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Plot Summary:
In a small town, Jordan, the son of police chief Bates, and his friends Glenn and Russel Derrek, the son of the garage-owner Gordon Russell, enjoy having their way with local girls, like Tori, and recording those exploits on video. When Alex Mills is about to report them to the police, he is pushed but it's staged as an accident. Samantha 'Sam' Cooper witnesses this, and is threatened in order to keep her silent, next her mothers car is sabotaged, finally ecstasy laid in her locker so an anonymous tip to the police gets her arrested. When Derrek turns his back to his friends and promises Sam's mother Laura to testify, he has a 'car accident', actually run off the road, but survives. Laura and Tori's mother Shawna get one cop, Officer Brady Thomas, to investigate, and the chief starts to suspect his son is going bad again, but where lies his loyalty?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Locked Away (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a teenager gets pregnant, her mother feels the baby should be adopted. The girl seeks advice from her school counsellor, but this woman has her own agenda.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, disturbing
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The Things We've Seen (2017)
Plot Summary:
Accusations of guilt turns a father into a fugitive, leaving his son to find and bring him home after struggling to put the pieces together.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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And Baby Will Fall (2011)
Plot Summary:
Expectant parents become prime suspects in the disappearance of a pregnant woman who was last seen at their garage sale. Model citizen David Rose runs a garden center and is a devoted house-father. Like his wife Ivy, who suffered two stillbirths, their new neighbor Melinda is near to giving birth. Just after David showed her around in the Rose home, Melinda goes missing. Although no corpse is found, just circumstantial evidence more likely to be planted then stupidly left behind, police detective Blanchard treats David as his sole suspect, soon arrested, even after nosy neighbor Bindel is knocked down while David is in jail. School buddy Theo does his best to counsel the couple, yet Ivy doubts her husband's innocence just because of indications he may have had an affair with Melinda since high-school, and starts snooping with her best friend Jody. The worst crime is still being hatched.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, crime thriller, rough, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful
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The Perfect Teacher (2010)
Plot Summary:
A spoiled, selfish teenager becomes infatuated with her teacher. She befriends his daughter as a way of worming her way into the family, and sets about manipulating every aspect of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, psychological thriller, sexy
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Everybody Has a Plan (2012)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of his identical twin brother Pedro, Agustín sets out to begin his life anew by assuming Pedro’s identity and returning to the mysterious Tigre Delta region where the brothers had spent their childhood. Soon after his homecoming, however, Agustín finds himself unwittingly embroiled in the deadly criminal underworld that his brother had been part of.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, crime drama, realistic, gloomy
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The Shooter (2013)
Plot Summary:
The five days when Copenhagen was held in a panic grip by an intelligent activist and former elite shooter, who takes to arms when a woman journalist writes about the government’s broken promises in an environmental question.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, political
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Call Girl (2007)
Plot Summary:
A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, sexy, sexual
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Amber Alert: Terror on the Highway (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man kidnaps two girls in Oregon triggering the Amber Alert system throughout many surrounding states.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, road movie, tension
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Perfect Sisters (2014)
Plot Summary:
Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, scary, psychological thriller, intellectual, dark, mysterious, grindhouse
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A Killer Among Us (2012)
Plot Summary:
After the shocking murder of her mother, a girl helps a police detective by searching her home for clues that they hope will lead to the perpetrator.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, detective
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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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Darkness Falls (2020)
Plot Summary:
After his wife's suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson becomes convinced that she has been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, he finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers and sets out to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, USA, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspenseful, scary
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The Man Inside (2012)
Plot Summary:
A thriller centered on a young boxer trying to distance himself from his father's gangster past and the relationship with his trainer.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, bleak, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, rough, touching, gloomy
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La Fuga (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not to return to prison. Some of them will suffer violent deaths, while others manage de disappear. Sordid and moving stories, not excluding tenderness and love, mercy or horror sealed with a pact of prison love that will remain in the heart of Buenos Aires, as witness of the yearned-for freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, adaptation directed by original author
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Her Husband's Betrayal (2013)
Plot Summary:
Cathy Coulter is looking forward to a bright future with new husband Riley and her son Billy. Settled in their new home, Cathy becomes disheartened with Riley's frequent work trips and her intuition tells her something is amiss. When Riley leaves for his next job, Cathy follows him...all the way to another family's home! When Cathy storms in to confront him, she finds a dead body and receives a call from Riley saying she must confess to the crime or her son will be killed. With the police hot on her tail, Cathy goes on the run to unearth the truth before it is too late to save her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, suspense
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Prison on Fire II (1991)
Plot Summary:
Ching is a prisoner in a Honk Kong jail that has a large population of Mainland Chinese prisoners. Ching escapes to see his young son, who he has been put in an orphanage. He surrenders himself to authorities, but the vengeful chief of security, Zau, arranges for Ching to be set up in the eyes of the Mainland gang, led by the affable Dragon. Dragon and Ching both then escape separately, and while fugitives, hook up together and bond. Ching is recaptured and instigates a riot to save his own hide from the Mainlanders. In the chaos Ching gets revenge on Skull (who, working with Zau, set him up) and Zau.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Blind Injustice (2005)
Plot Summary:
A blind woman finds herself the target of an attacker again after the person originally convicted of her rape is found to be innocent of the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Rushlights (2013)
Plot Summary:
Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The Corrupted (2019)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abuse,turning her back on her family. She later discovers that someone close to her may be behind her subsequent abduction and kidnapping.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense, captivating
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Deadly Influencer (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young woman commits murder to keep her classmates' social media careers under her thumb. After killing a popular friend, she turns her sights on a new girl, but the girl's mother suspects the truth and will fight to protect her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Swerve (2011)
Plot Summary:
Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin takes a short cut and comes across a fatal road accident. One of the drivers, Jina, is shaken but unhurt; the other has been killed instantly. Beside the dead body is a briefcase full of money, which Colin turns in to the local police. But getting out of town proves a nightmare, as Colin's good deed causes a series of bizarre events to unfold.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, rough, serious, neo noir, realistic, road movie, suspense, black comedy
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Meskada (2010)
Plot Summary:
Small-town detective Noah Cordin is called to solve a juvenile homicide that occurred during a home burglary in his affluent town of Hilliard. The dead boy's mother, Allison Connor, is a member of the Meskada County Board of Commissioners, and a powerful woman in Hilliard; and the entire township rallies together in solidarity - to support her and Detective Cordin's efforts to find the killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, dark, suspense, disturbing
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Pressed (2011)
Plot Summary:
Brian, (Luke Goss, DEATH RACE 2, HELLBOY II) is desperately trying to seek a "quick fix" business deal that will put him back on top financially after being let go from his executive position at one of the top investment firms. Brian decides to go "all in", investing the rest of his savings into a short-term drug deal that would allow him to preserve his high-end life style. When two recluse teenagers unknowingly intercept the illicit drug money hidden in the back seat of a car, Brian’s deal is botched. He soon finds himself in a desperate situation as he owes a merciless drug lord the missing money. At the same time the teenagers learn that they've stolen from the wrong people. What follows is a twisted tale of greed, deceit, murder and wealth. In this Crime-thriller, three relationships collide in a fantastic saga where only one will get out alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Identity Theft (2004)
Plot Summary:
This movie is rated 14+ because it includes: -Sexual content and Nudity, by this it only shows kisses between the two main characters and ways of showing affection like hugging, ect. It also shows women in no such lingere, nor men. All characters are fully dressed, except for two scenes where four men are shirtless, because its hot outside. -Violence, There is only one scene with violence, and it is where Michelle Brown locates the theif who stole her identity, later with the police trying to track them down. -Language that may offend, Only words such as, "Bullshit, Crap and Jesus Christ," are used. As you can see this movie is rated 14+ however the amount of mature content is minimal.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, suspense
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Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense, independent film, psychological thriller
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She Made Them Do It (2013)
Plot Summary:
"She Made Them Do It" follows the twisted life of Sarah Pender (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) a charismatic, intelligent young woman who would become one of the country’s most sought after fugitives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, crime thriller
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Infinite Justice (2006)
Plot Summary:
An American reporter is held hostage by Muslim fundamentalists in Karachi against the release of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, suspense, captivating, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Nightmare in Columbia County (1991)
Plot Summary:
The recounting of a terrible crime that wracked a family and galvanized police in South Carolina in the 1980's. Southern beauty pageant winner Dawn Smith is targeted by a sadistic stalker whose obsession with her leads him to kidnap her younger sister.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film