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Plot Summary:
Andy Lau is Wesley, investigating alien existence on this earth. He works outside of the MIB-influenced FBI operation, run by Shu Qi and Roy Cheung. They're hot on the trail of the Blue-Blooded Alien (Rosamund Kwan). Two other aliens, the "Warlock Toxin Group," are gunning for her as well -- red maggoty swarming creatures that form into Mark Cheng and Almen Wong.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing
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Athena: Goddess of War (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sometime in the near future, the Korean peninsula attempts to reunify. The South Korean government, which needs enormous funds for the unification to succeed, develops a landmark new technology called the TWR. The TWR is a high speed nuclear reactor and other countries want the technology. To prevent terror in the aftermath of the TWR breakthrough, the government establishes a new organization named NTS (National Anti-Terror Service). Jung-Woo (Jung Woo-Sung) is transferred to the NTS group from the NIS. He's excited about the transfer and hopes to live the life of a real agent, but then discovers his main responsibility is to watch North Korean defectors.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, captivating
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MindGamers (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of young bio-engineers discover they can use quantum physics to transfer motor-skills between human brains. Believing this to be a first step towards a new intellectual freedom, they freely distribute the technology. But as the mysterious past of one of their group is revealed, dark forces emerge that threaten to subvert this technology into a means of mass control. DxM takes the mind-bender thriller to the next level with an immersive narrative and breath-taking action.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, weird
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Seobok (2021)
Plot Summary:
A former intelligence agent gets involved with the first human clone, Seo Bok, who others seek, causing trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, psychological, suspense
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Ghost Aliens (2015)
Plot Summary:
DANIEL is confronted by an Indian of spiritual warnings, followed by a retired US General proclaiming Biblical facts of foretold disasters that Start to take place on the ground their business building was built on from an ALIEN experiment that went wrong 20 years ago, and shows DANIEL a Top Secret 200 year old US Government Book of all the ALIEN Facts leading to today END OF TIME. All of the office employees do not believe the warnings until many Paranormals happen, that lead to an encounter of an Alien that has turned into a ghost of UN seen powers set to destroy Planet earth, the human race, followed by the seals of the 9 religions of the Worlds Revelation. Will PLANET EARTH be saved by DANIEL and DOMINIQUE?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Fantasy, History, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic, anime
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Dark Power (2013)
Plot Summary:
When the mayor of a crime-ridden city and his opponent are both assassinated while seeking election, two FBI agents, John Archer and Mila Driver, reluctantly join forces to investigate the murder only to discover that City Hall holds more secrets than the identity of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, psychological thriller, psycho film
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L Storm (2018)
Plot Summary:
ICAC Investigator William Luk and JFIU Chief Inspector Lau Po-keung both hit a dead end in their investigation of a bribery case and a money laundering case. In the meantime, William Luk was suspended when model Eva Ng went to Inspector Kenny Ching of ICAC’s Internal Investigation Group L, to file a report against him for accepting a $12M bribe. Lau discovered Luk was set up and whoever framed Luk was connected to his case. He began to suspect the bank manager Thomson Yau was assisting a gangster, Wong Hoi-wo in money laundering activities. When Director Hong Liang of China’s Anti-Corruption & Bribery Bureau (ACBB) provided Lau with important intelligence, it became clear the money laundering activities were connected to a corrupted Vice-Ministerial Level cadre. To clear his name, William Luk put everything on the line….
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Captive Hearts (2005)
Plot Summary:
A newly hired executive for a multinational corporation is kidnapped at gunpoint. His wife and a detective uncover a much more sinister international conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Colosio (2012)
Plot Summary:
It's 1994 in Mexico, the nation was witnessing a turbulent year since its beginnings. An indigenous rebellion shakes the country. Three months later, the ruling party's presidential candidate is brutally murdered during a rally in Tijuana. The country is concerned. Nobody knows who's behind this event, it all points to a conspiracy. Andrés Vázquez, an intelligence expert, is commissioned to lead a secret investigation parallel to the official government issued one. But another expert agent, el Seco, has received orders to wipe out all witnesses and get rid of the evidence surrounding the candidate's murder. As Andrés begins putting the pieces of this intricate puzzle together and comes closer to the truth, he realizes he's also putting his life and that of his loved ones in peril.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain, France, Colombia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political thriller
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Dark Encounter (2019)
Plot Summary:
A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8 year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appear to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family. What they don't realize is that these 'beings' will lead the family to the truth behind the little girl's disturbing disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychedelic
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Aliens: Zone-X (2015)
Plot Summary:
Park Ranger Don Morgan is torn from his routine life, when he stumbles upon a UFO visitation in the arid, deserted Park Area where he resides. An inexplicable, bizarre power outage knocks out all electronics and communications, stranding a carload of hikers in the park, and downing a small plane. Searching for hydration in the blistering heat, Don must lead the survivors across an apparently abandoned Military Testing area called "ZONE-X".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic
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iSmart Shankar (2019)
Plot Summary:
A contract killer goes on the run after eliminating a target and eventually finds himself linked to a slain cop whose memory is transferred to his brain.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Narcopolis (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, Frank, a police officer, discovers that the legalization of all recreational drugs comes with a price.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, mind bending
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Cosmic Sin (2021)
Plot Summary:
Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo star in the new epic sci-fi adventure set in the year 2524, four hundred years after humans started colonizing the outer planets. Retired Military General James Ford (Willis) is called back into service after soldiers on a remote planet are attacked by a hostile alien fleet. The threat against the human race escalates into an inevitable interstellar war. General Ford teams up with General Eron Ryle (Grillo) and a team of elite soldiers in a race to stop the imminent attack before it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic, anamorphic, disgusting
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Virtual Revolution (2016)
Plot Summary:
Paris 2047. Most of the population spend all their time online, connected into virtual worlds, and don't care anymore about reality. A shadow agent, Nash, working for one of the multinational companies behind these virtual worlds, is tracking down terrorists who threaten the system.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cyber, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, action adventure, mecha, tech noir
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Alien Strain (2014)
Plot Summary:
On a camping trip, Matthew's girlfriend Rachel was abducted by a UFO. A year later Rachel returns to the very spot from which she was taken but the creature she has become has Matthew fearing for his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing
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The Interceptor (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film tells a story of an agent betrayed by his partner when transporting new psychic weapon. Believed to be dead, he escapes and takes new identity so he can live in peace far away. But later he is forced to return to Moscow to confront a secret organization, led by his former partner, that attempts to use the dangerous weapon in order to take control over the country. Now he is a key figure in the battle between forces of darkness and light.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic
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Tentacle 8 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious computer virus wipes out highly classified personnel files at the NSA, prompting a top secret investigation. RAYMOND BERRY, an NSA operative is thrown into a detention center, where he is suspected of crimes against the United States. He fights to stay alive, hoping to reunite with TABITHA, a CIA agent he has recently fallen in love with. Ray discovers that Tabitha is not who she says she is, complicating his plans to escape his former life and start over in anonymity.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Plot Summary:
A drama centered on people who seek validation by broadcasting their lives to as big an audience as possible.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bunker: Project 12 (2016)
Plot Summary:
At the height of the Cold War, Russia was working on a secret scientific mission, which, if successful, would have changed the course of history. The mission, "Project 12," was ultimately deemed too dangerous to continue and the scientists involved were to be exterminated. Three scientists escaped and Project 12 was sealed in a well-guarded bunker, never to be seen again...until now. The lead scientist for Project 12 has now become the target of a worldwide manhunt, as he is the lone survivor of the Project 12 team and is the only man who knows the secrets that have been buried in the bunker. What secret does he possess, and who is financing the operation to bring Project 12 back to life and what is their hidden agenda.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Prototype (2022)
Plot Summary:
A government agent stumbles upon an alien conspiracy to conquer Earth. Using a blue liquid created by the aliens to make soldiers stronger, he becomes The Prototype-the only hope for mankind.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA, Argentina
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bleak, serious, harsh, disturbing
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Battle of Memories (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man becomes involved in a memory manipulation operation to try and regain lost memories. He thinks the exercise may help repair his failed marriage, but accidentally ends up with the mind of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cerebral
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The Leakers (2018)
Plot Summary:
The film centers around a Malaysian pharmaceutical company using a new virus to generate an epidemic. A secret organization, known as "The Leaker", discloses this information. After the suicide of the pharmaceutical company's son and a local reporter, the wife of the pharmaceutical company's owner leaves for Hong Kong. A Malaysian police chief , Hong Kong police officer, and journalist work together to locate her whereabouts.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Malaysia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Alien Conquest (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sibling astronomers discover Martians are threatening to attack Earth, but no one believes them—until Martians land and nearly destroy all of New York City. As the siblings try to make it out of the city with their families, they discover the Martians have no immunity against the diseases of Earth, and must now figure out how to infect the invading army to eradicate the aliens before all of Earth is destroyed first.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic, mockbuster
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Sniper: Rogue Mission (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a crooked federal agent is involved in a human sex trafficking ring, Sniper and CIA Rookie Brandon Beckett goes rogue, teaming up with his former allies Homeland Security Agent Zero and assassin Lady Death to uncover the corrupt agent and take down the criminal organization.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller
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Plot Summary:
Harris, a CIA interrogator at an Agency black site, finds himself the target of a rendition operation after being scapegoated for an interrogation gone horribly wrong. As the team tasked to bring Harris in begins to question their orders -- and each other --Olsen, a senior intelligence officer, and his subordinate, Visser, raise the stakes. Now, it's up to Harris and some newfound allies to uncover the truth and turn the tables.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Switch (2013)
Plot Summary:
In search of an ancient Chinese scroll, a Chinese agent battles against Japanese Yakuzas and British mercenaries.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, realistic, fast
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Plot Summary:
A prosecutor is falsely accused of sexual assault in a suicide note from a woman that he is convinced was actually murdered. As he investigates her death to clear his name, he realizes that the truth lies in a huge financial scandal.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
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The Division (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the 90s, Rio de Janeiro was shaken by a wave of kidnappings. Security forces call controversial agents to help save the city from thugs and also from the police itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political thriller
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Plot Summary:
An ancient dust that controls humans is unleashed, but mysteriously affects Jim Yung who gains superpowers. Jim is taken to an underground base where he's trained to be an operative to take on an imminent alien threat and learn why aliens have returned to Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min
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The Veil (2021)
Plot Summary:
Han Ji-hyuk, an NIS agent gone MIA, returns after one year to join a new team as he searches for his lost past.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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