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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: brutal, serious, factual, detective
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Byomkesh (2014)
Plot Summary:
Byomkesh was a 2014 Indian Bengali crime fiction television series based on the Bengali sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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Dios Inc. (2016)
Plot Summary:
A researcher's life changes when he discovers the tomb of Marduk, the creator of the concept of God.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blind Faith (1990)
Plot Summary:
Blind Faith is a 1990 television film directed by Paul Wendkos, based on the 1989 true crime book of the same name by Joe McGinniss. Originally broadcast in two parts with a total runtime of 190 minutes, the film is sometimes classified as a TV miniseries.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min
Plot tags: psychological
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Secret (2009)
Plot Summary:
A detective suspects that his wife murdered a gangster's brother. As he tries to misdirect the police and the bloodthirsty gangster while independently investigating his wife, terrible secrets slowly begin to surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, detective, mind twisting, twisted, mind bending
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Honour (2014)
Plot Summary:
A story centered on a young woman is targeted by her family for an "honour killing" and the bounty hunter who takes the job.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, realistic
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Deadly Attraction (2014)
Plot Summary:
This is about a certain year. How things could go from bad to worse within a year. We focus mostly on a guy’s life (Mark Fisher), and how his life affected others within that period of time. Just how bad does a person have to be before the Lord intervenes and puts a stop to it? Problems have to be given immediate attention to avoid future escalations. Mark Fisher uses his devilish tactics to turn his mom (Laura Fisher) against his dad (Kenneth Fisher) by subduing him with his weaknesses. Knowledgeable people live their lives knowing 365 days is only around the corner while foolish people live their lives thinking it is forever. A day spent is a day lost. Once your 365 days are gone, they can never be retrieved.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark
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Billionaire Boys Club (1987)
Plot Summary:
The Billionaire Boys Club is based on the true story of Joe Hunt (Nelson), a shady investor who built an empire on B.S back in the early 80s. Known as the BBC, the story involves a couple of guys recruited into Hunt's company on the promise of making millions. However, everytime Hunt's lapdogs think his boss has used his cleverness to make them filthy rich, they instead find themselves with financial losses. Trying to recoup a mounting pile of debt made from giant b.s. deals, the ruthless Hunt involves select members of the BBC to aid in the worst of crimes to get what they want. But, a few, scared of how far Hunt will go, try to stop Hunt's brutal reign of terror possibly before real damage begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 943
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic
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Night and Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
Working on a series of harrowing cases, forensic pathologist, Sara Grau, finds the key to a case in which she has unwittingly become a prime target. Sophisticated Spanish crime thriller.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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The Field of Blood (2011)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of Denise Mina's thriller set in 1982. When the story of a murder has huge implications for her family, newspaper copy boy Paddy Meehan battles prejudices to get to the truth. As she inches closer to revealing the truth, her investigations place her in mortal danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, realistic, detective, suspense, crime drama, serious, stylized
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The Reckoning (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sally Wilson's daughter Amanda is stricken with a brain tumour and each day, her condition appears to be worsening. Sally is at her wits end as to how to help her daughter and knows a life saving operation in America that she can't afford would be the answer. When the harassed single Mum is called to the office of a swish city lawyer, she never expects a life or death proposition. She’s been bequeathed £5 million! But in order to qualify for this amazing transfer of funds, Sally must first kill a man who deserves to die.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, serious, realistic
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The Last Weekend (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ian (Shaun Evans) and Em (Claire Keelan) receive a surprise invitation from an old friend. Ollie (Rupert Penry-Jones) invites the couple to spend a weekend in the Suffolk countryside with him and Daisy (Genevieve O'Reilly). The couples expect an idyllic holiday, but the competitive edge to the men's relationship soon rises to the surface, with irreversible consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, dark, thrilling, psychological thriller
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Kings of Jo'Burg (2020)
Plot Summary:
The Masire brothers rule Johannesburg's criminal underworld, but a supernatural family curse and a tangled web of betrayal threaten to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Presumed Guilty (2018)
Plot Summary:
A terrible event leads an investigator in Paris to come back to his birth town ten years after leaving it, where he has to confront the ghosts of his past and an unsolved mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, detective
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Interrogation (2020)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story that spanned more than 30 years in which a young man was charged and convicted of brutally murdering his mother. Each episode is structured around an interrogation taken directly from the real police case files, with the goal of turning the viewer into a detective.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, tense, rough, detective, deep, realistic
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The Dragon Syndrome (2012)
Plot Summary:
Germany, 1953. Corrupt gang of Soviet officers appropriated jewelry seized from repressed citizens. The officers take the young scout Terekhov and collector Avdeev, who recently left not so distant places, to guard the myriad wealth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, serious, suspense, detective
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The Devil's Path (2013)
Plot Summary:
Death-row inmate Sudo (Pierre Taki) sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii (Takayuki Yamada). In his letter, he states that a man named Kimura (Lily Franky), also known as "teacher," committed numerous murders for insurance money. While checking out the story, based on Sudo's tip, Fuji becomes convinced that the letter is correct. But, a lot of time has passed from the incidents and Sudo's testimony isn't clear. Due to the persistance of Sudo, who is a former yakuza, and Fuji, the police begin to move.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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The Untouchables (1993)
Plot Summary:
The Untouchables is an American crime drama series that aired for two seasons in syndication, from January 1993 to May 1994. The series portrayed work of the real life Untouchables federal investigative squad in Prohibition-era Chicago and its efforts against Al Capone's attempts to profit from the market in bootleg liquor. The series features Tom Amandes as Eliot Ness and William Forsythe as Al Capone, and was based on the 1959 series and 1987 film of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Time Between Dog and Wolf (2007)
Plot Summary:
After his mother is brutally murdered by the Triad in Thailand, Soo-hyun is adopted by NIS agent Kang Joong-ho, and he grows up with Min-ki like brothers. Min-ki and Soo-hyun both become NIS agents later on. One fateful day, Soo-hyun meets Ji-woo after last seeing her in Thailand when he was a child. They start dating. One day, Soo-hyun ruins a mission when the suppressed memories of the day his mother died surfaces in his mind. NIS Director Jung gives Soo-hyun an undercover assignment to infiltrate the Triad and Soo-hyun takes the job. Soo-hyun fakes his death and assumes a new identity to become a member of the Triad. With his fake identity and new name, he prowls the back alleys of Bangkok.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Silent Cargo (2022)
Plot Summary:
November 2019. A semi-submersible loaded with three tons of cocaine is seized off the Galician coast after having crossed the Atlantic. The captain, Nando, a promising young amateur boxer, travels accompanied by a Brazilian mechanic and a Colombian hitman. Three strangers locked up for almost a month in a claustrophobic handmade boat.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing
Similar in 76%
Maltese: The Mafia Detective (2017)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Dario Maltese travels from Rome to the city of his birth, Trapani in Sicily, to attend his best friend's wedding. But tragedy strikes and he finds himself pulled into a murder investigation.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 439 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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A Broken Code (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, Carmelo and Gino, are raised by their mob boss grandfather Salvatore Gianni. After the murder of their grandfather the two must join forces to track down the killer. No one is ruled out as a suspect, including one of the family. How will the truth unfold?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Octopus (1984)
Plot Summary:
Corrado Cattani is a police inspector whose life is devoted to fighting the Italian mafia (known here as "La Piovra" or "The Octopus").
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Austria, France, UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden
Duration: 402 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, bleak, suspenseful, realistic, bad ending, rough, detective, bloody, poliziottesco
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Excellent Cadavers (1999)
Plot Summary:
Fact based story about the political battle that was waged against the Mafia in Sicily during the late 1980's and early 1990's. Chazz Palminteri plays Giovanni Falcone, a crusading prosecutor who tried to use money trails as a way to attack the mobsters. He is aided by a former mobster (F. Murray Abraham) who volunteers to turn state's evidence after his sons are killed by a renegade mob chief. Wi.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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El Capo (2009)
Plot Summary:
El Capo, the most wanted drug dealer in Mexico, has been intercepted while hiding with his trusted men, his wife and his lover. During his escape, he declares war on the government and his own past.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration:
Plot tags: rough, brutal, serious, realistic, stylized, telenovela
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Coyote (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of Ben Clemens, who after 32 years as a border patrol agent is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of the United States. Now exposed to life on the other side of the wall, Ben will start to question his black and white views of the world, challenging his ideology and his loyalties.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 289 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, detective
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Mob City (2013)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a decades-long conflict between the Los Angeles Police Department, under the determined leadership of Police Chief William Parker, and ruthless criminal elements led by Mickey Cohen, a one-time boxer who rose to the top of L.A.'s criminal world. The series is a fast-paced crime drama set in Los Angeles during the 1940s and '50s. It's a world of glamorous movie stars, powerful studio heads, returning war heroes, a powerful and corrupt police force and an even more dangerous criminal network determined to make L.A. its West Coast base.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, detective, anime, crime drama, dark drama
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Corleone (2007)
Plot Summary:
Il Capo dei Capi (The Boss of the Bosses) is a six-part Italian miniseries which debuted on Canale 5 between October and November 2007. It tells the story of Salvatore Riina, alias Totò u Curtu, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily. Riina is played by Palermo-born actor, Claudio Gioè, and the series was directed by Alexis Sweet and Enzo Monteleone.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, rough
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The Fear (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Brighton crime boss turned entrepreneur and the disintegration of a criminal mind. (From IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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Gomorrah (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of the clan's godfather, Pietro Savastano.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, disturbing, realistic, dramatic, hood, crime thriller, bleak, rough
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The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977)
Plot Summary:
A seven-hours-plus adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" and "The Godfather, Part II" - with new scenes added and some old ones lengthened. Originally broadcast on the NBC television network in November of 1977, it was restored for high definition broadcast and presented uncensored nearly forty years later on HBO.
IMDB Rating: 9.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 434 min
Plot tags: epic, serious, rough, captivating, exciting, bleak, realistic, saga, stylized