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Plot Summary:
In Madrid seven candidates report for a job interview that uses "the Grönholm method" of selection, as protestors rise up in public protest in the street over the IMF-World Bank Summit attempting globalisation of workers' unions.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, mind bending, clever, suspense, surreal
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Ivy (2015)
Plot Summary:
After months without pay, the already disgruntled crew on a Turkish cargo ship arrives in an Egyptian port and learns that the Port Authority is foreclosing on them. Ordered to anchor offshore, the remaining skeleton crew has their passports seized and must maintain the vessel until its owner’s debts are paid. Tensions quickly arise between the authoritarian Cypriot captain, his devoutly religious second-in-command, an affable cook, and a trio of newcomers to the ship—a pair of druggie ne’er-do-wells and the near-mute, hulking Kurd. As months pass, food and entertainment dwindle, alliances shift, and the men take out their raw frustration on one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, rough, serious, art house, psychological, mind bending, surreal, weird
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Supercapitalist (2012)
Plot Summary:
A maverick New York hedge fund trader with uncanny analytic abilities moves to Hong Kong and orchestrates a mega-deal that swiftly escalates beyond his control.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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You Will Be My Son (2011)
Plot Summary:
Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin taking over the family business. Martin does not seem to have inherited the qualities that Paul esteems in a wine-maker: persistence, creative insight and technical prowess matched with passion for the job and the product, and Paul frequently reminds him of this, whether explicitly or in subtle gestures. When Philippe, the son of his manager, appears at the vineyard, Paul leaps at the chance to name him as his successor, neglecting the wishes of his own son.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, suspense, captivating, culinary, tense, realistic, gloomy, vintage
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Fair Play (2006)
Plot Summary:
A company, where manipulation and harassment is a problem between colleagues, decides to organize a canyoning trip for its employees. The building tensions between co-workers might actually explode during this trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, clever, serious, realistic, controversial, cynical
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The Business of Strangers (2001)
Plot Summary:
Julie Styron thinks she is going to be fired, but instead discovers that she is being promoted. Trapped in an airport hotel, she wants to celebrate but finds only the company of her young assistant, Paula Murphy. As the night progresses, the two women get to know each other. They flirt, they drink, they lie; personal flaws are revealed and exposed. But at the end of the night their relationship turns and becomes a complex battle of power, authority, and wit.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, harsh, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic, biting, crying, rough
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Nobody Knows Anybody (1999)
Plot Summary:
Película española basada en la novela homónima escrita por Juan Bonilla. Simón, un aspirante a escritor frustrado que se dedica a escribir crucigramas para un periódico, recibe un misterioso encargo: debe incluir la palabra Adversario el próximo Domingo de Ramos en su crucigrama, bajo amenaza. Tras acceder a este chantaje, Simón ve como se suceden una serie de catástrofes que le hacen sospechar de su compañero de piso, Sapo, distanciarse de su novia, Ariadna, y buscar la ayuda de María, una compañera del periódico, para investigar estos extraños sucesos. Todo esto ocurre con la ciudad de Sevilla como telón de fondo y durante la Semana Santa más multitudinaria de España, lo que contribuye a la confusión con nazarenos con pistolas láser, juegos de rol en el recinto de la Expo 92 y acusaciones que acaban inculpando al propio Simón de los crímenes cometidos.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, erotic, hispanic, metafiction, psychological thriller
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Justice (2014)
Plot Summary:
A foul-mouthed woman fights for her soul in the belly of the city. Working for a human trafficking agency controlled by a powerful syndicate, she sees no evil, hears no evil. In a society like ours, you have only two choices—to be a victim or a victimizer. She makes her choice.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak
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Love Crime (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the sterile setting of a powerful multinational, two young women compete ... Isabelle is working under the orders of Christine, a woman of power she admires unreservedly.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Mexico, Lebanon
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, sexy, neo noir, suspense, suspense thriller, psychological thriller
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The Temp (1993)
Plot Summary:
A series of mysterious accidents at a food company lead a manager to suspect his impressive new temporary secretary.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, stylized, neo noir, serious, erotic, light, sexy, clever, feel good
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Agnosia (2010)
Plot Summary:
The protagonist is a young woman, Joan Prats suffering from agnosia, a strange, primary visual disease that is one of the neuropsychological disorders of perception. Although her eyes and ears are in perfect condition, her brain is not able to correctly interpret the stimuli it receives. Joan is the only person to know an industrial secret left behind by her late father and becomes the victim of a sinister plan to extract this information. Her captors plan to use her sensory condition to help extract the information that they so desperately want.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, gothic, realistic, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
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The Gambler (2013)
Plot Summary:
Paramedic Vincentas is a passionate gambler, who is forced to make radical decisions to return the debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illegal game related to his profession. Love, life and death will be at stake.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, stylized, realistic
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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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The Experiment (2010)
Plot Summary:
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, tense, disturbing, reflective, thought provoking, stylized, visually appealing, clever, brutal
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Buried (2010)
Plot Summary:
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, surprise ending, depressing, dark, bad ending, minimal cast, twist ending
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Paranoia (2013)
Plot Summary:
An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price: he must spy on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion dollar advantage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, sexy, exciting, entertaining, psychological, clever, action adventure, disgusting, tense
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Liar Game: The Final Stage (2010)
Plot Summary:
In Liar game: Final Stage, Players are encouraged to trust each other to win the tournament. However, a mysterious player named X is secretly plotting to sabotage everyone of their chances to win the LGT.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dorama, surreal
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Panic Room (2002)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 293000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, neo noir, suspenseful, psychological thriller, stylized, psychological, tricky, suspense thriller, scary
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Misery (1990)
Plot Summary:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 230000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, tense, tension, slasher
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Room (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 443000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, heartbreaking, suspense, psychological, sad, emotional, psychological thriller, tense, bleak, thought provoking
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Arbitrage (2012)
Plot Summary:
A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic, psychological, intense, serious, captivating, clever, tricky
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Disclosure (1994)
Plot Summary:
A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, sexy, tense, psychosexual thriller, intense, sensual, serious, realistic, stylized, psychological
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Hard Candy (2005)
Plot Summary:
A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, independent film, suspense, controversial, rough, psychological thriller
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Open Your Eyes (1997)
Plot Summary:
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, surreal, suspense, atmospheric, mind bending, philosophical, mindfuck, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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House of 9 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, tense, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, realistic, psychological thriller, mind bending
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Unknown (2006)
Plot Summary:
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, tricky, tense, mind bending, suspense, talky, psychological thriller
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Fermat's Room (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time what connects them all and why someone might wish to murder them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, mind bending, psychological thriller, mind blowing
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The Experiment (2001)
Plot Summary:
Das Experiment is a shocking psycho thriller about the potential for brutality that humans hide. Even more shocking is the fact that it’s based on an actual occurrence—a 1971 psychological experiment at Stanford University that was aborted prematurely when the experimenters lost control.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, thought provoking, tense, disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful, psychological thriller, cerebral
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Parasite (2019)
Plot Summary:
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 910000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, black comedy, exciting, dark comedy, captivating, tragic ending, psychological thriller, political, social, disturbing
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Margin Call (2011)
Plot Summary:
A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 141000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, serious, captivating, political, intellectual, talky, tricky, enigmatic, suspenseful
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Exam (2009)
Plot Summary:
The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 123000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, mind bending, suspense, twist ending, tricky, tense, serious, psychological thriller, captivating