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Plot Summary:
A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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The Skulls II (2002)
Plot Summary:
After joining the Skulls, Ryan Sommers (Robin Dunne) is warned not to betray any secrets about the organization or its high-powered members. However, when Ryan witnesses a murder within the Skulls' private chambers, he finds that the closer he gets to revealing the truth - the more dangerous life becomes.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, independent film
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Troubled Waters (2006)
Plot Summary:
Intrepid FBI agent Beck, assigned to solve the case of a multimillionaire couple's missing daughter. As clues begin to reveal themselves, Beck draws an explosive line connecting the kidnapper and the girl's mother -- and brings to light their dark, disturbing secret. Racing against the clock, the determined agent must discover the real reason for the abduction and save the child's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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The Candidate (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jonas Bechmann, a defense attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But nothing is what it appears to be, and the blackmail links back to his father's death under mysterious circumstances a year and a half earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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The Key (2007)
Plot Summary:
Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resurgir le fantôme d'un père qu'il n'a jamais connu ? Un matin, un inconnu l'appelle pour lui proposer de récupérer les cendres de son père. D'abord réticent, il finit par accepter et se retrouve plongé au coeur d'une machination infernale.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, tense, realistic, extraordinary
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The Salamander (1981)
Plot Summary:
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to seize control of the government.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, poliziottesco, independent film, rough, suspenseful
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Defense of the Realm (1985)
Plot Summary:
A reporter Mullen 'stumbles' on a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent. In fact it is also linked to a near Nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and an Americal USAF base. Has there been a Government cover-up,Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam the MP's assistant to find out the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: political thriller, noir, neo noir, political, cult classic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Crusader (2005)
Plot Summary:
The World Of Mass Communication Is About To Become Unplugged.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tech noir
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Cover Story (2002)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious magazine editor gets too caught up in a high-stakes sex scandal and is framed for murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
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Wolf (2004)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ideal candidate to infiltrate the terrorist band ETA and become a mole, so they try to offer him a deal if he will do so.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, political, exciting, realistic
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Everything Will Be Fine (2010)
Plot Summary:
A writer-director known for becoming obsessed with his own stories, Jacob Falk stumbles upon photographs of prisoners of war being tortured by Danish soldiers.Suspecting a political conspiracy, Falk falls into a frenetic chase to reveal the mystery behind the photos which leads him to discover a truth more disturbing than he imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 843
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, fast, psychological thriller, political thriller
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The Clearstream Affair (2014)
Plot Summary:
Journalist Denis Robert sparked a storm in the world of European finance by denouncing the murky operations of banking firm Clearstream. His quest to reveal the truth behind a secret world of shadowy multinational banking puts him in contact with an ever-expanding anti-corruption investigation carried out by Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke. Their paths will lead them to the heart of a political/financial intrigue named the which will rock the foundations of the Europe and the French government itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
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The Idealist (2015)
Plot Summary:
A whistle blower attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, tense
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A Dark Reflection (2015)
Plot Summary:
A journalist digs deep into the world of aviation and discovers some uncomfortable truths. And a conspiracy trail dating back to 1954. But why is no one saying anything?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
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Extremely Dangerous (1999)
Plot Summary:
Extremely Dangerous is a 1999 four part series for ITV starring Sean Bean as an ex-National Criminal Intelligence Service undercover agent convicted of the brutal murder of his wife and child who goes on the run to try and clear his name. He sets out to follow up a strange clue sent to him in prison. The boss of a local crime syndicate, a former associate, hears of his escape and sends out the word to bring him in. On the run from the police and disowned by his NCIS colleagues, he is faced with the fact that he may be guilty.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sicarivs: The Night and the Silence (2015)
Plot Summary:
A hit man receives the assignment to kill a woman. But what seems as another job complicates when he is about to execute her, but does not. He will have to go after those who gave him the contract, for, in his profession, those who do not comply with their duty end up dead. But the question remains, why did he not kill the woman?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, exciting, captivating, suspense
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Nexus (2010)
Plot Summary:
Holly is a struggling singer whose life is torn apart when she loses custody of her daughter, Chloe. When she travels to her soon to be ex-husbands estate in the country, for a weekend visit with Chloe, she is shocked to discover that he is missing. The police are called and the following day, Holly is accused of the murder of her husband. Holly unwittingly finds herself at the center of a small town conspiracy and must harness all her inner strength to save her daughter and clear her name.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film, rough, suspenseful
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Fatal Call (2012)
Plot Summary:
Leaving his small-town roots to start a new life, Mitch meets the beautiful and seductive Amy at a happy hour and begins a tantalizing romance. Before long, Mitch learns that nothing is as it appears and, unable to trust anyone, finds himself on a nightmarish roller coaster ride, accused of murder and running from the law and a mysterious stranger out to kill him. Surviving by quick thinking and his wits, Mitch must confront both his past and present and find a solution before time runs out!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Hidden Camera (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter is killed in a mass murder in a Barcelona hotel room, maverick reporter Dan Kovaks, the dead journalist's brother, launches an investigation all his own. But now he and his hard-driving producer, Alejandra Velor, are being hunted by the killers and a vast network of government agents on both sides of a military conflict brewing in North Korea. But who's working for whom and who can be trusted? Those are the questions troubling Dan and Alejandra as they fight to stay alive and unravel the mystery of a super-secret item dubbed the "Mega-Bill.".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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Teenage Bank Heist (2012)
Plot Summary:
Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real time, ticking clock thriller, as the girls are on the run from the police, we learn that the real motivation behind the robbery is something unexpected.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, realistic
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The Only Witness (2002)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing a brutal murder, a little girl is quickly surrounded by a group of law-enforcement professionals and a psychologist.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, bleak
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Chosen (2014)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Michael Todd, a lonely college student, with no direction in his life; he is assigned a research paper about a local New Orleans legend, the tale of Erica Fisc, a girl who disappeared some twenty years prior. As he looks into the truth behind what really happened to the girl, he finds the truth is more sinister then he could have ever imagined. And now, those who killed her begin to come after him. Some mysteries are better left unsolved because now Mike must run for his life, and his soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic
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Taped (2012)
Plot Summary:
Johan and Saar make a final attempt to save their marriage by going on vacation to Buenos Aires. In keeping a promise to their daughter they will make a video of their activities there. When they accidentally witness (and videotape) a brutal murder they will have to run to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, exciting, serious, fast
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Brotherhood of the Rose (1989)
Plot Summary:
Romulus and Remus are two CIA agents, their direct instructor is John Elliott. They both were picked up at an orphanage by Elliott at the age of about eight, raised together as brothers and specially trained to supersede every other agent in the service. This is what they know. What do not know.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Baltic Storm (2003)
Plot Summary:
A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people drowned.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, interesting
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Power Play (2003)
Plot Summary:
An investigative reporter links the deaths of three people to a high profile corporation, while scientists working on their privately funded research project are forced to look beyond their work and face realitytheir experiments may be the cause of a series of killer earthquakes. The corporation will stop at nothing to keep this secret from becoming public.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, independent film, fast
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Time Lapse (2001)
Plot Summary:
Clayton Pierce is an agent working under deep cover. Although he is a top agent, he is questioning his loyalty after twenty years of service. His devotion has already cost him his wife, family and personal life. During a de-briefing from his last assignment, he is unknowingly administered the drug Oblivion, which destroys brain cells causing permanent memory loss. Within a few days of injection, the drug's effects become irreversible. Clayton will not only lose his memory, he will lose his identity as well. He realizes he can no longer rely on anyone at the agency to help him, not even his boss, Agent LaNova. With nowhere left to go, he appeals to his ex-wife, Kate, for help. Clayton and Kate must locate the antidote before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, independent film, bleak, realistic, talky
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The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Plot Summary:
7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, teen, exciting, rough
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Complicity (2000)
Plot Summary:
Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, independent film
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Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)
Plot Summary:
Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov (Jason Connery), ex-CIA agent Craig (Michael Sarrazin), and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky (Lev Prygunov). They take on the job of finding 1000 grams of weapons-grade plutonium stolen from the Russian government, though they do not know the identity of their client.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, eurospy
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The Jigsaw Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film