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Plot Summary:
On a cold November day, electricity fails all over Europe. Blackout. While the government and authorities struggle with the effects and with clarification, a former hacker comes into the focus of the investigators.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Best tv shows and movies like Blackout (2021):
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The Undeclared War (2022)
Plot Summary:
In the post-pandemic world of 2024 during an upcoming British general election involving the UK’s first Black Conservative prime minister, a leading team of analysts at the heart of the UK’s NSA-style spy agency GCHQ attempt to ward off a cyber-attack on the country’s electoral system.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political, thrilling, political drama
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Hackerville (2018)
Plot Summary:
Following a cyber attack on a German bank, an investigator teams with local authorities and an elite hacker to track the suspects.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, Romania
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, interesting
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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 Inside Game (2018)
Plot Summary:
Farmer Michel Villeneuve is diagnosed with leukemia after collapsing in a field he'd just sprayed with a weed killer made by the agrochemical giant Saskia. His childhood friend Guillaume Delpierre, a principled politician, crusades to get the pesticide banned, with help from his ambitious assistant Romain Corso. They have to square off against Mathieu Bowman, a hard hitting lobbyist hired by Saskia. But when Saskia's Head of Marketing is found floating in the Seine, his daughter Chloé launches a behind-the-scenes investigation with help from former journalist Claire Lansel, who has recently been recruited to Bowman's team.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hacker's Game (2015)
Plot Summary:
A love story between two hackers, Soyan and Loise. Like many other hackers, Soyan works for a company he previously hacked.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hot Seat (2022)
Plot Summary:
An ex-hacker is forced to break into high-level banking institutions, another man must try to penetrate the booby-trapped building to get the young man off the hot seat.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller
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Undercover (2021)
Plot Summary:
“Undercover” depicts the story of Han Jung Hyun, who has been hiding his identity for a long time, and Choi Yeon Soo, a human rights lawyer who becomes the first head of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit to fight for justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Slow Horses (2022)
Plot Summary:
This quick-witted spy drama follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, tense, disturbing, funny, crime thriller, thrilling
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You Are Wanted (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lukas Franke finds himself a victim of a hacking attack, his online information altered to implicate him as having masterminded a cyber-attack on Berlin resulting in a city-wide blackout. Suspected as a terrorist, Lukas scrambles to find out why he's been targeted, as even his family and friends begin to doubt his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Girl from Oslo (2021)
Plot Summary:
When her daughter is abducted, a Norwegian diplomat travels to the Middle East, banking on old friends — and a deep secret — to help free her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Israel
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Perfect Mother (2021)
Plot Summary:
Convinced of her daughter's innocence in a homicide, a devoted mother soon uncovers unsettling truths as the line between victim and perpetrator blurs.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 192 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The return of Lucas (2016)
Plot Summary:
The return of Lucas tells the story of a well-off family who loses his eldest son, Lucas, 4 years old on the beach. Elena, his mother, is obsessed with finding him because he feels he is alive and never stops looking for him, neglecting his other children, Catalina and Juan, and her husband, Reynaldo, who took charge of the family and the company. After 20 years of the disappearance of Lucas, a photo of his son arrives at the mother's hands. A new track to follow that renews Elena's hopes of finding her son. Until one day, a young man shows up at the house of the Diaz Ayala family claiming to be Lucas. Will he be his lost son?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Peru
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, telenovela
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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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Perfume (2018)
Plot Summary:
While in boarding school, a group of six become friends through their intense passion for scent. When one is brutally murdered years later, disturbing secrets about the group are revealed when the police investigates each as a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: bleak, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, feel good, dark, detective
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Showtrial (2021)
Plot Summary:
An anthology series of hotly contested criminal trials that divides the nation and take place in the full glare of the media spotlight.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 288 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anthology
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The Witnesses (2021)
Plot Summary:
When 10 year old girl is kidnapped from the natural history museum, the police questions eight key witnesses to uncover the truth and find the child before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Mad Dog (2017)
