Thrilling movies and TV shows – page 2
Best films
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Abby Knight, a former lawyer turned proud flower shop owner is starting over after the death of her husband with the support from her father, a new business and her daughter off to college. Life is good in the peaceful town of New Chapel but when a ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
flower shop, female protagonist, investigation, getting home, small town, amateur detective, single parent, loss of husband, private investigation, homecoming, relationship problems, mysterious character ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 184 min.
TV show
Story:
Fi Lawson arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram, has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, neo noir, crime drama ...
Plot:
adultery, marital separation, disappearance, secret, problem, eccentric family, mysterious disappearance, house, fraud, car crash, british, bare chested male ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Crime
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
Stories of baffling murder cases in which the “murder wall” plays a crucial part in solving the crime. The ever growing murder wall evolves throughout the show as new pieces of evidence, new witnesses and new clues are found. Some leads go ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
murder mystery, true crime, crime solving, investigation, murder, crime investigation, killing, sleuth, police investigation, murderer, forensics, criminal ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
When Natalie Varga is accused of murdering her husband, journalist James Alden finds himself captivated by the case and ends up falling in love with the very femme fatale.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
forensics, journalist, forbidden love, murder, uncover truth, secret, accusation, murder investigation, in love, private investigation, family problems, investigation ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 239 min.
TV show
Story:
Doctor Joseph O'Loughlin a man who appears to have the perfect life and a successful career as a clinical psychologist.
But nothing can be taken for granted, even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, thrilling, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
suspect, murder mystery, investigation, uncover truth, life is a bitch, secret, sleuth, forensics, crime investigation, problem, police procedural, mental illness ...
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Genre: Crime
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
True crime documentary series showcasing stories where individuals are unaware that the night in question will be their last. From a girls'-night-out gone bad to an overnight shift at a local toy store that takes an unexpected turn, the series ...
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder investigation, homicide, true crime, murder, real life, uncover truth, murder mystery, murderer, secret, dead body, crime solving, crime investigation ...
Place:
new orleans
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3K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A teen must resort to extreme measures to protect her family from a supernatural entity.
Style:
thrilling, surprise ending, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
ghost, killing spree, psychopath, father daughter relationship, single father, supernatural horror, sister sister relationship, death of mother, curse, supernatural, lie, jealousy ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 693 min.
TV show
Story:
When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.
Style:
suspense, thrilling, dramatic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
outback, amnesia, australian outback, life, car, holiday, memory loss, british man, dark past, past, isolation, danger ...
Place:
australia
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10K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
When one of a group of friends downloads the mysterious Red Rose app, plans change. What starts innocently as a game of admiration rapidly descends into something much darker.
Style:
thrilling, disturbing, bleak, dramatic, scary ...
Plot:
supernatural horror, mobile phone, group of friends, teenager, technology, friendship, family relations, friends, teenage protagonist, teenage girl, teenage boy, cell phone ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Colombia, USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A computer hacker penetrates Vatican security and sends an urgent anonymous plea to the pope. Handsome Father Quart, of the church's Institute of External Affairs, an arm of the Vatican intelligence, is dispatched to investigate. The message of ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, church, hacker, private investigation, vatican, conspiracy, computer hacker, temple, pope, catholic church, puzzle, catholicism ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
spain
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Julian Kaye has always been an object of desire, so much so that people are willing to destroy him in order to have him. Exonerated, after 15 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, he now faces the challenge of picking up the pieces as the ...
Style:
thrilling, tense, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
false accusation, framed for murder, accused of murder, investigation, false accusation of murder, murder investigation, sexual relations, ex convict, prisoner, crime solving, crime investigation, framed for a crime ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Stuck in a small Appalachian town, a young woman’s only escape from the daily grind is playing advanced video games. She is such a good player that a company sends her a new video game system to test…but it has a surprise in store. It unlocks ...
Style:
futuristic, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
technology, cyberpunk, gamer, alternate reality, distopia, time machine, robot, female protagonist, husband and wife, supernatural, dystopian future, alternate timeline ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge for the ways they've betrayed him over the years. But as his plans unfold, a group of thieves ...
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
gambling, gambler, poker player, risk, friends, game, old friend, card playing, money, portrait, guru, artwork ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Emily, who is saddled with student debt and locked out of the job market due to a minor criminal record, gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, ultimately leading to deadly consequences.
Style:
thrilling, tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
credit card fraud, criminal, criminal underworld, female protagonist, fake identification, debt, con woman, gang, cons and scams, life is a bitch, caper, partners in crime ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
los angeles, persia, south america, mexico, portugal
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must ...
Style:
thrilling, apocalyptic, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
home invasion, moral dilemma, father daughter relationship, tsunami, vacation gone wrong, grasshopper, warning, race against time, little girl, premonition, gay slur, self sacrifice ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
oregon, philadelphia, hawaii, nashville tennessee, boston ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Police officer Omar al-Attar which is exposed to the position turns over his career and personal upside down, when the killing of his wife verse at the hands of a gang, seeks to avenge her, something that enters into a series of cascading problems ...
Style:
thrilling, action thriller, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revenge, police officer, changing lives, vengeance, police, murderer, avenge, loss of wife, cop, bereavement, career, murder ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Rokuro Kurama is a private detective. His mission is to use all up the airtime (33 min.) to solve a quite simple case which must be settled in 5 min. His wild guesses and imagination increase the number of suspects, and his ambiguous reasoning turns ...
Style:
thrilling, detective, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
private detective, investigation, private investigation, private investigator, sleuth, fighting crime, forensics, homicide detective, crime investigation, murder investigation, misdirection, whodunit ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
After a rebellion overthrows the Tearmoon Empire, Princess Mia meets her demise by guillotine at just 20 years old. She awakens eight years in the past, given a second chance at life. Haunted by her memory of the guillotine, the princess sets out to ...
Style:
anime, captivating, sincere, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
emperor, second chance, isekai, time travel, politics, guillotine, empire, reincarnation, princess, female protagonist, swordplay, school ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
TV show
Story:
Yan Dan is the only descendant of an ancient tribe, the four-leaf scorpion. Since ancient times, her whole body has been a treasure of medicine. She and her twin sister Zhixi were able to cultivate into human form at the Queen Mother's Feast a ...
Style:
xianxia, captivating, costume drama, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
reincarnation, relationships, wuxia, demon, male female relationship, god, supernatural power, demon hunter, mythology, female protagonist, love triangle, supernatural ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
TV show
Story:
Renegade Immortal follows the captivating story of Wang Lin, a young man born with a crippled soul. Undeterred by his limitations, Wang Lin embarks on a determined path to cultivate immortality and achieve unimaginable power.
Style:
xianxia, 3d animation, action adventure, exciting, thrilling ...
Plot:
martial arts, immortality, adaptation, guy, revenge, survival, underdog, coming of age, sacrifice, rivalry, betrayal, legacy ...
Place:
ancient china
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Prosthetics scientist Abi and her adulterous husband Paul adjust to life outside the city as Abi begins working for high-tech company Integrate, developing a humanoid AI - T.I.M.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, futuristic, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
humanoid robot, technology, artificial intelligence, sentient robot, problem, futuristic technology, technology gone awry, advanced technology, robot, science runs amok, talking robot, experimental technology ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Since high school, Sang Zhi has had a crush on Duan Jiaxu. When fate brings them together again, they find a chance to embark on a sweet relationship.
Style:
psychological, captivating, romantic, thrilling, romantic drama ...
Plot:
first love, crush, love story, fall in love, love affair, youth, brother sister relationship, slow burn, childhood friend, male female relationship, relationships, romantic relationship ...
Place:
asia, china
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an ...
Style:
neo noir, surprise ending, twist ending, clever, confusing ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, heist, master criminal, whodunit, manipulation, organized crime, murder mystery, criminal, bank robber, killer, dialogue ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1995, year 1981
Place:
los angeles, new york, hungary, turkey, north america ...
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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
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663K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Style:
clever, tense, captivating, political thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
cia, secret agent, politics, rescue mission, revolution, u.s. embassy, secret mission, propaganda, danger, hostage, undercover, espionage ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1979, year 1980, 20th century ...
Place:
middle east, iran, tehran iran, los angeles, istanbul turkey ...
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835K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story, all contact is ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, suspense, space horror, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
alien, strong female character, space travel, creature, female warrior, survival, space and aliens, outer space, monster, space, creature feature, spaceship ...
Time:
22nd century, 20th century, year 1986, future
Place:
space western
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1.0M
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
NYPD cop, John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking ...
Style:
intense, christmas special, clever, action packed, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, date night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
hostage, one man army, gunfight, heist, tough guy, christmas, police, terrorism, terrorist, skyscraper, robbery, police officer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 2016, year 1988
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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792K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
Obsessive master thief, Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective, Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, tense, bleak, clever ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
robbery, heist, gunfight, bank robbery, police, cop, police detective, master criminal, thief, bank, chase, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, southern california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspense, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corruption, police corruption, organized crime, police, murder, police detective, twists and turns, murder mystery, police brutality, justice, shootout, gunfight ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, arizona, persia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, bloody, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, insanity, sociopath, satire, violence, dark humor, psycho killer, materialism, yuppie, nihilism, millionaire ...
Time:
year 2000, 80s, 2000s, year 1987, y2k ...
Place:
new york, yale university, manhattan new york city, america, seattle ...
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