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Plot Summary:
Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, gloomy
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Afterwards (2008)
Plot Summary:
Newly divorced lawyer Nathan Del Amico is shaken up after he meets a doctor who claims that he can sense when select people are about to die. Though he doesn't believe the doctor, events in Nathan's life slowly make him think he's not long for this world.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic
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The Other Side of the Street (2004)
Plot Summary:
Regina, a lonely 65 year old who works on the neighborhood watch for the police in Copacabana, believes to have witnessed a murder in the building across the street, and ends up getting involved with the suspect in a potentially dangerous chain of events that will force her to take stock of her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, romantic drama, gloomy
Similar in 85%
Forfeit (2007)
Plot Summary:
An armored car guard's elaborate plan for revenge is threatened by his relationship with an old friend -- a brilliant and unpredictable television preacher.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Paradise Cruise (2013)
Plot Summary:
An impossible love story between Yossi, a former IDF soldier, and Dora, a mysterious French photographer visiting Israel, as they both struggle in vain to leave their pasts behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, non-linear
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Mad Enough to Kill (1975)
Plot Summary:
A girl from an asylum is engaged as nurse to a small, spoiled orphan boy, whose uncle has evil designs on him, and who hopes to kill him and cast the blame on the girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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The Invader (2011)
Plot Summary:
An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, tense, bleak, realistic, contemplative
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The Dinner Club (2010)
Plot Summary:
Karen (32) and Michel (36) move with their daughter to an exclusive residential area. She soon finds a new close circle of friends: the women of the Dinner Club, and their husbands. But when two of the Club members commit suicide under suspicious circumstances, Karen starts to have second thoughts about her new friends. She has to choose: will she reveal the truth and dish the dirt, or will she protect the interests of the Dinner Club?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Love Walked In (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense, realistic, sexual, sexy
Similar in 88%
You Will Be My Son (2011)
Plot Summary:
Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin taking over the family business. Martin does not seem to have inherited the qualities that Paul esteems in a wine-maker: persistence, creative insight and technical prowess matched with passion for the job and the product, and Paul frequently reminds him of this, whether explicitly or in subtle gestures. When Philippe, the son of his manager, appears at the vineyard, Paul leaps at the chance to name him as his successor, neglecting the wishes of his own son.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, suspense, captivating, culinary, tense, realistic, gloomy, vintage
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The Operator (2000)
Plot Summary:
A scoundrel is tormented by a seemingly-omniscent telephone operator.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film, psychological, talky
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Everything Will Be Fine (2010)
Plot Summary:
A writer-director known for becoming obsessed with his own stories, Jacob Falk stumbles upon photographs of prisoners of war being tortured by Danish soldiers.Suspecting a political conspiracy, Falk falls into a frenetic chase to reveal the mystery behind the photos which leads him to discover a truth more disturbing than he imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 843
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, fast, psychological thriller, political thriller
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Arrest Me (2013)
Plot Summary:
One evening, a woman enters a police station and confesses to having killed her violent husband several years ago. As she listens to her fantastic story, the policewoman is increasingly less inclined to arrest her. Just why is the woman so eager to confess her crime, and why is the policewoman so reluctant to take her into custody?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, gloomy
Similar in 82%
Proof of Lies (2006)
Plot Summary:
A scientist researches the genetic cause of addictive behavior.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, surprise ending
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Sous X (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Jacques spent 9 years in prison for robbery. When he comes out, he finds the neighborhood where he grew up but things have changed ... The country is in crisis, the young people are holding the business and his old friends are urging him to resume his activities ... It may be for Jean-Jacques the time to ask the right questions.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Missionary (2013)
Plot Summary:
A wife and mother starts an affair with a young missionary... with disastrous consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious
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A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
After sixteen years of marriage and four children, Betty Broderick's high-powered attorney husband decides to leave her for a younger woman with whom he's been having an affair. Hurt by his betrayal and feeling helpless against his legal expertise, Betty begins a campaign of vandalism and verbal assault. Her rage consumes her and ultimately leads to a terrible and violent act.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, biting, suspense, ridiculous
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The Dune (2013)
Plot Summary:
An Israeli man searches for his father in France.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, psychological, sincere, serious, gloomy, detective
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House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)
Plot Summary:
Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken. Bedazzled by their seductive yet innocent tenderness, but distressed about the reason for their deep sleep, he delves into the mystery of the house of sleeping beauties.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, tense, captivating, sexy, sincere, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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7 Years (2006)
Plot Summary:
A devoted young woman becomes ensnared in a web of sexuality and betrayal in Jean-Pascal Hattu’s consistently unpredictable and finely wrought character study. A vividly realistic psychosexual drama, the film’s sharp emotional honesty heralds a distinct new voice from a promising young director. Hattu soon reveals that Maite’s husband Vincent is in prison for an unspecified crime, and that she has promised to wait for him and attend to his laundry (if not his conjugal needs) during his incarceration. On one of her weekly visits, Maite meets Jean, an oddly inquisitive and boldly flirtatious prison warden, and soon the two commence a joyless affair. Seemingly smitten with Maite, Jean, in a gesture of kindness to his lover, eases up on her husband behind bars; the two become pals and even engage in some homoerotic shower talk. —Robert O’Shaughnessy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
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Les corps impatients (2003)
Plot Summary:
Paul and Charlotte are in love. Charlotte discovers she has a grave malady and Paul supports her. But Paul is also attracted to Ninon, another girl. Charlotte accepts Paul to have an affair with her, and the three start a difficult and ambiguous relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Darkness Falls (1999)
Plot Summary:
With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ending up in a coma.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, dark, independent film, psychological thriller
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Paris by Night (1988)
Plot Summary:
Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, biting, suspense
Similar in 78%
Complicity (2000)
Plot Summary:
Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, independent film
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A Sight for Sore Eyes (2003)
Plot Summary:
When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Similar in 76%
Island (2011)
Plot Summary:
Based on 'Jane Rogers' acclaimed novel, "Island" is a tale of yearning and retribution. Abandoned at birth, Nikki Black has spent most of her life in care sustained only by fairy-stories. Incapable of love, fearful and desperate for revenge, she decides to find her birth mother, confront her, and bitter enough to consider murder. She travels incognito to a remote Hebridean island where Phyllis now lives as a recluse with Calum, her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, gloomy, art house
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In His Hands (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due to water leakage, Claire resolves the situation favorably for him. The weird Laurent visits Claire in her office successively, inviting her for drinks and lunch, and they get close to each other. Meanwhile, a serial killer is terrorizing Lille, killing women with a scalpel. Claire feels a great attraction for Laurent, who has an unusual behavior in her apartment. When Claire sees a scalpel in the pocket of Laurent's jacket, she fears him, but still loves him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Man of Her Dreams (1997)
Plot Summary:
After suspecting her husband is playing the field, a nervous woman finds a sympathetic ear in the form of a strange man. The drawback is that her sensitive new-found friend is an obsessive psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
Similar in 85%
24 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, sincere, realistic, tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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The Flower of Evil (2003)
Plot Summary:
Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, political thriller, suspense, clever, serious, realistic, contemplative
Similar in 81%
The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
Plot Summary:
Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala. Confronting Victor, Charles tries to adopt an air of indifference, but the conversation ends with the husband bludgeoning the author to death and then calmly disposing of the evidence. When Hélène is questioned about Victor's murder, she discovers on her own that her husband is guilty. Instead of turning him in, Hélène is so thrilled that Charles cares so deeply about her that she is more in love with him than ever before.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, cynical, neo noir, psychological thriller, anthology, cute, twisted