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Plot Summary:
Psychological thriller. Geography teacher smuggles a case of heroin for a friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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Predskazaniye (1993)
Plot Summary:
A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours. He then meets a man, who claims to be him. The writer uses this bizarre situation to change his life and take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags:
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The Arrival of Joachim Stiller (1976)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of Freek Groenevelt and Simone Marijnissen whose lives are taken over by Joachim Stiller.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Mystery
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Two Faces of Fear (1972)
Plot Summary:
A professor's wife falls in love with her husband's assistant. When she learns he's planning to move to another city, she does everything she can to avoid it, with no success. Soon afterwards, he's found dead, in obscure circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Labyrinth of Dreams (1997)
Plot Summary:
Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver serial killer, who killed his female conductors after tiring of them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 956
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: experimental, cult film
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The Vanity Serum (2003)
Plot Summary:
The vips of italian television disappear in a mysterious way. Two detectives, Lucia and Franco, try to investigate in this mystery, drowning into a strange world, where the leader is the powerful star Sonia Norton.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Nightalk (2022)
Plot Summary:
A female cop goes undercover on a phone-sex app to solve a murder investigation as she risks becoming the killer's next victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: steamy
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Naakt over de Schutting (1973)
Plot Summary:
Rick, who runs a pinball arcade, lets a room to Penny, a young teacher and karate fan. Penny gets to know Lilly, a singer who has just been hired with her friend Ed to act in a film. But Lilly soon discovers that the movie they are involved in is nothing else but a dirty one. In disgust, she runs away from the set. Shortly afterward, the owner of the film studio is found murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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AmnesiA (2001)
Plot Summary:
Alex, a 28 year-old photographer, is no longer able to photograph people, for some mysterious reason. Every time he focuses his camera on someone, the same woman appears in his viewfinder - an image he cannot bear. When his brother Aram, whom he has not seen or spoke to for years, unexpectedly phones him and asks him to come to their parental home because their mother is severely ill and may not have long to live, he panics. The thought of a confrontation with the area where he grew up and the renewed encounter with his family makes him feel nervous. Nevertheless, that evening he leaves for AmnesiA: the estate of his parents, the spot where he spent his youth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, stylized, neo noir, serious, realistic, surreal, non-linear, independent film
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American Pastoral (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: emotional, rough, novela, thought provoking, suspense, independent film
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Equator (1983)
Plot Summary:
Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality over the weak plot about a man's trip to Africa and his unfortunate passion for a murderess whose amorality sends the disillusioned fellow back to Europe. Sometimes described as frustrating and self-centered, reactions to this film swing across a broad spectrum of complaints -- not the least might be whether or not Gainsbourg is using a clichéd and stereotypical view of "dark Africa" to convey what he sees in his characters.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Gabon
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Gangsta (2018)
Plot Summary:
Antwerp, Belgium. The lives of four small-time drug dealers spin out of control when they steal a shipment of cocaine, triggering a full out war between an Amsterdam drug lord and a ruthless Colombian cartel.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, anime
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Naked Violence (1969)
Plot Summary:
Some youngsters rape and kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, detective
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Baton Rouge (1988)
Plot Summary:
Antonio dotes on his mute brother and promises him a better life, symbolized by Baton Rouge. He's a gigolo who moves in with Isabel, wealthy and separated from her husband. She has nightmares of rape in her own bed, so Antonio encourages her to consult a psychiatrist; they end up in the office of Ana, a young doctor. As part of the exam, Ana visits Isabel where she catches Antonio pocketing a blank check Isabel has signed. Ana pushes him into an elaborate scheme to blackmail Isabel, making it seem she has killed her husband during a nightmare. All goes smoothly until Antonio sees the body: it's not the man he thought was Isabel's husband. In whose game is he a pawn?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, detective
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Doble Crossed (2001)
Plot Summary:
Charisse lives in a boarding house owned by Vivian Sales (Rina Reyes) but drops by her grandfather (Eddie Arenas) once in a while. The narrative goes on in this scenario and eventually leaps from drama to action when the lead characters, Charisse and Benito, get entangled with Bunny and the godfather-like character, Dodi (Celso Ad. Castillo).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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West (2007)
Plot Summary:
Pete & Jerry are cousins living in Sydney's Western Suburbs, where life consists of drinking, getting stoned, getting in fights and hanging out. But things change forever when Pete and Jerry both fall in love with the same girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, crying, independent film
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Grijpstra & De Gier (1979)
Plot Summary:
Detectives Grijpstra and De Gier are sent to investigate the case of a man who apparently hanged himself in a center for oriental meditation. It is ruled as suicide and the case seems to be closed, but the same night there is an attempted break in. The investigation hits a dead end and everyone involved is a suspect. Based on the book "The Corpse in the Haarlemmer Houttuinen” by Jan-Willem van de Wetering.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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A Perfect Friend (2006)
Plot Summary:
"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he attacked? Or was his head injury caused in an accident? This is only the first of many mysteries Julien has to resolve. Who is Marl?ne, the beautiful woman who claims to be his girlfriend? Why doesn't his real girlfriend, Anna, return his calls? What made him walk out on his job as a leading investigative reporter? Julien relies on Lucas, his best friend and.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Under My Nails (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Puerto Rican salon employee is forced to confront her own erotic desires when she becomes obsessed with the violent sexual tendencies of her new neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hispanic
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Blind Valley (2011)
Plot Summary:
Vincent is an ordinary-looking cop in Descharnes province. Ten years ago, he buried a dirty business to save his skin. Stan Wilson, and share their passion for Deborah but also a dark secret. Ten years ago, they suffered a trauma that no child can recover. Wilson wants to forget. Stan wants to speak, without knowing that he then puts in motion a terrible plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Character (1997)
Plot Summary:
J.W. Katadreuffe is the son of Joba Katadreuffe and A.B. Drevenhaven. Though fully neglected by Joba, Dreverhaven ensures the succesfull career of his son. Mostly unseen, though he sues his son a few times. The son Katadreuffe succeeds, but at great costs.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, realistic, psychological thriller, spiritual, slasher, twisted, thought provoking, serious, captivating
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Deadly Circuit (1983)
Plot Summary:
Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Although he never approaches her directly, he follows her and increasingly feels to be telepathically connected to her, because she reminds him of his daughter he never met. After he led a blind artist, Catherine's truly beloved spouse, into a bus accident, she makes a living by bank robbery with young Betty till Betty gets shot. Alone again, Catherine leads a sad, uneventful life as a waitress, when she meets her follower.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, slasher, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, gloomy, black comedy
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Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
Plot Summary:
In a California high school, a married teacher is the athletic coach and faculty advisor. He starts to have sex flings with his female students and eventually has to kill several of the girls to keep them quiet.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, psychological, grindhouse, captivating, cynical, sexy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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London Fields (2018)
Plot Summary:
Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer... The film is based on a dystopian Martin Amis novel.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sexy, atmospheric, artsy, stylized, psychological, scenic, cult classic, noir, neo noir, art house
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Death in the Shadows (1985)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her daughter lives in Oostdijk, a village near Amsterdam. One night when the mother is on her way home, she is killed in a car accident in the street they live in.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, detective, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Paid (2006)
Plot Summary:
Paid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life. It is also a love story between Paula Gireaux , a 28-year-old Parisian call girl working in Amsterdam and a hit man, Michel Angelo (30) whose hearts are touched when a six-year-old Bolivian boy abruptly enters their lives. The boy changes their fate. He gives them reason to reach for their dreams and to start a whole new life together. But, at the moment Paula and Michel decide to escape the underworld, Paula realizes that her hands are tied to a paid deal she has made with a powerful English narcotics baron, Rudi Dancer (55). The enticing offer Paula could not refuse, turns into the demon that stands in the way of her future with Michel. Eventually, Michel and Paula find their way to freedom but not without paying a high price.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, exciting
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Teach Me Tonight (1997)
Plot Summary:
Michael and Janie are a pair of young grad students living together on a quiet college campus. One day, Janie discovers that Michael has been cheating on her. She walks out on him, only to come back the next day to find him dead of a gunshot wound. The police suspect Janie, but the evidence seems to implicate Janie's friend, Frankie. Somehow, Janie must find a way to prove herself innocent while still protecting her friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, sexual, crying, detective, sexploitation film, hot
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Seduction (1973)
Plot Summary:
After returning to Catania after a long period of time, Giuseppe reunites with his old lover, Caterina. Her 15 year-old daughter, Graziella begins to seduce her mother's lover and he soon breaks down and begins an affair with her. As time passes Caterina begins having sneaking suspicions about Giuseppe's & Graziella's relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Loft (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment. In this loft they meet their mistresses and conquests. Everything seems perfect, until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft. The group of friends begin to suspect each other and it soon becomes clear that they know far less about each other than they had initially thought. Dutch remake of the Flemish movie Loft (2008).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, neo noir, twist ending, dread, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Louise and her Lover (2011)
Plot Summary:
A lesbian wanna-be model falls dangerously in love with an up and coming painter. The relationship goes too far too fast and the lines between art and sex get blurred.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic, captivating, suspense, independent film
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The Vanishing (1988)
Plot Summary:
Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on television, putting up posters and ruining his new relationship in the process. Eventually an unassuming chemistry teacher, Raymond, approaches Rex, intimating that he knows what happened.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, creepy, mind bending, grim