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Plot Summary:
Stealing is a crime. Getting away with it is an art.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, hispanic, student film
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2Survive (2015)
Plot Summary:
A desert survival reality show goes horribly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, crying, mockumentary
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Determinism (2012)
Plot Summary:
A lonely South Asian American college student, who desperately attempts to escape his fate, unwittingly descends into a world of crime and violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, hispanic, post modern
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Trim (2010)
Plot Summary:
A misguided personal trainer struggles to clean up his life after he's sued by one of his clients, knocks up two women and suffers a major heart attack. Stars Jonathan Wade-Drahos, Ryan Bottiglieri, Bruce Dern.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, hispanic, islamic, student film
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Reverse Angle (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the remote, sun soaked Pennsylvanian countryside, Ned Larson - a retired professor and reclusive inventor is killed in an explosion at his home. Soon after, small-time investigative journalist Eve Pretson crawls from the wreckage of a burnt out car nearby. She suffers a complete loss of memory - with no recollection of who she is or anything that preceded the accident. Weak and disorientated, she stops at a gas station for help, but instead witnesses the murder of a local mechanic. How are these events connected? In a desperate search for answers, Eve pieces together the scattered fragments of her life, becoming ever more fearful of all she uncovers.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Bleeding Heart (2015)
Plot Summary:
Reserved yoga instructor May's peaceful, clean-living life is thrown out of balance by the arrival of her long-lost sister Shiva, a street-smart yet naive young woman trapped in an abusive relationship. May feels compelled to rescue the hapless Shiva, but she finds herself increasingly drawn out of her sedate world and deeper into Shiva's chaotic one.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, realistic
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Colorz of Rage (1999)
Plot Summary:
Writer-director Dale Resteghini's indie drama follows a young interracial couple (Resteghini and Nicki Richards) whose recent move to New York from the Boston suburbs lands them in an environment of bigotry and hatred that they're ill-equipped to handle. Hip-hop artist turned actor Redman also stars in this thought-provoking tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Break Up Club (2010)
Plot Summary:
Break Up Club (Chinese: 分手說愛你) is a 2010 Hong Kong romance film starring Jaycee Chan and Fiona Sit. This film revolves around a website that allows users to win back lost loves, so long as they agree to break up another happy couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, student film
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I Love You Too (2009)
Plot Summary:
Have you ever been tempted to fall in love with your best friend? Well meet Whitney. When she is down on her luck with guys she turns to the one person who understands her, Dawson. His advice wasn't doing nothing but taking her heart. For Whitney finding love is hard but for Charles and Vanessa keeping love is the hardest. Charles and Vanessa is the image of a couple with deep love and wealth. All the time apart from each other leads Charles to devilish temptation. After spending a lot of time with his sexy business partner, Mrs. Denis, and his breathtaking secretary he gives into temptation. His life gets turn upside down when he decides to engage in a sexual encounter with one of the two. Charles quickly sees everything he worked so hard for is about to vanish in the blink of an eye. Will he get himself out of this disarray? This group of Miami's elite will go through all the modern day trial and tribulation. As they are facing obstacles, each of them must use every tactic possible.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, hispanic, student film, post modern
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Heads or Tails (2005)
Plot Summary:
Four interlinking stories about a benign native american legend that has been distorted throughout the years into something much darker.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense
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Butterfly Rising (2011)
Plot Summary:
When her brother dies, singer Lilah Belle sets out to escape her grief and embarks on a road trip, but not before coaxing the new-to-town, most scandalous woman in Artesia, Rose Johnson, to go with her. These two broken souls steal a vintage truck and head out on the open road to a fated encounter with the mythical, magical 'Lazarus of the Butterflies'. What occurs with the strange Butterfly Man transforms their destinies and binds the women together - forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Willed to Kill (2012)
Plot Summary:
A homicide detective is forced to work alongside her ex-fiancé to investigate a murder that bears all the hallmarks of an infamous serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Rogue Agent (2022)
Plot Summary:
The TRUE, extraordinary and chilling story of career conman Robert Freegard who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled people into going into hiding, and the woman who fell for him, and then brought him down.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Tainos (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sara, a young archaeology student, organizes an expedition to La Mora Cave. Guided by Yabey, Sara and her four friends, discover a hidden Taíno tribe, believed to be extinguished 500 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sioux City (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Come and Find Me (2016)
Plot Summary:
When his girlfriend goes missing, David must track down her whereabouts after he realizes she's not who she was pretending to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, entertaining, detective, ambiguous ending
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Trade Of Innocents (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man. Alex (Dermot Mulroney), a human trafficking investigator, plays the role of her next customer as he negotiates with the pimp for the use of the child. Claire (Mira Sorvino), Alex's wife, is caught up in the flow of her new life in Southeast Asia and her role as a volunteer in an aftercare shelter for rescued girls where lives of local neighborhood girl's freedoms and dignity are threatened. Parallel story lines intertwine and unfold twists against the backdrop of the dangerous human trafficking world, in a story of struggle, life, hope and redemption in the "TRADE of INNOCENTS.".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere, thought provoking, crime drama, crime thriller, interesting
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A Touch of Zen (1971)
Plot Summary:
Ming dynasty noblewoman Yang must escape from the evil eunuch Hsu. She seeks refuge at a decrepit town where she gets assistance from a naive scholar & a group of mysterious yet powerful monks.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: art house, psychedelic, captivating, cult classic, mind blowing, exciting, serious, contemplative, stylized, epic
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Black Point (2002)
Plot Summary:
In an Alaskan fishing town, a local crime boss suspects a local fisherman knows where his stolen money is, but this fisherman is no regular Joe.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspense, cliffhanger, exciting, realistic, suspenseful
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Slave Warrior: The Beginning (2007)
Plot Summary:
A man travels back in time to fight slavery.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, captivating, neo noir, independent film, student film
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Takedown (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five years ago David's life came undone when his young daughter fell victim to a brutal attack. The subsequent emotional fallout cost him his marriage and his job. Handicapped by guilt and anguish David abandoned his past and alienated himself. He took a second rate job as a security guard and plodded on - his wounds concealed but unhealed. All it would take is a scratch for them to open wide and consume him.... During a routine security inspection, David discovers a young Serbian girl stowed in the cab of a truck. Her sister and other girls have been murdered - all victims of a perfidious human trafficking racket. She pleads for his help. This is his chance at retribution. This time he will champion the young girl that places her trust in him. But David is taking on Goliath and he has his back against the wall and a gun at his head. Enlisting the help of a woman's refuge counselor, David embarks on a do or die mission to save the girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic
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The Bullet Vanishes (2012)
Plot Summary:
One rainy night in an arms factory near Shanghai, a young female worker accused of stealing a box of bullets from the ruthless Boss Ding (Liu Kai Chi) is violently killed in a game of Russian roulette. Half a month later, a series of inexplicable deaths takes place in the factory, where the victims are shot but no bullets are found. Rumors of a deadly curse begin to spread in the factory, terrorizing the workers there. So, eccentric police inspector Song Donglu (Lau Ching Wan) and his hot-blooded, gunslinging partner Guo Zhui (Nicholas Tse) are sent in to investigate the mystery of the phantom bullets.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, realistic, detective
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The Quest (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ghang-gheng, the ancient winner-take-all competition in which the deadliest fighters from around the world employ the most spectacular feats of martial arts skills ever displayed in order to win the prized Golden Dragon. But fighting prowess alone will not be enough for Chris to triumph over such daunting foes.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, stylized, period piece, sentimental, suspense, cult classic, fast, costume drama
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Mission Istaanbul (2008)
Plot Summary:
A promising journalist Vikas Sagar (Zayed Khan) is offered a position to head a controversial news station in Istanbul by its owner Owais Husain (Sunil Shetty). With this offer comes the promise of money and many other perks that make this offer hard to refuse, especially since Vikas is currently going through a very painful divorce with his wife Anjali (Shriya Saran). After working for the channel that in turn changes his life, he decides to quit, however, it is brought to his attention by a Turkish commando Rizwan Khan (Vivek Oberoi), that others who have quit had been killed for knowing too much. Does it become a battle - which will win, the sword or the pen?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, exciting, suspense
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Deadly Inferno (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of employees are stuck on the 8th floor of an office building, and it is up to firefighter Ray to find a way to bring them to safety. Unsure of their fate, and with too much to lose, these men must fight to keep each other alive as they hunt for a way out from this deadly inferno.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disaster movie
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Ashanti (1979)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, exciting, suspense, cult classic, vintage, cult film
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Sub Zero (2005)
Plot Summary:
A device that controls a powerful Russian-made satellite weapon is stolen by Russian terrorists, who try to escape by flying out but are shot down. The device is now on top of K2. The device is still active and where it will strike is indeterminable. The good guys have to get to the device and deactivate it. Only trouble, it's winter and it'll be difficult to climb K2. A few of the best mountain climbers in the world are recruited to take techs who can deactivate the device to the top of K2. However, before the climbing party leaves, a team member dies, and it might not be natural causes. The group who stole the device might have someone on the team. But they still go on.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast, disaster movie
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Shadow of the Wolf (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930's, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northen Quebec.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, independent film
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The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
Plot Summary:
Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on the run after a run-in with the police. Assisted by his lawyer Rina Van Niekirk and visiting British engineer Jim Keogh, he heads for Capetown where he hopes to recover a stash of diamonds, meant to finance revolutionary activities, that he had entrusted to a dentist before his incarceration. Along the way, they are followed by Major Horn of the South African State security bureau and it becomes apparent that he has no intention of arresting them until they reach their final destination.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, political
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Edge of Darkness (2010)
Plot Summary:
As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, tense, suspenseful, exciting, detective, serious, captivating, realistic, rough
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Diablo (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, spaghetti western, wild