Plot Summary:
Choi Kang-Woo is a former detective, but he now works as a veteran insurance investigator. He leads a team that attempts to reveal insurance fraud cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 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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Your Honor (2022)
Plot Summary:
An incorruptible judge has spent his career fighting organized crime. However, the tables are turned when his son is guilty of a hit-and-run case.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Lucky Seven (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lucky Seven Rakkīsebun is a 2012 Japanese television drama broadcast by Fuji Television from January 16 to March 19, 2012. It stars Jun Matsumoto and Eita.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Through the Darkness (2022)
Plot Summary:
It deals with the beginning of profilers who had to look into their minds to chase away demons that could not be called human beings in the days when the word profiling was unfamiliar and there was no concept of psychopaths, when a series of vicious criminals such as Yoo Young Chul, Jung Nam Gyu, and Kang Ho Soon appeared. It will be another kind of drama that will give you a sense of immersion and tension that you've never experienced before. The original author, Profiler Kwon Il Yong, became a police officer in 1989 and became the first profiler in Korea in 2000. His name was made public when he profiled serial killers such as Yoo Young Chul and Jung Nam Kyu. Kim Nam Gil will once again attempt a strong transformation by acting as a profiler of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's criminal behavior analysis team, which looks deeper into humans than anyone else and takes a more delicate look at others.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cerebral
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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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Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)
Plot Summary:
Istanbul police commissioner Mehmet Özakin is in charge of serious crime, mainly murder investigations, mostly in the Turkish metropolis. A very modern Turk, he uses up to date Western methods, without prejudice, assisted by bachelor Mustafa Tombul. Even his private life is progressive, his wife Sevim being on the former imperial capital's university staff.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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CSI: Crime Scene Talks (2011)
Plot Summary:
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. And he focuses on these things because they usually carry the victim’s dying wishes, understanding that last message not only helps solve the cases but also brings closure to the depressed family of victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Negotiator (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a modern society in which violent crimes are on the rise, there is a team that tries to resolve cases without bloodshed. It is the metropolitan police's special team, known by the abbreviation SIT (Special Investigation Team). The SIT doesn't get into action after a case but heads to the site just as a crime is being committed. They are on the front-line of risky missions, facing off against criminals; tenaciously conducting negotiations with criminals. As a result of the rigid police hierarchy that can curb the conduct of negotiators, the SIT is also a male-dominated society controlled with strict discipline. There is one female negotiator, Usagi Reiko, who bravely fights at the frontline. She is isolated in the male world of the SIT but courageously fights against crime as well as her organisation.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Aber Bergen (2016)
Plot Summary:
Aber Bergen is an entertaining courtroom drama about the recently separated , but for the time being professional partners, Erik Aber and Elea Bergen. They are two of the country's sharpest defense attorneys, who together with an unorthodox team lawyers have built up a reputable law firm, where they attempt to balance professional and private as they are thrown between moral, political and legal dilemmas.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Man Who Smiled (2003)
Plot Summary:
An old friend of Kurt Wallander, solicitor Sten Torstensson, visits him one day to tell him that his father has passed away close to Brösarp under peculiar circumstances. Kurt does not take his friend's worry seriously. Shortly after, the friend is found brutally murdered and Wallander realises too late that he was wrong. In the hunt for the killer Wallander finds a conspiracy of crimes that leads him to a company that handles transplantations of human organs. Behind the company he finds the image of a man. An elegant and self-confident man who writes his own rules. But who is he? Who gives himself the right to judge over other people? Whose morals decide what is right and wrong? Kurt Wallander is not one of them. In "The man who smiled" he gets himself into crossfire of immorality, betrayal, lies and everything else a man will do to be loved.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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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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Bright-eyed Revenge (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after surviving a car accident in which her mother and brother were murdered, Olivia, returns to the French Riviera with a new identity and a single purpose: Retribution.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Wrath of God (2022)
Plot Summary:
Convinced the tragic deaths of her loved ones were orchestrated by a famous novelist she worked for, Luciana turns to a journalist to expose her truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, enigmatic, captivating, psychological thriller