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Plot Summary:
When Peter Manson's daughter falls pregnant by her teacher, he is afraid that he has lost her forever. But are his fears more than just fatherly concern?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, detective, erotic, tense, realistic, gloomy
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Heart (1999)
Plot Summary:
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, independent film
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The Politician's Wife (1995)
Plot Summary:
A woman's life is turned upside down when it is revealed that her husband, a member of the British Parliament, has been having an affair with a former prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: political, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Paula (2017)
Plot Summary:
A thriller about Paula, a chemistry teacher whose life is turned upside down after a one-night stand with James. They become locked in a dance of destruction. Only one can survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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The Dinner (2013)
Plot Summary:
Adapting a Dutch bestseller inspired by a shocking real-life crime, Menno Meyjes (screenwriter of The Color Purple and Lionheart) directs this excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak
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Blackout (2012)
Plot Summary:
A council man becomes increasingly disillusioned over the years, but a heroic act gets him approval and becomes a front-runner for the mayor-ship of Manchester while trying to keep his own secrets buried.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, serious, stylized, psychological thriller, political, neo noir, suspenseful
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Doctor Foster (2015)
Plot Summary:
A woman suspects her husband of having an affair. After following several lines of inquiry far more unravels including a streak of violence below the surface.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: emotional, captivating, serious, tense, realistic, psychological thriller, atmospheric, crime drama
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A Mother's Son (2012)
Plot Summary:
A mother suspects that her son could be the killer of a recently found dead girl, and becomes caught in a torturous dilemma of whether to denounce him, or protect him and hide the act.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspense, psychological, captivating, gloomy, psychological thriller
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Undeniable (2014)
Plot Summary:
25 years ago, Jane saw a man killing her mother. Today, she's a well adjusted wife and mother herself. While having a physical, she notices a doctor who looks like the killer and reports him. No one believes her - except one cop.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, crime drama
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Exile (2011)
Plot Summary:
Exile is a British psychological thriller television series dealing with the topic of Alzheimer's disease against a background of corruption. It stars John Simm and Jim Broadbent and was broadcast on BBC One. The series received varyingly positive reviews. John Simm received a BAFTA nomination for his role as Tom Ronstadt, as did the director John Alexander.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, captivating, dark, sincere, gloomy
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Secret Ceremony (1968)
Plot Summary:
A tormented rich girl hires a sex worker to act as her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, deep, psychological, tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Moving On (2009)
Plot Summary:
Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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In the Club (2014)
Plot Summary:
In The Club follows six pregnant women and their partners as they get ready for the arrival of their babies at the local parenting class. Housewife Diane, schoolgirl Rosie, newlywed Jasmin, businesswoman Roanna, midwife Vicky and writer and teaching assistant Kim all have their own issues to deal with.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Anna Karenina (2000)
Plot Summary:
To help her brother mend his failing marriage, young Russian beauty Anna Karenina - who's married to eminent nobleman Alexei Karenin - leaves St. Petersburg for Moscow, where she meets the dashing Count Vronsky. They soon fall madly in love, but the scandal of their illicit affair and Alexei's vengeance give rise to tragedy in this faithful adaptation of author Leo Tolstoy's immortal novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, emotional, realistic, serious, historical romance, epic, gloomy, period drama
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The Outcast (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in post-war Britain, ten year-old Lewis Aldridge is grief-stricken as he struggles to cope with the death of his beloved mother. Left under the care of his emotionally distant father Gilbert, whom he barely knows and who quickly remarries, Lewis is forced to bury his feelings.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy, period drama
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The Other Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, romantic, romantic drama, bleak, gloomy
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The Slap (2015)
Plot Summary:
A family drama that explodes from one small incident where a man slaps another couple's misbehaving child. This seemingly minor domestic dispute pulls the family apart, exposes long-held secrets, and ignites a lawsuit that challenges the core values of all who are pulled into it.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating
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Prisoners Wives (2012)
Plot Summary:
Behind every prisoner, there's a wife, girlfriend or mother doing time on the outside. For some it's a nightmare, for others a liberation. Prisoners' Wives - it's time to tell their stories.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating, tense, detective
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32 Brinkburn Street (2011)
Plot Summary:
Drama moving between the lives, loves and lies of two generations of the same family who live at 32 Brinkburn Street in 1931 and 2011.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, serious, sentimental, suspense, period drama
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Darkness Falls (1999)
Plot Summary:
With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ending up in a coma.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, dark, independent film, psychological thriller
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The Escape Artist (2013)
Plot Summary:
A chilling and bloody legal thriller that explores the line between law and justice. Will Burton, a talented junior barrister of peerless intellect and winning charm, specialises in spiriting people out of tight legal corners. He is in high demand as he has never lost a case. But when his talents acquit the notorious prime suspect in an horrific murder trial, that brilliance comes back to bite him with unexpected and chilling results, not to mention a shocking twist.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspenseful, intellectual, detective, realistic
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Mother's Boys (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes, into a murderous plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, realistic, neo noir, dark, independent film, serious
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Thicker Than Water (2014)
Plot Summary:
The beautiful island of Sunnanö in the Swedish archipelago is home to a popular B&B run by Anna-Lisa and her son Oskar. Anna-Lisa has summoned her daughter Jonna, an actress, and son Lasse, an opportunist, to the island. It is the first time in years that they are together again. When Anna-Lisa is found dead one morning, the siblings learn that she had terminal cancer: Her will stipulates that all three siblings must run the family B&B together for a year, or they won't inherit it at all. It is a mother’s last effort to reunite her children. But it will also confront them with the family’s unsolved past, present forces of attraction, and a very dark secret buried in a most unfortunate place.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious, gloomy
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Satisfaction (2014)
Plot Summary:
A provocative drama that explores modern marriage at its midpoint. Through the lens of one couple, Neil Truman and his wife, Grace, this series answers the question, “What do you do when having it all is not enough?” by delving into their shocking and unconventional choices.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, erotic, psychological, sexy, contemplative, gloomy
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Separate Lies (2005)
Plot Summary:
A cyclist is killed, swiped by a Range Rover in a village lane. James and Anne Manning become involved because the victim is the husband of their cleaner, Maggie. James, a solicitor in the city, soon comes to suspect William Bule, a millionaire playboy who has moved back to the village. William, pressed by James, confesses to the hit and run. But the confession is clouded by Anne's admission of her affair with William.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, emotional, psychological, realistic, clever, serious, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy, erotic
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The Little House (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Little House is a drama series based on the novel by Philippa Gregory. The drama follows the story of Ruth, who is married to career minded Patrick and is pushed towards the limits of her own sanity when she becomes entangled in the lives of her wealthy but interfering in-laws Elizabeth and Frederick. After falling unexpectedly pregnant, Ruth finds herself swept along on a tide of apparently well-intentioned family gestures which leave the previously independent school teacher detached from her former city life and living in ‘the little house’ at the end of her in-laws’ driveway.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Caught (1996)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged couple has a drifter enter their lives. The fish-store owners find that the mysterious young man awakens the couple in ways they didn't expect. Things get tense when the drifter begins an affair with the woman of the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, sexy, captivating, suspenseful, neo noir, sexual
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The War Zone (1999)
Plot Summary:
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, depressing, heartbreaking, rough, emotional, controversial, atmospheric, brutal, serious
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The Widower (2014)
Plot Summary:
Over a thirteen year period, a seemingly mild‐mannered male nurse, Malcolm Webster, set about poisoning and murdering his first wife, attempting to do the same to his second wife and moving on to a further scheme to deceive his third fiancée.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, detective, serious, realistic
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The Affair (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book entitled A Person who Visits a Place) and he is struggling to write a second book. He is happily married with four children, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of the tragic death of her child. The story of the affair is told separately, complete with distinct memory biases, from the male and female perspectives.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic, erotic, gloomy, philosophical, bleak, grindhouse
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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