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Plot Summary:
A group of Malayali nurses stranded in Iraq, must survive their capture by the extremists and reach out to the rescue team headed by the Indian government.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, bleak
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C U Soon (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy meets Anu on an online dating website and decides to marry her. Jimmy's mother entrusts his cousin Kevin to get details about Anu. Now it's Kevin's turn to search for his cousin's fiancee who vanished without a trace, only to discover dark, shocking truths about her.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, cyber
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Felony (1994)
Plot Summary:
A reality cop show films a police raid on a drug ring that goes awry and results in the massacre of 11 policemen. All of this gets taped by the cameraman who tries to sell the tape to the gangsters and gets killed for his efforts. Meanwhile the film commentator gets pursued by the cops, the gangsters, and some crooked FBI agents. All are after the film which he doesn't have.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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The Book of Iyob (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the backdrop of the picturesque Munnar, it tells the story of Iyob, a slave-turned-master.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: feel good, suspense, stylized, period drama
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22 Female Kottayam (2012)
Plot Summary:
22 Female Kottayam, also known as 22FK, is a 2012 Indian rape and revenge film directed by Aashiq Abu and starring Rima Kallingal and Fahad Fazil in the lead roles. The film deals with the travails of a nurse who was victimised for no fault of hers and who takes revenge on her tormentors in a rather unusual manner. Set and filmed in Bangalore, the film released on April 13, 2012, and received strongly positive reviews from critics. It was also well received at the box-office.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Escape From Raqqa (2019)
Plot Summary:
Paris, spring 2015. Faustine travels to Syria with her little son to join ISIS; but, once in Raqqa, she soon realizes the hell she is gotten herself into. Her husband Sylvain quickly understands that the French government is powerless to help him, so he plans with some friends a high-risk extraction operation to get his family back.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Turkey
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Traffic (2011)
Plot Summary:
An emotional thriller based on a road trip from Kochi to Palakkad. Inspired from the real events that happened in Chennai.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: suspense, road movie
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Assault on VA-33 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Decorated army veteran Jason Hill is on a routine visit to the local VA hospital when organized terrorists infiltrate the building and take hostages, including a decorated general, and Hill’s wife. The highly trained veteran is outnumbered and the last line of defense, taking on a building full of armed insurgents before it’s too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Anwar (2010)
Plot Summary:
The film takes a look at the life of a terrorist. Anwar starts off making money on small-time hawala deals, but later transitions to bombing plots. He becomes a big name in the Coimbatore crime world and wins the heart of Ayesha. Is he really what he seems to be or does Anwar’s past hold an even darker secret?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating
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Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home (2004)
Plot Summary:
Major Ranvir Kaul (Amitabh Bachchan) is a POW who was captured along with over 50 soldiers by Pakistani soldiers in 1971 during the war between India and Pakistan. 33 years later Ranvir's son Gaurav (Akshaye Khanna) decides to go on a rescue mission to Pakistan and bring back his father who he has not seen since he was a child. Helping him on his mission is Khan (Sanjay Dutt) who had successfully escaped from the same prison. They steal, kill, and plan to get the prisoners out. This movie is inspired by the film The Great Escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, realistic, patriotic, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Shikkar (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of Shikkar takes place at Chittazha, a mountainous terrain where bamboo reeds flourish. After much wandering from place to place, Balraman (Mohanlal) a lorry driver has finally settled down with his daughter (Ananya) at Chittazha. Peace evades the man as his past catches up with him, and Balaraman has to take risky everything to safeguard his own life and that of his daughter's.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, serious, captivating
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Aurora: Operation Intercept (1995)
Plot Summary:
There have been two mysterious plane crashes in only 48 hours. The aircraft suddenly lose control and crash, killing everyone aboard. A woman of Russian descent, Francesca Zaborszin, the daughter of a slain Federal investigator, claims responsibility for the crashes. She believes her father was killed by the FBI as part of a cover-up operation and wishes to avenge his death by threatening to down more aircraft using the same electromagnetic pulse method. She also intends to crash a stolen military jet into the White House. There's no time to ground the planes: just enough time to try to stop her.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending
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Gaganam (2011)
Plot Summary:
Flight No. SK 957, Star Jet bound for Delhi is set to take off from Chennai on a Monday morning. Terrorists in a team of five, disguised as passengers take over the Star jet flight, supposedly to effect the release of their leader, Yusuf Khan. The passengers' only hope is Major Ravindra from the National Security Guards who along with his team, Major Nawaz Khan and Major Menon, captured Yusuf Khan 2 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Avalanche (1978)
Plot Summary:
The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, psychotronic, suspense, independent film, road movie, sexy, humorous
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Ablaze (2001)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to make a killing on the insurance money, oil refinery owner Wendell Mays decides to burn the place to the ground. His greed endangers the lives of the entire town as the fireball creates a spreading inferno threatens to engulf the entire city, and stretches the abilities of the fire department and the local hospital to their breaking points.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Drama, Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Emergency Declaration (2021)
Plot Summary:
While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Proof of Life (2000)
Plot Summary:
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, tense, romantic, realistic, sentimental, entertaining, action packed
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Lamhaa (2010)
Plot Summary:
Kashmir... Once known as a paradise on earth, it is now a playground for blood thirsty militants. A company is generating millions of unaccountable dollars that benefit all powers - from politicians and leaders to bureaucrats in the Indian and Pakistani intelligence. From high ranking army and police officers to the militants and their supporters, everyone gets a piece of the pie.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, patriotic
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Major (2022)
Plot Summary:
This biopic follows the life of Indian Army officer Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, from his childhood to his heroic actions during the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Uyare (2019)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring pilot fights for her future -- and justice -- after surviving an acid attack from her abusive boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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7 Days in Entebbe (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane with 248 passengers on board and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Malta
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, rough, inspirational, social, action adventure, surprise ending, independent film, tension
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Route Irish (2010)
Plot Summary:
A private security contractor in Iraq rejects the official explanation of his friend's death and decides to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, tense, bleak, realistic, political, contemplative, gloomy, tragic
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Rescue Under Fire (2017)
Plot Summary:
The crew of a medical helicopter suffers an accident when helping a joint force of USA and United Nations troops under Spanish command division in Afghanistan. The Spanish army has only one night to organize the rescue of the crew and injured, but what seems routine turns into hell once they receive the order to rescue the helicopter as well. Things only get worse when during the night a huge a concentration of Talibans begin surround them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspense, stylized, intense, rough, bleak, epic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Mosul (2019)
Plot Summary:
When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, perverse, neo noir, independent film, tension, surprise ending
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Malik (2021)
Plot Summary:
A past ridden with crime, death and pain is recounted to Freddy, a juvenile criminal, who has been assigned to eliminate his estranged uncle Sulaiman, an aging patriarch, while behind bars.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, twist ending
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Pushpa: The Rise - Part 1 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Pushpa Raj is a coolie who rises in the world of red sandalwood smuggling. Along the way, he doesn’t shy from making an enemy or two.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Virus (2019)
Plot Summary:
A real life account of the deadly Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, and the courageous fight put on by several individuals which helped to contain the epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, offbeat, disaster movie
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The Burning Sea (2021)
Plot Summary:
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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Hotel Mumbai (2018)
Plot Summary:
Based on the 2009 documentary Surviving Mumbai about the Mumbai attacks in 2008 at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK, Singapore
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, factual, sad, tense, psychological thriller, sexy, political, social
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Martyr (1999)
Plot Summary:
Ajay Rathore is a no-nonsense police officer from Mumbai Crime Branch. Long time ago his elder brother was killed by terrorists which caused him to quit his medical studies and join Indian Police Service. He is a great admirer of Pakistan-based ghazal singer Gulfam Hassan. During one of Hassan's concerts, they meet for the first time and become great friends. Meanwhile, Ajay's investigation into the Pakistan-supported cross-border terrorism takes him to Rajasthan and reveals an unsettling truth about someone close to his heart.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: inspirational, patriotic, political, entertaining, action thriller, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, cult film
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Body of Lies (2008)
Plot Summary:
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 237000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: clever, political, exciting, tense, realistic, political thriller, serious, suspense, entertaining, enigmatic