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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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Time Renegades (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1983, high school teacher Ji-hwan is attacked by a pickpocket. In 2015, homicide detective Gun-woo is shot during a chase and loses consciousness. Both men are taken to the same hospital in different time periods, and both their hearts stop and miraculously start again at the same time. A mysterious force binds them together, allowing them to see through each other’s lives in their dreams. Soon realizing that the women they love strikingly resembles each other and that they are in fatal danger, the two men must team up to trace the past and change her destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, romantic, detective
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Rules of the Game (2015)
Plot Summary:
Discussing the limits between good and bad, the plot is set in Rio de Janeiro and tells the story of Romero Rômulo (Alexandre Nero), an ex-politician that has a life less obvious then it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, telenovela
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Remember (2017)
Plot Summary:
It's a horrific crime scene. A couple and their baby are found savagely murdered in their living room. The bodies are covered in blood, but bear no wounds. The couple's 7-year-old daughter, Madeleine, is miraculously unhurt. But the traumatized girl has lost her memory and can't utter a single word. Why was she left unscathed? There's another troubling question: the doors of the house were locked from the inside, and there's no sign of a break-in. Captain Belgarde takes over the case and brings in Marie Kempf, a psychiatrist who lost her own daughter, Lila, several years earlier. Belgarde investigated that case too, ruling it a suicide. Reluctant at first, Marie agrees to help on the condition that Belgarde reopen her daughter's case, which she refuses to believe was a suicide. They strike a deal and Marie takes Madeleine to her house to treat her, hoping to get the little girl to start talking and rekindle her memory.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of the infamous Theatre Grand Guignol the story revolves around iconic actress Paula Maxa - the most famous of the Grand Guignol's leading ladies and the titular Most Assassinated Woman, who was graphically slain on stage multiple times a day.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, weird
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Murdered (2012)
Plot Summary:
Cathy has been preparing herself since early morning. She is about to celebrate her daughter Eva's 20th birthday. But on this very day, Cathy's life is turned upside-down with the shocking news that her daughter has been murdered. At first devastated and lost when faced with the workings of the police and the justice system, Cathy becomes determined to fight to know the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Clique (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the first year of uni, childhood best friends Holly and Georgia find themselves drawn to an elite clique. When Holly begins to suspect darkness lurks beneath the glamour, she will do anything to save her soulmate.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological
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The Smile Has Left Your Eyes (2018)
Plot Summary:
A detective thinks about quitting his job. He takes on a female university student murder case that was disguised as a suicide. The detective becomes obsessed with solving the case. He has a young sister and she meets a man. The man does not remember when he was little. He is not a good person, but she has sympathy for him. The detective tries to push the man away from his younger sister. The detective suspects that the man is somehow involved in the female university student murder case. The man and the detective's younger sister fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, romantic, dorama, detective
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The Lies Within (2019)
Plot Summary:
Kim Seo-hui’s life is changed forever when her politician father dies in a car crash and her husband disappears – all in one day. She enters the world of politics and join hands with small-town detective Jo Tae-sik to uncover the truth when she finds out that the car crash might not have been an accident after all.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, detective, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, political
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Borderland (2017)
Plot Summary:
Gritty police thriller about a German father-daughter team working with French colleagues to battle organized crime in the German border town of Kehl.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Return (2018)
Plot Summary:
Choi Ja-Hye is a lawyer and Dokgo Young is a detective with a hot temper. They work together on a murder case where the suspects are children from the elite class.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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In Family We Trust (2018)
Plot Summary:
It’s a drama about conflicts in a big family, involving murder and a police investigation. The title is a twist on the idiom, blood is thicker than water. Because of the conflicts, their family bonds aren’t strong. When one relative mysteriously dies, the true colors of everyone in the family are about to be revealed. Yi, the eldest brother and Pete, the second brother, try to find out the truth. Patsorn and Cris, their mother, are the biggest suspects. Both of them need to prove their innocence. But the more Yi and Pete investigate, the more dirt they find on the family and everyone becomes a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Tycoon (2020)
Plot Summary:
Someone shoots at Serbian tycoon Vladan Simonovic. This makes Vladan initiate a private investigation that will open up "Pandora's box" with respect to his past and will lead to conflicts linked with the future of his mighty company.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Fury (2016)
Plot Summary:
Detective Kunes has a problem once again: he's lambasted the boyfriend of his ex-wife, and is threatened with dismissal from the police service. His high-ranking (female) boss has a solution for him: "removing" him on an internships in a back-of-beyond borderland region. But there's a fly in the ointment. His real mission is to unravel the two-year old case of the murder of policewoman Wágnerová, the investigation of which has reached an impasse. But the crime rate in the borderlands is one of the highest in the whole country - involving smuggling, drug production, poaching, prostitution and murders. Kunes has to deal with one difficult case after another, and it takes quite some time before he can start doing what he's sent to do, and then he does it in fact by coincidence.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Siren's Song (2013)
Plot Summary:
The mystery surrounding the murder of a seductive and ambitious axé performer during one of her concerts.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, tense, intellectual, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Party (2014)
Plot Summary:
A huge party with guests who are hiding secrets and desires ends with a body floating in the pool: a murder where everyone is a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, novela
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Black Space (2020)
Plot Summary:
A rogue detective with unorthodox means leads an investigation into a massacre committed by unicorn mask-wearing assassins at an Israeli high school.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, unusual plot structure
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The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco (2018)
Plot Summary:
During the thrilling social change of the mid-1950s, four remarkable women who previously served secretly during WWII as code-breakers, turn their skills to solving murders overlooked by police. In the process they are plunged into fascinating corners of the city, forge powerful relationships, and rediscover their own powers and potential.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, slasher, period drama
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Intruder (2021)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca and Sam's lives are turned upside down when two teenagers break into their coast home.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dark Desire (2020)
Plot Summary:
Married Alma spends a fateful weekend away from home that ignites passion, ends in tragedy and leads her to question the truth about those close to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, dark, semi serious, bleak, scenic, sensual, exciting, light
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Murders in Rochefort (2019)
Plot Summary:
Police captains Emma and Adrien look for a killer who would use a silver bullet… on multiple victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Lawyer (2018)
Plot Summary:
Frank Nordling is a young and exceptionally promising defense lawyer. When Frank learns the truth behind his parents' death, his whole world unravels. As children, Frank and his sister Sara witnessed their parents die in an explosion caused by a car bomb. As Frank finds out, they were murdered by one of the leaders in Copenhagen's criminal underworld, Thomas Waldman. In order to avenge his parents Frank must infiltrate Waldman's organization and become his personal lawyer and trusted confidant. To avoid putting those close to him in danger, Frank has to keep up appearances and play the game. But can he handle it? Is it worth the price? And who's really tricking whom?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France, Finland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Viso d'angelo (2011)
Plot Summary:
TV miniseries in four parts. A serial killer mysteriously leaves a signature species, a rosary in the hands of his victims. Inspector Roberto Parisi, a specialist in this type of crime, but that hides a dark past, will be responsible for conducting investigations.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 400 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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Possessions (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young French woman living in Israel is accused of the murder of her husband on the day of their wedding. As the bride struggles to prove her innocence, mysterious happenings surround her. Is she guilty or could she be the victim?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Maigrets Night at the Crossroads (2017)
Plot Summary:
A complex tale of murder, deceit and greed set in an isolated country community.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, detective, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, retro, multicultural
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Honour (2020)
Plot Summary:
Based on the heartbreaking true story of Banaz Mahmod, the young Londoner murdered by her own family for falling in love with the wrong man, Honour follows Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode's passionate search to discover the fate of missing 20-year old Banaz.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama
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Beautiful to Die For (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eva, a police inspector returns to the quiet village where she grew up to be next to her sister Rachele, a single mother. She finds herself investigating the mysterious disappearance of Gioia, an aspiring showgirl.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Respect (2020)
Plot Summary:
The protagonist of the story, Ercüment Çözer rebels against disrespect and rudeness that we tend to avoid, ignore and eventually forget. Ercüment Çözer is a sociopath obsessed with the idea of respect. However, this time, he is not alone on his obsessive journey. The young lovers Helen and Savas, who have just stepped foot into the real world, find themselves in the middle of difficult situations after being mistreated by a group of people and end up being responsible for a chain of murders that take place in Istanbul. The concept of disrespect instantly turns into a social and mediatic struggle between the two generations. As for the mediatic follow up, Turkey’s most famous morning show host, Hasret will undertake it, however, nobody knows that she is also about to take part in this journey on another level. By getting to the core of this obsession, we will be witnessing the reflection it has on society.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bloodlands (2021)
Plot Summary:
Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, crime drama, thrilling, intellectual, contemplative
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Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom (2019)
Plot Summary:
With graduation 10 days away, homeroom teacher Hiiragi gathered all 29 students of class 3-A and proclaims them his hostages. His last lesson regards the death of a student that passed away a few months before. Nobody will be able to graduate until the truth is known.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing, contemplative
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The Void (2021)
Plot Summary:
Esma is a beautiful, ambitious and strong woman who is the second boss of her father's law firm. Filiz is a stubborn but fragile lawyer candidate. One murder will cross the paths of these two different women. But how?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing