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Plot Summary:
JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, serious, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, psychological thriller
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Plot Summary:
Bo is a transexual prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She's infuatuated with a neighbor and suspected by the police in a series of transexual murders. In order to clear herself she must turn detective.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending, realistic, gloomy
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 96 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, independent film, bleak, realistic, gloomy
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Plot Summary:
Vancouver Police Detective Henry Smith is one of those investigating the murder of Roman Catholic Father Martin, who was crucified in his own church.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 741
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 119
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Country: USA, Canada
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 138
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 354
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Country: France
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IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 980
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 729
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Votes: 764
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 447
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 611
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 424
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Country: Canada
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 394
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 310
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
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Country: USA, Canada
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