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Plot Summary:
An undercover agent goes on a dangerous mission to bring down a crime ring. Fueled by a bitter and painful past, he along with his allies faces the grueling task that will challenge his resolve and strength.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: action adventure, suspense, political thriller
Best tv shows and movies like The Iron Heart (2022):
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Missing (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Altamira family celebrate Mariuno's birthday. Elisa and her cousins ask for permission to go dancing at a new club in town.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: suspense, novela, scary, rough, sinister, exciting, telenovela
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Widow's Web (2022)
Plot Summary:
Four Women With Ulterior And Hidden Secrets Because Of A Businessman's Unexplainable Assasination.Their Lives Will Be Shattered And Trapped In A Maze Of Lies,Conflicts,Betrayals,Mysteries,Ambition,Murder,Wealth,And Power.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological thriller, gothic, suspense, disturbing, crime thriller, bizarre
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Impostora (2017)
Plot Summary:
Nimfa (Kris Bernal) - an ugly street vender - meets jeremy (Ryan Eigenmann) - a talented plastice surgeon - in a car accident. To compensate for what happened, jeremy offers to help Nimfa by giving her new face through surgery. In her desire to change her life and escape her situation, she willingly undergoes complete facial reconstruction. She later discovers that her face is copied from Rosette (Kris Bernal), a wealthy and married woman who happens to be jeremy's lover. Rosette wants to escape her life with her husband Homer (Rafael Rosell) and their kids. Forced to accept her circumstance, Nimfa becomes an imposer so Rosette and Jeremy can get away with their affair. Nimfa grows to love and appreciate the life Rosette never wanted. Everything turns upsides down when Rosette comes back to reclaim what is rightfully hers.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, soap opera
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Double Tap (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bobby Giovanni is a distraught police detective and father over the edge. Plagued by his past and mourning the death of his wife he compensates by taking Vicodin and other prescription drugs. Upon discovering who murdered his wife he seeks revenge as social services takes his children away!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Heiress (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story of Romina, a secretary turned wife of business tycoon, Robert, who married her despite the fact that she was raped and is carrying the child of the assailant. Unknown to Romina, it was Daniela, Robert’s daughter, who had orchestrated her abduction, right before seducing Romina’s fiance, Carlos. With Romina's and Daniela's lives intertwined, their daughters, Cassandra and Margaret, are made to fight as to who among them is the rightful heiress to the Mondragon empire.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Imortal (2010)
Plot Summary:
300 years ago, a group of powerful clan came to this island. They were known as vampires or blood drinkers. They quickly grew in numbers and their violence increased. Unknown to them another powerful clan lived in the island, the werewolves. Sensing to protect the humans, the werewolves organized a warrior group just to destroy all the vampires. The vampires were no match to the werewolves. They were exterminated one by one. The survivors hid from the clutches of the werewolves. Peace eventually came among the humans and the werewolves and as time passed by, memories of the vampire dwindled gradually. Unbeknownst to all and during those times, the vampires were organizing and fortifying their clan. They believed that one day they would reign. Vampires believe in a prophecy that foretells an epic battle between the two powerful clans - a war that will finally decide the one blood that shall rule them all. It will be lead by the most powerful vampire and werewolf. While the vampires.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: gothic, exciting, serious, captivating, epic, sinister
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Mara Clara (2010)
Plot Summary:
Mara Clara is a Philippine television drama which aired on ABS-CBN from October 25, 2010 to June 3, 2011. It is a remake based on the 1992 original television series of same name. It was also in celebration of the 60 Years Of Philippine Soap Opera year end offering. Following AMCARA Broadcasting Network's closure on October 22, 2010, after the ABS-CBN's acquisition of Studio 23 in July 2010.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, touching, suspenseful, disturbing, meditative, soap opera, telenovela
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Facing Destiny (2012)
Plot Summary:
A youth named Diego (David Chocarro) was released from prison, 20 years after being incarcerated. He was unjustly accused of a school massacre. Soon after his release, he finds himself entangled in a series of conspiracies and intrigues. With the help of his psychiatrist, Antonia(Maritza Rodriguez), he begins to uncover the mysteries surrounding the massacre.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, emotional, suspense, novela, slasher, realistic, sinister, telenovela
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Muslim Magnum .357 (2014)
Plot Summary:
When the Muslim princess Ameera is kidnapped by a local crime syndicate, undercover cop Lt. Jamal Razul a.k.a Magnum is given the task of getting her back. Aided by fellow officer Joselito Ibanez, Razul discovers that there’s more to the kidnapping than mere ransom.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, sinister
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Dirty Linen (2023)
Plot Summary:
To exact vengeance, a young woman infiltrates the household of an influential family as a housemaid to expose their dirty secrets. However, love will get in the way of her revenge plot.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, romantic, surprise ending, gothic, sinister, black comedy, dark comedy, action thriller, crime thriller
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Wildflower (2017)
Plot Summary:
Wildflower is a Philippine revenge drama television series starring Maja Salvador, together with an ensemble cast. The show originally aired on ABS-CBN, and worldwide on The Filipino Channel, from February 13, 2017 to February 9, 2018.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, captivating, enigmatic, political thriller, surprise ending, sinister
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Insider (2016)
Plot Summary:
Even though two brothers are completely separated from each other after the imprisoning of their father and the kidnapping of their twin brother, they meet by coincidence years after when both choose to enter the police academy.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, disturbing, detective, black comedy, dark comedy, surprise ending
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Brothers (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ador is a well known and respected CIDG Police Official, with a loving family as his support. Cardo, on the other hand, loves the solitude of the mountains in the province as a SAF Trooper. Their lives take a sudden turn when Ador gets himself entangled in a syndicate by being betrayed by one of his own colleagues, resulting to his death. To conceal this fact, Cardo was ordered to pretend to be Ador and finish the mission what his brother left behind. He will also be force to pretend to his brother's family and friends, and be re-united with his grandmother, whom he despised, for assuming she abandoned him.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, detective, black comedy, dark comedy
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La Femme Nikita (1997)
Plot Summary:
La Femme Nikita was a Canadian action/drama television series based on the French film Nikita by Luc Besson. The series was co-produced by Jay Firestone of Fireworks Entertainment and Warner Bros.. It was adapted for television by Joel Surnow. The series was first telecast in North America on the USA Network cable channel on January 13, 1997, and ran for five television seasons—until March 2001. The series was also aired in Canada on the over-the-air CTV Television Network. La Femme Nikita was the highest-rated drama on American basic cable during its first two seasons. It was also distributed in some other countries, and it continues to have a strong cult following.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, thrilling, fast, telenovela
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Voice (2017)
Plot Summary:
It's 3 minutes for hearers, but a life for the callers. A crime thriller chasing even the slightest sounds to rescue people's lives calling for urgent help.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, detective, psychological, exciting, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Cornered (2007)
Plot Summary:
Acorralada is an American telenovela produced by Venevisión. Univision aired Acorralada from January 2007 to October 2007 on weekday afternoons at 2 pm central. It was rebroadcast in late 2011 through April 2012 on Univision's sister network, Telefutura. It was filmed in Miami, Florida, and lasted about 187 episodes. It is the second long-running telenovela that Venevisión Productions has produced without its former co-producer Fonovideo. It began airing in Venezuela on December 10, 2008 in the 11 pm timeslot on Venevisión and finished on July 25, 2009 with seven months of airing and being the most successful telenovela for its timeslot since La Fea Más Bella. Venevision International released Acorralada on DVD in the United States on December 2, 2008, a week before its debut on Venezuelan television. The DVD set consists of three discs, and has a running time of 596 minutes. The show is heavily edited in order to fit into three discs. Neither Venevision nor Univision have plans to offer a more complete version.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
Plot Summary:
Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino, Academy and Golden Globe Award winner Anjelica Huston and Stephen Dorff star in this nail-biting tale of action and intrigue about members of an elite undercover team who race against time to locate the source of a deadly virus threatening the lives of millions of Americans.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disaster movie
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Yesterday's Promise (1994)
Plot Summary:
Three strong-willed sisters face tough choices.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: suspense, political thriller, independent film
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State of Play (2003)
Plot Summary:
A thriller set in London, in which a politician's life becomes increasingly complex as his research assistant is found dead on the London Underground and, in a seemingly unrelated incident, a teenage pickpocket is shot dead.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min
Plot tags: political thriller, political, realistic, tense, suspense, atmospheric, talky, serious, clever, twist ending
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The Broken Marriage Vow (2022)
Plot Summary:
It is about a married couple whose family is rocked by her husband’s affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines, UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, captivating, suspense, disturbing, thought provoking
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The Method (2015)
Plot Summary:
The main character is an extraordinary and mysterious person, at the same time, he (Rodion Meglin) is an outstanding inspector. Rodion is used to work alone in order to keep the secrecy of his unusual method. Young graduate Esenya Steklova is eager to get the internship with the glorious investigator but she could hardly expect the challenges she would face while working with Rodion. Together they investigate the cruelest crimes that took place in the history of Russian criminality.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller, rough
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The Hunter (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a debilitating accident, a member of one of the security services is deemed unfit for duty and gets fired. But when his former colleagues confront a puzzling case, they are forced to call upon him to help solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, detective
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The Octopus (1984)
Plot Summary:
Corrado Cattani is a police inspector whose life is devoted to fighting the Italian mafia (known here as "La Piovra" or "The Octopus").
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Austria, France, UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden
Duration: 402 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, bleak, suspenseful, realistic, bad ending, rough, detective, bloody, poliziottesco
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Blood out of Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Equalizer (2021)
Plot Summary:
Robyn McCall, an enigmatic former CIA operative with a mysterious background, uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, neo noir, contemplative
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Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hood, crime thriller, interesting, political drama
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The Batman (2022)
Plot Summary:
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 750000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, tense, epic, gothic, cult classic, action adventure, exciting, captivating, atmospheric
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Nikita (2010)
Plot Summary:
Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious, realistic, thrilling, interesting
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Alias (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, cliffhanger, heroic, detective, action thriller, action adventure, thrilling, stylized
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24 (2001)
Plot Summary:
24 is an American television series produced for the Fox network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 195000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, cliffhanger, serious, stylized, realistic, suspenseful, rough, suspense, dramatic, crime drama