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Plot Summary:
Ray is a fledgling entrepreneur who specializes in high-end simulated abductions. He jumps at the chance when a mysterious client contracts him for a weekend kidnapping with a handsome payday at the end. But the job isn't all that it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, feel good, psychological, perverse, black comedy, dark comedy, neo screwball comedy
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Clickbait (2019)
Plot Summary:
You only die once.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, dark comedy, bizarre
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Murder of a Cat (2014)
Plot Summary:
When someone murders his beloved cat, Clinton, an adult child, demands justice. Taking it upon himself to solve the case, he teams up with an unlikely ally, Greta, and the two set out to find the culprit lurking in their small suburban town. But as Clinton searches for the truth, he begins to uncover a conspiracy that goes far deeper than he anticipated.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, black comedy, crying, offbeat, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Do You Know Me (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ellie Carter is recently graduated and has it all. While celebrating with friend and boyfriend, she comes across a milk carton with a picture of a missing child that looks a lot like her. As a prank, they call the toll free number and she realizes that this person could be her. The more she finds out, the closer she gets to getting herself and beloved ones killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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A Hitman's Solitude Before the Shot (2014)
Plot Summary:
The over-ambitious Koralnik has a dream job: he is a contract killer for a secret EU programme. But even eight years after his training he still hasn't had a single hit. Bored and frustrated, he lives according to the programme's strict rules - withdrawn, no social contact and constantly undercover. One day, the shy Rosa crashes into his car and life. Before he knows it, Koralnik is having dinner with her. For the first time, he can flee his everyday misery for an evening of company. But then the telephone rings. It's Koralnik's first job. With Rosa alongside, Koralnik sets off on a chaotic odyssey through a night in which nothing goes according to plan. It is only when Koralnik's target is revealed to be none other than one of his colleagues that the rigid concept by which he lives finally comes into question. He is confronted with the dilemma of either protecting his secret programme or drawing a line under his unfulfilled existence as a killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, light, humorous, captivating, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Red Stone (2021)
Plot Summary:
With one bullet, Motley’s life spirals out of control as he’s forced to go on the run from the ruthless crime lord, Jed Haywood. The brother of Haywood's best friend Boons recently died in a terrible car accident and today is the funeral. He has 10 hours to bring Motley in and get to the cemetery. Over the course of a day, Motley and Boon play a game of cat and mouse as their fate brings them together for a climatic showdown.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic
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A Killer Conversation (2014)
Plot Summary:
On the same day a burglar wants to kill you and your ex wants to make up - and for the life of it, you can't decide which is worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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American Hangman (2019)
Plot Summary:
An unidentified man posts a live feed on social media showing that he has kidnapped two strangers and intends to kill one before the day is out. His intention is to hold a capital 'trial' online. As the authorities recognize what's happening, it becomes apparent that the online public is going to act as judge and jury.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, psychological, tense, brutal, psychological thriller, cyber
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Layover (2012)
Plot Summary:
When the heiress of a luxury hotel chain is kidnapped at her dingy motel outside Detroit by a band of ruthless sex traffickers, her downtrodden assistant must figure out a way to rescue her.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating
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The Perfect Student (2011)
Plot Summary:
A criminology professor becomes a target herself when she tries to establish the innocence of her star student in a murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, psychological, tense, psychological thriller, sexy, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic
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Caught (2015)
Plot Summary:
A desperate housewife discovers her husband is having an affair and kidnaps his unsuspecting mistress, but what starts as a prank quickly spirals out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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Underbelly Blues (2011)
Plot Summary:
Uforic, a cowardly gangster rapper, hitches a ride with York, a redneck who takes him out to the desert to execute him for fun. But before York is able to pull the trigger, Uforic tells him about a secret transaction involving a mysterious briefcase and a large amount of cash. This sets into motion a series of events that will inevitably involve much of the L.A. underworld and may just bring down corporate America. York tells Queel, a dirty cop, who tells Lucy, a homicidal stripper and is overheard by Carl Mauve, the greasy club owner, who hires Smith and Wesson, a pair of bungling thugs, who have it stolen from them by Norman, a pickpocket with a Jewish Dominatrix mother, who brings it to Dr. Zeus, a local Meth cook, who might just be able to solve the secret of the briefcase. Meanwhile an insane, bloodthirsty hit man named Versetti, working for a large multinational corporation, will stop at nothing to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, hood, exciting
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Twisted Seduction (2010)
Plot Summary:
Applying his computerlike mind to the subject of dating, transplanted British mathematician David Grant (Tom Broadwell) searches all of Montreal for the perfectly compatible woman. But when he finds her (Caroline Brassard), Grant goes one step further and kidnaps her. Stealing a person's heart is one thing, but holding someone hostage based merely on statistical data seems like the antithesis of romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, sexy, surprise ending, twist ending
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How to Rob a Bank (2007)
Plot Summary:
Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, fast, surprise ending, dark comedy
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Demons from Her Past (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman returns to her hometown searching for answers after she's released from prison, having served a 25-year sentence for a crime she didn't commit.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
Plot Summary:
Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: detective, dark comedy, clever, suspenseful, retro, spooky, black comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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You Can't Stop the Murders (2003)
Plot Summary:
Australian small-town cop Gary (Eck) enjoys his nearly pastoral existence, with traffic violations providing the major excitement to his normally low-key days. While away from work, Gary spends a good deal of time fantasizing about local news reporter Julia (Kirstie Hutton), who would just as soon relocate to the thriving metropolis of Sydney. Soon, however, a motorcyclist is found decapitated, with a construction worker, a sailor, and a cowboy and Indian also meeting the same fate. With some murderous weirdo with some sort of Village People fixation terrorizing the town, Gary -- with the help of big-wig city detective and Don Johnson-wannabe Tony Charles (Mir) -- begins to realize that a cop is the last remaining victim to be murdered in order for the killings to be complete.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, dark comedy, cult film
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The Wild Card (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young, beautiful wife cheating on her rich, older husband amidst the neon lights of Las Vegas. Four men hired to do a job, but there is a traitor in their midst. Adultery, betrayal, kidnapping and murder lead to the ultimate double cross and no one is innocent in the end. Who will live and who will die... and who is The Wild Card?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For (2019)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant crossword puzzle editor (Chabert) finds her life turned upside-down when she is pulled into a police investigation after several of the clues in her recent puzzles are linked to unsolved crimes. Proving her innocence means leaving the comfort of her sheltered world and working with a tough police detective (Elliott), puzzling through clues together in order to crack the case, as the two are fish out of water in each other's worlds.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, psychological, surprise ending
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Surveillance (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of an security guard whose spotless record at crime prevention marks the horrifying reality of deception, blackmail and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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The Owners (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, tense, dark, slasher, minimal cast, perverse
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Home Sweet Hell (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mona and Don’s seemingly perfect suburban bliss is disrupted by a sexy extortionist and Mona will stop at nothing, including killing the competition, to keep her little slice of heaven.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, realistic, humorous, semi serious, funny, suspenseful, black comedy, captivating, psychological, feel good
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Terrible Angels (2012)
Plot Summary:
Detective Ben Nolan is sent to investigate the story of a convicted prostitute and known drug dealer Linda Grossel. Linda explains that she was kidnapped and held captive for weeks. As the investigation unfolds, Linda's sanity is put to question, leaving Ben to decide whether to go on with the investigation or leave Linda to the fate of the prison system.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological, realistic
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Poker Night (2014)
Plot Summary:
When you become a detective in Warsaw Indiana - you go to Poker Night, where you play against some of the best cops in the business. They tell you stories about their time on the job - their successes and failures. When new Detective Stan Jeter leaves the game, he is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement. Using the stories he heard at Poker Night, he must match wits against his captor - and save not only himself, but the young girl trapped in the basement with him. Like Seven and Usual Suspect, Poker Night combines thrills and twists and turns that will leave you guessing till the very end.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, psychological thriller, clever, slasher, detective, twisted, independent film, serious
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Valley of Ditches (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman bound in the front seat of a parked car watches helpless as her captor methodically digs a grave in the desert ground. The bloody lifeless body of her boyfriend lies framed in the rear-view mirror, a fate she will fight at all costs to avoid for herself. But this is only the beginning of a brutal struggle where survival could be worse than death.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, suspense
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Your Move (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man must go to extreme lengths to discover what happened to his kidnapped wife and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, action adventure, crying
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Soodhu Kavvum (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dass specialises in small time kidnapping and has his own set of rules. The primary and most important among them is not to get involved with influential people. Three jobless youngsters meet Dass and the four take up an assignment for a hefty sum that throws away this primary rule and end up being chased by a dreaded policeman.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, tense, captivating, exciting, epic, realistic, suspenseful, entertaining
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Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya (2019)
Plot Summary:
Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya is a brilliant, underrated detective from Nellore who runs an agency called FBI which sees no business. He gets more than what he asked for when a case happens to fall right into his lap out of nowhere.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, contemplative, dark, twist ending, detective
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Clue (1985)
Plot Summary:
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, humorous, parody, funny, black comedy, witty, hilarious, captivating, suspense, mind bending
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Murder by Death (1976)
Plot Summary:
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, surprise ending, humorous, spoof, funny, feel good, detective, atmospheric, suspense, disturbing
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A Simple Favor (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mommy vlogger Stephanie joins her best friend Emily's husband, Sean, to investigate her sudden disappearance from their small town.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 159000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, enigmatic, tense, suspense, psychological thriller, sexy, black comedy, dark comedy