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Plot Summary:
Eco-terrorists attack a ship carrying toxic waste.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Sweden, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Liars' Club (1994)
Plot Summary:
The loyalty of a tight group of friends is put to the test when there's a date rape within the circle.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Knife in the Water (1962)
Plot Summary:
On their way to a sailing trip, an aging husband and wife invite along an emphatic young hitchhiker out of sheer patronization.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, road movie, suspense, minimal cast, tense, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, sexual
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Tripwire (1989)
Plot Summary:
A band of ruthless international terrorists led by Josef Szabo (David Warner) hijack a speeding railroad train loaded with a full arsenal of powerful military weaponry capable of threatening world peace. The only hero who can stop the terrorists' scheme for world domination is Jack DeForest (Terence Knox). During the battle between good and evil the hero DeForest accidentally kills the son of the Szabo. Seeking revenge Szabo locates DeForest’s family, murders his wife and kidnaps their teenage son thereby turning their fight it into a personal vendetta. So, DeForest must fight not only to save the world, but for his only remaining family.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Madonna: A Case of Blood Ambition (1990)
Plot Summary:
A man is convicted of raping and murdering a child and sent to prison. He is shortly afterwards beaten to death by other inmates. His daughter blames the jurors who convicted him for his death, and she hatches a scheme to murder each of the jury members, often seducing them herself first.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Brutes (1970)
Plot Summary:
On the edge of a big city on a go-kart track, Mike and Werner meet Alice and her friends. They like the girl. Mike manages to separate Alice from her group and get into the car with Werner. It had been decided to go to a lake with the others to take a bath at night. Too late Alice realizes that Mike and Werner did not drive to the agreed lake, but to a lonely gravel pit. The friends will not come anymore. And she realizes the intentions of her companions.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Boy from Heaven (2022)
Plot Summary:
A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, dies and the young student ecomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt's religious and political elite.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: interesting
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The Festival (1989)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Samir Seif.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration:
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Blackout (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young girl returns to her hometown in search of her father, gradually her childhood memories returns; a childhood with incest and violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Kiss Me in the Rain (1999)
Plot Summary:
Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other people's tragedies from tabloid newspapers. Obsessed by the story about a young single mother whose husband was killed and the killer got away with it, she befriends the young widow who would rather forget the whole event and go on with her life. Gradually, however, persistent Maire convinces her that the man must be made to pay for what he did.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Wolf Lake (1979)
Plot Summary:
Canadian film where in ex-marine Steiger, unhinged by the death of his son in Vietnam, terrorizes a young couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Disaster (2003)
Plot Summary:
When the girlfriend of a cult leader tries to leave the flock, she finds escape to be more difficult than she imagined.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Eye (1998)
Plot Summary:
Fredrik is a director for a company that has developed a camera that can be operated from a distance to inspect pipes. He is so obsessed about his girlfriend Ingrid that he arranges his own fake suicide so that he can check that she mourns his death properly. With a set of cameras in their house he can follow every step she takes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (1995)
Plot Summary:
Police sketch artist, Jack, helps blind rape victim Emmy describe her attacker.. a serial rapist and murderer who is now out to get her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Human (1962)
Plot Summary:
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Savage (2011)
Plot Summary:
There was a double homicide on the forgotten Swedish countryside several years ago. Two angry young men beat two young women to death, seemingly without any particular reason. The years passed but the images in our heads did not disappear. We tried to forget it, wrote screenplay after screenplay, but we always came back to those murders, and to telling the story about a part of Sweden that we never read about in newspapers, and that is populated by people whose thoughts and destinies rarely reaches beyond their village.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, mythical
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Deadly Daphne's Revenge (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young hitchhiker is picked up by four drunken hunters, one of whom rapes her. A tough prosecutor has all four of the men indicted for the crime, which results in a suicide and a murder-for-hire plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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What a Wonderful World (2014)
Plot Summary:
After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Moldova
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Terror in the Night (1994)
Plot Summary:
A fugitive killer posing as a policeman arrests two campers in the Arizona mountains.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Just for the Hell of It (1968)
Plot Summary:
A teenage gang led by the vicious Dexter; his girlfriend Mitzi; and friends Denny and Lummonx; create havoic in a small Florida town by harrassing various people, vandalizing property, well... just for the hell of it. When a former gang member, Doug, tries to prevent their ever increasing violent antics, Denny takes it upon himself and a few loyal members of the gang to target Doug's girlfriend, Jeanne, to make him back off.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Origin of Evil (2022)
Plot Summary:
Without a husband and without children, Stéphane, 45, a small worker in a fish cannery in Fos-sur-Mer, finally dares to reconnect with Serge, her father whom she has hardly ever known. The reunion is overwhelming but Serge is an aging man and Stéphane doesn't want to waste any more time; she immediately agrees to meet her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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Just the Two of Us (2023)
Plot Summary:
When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Sea Fog (2014)
Plot Summary:
A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, psychological, sexy, social, art house, crime drama
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A Hijacking (2012)
Plot Summary:
Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspense, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, independent film, realistic, educational, art house
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The Last Survivors (1975)
Plot Summary:
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Crew (1994)
Plot Summary:
Still depressed over the suicide of his mother, Bill has no idea that he's in for a wild ride when he and his wife Jennifer board the yacht owned by her bigoted lawyer brother. Along for the trip: a rock musician and his wife, as well as the newly sex-changed Tim, and the woman he's smuggling into the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, psychological thriller, independent film
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Black Sea (2014)
Plot Summary:
A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, suspense, tricky, bleak, psychological, clever, serious, captivating, stylized
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Voyage of Terror (1998)
Plot Summary:
An infectious disease researcher is on a cruise with her daughter when an ebola-type virus attacks the ship's passengers and crew.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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The Surface (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers, both at the end of their rope, suddenly meet in the middle of the unpredictable waters of Lake Michigan.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, 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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Abandoned (2015)
Plot Summary:
When their yacht capsizes during a storm; four men face almost certain death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, intense, serious, captivating, emotional