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Plot Summary:
A wary CIA officer investigates a charismatic man who sparks a spiritual movement and stirs political unrest. Who exactly is he? And what does he want?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, spiritual, controversial, interesting, cult film
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The Path (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Path explores the unknown and mysterious world of the cult-like Meyerist Movement in upstate New York. At the center of the movement lies Eddie, a conflicted husband; Sarah, his devoted wife; and Cal, an ambitious leader. We follow each as they contend with deep issues involving relationships, faith, and power.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: biblical, thought provoking, suspense, psychological, melancholic, spooky, interesting, cult film
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Sacred Games (2018)
Plot Summary:
A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, suspense, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, epic, saga, sitcom
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The Body (2001)
Plot Summary:
An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Jesus Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities tested while risking their lives to unearth the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel, Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, talky, suspenseful, philosophical, exciting, controversial, anamorphic, tense, serious, biblical
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One of Us (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young journalist goes deep undercover within a mountain commune and becomes manipulated by a duplicitous cult leader.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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The Lost Symbol (2021)
Plot Summary:
The early adventures of young Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: dramatic, enigmatic, exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, serious, captivating, emotional, suspense, disturbing
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Hysteria (2014)
Plot Summary:
An investigative thriller about a haunted young doctor who is summoned back to her hometown to investigate an epidemic that may be linked to social media - and her own tragic past.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, realistic
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Equinox (2020)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by visions after her sister vanished with her classmates 21 years before, Astrid begins an investigation that uncovers the dark, eerie truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, thrilling
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Echoes (2022)
Plot Summary:
Identical twins Leni and Gina have secretly switched places for years. But when one sister disappears, both of their lives start to fall apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 326 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, dramatic, captivating, realistic, suspense, psychological thriller
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Surface (2022)
Plot Summary:
A traumatic head injury leaves Sophie with extreme memory loss. In her quest to put the pieces of her life back together—with help from her husband and friends—Sophie begins to question the truth behind her picture-perfect life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Enemy Within (2019)
Plot Summary:
Erica Shepherd is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prison. Against every fiber of his being but with nowhere else to turn, FBI Agent Will Keaton enlists Shepherd to help track down a fiercely dangerous and elusive criminal she knows all too well. While Shepherd and Keaton have different motivations for bringing the enemy to justice, they both know that to catch a spy… they must think like one.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, disturbing, suspense, captivating, detective, action adventure, suspenseful
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Revelations (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set just before the start of Armageddon, the mini-series will follow two central characters, a physicist and a nun, who are racing against the clock to see if the end of the world apocalypse can be averted. Bill Pullman plays Dr. Richard Massey, a Harvard professor whose daughter is murdered by satanists while McElhone stars as a nun who recruits Massey to help investigate whether what's told in the Book of Revelations is starting to come true.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, controversial, bleak
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Pine Gap (2018)
Plot Summary:
A team of talented Australian and American intelligence analysts work together to ensure global stability in one of the world's most important and secretive joint intelligence facilities... Pine Gap. But the relationship between the Australian and American intelligence analysts working at Pine Gap isn’t always rosy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: political, intellectual, captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Berlin Station (2016)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary spy series that follows Daniel Miller, an undercover agent at the CIA station in Berlin, Germany.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, exciting, action adventure, mind blowing, interesting
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Condor (2018)
Plot Summary:
Young CIA analyst Joe Turner has his idealism tested when he learns that the CIA has been using an algorithm he developed to spy on American citizens, leading the organization to a terrorist plot that threatens the lives of millions. Inspired by Sydney Pollack’s 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, captivating, erotic, action adventure, political thriller
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The Honourable Woman (2014)
Plot Summary:
Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank. Her efforts to reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians lands her an appointment to the House of Lords and creates an international political maelstrom.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, realistic, political, entertaining, dramatic, stylized, masterpiece
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The Bureau (2015)
Plot Summary:
Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, political thriller, serious, suspenseful, intelligent, interesting, french noir, political drama
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Chance (2016)
Plot Summary:
San Francisco-based forensic neuropsychiatrist Eldon Chance reluctantly gets sucked into a violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, detective, interesting
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Anatomy of a Scandal (2022)
Plot Summary:
Anthology series centering on the personal and political scandals of Britain’s elite.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 268 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexual, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political, romantic, anthology, sexy, political drama
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Acceptable Risk (2017)
Plot Summary:
When her husband, Lee, is murdered, Sarah Manning comes to realize that she knows nothing about his past. Sarah begins to question who Lee actually was and what he did in his work for a powerful global organization. And why did Lee, a salesman, need to carry a gun?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Thou Shalt Not Kill (2015)
Plot Summary:
Stubborn and determined detective Valeria Ferro endeavors to solve the challenging puzzle behind crimes motivated by jealousy, vendettas and repressed anger to seek the truth and justice. All as she struggles with her own demons and the phantoms of her past that come back to life when her mother is released from jail after serving a seventeen-year prison sentence.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, rough, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, thought provoking
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Face to Face (2019)
Plot Summary:
Bjørn investigates the killing of his daughter. People around him believe she might have committed suicide, but he doesn't accept that. Both the stakes and the suspense rise relentlessly as Bjørn inches closer to the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing, detective, crime thriller, hardboiled detective, detective series
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Suspicion (2022)
Plot Summary:
Five ordinary Brits are accused of kidnapping the son of a prominent U.S. media mogul. They embark on a desperate race against time to prove their innocence, but will anyone believe them—and are they telling the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama, thrilling
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Cult (2013)
Plot Summary:
After a rash of disappearances and a likely murder, an inquisitive, young female production assistant on a wildly popular television show called Cult joins a journalist blogger in investigating the rabid fans of the series who might be re-creating crimes seen on the program, in real life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological thriller, exciting, surreal, detective
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Archive 81 (2022)
Plot Summary:
An archivist takes a job restoring damaged videotapes and gets pulled into the vortex of a mystery involving the missing director and a demonic cult.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: mystical, mysterious, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, lovecraft, scary, psychological
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Vilangu (2022)
Plot Summary:
Paridhi, a cop undergoing a stressful personal situation, must solve a mysterious murder case that has put the police department on its toes.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Head (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ten scientists trapped in a mobile science laboratory at the South Pole realize that one among them is a killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, mysterious, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, mystical
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The 12 from Oldenheim (2017)
Plot Summary:
Follow the lives of the inhabitants of Oldenheim, an ancient Dutch village where families have lived for generations. The terror is great when the inhabitants of the village are confronted with a series of mysterious disappearances.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, crime drama, thrilling
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Nine Perfect Strangers (2021)
Plot Summary:
At a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation, nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this 10-day retreat is the resort's director, Masha, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However, these nine "perfect" strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 388 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, exciting, sentimental, spiritual, psychological thriller
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West of Liberty (2019)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by Thomas Engström, a former Stasi double agent is asked by his old CIA contact to work one more case.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 261 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, suspense, disturbing
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Damien (2016)
Plot Summary:
After discovering his origins, Damien Thorn must cope with life as the Anti-Christ.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, controversial, spooky, psychological thriller, demonic, scary, bleak, satanic