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Plot Summary:
A former U.S. Marine, Lázaro Mendoza, enters a maximum security prison in Mexico (La Rotunda), under a false identity and accused of an alleged triple murder. Now as Dante Pardo, his mission is to infiltrate a dangerous band of inmates and guards that operate inside and outside of prison who are the prime suspects of the kidnapping of the teenage daughter of U.S. Judge, John Morris. Inside La Rotunda, Lázaro has to find out who carried out the kidnapping and the whereabouts of the girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, suspense
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The Informant (2022)
Plot Summary:
Behind the Iron Curtain, Geri leaves for college, looks forward to meeting girls and partying and joins a group of radicals led by the charismatic Száva. But Geri has a secret. He’s an informant of the totalitarian state and to save his brother, he’s been forced to spy on his new friends for State Security.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, thrilling, political thriller
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Mirage (2020)
Plot Summary:
Claire lost her husband Gabriel during the tsunami in 2004. His body was never found. 15 years later, Claire has a new life with Lukas and her son Zack. After a decade of mourning and professional purgatory, she has just landed a dream job in Abu Dhabi. One night, Claire is having dinner and sees Gabriel's reflection in a window.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, political thriller, realistic, suspenseful
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Trigger (2018)
Plot Summary:
Fashionable uptown Moscow: psychologist Artem practices "provocative therapy", convinced that the fastest and most effective cure is to brutally confront his patients with their fears. Yet his own life is in chaos after he was sentenced to prison for causing a patient's suicide. Free again, he opens a practice in a makeshift office, in a glamorous high rise no less, and sets to work, trying to get his life back on track at the same time. This means getting his wife back, fighting to keep his license to practice, protecting his teenage sister from her violent boyfriend, and, most of all, proving his innocence for the death of his former patient. Moreover he knows the identity of the killer, but proving it isn't so easy. With each case he gets closer to his goal and, although he helps his clients, brilliantly solving their seemingly impossible problems - will he be able to help himself?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, rough
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An Unknown Enemy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Fernando Barrientos, Head of the National Security Directorate, Mexico's Secret Police, is trying to reach the highest position in the country. On his way, he'll have to manipulate, betray, and kill, and he's well prepared for it. However, his path will be full of obstacles. Nobody, not even his family, will be immune to the chaos left in his quest for total power.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political
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Moscow Noir (2018)
Plot Summary:
In turn-of-the-21st-century Moscow, an innocent trade plunges Swedish investment banker, Tom Blixen, into a battle with millionaires, politicians, oligarchs and their private armies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France, Poland, Lithuania, Finland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense
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Bullets (2018)
Plot Summary:
An ex-terrorist, Madina Taburova, who was presumed dead, turns up in Helsinki seeking political asylum. Using a fake identity, the Intelligence Agency officer Mari Saari has to befriend this ex-terrorist to find out why she’s here. In order to uncover the mystery, Mari Saari has to form an unlikely partnership with an older streetwise narcotics cop. But everything is not as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective, political drama
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The Man from the Equator (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man that had his family and whole life has been taken away by the friend he trusted the most has returned and is burning for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Here on Earth (2018)
Plot Summary:
Follows the life of Carlos, a member of one of the most powerful families in Mexico and whose life takes an "U" turn when his father is found dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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The Inside Game (2018)
Plot Summary:
Farmer Michel Villeneuve is diagnosed with leukemia after collapsing in a field he'd just sprayed with a weed killer made by the agrochemical giant Saskia. His childhood friend Guillaume Delpierre, a principled politician, crusades to get the pesticide banned, with help from his ambitious assistant Romain Corso. They have to square off against Mathieu Bowman, a hard hitting lobbyist hired by Saskia. But when Saskia's Head of Marketing is found floating in the Seine, his daughter Chloé launches a behind-the-scenes investigation with help from former journalist Claire Lansel, who has recently been recruited to Bowman's team.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Greyzone (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a brilliant drone engineer, Victoria, is taken hostage in her own home, a series of dangerous events are set into motion in this high octane thriller.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, disturbing, brutal, detective
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Remember (2015)
Plot Summary:
Diagnosed with hyperthymesia, Seo Jin Woo possesses an uncanny memory, which he uses to his advantage as a lawyer defending his wrongfully convicted father. But when Jin Woo is afflicted with Alzheimer’s, his only link to his father’s innocence begins to fray. With a mind that’s both his greatest asset and greatest liability, can justice prevail?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological
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Designated Survivor: 60 Days (2019)
Plot Summary:
An explosion at the National Assembly kills everyone in the cabinet, leaving Park Mu-jin, the Minister of Environment, to become the next president. Park Mu-jin is a scientist-turned-politician who has no ambitions in politics, but as the acting president for 60 days, he is compelled to investigate the truth behind the attack. Based on the popular American series, Designated Survivor.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: political thriller, tense, captivating, suspenseful, political, political drama
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The Minions of Midas (2020)
Plot Summary:
Victor Genovés, an influential businessman, is blackmailed: if he doesn't agree to pay a large sum of money, the self-styled Midas favorites will kill a person at random at a designated place and time and add a new victim periodically until they achieve their goal. How many deaths will he be able to carry on his shoulders?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 316 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, brutal, suspense
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Devils (2020)
Plot Summary:
After being implicated in a deadly scandal, a trader at a leading London bank fights to clear his name, but instead uncovers an intercontinental conspiracy masterminded by powerful forces operating in the shadows.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Spy City (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a defector is murdered, British agent Fielding Scott is assigned to track down a mole in his own ranks in 1961 Berlin. His investigation leads him into a deadly web of crime, betrayal and paranoia. Who can Scott trust in the city of spies?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, thrilling
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You Are Wanted (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lukas Franke finds himself a victim of a hacking attack, his online information altered to implicate him as having masterminded a cyber-attack on Berlin resulting in a city-wide blackout. Suspected as a terrorist, Lukas scrambles to find out why he's been targeted, as even his family and friends begin to doubt his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Girl from Oslo (2021)
Plot Summary:
When her daughter is abducted, a Norwegian diplomat travels to the Middle East, banking on old friends — and a deep secret — to help free her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Israel
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Perfect Mother (2021)
Plot Summary:
Convinced of her daughter's innocence in a homicide, a devoted mother soon uncovers unsettling truths as the line between victim and perpetrator blurs.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 192 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Two Summers (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends get together thirty years after one of the group members died in a tragic accident while they were on holiday. What was supposed to be a relaxing vacation changes rapidly into a nightmare, when some of the friends are blackmailed with footage from that terrible week three decades ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The return of Lucas (2016)
Plot Summary:
The return of Lucas tells the story of a well-off family who loses his eldest son, Lucas, 4 years old on the beach. Elena, his mother, is obsessed with finding him because he feels he is alive and never stops looking for him, neglecting his other children, Catalina and Juan, and her husband, Reynaldo, who took charge of the family and the company. After 20 years of the disappearance of Lucas, a photo of his son arrives at the mother's hands. A new track to follow that renews Elena's hopes of finding her son. Until one day, a young man shows up at the house of the Diaz Ayala family claiming to be Lucas. Will he be his lost son?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Peru
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, telenovela
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Breathe: Into the Shadows (2020)
Plot Summary:
A 6-year old girl is kidnapped by a mysterious masked man, who demands an unusual ransom. To save his daughter, Dr. Avinash Sabharwal must kill someone! Meanwhile, Kabir Sawant's journey continues in the hostile environment of the Delhi Crime branch. Lies, deceit and mind games begin when Kabir is given charge of the investigation, and meets Avinash.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crime thriller
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The Witnesses (2021)
Plot Summary:
When 10 year old girl is kidnapped from the natural history museum, the police questions eight key witnesses to uncover the truth and find the child before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Longest Night (2022)
Plot Summary:
Armed forces surround a psychiatric prison in order to abduct an incarcerated serial killer — but aren't prepared for the battle that ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 268 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bitter Daisies (2018)
Plot Summary:
While investigating the disappearance of a teen girl in a tight-knit Galician town, a Civil Guard officer uncovers secrets linked to a loss of her own.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Señorita 89 (2022)
Plot Summary:
A period drama set in the dark glamour of 1980s Mexico following the contestants training for the country’s Miss Mexico pageant as they vie not only to win - but to make it to the final contest alive.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Last One Standing (2008)
Plot Summary:
Former Hong Kong Correctional Services personnel Cheung Sing-hei was sent to prison for murdering his stepfather. The key witness of the case turns out to be his cousin and best friend Tong Lap-yin. Ten years later, Sing-hei is released from prison. Lap-yin is now one of the most influential people in the city while Sing-hei's reputation and future are in ruins. Feeling extremely frustrated and harbouring suspicions about the case ten years ago, he is desperate to find out the truth behind his stepfather's death.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sr. Ávila (2013)
Plot Summary:
A family man experiences the tremendous burden of leading a double life as a professional hitman.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, interesting
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Good Cop (2012)
Plot Summary:
A dutiful Liverpool beat cop discovers what he is truly capable of after his partner is brutally murdered in a targeted attack by a local gang.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, dark, detective, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic
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Blackout (2021)
Plot Summary:
On a cold November day, electricity fails all over Europe. Blackout. While the government and authorities struggle with the effects and with clarification, a former hacker comes into the focus of the investigators.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Locked Up (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, disturbing, clever, suspenseful, queer cinema