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Plot Summary:
Three filmmakers interview a former member of the defunct cult "The New Family" leading them down a path of mystery, kidnapping, and murder.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like L.A. Macabre (2014):
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Through Naked Eyes (1983)
Plot Summary:
A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractive woman in that building is checking him out. He strikes up a relationship with her. Soon afterwards a string of serial killings occurs in the neighborhood, and suspicion begins to fall on the musician.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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Hey Qween (2014)
Plot Summary:
Comedian Jonny McGovern hosts a talk show with Co-Host Lady Red Couture, where they catch up and gossip with fabulous celebrity guests.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Sleepers (2017)
Plot Summary:
The film's plot unfolds in 2013 during a period of aggravation of the situation in the Middle East and North Africa, the complication of the foreign policy situation in Europe and covers the events of several weeks, during which the Russian special services managed to expose the complex and dangerous combination of their overseas opponents. "Sleeping" is a program of foreign intelligence services, involving the use of agents previously implemented in governing bodies and large business, awaiting a command for active actions in "sleep mode". Only a few veterans who created the network know about the program. Against the backdrop of the interstate crisis, the Sleeping program is resuming.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: thought provoking, tense, disturbing, surprise ending, rough, suspense, suspenseful
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OP Center (1995)
Plot Summary:
Paul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide variety of experts monitoring international crisis. On his first day on the job, nuclear missiles are stolen from the former Soviet Union by terrorists. The team must find out who did it, why, and most importantly, where they are heading so they can retrieve them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Athena (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Athena is a new drama series charting the fortunes of a group of students at a prestigious college of visual arts in present-day London.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Family
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg is an informal interview-style show on the cable channel TV Land in which comedian David Steinberg talks with famous comedians and comic actors. Each show features Steinberg and one guest.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies (2016)
Plot Summary:
Explore the true stories of America's covert operations told firsthand by the agents who lived it, while getting unprecedented access to the riveting and secret world of espionage.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags:
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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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Doe (2018)
Plot Summary:
John is a brilliant linguistic scientist with a loving wife and daughter but with a massive gap in his life. Eight years ago, he turned up out of nowhere, with no memories except a recurring dream. He is sent tumbling down the proverbial rabbit hole after meeting a man that shares a similar condition and learning that there are more like him, all amnesiacs with extraordinary abilities. He convinces his brother-in-law, private investigator Carl, to help him uncover his true identity before his past can rise up to destroy him and his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Marriage of Lies (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Rachel’s husband disappears, the police have one suspect: her. While trying to prove her innocence, she uncovers many secrets about the man she married.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark
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Harry's Game (1982)
Plot Summary:
Harry is an undercover agent for the British army sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA and find (and terminate) the assassin of a British Cabinet Minister. Harry is alone, the army hasn't been told he is being put in place, his wife is fed up with him and his job, and his one new friend, an Irish woman who falls for him will be consumed by his relentless search for the assassin.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Locked Up: The Oasis (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a few years dedicating themselves to robbing jewelers, banks and casinos, it is time for Macarena and Zulema to separate.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, atmospheric, serious, captivating, scenic
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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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Extremely Dangerous (1999)
Plot Summary:
Extremely Dangerous is a 1999 four part series for ITV starring Sean Bean as an ex-National Criminal Intelligence Service undercover agent convicted of the brutal murder of his wife and child who goes on the run to try and clear his name. He sets out to follow up a strange clue sent to him in prison. The boss of a local crime syndicate, a former associate, hears of his escape and sends out the word to bring him in. On the run from the police and disowned by his NCIS colleagues, he is faced with the fact that he may be guilty.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Reckoning (2019)
Plot Summary:
The murder of a teenager and the hunt for a serial killer in a suburban Northern California town sets two fathers on a course of mutual destruction that will reverberate through their quiet community. Starring Sam Trammell and Aden Young.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 460 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychological
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Under Suspicion (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the small town of Cienfuegos, it's a very special day for 7-year-old Alicia Vega (Aroa Palacios) and her family: her First Communion. However, when they are celebrating at the family's restaurant, closed for the occasion, she goes missing.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, surprise ending, suspense, detective, disturbing
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Charitraheen (2018)
Plot Summary:
Hoichoi Originals presents “Charitraheen”, based on the novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, with the twists and turns being much in sync with today’s world.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Net (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Net is a 1998 television drama series based on the 1995 film of the same name. The series starred Brooke Langton as Angela Bennett, the character Sandra Bullock played in the film. Produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the series originally aired for one season on the USA Network before being canceled in 1999.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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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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Compulsions (2009)
Plot Summary:
Compulsions is the internal character story of Mark Sandler (Craig Frank), an admitted Sadist leading a life with a dull desk job. At night, he channels his inner compulsions as a professional interrogator, brutally and psychological extracting bits of crucial information from his "clients".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: rough, serious, psychological, tense, realistic, independent film
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Sequestered (2014)
Plot Summary:
A jury is sequestered in a hotel while deliberating a court case with massive implications.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
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Leviathan (2015)
Plot Summary:
In The War between Heaven and Hell, Anna Sawyer discovers that she alone has the ability to destroy all evil.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, captivating
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Penance (2020)
Plot Summary:
Maddie. Following the loss of their son, Rosalie and Luke find their marriage under immense strain. Maddie and Rosalie find themselves in the caring hands of Jed, a charming and charismatic young man that they encounter at bereavement counselling who is also suffering under the weight of his own grief. Jed rekindles a hope for the future within the Douglas household. But underneath, a deadly and morally corrupt triangle is taking shape.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, bleak, suspenseful
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Aim High (2011)
Plot Summary:
A web series centered around a high school student with a double life as a teenage spy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, scenic, semi serious
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Cybergeddon (2012)
Plot Summary:
Cybergeddon follows the story of agent Chloe Jocelyn as she investigates a slew of seemingly unrelated cyber attacks with fellow agent Frank Parker and incarcerated master hacker Chase Rabbit Rosen. Chloe and her team must crack the worldwide cybercrime ring led by Gustov Dobreff before it is too late. In a world where everyone is connected, everyone is at risk.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective
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Brotherhood of the Rose (1989)
Plot Summary:
Romulus and Remus are two CIA agents, their direct instructor is John Elliott. They both were picked up at an orphanage by Elliott at the age of about eight, raised together as brothers and specially trained to supersede every other agent in the service. This is what they know. What do not know.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Riot Police (2020)
Plot Summary:
A fictionalised look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 306 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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A Perfect Spy (1987)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Magnus Pym, from his childhood to the end of his career in middle age. As a young man, there is little doubt that his father Rick was the most influential character in his life. Rick was a raconteur, con man, thief, black marketer and all in all, simply larger than life. From a young age, Rick included Magnus in his schemes and the young man learned that you would do anything for the ones you love. When a university student in Switzerland, Pym meets the other person who will have the greatest influence in his life, Axel, a Czech refugee. As Pym enters his career in the British Secret Service, his relationship with Axel and the values he developed in childhood lead him down his own path of betrayal and loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 982
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 374 min
Plot tags: political, psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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The Assets (2014)
Plot Summary:
1985 serves as the backdrop to the final showdown of the Cold War when Sandy and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille vowed to find the mole that would turn out to be the most notorious traitor in US History, Aldrich Ames. Sandy is in a race against time to save the Soviet intelligence officers from being caught and killed. Living her own double life at home, this beautiful wife and mother vowed to stop at nothing until she uncovered the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, political
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Gold Digger (2019)
Plot Summary:
Gold Digger tells the story of wealthy 60 year old Julia as she falls in love with Benjamin, a man 25 years her junior. As this six part series progresses the impact their unconventional relationship has on her family is explored and the secrets of their past are revealed. Has Julia finally found the happiness she's always deserved? Or is Benjamin really the gold digger they think he is?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, enigmatic, psychological thriller, scenic