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Plot Summary:
A newcomer comes to live in the village, it is soon found out that he has a special gift. He can find oil with his hands. But who is he and what does he want from the villagers?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Where the Rainbow Ends (1999)
Plot Summary:
Mikael Persson is about to realize his dream, a great musical with some of Sweden's foremost artists and with himself in the lead role. But just weeks before the premiere the Swedish Enforcement Authority knocks on the door and throws Michael and his family out on the street. He and his fiancee Catti resort to all means to save his life's work and they get unexpected help from the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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Samui Song (2017)
Plot Summary:
A soap opera actress finds herself increasingly pressured by her husband, a rich foreigner entirely devoted to a charismatic cult leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Germany, Norway
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twisted
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Lies (1983)
Plot Summary:
Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl who'd been murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: steamy, independent film
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The Game (2022)
Plot Summary:
During the Cold War, the secret service of Kádár began a more dangerous state security game than ever before.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Clean (2004)
Plot Summary:
A limo driver attempts to outrun his bad habits.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Birthday (2000)
Plot Summary:
Michael has a secret that he intends to announce during his birthday party. He has finally decided to propose to Catti, his girlfriend of many years. But Catti has other plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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Warm Texas Rain (2000)
Plot Summary:
A married ex-Marine gets seduced by the same mysterious woman because of whom he ended up in prison some years ago. Is she the true love of his life, or the biggest mistake he's ever made?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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The Black List (1995)
Plot Summary:
At the trial of a judge who was found with a prostitute, a list of clients pops up. It contains the names of some very influential judges and politicians. Then, dead bodies and death threats erupt. Jacques is the trial judge and his own life seems to be in danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Deadly Dancer (1990)
Plot Summary:
A police detective, investigating a string of murders of strippers at a Los Angeles night club, must race against the clock to clear his name when he's wrongfully accused of being the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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The Bordello (1971)
Plot Summary:
A drama directed by Alfred Weidenmann.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Dragonflies (2001)
Plot Summary:
Eddie (Kim Bodnia) and Maria (Maria Bonnevie) enjoy an idyllic life in their remote countryside farmhouse. But their happiness is threatened by the arrival of Kullmann (Mikael Persbrandt), an old friend of Eddie's with whom he had committed a crime that landed Kullmann in jail.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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Queen of Carthage (2014)
Plot Summary:
An American Drifter discovers a New Zealand Singer and develops and obsession for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Temptation (2023)
Plot Summary:
Inez is a young, aspiring journalist who dreams of love and a job at a prestigious publishing house. Once she gets to the paradise of her dreams, problems will start to multiply. What's more, two handsome men will appear at her side. Both mysterious and unpredictable.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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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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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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The Black Spider (2022)
Plot Summary:
The courageous young midwife Christine makes a pact with the devil to save her village from the brutal terror of the Teutonic Knights. Punished by a spider plague, Christine goes from savior to hunted.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Hungary
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (1986)
Plot Summary:
300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang, and the government hides the dead. Pierre Clémenti’s In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (À l’ombre de la canaille bleue) is an experimental crime film considered to be a landmark of Parisian underground cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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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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The Eye (1998)
Plot Summary:
Fredrik is a director for a company that has developed a camera that can be operated from a distance to inspect pipes. He is so obsessed about his girlfriend Ingrid that he arranges his own fake suicide so that he can check that she mourns his death properly. With a set of cameras in their house he can follow every step she takes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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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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Paul Sanchez Is Back! (2018)
Plot Summary:
The reappearance of notorious criminal Paul Sanchez becomes an obsession for a young police officer who will do anything to catch him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Sweet Sting of the Black Widow (2022)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is loose on the streets of LA, leaving behind a steaming trail of bodies marked with lipstick: the calling card of a Black Widow who loves them and leaves them dead. As homicide detectives unravel the case, they discover the victims all have one thing in common: they’re crooked ex-cops who escaped justice. But they didn’t escape the sting of the Black Widow. As the investigation hits ever closer to home, the police must consider that the killer could be one of their own, a vigilante who is taking the law into her own hands, and tracking these murders will take them through the dark and seedy underbelly of Los Angeles where they soon discover that revenge is a dish best served hot.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags:
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Fate (2003)
Plot Summary:
Serial killers have plagued the American landscape for decades, committing gruesome atrocities, and providing some tough cases for criminal investigators to crack. This thriller follows the travails of two detectives who are on the trail of a bizarre murderer intent on slaughtering his victims, then using them as real-life puppets in a tale that he is trying to tell. The plot holds a key to the whereabouts of the monstrous deviant, but the detectives have to unravel it quickly before more unsuspecting citizens become theater fodder for the unhinged madman.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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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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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
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Naked Angels (1969)
Plot Summary:
Mother has just got out of prison and wants to get revenge on the biker gang that put him there. He teams up with his old gang "The Angels" and they head to the desert to get even. Soon, Mother's obsession begins to take it's toll on his relationship with his girlfriend, Marlene, and the respect his gang has for him quickly dwindles until he is left alone in the desert to fend for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sexy, psychotronic, independent film, hot
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Solitaire (1996)
Plot Summary:
erotic thriller from 1996.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Laguna Heat (1987)
Plot Summary:
Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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You Bet Your Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
A compulsive gambler is forced to take a chance with his own life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, erotic
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Dark Secrets (1996)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic