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Plot Summary:
Poncho is a student at a prestigious college in northern Mexico who is immersed along a single day on a whirlwind adventure through the various levels of the narc world after accepting the help of "Greñas", a guy working in the parking lot of his college, who will explain him how to buy marijuana on the campus for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Adventure
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hood, crime thriller, road movie
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9 Fingers (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of the night, Magloire is smoking a cigarette in an abandoned train station when the police shows up for an ID check. He starts running with no luggage, no future until he meets a dying man from whom he inherits a fortune. Magloire is now pursued by a gang. He becomes their hostage, but accomplice too. As he doesn’t anything to lose. Like someone who gets away with everything, someone with no expectations….
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, surreal
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Amethyst (2016)
Plot Summary:
A girl tragically consumes a full vial of LSD and quickly succumbs to a bizarre fantasy world, with strange beings and a magical obelisk that might be her portal home.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing, dark, mythical, fairy tale, bizarre
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Flight to Fury (1964)
Plot Summary:
This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One of the men is an avaricious killer who has come to the islands to search for a fortune in diamonds. The other is an international adventurer. Now they must somehow overcome their vast personal differences and desires to survive in the steamy wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Adventure
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, psychotronic, independent film
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Gumball 3000: The Movie (2003)
Plot Summary:
A 3000 mile race from San Francisco to Miami that took place in the Spring of 2003. 150 cars and stars created all kinds of mayhem and chaos over 6 days racing from coast to coast!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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The Holy Biker (2016)
Plot Summary:
In an arid and poor region of Brazil, bikers search for a miracle to make it rain and save the land, risking their lives. |.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: road movie, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dolphin Kick (2019)
Plot Summary:
On a tropical island vacation, a young boy's friendship with a playful and friendly dolphin helps him find the courage to get back in the water after the sudden loss of his mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, sincere, captivating, semi serious, christian film
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The Highwayman (2022)
Plot Summary:
Famed highway robber Dick Turpin finds himself on the run in the English countryside having accidentally kidnapped the Earl of Pembroke's feisty daughter, Elizabeth. As her fiance Winthroppe attempts to track them down, Elizabeth begins to fall for the dashing highwayman, leaving Turpin with no choice but to face off against Winthroppe in a fight for Elizabeth's heart - and her fortune.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Kicks (2016)
Plot Summary:
When his hard-earned kicks get snatched by a local hood, fifteen-year old Brandon and his two best friends go on an ill-advised mission across the Bay Area to retrieve the stolen sneakers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, hood, action adventure, suspense, social, mind blowing, aesthetic
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Walter (2019)
Plot Summary:
For Goran and his team of amateur shooters, the plan was almost perfect: to enter a hypermarket at night to rob a jeweler. But these "broken arms" had not anticipated the arrival of a vigil like no other: Walter, a former African warlord who will send them to hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Keep Going (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sybille, a divorced mother, can't stand watching her teenage son Samuel slip into a violent and meaningless life. She is also struggling with her own demons, past and present. As a last resort, she takes Samuel on a long journey across Kyrgyzstan.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, road movie
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Nathan's Kingdom (2020)
Plot Summary:
Nathan's Kingdom is a dark fantasy, coming-of-age drama about Nathan, a 25-year-old autistic man struggling with his teenage prescription-addict sister, and rather than surrendering their lives to social services, they risk it all to find a kingdom that once existed only in their imaginations.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Rebels (2019)
Plot Summary:
Four rebellious teenagers in 1st century Roman-occupied Wales must flee their village and live in the wild after they accidentally kill a Roman soldier and cause an uprising. They must learn to live together or risk facing the wrath of Rome.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Passage to Mars (2016)
Plot Summary:
A NASA Arctic expedition designed to be the first Martian road trip on Earth becomes an epic two-year odyssey of human adventure and survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychotronic
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An Elephant's Journey (2017)
Plot Summary:
A lost orphan boy and a giant elephant team up to take down an elephant poaching syndicate.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Adventure
Country: Canada, South Africa
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Pirate's Heart (2006)
Plot Summary:
The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the children moved away from their homes, as on Klaus'es eyes the robbers kill their parents and burn the house. Only thanks to the loyal monk Wigbold Klaus managed to survive the shock. A few years later Klaus Störtebeker finds his brother Jan and his long-time friend Elizabeth Pren in Hamburg. From her, he learns that she is expected to marry Simon von Wallenrod, whose father Klaus suspects of killing his parents. But the Pranks and the Wallenrods are rich and respected people, and Klaus is a poor man. And now he becomes a pirate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Adventure
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Escape Through Africa (2022)
Plot Summary:
In 1914, a British nurse, Anne, escapes an attack on her outpost in Africa. Hunted by a German-led war party, and with help from her uncle, an Army Captain, and local warriors, she embarks on an epic journey across the African hill country. She must balance bravery with her pacifist ideals to deliver a native girl safely to her mother, reunite with her husband, and save a neighboring outpost from a massacre.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Raging Fire (2021)
Plot Summary:
Shan is a highly respected cop with a long history of success in dangerous cases, however, his past soon comes back to haunt him when his former protégé seeks revenge against all those who have wronged him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: crime drama, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, hood, perverse, cult classic
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Daughter of the Sun God (1962)
Plot Summary:
This adventure chronicles the exploits of an author/explorer on a trip to Peru to hunt for the missing uncle of his pretty young companion. Her archaeologist uncle disappeared while searching for a lost Incan city that he found upon an ancient map. Together the writer and the girl launch an expedition to search for this legendary city. They are guided by another Yankee archaeologist. It is he who swiped the map from the woman's uncle. With their help, he hopes to find the city so he and his gang of thieves can loot it. Along the way they encounter many dangers including, snakes, crocodiles, jaguars, and quicksand. The writer and the niece get their first and warn the Incas living their. The Indians neatly dispatch the evil archaeologist and his band.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious
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Junction (2012)
Plot Summary:
Junction follows four strung-out meth-addicts who discover a dark secret about a homeowner during a burglary, pitting them not only against the police but against each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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In Gold We Trust (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
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The Best of All Worlds (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events, seven year old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of Salzburg, usually famous for culture and classical music. His mother Helga is torn between her drug addiction and her love for her son. Despite of this Adrian has a happy childhood, the best of all worlds. But it is tested to the limit when the authorities and child welfare services find out about Helga's addiction.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Treasure Island (2007)
Plot Summary:
A terrible storm is raging the night it all begins - with a knock on the door. 17-year-old Jim Hawkins helps his widowed mother run their little tavern on the coast of 19th century England. When the door is opened they are startled by a sight that makes their blood run cold.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, captivating, intense, talky
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Spear of Destiny (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a museum professor disappears, his colleagues must solve riddles and avoid traps to find the mythical Spear of Destiny and rescue the professor.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing
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The Turning Point (2021)
Plot Summary:
A slacker who does his best to avoid confrontation strikes up an unlikely friendship with a dangerous thug who suddenly forces his way into his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, hood
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Kaiji: Final Game (2020)
Plot Summary:
Kaiji (played by Tatsuya Fujiwara) is about to ave his life changed. The thrill is beyond anything hr, or most people, have experienced. The adventure is not without risk and danger however. he is given four games, which are challenges, and include life and death situations. The film follows its prequels and things will get both mental and physical.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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El Rey (2004)
Plot Summary:
Cali, Colombia, 1970s. The fictional story of Pedro Rey, the first drug trafficker and drug lord.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Colombia, France, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, crime drama
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Chouf (2016)
Plot Summary:
Chouf: It means “look” in Arabic, but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, gets shot before his eyes. Sofiane gives up on his studies and gets involved in the drug network, ready to avenge him. He quickly rises to the top and becomes the boss’s right hand. Trapped by the system, Sofiane is dragged into a spiral of violence….
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hot Blooded (2022)
Plot Summary:
Kuam is a shabby port town in the shadow of stunning port city of Busan. Hee-su is a third-rate gangster who has been acting like a hotel manager under Don Son for 20 years. Seemingly out of nowhere, Yong-kang, who fled the country as a murder suspect, returns home and begins causing trouble all over town, which only adds pressure to Hee-su.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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El Padrino II: Border Intrusion (2011)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Blinded by the Lights (2018)
Plot Summary:
An eight-episode story charting seven days from the life of a cocaine dealer whose perfectly organized life begins to sink into chaos while he is forced to make the most important choices in his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, entertaining, disturbing, anthology, hood, interesting