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Plot Summary:
La syndicaliste is the true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world, she fought government ministers and industry leaders, tooth and nail to bring the scandal to light and to defend more than 50,000 jobs.. Her life was turned upside down when she was violently assaulted in her own home... The investigation is carried out under pressure: the subject is sensitive. Suddenly, new elements create doubt in the minds of the investigators. At first a victim, Maureen becomes a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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Nocturama (2016)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, a motley group of young people engineer a deadly plan to spread shock and awe in the city. Each plays their own role. Then they all hide in a department store, a symbol of the consumerist society they are attacking.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: political, non-linear, weird
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Shelter (2017)
Plot Summary:
LEMON TREE meets JOHN LE CARRÉ in a subtle thriller set in Germany involving Mona, a Lebanese woman (Golshifteh Farahani), and Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent (Neta Riskin) sent to protect their informant while recovering from plastic surgery for her new identity. Mona and Naomi - together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg. A safe house. A shelter. No one saw what was coming, no one knew that this supposedly quiet fortnight would turn into an abyss and that shelter would need to be found elsewhere. The intimacy of the relationship that develops between the two women is exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned and choices are made that are not their own. And yet their fate takes a surprising turn in this suspense-laden, elegant neo-noir.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Israel, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Goliath (2022)
Plot Summary:
Patrick is a tenacious lawyer specializing in environmental law. France is a schoolteacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer from exposure to a pesticide. Mathias is an ambitious lobbyist working for an international chemical corporation. The paths of these characters collide as the lives of thousands are affected by a tragic act that sparks a powerful movement while the corporation fights to prevent the truth from being revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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Abuse of Weakness (2013)
Plot Summary:
After a brain hemorrhage, Maud, a filmmaker, wakes up one morning in a half-dead body that has left her hemiplegic and facing inevitable solitude. Bedridden but determined to pursue her latest film project, she discovers Vilko, a con man who swindles celebrities, on a TV talk show. He is arrogant, magnetic and mesmerizing. Maud wants him for her new film. They meet. He sticks around. He swindles her, too, borrowing astronomical sums of money. He takes everything but gives her joy, a family. This film tells the story of the abuse of weakness to which Maud falls victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, sincere, realistic, hot
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Notre-Dame on Fire (2022)
Plot Summary:
A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Number One (2017)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant and determined female engineer is approached by a network of powerful women with an offer to help become the head of a CAC 40 firm. The conguest, which was at first thrilling, turns to complete war with the men who still dominate.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, talky, suspense, tragic
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The Passengers (1977)
Plot Summary:
A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie, scary, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, corny
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Night Shift (2020)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by Hugo Boris, Night Shift focuses on three Parisian police officers charged with driving a stranger back to the border. However, Virginie (Efira) realizes their prisoner will most likely be killed upon return to his country and so goes about attempting to convince her fellow officers to release him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, China
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: crying
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Just the Two of Us (2023)
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When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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A Woman's Revenge (1990)
Plot Summary:
Suzy, a beautiful woman, is coming back to Paris to attend the funeral of her lover, a married man. Cecile, his wife, is holding Suzy responsible for his suicide. By finding Suzy in Paris, Cecile is trying to seek the truth by playing a psychological game on her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic
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La Cérémonie (1995)
Plot Summary:
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for the upper-class family Lelievre, hides her illiteracy under the cloak of a perfect household and obedience. She finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers. Things start to escalate as the Lelievres find out that Sophie can't read and has brought Jeanne into their house against their wish.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, art house, clever, neo noir, controversial, psychological thriller, tense
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An Officer and a Spy (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: costume drama, political, suspense, art film, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, period drama
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Special Section (1975)
Plot Summary:
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: political, suspense
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In Broad Daylight (1991)
Plot Summary:
The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswoman about Len's son not being able to pay his sweets triggers off his persecution complex. As revenge for the believed insult, the whole family starts stalking the shop owner and her husband... until this escalates and the old man gets badly injured. Len is arrested, but gets off, free on bail. His clever attorney delays the court session for more than a year - while Rowan keeps threatening the witnesses. But then, the people feel they've had enough of this and decide to take the law in their own hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 819
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spooky
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Gone in the Night (1996)
Plot Summary:
A couple is unjustly accused of the murder of their daughter. Based on a true story and book of the same title.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min
Plot tags: dark
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Murder of Innocence (1993)
Plot Summary:
In this shocking account based on a true story, newlywed Laurie Wade finds her marriage, and eventually the rest of her life, shattered by her deep-rooted psychotic behavior. The young woman soon begins a terrifying descent into insanity and brings danger to all those around her as she goes from brief "short-circuits" to overtly murderous behavior.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, gloomy
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Custody (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a divorce, Miriam Besson decides to ask for exclusive custody to her son, in order to protect him from a father that she is accusing of violence. The judge-in-charge of the file grants a shared custody to the father whom it considers abused. Taken as a hostage between his parents, Julien Besson will do everything to prevent the worst from happening.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, disturbing, emotional, stylized, smart, crying, cult film
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Lincz (2010)
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The story unfolds about the murder of an old man living in a remote village and six locals who may have been connected with the murder. Things get messy when the dead man turns out to be an ex convict. The accused ones find it very hard to deal with the preconceived attitude. The villagers, led by the families of the accused, have to fight for their innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Comedy of Power (2006)
Plot Summary:
A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
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The Confession (1970)
Plot Summary:
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: political, political thriller, sad, cynical, psychological, tense, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious
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Corporate (2017)
Plot Summary:
Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Ressources, working for a huge French agro-food company. Ambitious and dedicated to her job, she is a good soldier, ready to put ruthless methods of management into practice to meet the higher-ups' requirements. But, one day, one of the employees commits suicide at the company in front of her. Afflicted by the terrific death of her colleague, she will eventually realize that the company has to take its responsibility too. While an investigation in underway, stuck between her traumatized colleagues and under pressure of a powerful hierarchy, she will have to get by on her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, social, psychological thriller
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Captive (2012)
Plot Summary:
A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Philippines, Germany, UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, serious
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Elle (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: disturbing, art house, erotic, psychological, controversial, intense, stylized, suspense, cult classic, psychological thriller
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24 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, sincere, realistic, tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Two Lives (2012)
Plot Summary:
Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealments and secrets is unveiled, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Norway
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, psychological thriller, bleak, suspenseful, tragic
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Team Spirit (2016)
Plot Summary:
An engaging drama about the less known aspects of the trading activity inside one of the biggest banks in the world - Société Générale. The movie tracks the rise and fall of anonymous trader turned superstar turned escape goat - Jérôme Kerviel - just as the 2008 financial crisis was unfolding.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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One of a Kind (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Frédi loses his mother, he realizes she has passed her healing gift on to him. Frédi rejects it totally, tangled up in his own unhappiness, until a fatal accident changes everything. He is forced to acknowledge that he had healing hands.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, sincere, captivating
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Violette (1978)
Plot Summary:
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city. One day, Violette meets her ideal man, Jean Dabin, but he is a scoundrel who soon begins to extort money from her. When her parents discover that she is stealing from them, Violette finds the tension in their cramped apartment unbearable and she is driven to murder both her parents.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: erotic, neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, tragic
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A Dry White Season (1989)
Plot Summary:
Taking place during the 1976 Soweto uprising, the story follows a white school teacher whose life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: talky, emotional, disturbing, rough, thought provoking, serious, realistic, political, retro, thinking
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Rampage (1987)
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Rampage delves into the subject of legal insanity, so often the default defense in modern-time gruesome crime trials. Alex McArthur plays an outwardly normal guy who goes on incredible killing and mutilating sprees until (and even after, when he escapes for a short time) he's captured. When he comes to trial, the liberal DA (Michael Biehn) is torn between his own leftist leanings and the reality of the heinous crimes for which the accused is being tried. He must argue for the death penalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, cult classic, action thriller, independent film, psychological, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful