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Plot Summary:
Fernando Barrientos, Head of the National Security Directorate, Mexico's Secret Police, is trying to reach the highest position in the country. On his way, he'll have to manipulate, betray, and kill, and he's well prepared for it. However, his path will be full of obstacles. Nobody, not even his family, will be immune to the chaos left in his quest for total power.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political
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The Sounds (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of the stunning Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand, Maggie and Tom arrive to escape his oppressive family and start a business. When Tom disappears, buried secrets and family plots make paradise less than perfect.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: melancholic, captivating, suspense, scenic
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Shadow Lines (2019)
Plot Summary:
During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intelligence agencies coalesced in the small neutral country that stood between the East and the West. Shadow Lines is an international spy thriller that follows a secret intelligence team whose mission is to defend the independence of Finland no matter the cost.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: political, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political thriller, historical drama
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Crime Crackdown (2021)
Plot Summary:
As a frontline police officer, Li Chengyang faced oppression from all sides, framed by evil forces, and even his boss, the chief of public security, in order to prevent him from investigating. He was framed and imprisoned. Under the command and leadership of the Chinese political commissar and the Central Supervision Group, Li Chengyang regained his freedom and joined forces with various departments of the Public Prosecution and Justice Department. Together with Lin Hao and He Yong, they try to wipe out the two evil groups that had been in Zhongjiang City for more than ten years, and bring the corrupted government officials to justice. With a clear objective to restore a clean political arena of Zhongjiang, and a better society for the people in Zhongjiang. Will they succeed?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, dramatic
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Swimming with Sharks (2022)
Plot Summary:
When Lou Simms starts her internship at Fountain Pictures she seems like a naïve Hollywood newcomer, awestruck by the studio’s notorious CEO, Joyce Holt. In truth, Lou has done extensive research on Joyce and landing this internship was no happy accident. As Lou’s obsession grows, she will do anything to get close to her idol.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Reporters (2007)
Plot Summary:
The editorial teams of a newspaper and a television channel.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Fear Index (2022)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Alex Hoffman, an American ex-pat physicist, creates an AI-driven system that exploits fear in the financial markets and operates at lightning speed to make big returns. But on the day of launch, Alex’s sanity is shaken after he is viciously attacked at his home by a man who knows all of his security codes. After more unexplained occurrences, Alex becomes convinced he’s being framed.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, thrilling
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BG: Personal Bodyguard (2018)
Plot Summary:
Akira Shimazaki (Takuya Kimura) lives with his middle school student son. He used to work as a bodyguard, but, due to an incident, he now works as a security guard at a construction site. The private security company where he works establishes a new bodyguard division. Hiding his past as a bodyguard, Akira Shimazaki begins work as a novice bodyguard.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Codename Hunter (2007)
Plot Summary:
Norwegian Mini series (2007) starring Mads Ousdal.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Man from the Equator (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man that had his family and whole life has been taken away by the friend he trusted the most has returned and is burning for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Here on Earth (2018)
Plot Summary:
Follows the life of Carlos, a member of one of the most powerful families in Mexico and whose life takes an "U" turn when his father is found dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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Apaches (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young journalist is forced into a life of crime to save his father and family in this series based on the novel by Miguel Sáez Carral.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Lost Without Trace (2020)
Plot Summary:
Anna and Victoria left their homes at 8 a.m. And never came back. An investigator from Saint Petersburg arrived to a small Latvian town in an attempt to find the connection between the two missing women.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Latvia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Responder (2022)
Plot Summary:
Under pressure, fraying at the edges. In relentless night-time Liverpool, copper Chris is paired with a rookie. Will they save or destroy each other?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dramatic, detective, thrilling
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Inhuman Resources (2020)
Plot Summary:
Alain Delambre, unemployed and 57, is lured by an attractive job opening. But things get ugly when he realizes he’s a pawn in a cruel corporate game.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, intellectual
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Young Wallander (2020)
Plot Summary:
An incendiary hate crime stirs civil unrest, fast-tracking rookie cop Kurt Wallander to detective in this origin story for the popular character.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, unusual plot structure, disturbing, detective, action adventure
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The Age Of Anger (2022)
Plot Summary:
Manu Ríos, Amaia Aberasturi, Daniel Ibáñez, Carlos Alcaide star in this new fiction that portrays current adolescence based on the thriller to address the complexities that affect a new generation of young people.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, queer cinema
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Huss (2021)
Plot Summary:
When Katarina Huss starts as a police officer, she must learn to cope with the hard everyday life on the streets of Gothenburg. At the same time, her colleagues seem to be hiding something and soon she is drawn into a tangle of corruption and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Breathe: Into the Shadows (2020)
Plot Summary:
A 6-year old girl is kidnapped by a mysterious masked man, who demands an unusual ransom. To save his daughter, Dr. Avinash Sabharwal must kill someone! Meanwhile, Kabir Sawant's journey continues in the hostile environment of the Delhi Crime branch. Lies, deceit and mind games begin when Kabir is given charge of the investigation, and meets Avinash.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crime thriller
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Prime Suspect 1973 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Prime Suspect 1973 tells the story of 22-year-old Jane Tennison's first days in the police force, in which she endured flagrant sexism before being thrown in at the deep end with a murder enquiry.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Furia (2021)
Plot Summary:
Policeman Asgeir moves to an idyllic town in the west part of Norway. After a local conflict, he meets a mysterious woman named Ragna, and soon they are both trapped in a network of right-wing radical forces that threaten Europe.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Detective Inspector Irene Huss (2007)
Plot Summary:
Police investigator Irene Huss lives in Gothenburg, Sweden, and tries to balance between murder investigations and family life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Vilangu (2022)
Plot Summary:
Paridhi, a cop undergoing a stressful personal situation, must solve a mysterious murder case that has put the police department on its toes.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Informant (2008)
Plot Summary:
McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, with intelligence officers seeking to uncover the truth about his past by working with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Trident (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three aging police officers working in support positions are drawn back to front line operations when their best friend, Xia, is killed on the day of his retirement after asking to tag along on one last drug raid. In the ensuing investigations, the three friends, Pan, Cui and Xu, uncover various criminal enterprises while also dealing with old grudges and grievances. The stories are told with flashbacks to their early days on the force when they solved cases together while Xia covered for them and kept them unified. The show also depicts the toll policing takes on the individual characters and their families, combined with doses of humor, suspense and lessons on duty, honor and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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A Good Man (2020)
Plot Summary:
Who and What is “A Good Man”? This is the central question in this original drama series from Konstantin Bogomolov, agent provocateur of Russian cinema. Based on a true story, inspired by the capture of Russia’s most prolific and brutal serial killer “the maniac of Angarsk”. "A Good Man" looks at everyday violence in quiet suburbia. The protagonist is a police officer and a security guard, keen to uphold the law, protect people and his town. His methods are deadly. It takes almost a decade to reveal him as a mass murderer, who preyed on over 80 young women in and around Angarsk.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, disturbing, suspenseful, detective, suspense
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The Return of the Dancing Master (2004)
Plot Summary:
Former policeman is tortured and murdered and his friend and former colleauge investigates the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Finland
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Good and Evil (2009)
Plot Summary:
Il bene e il male is an Italian television series.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, poliziottesco
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Señorita 89 (2022)
Plot Summary:
A period drama set in the dark glamour of 1980s Mexico following the contestants training for the country’s Miss Mexico pageant as they vie not only to win - but to make it to the final contest alive.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Last One Standing (2008)
Plot Summary:
Former Hong Kong Correctional Services personnel Cheung Sing-hei was sent to prison for murdering his stepfather. The key witness of the case turns out to be his cousin and best friend Tong Lap-yin. Ten years later, Sing-hei is released from prison. Lap-yin is now one of the most influential people in the city while Sing-hei's reputation and future are in ruins. Feeling extremely frustrated and harbouring suspicions about the case ten years ago, he is desperate to find out the truth behind his stepfather's death.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Good Cop (2012)
Plot Summary:
A dutiful Liverpool beat cop discovers what he is truly capable of after his partner is brutally murdered in a targeted attack by a local gang.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, dark, detective, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic