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Plot Summary:
Pollution, disaffection, moral decay and social unrest surround a church and its pastor's family heading toward a celebration over the return of its bells.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark comedy, psychological, tense, sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic
Best tv shows and movies like The Bells of Silesia (1972):
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Blood Brothers (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two wealthy young brothers living on a plush estate give refuge to a petty criminal who is on the run from the police. Neither the boys' parents or their staff know about the fugitive's presence, which leads them open to exploitation. Sure enough, they soon discover the fugitive has no intention of leaving.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, bleak
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The russian girl (2018)
Plot Summary:
Tito, a 50-year-old man who is going through a midlife crisis, decides to go back to his town. After 15 years, he wants to return and put his things in order, mainly his house. When he arrives, he finds a much quieter and depressed town, where people are oppressed by the Crespo family. Svetlana, 'La Rusa', member of the family, will change Tito's plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, moody
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The Nada Gang (1974)
Plot Summary:
Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: erotic, political, exciting, tense, rough, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller
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Layla Fourie (2013)
Plot Summary:
Layla Fourie, a young single-mother in South Africa, receives a job assignment as polygraphist. In the constant presence of mistrust, lies and fear Layla soon becomes a suspect herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, France, Netherlands
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Good People, Bad Things (2008)
Plot Summary:
Good People, Bad Things is the story of a successful architect whose life drastically changes one night after he gets into a car accident. He is suddenly thrust into a world of crime and must fight for his freedom as he is blackmailed into becoming a con man. Forced to prey on lonely, rich women Danny begins to pay off his debts, until he falls in love with one of his marks, a beautiful single mother named Claire. Danny tries to leave both the blackmailer and his life of crime behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, tense, touching, captivating
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What We Found (2020)
Plot Summary:
Close friends Marcus and Holly begin their freshman year at a tough public high school in Baltimore County, Maryland. When Cassie, a well liked senior at the school, disappears suspiciously, both of their lives change forever. Together, will they find out what happened to Cassie? And after a dramatic confrontation, will any of them ever be the same?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, psychological
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Cut Snake (2014)
Plot Summary:
Young, charismatic, and hardworking, Sparra Farrell seems to be sailing into a happy, respectable life. He has a solid job and an adorable fiancée named Paula, and already owns a modest house in the country outside Melbourne. The only odd thing is that Sparra says precious little about his past — but that past is about to catch up with him, and wrest control of his present.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, neo noir, realistic, captivating, psychological, erotic, psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, queer cinema
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The Art of Losing (2004)
Plot Summary:
A body is discovered impaled on a stake near a scenic lake near Bogota. A journalist try to find what happened. With a friend, they set about to find the cause of the crime and uncover an intricate real estate fraud involving corrupt politicians, emerald hunters, nudists... Written by Lyse Lefebvre.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Thriller
Country: Colombia, Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, disturbing, sexy, twisted
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White Snow (2010)
Plot Summary:
Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, realistic, neo noir
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Sweet Angel Mine (1996)
Plot Summary:
Paul, a young man from London, arrives in the small Nova Scotia town of Milestone, where his long lost father was last seen years earlier. Paul is eager to find out what brought his father to this remote community. He meets Rauchine, a young, beautiful and unaffected girl who lives with her unstable mother and domineering grandmother on a nearby island, who is eking out a harsh and isolated living. Paul finds himself enmeshed in a web of jealousy, bitterness and fear as his attraction to Rauchine begins to grow. After a failed attempt to leave the island with Paul, Rauchine must make a crucial decision and break the cycle of violence and death that has marked her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Deliver Us from Evil (2009)
Plot Summary:
In search of a new lifestyle, Johannes and his wife Pernille leave the city and move with their two children to Johannes’ childhood town in the country. When Johannes’ drunken brother Lars accidently runs over Anna, a local, and plants false evidence pointing at the emigrant Alain, Johannes stands up to defend Alain. But it comes with a price.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, disturbing, suspense, captivating, neo noir, thought provoking, bleak, realistic
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The Man Next Door (2009)
Plot Summary:
When two neighbours clash, their argument becomes less about proposed building alterations and more about the wider battle between class and social status. The hugely impressive building in question is the only example of a Le Corbusier residential home in all of Latin America, adding to the poignancy of their argument. Winner of six Argentinean Academy Awards in 2010, including Best Film.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, realistic, disturbing
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Snow in Paradise (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hard-hitting character study that's based on the real story of one man's journey to control his violence through religion. It takes us from the blood soaked East End of London to the world of the Islamic whirling dervishes.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, serious, bleak, realistic, islamic
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The Dark House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to escape a stalker by moving with her children to her sister's isolated beach house.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Key (2007)
Plot Summary:
Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resurgir le fantôme d'un père qu'il n'a jamais connu ? Un matin, un inconnu l'appelle pour lui proposer de récupérer les cendres de son père. D'abord réticent, il finit par accepter et se retrouve plongé au coeur d'une machination infernale.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, tense, realistic, extraordinary
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The Box Collector (2008)
Plot Summary:
An overprotective mother tries to stop her son's budding relationship with a flirtatious young divorce.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Thriller
Country: Belgium, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, independent film
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Money Is Money (2017)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three thieves attempting to rob a house are altered by what they see inside.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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The Suspect (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two African American social scientists pose as bank robbers in an effort to understand the racial dynamics of small-town law enforcement. However, their experiment takes an unplanned turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, captivating, clever, realistic
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Ablations (2014)
Plot Summary:
Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit. He wakes up in the middle of a field without any memory at all of how he got there. Even stranger is the ugly scar on his back. But what really drives him out of his mind is that the stitches from the operation are still fresh. Has he become the victim of on organ theft? Is he missing a kidney? Pastor starts to put everything in Question; being a father, a husband, a salesman... The only thing he wants is to find out what has happened to him and nothing and nobody will stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Three Men to Destroy (1980)
Plot Summary:
A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Gospel of Deceit (2006)
Plot Summary:
Emily, a preacher's wife, is as faithful a spouse as they come — until her hubby, Ted, takes in a handsome drifter who's down on his luck. (Red flag!) Emily finds herself drawn to this sexy wanderer, and it doesn't take long for the pair to begin a steamy affair — right under unsuspecting Ted's nose. When a guilt-ridden Emily eventually tries to call it quits, the real drama begins!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating
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Paris Under Watch (2012)
Plot Summary:
An anonymous hacker has hacked all of Paris' cameras and observes the city unbeknownst to its inhabitants. Petty crimes and moments of stolen intimacy, he sees everything. Until the day that an explosion lays wasted to the Gare d'Austerlitz. The police starts tracking down an Al Queda satellite group. The hacker succeeds in finding images of the explosion and discovers that it was a young couple who planted the bomb. Using the city's cameras, he decides to hunt down the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Wolf (2004)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ideal candidate to infiltrate the terrorist band ETA and become a mole, so they try to offer him a deal if he will do so.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, political, exciting, realistic
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Formosa Betrayed (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web of international secrets that has been thriving within college campuses across America for decades. His investigation takes him across the Pacific to the island nation of Taiwan, where with the help of the outspoken widow and an unlikely spy, he learns that the Professor's killing was not a random act, but a desperate move by a scandalous government intent on keeping its nefarious activities under wraps. Our detective soon finds himself on a collision course against the U.S. State Department, the Chinese Mafia, and the Nationalist Chinese Government - in a land where the truth is not what it seems and the only people he can trust, cannot be trusted at all. Inspired by actual events.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, clever, captivating, realistic
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Nor'easter (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young and inexperienced priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest's commitment to church doctrine over the laws of the natural world.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, mumblecore, gloomy
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere (2013)
Plot Summary:
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a secret organization specializing in kidnapping children.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, action thriller
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Nexus (2010)
Plot Summary:
Holly is a struggling singer whose life is torn apart when she loses custody of her daughter, Chloe. When she travels to her soon to be ex-husbands estate in the country, for a weekend visit with Chloe, she is shocked to discover that he is missing. The police are called and the following day, Holly is accused of the murder of her husband. Holly unwittingly finds herself at the center of a small town conspiracy and must harness all her inner strength to save her daughter and clear her name.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film, rough, suspenseful
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Chosen (2014)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Michael Todd, a lonely college student, with no direction in his life; he is assigned a research paper about a local New Orleans legend, the tale of Erica Fisc, a girl who disappeared some twenty years prior. As he looks into the truth behind what really happened to the girl, he finds the truth is more sinister then he could have ever imagined. And now, those who killed her begin to come after him. Some mysteries are better left unsolved because now Mike must run for his life, and his soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic
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The Activist (2014)
Plot Summary:
A political thriller taking place during the Wounded Knee insurrection in 1973. Two activists are arrested and in the custody of the local sheriff's office. During their stay they are visited by a Nixon advisor, a lawyer, a senator and a movie star who is also an activist.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, political, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Suspension of Disbelief (2012)
Plot Summary:
Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happened to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, mind bending, realistic