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Plot Summary:
Two sisters go diving at a beautiful, remote location. One of the sisters is struck by a rock, leaving her trapped 28 meters below. With dangerously low levels of oxygen and cold temperatures, it is up to her sister to fight for her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Evil Stepmom (2021)
Plot Summary:
Twin sisters set up a dating profile for their dad, but the woman he meets plots to take advantage of wealthy single fathers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Four Hands (2017)
Plot Summary:
After Sophie and Jessica had witnessed a brutal crime when they were kids, Jessica promised her younger sister Sophie: "I will always protect you!" Growing older, this promise became an obsession. Now, Jessica (28) is suffering from paranoia and sees threats to her and her sister everywhere. But Sophie (26) wants to live a normal life without fear, without her sister. She wants to become a pianist and wants to fall in love. When the perpetrators are released of prison after 20 years, Jessica is shocked and wants to confront them. But an accident changes everything. Jessica's promise to always protect her little sister turns into an existential nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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The Secret of Seagull Island (1982)
Plot Summary:
Barbara Carey flies to Italy to visit her blind sister Mary Ann, who is studying in a music academy. Once in Rome Barbara discovers her sister has disappeared and, according to the Italian police, she may have been murdered by a maniac who is obsessed with young sightless women. With the help of Martin Foster, from the British Embassy, Barbara starts trying to find out what happened to Mary Ann.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Fürchte dich nicht (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Exception (2019)
Plot Summary:
When four female colleagues receive an email death threat each, they are convinced the sender is a war criminal, whom they have exposed. But what if the threats come from within their own office at the Danish Center for Information on Genocide?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, period drama
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A Map of the Heart (2002)
Plot Summary:
Katrin and Jürgen spend their holidays in Corsica. Katrin is in her mid-thirties, working as a tracer at Jürgen's company who suddenly remembers he's married -- but not with Kathrin. So they decide to end their vacation earlier than they had planned. Virtually a second before they start to drive back to the airport, Katrin takes her belongings out of Jürgens car again and lets him go. Now being alone for the remaining days of her vacation, Katrin finds herself more and more bewildered by the things that happened to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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The Heart Machine (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man begins to suspect that his long-distance girlfriend, whom he met online but has never met in person, has been living in the same city the whole time and sets out to find her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Psychout for Murder (1969)
Plot Summary:
Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, poliziottesco, beautiful
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The Missing Woman (2016)
Plot Summary:
An award-winning performer trio and a sophisticated story characterize the thrilling TV thriller "The Missing Woman". From the naive betrayed to the tough revenge angel Corinna Harfouch turns into the lead role. At her side, Ulrich Matthes silently plays a professional killer, who does not look at the cards. Never laying an excuse, is the Dortmund crime scene commissar Jörg Hartmann in the role of a shameless swindler. Because all three want to cash in on the life insurance, begins a game of fraud and extortion, in which also the red light milieu interferes.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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5 Women (2016)
Plot Summary:
Five old girlfriends meet once a year for a weekend get-together in Southern France, to catch up together in a relaxed atmosphere. But when an intruder interrupts their getaway, the weekend threatens to spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Sitting Duck (2022)
Plot Summary:
La syndicaliste is the true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world, she fought government ministers and industry leaders, tooth and nail to bring the scandal to light and to defend more than 50,000 jobs.. Her life was turned upside down when she was violently assaulted in her own home... The investigation is carried out under pressure: the subject is sensitive. Suddenly, new elements create doubt in the minds of the investigators. At first a victim, Maureen becomes a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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Shattered Illusions (1998)
Plot Summary:
A Psycho stalks a talk radio personality and her mentally challenged sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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My Pure Land (2017)
Plot Summary:
A mother and her two daughters fight to protect their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Pakistan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Lola (1986)
Plot Summary:
Lola is a young woman who works in a factory. She lives a violent and tormented love with Mario. To get away from him, Lola moved to Barcelona. There he met Robert, CEO of a major company, with whom she starts a relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense
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Sibel (2018)
Plot Summary:
25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, extraordinary
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Severance (1988)
Plot Summary:
Ray Ponti is a down and out father, a man trapped by his past and frightened of his future. Cly is a streetwise runaway, waiting tables by day and stripping by night. Both are fighting for existence in the slime-bowl of New York's gutters, where drugs and prostitution are the only currency. Ray is in over the top with the Mafia and Cly is emotionally destroyed by the absence of her father. Severence is a gripping story set against the seedy backdrop of New York City, where broken dreams and empty promises litter the streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Paul Sanchez Is Back! (2018)
Plot Summary:
The reappearance of notorious criminal Paul Sanchez becomes an obsession for a young police officer who will do anything to catch him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Our Mother's Murder (1997)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based true crime story about the murder of publishing heiress Anne Scripps Douglas who, in 1989, married a young hunk who eventually killed her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Kompromat (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mathieu, a member of the French institute in Irkutsk, is arrested overnight by the Russian authorities. Imprisoned and accused of sexual abuse on his own daughter, he realises he is a victim of a Kompromat. With the help of the FSB, someone has built up a case to frame him. Isolated, he has no one to turn to. Proving his innocence is impossible: the only solution is to escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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Murder of Innocence (1993)
Plot Summary:
In this shocking account based on a true story, newlywed Laurie Wade finds her marriage, and eventually the rest of her life, shattered by her deep-rooted psychotic behavior. The young woman soon begins a terrifying descent into insanity and brings danger to all those around her as she goes from brief "short-circuits" to overtly murderous behavior.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, gloomy
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Pioneer (2013)
Plot Summary:
Pioneer is set in the early '80s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A professional diver, Petter, obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea has the discipline, strength and courage to take on the world's most dangerous mission. But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. Petter is sent on a perilous journey where he loses sight of who's pulling the strings. Gradually he realizes that he is in way over his head and that his life is at stake.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden, France, Finland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, realistic, serious, stylized, suspense, educational, suspenseful, interesting
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Dark Tide (2012)
Plot Summary:
A traumatized shark expert (Halle Berry) must battle her own fears to lead a thrill-seeking businessman on a dive into a dangerous section of water known as "Shark Alley.".
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa, Germany, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious, realistic, natural horror, independent film, scary, interesting
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Breaking Surface (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway, Belgium
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense
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Half a life (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is found raped and bludgeoned to death. Her father can’t reconcile himself with her death, and even less with the fact that the murderer was never found. Half of his life he continues the search. Finally, after more than 20 years, as DNA-analysis becomes a factor in forensic medicine, new perspectives open.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Broken Vows (2014)
Plot Summary:
"Broken Vows" tells the story of Patrick Flynn (Bentley), whose charm and charisma masks a profound psychosis. Patrick seduces Tara Bloom (Alexander), instantly becoming infatuated with the beauty. But when Tara rejects Patrick, he is sent spiraling into madness and delusion, erupting into psychotic rage. Tara is forced to find the strength to stop Patrick from destroying her love, her family, and her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic
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Inside (2023)
Plot Summary:
An art thief becomes trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist goes awry. Imprisoned with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: interesting, one man show
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Blame (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of young vigilantes seeking revenge for a sexual betrayal fall far from grace. When the truth is out they find themselves on the dark side of justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic
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First Snow (2006)
Plot Summary:
A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric, tense, philosophical, offbeat, psychotronic, twisted, bleak
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Autumn Blood (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two young orphans in the Tirolian Mountains come under siege by a vicious band of hunters. Frightened of being separated by child services following the death of their mother, a self-sufficient 16-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother - who hasn't spoken a word since seeing his father killed by the mayor - strive to live off the land in peace. Their innocence is shattered, however, when a group of hunters led by the mayor's son brutalizes and rapes the free-spirited girl. Later, when a well-meaning social services worker arrives too late to protect the terrorized siblings, the girl and her brother prepare to take a stand against their ruthless attackers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, independent film, weird
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Pressure (2015)
Plot Summary:
Four divers are stuck deep underwater in a vessel after a freak storm destroys their ship. Will they survive?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, exciting, suspenseful, depressing, psychological, captivating, tension, entertaining