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Plot Summary:
The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring involved in extortion, religious scams, exploitation of minors and stock market speculation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 937
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, captivating, rough
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A Second Son (2012)
Plot Summary:
Emily, fifteen years old, pregnant and unable to name the father, starts a video diary to document the effect of her pregnancy on her family. A domestic drama of underage pregnancy soon turns into an extraordinary record of international significance. A series of dramatic, mysterious and unexplained events take place which forces Emily to recognize the truth about her pregnancy. All the evidence is pointing to a very different, and staggering, reality, one that will lead to the greatest revelation of all time. Suddenly Emily is the most wanted woman in the world. A Second Son presents the ultimate, highly controversial 'what-if' scenario with a gripping climax.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, visually appealing
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Third Degree Burn (1989)
Plot Summary:
A down-and-out private eye (Treat Williams) gets too close to the wife (Virginia Madsen) of a rich man (Richard Masur) soon found dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic drama, eighties
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Blackout (1986)
Plot Summary:
A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident is in reality the same man who committed a quadruple murder several years before.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Vares: Tango of Darkness (2012)
Plot Summary:
The tango king Harry Koivikko was found dead six years ago in a sleazebag motel, with a knife is his back. The biggest manhunt in the county faded away without results. Jussi Vares gets a phone call from a down-and-out journalist; the informant tells Vares he knows the murderer. Then the journalist disappears without a trace and Vares has to face the biggest challenge of his career. To add insult to the injury, an old acquaintance Veikko Hopea gets his first prison furlough….
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Kiss of Evil (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interesting turn when the girls family asks him to investigate the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective
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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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Back Roads (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young man cares for his younger sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father. When he strikes up an affair with a married woman, long-dormant family secrets bubble to the surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful, erotic, serious, dark, crime drama
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The Girls of April (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tough Finnish detective Jussi Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year old mystery regarding the disappearance of 3 girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, rough
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Varg Veum - Woman in the Fridge (2008)
Plot Summary:
An international oil drilling company hires private investigator Varg Veum to find their missing systems designer, Arne Samuelsen. Varg discovers the headless body of a woman jammed into the fridge in Arne's apartment - and is promptly knocked unconscious. When he wakes up the body is gone and the Police has arrived.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Deadly Vows (2017)
Plot Summary:
Pastry chef Helena poisons men who don't meet her high standards. Her fiancé Charlie has nothing to worry about, at least until his sister Becca becomes suspicious of Helena's culinary killing past. It's up to Becca to save Charlie from both the altar and the grave.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Vares: Gambling Chip (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jussi Vares falls in love with a beautiful brunette - only to lose her in a horrible way. After dating Sole a few weeks, her body is found in a bird-watching tower. The investigations come to a standstill, until Vares promises to solve a mystery of messy denunciation letters. Before the letters reveal their secret, a lot of things happen. A gun-for-hire, Stahanov, gets an assignment. Sole's brother finds his wife in the arms of a wrong man and goes on a rampage, accompanied by a black cat. In the end the clues lead to a familiar person and more death in unavoidable.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful
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Il capitano: A Swedish Requiem (1991)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on a true occurrence in Sweden in 1988. A Finish couple murdered a young boy and his parents when they prevented the theft of the son's bicycle. The film tries to describe the relationship between the dominant Jari, who calls himself "Il Capitano", and his more mature "soldier" Minna, that develops into mutual dependence.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Motherland Hotel (1987)
Plot Summary:
The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: art house, independent film
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Bitter Flowers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Karsten Aslaksen, chief engineer of a large chemical company, disappears without trace. His married lover, a successful politician named Vibeke Farang, approaches private investigator Varg Veum to track him down discreetly.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, mind bending, realistic
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The Guilty (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Holm, answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman. But soon he realizes that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, minimal cast, exciting, psychological thriller, clever, enigmatic, captivating, psychological, depressing
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Tick Tock (2000)
Plot Summary:
Stunning trophy wife Rachel Avery is stuck in a cold, loveless marriage with her millionaire husband, Holden. So when Holden goes away on a trip, Rachel hooks up with her close friend Carla, and the two hatch a plan to murder Holden and collect on his vast assets. But the girls don't want to commit the crime themselves, so at a bar they seduce a stranger, Travis Brewer, and convince him to do their bidding.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, tense, sexy, suspenseful, independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic, sexual
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Say Your Prayers (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch. Their mission: assassinate the famed atheist writer Professor John Huxley.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, satirical, disturbing
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26 Years (2012)
Plot Summary:
26 years ago, state troops were ordered to open fire on civilians in the city of Gwangju who were demonstrating as apart of a democratic movement. Thousands of civilians were killed. Now, a shooter from the national team, a gang member, a policeman, CEO from a large company and director of a private security outfit get involved in a plan to convict the person responsible for the massacre.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Servants of War (2019)
Plot Summary:
A seasoned detective teams up with a novice cop to solve the mysterious murder of a world-class bone marrow transplant specialist.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense
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Garter Snake (2011)
Plot Summary:
In the heat of the night, a man from faraway plays the piano. In the local hillside prison, a bitter double-crossed convict stares at the city life over the roofs. A revenge is brewing in his mind; the blood-thirsty killer prepares his escape. Vares gets a client who needs private investigations. Despite the beautiful wife, Vares smells a rat... In the middle of the summer night, a shot rings out. One life comes to an end and Vares finds changes in his assignment. The clues lead him to first-hand encounters and second-hand bookshops; a visit to the gym reveals a drug-smuggling route from Stockholm... Vares finds himself entangled in hot money and cool silk. In the background slithers a cunning garter snake.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Terribly Happy (2008)
Plot Summary:
Robert Hansen, 34, a young police officer from Copenhagen, is transferred against his will to the small town of Skarrild in Southern Jutland as a substitute Marshall. The transfer is Robert’s chance to start over. Whether he is allowed to return to his job in Copenhagen, all depends on how well he performs in this frontier town.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychological, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sincere, neo noir, surreal, perverse
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The Dark House (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in two parallel time planes. The first plot follows the events of one autumn night in 1978. Edward Srodon, a zootechnician, makes an accidental stopover in a farmhouse of Dziabas family in the remote area of Bieszczady Mountains. He stays for the night. The initial distrust between the guest and his hosts is quickly dispelled with moonshine and turns into a camaraderie, intimacy and even friendship. A plan of making a joint business arises, as well as passion and lust, which lead to a surprising and tragic consequences... Second plot is set on a winter day, during the Martial Law in Poland. An investigating team of Milicja Obywatelska (People's Militia) is visiting the crime scene. Lieutenant Mroz is trying to solve the multiple murder case from four years ago. The tool he has to his disposal is the reconstruction of events with help of the chief suspect, Srodon.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, tense, suspense, action thriller, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Night of the Sunflowers (2006)
Plot Summary:
The body a teenage girl is discovered in a field of sunflowers. At the same time a travelling salesman watches the events unfold on television, whilst in the small village of Angosto the discovery of a prehistoric cave brings excitement and the arrival of an experienced geologist, his young fiancé and his assistant. The town police chief plans his retirement, while his deputy dreams of escaping the boredom of his marriage and his job... Through a series of shocking events, the lives of these people become entangled in a web of violence, betrayal and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, crime drama, thrilling, tense, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful
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The Perfect Patient (2019)
Plot Summary:
A true and captivating story about the biggest legal scandal in Swedish history, the story about the reporter who questioned an entire legal system. Hannes Råstam was dedicated to proving the innocence of Thomas Quick and unmask the legal chaos which sentenced Quick to a life in psychiatric prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Belgium
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, scary, bleak
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The Pack (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the dead of the night, in the heart of a forest: a car. Inside, inhaling carbon monoxide, a man awakens. He finds himself surrounded by three other men, apparently dead. It's the image of a perfect collective suicide. But they're all in chains. He struggles desperately until he manages to turn off the engine. Little by little, his mysterious companions come to their senses. They don't know one another and nobody understands how they got there. They try to piece it all together, their last memories, the previous hours. And soon enough, conflict and mistrust rise to the surface. Nothing is as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
A woman is the prime suspect in the mysterious drowning death of her anchorwoman sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Zyzzyx Road (2006)
Plot Summary:
A married man (Leo Grillo) meets a beautiful woman (Katherine Heigl) in a Las Vegas casino and allows her to seduce him. When her jealous boyfriend (Tom Sizemore) finds them together, a scuffle results in the boyfriend's death. The lovers head to the desert to bury the corpse, but it disappears.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, weird
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Plot Summary:
A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: she must leave her apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, weird
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The Guilty (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young person gets hired to kill someone completely unknown, by someone equally unknown. Or is that true? Nothing is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min
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The Girl in the Fog (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on the bestselling novel by Donato Carrisi, THE GIRL IN THE FOG is a gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where enigmatic Detective Vogel is investigating on the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old Anna Lou. But with the case at the heart of a media storm, the fine line between the police and criminals begins to blur and soon everyone becomes a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspense, tense, enigmatic, disturbing, clever, neo noir, crime drama, detective