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Plot Summary:
New husband Adam reluctantly takes a job with state security in a totalitarian country, thus becoming a secret police agent. This "contract with the devil" helps secure a flat for the happy couple, as well as a prosperous future. However, he soon finds out that he too is under surveillance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining, disturbing, crying
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Fatal News (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Barschel case is one of the most important political scandals in recent German history. Not least because it has remained unsolved. Countless speculations and conspiracy theories have grown up to the present day to the dramatic death of the politician Barschel. Director and Grimme Award winner Kilian Riedhof tells the mysterious story new and combines documentary with fictional to a virtuoso and breathless political thriller from the perspective of journalists.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: feel good, psychological, suspense, disturbing, erotic
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The Scent of Blood (2004)
Plot Summary:
A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia are married for twenty years. But they wearily live their relationship separately; while she lives in their original flat in Rome, he lives with a young lover, Lù from time to time in his house in the country while writing a book. He does not keep his relationship hidden from his wife and even accepts that Silvia may have lovers, among them in particular a young and violent neo-fascist. But this relationship rekindles Carlo's jealousy and he becomes obsessed by knowing everything about her affairs and jealousy makes him blind. The film navigates between eroticism, decadence and perversion, in an obscure game with no wins or winners.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, psychosexual thriller, erotic drama, psycho sexual
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Hostage (2014)
Plot Summary:
Tragicomic family film about the world of children heroes - particularly the son of a local communist officer and his friend, a little hostage of the regime, whose parents emigrated to the West, few years before "Prague Spring" and the occupation of Czechoslovakia. Camaraderie, the first big discoveries of love, enemy gang fights and naive ideas are confronted with the reality of adult's world. The film is about the first contacts with bizarre and absurd reality of relationships and attitudes of adults, politics, emigration, but also betrayal and death and about how all those things form and transform the lives of small boys, who are forced to grow up too quickly.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Modelar (2020)
Plot Summary:
Droneman is about Chemist and Fly Navigator Pavel and his friend Bussinessman and free time Rapper Plech. Pavel has strong sense of justice and wishes to fix wrongs with the World while Plech dreams about Big money and secure life. Their common passion are Drones since School. Pavel returns from Foreign and meets again with Plech and together they use Drones to start Bussiness. They monitor Power Stations, wear luxury handbags at the show or spray the Petrin Tower from the air. Their clients even include Presidential candidate. Everything changes when one of them decides to misuse Drones.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, melancholic, disturbing, intense, crying
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Godfather's Story (2013)
Plot Summary:
Godfather's story is the story of the greatest of Czech post-revolutionary 'entrepreneurs'. His activities often crossed the edge of the law, and his life ended bullet assassin.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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The Exam (2011)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, shaken and insecure by the defeated revolution of 1956 and prodded by a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security personnel must take an exam to challenge and verify their loyalty. But to be effective in this shadowy world of suspicion and lies, of secrets within secrets, where nothing and no one can be trusted, the subjects must be unaware they are being tested. Focused on the secret machinations of a totalitarian state’s paranoid need for absolute control, The Exam is a fascinating, Kafka-esque portrait of an era gone by – but it’s a mindset still very much active today.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, visual, surprise ending
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The Ear (1970)
Plot Summary:
Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry. A harrowing night follows (reminiscent of 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf'), and the resolution is worse than being carted off to jail.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: political, cult classic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, biting, suspense, tension
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Dawn of War (2020)
Plot Summary:
A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: History, Thriller
Country: Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Deckname Holec (2016)
Plot Summary:
Young director Honza David (Krystof Hádek) films the Russian invasion in in Prague in August 1968. With Eva (Vica Kerekes) - the love of his life - he tries to get out of the country. He wants to bring the explosive material to Vienna, to the director of the Austrian Television Helmut Zilk (Johannes Zeiler). He knows Eva very well - but the Czech Secret Service even better.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Austria, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Vendeta (2011)
Plot Summary:
Vendetta is an uncompromising thriller, an exciting story about revenge and the clash between two characters. Over the course of a few hours in a single day revenge intertwines the fates of a number of people. Which of them is the murderer, and who is the victim? The main events play out during only three hours. Revenge has pitted two men against each other and two policemen have also been dragged into their conflict.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: non-linear, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, neo noir, crying, exciting
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Home Care (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her whimsical patients in Czech wine country and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, but one day things change and Vlasta is forced to reach outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she might need some care, too.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, captivating, disturbing, talky, crying
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Super Deluxe (2019)
Plot Summary:
An unfaithful newly-wed wife, an estranged father, a priest and an angry son suddenly find themselves in the most unexpected predicaments, each poised to experience their destiny, all on one fateful day.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: epic, psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, suspense, dark comedy
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Life Is Life (2015)
Plot Summary:
Pedantic policeman Frantisek (Ondrej Vetchý) wants to bring up his three daughters with a firm hand. He would like to see the girls coupled with capable and successful men, but instead they have the talent to find the opposite. Moreover, one of them is constantly trying to get pregnant, second one is only dating exotic fools and the third one is expecting a baby without knowing who is the father. Frantisek and his wife (Simona Stasová) always spend their vacation at the local lake, although the wife is dreaming of the seaside. One day she meets a bohemian writer with slightly suicidal tendencies (Miroslav Táborský) and an attractive colleague with Spanish roots (Kristína Peláková) walks into Frantisek's office and things get moving.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: parody, humorous, psychological, funny, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, captivating, entertaining, contemplative
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Code Name: Emperor (2022)
Plot Summary:
Juan, a secret service agent, approaches Wendy, a young Filipina who works as a maid for a suspicious couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Night Crossing (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, History, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: christian film, political, serious, realistic
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The President's Last Bang (2005)
Plot Summary:
On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung-hee, who had ruled South Korea since 1961, was assassinated by his director of intelligence. The film depicts the events of that night….
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, serious, realistic, captivating, black comedy, neo noir, political, offbeat, biting, suspense
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Darker Shades of Elise (2017)
Plot Summary:
Elise's life takes a sharp turn for the worst when she meets a mysterious and alluring stranger who has more than friendship on his mind - A tale of love, fantasy and obsession.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Some Beasts (2019)
Plot Summary:
A family travels to a remote island in southern Chile. During the trip they try to convince the grandparents to support them financially to build a hotel in the place. Nicolás, the man who crossed them disappears, leaving the family trapped on the island, the smiles begin to disappear. With cold, without water and without certainties, tempers are diluted, exposing the tensions that each member of the family hides.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Confession (1970)
Plot Summary:
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: political, political thriller, sad, cynical, psychological, tense, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious
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Fantasías (2003)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, erotic
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A Bit of Bad Luck (2014)
Plot Summary:
Brooks Caldwell, (Cary Elwes) an erudite and handsome lawyer, seems to have it all: wealth, social status and a red hot career. His success is, in reality, a product of his marriage to his beautiful, socialite wife, Amanda, (Terri Polo) a wealthy timber heiress. Unlike most, who would remain content to enjoy a life of luxury and privilege, Brooks continues to risk everything by having extramarital affairs. Brooks' philandering, in addition to humiliating Amanda, has driven her to the point of a mental breakdown. Having been pushed over the edge, Amanda orchestrates a just and elaborate plan to bring her husband down. When Brooks leaves for a weekend romp with his latest squeeze, (Agnes Bruckner) his life quickly descends into a bizarre, nightmarish, downward spiral.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, satirical, disturbing
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To Kill a Priest (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, captivating
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The Naked Runner (1967)
Plot Summary:
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old son with him for a holiday. Meanwhile a British Intelligence officer who served with Laker in the Second World War decides to use the opportunity of Laker's trip and his lack of an intelligence profile to coerce him into carrying out an assassination.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, microfilm
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Operation Silver A (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on actual events. Late 1941, Group Silver A are dropped into occupied Czechoslovakia on an SOE mission to set up a Radio communications centre for the resistance, and contact a German Army officer whom is forwarding information to the British.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: sentimental, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, compassionate, crying
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The Tunnel (2001)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, political, compassionate, captivating, realistic, touching, costume drama, serious
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The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
Plot Summary:
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: retro, political thriller, tense, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Topaz (1969)
Plot Summary:
A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological, political thriller, enigmatic, psychological thriller, exciting, retro, art house
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The Ipcress File (1965)
Plot Summary:
This espionage thriller represents a landmark in spy movies introducing the sly, dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer. The story, centers on Palmer's investigation into British Intelligence security. He's soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder and finds a traitor is operating at the heart of the secret service. Will the mysterious 'Ipcress File' reveal who the traitor is?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense, enigmatic, clever, realistic, cynical, retro
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The Tailor of Panama (2001)
Plot Summary:
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: political, talky, stylized, suspense, sexy, realistic, serious, clever, cynical, entertaining
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The Good Shepherd (2006)
Plot Summary:
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspense, political, factual, serious, suspenseful, rough, political thriller, emotional