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Plot Summary:
Madarame Baku is a mysterious gambler. His nickname is Usogui (literally The Lie Eater). Club Kakerou is the top illegal gambling den, where gamblers vie to become the best in their profession. Seeing through the lies of others, Madarame Baku challenges a variety of high stakes games at Club Kakerou.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Stolen Identity 2 (2020)
Plot Summary:
A couple of months have passed since the serial murder case. A new dead body is found in the same area. Detective Manabu Kagaya tries to find the truth. He goes to see serial killer Yoshiharu Urano in prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, slasher, suspenseful, detective
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Borrego (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young botanist relocates to a small desert town to study an invasive plant species. While out on research, she comes to the aid of a downed plane only to find herself taken captive by an inexperienced drug mule who forces her to lead a trek across the sweltering desert to his drop. A local sheriff is drawn into the hunt as his rebellious daughter sets out to find the missing botanist, all the while being pursued by a local drug receiver.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cliffhanger, entertaining, dark
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Ash & Dust (2022)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in a small town where two modest couples find themselves caught up in a game of life & death with a vicious gang after the discovery of a mysterious box buried long ago.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dangerous Company (2015)
Plot Summary:
Pauline begins to lose track of time, misplace things and find herself disoriented. She fears falling victim to a disease, but all is not as it seems. She must find the truth and prove it to the police and herself.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Ruthless Renegade (2020)
Plot Summary:
Aubrey Anderson, a 21-year-old former cheerleader, tries out for the LA Renegades. She falls in love with player, Wilson. Brooke -- a "Renegade Girl" and Wilson's ex-girlfriend -- is found murdered, and police arrest Wilson. Police incriminate Wilson, Aubrey believes his innocence. Aubrey sets out to find the killer, investigating several suspects: the creepy janitor, the bitter coach, the jealous, competitive cheerleader.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The King's Surrender (2014)
Plot Summary:
Violent youth gangs and a police force way out of its depth. When a police operation goes awry and two policemen die, the powder keg threatens to ignite as the SWAT team knows only one goal: revenge - irrespective of the law.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, neo noir
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Games (1967)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious woman (Simone Signoret) in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers (James Caan, Katharine Ross) and helps one trick the other.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Frank and Penelope (2022)
Plot Summary:
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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16 and Missing (2015)
Plot Summary:
A 16 year old girl goes missing after an online relationship with an older man.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hotwired in Suburbia (2020)
Plot Summary:
High school friends Emily and Max make extra cash by hot-wiring cars but when their shop teacher discovers what they're up to and gets involved, things get a lot more dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Seduced (2016)
Plot Summary:
Caroline and Margo respond to a "Missed Connections" ad on Craigslist, only to realize that there whirlwind romance was a trap, and the man of her dreams is leading a secret life. The Two women join forces to bring down the dangerous con man who simultaneously romanced and duped them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Fantasten (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Claus, a car salesman and a passionate gambler, gets his 19-year-old son Silas mixed up in considerable gambling debts owed to criminals, he is forced to put his own life at risk to save his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Seventh Code (2013)
Plot Summary:
Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. Akiko finally finds Matsunaga. However, he leaves her again, warning her not to trust strangers in a foreign country. She tries to follow him, but she is attacked by thugs and dumped on the outskirts of town.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller, surprise ending
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The Bunker Game (2022)
Plot Summary:
Laura, 25, is an actress in a L.A.R.P. (Live Action Role Playing) Game, where the participants play the survivors of an atomic war who live underground in a sealed bunker. After several mysterious accidents, the game is interrupted and the players leave the bunker while the staff remain behind to investigate the disappearance of Greg, the mastermind of the game. They soon find themselves trapped inside and in peril as they begin to die in mysterious ways and the group realizes that someone or something paranormal is playing a twisted game with them which quickly plunges into a terrifying fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, light
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Wicked Games (2021)
Plot Summary:
When Harley joins her boyfriend for a Halloween weekend at his family's estate, they’re invaded by a band of masked freaks and forced into playing a game. But the intruders don’t know that Harley is ready to fight back with her own tricks.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Marine Boy (2009)
Plot Summary:
Marine Boy is the story of a former national swimmer who finds himself in debt, and out of desperation is employed as a mule by a gangster boss, smuggling drugs by sea.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Junction (2012)
Plot Summary:
