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Plot Summary:
Ilya Goryunov has spent seven years in prison on false charges of drug trafficking. When Ilya is free he realizes that the old life that he yearned for is no more. Although he did not intend to take revenge on the man who sent him to prison, now there is no other way out.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, sexy, avant garde, touching, surprise ending, neo noir, tragic ending, tension, cynical
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Aftermath (2017)
Plot Summary:
A fatal plane crash changes the lives of Roman and Jake forever. Roman loses his wife and daughter in the accident, while Jake, his mind as he happens to be the air traffic controller, who fails to avert the nightmare. Rage and revenge engulfs Roman and Jake finds himself swamped with guilt and regret. Can the two make peace with the past?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, suspenseful, tense, touching, suspense, inspirational, sad, cult classic, historical drama
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Blackrock (1997)
Plot Summary:
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, tear jerker, independent film, tearjerker
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Golden Earrings (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ronnie and Sara are best friends and roommates. And for Ronnie, Sara is her whole world. She does everything with her and their small group of friends. But one day, Sara suddenly disappears and Ronnie is left with a hole in her life that she cannot deal with. And her apparent guilt over something she's done causes everything in her life to collapse. Despite her friends attempts to calm her, Ronnie sinks deeper and deeper into her loneliness. Until one day, Ronnie suddenly starts 'seeing' Sara. Or does she? No one else can see her except for Ronnie. Is it Sara's ghost? Ronnie's imagination? And why does Ronnie feel so guilty about Sara's disappearance? Sometimes, your friends aren't who you think they are.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, independent film
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Late Bloomer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Late Bloomer is the story of Sumida-san, a severely handicapped man, and his downward spiral into hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, black and white
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Joe (1970)
Plot Summary:
Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he runs into a drunken factory worker named Joe, who hates hippies, blacks, and anyone who is "different", and would like to kill one himself. The two start talking, and Bill reveals his secret to Joe. Complications ensue.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult classic, realistic, disturbing, psychedelic, controversial, psychological, thought provoking, bleak, serious
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Freeze Me (2000)
Plot Summary:
Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later, when one of the rapists arrives and says the others are on their way. He behaves like her long-lost lover and mistreats her again. Chihiro takes revenge, kills him and puts him in a freezer. The other rapists are awaiting a similar fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, cult classic, grindhouse, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Naked Massacre (1976)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, controversial, twisted, independent film, tension, bizarre, cult film
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Another Day in Paradise (1998)
Plot Summary:
A vending machine robbery by small time thief and drug addict Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) goes badly awry, and his friends contact street-wise thief and part-time druggie Mel (James Woods) to patch him up.Recognizing a kindred spirit, Mel befriends Bobbie and his girlfriend Rosie (Natasha Gregson Wagner), inviting them to join him and his long-suffering girlfriend Sid (Melanie Griffith) on a drug robbery which should set them up for life. The seemingly simple robbery is a great success, but the sale of the drugs afterward fails badly, and Mel and Bobbie are shot.The four take refuge with the Reverend, who charges them half of their haul from the robbery to care for them. In a desperate attempt to recover their losses, Mel involves the crew in a disastrous, ill-advised jewellery robbery, and they become caught up in a web of violence that rapidly spirals out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, talky, controversial, suspense, erotic, psychedelic, rough, clever, serious
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The Intended (2002)
Plot Summary:
A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, serious, realistic, gloomy, independent film, neo noir
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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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Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
Plot Summary:
This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to take revenge. The events that follow are a mix of dark humor and an exploration of modern morality as Roseanne faces not only a fellow suburbanite who knows, but her own conscience as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, clever, teen, independent film, realistic, cynical, gloomy, sexy
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Retaliation (2017)
Plot Summary:
An adult victim of childhood sexual abuse confronts the horrors of his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic, crying
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Inconceivable (2017)
Plot Summary:
A mother looks to escape her abusive past by moving to a new town where she befriends another mother, who grows suspicious of her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, suspense, disturbing, artsy, surprise ending, psychological, feel good, twisted
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Red White & Blue (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman attracts the attention of a psychotic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his ailing mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore, controversial, suspense, neo noir, psychological thriller, bloody
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Locust (2014)
Plot Summary:
Story starts with a summer fling between a provincial guy and a big-city girl. The holiday is over, the beauty returns to the city and receives a marriage proposal from a rich admirer. The provincial boy comes back being unable to let her go. Things get messy when their passion oversteps all the limits. Soon contemporary Romeo and Juliet get confused about what is really important turning into consuming 'Locust': overwhelming love they have leads them to commit brutal murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, captivating, suspense, touching, surprise ending, neo noir, hot
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Guard (2019)
Plot Summary:
The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and Stas. They are on the run. They are pursued by former friends and business partners of Stas. Vlad decides to help them, because he too is hiding from the past. Each character is threatened with the inevitable payment for wrong choices in the past, but helping each other, they try to expiate these faults.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspense, disturbing, talky, psychological
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Double Lover (2017)
Plot Summary:
Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sensual, disturbing, sexy, suspense, art house, erotic, psychological thriller, slasher, eros, explicit
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Twilight Portrait (2011)
Plot Summary:
Marina, an upper-crust social worker with a doting husband and an enviable downtown apartment, is suddenly transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself when she is raped by three policemen.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, neo noir, disturbing, art house, psychotronic
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About Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful Nina lives happily married, as she saw it, with intelligent Alexandr, professor of Sinology. But the debt for the mortgage begins to disturb the relationship of spouses. One day she meets Sergey, the head of the bank where her husband has debt, and so begins their passionate relationships. The story of the relationship with married Sergey hardly promises happiness, but Nina realizes that for the first time she feels true love.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, emotional, realistic, disturbing, erotic, erotic drama, bilingual
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Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997)
Plot Summary:
A sinister seductress vows to destroy a suburban family.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, suspense, sexual, romantic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Plot Summary:
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, cult classic, independent film, disturbing, detective, bleak, sexy, depressing, controversial, surreal
Similar in 81%
Cargo 200 (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer and subsequently abused by the lawman gone mad.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: bleak, rough, psychological, serious, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, sadistic, depressing, suspense
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The Method (2015)
Plot Summary:
The main character is an extraordinary and mysterious person, at the same time, he (Rodion Meglin) is an outstanding inspector. Rodion is used to work alone in order to keep the secrecy of his unusual method. Young graduate Esenya Steklova is eager to get the internship with the glorious investigator but she could hardly expect the challenges she would face while working with Rodion. Together they investigate the cruelest crimes that took place in the history of Russian criminality.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller, rough
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Paranoia (2013)
Plot Summary:
An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price: he must spy on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion dollar advantage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, sexy, exciting, entertaining, psychological, clever, action adventure, disgusting, tense
Similar in 76%
Matador (1986)
Plot Summary:
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, psychological, sexy, controversial, dark comedy, satirical, serious, suspenseful, tense
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Fatal Attraction (1987)
Plot Summary:
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sexy, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sensual, erotic, psychological, tense, neo noir
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Hard Candy (2005)
Plot Summary:
A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, independent film, suspense, controversial, rough, psychological thriller
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Stoker (2013)
Plot Summary:
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, gothic, tense, suspense, disturbing, erotic, surreal, visual
Similar in 85%
21 Grams (2003)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 244000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, emotional, bleak, non-linear, gloomy, depressing, suspense, sincere, sad
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Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Plot Summary:
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 298000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, neo noir, psychological, suspense, disturbing, mindfuck, mind bending, visually stunning, crime thriller, touching