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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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Kiss of a Killer (1993)
Plot Summary:
A rapist stalks a witness endangered by the secret life she has created to escape her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 81%
The Near Room (1995)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Colquhoun is a journalist whose career is floundering. As a teenager, he fathered a daughter, Tommy, who was committed to foster care as an infant. Seventeen years later, Charlie, Tommy and Charlie's old schoolmate Harris Hill, now a squeaky-clean solicitor, are reunited by a scandal that includes child pornography, blackmail and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
Similar in 81%
A Very Short Life (2009)
Plot Summary:
"A woman is born to give her body to men; her father or strangers should make no difference." Respectable Police Commissioner Josephine reinvestigates an insignificant murder case of a 11 years old girl. The murderer is the mother of the victim, Becky. Under intense interrogation, Becky refused to admit that she knew all along that her boyfriend was raping her little daughter at home. The harsh interrogation drives Becky into killing herself. What is the truth that the raging Commissioner is trying to find out? What is the seemingly defenseless mother hiding? Or is she acually telling the truth? Is the phrase, "A woman is born to give her body to men." the whole truth?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspense, tense, bleak
Similar in 75%
My Love and I (1964)
Plot Summary:
'The King's Mountain Path' is a long line for wandering, with unmanned sleeping accommodation cabins at appropriate distances. It is not without dangers, in particular when narrow and shallow but speedily running creeks must be crossed. - When they were teenagers, a boy and girl wandered along this path, and had a sexual relation. They decided to meet again after exactly ten years, and at exactly this path. Both kept the promise.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Missing Pages (2013)
Plot Summary:
8 important executive members of some notable corporations of the country are kidnapped during a recent trial.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, crying
Similar in 76%
Dischord (2001)
Plot Summary:
On the brink of her world tour, at the height of her success, alternative rock violinist, Gypsy, put down her violin and walked away... A man brutally beats his girlfriend to death and tosses her remains into a local river... A retired Boston PD detective isn't buying the news report of a local girl accidentally drowning... While Gypsy's unprecedented disappearance perplexes the entire music industry, she retreats with her husband to the desolation of Cape Cod in winter... Seeking refuge in his past, the murderer contacts his estranged brother and falls in love with his brother's wife, Gypsy... And then a body turns up on Cape Cod... And the detective isn't convinced that this will be the last... Here, in the smallest quietest corner of New England unfolds a disquieting tale of what happens when music meets murder... and a lyrical portrait of the ever-present guardians who preserve life's natural harmony.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspense, suspenseful, horror musical
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The Beneficiary (1997)
Plot Summary:
Lust, desire and money motivate a greedy woman to murder her philandering rich husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: detective
Similar in 90%
The Lithium Conspiracy (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the power of governments behind the events has been replaced by the power of holding companies. Nowadays you don't conquer a country. You buy it. "Short story of long betrayals" is again set in the Republic of Queimada, where in the "Salar de Queimada" (a salt lake) lies 50% of lithium in the whole world. Not surprisingly, there is an international interest in its fate and a breathless fight to seize it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exotic
Similar in 77%
Fatal Bond (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young woman takes off with a charming stranger in Australia, then begins to think he's a killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
Similar in 85%
Innuendo (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tuuli grows up in an oppressively religious and abusive family in Finland. To escape from the shadow of her angelic twin sister she travels to Melbourne, Australia. Curious of sexuality, she becomes a nude model for art classes. Her innocent surface reveals sordid cracks as she sets about exerting her twisted version of righteousness.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, Finland, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, independent film
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Torn Apart (2004)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Vicki Westin has no idea that losing a patient is going to wreak complete havoc on her life. But that's exactly what happens: Her deceased patient's grieving father seeks vengeance by kidnapping Vicki's husband and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, neo noir
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A Violent Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
Despite the life threat hanging over his head, Stéphane decides to go back to Corsica for the funeral of Christophe, a childhood friend and companion in arms, murdered the day before. On this occasion, the chain of events which made him, the learned petit-bourgeois from Bastia, shift from delinquency to political radicalization and then to clandestinity, comes back to his mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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False as Water (1985)
Plot Summary:
John is the owner of a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara and falls in love with her. A movie about jealousy and death.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eighties
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The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea (2019)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman is miserable in the narrow-minded town she is living, while Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, biblical
Similar in 79%
What a Wonderful World (2014)
Plot Summary:
After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Moldova
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 82%
Deadly Embrace (1989)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful but horny and neglected Beverly Hills wife hires a hot young stud as a gardener. It eventually gets through to her husband that some hanky-panky may possibly be going on, and he begins to spy on her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, surprise ending, crying, independent film, gay cinema
Similar in 81%
Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It (1970)
Plot Summary:
After many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his father (who he suspects was actually murdered). He attempts to untangle that mystery while still carrying an unhealthy obsession toward his mother, who committed suicide ten years ago. This obsession then draws in his attractive cousin and takes a sexual turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 86%
Heart (1999)
Plot Summary:
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, independent film
Similar in 76%
Just the Two of Us (2023)
Plot Summary:
When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 87%
Too Good to Be True (1988)
Plot Summary:
A self-entitled woman is determined to keep her new man to herself at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Lady in Waiting (1994)
Plot Summary:
A divorced cop investigating the sadistic murders of high-class prostitutes discovers that the prime suspect is his ex-wife's new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective, hot
Similar in 76%
Night Sins (1997)
Plot Summary:
A female FBI investigator takes over jurisdiction in Dear Lake, a small northern town just as a young boy is abducted. Her investigation leads to a bigger series of abductions and murders dating back over 20 years. Her investigation also brings her into a mutual attraction with the small-town police chief who shares her investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, melancholic, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 80%
Angel of Death (2001)
Plot Summary:
The most spectacular Easter celebration in the World. Hosts of hooded Penitents parade through the ancient, narrow streets of the Old Town in time-honored ritual. But for one celebrant this Holy Week is different. For him Semana Santa is a time to kill. As the death toll mounts, it falls to detective Maria Delgado - mistrusted outsider from Madrid - to stop the bizarre killings.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, serious, disturbing, rough, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, independent film
Similar in 90%
The King (2005)
Plot Summary:
A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian community church. Pastor Dave tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is his son from a pre-conversion liaison, tells them to have nothing to do with him. But Elvis has already connected with Malerie, the pastor's 16-year old daughter. Elvis embarks on the seduction of Malerie, while Dave examines his conscience and comes to a new conclusion. Can anyone get right with the Lord? Does the Lord hear?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, independent film, tense, clever, contemplative
Similar in 75%
After the Wedding (2006)
Plot Summary:
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, UK, Norway
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, melancholic, light, serious, contemplative, thought provoking, existential
Similar in 78%
Freak Out (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1977, teenager Wayne (Nick Foster) gathers his two friends, female runaway Rhonda (Sarah Ogg) and disco club hopper Tim (David Gobble), for a drug party located in the suburban home of quiet recluse Dean (Brad Jones). But unknown to Tim and Rhonda are the horrible secrets which lie in Dean's basement storage room. Dean is the uncaptured child murderer who uses his basement as a torture dungeon with the help of Wayne and fellow teenager David (Buford Stowers). When the drugs and alcohol mix get higher throughout the night, not even so called friends are safe from the sadistic bloodlust of Dean. Inspired by the true story of notorious serial murderer Dean Corll.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 87%
The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
Plot Summary:
Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala. Confronting Victor, Charles tries to adopt an air of indifference, but the conversation ends with the husband bludgeoning the author to death and then calmly disposing of the evidence. When Hélène is questioned about Victor's murder, she discovers on her own that her husband is guilty. Instead of turning him in, Hélène is so thrilled that Charles cares so deeply about her that she is more in love with him than ever before.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, cynical, neo noir, psychological thriller, anthology, cute, twisted
Similar in 88%
In Her Skin (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, disturbing, crime drama, inspirational, mind bending, gothic
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The Wrath of God (2022)
Plot Summary:
Convinced the tragic deaths of her loved ones were orchestrated by a famous novelist she worked for, Luciana turns to a journalist to expose her truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, enigmatic, captivating, psychological thriller
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Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Plot Summary:
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 298000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, neo noir, psychological, suspense, disturbing, mindfuck, mind bending, visually stunning, crime thriller, touching