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Plot Summary:
Directed by Samir Seif.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration:
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Lady in Black (1987)
Plot Summary:
Kin Seng (Leung Ka Fai) falls into big debts in the gambling house. He persuades his loving wife, May (Lin Ching Hsia), to embezzle a huge sum from working place to save him. They go to Thailand to seek help from Kin Seng's uncle but in vain. On their return Journey, May accidentally falls off the ferry and Kin Seng commits a deliberate murder. [...] What is going to happen next? -From the Fortune Star Legendary Collection DVD summary.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
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A Married Woman (1982)
Plot Summary:
Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 92 min
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Ala bab el wazir (1982)
Plot Summary:
Kamal is a university student who is in love with Nora the daughter of a ruthless businessman who rejects him because he is poor and thus plots to keep him away from her. With the help of his friends they try to solve his problem especially after Kamal's father has been unjustly arrested for a crime he did not commit.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Crime
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min
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Suspect (1981)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of an ex-burglar who is struggling to lead a normal life with his wife and little son. His elder brother pressures him to return to burglary.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min
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Attention, the Kids Are Watching (1978)
Plot Summary:
Four children blackmail the housekeeper who is in charge of watching over them while their parents are absent.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
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To Make a Killing (1988)
Plot Summary:
Damon Kennedy (Tamblyn Lord, The River Kings) is an impressionable young man ready to begin university life.On the other side of the tracks live Terry (Craig Pearce, co-author of Strictly Ballroom), Felix (John Godden) and Benny (Kelly Dingwall) - who get their kicks out of robbing houses and chasing girls. But they're broke and all out of cash. During a routine burglary the gang discover an innocent Damon. Brushing off the intrusion and pretending they are looking for some mates, the gang flee the scene but bored Damon follows them and joins their group for the day, hoping to find some fun.When the gang picks up two girls, things become unhinged as a drunk Damon brags about some of his family's many affluent friends. Forced to take them to one of his cash-rich contacts, Damon's nightmare has only just begun. As Terry discovers that the wealthy don't always carry cash, what starts as a burglary soon turns into a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Secrets in Suburbia (2017)
Plot Summary:
After discovering that her three best friends and her husband are plotting to murder her and steal her family fortune, Gloria, an otherwise kind-hearted housewife and mother of two, unfolds and exacts a deadly revenge on all who betrayed her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 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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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
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What We Did That Night (1999)
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An ex-con Henry (Rick Schroder) returns to town after being released from prison and contacts his old college frat members about a murder that they committed years earlier. They have to return to move the body to a new location before it is uncovered by recent digging in the area. Now a lot older and bitter about going to prison Henry has planned revenge on his old friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Scene of the Crime: A Tooth for a Tooth (1985)
Plot Summary:
A man who has just become unemployed kills his closest relatives before he judges himself. Commissioner Schimanski determined.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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El profeta Mimi (1973)
Plot Summary:
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017)
Plot Summary:
After encountering a group of bandits with plans to rape and steal from her, a young widow ventures into the wilderness in search of justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Indonesia, France, Malaysia, Thailand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, art house, uplifting, scenic, anthology, suspense, suspense thriller, wild, cult film
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Tin God (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ethan is a young man searching for meaning in life and he thinks he has found what he is looking for in the new girl, Sasha. But Sasha has a dark side that will be his undoing.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Madonna: A Case of Blood Ambition (1990)
Plot Summary:
A man is convicted of raping and murdering a child and sent to prison. He is shortly afterwards beaten to death by other inmates. His daughter blames the jurors who convicted him for his death, and she hatches a scheme to murder each of the jury members, often seducing them herself first.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Madtown (2016)
Plot Summary:
A stand-up comedian confesses to a murder on-stage at an open mic night to a shocked audience - his crime the result of a deadly triangle formed between his older sister, just released from prison after a 20-year stay for the murder of their parents, the loving bond he now shares with a caring surrogate family, and the ultimate choice he must make between them - his dysfunctional blood ties with his own sister, or his picturesque view of the ideal family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, rough, captivating, exciting
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Murder at My Door (1996)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet neighborhood, a suburban family is shocked when their son is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a neighbor's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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Deadly Daphne's Revenge (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young hitchhiker is picked up by four drunken hunters, one of whom rapes her. A tough prosecutor has all four of the men indicted for the crime, which results in a suicide and a murder-for-hire plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Laguna (2001)
Plot Summary:
Raised by an uncle in New York after his parents died in an attack orchestrated by the mafia, Thomas, now an adult, is sent to live in Italy. There, while his tortured past and the death of his parents come back to haunt him, he feels increasingly drawn to Thelma, his uncle's mysterious wife. Soon Thomas will learn the truth about the death of his parents and foment a vengeance of great heights.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Canada, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, suspense, action adventure
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The Yacoubian Building (2006)
Plot Summary:
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt, France
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sad, multicultural, islamic, iconic
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Mother Knows Best (1997)
Plot Summary:
A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice. So she goes out and hires a killer to kill her son-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Vengeance (1980)
Plot Summary:
Four hoodlums break into a jeweller's house and brutally murder him, his wife and daughter. On the run they kidnap Jenny, a Senator's grand daughter and her boyfriend, but discover that the two will not be taken easily. In the melee that follows, the gang are blown away one by one, until the final vengeful confrontation between Jenny and the remaining gang member.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher
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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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Deadbeat (1976)
Plot Summary:
When four degenerate thugs rape and murder a young waitress in part of their rape and murder spree, they are arrested, but get away with though a legal technicality. The brother of one of the rape/murder victims decides to become vigilante and kill the four degenerates by himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Perfect Wife (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Leah's brother dies in a car accident, she vows revenge on the doc who failed to save him.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, twisted, scary, realistic
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Seasick (1996)
Plot Summary:
Eco-terrorists attack a ship carrying toxic waste.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Sweden, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Governance (2021)
Plot Summary:
Renzo Petrucci is forced to leave his job as general manager of a multinational oil company after corruption charges. Convinced that the woman who has taken his place has betrayed him, Renzo takes his revenge by killing her. Reinstated by the Board, he works his way up to the top, driving his company to new heights despite the growing suspicion and mistrust.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Glass Chin (2014)
Plot Summary:
After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a deal with a crooked restaurateur. But quick schemes rarely bring easy pay-offs and as the consequences of his business negotiations unfold, Bud has to make a choice between his integrity and his aspirations.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense
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Dawn Patrol (2014)
Plot Summary:
After the brutal murder of his beloved brother, a small-town surfer seeks revenge against the gang of merciless thugs he holds responsible. However, when another tragedy brings him face to face with the consequences of his actions, he must seek forgiveness from the very people he despises most.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, erotic
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Revenge (2015)
Plot Summary:
Rebekka travels back to a hotel by the Norwegian fjords seeking revenge on the man who ruined her sister's life. Under false identity, she seeks out her deceased sister's violator and embeds herself into his idyllic family to destroy his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing