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Plot Summary:
When two neighbours clash, their argument becomes less about proposed building alterations and more about the wider battle between class and social status. The hugely impressive building in question is the only example of a Le Corbusier residential home in all of Latin America, adding to the poignancy of their argument. Winner of six Argentinean Academy Awards in 2010, including Best Film.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, realistic, disturbing
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Protection (2001)
Plot Summary:
A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness and tries to start over, only to find he can't escape his old ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Deliver Us from Evil (2009)
Plot Summary:
In search of a new lifestyle, Johannes and his wife Pernille leave the city and move with their two children to Johannes’ childhood town in the country. When Johannes’ drunken brother Lars accidently runs over Anna, a local, and plants false evidence pointing at the emigrant Alain, Johannes stands up to defend Alain. But it comes with a price.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, disturbing, suspense, captivating, neo noir, thought provoking, bleak, realistic
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The Box Collector (2008)
Plot Summary:
An overprotective mother tries to stop her son's budding relationship with a flirtatious young divorce.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Thriller
Country: Belgium, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, independent film
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Crying with Laughter (2009)
Plot Summary:
Powerfully redemptive and darkly comedic revenge thriller set in the vicious world of stand-up comedy, starring Stephen McCole and Malcolm Shields.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, dark comedy, tense, realistic
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The Suspect (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two African American social scientists pose as bank robbers in an effort to understand the racial dynamics of small-town law enforcement. However, their experiment takes an unplanned turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, captivating, clever, realistic
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Enter the Dangerous Mind (2013)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller set in the world of underground dubstep, Snap is the story of Jim Whitman, a brilliant but painfully introverted musician who develops a crush on a young social worker.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, twisted, serious, independent film
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Legacy (2010)
Plot Summary:
Taking refuge in a shabby Brooklyn motel after narrowly surviving a failed mission in Eastern Europe, Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray (Idris Elba) begins to disintegrate mentally as he broods over the legacy of his actions in this taut psychological thriller. Haunted by his demons while holed up in his room, Malcolm ponders the ascent of his brother (Eamonn Walker), an ambitious senator with designs on the presidency.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Nigeria, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological thriller, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Deadbolt (1992)
Plot Summary:
When medical student Marty places an ad for a roommate, her ad is answered by handsome, clean-cut Alec. At first Alec seems to be a wonderful roommate; supportive, considerate and a real friend. However, Alec's affection turns to obsession as he plots to manipulate and control all aspects of Marty's life, imprison her in her own apartment and make her his.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, dark, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic
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The Grind (2009)
Plot Summary:
Luke, is a grifter who owes a significant debt to the Mexican mob. Set in the gritty underbelly of Gardena, CA Luke has to come up with one final scheme to pay back his debt or his life is at risk. Supported by his two only friends, Courtney and Josh, they come together to devise a plan that with a little blind luck just might get Luke out of the hole.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, neo noir
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From the Inside (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alone in their isolated home where no cars pass and no one lives nearby, Vincent and Tally suffer together in a loveless marriage. But what they don't know is that they are not as alone as they think -- a criminal and his psychotic brother are watching them through binoculars. They stare lustfully at Tally through the windows and plan something horrible for the unhappy couple when night falls.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, independent film
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Net Games (2003)
Plot Summary:
The successful publicist Adam Vance of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Japanese client and is needy of sex because his traumatized wife Jennifer Vance was raped one year ago and is totally frigid, refusing to have sex. His close friend and colleague Ray Walters suggests Adam to visit the porn site cyber chat.net, where lonely people have erotic conversation. Adam meets Angel, a luscious woman and hacker while his wife is visiting her rapist in the prison with her therapist as part of her treatment. When Adam decides to finish his virtual affair with Angel, he is chased and blackmailed by the deranged sexy killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir, sexy, tense, psychological, suspense, erotic, sexual
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You Belong to Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jeffrey has met the man of this dreams, hunky Frenchman René, he impulsively moves into the same building. The move backfires as Remé becomes cold and distant. Landlady Gladys lavishes attention on her new tenant.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Playing House (2011)
Plot Summary:
In this taut thriller, newlyweds Jen and Mitch find that three's company and four's a crowd when they ask their friend Danny to move in with them to share expenses. But a sweet situation turns sour when Danny invites a new person into the mix.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, slasher, independent film
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Shadow of Fear (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a new boy is employed to work in a coffee shop, he turns out to be a schizophrenic who refuses to take his medication, and makes the life of the popular young waitress who works there a misery.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, captivating
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Paris Under Watch (2012)
Plot Summary:
An anonymous hacker has hacked all of Paris' cameras and observes the city unbeknownst to its inhabitants. Petty crimes and moments of stolen intimacy, he sees everything. Until the day that an explosion lays wasted to the Gare d'Austerlitz. The police starts tracking down an Al Queda satellite group. The hacker succeeds in finding images of the explosion and discovers that it was a young couple who planted the bomb. Using the city's cameras, he decides to hunt down the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Killer Reality (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hayley, a producer on the hit reality show LOVE EVER AFTER, unwillingly falls for The Bachelor on this marriage elimination series. Things become complicated very quickly, especially when one of the female contestants turns up dead. That's when work becomes downright murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, rough, sexual
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The Devil's Dominoes (2008)
Plot Summary:
On their way to a weekend hunting trip in the Ozarks, four friends get in to a car accident, killing the driver of the other car.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Way of the Wicked (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lawrence Salva's script centers on a detective (Facinelli), on the trail of a murderer, who is led to believe that a local teenager, harboring some sort of strange supernatural power, may be involved. Slater plays the man's disbelieving boss, while Hauer plays a man-of-the-cloth who aids the cop on his mission.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, detective, satanic
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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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Love Thy Neighbor (2006)
Plot Summary:
Plagued by flashbacks of a violent home invasion, Laura Benson is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Looking for a fresh start, she and her husband sell their house and relocate to a seemingly idyllic gated community. But, little do the Bensons know, evil not only dwells in the neighborhood...it lives next door. As strange and terrifying events unfold, Laura doesn't know whether her sinisterly sweet neighbor is to blame, if she's been targeted for revenge...or if she's losing her mind.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 713
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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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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Dying for a Baby (2019)
Plot Summary:
Amber and Kyle are ready to move on after a car accident two years ago. But their world turns upside down when Jessica, the other driver who lost her unborn baby in the accident, moves in next door and gets a job with Amber's doctor -- all in a plan to seek a cold form of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Favor (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kip's perfect life is put in jeopardy when the waitress with whom he's having a casual fling is accidentally killed in their motel room. Desperate, he turns to childhood friend and loser, Marvin, to help get rid of the body. Marvin agrees which begins the unraveling of their friendship and ultimately leads both to murderous acts they never thought themselves capable of.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, twisted, realistic, independent film
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Last Screening (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sylvain, a film-obsessed 31-year-old, lives in the basement of a small art-house theater where he works as a programmer, projectionist and cashier. Each night, after the last showing, he goes out for a murderous ritual.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, scary, bleak, serious, realistic, slasher
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The Bottom of the Sea (2003)
Plot Summary:
An architect (Daniel Hendler) trails a man (Gustavo Garzón) who was hiding under his girlfriend's (Dolores Fonzi) bed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Fatal Justice (2012)
Plot Summary:
Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the perpetrators is released, Karen decides to go on a murderous trail of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Employer (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five highly qualified applicants interview for a coveted job with the Carcharias Corporation, a powerful conglomerate whose business practices are shrouded in mystery. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and drugged. The next day, they wake up trapped together in a locked room without any hope of escape. Soon the true nature of their situation is revealed when they receive a phone call from the mysterious CEO of Carcharias, known only as The Employer. He informs them that they are about to experience the final interview, but it's not at all what they were expecting.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, psychological, realistic, independent film
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Coffin Rock (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying, makes the drunken mistake of sleeping with a young stranger. The stranger then goes to terrifying lengths to prove his paternity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, psychological, captivating, slasher, disturbing, psychological horror, scary, realistic
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Dark Hearts (2014)
Plot Summary:
When struggling artist Colson finds his muse in sultry singer Fran, their daring romance spirals out of control into a dangerous game of deception and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, stylized, captivating, sexual, sexy
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Perez. (2014)
Plot Summary:
Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso’s son, Perez has to cut through the morality of his law-abiding roots and become as dirty as the dangerous criminals he represents.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, psychological, captivating, suspense, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful