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Plot Summary:
Strings is a 2011 American dramatic thriller film about a musician who discovers his therapist manipulates patients into committing crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Game (2008)
Plot Summary:
Struggling artist Min Hee-do is offered three billion won to bet his life to a game against a rich old man, Kang No-sik, who is dying from a terminal illness. The game is for each man to dial a random phone number and guess if the person who answers will be male or female. Hee-do loses the bet, and after a month long brain operation, he wakes up to find that they have swapped bodies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: mysterious, mind twisting, twisted, surprise ending, mind bending
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Scalpel (1977)
Plot Summary:
A psychopathic plastic surgeon transforms a young accident victim into the spitting image of his missing daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 843
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, southern gothic, psychotronic, independent film
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Ice Scream (2016)
Plot Summary:
A shy young man attempts to buy ice cream for his girlfriend when faced by two of the town's worst bullies. This is the beginning of a day he will never forget.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: cult film
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Prisoner's Daughter (2022)
Plot Summary:
Released from prison with terminal cancer, Max tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter and the grandson he’s never known. When his daughter’s abusive, drug-addicted ex-husband reappears, Max’s violent past comes back to haunt them all.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Evil Has a Face (1996)
Plot Summary:
A talented young female police sketch artist uses her abilities to track down an evil child molester.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Trial by Fire (1995)
Plot Summary:
Paulette Gil is a very engaged teacher. When she realizes that her pupil Kip has problems she takes special care for him. But Kip interprets it in the wrong way and tells his mates that he had an affair with Paulette. Then he commits suicide and the rumours draw Paulette into court. - Written by Volker Boehm.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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From Now On (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The 'Human' Factor (1975)
Plot Summary:
After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, poliziottesco
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Gangster Kittens (2016)
Plot Summary:
An uncompromising portrait of the struggles of a resplendent teenager with an anarchic spirit, fighting to maintain her existence in the bleak urban landscape of London. Angel is a cool but troubled nymphet, disillusioned by the tedium and meaninglessness of her uninviting working class future, her eyes filled with ferocious pique. Neglected by her abusive uncle and abandoned by her school, the disparate and embittered delinquent embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery to find a whole new world of possibilities.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, black comedy
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American Badger (2021)
Plot Summary:
A seemingly cold-blooded hitman is assigned to befriend a call girl, but all hell breaks loose when he is assigned to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, serious, suspense, independent film
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Deadly Daycare (2014)
Plot Summary:
Rachel decides to take her three year old daughter to daycare. As the days pass, the woman feels that the teacher turns too with her daughter, reaching an almost obsessive relationship.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Fiksi. (2008)
Plot Summary:
Alisha (Ladya Cheryl) never feel comfortable staying in her cool and spacious home until one day she meets Barry (Donny Alamsyah) who introduces her the meaning of love.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disgusting
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Maternal Instincts (1996)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant doctor's life is made hell by the deranged patient to whom she gave a hysterectomy, without the patient's consent.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Death Waltz (2010)
Plot Summary:
From a policewoman broken leg seems completely slip out of the soil. Life-threatening love triangle mixed with her husband and their criminal friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, dread
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Runt (2019)
Plot Summary:
Neglected and unsupervised, a group of high school seniors are pulled into a downward cycle of violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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All Mistakes Buried (2015)
Plot Summary:
A lone, struggling addict takes on a dangerous underground criminal ring in his small Southern town to retrieve a stolen pendant he believes will save his marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, gloomy, independent film
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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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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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Illusions (1992)
Plot Summary:
Greg Sanderson is helping his wife, Jan, to recover from a nervous breakdown and revive their strained marriage. Their privacy is interrupted by the arrival of Greg's stunning and mysterious sister, Laura. Jan's paranoia deepens as she suspects that Greg's and her sister's relationship is too close. In her desperation, she confides her fears to the landlord but his weird reaction only creates more confusion.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, exciting, enigmatic, erotic
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Instinct (2019)
Plot Summary:
In spite of her expertise and experience, a seasoned psychologist is completely infatuated with the sex offender she is treating in a penal institution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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On the Inside (2011)
Plot Summary:
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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Absolute Killers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his conscience. - Edward Furlong, Grace Johnston, Meat Loaf.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
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Her Name Is Carla (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, realistic, crying
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Doctor Death (2019)
Plot Summary:
After a skiing accident, Sarah's life is saved thanks to a brilliant surgeon, Dr. Vincent. But when Dr. Vincent mistakes Sara's gratitude for love, he becomes obsessed with her, determined to have her at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, scary, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspenseful
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Red (2008)
Plot Summary:
An older, reclusive man's best friend and inspiration for living is his 14-year-old dog named "Red". When three troublesome teens kill the dog for no good reason, the grieving man sets out for justice and redemption by whatever means available to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: emotional, suspense, touching, tense, serious, disturbing, psychological horror, cult classic, realistic, gloomy
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The Crossing Guard (1995)
Plot Summary:
After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time to try and make peace with himself and his entourage, and even finds romance. Gale, whose life is spiraling down because of his obsession towards Booth, will bring himself on the very edge of sanity. At he end of the week, both men will find themselves on a collision course with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, emotional, suspense, intense, psychological, serious, existential, sentimental, cult classic
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Extremities (1986)
Plot Summary:
A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her attacker might come after her, she goes to the police, but with no proof of the incident, they can do nothing. In fact, the man does use the information in her bag and comes to her apartment with the intent of rape, but she sprays him in the face with insect repellent, and then holds him captive. She is then faced with deciding whether to go to the police who might not believe her and release him, or to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller, neo noir, independent film, rough, thought provoking, serious
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Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, independent film, dark, suspenseful, teen, gloomy
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Instinct (1999)
Plot Summary:
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything -- even put his very life on the line -- in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, suspense, touching, emotional, tense, serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful
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Canal Street (2018)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, spiritual, sad, independent film