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Plot Summary:
A young female terrorist goes on a suicide assassination mission, but her resolve to complete it is put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, sexy, thought provoking
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For My Father (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two outcasts, a suicide bomber and an Israeli girl, fall in love during a desperate weekend in Tel Aviv.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic
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My Little Assassin (1999)
Plot Summary:
1981: Marita Lorenz checks into an Havana hotel and, in a flashback, remembers 22 years' before. At 19, visiting Cuba from New York, she comes to the attention of Fidel Castro, the country's rebel president. He invites her to be his secretary and to be part of the making of the new Cuba. She accepts, but soon learns he already has a capable secretary; Marita's duties lie elsewhere. She becomes pregnant. She's also come to the attention of the FBI and the CIA, so when she wakes up in a US hospital after what may have been a botched abortion against her will in Cuba, her government presses her into service as an assassin: her job, to go back to Cuba and kill her former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Language of the Enemy (2008)
Plot Summary:
An American Jewish man visiting Jerusalem for the funeral of his father gets sucked into a world of violent intrigue after meeting a mysterious, beautiful Palestinian woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, emotional, psychological, serious, talky, independent film
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Down Came a Blackbird (1995)
Plot Summary:
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, thought provoking, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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War Book (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a contemporary Commons briefing room, a government minister and several aids enact the ‘war book’ exercise: a protocol written in the 1950s which is periodically played out to test post-nuclear scenarios. Low-budget but high-concept, War Book is a terse drama of interpersonal politics with rat-a-tat-tat dialogue and sharp performances. (12 Angry Men, Sleuth and The Deal all feel like reference points.) Created by some of the UK’s most promising talents in down time between other projects, director/producer Tom Harper (Scouting Book for Boys, Woman in Black 2), screenwriter Jack Thorne (Skins, Scouting Book) and producer Lauren Dark bring together a top notch cast (including Sophie Okonedo, Ben Chaplin and Kerry Fox). Cold war anxiety is given contemporary relevance in this exploration of government arrogance and lack of accountability, and the terrifying fragility of world order when faced with the abyss of mutual destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, thought provoking, bleak, suspenseful, realistic, apocalyptic, minimal cast
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Naomi (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ilan Ben-Natan is a man on his sixties and a well-known professor of astrophysics at the University of Haifa. He is married with Naomi, a 28 years old, attractive book illustrator. Inclined to suspect, he finds out her wife's betrayal and then face his wife's lover, Oded Safra, a painter and a filmmaker, younger than him. During the argument, the scientist kills his rival and takes away the corpse in the boot of his car. With the complicity of his 80 years old mother, Ilan buries the man in a hole just dig in the cemetery. After a series of casualties, the corpse is then found and the commissioner Anton Karam, an old friend of the professor, starts the police investigation. When every signs seems to lead to the discovery of the assassin, an unexpected event will call every element into question again.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, sincere, serious, suspenseful
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The Baby Doll Night (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hossam returns home to Cairo for New Year's Eve after a year's separation from his wife. At the airport, his plans for a romantic night (and to conceive a child) are thwarted by several events, including a terrorist plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, sad, islamic, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Face Reader (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nae-kyung, the most skillful face reader in Joseon dynasty, was living in seclusion when he was offered a lucrative partnership by Yeon-hong, a Korean geisha. Nae-kyung accepts the proposal to read the faces of Yeon-hong’s guests only to get involved in a murder case. With his face reading skills, Nae-kyung successfully identifies the murderer and his skills are soon acknowledged by King Moonjong who orders him to identify the potential traitors who threaten his reign. However after the unexpected death of Moonjong, Nae-kyung is courted by Grand Prince Sooyang who yearns to become King himself by killing the young successor Danjong. Nae-kyung decides to keep his loyalty to the late King and help KIM Jong-seo protect the young King which forces him into the biggest power struggle in the history of the Joseon dynasty.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, tense, serious, stylized, period drama
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Horses of God (2012)
Plot Summary:
The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Tunisia, Morocco
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, social, islamic, tense, bleak, suspenseful
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The War Within (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Pakistani involved in a planned attack in New York City experiences a crisis of conscience.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, poignant, serious, realistic
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I, the Other (2006)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending
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October (1994)
Plot Summary:
In October 1970, one group from the Front de Liberation du Quebec kidnapped the British Consul in Montreal. Few days later, a second group did the same with one of the Minister of the Quebec Government. If the first was released, the second was murdered. This is the story of the second group from the stand point of the political kidnappers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: political, sad, psychological, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988)
Plot Summary:
This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope helped save all but one of the passengers on the plane. The movie chronicles the first 2 days and the aftermath.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Black & White (2008)
Plot Summary:
Rajan Mathur (Anil Kapoor) is a Professor in Urdu literature in Dr. Zakir Hussain's College. He resides in Chandni Chowk with his activist wife, Roma Mathur (Shefali Shah). Professor Mathur comes across a young boy called Numair Qazi (Anurag Sinha) who introduces himself as a victim of communal riots in Gujarat.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, tense, psychological, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Let the Wind Blow (2004)
Plot Summary:
A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, independent film, banned
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Madras (2014)
Plot Summary:
A portrayal of the lives of the people living in North Madras, focusing on the politics inside the slums and how their plight remains the same, despite the political class luring them constantly during elections.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, disturbing, feel good, epic
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The Informant (1997)
Plot Summary:
A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in prison. He executes the grisly task but ends up captured by a sympathetic British police lieutenant named Ferris (Cary Elwes). The intimidating Chief Inspector of the Belfast Police (Timothy Dalton) convinces Gingy that his best hope is to become an informant and turn in other IRA operatives. As Gingy's marriage unravels under the stress, he is forced to come to terms with the fact that in this war both sides lose. Three men, three political circles, each fighting for their lives, each with their own agenda in the battle for Northern Ireland.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The Rider Named Death (2004)
Plot Summary:
In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors and ministers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, clever, captivating, realistic, contemplative, epic, talky, entertaining
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Omagh (2004)
Plot Summary:
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, sincere, uplifting, bleak, crying, fake documentary
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Policeman (2011)
Plot Summary:
A member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak, biting, suspense
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Close to Home (2005)
Plot Summary:
Smadar (Smadar Sayar) and Mirit (Naama Schendar), both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together as part of their military service. Worlds apart in their personality their initial frosty relationship changes to friendship as they deal with their own emotional issues, the crushes and break-ups in their love lives, as well as the political realities.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, suspense
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September 11 (2002)
Plot Summary:
11 directors show their view on the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, France, Egypt, Japan, Mexico, USA, Iran
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: disturbing, intellectual, talky, stylized, factual, emotional, bleak, serious, anthology, political
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The Hamburg Cell (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ziad Jarrah, a young Lebonese man from a good family goes to Germany to attend college and starts dating a Turkish girl named Aysel. Although not very religious and accustomed to Western ways, Ziad becomes "brothers" with some fundamentalist Muslims and is slowly drawn into becoming "a Good Muslim". Mohamed Atta and others instill Ziad with a hatred of Jews and "Infidels", which leads to a desire for Jihad and martyrdom. He moves to Hamburg to study aeronautical engineering, attends an Al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, and deceives his girlfriend and family about his involvement. He eventually attends flight school in Florida with Atta and others, waiting for and preparing for "the big wedding" (the 9/11 attack). Meanwhile, US government and law enforcement officials fail to act despite believing that a major terrorist attack is imminent, and despite noticing a number of suspicious persons involved in flight training. Written by TimeNTide.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, serious, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful
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Good Morning, Night (2003)
Plot Summary:
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, disturbing, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, political, sincere, controversial, crying
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Fatwa (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson (Holly) ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
Plot Summary:
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: political thriller, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, political, eighties
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Interview with the Assassin (2002)
Plot Summary:
Out of work TV cameraman Ron Kobelski is approached by his formerly reclusive neighbor Walter Ohlinger. Ohlinger claims that he was the mysterious "second gunman" that shot and killed President Kennedy. Ohlinger has kept quiet all these years, but has decided to tell his story now that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Kobelski is skeptical of his neighbor's story, after his investigations provide ambiguous answers. His attitude changes, however, after he receives threatening messages on his answering machine, and spots shadowy figures in his backyard. Is Ohlinger telling the truth? Or is there a bigger conspiracy at work?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: political, tense, realistic, suspenseful, mockumentary, suspense, philosophical, cerebral, serious, thought provoking
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AFR (2007)
Plot Summary:
Danmarks statsminister Anders Fogh Rasmussen er blevet myrdet. Den hovedmistænkte er statsministerens homoseksuelle elsker Emil. I tiden efter mordet møder vi en lang række af verdens politikere og magtfulde mennesker, fra Kofi Annan til Pia Kjærsgaard. De forholder sig til mordet og ikke mindst til mennesket Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: clever, serious, cynical, thought provoking, mockumentary, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, biting, suspense
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Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami (1988)
Plot Summary:
There is no question that the Arab terrorist portrayed by Robert Davi is guilty of killing five US citizens in Barcelona. Even his lawyers have zero respect for the rabidly sociopathic Davi. But Jewish defence attorney Ron Leibman is obsessed with the concept of Due Process, and has vowed that Davi will receive a scrupulously fair trial when the terrorist is extradited to America. The defence mounted by Leibman confounds and aggravates government prosecutor Sam Waterston--but he, like Leibman, remains a man of judiciary integrity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Corporate (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two corporate giants compete in order to recklessly maximize their respective profits.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, thought provoking
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