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El Regreso is a venezuelan movie written and directed by Patricia Ortega, which tells the story of a Wayuu girl that survived the slaughter of his people, in Bahía Portete from the Colombian Guajira, and therefore, she is forced to grow in a unknown world to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Documentary, Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, thought provoking, tense, suspenseful
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Gina (2024)
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After spending three years in jail, Juan goes free with the aim of recovering Eva's love. Zoe and Ismael, two ex-partners who he betrayed, will return to cross in his way.
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Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, crime drama, neo noir, queer cinema
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Vendues (2004)
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7 young women from Eastern Europe accept to become prostitutes for a year in exchange for a journey that will take them from Belgrade to Marseilles and provide them with a French passport. Irina, a worker from a Moscow suburb, brings along Enki, her young son, hidden among her luggage. She's ready to do anything to give him a brighter future.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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Vasiliki (1997)
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It is based on a true story, where a young soldier and the wife of a revolutionary guy falls in love while in the background we witness political turmoils of Greece at that time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 123 min
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Boy on the Bridge (2016)
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In a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates finds himself in the centre of a murder investigation that exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 85 min
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Transit (2005)
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After a graffiti artist loses his brother and fellow partner-in-crime to the hands of a vigilante killer he vows to give up graffiti forever. That lasts until he hooks up with his best friend, a tag-banger out to make a name for himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film, hispanic
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The Law and the Fist (1964)
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At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
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Glue Sniffer (1999)
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Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of corruption, crime and sniffing glue to escape hunger, like other children in the same situation. Soon, the child becomes part of the clashes between drug gangs and corrupt policemen.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 105 min
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Abe Sada: The Last Seven Days (2011)
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In May 1936, the “Abe specific incident.” shook the entire country of Japan. It is said that Abe had a live-in maid (Yuma Asami), the owner of the restaurant’s employer Ishida (Nobuyuki Matsuda) was killed, that the cut is more localized. With respect to neither confirm nor deny the crime, frustrated by the testimony of the specific criminal Urakawa Abe (Shun Sugata). And the relentless questioning of Urakawa, we are told the circumstances leading to death and cut from the bodies of penis. Result of fierce passion between men and women debauched erratic, and saw two people … and the constant questioning after the incident, and the constant “last seven days” to depict that Katsuaki the in the here and now Abe no specific story that you have to watch it!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, pink cinema, sexploitation film
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Oscuro animal (2016)
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Oscuro animal tells the story of three women forced to flee their homes in a war torn region in Colombia. Each of their journeys, marked by terror, takes them on a trek from the deep jungle to the outskirts of Bogotá, where they will gather new strength to start a new life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Greece
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Reject (2007)
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A man whose life is on the verge of collapse looks for new inspiration in this drama from Serbian filmmaker Milos Radivojevic. On was once a reporter, but now makes his living working as a public relations man for a banking firm. On is in his forties and has started to sink into a mid-life depression. On's wife has left him and while he tries to keep in touch with her and his daughter, he feels they're drifting away from him. On often finds himself retreating into a world of daydreams, which becomes all the more common after he loses his job. On struggles to drown in ennui with alcohol, gambling and meaningless sex, but matters only get worse as he learns that his elderly mother's health is failing, and he can no longer keep up with the bills for her medical care. When On discovers some forgotten savings, he sets out on a vacation in hopes of recapturing his muse, with his beautiful and loyal secretary in tow. Film received its American premiere at the 2008 Palm Springs Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 97 min
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Perfect Revolution (2017)
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Kuma is an author, a sex obsessive and a wheelchair user. Beautiful and volatile Ryoko is unlike anybody he’s ever met before. She barrages into one of his lectures, demanding to know why he only talks of sex, not love, before declaring her own affection. It’s the first of many inappropriate acts by Ryoko and the start of a relationship that is by turns sweet, strange and toxic. Ryoko hopes that she and Kuma’s love can change the world. What she fails to realise is that sometimes it’s the small gestures, not the grand ones, that feel most revolutionary.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, thought provoking, touching, melancholic, suspenseful
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Two Harbors (2005)
Plot Summary:
Drama - Vic's days are filled with selling sci-fi collectibles, harassing his fellow antique dealers, and trying to communicate with extraterrestrials. - Charles Brin, Alex Cole, Paul Cram.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, independent film
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Saving Leningrad (2019)
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September 1941. In a turn of events young lovebirds Kostya and Nastya find themselves on board of a barge that will evacuate people from sieged Leningrad. At night the barge gets into the storm. When it starts sinking, enemy planes - but not rescuers - are the first to arrive at the scene.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, exciting, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful
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Wilderness: Part Two (2017)
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Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, disturbing, contemplative
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On the Farm (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal justice systems that allowed a wily psychopath to murder nearly 50 marginalised women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Vinaya Vidheya Rama (2019)
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Ram is one among the five orphaned boys in Visakhapatnam, adopted by a doctor who ensures them a roof to live under, with dignity. Ram goes to any extent to protect his family and he's a handful for the baddie to handle in a time of crisis. How does Ram protect his family when they need him the most?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense
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Libero (2016)
Plot Summary:
Docu-fiction that tells the story of Libero Grassi, the months in which he broke the silence, the silence in which he found himself isolated, until he became an easy target for a mafia clan.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Butterfly in Grey (2002)
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Dao returns home and finds her fiance in bed with another woman. She shoots them dead on the spot. She is sentenced to 10 years in prison. She gets out eventually and stays with a friend who runs an escort service and learns that women are even caged in the outside world.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Negro (2002)
Plot Summary:
A black teenager vandalizes a racist lawn ornament.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, serious, disturbing, thought provoking, realistic
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Black King (2014)
Plot Summary:
A film about peer pressure.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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Pistolera (2020)
Plot Summary:
When ruthless drug lord Raffaello murders the family of the little girl named Angel in a gangland hid in Spain, he makes one fatal mistake : Letting her live. Thus Raffaello sets in motion a bloody chain of events in this gritty street tale of revenge and its cost.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bonded by Blood 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the shadow of the Range Rover murders, drugs, violence and revenge continue to reign in a criminal underworld even darker and deadlier than before as a new generation of Essex Boys begin to carve their bloody mark.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Once Upon a Time in Rostov (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story about the activity in Rostov of the gang of "phantasms" that robbed state institutions and kept the entire city in fear. Vyacheslav Tolstopyatov, having witnessed the brutal execution of protesters in Novocherkassk in June 1962, completely rethinks his life and attitude towards the state and the authorities as such. Being a man of genius, he and his brother organized a gang that, from 1968-1973, keeps the whole city in fear.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
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The Promise (1999)
Plot Summary:
Lisa's husband, Bill, abuses her. With her sister's encouragement, she takes their three kids and leaves her husband. Bill keeps interfering with Lisa's attempts at a new life. She gets an order of protection against him, but the police can't do anything else to help her. One night Bill breaks into Lisa's apartment and shoots her. As she dies in the hospital, Lisa asks her sister to promise to take care of her three children. The sister takes the kids into her home, but Bill is still on the loose, an ever present threat.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009)
Plot Summary:
A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission (2021)
Plot Summary:
WWII hero with the 4th Emergency Rescue Squadron, Lt. Royal Stratton, leads a deadly mission to save the lives of nine downed airmen adrift in enemy waters of a war-torn South Pacific. Immersive cinematography and gripping action, mixed with firsthand accounts and historical images, showcase the valor of this squadron who faced overwhelming odds to bring their brothers home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Documentary, Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, contemplative
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Pericle (2016)
Plot Summary:
A failed porn actor, working as an enforcer for a mafia kingpin, finds himself confronted with an all-out turf war after an errand goes drastically wrong. Going on the run is his only option.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Welcome to No Man's Land (2015)
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Pete, Steven and Dave are good friends that have fallen on hard times; They are unemployed and hardly get by on benefits. Coincidentally, they are approached by a low-key gangster who offers them what seems like quick cash-in-hand work. One drop-off. Six bags of cocaine. Both estranged and tempted by the situation, they accept, only things don't go to plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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King Of Duval County (2019)
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The Black Family a once powerful respected family has lost power in the city of Jacksonville.11 years has past and now the city is controlled by 4 family's.Young Antonio must return to the city and reclaim the Black family's respect and power.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak, disturbing
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Bird (2020)
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Fed up with the meaninglessness of her life, Samantha Flores, an unassuming and shy young woman, living in the city of Los Angeles is convinced by a friend, Juliette, a vivacious call-girl, to go out one night posing as her. What was supposed to be a night of fun and excitement for Samantha, turns into a night of sheer terror after she witnesses a brutal murder. Now stranded and wandering aimlessly along a dark road, Samantha crosses paths with Greg Vargas, a reluctant criminal talked into participating in a jewel heist that is occurring nearby. After Greg initially picks her up to get her away from the crime scene, they are suddenly attacked by unknown assailants. After barely escaping with their lives, Greg and Samantha now must not only work together to solve the mystery of who is after them, but also learn to trust each other. The only clues that can help them uncover the secrets of that night are locked away in Samantha's traumatized, fragmented memories, and they are running out.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing