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Plot Summary:
Darren Huenemann, a spoiled 18-year old plots to have two classmates murder his mother and grandmother so he can inherit their fortunes. His worship of Caligula leads him to treat all like those in the Roman Imperial Court, manipulating, threatening and cajoling those who would stand in his way. Based on a true story of the early Nineties in British Columbia.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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In the Darkness of the Night (2004)
Plot Summary:
A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Portugal
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, touching, masterpiece
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Stolen Season (2020)
Plot Summary:
A therapist spirals into obsession as evidence points that a troubled teen could be her own child surrendered 17 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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My First Client (2019)
Plot Summary:
A success-hungry lawyer meets a young sister and brother suffering from domestic abuse and digs into their case.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, disturbing
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Crime and Punishment (2002)
Plot Summary:
John Simm stars in this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's tragic masterpiece - a profound drama of redemption and a thrilling detective story of the soul.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, philosophical, period piece, costume drama, existential, psychotronic
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See How They Fall (1994)
Plot Summary:
Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a young man that does not look very smart and started to follow him everywhere (as a puppy) and changed his name to Johnny to please Marx. Of course, Simon's story is related with Marx and Johnny's one. But the thriller is only a pretext for a psychological description of the three main characters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, black comedy, dark comedy
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Buoyancy (2019)
Plot Summary:
An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspense, disturbing
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The Killing of John Lennon (2006)
Plot Summary:
The film follows the travels and accounts of Mark Chapman (Jonas Ball) and gives the watcher an insight into his mind. It starts with him in Hawaii and how he does not fit in with anyone including his job; family; friends etc. He says he is searching for a purpose in his life and that it has no direction. He seeks refuge in the public library where he finds the book, 'The Catcher in the Rye'. He becomes obsessed with the book and believes that he himself is the protaganist in the book, Holden Caulfield. He believes the ideas in the book reflect his own personal life and how he does not fit in anywhere and he reads it constantly. He then finds another book in the library about The Beatles singer John Lennon and begins a personal hatred for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy
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Secrets of a Gold Digger Killer (2021)
Plot Summary:
Multimillionaire Steven Beard, a retired broadcasting executive, who fell hard for Celeste , an attractive waitress who served him his nightly cocktail at the local country club in Austin, Texas.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, emotional
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Partners in Crime (2014)
Plot Summary:
On his way to school, Huang witnesses the death of Hsia, a popular teenager in their high school,along with Lin and Yeh, the other 2 students from their high school, whom Huang has never known before. Even though the three guys try to save her, she is now gone forever. Her dead body lies in front of them, and this shocking image ties their fates together, and this twisted fate is going to change their high school lives forever... Because of all different reasons, Huang, Yeh, and Lin start their own investigations in order to find out the truth for Hsia’s death.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense, serious
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Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes (2001)
Plot Summary:
The real-life case based on the horrific crimes of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the mother and son duo who specialized in theft, fraud and murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, touching
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A Killing Affair (1985)
Plot Summary:
Peter Weller (Robocop) stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kathy Baker) living in West Virginia takes in the man (Weller) whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she begins to fall for him, but continues to question whether or not she can trust him.Directed by David Saperstein and based on a novel by Robert Houston, A Killing Affair features twists and turns up until the end.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Dark Nest (2011)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Chippendales Murder (2000)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Steve Banjerlee who started a sleazy male strip club for women. Several years later he meets Nick De Noia, a choreographer whom he goes into partnership with to turn his nightclub into a successful high-class business that eventually leads to betrayal and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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State of Mind (2003)
Plot Summary:
Reeling from the discovery of her husband's adultery, Grace moves back to her family home with her son. Amidst all this emotional turmoil, forensic psychologist Grace is asked by police to determine the guilt or innocence a man who killed his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, mind bending, realistic
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Tainted (2020)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con with ties to the Russian mob and Aryan brotherhood yearns to escape his past life of violence but ultimately decides to undertake one last assignment to escape the Russian mob and earn his freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, contemplative
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Intrigo: Dear Agnes (2019)
Plot Summary:
What is a human life worth? How is it possible that a woman like Agnes could agree to kill another human being? Is it the money? Or are there other forces at play?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Stray Bullets (2016)
Plot Summary:
In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Grahan (2001)
Plot Summary:
The widowed Chief Minister Jagdish Acharya lives an opulent lifestyle along with his daughter, Sunita and son, Sanjay. One day he gets a phone call from the Police Commissioner informing him that a woman has filed a FIR of rape against Sanjay.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Hours of the Day (2003)
Plot Summary:
Abel lives with his mother in a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona. His life, grey and boring, is based on the small family business, his mother's house, his girlfriend's bed, and the town bars. However under an appearance of quiet and gentle man, Abel hides a dark and morbid personality.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, slow cinema, aesthetic, contemplative
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A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2015)
Plot Summary:
A librarian with a sharp mind for murder, Aurora Teagarden is known around her small town as a master sleuth. When her friend Jane unexpectedly dies and leaves Aurora everything in her will, she also leaves a troubling murder mystery haunting her neighborhood. It is up to Aurora to piece together the clues—including a skull, its missing skeleton and a suspicious group of neighbors—and solve the murder before she becomes the unlikely killer’s next victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, psychological
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Born Killers (2005)
Plot Summary:
iggy Banks tells the story of two charming and brilliant brothers who finance their lifestyle by robbing and murdering pretty much anyone foolish enough to get in the car with them. They learn the business from their sociopath father (Tom Sizemore) who doesn't bother to hide his crimes, or the brutal philosophy which drives it. He tells his sons people are just piggy banks. You need money? Just break one open. Michael is sloppy and reckless he goes about his work with a demented glee, John perhaps even more horrifyingly, understands the misery he inflicts he simply doesn't care. It's just a job. Lock all your doors.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, psycho film
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She Made Them Do It (2013)
Plot Summary:
"She Made Them Do It" follows the twisted life of Sarah Pender (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) a charismatic, intelligent young woman who would become one of the country’s most sought after fugitives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, crime thriller
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Menendez: Blood Brothers (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lyle and Eric Menendez were nice, educated boys from Beverly Hills, which makes the murder of their parents even more inexplicable. Never-before-seen details emerge in this investigation into their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Rivals (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl becomes entangled in a volatile relationship with a pair of high-school lovers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, dark, teen, mind bending, realistic
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Anatomy of a Hate Crime (2001)
Plot Summary:
This MTV film dramatizes the horrific hate-crime killing of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard (Cy Carter) in Wyoming. In 1998, Shepard, a gay college student, was savagely beaten by Russell Henderson (Ian Somerhalder) and Aaron McKinney (Brendan Fletcher), who left their victim to die. Flashbacks paint a picture of Shepard's life and provide insight into why the killers, who initially set out to rob the young man, would commit such a brutal murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, bleak, serious, realistic, controversial, queer cinema
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The Ministers (2009)
Plot Summary:
A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, detective
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Innocent (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bill Pullman (Independence Day, Torchwood) stars as Rusty Sabich, a judge charged with the murder of his wife, a situation that comes 20 years after he was cleared in the death of his mistress. During this latest trial, a secret affair from Rusty's recent past threatens to hamper his defense and fracture his relationship with his son. Oscar® winner Marcia Gay Harden (Pollack, Damages) plays Rusty's wife, while Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2, Law & Order: LA) is his friend and defense attorney. Scott Turow's Innocent is a sequel to Turow's bestseller Presumed Innocent. The movie is written and directed by Mike Robe.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Silent Witness (2011)
Plot Summary:
Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of murdering his first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, serious, suspenseful
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The Katsuragi Murder Case (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Katsuragi Household that runs a small store may appear serene. But as the younger son Minoru commits a murder on the street, the family is exposed to the public. Is there anybody that is behind this murder case?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dark Blood (2021)
Plot Summary:
A father is imprisoned after committing a brutal revenge crime. During his confinement he must adapt to a new life of abuse, including injury and humiliation by guards and other prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing