Best movies like Through the Air
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Plot Summary:
Vincent, a former air rifle champion lives a quiet life with his wife and his daughter. Despite his happy family life he ends up with economic problems. One day at the shooting range he meets the mysterious Renaud who promises him a solution to his problems by offering him an unusual job. Suddenly Vincent finds himself in a very dangerous spiral which turns out to be even harder to get out of than finding a solution to his economic problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, suspenseful
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Boarding Gate (2007)
Plot Summary:
A sordid and complex series of events unfolds when an ex-prostitute becomes involved with a couple in Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, sexual, psychological, tense, captivating, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, erotic
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In Your Image (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ridden by guilt for not being able to have a child, wife decides to conceive by cloning. The daughter she gives birth to is therefor almost identical to her. The child starts to grow rapidly and slowly replaces mom in the household.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic
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Homeland (2010)
Plot Summary:
In a country shaken by major political events, three generations of a Greek family clash over an inside-the-family adoption.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, gloomy, biting, suspense
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Honour (2014)
Plot Summary:
A story centered on a young woman is targeted by her family for an "honour killing" and the bounty hunter who takes the job.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, realistic
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Arrest Me (2013)
Plot Summary:
One evening, a woman enters a police station and confesses to having killed her violent husband several years ago. As she listens to her fantastic story, the policewoman is increasingly less inclined to arrest her. Just why is the woman so eager to confess her crime, and why is the policewoman so reluctant to take her into custody?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, gloomy
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Freeway (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alex, 25 years old, lives a life divided between his custom car that he pampers to the point of insanity, his friends, his girlfriend, whose baby girl he had under duress, and his job as a forklift operator. An exclusive passion, with its rituals and codes, with no real place for his girlfriend Rachel and their child. A rather comfortable and carefree life. But one night, on the highway, he has an accident. But his passion for speed will change everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Traceless (2010)
Plot Summary:
Étienne Meunier (Benoît Magimel) is a young executive who has everything going for him. His career is skyrocketing and he is about to become #1 at work, he is married to a picture-perfect wife, has a dream home and money. To top it off, he's charming, healthy and everyone likes him and seems to consider him "a great guy". But beneath the surface, not everything is perfect. Meunier feels some pressure at work, knowing others eye his future position and he and his wife have been unable to have children so far. One day, Meunier bumps into a childhood friend, Patrick Chambon (François-Xavier Demaison) and the two resume their friendship, despite Chambon having struggled as a petty criminal.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, bleak, serious
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Tommy (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a year abroad Estelle returns home to collect her husband's share of the loot from a major robbery.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Sri Lanka
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Now or Never (2014)
Plot Summary:
As a mother, in principle, you do not rob banks. But these days, it can be a solution for the future of your home, and not to give up on your dreams. Playing the thieves can quickly become dangerous and bad encounters can turn into a love story.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, gloomy
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Roulette (2012)
Plot Summary:
When three very different people (Mike Baldwin, Will Haza, Ali Lukowski) from three completely different worlds begin a deadly game of Russian Roulette, they soon discover that their pasts are a trilogy of overlapping events that have brought them together for one last session of group therapy.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, non-linear, independent film
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Blood and Ties (2013)
Plot Summary:
Da-eun lives a happy life with her single father, a man who sacrificed everything in his life for her. She loved her father very dearly. However, their relationship is about to take an unexpected turn. Da-eun becomes suspicious that her father might be a monstrous kidnapper. Even though she wants to believe in his innocence, she finds herself searching for evidence to the contrary. What is her father's true identity? And how will she deal with the burden of discovery if her suspicions are confirmed at the end of her final pursuit of the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, twisted
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Children's Play (2001)
Plot Summary:
Marianne and Jacques are a young middle-class couple who live in a chic Parisian apartment with their two young children. One day, Marianne receives an unexpected visit from two strangers, Mr and Mrs Worms, who claim to have lived in the apartment when they were children and who ask if they can just take a look around their former home. Marianne agrees, but no sooner have the mysterious Worms left than things take an inexplicable turn for the worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, psychotronic, weird
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The Cottage (2012)
Plot Summary:
A romance novelist (David Arquette) moves into a "cottage" behind the home of a composer and his family. He seems sweet, but what do they really know about him?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating, scary, realistic
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Bad Girl (2012)
Plot Summary:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sexy, sincere, serious, gloomy
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Fishing Without Nets (2014)
Plot Summary:
In Somalia, principled, young husband and father Abdi turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone is his only connection to all he truly values. Abdi and his fellow pirates hit the high seas and capture a French oil tanker, demanding a hefty ransom. During the long, tedious wait for the cash to arrive, Abdi forges a tentative friendship with one of the hostages. When some of the pirates resort to violence, Abdi must make dramatic choices to determine his course.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Kenya, Somalia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, rough, suspenseful
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Cyberstalker (2012)
Plot Summary:
After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Norfolk (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in Norfolk, amidst an idyllic, brooding landscape, an innocent teenage boy and his battle-weary father live a simple life. Days are spent hunting, fishing and daydreaming. Out-of-nowhere, disrupting this tranquility, a mysterious intense figure gives the green light for the father to complete one last mission; he is a mercenary, hired to assassinate a group of revolutionaries holed-up in a remote, disused civil service outpost. A mission that threatens to destroy not just the compound but the love between a father and his son.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, disturbing, bleak, realistic, independent film
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The Good Neighbour (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Good Neighbour is a 2011 German film directed by Stephan Rick. It premiered in competition at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival and was screened at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival and the Hof International Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Last Screening (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sylvain, a film-obsessed 31-year-old, lives in the basement of a small art-house theater where he works as a programmer, projectionist and cashier. Each night, after the last showing, he goes out for a murderous ritual.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, scary, bleak, serious, realistic, slasher
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Darkness Falls (1999)
Plot Summary:
With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ending up in a coma.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, dark, independent film, psychological thriller
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A Sight for Sore Eyes (2003)
Plot Summary:
When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
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Fatal Secrets (2009)
Plot Summary:
"BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, seems to have it all - except the right guy in her life. Her friends urge her to "get back out there." But they don't yet know about Scott - a charming man with a secret background whose true colors paint a streak of pain and fear through Julia's life. When Scott's effect on Julia reaches the breaking point, she and her friends take matters into their own hands... and underestimate the consequences. The outcome forces all of them into a desperate situation. Everyone pays the price.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Under Still Waters (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple encounters a stranger who threatens their marriage and their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, independent film
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Samuel Bleak (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, bleak, realistic, suspenseful
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Marseille (2014)
Plot Summary:
Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out on him by the Corsican Mafia. Four years later, Alex deserts and returns to Marseilles to get back together with Katia, his former girlfriend. But in the city, relationships have changed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, rough, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful
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Clean Break (2008)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Inhale (2010)
Plot Summary:
A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, mind blowing, exciting, realistic, independent film, fast
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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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Insecure (2014)
Plot Summary:
Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone wrong. Caught in between two worlds, Chérif will have to find his own way out….
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, tense, touching, serious
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Complicit (2013)
Plot Summary:
An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or be complicit in making a tense situation even worse?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 789
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, gloomy