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Plot Summary:
Luis Salinas, the new ambassador to Thailand, who knows he's going to get his hands dirty in the next four years – if he makes it that long. He's accompanied by his wife, Claudia, and their daughter Ester. Aware that the familiar constellation of life in the embassy is about to change radically, the staff gear up in nervous anticipation. Life does change, but in a way that Luis would never have imagined it. He must not only cope with the chaos and corruption he was expecting, but also with the implosion of his family life, as Claudia and Ester become involved in affairs that might seriously damage relations between Spain and Thailand. Will the glamorous, globe-trotting diplomatic life swallow up Luis or will he continue to fight for integrity and morals? .
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense
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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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The Preacher's Mistress (2013)
Plot Summary:
Single mother gets involved with a married preacher and framed for his wife's murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Framed for Murder (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a woman falsely accused of murdering her husband is released from prison after 8 years, she hires a private investigator, determined to find out who framed her. What she doesn't know, is that the killer is about to do it again.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating
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Troubled Waters (2006)
Plot Summary:
Intrepid FBI agent Beck, assigned to solve the case of a multimillionaire couple's missing daughter. As clues begin to reveal themselves, Beck draws an explosive line connecting the kidnapper and the girl's mother -- and brings to light their dark, disturbing secret. Racing against the clock, the determined agent must discover the real reason for the abduction and save the child's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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An Affair to Die For (2019)
Plot Summary:
A weekend get-away for two lovers turns into a nightmare of psychological mind games when their infidelity is discovered.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, exciting
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Zoom Hunting (2010)
Plot Summary:
Yang Ruyi (32), a fashion magazine photographer, lives with her elder sister Yang Ruxing (33), a rational, introverted detective fiction author. Ruyi has inadvertently photographed a couple making madly passionately love. Few days later in a shopping center not far from her home, she finds the woman already married, leading a child and is with a different man. Ruyi shares her secret with Ruxing who is suffering from writer's block. The two sisters begin to observe the couple; gradually Ruxing even writes some of her observations into her novel, without letting Ruyi knows it. Late one night, Ruyi views two people are arguing, but as she picks up her camera to photograph she can only see two vague, dark outlines wrestling one another; Ruyi calls the police but upon arriving, nothing seems out of order. Ruyi is convinced she has mistaken nothing; she enlarges the photo and discovers a third outline looks pretty much like her older sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Backwaters (2006)
Plot Summary:
A paralyzed woman goes missing after she and her husband travel to India for specialized medical attention.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing, scary, tense, sentimental, suspense, suspenseful, erotic
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Flight HS13 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Mourning the death of her husband Simon, supposedly killed in a plane crash, Liv is shocked to discover that Simon lied to her and was not a passenger on the tragic flight. Seeking the truth surrounding her husband’s mysterious disappearance, Liv uncovers secrets that threaten to destroy her entire family….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Paula (2017)
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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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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The Hunt (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the forest are found the bodies of young women. The case is assigned to the young, diligent and thorough detective Lea Smith and it is asked help to Thomas Wolf, a forensic psychologist.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
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A Daughter's Plan to Kill (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Katie and Greg Carlyle invited Greg's estranged daughter to live with them, they had no idea that they would be inviting jealousy, violence, and deceit into their home to wreak havoc on their perfect life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Rahasya Romancha Series (2019)
Plot Summary:
One series, three mysteries! Enjoy an adventurous ride with the stories of a serial killer, a mechanic, and a gambler.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Lies and Deceit (2020)
Plot Summary:
A literature teacher suspects that a well-respected surgeon has drugged her and begins a legal case against him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Reporters (2007)
Plot Summary:
The editorial teams of a newspaper and a television channel.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dignity (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Germanic cult 'Colonia Dignidad' abused children, tortured and killed prisoners in its secret compound. Now, with Chilean dictator Pinochet gone, Leo Ramírez, a young federal prosecutor, must bring its leader Paul Schaefer to justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, Chile
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Night and Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
Working on a series of harrowing cases, forensic pathologist, Sara Grau, finds the key to a case in which she has unwittingly become a prime target. Sophisticated Spanish crime thriller.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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The Awakener: The Series (2019)
Plot Summary:
TV show adapted from the controversial comic book about a trained agent who crusades against Brazil's endemic corruption and its figures, on the verge of presidential elections.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Reckoning (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sally Wilson's daughter Amanda is stricken with a brain tumour and each day, her condition appears to be worsening. Sally is at her wits end as to how to help her daughter and knows a life saving operation in America that she can't afford would be the answer. When the harassed single Mum is called to the office of a swish city lawyer, she never expects a life or death proposition. She’s been bequeathed £5 million! But in order to qualify for this amazing transfer of funds, Sally must first kill a man who deserves to die.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, serious, realistic
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The Last Weekend (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ian (Shaun Evans) and Em (Claire Keelan) receive a surprise invitation from an old friend. Ollie (Rupert Penry-Jones) invites the couple to spend a weekend in the Suffolk countryside with him and Daisy (Genevieve O'Reilly). The couples expect an idyllic holiday, but the competitive edge to the men's relationship soon rises to the surface, with irreversible consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, dark, thrilling, psychological thriller
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Kings of Jo'Burg (2020)
Plot Summary:
The Masire brothers rule Johannesburg's criminal underworld, but a supernatural family curse and a tangled web of betrayal threaten to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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I Know Who You Are (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man ends up in hospital after a car accident. He does not remember his name, but it is soon discovered he is a famous attorney. To make things worse, the police start to suspect him of having murdered his missing niece.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspenseful, psychological, sincere, realistic, enigmatic, suspense, captivating, disturbing
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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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The Boarding School (2007)
Plot Summary:
El Internado Laguna Negra was a Spanish television drama-thriller focusing on the students of a fictional boarding school in a forest, where teenagers are sent by their parents to study. The boarding school is situated in a forest far from the city, on the outskirts on which macabre events occur. The series debut on 24 May 2007, and is a production of Antena 3. Although the show is recorded and produced in HD, it is only broadcast in SD. However, an HD Blu-ray Disc release has been announced.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, bleak, detective, telenovela
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The Dragon Syndrome (2012)
Plot Summary:
Germany, 1953. Corrupt gang of Soviet officers appropriated jewelry seized from repressed citizens. The officers take the young scout Terekhov and collector Avdeev, who recently left not so distant places, to guard the myriad wealth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, serious, suspense, detective
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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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We Still Say Grace (2020)
Plot Summary:
The teenage daughter of a religious fanatic attempts to escape her twisted family life when three strangers break down near their remote farmhouse and interrupt her father's delusional family suicide pact.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Obsession (2019)
Plot Summary:
Before meeting George Good (Brad Dourif), Sonny Jordan (Mekhi Pfeiffer) was just a lost drifter with a troubled past floating from town to town, looking for work. As fate would have it, Sonny ends up saving George's life from a murderous back-alley mugger. As thanks, George gives Sonny a home and a job as a mechanic on his farm in the lonely Louisiana Bayou. Sonny quickly settles in and makes himself useful around the place but then Sonny meets Larissa, (Elika Portnoy) George's alluring wife. She has a mysterious past and the two are irresistibly drawn to each other. The two begin a passionate affair leading them to construct a twisted plot to take George's life in cold blood in order to be together. As their despicable plan unravels, they learn how far they are willing to go to cover their misdeed.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, sexy
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Suspension of Disbelief (2012)
Plot Summary:
Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happened to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, mind bending, realistic
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Time Between Dog and Wolf (2007)
Plot Summary:
After his mother is brutally murdered by the Triad in Thailand, Soo-hyun is adopted by NIS agent Kang Joong-ho, and he grows up with Min-ki like brothers. Min-ki and Soo-hyun both become NIS agents later on. One fateful day, Soo-hyun meets Ji-woo after last seeing her in Thailand when he was a child. They start dating. One day, Soo-hyun ruins a mission when the suppressed memories of the day his mother died surfaces in his mind. NIS Director Jung gives Soo-hyun an undercover assignment to infiltrate the Triad and Soo-hyun takes the job. Soo-hyun fakes his death and assumes a new identity to become a member of the Triad. With his fake identity and new name, he prowls the back alleys of Bangkok.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing