumbai the story follows the life of a serial killer Ramanna who is inspired by an infamous serial killer from the 1960s Raman Raghav. His strange obsession with Raghavan, a young Cop keeps growing as he closely follows him without his knowledge and often creates situations where both of them come face to face.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, perverse, avant garde, extraordinary
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May God Save Us (2016)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, summer 2011. Economic crisis. 15-M movement and 1.5 million pilgrims waiting for the Pope’s arrival live side by side in a Madrid that’s hotter and more chaotic than ever. In this context, detectives Velarde and Alfaro must find what seems to be a serial killer. Their against-the-clock hunt will make them realise something they’d never imagined: neither of them are so very different from the killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, psychological thriller, noir, clever, crime drama, twisted
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The Great Father (2017)
Plot Summary:
A businessman who is trying hard to be a good father to his daughter has a run-in with malevolent policeman.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing
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Where Birds Don't Fly (2017)
Plot Summary:
A team of hardened detectives come face to face with evil as they investigate a killing spree in San Bernardino California.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Have Mercy on Us All (2007)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is found mysteriously dead in his apartment, Detective Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his partner Danglard investigate the case and discover that plague may have killed the victim. Meanwhile, in the center of Paris, the former actor Joss Le Guern survives reading advertisements in a square for the public; when he receives weird messages about an outbreak of plague that is coming to Paris, the former professor Hervé Decambrais requests the warnings and goes to the library to research the meaning of the text, where he meets Adamsberg. Together they find that a maniac is killing people using flees contaminated by rats and spreading the disease in the city; without any clue, the police force do not have how to avoid the panic in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, serious, futuristic, realistic
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Krack (2021)
Plot Summary:
Pothuraju Veera Shankar is a hot-headed circle inspector from Andhra who doesn’t like to hear the word ‘background’. Wherever he is appointed in the state, he brings all the notorious gundas to their knees with his signature policing style. When Shankar is appointed in Ongole, the brutal Katari commits a spine-chilling murder and angers Shankar. How the rivalry between Pothuraju Veera Shankar and Katari turns worse is what Krack is all about.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Imaikkaa Nodigal (2018)
Plot Summary:
A CBI officer goes in search of a ruthless serial killer. Things get worse when the murderer targets the former and her family.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, bleak, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
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Rustom (2016)
Plot Summary:
Rustom Pavri, an honourable officer of the Indian Navy shoots his friend Vikram to death after discovering that his wife Cynthia had an affair with the rich businessman. The Commander surrenders himself to the Police immediately and admits to have killed Vikram but pleads 'not guilty' in court. Is he convicted or acquitted?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: patriotic, exciting, tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, political, mind twisting, fast
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The Prodigy (2005)
Plot Summary:
"The Prodigy" tells the story of small-time enforcer Truman Fisher's vicious conflict with a sadistic assassin who has chosen the unwilling Truman to be his successor. The assassin, who goes by the alias Rains and whose exploits have become the source of legend among Truman's underworld colleagues, drives Truman, through the pressure of constant violence and grief, to understand his own capacity for both bloodshed and compassion. Ultimately this reveals to Truman that he as with all of us, must find our place in this world or as Rains would say "our place in this grand design." This action begins quickly as Truman meets with a turncoat from a rival gang. This tense showdown erupts quickly into mayhem, when Rains makes his unexpected entrance. In the wake of the ensuing bloodbath, Truman is forced to reevaluate his own role in the small, violent world he inhabits, suddenly aware that there are larger powers at work which he does not understand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Ponmagal Vandhal (2020)
Plot Summary:
A resident in Ooty named ‘Petition’ Pethuraj reopens a case from 2004 that involved a serial killer ‘Psycho Jyoti’ who was convicted for the kidnapping and murder. Venba, his daughter and a passionate lawyer, seeks to unveil the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Port of Call (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on a real murder case where a dismembered corpse of a murdered 16 year-old prostitute girl was found in Hong Kong in 2008.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, noir, neo noir, crime drama, twisted
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Red Swastik (2007)
Plot Summary:
Bollywood version of Basic Instinct - has to be seen to be believed!!!.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dushman (1998)
Plot Summary:
According to police records, a daredevil, Gokul Pandit is on the loose. He would attempts to rape and kill young and beautiful girls who are alone.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, dark, suspense thriller
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Ugly (2013)
Plot Summary:
A team of the best cops in Mumbai is dispatched to find a girl who has gone missing from her father's car. As the hunt for the kidnapper begins, fingers suspiciously point to closer home.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, dark, twist ending, suspense thriller, inspirational, offbeat
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Talvar (2015)
Plot Summary:
A hardened cop deals with three conflicting perspectives involving a brutal double murder. The case is complicated as the prime suspects are the parents who supposedly killed their teenage daughter.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, captivating, social, psychological, tense, psychological thriller, mind bending, dark, realistic
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Gangs of Wasseypur (2012)
Plot Summary:
Shahid Khan is exiled after impersonating the legendary Sultana Daku in order to rob British trains. Now outcast, Shahid becomes a worker at Ramadhir Singh's colliery, only to spur a revenge battle that passes on to generations. At the turn of the decade, Shahid's son, the philandering Sardar Khan vows to get his father's honor back, becoming the most feared man of Wasseypur.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, France
Duration: 321 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, inspirational, touching, offbeat, intellectual
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Mrs. Serial Killer (2020)
Plot Summary:
When her husband is framed and imprisoned for serial murders, a doting wife must perform a copycat murder, to prove her husband's innocence.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sexy, tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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The Lost (2006)
Plot Summary:
A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire starts to crack at the foundations.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, slasher, erotic, sexy, depressing
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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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Evaru (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a high-ranking police officer is killed by his alleged rape victim, Sub-inspector Vikram Vasudev is entrusted with investigating what seems like an open-and-shut case. However, as he delves deeper, Vikram finds the case spiralling into a dark tale filled with unexpected surprises.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, twist ending, detective, twisted
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Freeway Killer (2010)
Plot Summary:
For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer easily avoided police at first. But as police closed in and the killer’s pattern grew more erratic, the only question was how many more will die?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, realistic
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Zodiac Killer (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young man who works at a nursing home uses the legendary Zodiac killer's M.O. to kill people who neglect their elderly relatives.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak
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B.T.K. Killer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Veteran Boogey Man and Zodiac Killer director Ulli Lommel continues his long tradition of delivering tense thrills with this relentless look at the life of the elusive, Kansas-based serial killer known to authorities only as "B.T.K." before his arrest.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, realistic, slasher
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Bundy and the Green River Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
A police detective consults with incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy to help him catch The Green River Killer. Based on terrifying true life elements which inspired Silence of the Lambs. In 1984, police in Washington State are investigating a spate of serial murders committed by a mysterious man known as The Green River Killer. With no leads to go on, the detective in charge of the case consults with psychologists in an attempt to get inside the mind of the killer. But when that doesn't produce a positive result and the killings continue, the detective realizes that the only way to understand what makes a serial killer tick is to meet one. So he visits the imprisoned Ted Bundy, one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychological, atmospheric, clever, suspense, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful
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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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Criticsized (2016)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer taunts police while increasing the body count on live streaming TV.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Character (2021)
Plot Summary:
A kind man aspires to become a manga writer, but villains and evil deeds do not come easily to him, for he has little experience or natural inclination for them. Things take a surprise turn when he comes across a family who were described as idealized that are no more. He uses the real-life situation for his work.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: manga, scary, tense, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, comic
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Blink (1993)
Plot Summary:
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, suspense, neo noir, enigmatic, erotic, psychological thriller, gloomy
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The Riverman (2004)
Plot Summary:
A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining insight into the Green River Killer who is terrorizing Seattle.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, mystical, detective, realistic, suspense
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Women (2021)
Plot Summary:
A small town detective while investigating the disappearance of a local woman comes across an unassuming Sociology professor who is hiding a secret life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, detective
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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