Movies thrillers about excavations

List of the best thriller films about excavations according to visitors: Bad Lieutenant, High Crimes, Chinatown, A Second Chance, Wild at Heart, Heaven, The River Wild, Out of Time, Red Ghost, Original Sin.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:10

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryDenmark, Sweden
Duration01:42

Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine – until Andreas finds the couple's infant son, crying in a closet. The usually collected policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on justice, it suddenly becomes up to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryMexico, Spain, USA
Duration02:05

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, USA
Duration01:37

A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, adventure, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

While on a family vacation, rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, military, history
CountryRussia

December 30, 1941. Vyazma ('Vyazemsky cauldron') is a small detachment of Soviet soldiers, by fatal coincidence, in an unequal battle with a special unit of the Wehrmacht. However, none of them think about giving up. Each of them was ready to sacrifice his life in order to protect his native land. None of these brave people was born a hero. The myth of the red ghost is a heroic deed without a soldier's Soviet soldier in the Great Patriotic War who instilled in the animals, deadly fear of German soldiers. In place of one of the dead hero was inserted another, and the born myth of the invincible Soviet soldier. The film 'The Red Ghost' is about the hope that each soldier will have.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryFrance, Mexico, USA
Duration01:58

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:08

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
CountryTaiwan, USA, Hong Kong, China
Duration02:37

During World War II a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:34

Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan—with help from a bail bondsman—to keep the money for herself. Based on Elmore Leonard's novel “Rum Punch”.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

    Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany
    Duration01:50

    Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. A film with many twists and turns.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his, former Sheriff, partner.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

      Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryRussia
      Duration02:12

      Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryJapan
      Duration01:46

      A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:54

      A woman subject to mental, physical, and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:53

      Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.

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      Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy
      CountryRussia

      After the events that took place in that ill-fated hut, 2 years pass. Brian, Nerd, and Olivia have moved into a new apartment and are living a quiet life. However, the Nerd is plagued by nightmares at night and decides to conduct his own independent investigation. After much thought, he finds a clue that reveals what secret plans are behind the YouTube corporation.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:59

      A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, military, history
      CountryUSA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, United Kingdom
      Duration02:01

        Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never seen Amy. Johnathan Mostow's tense thriller then follows Jeff's desperate search for his wife, which eventually uncovers a small town's murderous secret.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start to get weird when guests enter the Turner's house and don't come back out. Kale and his friends, Ronnie and Ashley, start to grow more and more interested in what is actually happening within the house of Robert Turner.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

        Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:01

        Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up -- and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the "friendship," Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behavior.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, fantasy, detective
        CountryFrance, Spain, USA
        Duration02:13

        An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, 'The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        Three stories portray women coping with unplanned pregnancies in various social climates, the 1950s, 1970s and 1990s. In 1952 the newly widowed nurse Clare goes and sees a back-street abortionist in order to put an end to her pregnancy. After giving birth to three children, Barbara at last has the realistic hope of finding a job again, but then a new pregnancy thwarts her plans. In 1974 abortion is already legal; however, this fact does not make it any easier for Barbara to take the right decision. In 1996 Christine, a student, consults an abortion clinic to get information on abortion. While doing this, she is being harassed by militant anti-abortionists.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Australia
        Duration02:18

        A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

        When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryIndia

        When a kindergarten teacher takes her 16 students hostage and makes a set of demands, it not only rattles the Mumbai police and the city but also sends shockwaves through the country and its leaders as the motive behind the hostage situation is unearthed.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA

        On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.

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