Junction follows four strung-out meth-addicts who discover a dark secret about a homeowner during a burglary, pitting them not only against the police but against each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Evil Twin (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman escapes from an abusive relationship by moving back to her hometown, only to discover she has a long-lost twin sister who may be a murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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InstaPsycho (2020)
Plot Summary:
An unhinged social media super fan frames her best friend for murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark
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Green Rush (2020)
Plot Summary:
A cannabis farmer and his pregnant lover fight for their lives when ruthless criminals invade their property.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Show (2017)
Plot Summary:
An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, philosophical
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The Employer (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five highly qualified applicants interview for a coveted job with the Carcharias Corporation, a powerful conglomerate whose business practices are shrouded in mystery. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and drugged. The next day, they wake up trapped together in a locked room without any hope of escape. Soon the true nature of their situation is revealed when they receive a phone call from the mysterious CEO of Carcharias, known only as The Employer. He informs them that they are about to experience the final interview, but it's not at all what they were expecting.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, psychological, realistic, independent film
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Prophecy (2015)
Plot Summary:
The cyber crime investigation division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department finds a video on website "YOURTUBE." In the video, a man covered by a newspaper, warns that a fire will be set at a food processing company. More crime notices are soon found involving violent crimes. Geitsu is the main guy behind the group "Shinbunshi," which has posted the videos. He used to work as a temporary employee at an IT company, but was unfairly dismissed. He then begins doing manual labor work and meets the other members of "Shinbushi.".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
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Limbo (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Ana, a young compliance manager, discovers unusually high bills among her company's records, she can't imagine what an avalanche her research will set off. Not only does she cross paths with an aging small-time crook and a Viennese Mafia lord at an illegal bare-knuckle fight, she also runs into Carsten, an undercover investigator. He has long been on the trail of a network of money launderers and now faces a difficult decision — since he knows Ana all too well.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Kakegurui (2019)
Plot Summary:
Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you're the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it's not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. It's reading your opponent, the art of the deal. What better way to hone those skills than with a rigorous curriculum of gambling? At Hyakkaou Private Academy, the winners live like kings, and the losers are put through the wringer. But when Yumeko Jabami enrolls, she's gonna teach these kids what a high roller really looks like!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, atmospheric, captivating, suspense
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Kaiji: Final Game (2020)
Plot Summary:
Kaiji (played by Tatsuya Fujiwara) is about to ave his life changed. The thrill is beyond anything hr, or most people, have experienced. The adventure is not without risk and danger however. he is given four games, which are challenges, and include life and death situations. The film follows its prequels and things will get both mental and physical.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Werewolf Game: The Villagers Side (2013)
Plot Summary:
Airi is a high school student. On the way home from school, Airi is kidnapped by someone. Then, 9 more high school students are all kidnapped like Airi. Those kidnapped students are forced to participate in Jinroh Game, with their lives at stake.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, asian horror
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Liar Game: The Final Stage (2010)
Plot Summary:
In Liar game: Final Stage, Players are encouraged to trust each other to win the tournament. However, a mysterious player named X is secretly plotting to sabotage everyone of their chances to win the LGT.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dorama, surreal
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Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler (2011)
Plot Summary:
3 years after the ultimate life-or-death game with Teiai Group, Kaiji was entrapped by Teiai and again back in the underground, forced to do hard labour. One day, Kaiji wins a bet to get out of the underground with 1 million yen, and promises the other workers that he will save them. But to do so, he only has 14 days and needs 200 million yen! Kaiji meets his former rival Tonegawa and learns that there is a chance to turn the tables in the game. It was a monster casino machine that will make 1 billion yen if you win.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Liar Game: Reborn (2012)
Plot Summary:
To exact revenge, the Liar Game office is revived. The target is only one person: Shin'ichi Akiyama. Because of new heroine Shinomiya, Shin'ichi, who kept refusing to take part in the game, finds himself in the game. Along with Akiyama, there's 19 other players competing for the prize of two billion yen. Omega, who revived the game, plays the game at the Liar Game office with Alice. Alice sets up the game, chooses the players, and sets the traps.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing