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Plot Summary:
An oil industrialist, an environmental activist and a politician are in conflict in this drama set around a summit on climate change.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Art of More (2015)
Plot Summary:
A working-class social climber finagles his way into the world of New York City auction houses by using the smuggling skills he learned as a soldier in Iraq.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 846
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bodies (2004)
Plot Summary:
Bodies is an award-winning British television medical drama produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. Created by Jed Mercurio, the series began in 2004 and is based on his book Bodies. In December 2009, The Times ranked Bodies in 9th place in its list of "Shows of the Decade". The Guardian has ranked the series among "The Greatest Television Dramas of All-Time".
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Babel (2019)
Plot Summary:
A prosecutor who started his career as a newspaper reporter faces a life-changing event when his father dies in an unexplained accident, and his mother takes her own life. With his life shattered in pieces, he will stop at nothing to discover what happened and get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, dorama
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Ambitions (2019)
Plot Summary:
A multigenerational family saga centered around one woman who, having recently relocated and intent on revitalizing her marriage, finds herself going head to head with some of the most powerful and deceitful players in the city.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Auntie Duohe (2009)
Plot Summary:
After losing her kin in the wake of the Second Sino-Japanese War, a Japanese girl in China stays to live with a traditional Chinese family.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Night Light (2016)
Plot Summary:
Seo Yi-Kyung ambitiously wants to build her own empire. She is calm and also passionate. She doesn't believe greed is a sin. Park Gun-Woo possesses good looks and comes from a wealthy family that runs a large company. Seo Yi-Kyung is his first love and he is still in love with her. Lee Se-Jin comes from a poor background. She desperately wants to escape from her situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Diggstown (2019)
Plot Summary:
Follow Marcie Diggs, a star corporate lawyer who reconsiders her priorities after her beloved aunt commits suicide following a malicious prosecution.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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The Principal (2015)
Plot Summary:
When history teacher Matt Bashir is promoted to Principal of a notoriously violent Boys' school in Sydney's south-west, his radical approach brings him into conflict and leaves his personal life dangerously exposed. But just when he seems to be making progress, a 17-year-old student is found dead on school grounds.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, queer cinema
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Woman with a Suitcase (2016)
Plot Summary:
A successful career woman gets framed for a crime and works her way back up after serving her time. She was once an office manager with a thriving career, but that takes a major hit when she is penalized for violating the Attorneys-at-Law Act and sent to prison for it. The drama follows the success story as she comes back as an ex-con, and follows her dream to become an outstanding lawyer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Bank Hacker (2021)
Plot Summary:
After two years in prison, professional con man Alidor Van Praet needs to rebuild the illegal fortune the police seized from him. When he spots 19-year-old Jeremy Peeter’s hacking skills at a computing convention, he knows this shy teenager is the key to making it happen and to get revenge on the financial system that drove his father to suicide.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Krakatoa: The Last Days (2006)
Plot Summary:
A historical drama documentary depicting the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in 1883. The volcano was located in the Sunda strait in Indonesia and its eruption resulted in tsunami, rains of coals and ash, and ended with a very hot tsunami. The eruption killed more than 36,000 people and those survived were left with burns.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, disturbing, epic, nature documentary, disaster movie
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New World (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set in the city of Beiping during the 22 days before the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 is a story about the drastic changes in the lives of three brothers Jin Hai, Tie Lin, and Xu Tian as well as a romance between Xu Tian and Tian Dan. In investigating the murder that claimed the life of his fiancee, policeman Xu Tian starts on a trail that will eventually lead to his involvement in the liberation of Beiping. Jin Hai, Tie Lin, and Xu Tian are three friends who are as close as brothers. In the face of historic changes and conflicting beliefs, they make choices that take them on diverging paths. Xu Tian and communist member Tian Dan meet during their lowest moments and find a common goal that brings them together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Justice (2011)
Plot Summary:
Justice is a British legal drama starring Robert Pugh as Judge Patrick Coburn. The first episode was originally broadcast on 4 April 2011 on BBC One.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Rica Famosa Latina (2014)
Plot Summary:
Rica, Famosa, Latina is an Estrella TV reality series which was co-created by Lenard Liberman of Estrella TV, and by Joyce Giraud. The Spanish-language show was inspired by the Real Housewives franchise.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, non fiction
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The Doctors (2010)
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IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Commons (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set in a gripping vision of the near future, THE COMMONS is an absorbing character-driven relationship drama and a story about motherhood as the ultimate act of faith in humanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Mysterious Personal Shopper (2018)
Plot Summary:
Hong Se Yeon works as a personal shopper. She is outgoing and a positive person, but she is betrayed by people whom she loved. She begins to take revenge on those who betrayed her. Meanwhile, Eun Kyung Hye is the only child of a CEO. Her life looks perfect, but she has a fear that she will get abandoned. Because of her fear, she has an impulse control disorder and gets compulsive.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Baba (2022)
Plot Summary:
Emin Saruhanlı, an authoritarian father committed to family values, learns that he is the sole heir to a considerable fortune as a result of the loss of one of his close relatives. When the Saruhanlı family moves to Istanbul, leaving their modest life in town behind, Emin struggles to keep his family together.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Love Lasts Two Minds (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the first year of Later Liang lived Yuan Qingli, the daughter of a general. While on the road to a nunnery to reflect and meditate, she is abducted and knocked unconscious. After her rescue, Yuan Qingli wakes up days later without her memories and with a new personality. To escape from her own wedding, she dresses as a man and becomes a constable of Qinhe County.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Untouchable (2017)
Plot Summary:
The city of Bukcheon has been dominated by the Jang family for 3 generations. Jang Joon-Seo is the second son of family leader Jang Beom-Ho. A woman who Jang Joon-Seo loves dies. After that, he tries to reveal the truth about her death and a secret from his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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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 Comey Rule (2020)
Plot Summary:
An immersive, behind-the-headlines account of the historically turbulent events surrounding the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, which divided a nation. This two-part biopic tells the story of two powerful figures, Comey and Trump, whose strikingly different personalities, ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: political, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, interesting, political drama
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Saki (2013)
Plot Summary:
From the 2011 drama, Utsukushi Rinjin, Nakama Yukie reprises the character Saki. This time round, as Saki Amihama, she will be targeting men. With the facade of an angel, she draws men to her, only to lead them to a destructive end. Like a moth to the flame... but where is the line drawn between the saint and the devil?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Judgement (2019)
Plot Summary:
The tragic death of Gabrielle and the acquittal of her killer plunges the Dessureaux family into a living hell.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Golden Cross (2014)
Plot Summary:
If you have a chance to enter top 1% super class at a cost of others’ happiness, what would you do? Employee’s net incomes are getting lower and lower but their employer’s salaries increases every year. In the age of rough economy, we are forced to believe prospective economy in the future. Then one day, someone lures you for dirty money. Just by juggling with some figures, you can get a glamorous life from a great deal of money and promotion as well as fancy sports car and luxurious pent house. Will you take this Golden Cross card that will lead you to a totally new world? Everyone wants to live well. Who has never dreamed of this kind of desires? However, what if you need the sacrificial lambs for your desires? Here was a banker who never compromised with the dirty desires. But the price of having this principle was high. For rejecting a dangerous suggestion, he had to pay for it with his life. Here is a son of the dead banker, who jumps into the world of Korean top 1% super class with the purpose of taking revenge for his family’s death. However, before long, the son confronts the moment of the same kind of choice like his father. Between his mission to taking revenge and the desire for a glamorous life filled with the power and money, which one will he choose in the end?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Saints & Sinners (2016)
Plot Summary:
A large Southern church is the background for greed, corruption and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, spiritual, soap opera
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Fragile (2019)
Plot Summary:
Fragile tells the story of two diametrically opposite families: the wealthy, influential Bachands, and the salt-of-the-earth Coutures. It’s also the story of an unlikely friendship, that of Dominic Couture (Pier-Luc Funk) and Félix Bachand (Marc-André Grondin). The pair’s mysterious death sends shock waves through their families and community, exposing jealously guarded secrets, dangerous liaisons, and hidden agendas.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Vitthal Teedi (2021)
Plot Summary:
Vitthal Tripathi is a man from humble origins and an exceptional skill with playing cards. He is a gambler no one can defeat, winning games against all his opponents. However, when he decides to join the big leagues, get a taste of city life, his fate throws him a curveball. There are indeed bigger fish in the sea, ready to gobble him up whole. It is not his luck but his skill as a player that will keep him afloat.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Swallow the Sun (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jung-woo was abandoned by his birth parents when he was a baby and became friends with Soo-hyun, who became his sweetheart. After rescuing Chairman Jang, he is adopted by him and becomes a bodyguard to the chairman’s son. Jung-woo is reunited with Soo-hyun at Tae-hyuk’s school but even though Soo-hyun loves him, she chooses Tae-hyuk who offers to help her achieve her dream career. So both Tae-hyuk and Soo-hyun go to USA for their studies. Jung-woo is eventually betrayed by Chairman Jang but he is called to Las Vegas by Jackson Lee, a military buddy, who offers him an opportunity to rebuild his life. In Las Vegas, Jung-woo meets Soo-hyun and Tae-hyuk by coincidence. In his line of work as a private bodyguard, Jung-woo saves the life of the king of a small African nation and is asked by the king to rescue his son from the rebels in return for rights to a diamond mine. So Jung-woo heads to Africa, risking his life to claim the mine. Meanwhile, Tae-hyuk and Soo-hyun return to Seogwipo city on Jeju island at Chairman Jang’s request. Tae-hyuk is put in charge of managing a hotel there while Soo-hyun becomes the head of event planning. After gaining control of the diamond mine in African, Jung-woo returns to Jeju and engages in a struggle against chairman Jang and Tae-hyuk… He learns a shocking secret that shakes the foundation of his very existence.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing