| Deadwood (2004) | 8.6 | |
| Seven (1995) | 8.6 | |
| Heat (1995) | 8.3 | |
| Zodiac (2007) | 7.7 | |
| Shutter Island (2010) | 8.2 |
Tense movies and TV shows – page 4
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, India, Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation ...
Style:
suspense, tense, action thriller, entertaining, satanic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, girls' night
Plot:
cia, conspiracy, spy, amnesia, espionage, hitman, revenge, on the run, chase, assassin, dark past, lone hero ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
russia, europe, berlin germany, manhattan new york city, moscow russia ...
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49K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mafia, mob boss, drug lord, camorra, gang, social decay, society, gang war, life is a bitch, italian mafia, gangster, strong violent content ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, naples italy, europe, napoli italy, new mexico
Is relevant?
67K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style:
bloody, tense, cerebral, cult classic, cult horror ...
Plot:
body horror, exploitation, psychic power, conspiracy, investigation, scientist, murder, supernatural ability, social misfits, misfit, pregnant woman, telekinesis ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
canada
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17K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins ...
Style:
suspense, tense, neo noir, cerebral, bleak ...
Plot:
police investigation, police detective, murder mystery, insomnia, murder, serial killer, male nudity, manipulation, small town, sleeping, police officer killed, loss of partner ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
europe
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339K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
small town, murder, police investigation, psychopath, investigation, investigator, character study, police corruption, murder mystery, insomnia, death, guilt ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, persia, usa, north america, los angeles
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33K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
Style:
mind bending, sexy, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, twists and turns, espionage, spy, conspiracy, memory loss, disorder, brainwashing, double agent, technology, undercover, power relations ...
Time:
future, year 2002
Is relevant?
107K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of ...
Style:
tense, harsh, rough, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
prison, mafia, prison life, gangster, cruelty, male nudity, organized crime, male objectification, convict, prison gang, prison escape, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 90s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
france, marseille, europe, paris france, california
Is relevant?
284K
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last ...
Style:
futuristic, suspense, psychological, cerebral, tense ...
Plot:
space travel, outer space, sun, end of the world, isolation, spaceship, self sacrifice, earth, heroic mission, expedition, space, danger ...
Time:
future, year 2007, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
Style:
political, suspense, clever, tense, intellectual ...
Plot:
lobbyist, twists and turns, politics, career woman, determination, strong female lead, courtroom, female protagonist, lawyer, strong female character, world politics, business ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., oregon, colorado, new hampshire, michigan ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Style:
exciting, tense, scenic, stylized, breathtaking ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
survival, natural disaster, ocean, disaster, courage, shipwreck, forces of nature, coast guard, storm at sea, daring rescue, fisherman, ship captain ...
Time:
1950s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1951, year 1952 ...
Place:
new england, boston, massachusetts, usa, england
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Style:
tense, exciting, suspense, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, courage, oil, oil rig, sea, trapped, destruction, heroism, rescue ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, boston, california, usa
Is relevant?
121K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists behind it.
Style:
tense, intense, factual, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
terrorism, police, fbi, terrorist, tragedy, surveillance, courage, brutality, manhunt, police investigation, chase, investigation ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, america, usa, california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, clever, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
murder, infidelity, betrayal, blackmail, twists and turns, jealousy, love affair, perfect crime, love triangle, adultery, greed, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
Style:
tense, political thriller, suspense, psychological, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
conspiracy, political conspiracy, cia, chase, surveillance, conspiracy theory, mind control, paranoia, amnesia, obsession, taxi driver, twists and turns ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, ...
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, rough, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
investigation, rape, serial killer, hacker, sexual abuse, missing person, twists and turns, murder mystery, vengeance, murder investigation, journalist, strong female character ...
Time:
year 2011, 60s, 2010s, year 1966, 21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, london, eastern europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
David Warner leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes out there with his son to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats. He runs ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, rough, cult classic ...
Plot:
island, kidnapping, pirate, rescue, ship, violence, insanity, father son relationship, brainwashing, captive, boy, escape ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s
Place:
caribbean, miami, new york
Is relevant?
24K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, suspense, lovecraft ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, small town, military, hotel, gory, monster, good versus evil, creature feature, danger, eaten alive, disaster, sheriff ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco, california
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years ...
Style:
tense, realistic, disturbing, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vengeance, violence, twists and turns, gang, rivalry, organized crime, police corruption, investigation, dirty cop, justice, nudity, police ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, tense, serious, intense ...
Plot:
rape, murder, russian mafia, gangster, mob boss, prostitution, twists and turns, male nudity, organized crime, violent, death in childbirth, child prostitute ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, st. petersburg russia, europe, scotland yard ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and ...
Style:
tense, suspense, realistic, neo noir, hood ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
police, police corruption, corrupt cop, police detective, corruption, rookie, undercover, organized crime, nypd, dirty cop, guilt, robbery ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, los angeles, new jersey
Is relevant?
1.2M
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style:
psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
isolation, hotel, insanity, supernatural, psychopath, stephen king, ghost, snow, imaginary friend, danger, evil, haunting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 80s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
colorado, denver colorado, persia, usa, miami ...
Is relevant?
34K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Style:
neo noir, tense, noir, disturbing, tension ...
Plot:
psychopath, stalking, revenge, lawyer, danger, manic, murder, obsession, stalker, serial killer, family in danger, swamp ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
southern usa, savannah georgia
Is relevant?
20K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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 ...
Style:
tense, exciting, captivating, erotic, action adventure ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
cia, government conspiracy, spy, analyst, twists and turns, murder, investigation, computer hacker, danger, terrorist, dialogue, fight scenes ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, washington d.c.
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226K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it ...
Style:
tense, gloomy, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, survival, virus, natural disaster, end of the world, suicide, graphic violence, catastrophe, paranoia, danger, plague ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, boston, philadelphia, west virginia, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of ...
Style:
tense, clever, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nasa, astronaut, space travel, old age, space shuttle, space opera, satellite, space exploration, outer space, self sacrifice, human in outer space, one last job ...
Time:
20th century, year 1958, year 2000, 1950s, future ...
Place:
space western, california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form of a terrifying flying beast that tries killing them all.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, natural horror ...
Plot:
killer animal, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, friends, accident, giant bird, redneck, brutality, creature, terror, ogre, curse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, horror for children, teen drama
Plot:
twists and turns, afterlife, supernatural, psychology, ghost, plot twist, death, psychiatrist, psychic, life & death, supernatural horror, psychologist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, future
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, persia, philadelphia
Is relevant?
2.5M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live, he becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cancer, criminal, peril, drug lord, master criminal, drug dealing, drug, unlikely partners, drug cartel, life turned upside down, meth lab, family problems ...
Time:
y2k, year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, south america, usa, north america
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns ...
Style:
bleak, tense, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, mafia, robbery, rise to the top, against the rules, prison, prison escape, mob boss, romancing a criminal, biopic, character study ...
Time:
60s, year 2008, 1950s, 2000s, y2k ...
Place:
france, paris france, canada, montreal, africa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In 1988, evil begins to terrorize young sisters Katie and Kristi for the first time when an invisible entity resides in their home.
Style:
creepy, demonic, tense, suspenseful, horrifying ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, paranormal activity, found footage, haunted house, supernatural horror, haunting, paranormal phenomena, demon, child in peril, monster, haunted ...
Time:
80s, year 2011, 2010s, year 2000, year 1988 ...
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
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