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Plot Summary:
An ambitious young FBI agent is assigned to investigate iconic actress Jean Seberg when she becomes embroiled in the tumultuous civil rights movement in late 1960s Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: political thriller, tense, captivating, realistic, disturbing, depressing, political, suspense, sad, period drama
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The Trick (2021)
Plot Summary:
The Trick tells the story of world-renowned Professor Philip Jones; Director of Climate Research at the University of East Anglia, who back in 2009 found himself at the eye of an international media storm and the victim of cyberterrorism. With time running out against an unseen enemy, The Trick looks at the potentially devastating consequences to humanity from climate change denial; how a media storm undermined public confidence in the science and how the concept of ‘truth’ took a back seat causing us to lose a decade of action.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Biography, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political
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Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, queer cinema
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The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
Plot Summary:
The Federal Bureau of Narcotics launches an undercover sting operation against jazz singer Billie Holiday.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, retro, political, anamorphic, independent film, interesting
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Clean Break (2008)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Panther (1995)
Plot Summary:
Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some points.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: political, disturbing, controversial, philosophical, hood, cult classic, tense, bleak, serious, realistic
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Neerja (2016)
Plot Summary:
Neerja is a portrayal on the life of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: patriotic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, exciting, motivational, feel good, sad
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Half Moon Street (1986)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts moonlighting at the Jasmine Escort Service, where she has more control over men and money than she does at the office. On one of her 'dates', Lauren meets the politician Lord Bulbeck who is trying to mediate a peace accord between the Arabs and Israelis. Bulbeck falls in love with his escort, and unwittingly, Lauren becomes a pawn in some very dirty politics.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: political thriller, psychological, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, sexual, erotic, light, romantic
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The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
Plot Summary:
It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One day Bauer receives a letter from Argentina, written by a man who is certain that his daughter is dating the son of Adolph Eichmann. Excited by the promising lead, and mistrustful of a corrupt judiciary system where Nazis still lurk, Bauer journeys to Jerusalem to seek alliance with Mossad, the Israeli secret service. To do so is treason — yet committing treason is the only way Bauer can serve his country.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, social, unusual plot structure
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11.25: The Day He Chose His Own Fate (2012)
Plot Summary:
On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving behind a legacy of masterpieces and a controversy that echoes to this day. The man was Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's greatest and most celebrated novelists. With four members of his own private army - the Tatenokai - Mishima had taken the commandant hostage and called upon the assembled military outside the Ministry to overthrow their society and restore the powers of the Emperor. When the soldiers mocked and jeered Mishima, he cut short his speech and withdrew to the commandant's office where he committed seppuku - the samurai warrior's death - tearing open his belly with a ceremonial knife before being beheaded by one of his colleagues. What was Mishima truly trying to express through his actions? And what did he witness during his final moments?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, offbeat, contemplative
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Cesar Chavez (2014)
Plot Summary:
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to working people.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, realistic, inspirational, political, independent film
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Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (2002)
Plot Summary:
Drama. TV Movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
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Patty Hearst (1988)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of life and she joined forces with the cause that her abductors were fighting for. This created a US scandal and Patty Hearst has become a pop culture fixture. Written by Josh Pasnak.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, thought provoking, serious, realistic, philosophical, neo noir, political, historical drama, independent film
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The Grim Sleeper (2014)
Plot Summary:
Journalist Christine Pelisek helps law enforcement investigate the alleged serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, rough, mind bending
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Son of the South (2020)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, Bob Zellner, grandson of a Klansman, comes of age in the Deep South and eventually joins the Civil Rights Movement.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, inspirational
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Kill the Messenger (2014)
Plot Summary:
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: political, tense, suspenseful, thought provoking, clever, captivating, disturbing, spiritual, neo noir, emotional
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Billionaire Boys Club (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establishes a get rich quick scam that turns deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, exciting, atmospheric, realistic, intense, controversial, crying, freeze frame, queer cinema
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I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, disturbing, philosophical, surreal, art film, grim, edutainment, tense, offbeat
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The Wronged Man (2010)
Plot Summary:
Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a neighborhood girl. Eventually convinced of his innocence, Janet takes Calvin's pro bono case and wages a dramatic and stormy 22-year battle with the justice system that ultimately redeems an unjustly accused man and cements a life-long friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, sincere, rough, bleak, disturbing
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Richard Jewell (2019)
Plot Summary:
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, tense, sad, realistic, factual, emotional, suspense, historical drama, touching, depressing
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The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of the civil rights heroine whose refusal to obey racial bus segregation was just one of her acts in her fight for justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: uplifting, thought provoking, realistic, serious, gothic, political, emotional, black cinema
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
Plot Summary:
The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now you can see how he used it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: neo noir, political, black and white, independent film, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious, political, suspenseful, factual, retro, neo noir
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The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
Plot Summary:
This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, intense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense
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Breach (2007)
Plot Summary:
Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation of Hanssen's sexual habits, however Hanssen is really suspected of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for years and being responsible for the deaths of agents working for the United States.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political thriller, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, intense, clever, political, dramatic, psychological thriller
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The Butler (2013)
Plot Summary:
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, inspirational, political, factual, uplifting, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, historical drama
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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: political, tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Insider (1999)
Plot Summary:
Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 178000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: political, suspense, cerebral, clever, intense, fast paced, tense, sincere, realistic, suspenseful
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Snowden (2016)
Plot Summary:
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 160000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: realistic, factual, political thriller, thought provoking, serious, political, intense, clever, tense, informative
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Argo (2012)
Plot Summary:
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 633000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, clever, captivating, political, intense, suspense, breathtaking, political thriller, realistic
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Mississippi Burning (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his, former Sheriff, partner.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspense, political, disturbing, realistic, political thriller, tense, suspenseful, psychological, intense, atmospheric