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Plot Summary:
Two Korean girls, Jung-Min (14) and Young-hee (15) are kidnapped by the Japanese Imperial Army and taken to a 'Comfort Station' in China. There, they join other kidnapped girls in serving Japanese soldiers as sexual slaves known as 'Comfort Women'. Decades later, an elderly lady attempts to reunite with the spirit of her lost friend. Inspired by the testimony of Kang Il-chul.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense
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Plot Summary:
The misadventures of an attractive woman who works in a cold store.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
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Web Cam Girls (2017)
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When Alex Hiles' hot mess cousin Carolyn vanishes, Alex suspects the worst...Carolyn has been "camming" lately, and Alex suspects she broke the rules and met one of her clients...No one believes her and it's now up to Alex to track and face the predator that kidnaps Cam Girls.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Autumn Born (1979)
Plot Summary:
A rich young woman is kidnapped and taken to a school of "discipline.".
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, sexploitation film
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Oscuro animal (2016)
Plot Summary:
Oscuro animal tells the story of three women forced to flee their homes in a war torn region in Colombia. Each of their journeys, marked by terror, takes them on a trek from the deep jungle to the outskirts of Bogotá, where they will gather new strength to start a new life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Greece
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Thirty Years of Adonis (2017)
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Yang Ke, a Beijing Opera actor, is fatefully driven into the underworld of masculine sex workers, and becomes a class of his own. He finds himself on a roller coaster between heavenly love with both men and women, and a living hell ensnared by devious villains and hypocrites. Despite his faith, endeavor and willingness to give, he remains a prisoner to his karma. Hell awaits when heaven seems near, and the ultimate truth is revealed only in a heartbreaking moment from which there is no return.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, touching, suspense, erotic, art film, weird, queer cinema
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Rebirth (2011)
Plot Summary:
After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was having an affair with. Raising the child as her own, it is four years before the authorities catch up with her and the young child.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, sad
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Plot Summary:
A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, form an unlikely bond that transforms them and threatens to derail the traffickers' plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Brava (2017)
Plot Summary:
Janine works in a bank giving credits to clients to buy houses and receives the offer of a promotion to work in a future branch in China for which she takes Mandarin classes. One night he travels from work to his home on the subway. There is attacked by two young delinquents a very old woman and Janine tries to avoid it. The young follow her and it is then that they steal and attack her sexually. After recovering from the blows and the anguish he gets up and sees his attackers raping a helpless young girl. Janine, instead of taking some initiative to stop them, flees home. From that situation her life is disrupted and her job promotion to China, her consolidated partner and her present as an independent woman become secondary and worthless issues. Janine lives in anguish and tormented by the memory of that traumatic situation. To try to recompose himself, he travels to the countryside to see his father who is a widower and is trying to rebuild his life after the death of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing
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Dog Days (2016)
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Endless dog days of summer weigh heavily on the impoverished suburb of Changsha where a young mother, Lulu, works as a dancer in a cheap nightclub. Coming home late one night, she discovers that her boyfriend Bai Long has disappeared with their baby. Her desperate search takes her to a transvestite bar where gay man Sunny is performing; he knows the whereabouts of the child’s father. A deal is struck between the odd couple whose lives are now fatefully intertwined.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Syndrome (2004)
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A man is diagnosed terminally ill and having only a limited time to live he decides to inflict pain and suffering on an ex-girlfriend in an attempt to teach her the value of life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Trance (2006)
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Sonia, a girl from St Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is suddenly kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. She will be dragged from country to country and resistance will only bring her misery and humiliation.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Russia, France, Portugal
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, queer cinema
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Hotel Coppelia (2021)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
During the Japanese colonial rule of Korea, while people are in despair, Jae-ho tries to raise morale by winning cycle championship. Bok-dong, who started cycling with Jae-ho just to make a forture, becomes a symbol of hope for Koreans by defeating Japanese cyclists.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
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Plot Summary:
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 995
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Network of Freedom (2017)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 126
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Country: Spain
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Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 262
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
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Perfect Education 6 (2004)
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 105
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Country: Japan
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Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 230
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 529
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min
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New Tokyo Decadence: The Slave (2007)
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A secretary is introduced to the world of BDSM by her boss. She becomes his personal slave as they take a walk on the wild side of experimentations. This film is based on main actress Rinako Hirasawa’s personal experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Oleg (2019)
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Oleg, a young Latvian butcher, arrives in Brussels in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory. His experience turns short after being betrayed by a colleague. Alone in a country where he doesn’t belong, he quickly falls under the yoke of Andrzej, a Polish criminal.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Anniversary Nightmare (2019)
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
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Nessun Dorma (2016)
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The beautiful yet naive Jasmine has second thoughts about her arranged marriage with the most eligible bachelor in town because she is secretly in love with the dog-loving math prodigy Fong. One night, she is attacked on her way home. She wakes up and finds herself trapped in a room and tied to a bed naked. She was raped but managed to escape, and this leads to murderous outcomes.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 173
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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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Stolen from the Suburbs (2015)
Plot Summary:
A single mother from the suburbs searches for her kidnapped daughter before human traffickers sell her on the international market.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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On the eve of her 16th birthday, Allison Riley disappears. When the police refuse their requests, her parents, Joanna and Case, reluctantly hire John Belton, a private investigator with a reputation for questionable procedures and a dark past. Quickly, Belton realizes that Allison was coerced by a young handsome boy she met on social media and had been trafficked, and they are on a race against time to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 315
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Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
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Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Girl in the Bunker (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set in 2006 and based on the true story of Elizabeth Shoaf, this powerful film explores the tension-filled ten days Elizabeth was kidnapped and held prisoner by Vinson Filyaw. Imprisoned in a secret underground bunker hidden deep in the woodland, Elizabeth finds herself at the mercy of an erratic and dangerous fantasist who dreams of one day making her his wife... While a massive police hunt unfolds above ground, it falls to Elizabeth to somehow outwit her captor if she is to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: Canada
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Plot tags: psychological, suspense, rough, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, disturbing, dark