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Plot Summary:
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline the helicopter will be dropped. 8 hours is given as the deadline. Making the situation even more dire, a young child is in the helicopter.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
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The Bells of Silesia (1972)
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
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The Scythian Lamb (2017)
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Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, where 6 former criminals were sent to live there by the government, with the intention of re-socialising them. Aside from the few who know about the project, the general townsfolk has no idea of the former convicts' identities. Tsukisue is the pleasant and efficient municipal official put in charge of the programme. As he slowly learns about their past, a body is discovered.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
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You're Dead... (1999)
Plot Summary:
A veteran bank robber and his sidekicks plan a heist that goes awry.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, independent film
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Old Stone (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man falls down the stairs, but instead of helping him, the bystanders just take photos with their phones. Lao Shi is a taxi driver and he’s fighting for justice in the darkest recesses of Chinese society. The man who pushed him got into his taxi drunk not so very long ago, grabbed the steering wheel and caused an accident. The victim of the crash has been in a coma ever since, and because his family is destitute, Lao Shi is paying the hospital bills. The insurance company is refusing to cover the costs because the taxi driver left the scene of the accident with the injured man because no help was in sight. Now Lao Shi needs the testimony of his passenger, who angrily refuses to cooperate.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, China
Duration: 80 min
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Solomon's Perjury 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 149 min
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Sky on Fire (2016)
Plot Summary:
The chief security officer at a top-secret medical facility finds himself caught in an explosive battle when a young thief and his accomplices steal a groundbreaking curative medicine. After discovering the true origins of the medicine, the officer must decide who he can trust to protect the cure from falling into the wrong hands, and prevent an all-out war from bringing the city to its knees.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
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The Vanished Murderer (2015)
Plot Summary:
At a women's prison in the northern China in 1932, a prisoner escapes. Inspector Song Donglu is summoned to investigate the escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min
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Operation Napoleon (2023)
Plot Summary:
A modern-day lawyer is sucked into an international conspiracy after being accused of a murder she didn't commit. Her only chance of freedom lies in uncovering the secret of an old German WWII aeroplane, long buried deep beneath the ice, before the CIA.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Iceland, Germany
Duration: 102 min
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The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978)
Plot Summary:
Panic grips a small community after a tanker truck crashes through a fence at a wild animal park, freeing dozens of dangerous beasts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: natural horror
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Mozu The Movie (2015)
Plot Summary:
Lone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of his daughter to an urban legend of a villain who terrorizes Japan by insinuating himself into people's dreams and the collective psyche of the Japanese people.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful
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Flower and Snake 3: Punishment (1986)
Plot Summary:
When successful business man refuses to save the business of his former business partner, his wife, a private teacher of written arts, and her student are kidnapped. The former business partner plans to execute his revenge by forcing both women into sexual slavery and forcefully train them into becoming SM porn stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, ecchi, sexy
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Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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Flower and Snake 4: White Uniform Rope Slave (1986)
Plot Summary:
A perverted dentist (and dental assistant) that likes to sleep with his patients, gets obsessed with one in particular who also happens to be a lesbian. He uses everthing he can think of to abuse this woman and her female lover. Ropes/Dental tools/Ice Buckets/Candles/ (the works) and sometimes he sets the mood with something from his classical music record collection.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Cliff Walkers (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, action thriller
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My Country, My Parents (2021)
Plot Summary:
Actress Zhang Ziyi, actor-and-director Wu Jing, comedian Shen Teng, and actor-and-director Xu Zheng come together to direct four short films as part of a new anthology drama paying tribute to China’s families.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 157 min
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The Man from Beijing (2011)
Plot Summary:
A cold day in January 2006. The police make a horrible discovery in the Swedish town of Hudiksvall: In one night, 18 people have been brutally murdered in the small town. The police suspect a madman is behind the bestial act. But when judge Birgitta Roslin hears the news, she instantly knows that her grandparents August and Britta Andrén are among the victims. And even more: Almost everybody killed somehow relates to her. She realizes that the police are following a wrong track and starts to investigate on her own. Her search leads Brigitta to China where she finds out about the cruel scheming of the leading elite.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, Austria
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, detective
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Coffin from Hong Kong (1964)
Plot Summary:
A private detective finds the limp body of a young Chinese beauty in his office, shot with his own gun.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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City Killer (1984)
Plot Summary:
An attractive young girl is being watched closely by her ex-lover, but matters soon start to escalate and run out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Reykjavik-Rotterdam (2008)
Plot Summary:
A former sailor who has served prison sentences for alcohol smuggling fights to keep his family afloat. He is offered pay for a last tour of cargo between Reykjavik and Rotterdam. He agrees, in the hope to get out of debt, but unexpected events occur.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Iceland, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, tense, captivating, neo noir, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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ST: Aka to Shiro no Sôsa File the Movie (2015)
Plot Summary:
The ST team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department consists of eccentric members. Some members do not cooperate with others and others do not reveal themselves in front of others. With Samon as the leader of the ST team and young Inspector Tomohisa tasked with managing the team, the ST (Scientific Task Force) attempt to solve the most difficult of cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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Deadly Pursuit (2015)
Plot Summary:
Members of a drug ring and a bloodthirsty bear pursue a man and a woman through the Alaskan wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Unfair: the end (2015)
Plot Summary:
Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this, Natsumi's ex-husband, Kazuo Sato (Teruyuki Kagawa) pays a terrible price. Natsumi goes back to the Investigation #1 of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to take on the organization, but Natsumi becomes involved in a new case. She gets closer to the final enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
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Girl In Captivity 2: Hitwoman in Chains (2009)
Plot Summary:
An assassin-turned-housewife discovers that you can never really outrun your past when she crosses paths with a serial rapist with a taste for murder. Mizuki used to use her skills for seduction to lure men to their deaths. Now, she's about to face-off with her most deadly adversary to date. The only question when she does is which will be more intense - the pain or the pleasure?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (1992)
Plot Summary:
A man (Rick Worthington) assaults the Alta Vista Hospital taking four women, a man and two babies as hostages. He wants to kill Dr. Garrick, who, according to Worthington, ruined his life sterilizing his wife. He threatens to detonate a bomb. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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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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Deep Red Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
High school student Juri leaps to her death. Afterwards, Juri wanders to her house, school and street. She feels loneliness as nobody else is able to see her. She talks to those that she comes across including her mother and classmates, but nobody responds to her comments. Juri then sees a horrifying monster, which she never saw prior to her suicide. She calls the scary monster "Bug Man". When the mind of humans become weak, the Bug Man tempts those to commit suicide. One day, Juri walks along the street as usual. She then meets a girl that is able to see Juri. Juri names the girl Ringo-chan and plays at the park with her. Their happy moments does not last long. When they come back from the park, Juri sees Ringo-chan's mother with a grim face. The Bug Man is standing behind her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense
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Fire from Below (2009)
Plot Summary:
Digging at a nearby cave, a careless industrialist unearths a vein of pure base Lithium and inadvertently brings it to the surface, where the Lithium combusts when coming into contact with water and begins to wreak havoc on the country side.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Contagious (1997)
Plot Summary:
When some shrimp from Mexico, tainted with Cholera, is served to some people on a plane bound for LA. An outbreak ensues. And a doctor sets out to find the source and contain it before it turns into a epidemic. And if things weren't bad enough, a drug smuggler who was carrying some drugs on him contaminates the drugs and are sold on the street. And to top things of her husband who is on a camping trip with their two children is sick but did not show any symptoms until they were isolated from the rest of the world. Can she get to them in time?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
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Fatal Intuition (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jang-woo had only his sister to live for until she is brutally murdered. During a ritual to send her spirit to heaven, he comes across a suspicious man, who manages to escape from the scene. He begins to suspect a local pharmacist and keeps an eye on him. Although Jang-woo is absolutely convinced that the pharmacist is the killer, no one believes him because the pharmacist is considered the kindest man in town. But he gets help from a possessed woman named Si-eun who foresees how people die. Their pursuit begins and Si-eun predicts yet another murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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G@me (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he plans a vengeance scheme. The young woman agrees to play the victim of his bogus kidnapping. The movie is based on the novel Geimu No Na Wa Yuukai ('The name of the game is kidnapping') by popular mystery novelist Keigo Higashino.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
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