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Plot Summary:
A youth named Diego (David Chocarro) was released from prison, 20 years after being incarcerated. He was unjustly accused of a school massacre. Soon after his release, he finds himself entangled in a series of conspiracies and intrigues. With the help of his psychiatrist, Antonia(Maritza Rodriguez), he begins to uncover the mysteries surrounding the massacre.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, emotional, suspense, novela, slasher, realistic, sinister, telenovela
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Missing (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Altamira family celebrate Mariuno's birthday. Elisa and her cousins ask for permission to go dancing at a new club in town.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: suspense, novela, scary, rough, sinister, exciting, telenovela
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Behind Closed Doors (2011)
Plot Summary:
La Casa de al Lado is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. This mystery is a remake of Chilean telenovela La familia de al lado produced by TVN in 2010-2011 and is being adapted by the author of the original, José Ignacio Valenzuela making a story longer with many differences from the original. Maritza Rodriguez and Gabriel Porras star as the protagonists, while Catherine Siachoque, Miguel Varoni, David Chocarro and Maritza Rodriguez star as the antagonists.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, sentimental, suspense, novela, realistic, saga, sinister, telenovela
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Inner Senses (2002)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Yan, a young woman haunted by fleeting images of what she believes to be dead people. Told that it is all in her mind by her psychologist Jim, Yan still cannot find any other explanations for her visions. Soon, her suspicions are confirmed when Jim begins seeing the same things she does and the two begin to unravel a mystery that leads to a forgotten past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, scary, splatter, cult film
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Kinky Killers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Patients of sexy psychiatrist Dr. Jill Kessey and eccentric attorney Alexander Hathaway are being murdered in bloody, satanic rituals. Law enforcement investigations reveal that sex and mutilation are the signatures of a serial killer, who likes to tattoo each of the victims after they are murdered. Lead detective Barry Harper discovers that some beautiful professional women are the prey...or are they doing the preying?.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, slasher, rough, suspenseful, suspense, detective, erotic, mind bending, independent film, scary
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Voices (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young woman tries to escape what seems to be a curse that is killing members of her family one by one.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, scary, suspenseful, slasher, psychological, bloody, dark, cult classic, mind blowing
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Dirty Linen (2023)
Plot Summary:
To exact vengeance, a young woman infiltrates the household of an influential family as a housemaid to expose their dirty secrets. However, love will get in the way of her revenge plot.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, romantic, surprise ending, gothic, sinister, black comedy, dark comedy, action thriller, crime thriller
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Epitafios (2004)
Plot Summary:
Epitafios is a 2004 13-episode, Argentinian crime fiction TV mini-series with the tagline: El Final Está Escrito ... The End Is Written. The series, which takes place in an unnamed South American city, was shot in Buenos Aires. The series was produced by HBO Latin America and Argentinian TV/film company Pol-Ka Producciones. It was written by Marcelo Slavich and Walter Slavich and directed by Alberto Lecchi and Jorge Nisco. Although all of the actors were Argentinian, a neutral Spanish was used instead of the local Rioplatense Spanish, avoiding colloquialisms such as the local vos in favor of the more common tú. The series debuted in Australia on SBS in May 2007 under the title If The Dead Could Speak. It premiered in Poland on Cinemax on November 6, 2008. In Germany, it premiered on November 6, 2009 on pay TV channel FOX under the title Epitafios - Tod Ist Die Antwort.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, detective, serious, realistic, crime drama, spooky, anthology, gloomy, slasher
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Multiple Personality Detective Psycho - Kazuhiko Amamiya Returns (2000)
Plot Summary:
Yosuke Kobayashi, a detective assigned on a homicide unit, saw his wife killed by a serial killer, Shinji Nishizono. From a shock he suffered MPD (multiple personality disorder) and became Kazuhiko Amamiya. Soon after he managed to hunt down and killed the murderer of his wife, new series of murders have occurred and the suspects claimed to be Shinji Nishizono himself. Is it really him? Or a copycat? And who is Kazuhiko Amamiya?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, disturbing, serious, detective, anime, scary, rough, mind bending, bleak
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Brazil Avenue (2012)
Plot Summary:
Brazil Avenue is a dynamic, lifelike, and modern telenovela that reveals how unrelenting ambition and inflicted cruelty can change a young girl’s destiny and lead her to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, serious, captivating, realistic, soap opera, exciting, tense, suspenseful, telenovela
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Broken Angel (2013)
Plot Summary:
Santa Diabla is the story of Santa Martínez, a woman who seeks revenge for the murder of her husband Willy Delgado.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, tense, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, novela, telenovela
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Without Breasts There Is No Paradise (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sin Senos no hay Paraíso is a RTI Colombia–Telemundo remake and loose adaptation of the original Colombian series Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso. The series is based on investigative journalist Gustavo Bolivar's debut novel and features an attractive young prostitute who desires to have massive breast implants in order to attract a rich cocaine smuggler. It is also based on a true story. The series premiered on June 16, 2008;.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, suspense, novela, soap opera, sexual, sexy, telenovela
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Safehouse (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and now the ex-agent is forced back into the life he left behind to keep the thumb drive from the wrong hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film, exciting, realistic
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Amusement (2008)
Plot Summary:
While being interrogated by a police psychiatrist, the near-catatonic Tabitha tries to explain why she and two of her childhood friends are being hunted by a serial killer. The truth that's dying to come out weaves together three tragic secrets from their past. Two of the girls' boyfriends become unwitting targets in their deadly game.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, bleak, scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, creepy
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Lizzie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to the family home, Lizzie had terrifying flashbacks to her childhood, and comes face to face with the true horror of her past.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film
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Mammon (2014)
Plot Summary:
Peter Verås is an uncompromising journalist in the most respected newspaper in Norway. He makes his life’s biggest mistake when he gets hold of evidence of a financial fraud from an anonymous source. It turns out the evidence points to his own brother. As he still pursues and the story breaks, the brother commits suicide. Peter tries to track down the anonymous source, only to discover that the source was the brother himself. A search for the truth has commenced that involves media, high – ranked politicians as well as the financial elite. The closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes for him and his brother’s family.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, noir, suspenseful
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Proximity (2001)
Plot Summary:
When William Conroy (Rob Lowe), a former college professor, is sentenced to life in prison for vehicular manslaughter it seems his life is over. But when a fellow inmate tells him that in the past two years fourteen inmates have died at the prison, and then turns up dead the next day, Conroy realizes he is in more danger than he ever imagined. Conroy's suspicions are confirmed when the van carrying the inmates crashes. Seizing the opportunity, Conroy flees the scene and elicits the help of his lawyer. What the two discover is a grisly murder ring set up within the prison walls that incriminates those at the highest levels of the correctional system.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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The Dead Lake (2019)
Plot Summary:
Experienced Moscow police officer Maksim Pokrovskiy is sent to Northern Russia to investigate the murder of the local Oligarch's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: tense, melancholic, suspenseful, suspense, rough
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Kremen (2012)
Plot Summary:
An ex soldier comes to visit a military friend and finds trouble right away. It all starts with a rape of a girl by the local thugs in the town. He must use his fighting skills to defeat the thugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense
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Femme Fatales (2011)
Plot Summary:
Femme Fatales is an anthology TV series, inspired by the men's magazine of the same name, with each episode focusing on an antihero woman, intercut with softcore pornographic scenes and produced by Cinemax. Lilith, introduces each episode Rod Serling-style and occasionally appears within the narrative. Some characters make encore appearances in later episodes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, suspenseful, stylized, serious, anthology, realistic
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The Perfect Marriage (2006)
Plot Summary:
A conman persuades his married lover to murder her husband for the inheritance, only for his reckless spending and infidelity to drive her away.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, mind bending
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Do You Wanna Know a Secret? (2001)
Plot Summary:
As a night out on the town turns into a nightmare, six young college students must fight for their lives as a killer hunts them down.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, realistic
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Eye Candy (2015)
Plot Summary:
Tech genius Lindy, convinced by her roommate to begin online dating, begins to suspect that one of her mysterious suitors may be a deadly cyber stalker. When her friends at the elusive cyber-police uncover a potential serial killer in Manhattan, all signs point to one of Lindy’s dates. Teaming up with this band of hackers Lindy works to solve the murders while unleashing her own style of justice on the streets of New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, captivating, detective, thrilling
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Harper's Island (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of family and friends travels to a secluded island for a destination wedding. They've come to laugh... to love... and, though they don't know it... to die. As the wedding festivities begin, friendships are tested and secrets exposed as a murderer claims victims, one by one, transforming the wedding week of fun and celebration into a terrifying struggle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, scary, serious, atmospheric, realistic, exciting, detective, psychological, anime
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Suskunlar (2012)
Plot Summary:
Suskunlar, is a Turkish television drama series based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 novel of Sleepers.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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Fearless Heart (2012)
Plot Summary:
Angela and Samantha were best friends when they were little, but a trap of fate separated them for many years. An unmissable story of loyalty, friendship, courage and love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, novela, tense, romantic, soap opera, realistic, telenovela
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Ezel (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ömer, a young man returning from military service, is set up by his friends and fiancé and ends up in prison for ten years. He fakes his own death and manages to escape. He re-creates himself as ‘Ezel’, a high-end gambler who is outwardly a successful man, but inwardly driven by one thing - his determination to understand why the people he loved betrayed him, and take his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, soap opera, captivating, realistic
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Dare Me (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dive into the cutthroat world of competitive high school cheerleading, following the fraught relationship between two best friends after a new coach arrives to bring their team to prominence.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, exciting, deep, tense, dark
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Traveler (2007)
Plot Summary:
Traveler is a short-lived American television series that ran from May 10, 2007 until July 18, 2007 on ABC in the United States. The series was produced by Warner Bros. Television. Traveler was officially canceled after eight first-run episodes on July 18, 2007. Fans then tried to save the show but were unsuccessful. David DiGilio, the creator, posted an "answers blog" on September 28, 2007, which officially ended the show.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, spooky
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Hannibal (2013)
Plot Summary:
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 271000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1680 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, stylized, rough, psychological thriller, detective
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Prison Break (2005)
Plot Summary:
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 569000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, crime drama, thrilling, clever, enigmatic