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Plot Summary:
Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes the doctors, who treat him with disdain. When an old man begs him to end his pain and suffering by helping him to die, Hynek gives him a "liberating" injection. But now he has done it once, he finds he can't stop. He continues killing other patients, even though he knows he can't get away with it for long.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychotronic, crying
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The Red Captain (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall; six months before the split of Czechoslovakia. Despite all warnings, a young homicide detective sets on investigating a convoluted case that involves Catholic clerical elite and high-ranked agents of the former secret service.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: political thriller, exciting, rough, suspense, suspenseful, political, detective, poliziottesco
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Night Must Fall (1964)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: noir, slasher, spooky, tension, crying, psychotronic, suspense
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A Soul to Redeem (2017)
Plot Summary:
The detective story set in the early 20th century is full of suspense, twists and emotions. Love, hate and desire for revenge are the strongest motivation for the trio of its protagonists. Military trenches are still full of war victims when superintendent Mondl arrives from Vienna in a small Czech town with the task to track down the serial killer of young men and dispel all doubts that the murders are ritual. Who is the perpetrator, and what is his motive? Suspicion gradually centers on a few persons, including Alma. Once employed as a cook, she now takes care of a little orphaned girl Lea, previously a patient of a mental sanatorium, daughter of her deceased former employer. The experienced detective wants to believe that there's a streak of good waiting to be released in every human being. Human animals once damaged the innocent soul, and got their comeuppance. The detective finds the truth, and opts for justice. But merciless fate soon pays him back.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, spiritual, esoteric, crying, detective
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Crime Scenes (2000)
Plot Summary:
Une jeune femme disparaît mystérieusement de l'auberge de ses parents. Deux policiers de la Crim' de Paris sont chargés de l'affaire. Mais des tâches de sang trouvés dans un prospectus laisse présager le pire.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, neo noir
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Crimes of Passion: Tragedy in a Country Churchyard (2013)
Plot Summary:
A murder investigation takes detective Christer Wijk to a small village, where he needs to separate rumors and facts to trail the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Wolf Mother (2016)
Plot Summary:
In an attempt to rectify their criminal past, a once successful Hollywood starlet, turn prostitute, and a petty, misogynistic thief, set out together to solve a high profile child abduction case in San Francisco.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic, neo noir, sexual, hot
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Smrt stoparek (1979)
Plot Summary:
Maniac, a driver, sits on the track women, which then rape and kill. For loved ones, he is an ordinary person who has a wife and child. When exposed, he does not stop before killing his wife and takes his son hostage, under the guise of which he is trying to escape abroad.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: road movie, neo noir, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame, poliziottesco
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Adverse (2020)
Plot Summary:
In order to save his sister, a ride-share driver must infiltrate a dangerous crime syndicate.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Taxi 121 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Taxi 121 is a feature film inspired by true events, where a serial killer took lives of three Prague taxi drivers. Story is focused on one of the victims, the young driver Matej. His one last ride will change life of many people around forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, touching, captivating, disturbing, crying
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Raluca (2014)
Plot Summary:
Former cop Filip Marold doesn't want to be reminded of some things from his past. But others remind him... He works as a private detective, sleeps with his secretary and spies on people for money. All up to the moment when he meets seductive Raluca and his life turns upside down. Is it just a coincidence? Fate? Or has someone set a trap? Even in his wildest dreams he wouldn't imagine the things that were about to happen. Things that involve sex, murder, the big reveal and a harsh reminder of that damn past.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, crying
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May God Save Us (2016)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, summer 2011. Economic crisis. 15-M movement and 1.5 million pilgrims waiting for the Pope’s arrival live side by side in a Madrid that’s hotter and more chaotic than ever. In this context, detectives Velarde and Alfaro must find what seems to be a serial killer. Their against-the-clock hunt will make them realise something they’d never imagined: neither of them are so very different from the killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, psychological thriller, noir, clever, crime drama, twisted
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Kill Kane (2016)
Plot Summary:
A teacher's world is torn apart when his wife and children are brutally murdered at the hands of a ruthless gang. Left for dead and with no one to turn to, he takes matters into his own hands and hits the streets in search of justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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A Grain of Truth (2015)
Plot Summary:
A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth….
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, neo noir
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Joel (2018)
Plot Summary:
The shocking story of Joel Rifkin, a troubled young man whose hidden fantasies of power and control combined with his obsessive dedication to prostitutes led him to embark on one of the New York area’s most notorious murder sprees, claiming seventeen victims in the late eighties and early nineties.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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X - The eXploited (2018)
Plot Summary:
Would you believe in a policewoman who suffers from such serious panic disorders that she is afraid to get close to any crime scene and has been on permanent office duty for more than a decade? Would you believe a lone mother who is unfit to pay her mortgage and also raise her rebellious teenage daughter? Indeed, no one believes that the troubled ex-detective has discovered a serial murder case. Personal dramas and a murder mystery unfold in present-day Budapest, where demonstrations are part of the pre-election life of a city still trying to cope with the shadows of its historical and recent past. It is a city where nothing seems honest and true, except through the eyes of an emotionally unstable policewoman and her misfit daughter who wants to know who her father truly was.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bloodline (2018)
Plot Summary:
Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: bloody, suspense, dark, neo noir, slasher, suspenseful, psychological thriller, twist ending, independent film, slasher horror
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The Red Spider (2015)
Plot Summary:
Karol, an ordinary young man, runs into a much older man, whom he believes to be a Red Spider, the terrifying serial killer, prowling the streets of Cracow in 1960s. Karol becomes obsessed with the man and spies on him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Missing You (2016)
Plot Summary:
A girl who lost her father to a serial killer, a detective and a killer are intertwined in a chaotic relationship and are met with an unprecedented series of events.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, bloody, detective
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Laal Kabootar (2019)
Plot Summary:
He's looking for a way out of the city. But his only escape is through a woman looking for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Nemesis (2021)
Plot Summary:
An underworld kingpin's past catches up with him when he returns to London, igniting an explosive chain of events which ends in revenge and murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, contemplative
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The Strangler's Wife (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mae thought she had the perfect husband. Until she found out about his other women. But now she suspects an even more horrible truth. He isn't cheating with these other women... he's killing them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Deal (2015)
Plot Summary:
A cop catches a serial killer who murdered his sister but never finds her body. The lack of closure torments him and drives his brother-in-law insane, who makes a deal with the mafia for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Robert Yummy Sandifer Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1994 Time Magazine covered the story about a 11 year old child gang member who is coerced by older gang members into committing a string of murders. He also committed other felonious crimes. Yummy is then killed by the older gang members in order to silence him before the authorities could find out who sent 'Yummy' on those murder missions. The storylines used in the movie are based on true events.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Crime, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Relentless (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two Los Angeles police detectives, cynical veteran Malloy and cocky rookie Dietz, hunt for a serial killer, an ex-cop named Taylor, whom randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, detective, slasher, neo noir, independent film, rough, serious
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I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)
Plot Summary:
Olga is a complex young woman desperate to break free from her unfeeling family and social conventions. With her Louise Brooks-like tomboyish looks she drags herself, chain-smoking, from one job to another until she appears to find her niche as a truck driver. Although she has female lovers she does not form a bond with any of them; instead she clashes, time and again, venting herself in wordless emotional outbursts and other behavioural extremes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, France, Slovakia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, art house, twisted, neo noir, lgbt cinema, crying, black and white
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I Killed My BFF (2015)
Plot Summary:
A friendship between two young mothers results in murder when one develops an attraction to the other's boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Midnight (2021)
Plot Summary:
A tense night for Kyung-mi and her mother (both hearing-impaired) when they fall prey to a charismatic murderer in the dark alleys of Seoul.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
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Control (2017)
Plot Summary:
The once unconditional friendship between police officers Vincke and Verstuyft hits a very rough patch when they come up against a series of gruesome murders. Complicating matters even further, a survivor of the killer drives a wedge between them when Verstuyft falls for her charms. Meanwhile, the serial killer has a new victim in sight.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Golden Glove (2019)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, controversial, erotic, psychological, atmospheric, brutal, suspense, slasher, devastating
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Happy Face Killer (2014)
Plot Summary:
Serial killer Keith Jesperson murders at least eight women over a five-year span and taunts authorities with disturbing letters and scribbled confessions signed with a happy face.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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