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Plot Summary:
In the 90s, Rio de Janeiro was shaken by a wave of kidnappings. Security forces call controversial agents to help save the city from thugs and also from the police itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political thriller
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iSmart Shankar (2019)
Plot Summary:
A contract killer goes on the run after eliminating a target and eventually finds himself linked to a slain cop whose memory is transferred to his brain.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Witness (2019)
Plot Summary:
On the night of her police university graduation, Natsume Hamanaka’s (Riho Yoshioka) younger brother dies in accident caused by Natsume Hamanaka. In the accident, Natsume Hamanaka also loses her eyesight. She gives up on being a police officer. 3 years later, Natsume Hamanaka still has gotten over what happened that night. One day, she is involved in a minor car accident. She hear's a young girl's voice asking for help. Natsume Hamanaka senses that the girl might be a kidnap victim. She reports what happened to the police, but the police doesn't purse her report. Natsume Hamanaka does not give up and keeps looking for the girl. She finds a young boy who was skateboarding near the fender bender car accident. Natsume Hamanaka believes a serial kidnapper exists.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Maayavan (2017)
Plot Summary:
A series of murders are happening in the city, and a cop realises that they are all eerily similar. Can he find out the link and capture the murderer before it is too late?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspense thriller
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Zero Tolerance (2015)
Plot Summary:
Johnny and Peter, former paramilitary operatives, search Bangkok - leaving carnage in their wake - to find the men who killed Johnny's daughter, Angel.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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12 Rounds 3: Lockdown (2015)
Plot Summary:
Lockdown Follows a police officer who returns to duty after recovering from a gun shot wound to discover incriminating evidence of illegal activities against those closest to him. He quickly finds himself trapped inside his own precinct, hunted and in search of the truth, as the crooked cops stop at nothing to recover the evidence.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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Kuttram 23 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A case involving the disappearance of a pregnant woman turns into a personal one for the cop who is tasked with investigating it..
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, disturbing, crime thriller, suspense thriller
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Darbar (2020)
Plot Summary:
Aaditya, the commissioner of Mumbai Police, sets out to catch Ajay, a drug peddler. However, he uncovers a deeper controversy linked to an international drug lord and must mete out justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, action packed, cult film
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Si 3 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A reputed cop from Tamil Nadu takes charge in Andhra Pradesh to solve the mysterious murder of a top police officer, and takes on local thugs and criminals during the course of his mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, cult film
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S Storm (2016)
Plot Summary:
No sooner is a team at ICAC set up to investigate irregularities/corruption in soccer/football official gaming/betting in Hong Kong before a suspect is assassinated.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Paayum Puli (2015)
Plot Summary:
An extortion gang that murders businessmen kills a policeman working on the case. ACP Jayaseelan exterminates the gang by way of unofficial encounters, but the murders continue. What the cop doesn't realise is that the brain behind the crimes is lurking close to home.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Inspector Winter (2010)
Plot Summary:
Scandi noir featuring Inspector Erik Winter, a dedicated, yet tormented Gothenburg police detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Leakers (2018)
Plot Summary:
The film centers around a Malaysian pharmaceutical company using a new virus to generate an epidemic. A secret organization, known as "The Leaker", discloses this information. After the suicide of the pharmaceutical company's son and a local reporter, the wife of the pharmaceutical company's owner leaves for Hong Kong. A Malaysian police chief , Hong Kong police officer, and journalist work together to locate her whereabouts.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Malaysia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Lost Without Trace (2020)
Plot Summary:
Anna and Victoria left their homes at 8 a.m. And never came back. An investigator from Saint Petersburg arrived to a small Latvian town in an attempt to find the connection between the two missing women.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Latvia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Roundup (2022)
Plot Summary:
The ‘Beast Cop’ Ma Seok-do heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect, but soon after his arrival, he discovers additional murder cases and hears about a vicious killer who has been committing crimes against tourists for several years.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, crime drama, detective
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Small World (2021)
Plot Summary:
After disappearing from a small Polish town, a mother discovers her 4-year old daughter, Ola, has been abducted by the Russian Mafia. In pursuit of her daughter, she is stopped for speeding by a police officer, Robert Goc. His intervention results in the escape of the kidnappers across the Eastern border. Feeling guilt for failing to prevent the abduction, Robert becomes engaged in an international investigation to find the missing girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Cyber Case (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman uses geotagged pictures to help rescue her kidnapped brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Control (2017)
Plot Summary:
The once unconditional friendship between police officers Vincke and Verstuyft hits a very rough patch when they come up against a series of gruesome murders. Complicating matters even further, a survivor of the killer drives a wedge between them when Verstuyft falls for her charms. Meanwhile, the serial killer has a new victim in sight.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Time of Fear (2002)
Plot Summary:
Time of Fear is a taut psychological thriller thrusting an FBI agent and a grieving father into the dark world of a demented killer. FBI Agent Cheryl Hammer, arrives in a small California town to catch an elusive killer. Seeing no help forthcoming from the Sheriff, she turns to the only other person who can help her, Jack Barone, a grieving father whose daughter, Lisa, was the victim of a similar slaying ten years prior. The killer's clues are a perversion of Biblical punishments for sins: stoning, burning, decapitation. Jack and Agent Hammer turn to Father Patrick, a Catholic priest, for help. As the clock ticks down, a young female friend of Jack's is kidnapped and may become the next casualty. The harrowing rescue of the young woman opens the door to a dark history hidden below the surface, revealing the true identity of the killer and answering the mystery of who killed Jack's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Recurrence (2022)
Plot Summary:
Years after moving to a remote town, ex-cop Pipa is pulled back into the dark world she thought she'd left behind when a corpse appears on her property.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark
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Missing Noir M (2015)
Plot Summary:
Gil Soo-Hyun is extremely intelligent. At the age of 10, he attended Harvard University. After graduating there, he decided to work at the FBI and worked there for 10 years. Afterwards, he decided to come back to South Korea. He now works as the leader of the Special Missing Persons Unit. The unit deals with about 1% of special missing cases involving violent crimes. His appearance borders on perfection, but he holds a secret. Detective Oh Dae-Young joins the Special Missing Persons Unit. He has worked as a detective for 20 years and he has an obsession in observing the law. He is known as a master of missing person cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Witnesses (2021)
Plot Summary:
When 10 year old girl is kidnapped from the natural history museum, the police questions eight key witnesses to uncover the truth and find the child before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fabio Montale (2001)
Plot Summary:
Fabio Montale, a crime squad superintendent who knows Marseille like the back of his hand. The city crawls with gangs, corrupt policemen, shady politicians and the mafia – all standing in the way of justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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The Policeman's Lineage (2022)
Plot Summary:
A by-the-book police officer is assigned to secretly investigate a team leader who believes that the rules shouldn't stop an investigation. As the officer investigates further, his own attitudes begin to mirror the team leader's.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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The Trough (2018)
Plot Summary:
Yu Chau is a cop who has gone so deep undercover within the triad. He can no longer tell which side of the law he's on. When he accidentally kills one of his pals in an operation, he runs off into the boonies to lick his wounds. Upon his return, he teams up with fellow officers Jim and Jackie to catch a triad Boss, only to unveil collusion with government officials at the highest level. Yu Chau once again faces the dilemma of taking the law into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dead Lucky (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two feuding detectives hunt down a cop-killer who leaves a trail of broken lives across Sydney.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, psychological thriller, psycho film
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The Undertaker (2013)
Plot Summary:
A detective leaves the force to take over the family business as an undertaker at the same time as he is being investigated for murder. His close encounters with corpses and his earlier police training lead him to see things some of his ex-colleagues miss and he investigates the crimes he encounters in an unofficial capacity often to the dismay of he official police.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Crime
Country: Switzerland
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Vikram (2022)
Plot Summary:
Amar is assigned to investigate a case of serial killings. When Amar investigates the case, he realizes it is not what it seems to be and following down this path will lead to nothing but war between everyone involved.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, entertaining, cult classic, action thriller
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The Informant (2008)
Plot Summary:
McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, with intelligence officers seeking to uncover the truth about his past by working with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Strike Force (2014)
Plot Summary:
A boisterous homicide detective is partnered with a neurotic narc to fight organized crime in the Dutch city of Tilburg.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Duval and Moretti (2008)
Plot Summary:
Inspectors Duval and Moretti, inseparable cops and friends, work under the leadership of Paloma Ruiz, a commissioner with the iron hand, with the help of their favorite informer, Caesar.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing