Movies thrillers about pain

List of the best thriller films about pain according to the audience: Dear John, Flight, Split, The Place Beyond the Pines, Bad Times at the El Royale, 127 Hours, Shutter Island, The Next Three Days, The Mule, Anonymous.

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

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

    Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping build a house for Habitat for Humanity. A romance occurs and Savannah falls deeply in love with John. She promises to write John overseas until he returns.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
    Duration02:18

    Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration02:27

    Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

      A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:03

      Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration01:33

      The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration02:13

        A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:56

        Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
        Duration02:10

          Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

            Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genreaction, thriller, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA
            Duration01:53

            An American biologist attending a conference in Berlin awakens from a coma after a car accident, only to discover that someone has taken his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of an illegal immigrant and a former Stazi agent, he sets out to prove who he is and find out why people are trying to kill him.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:35

            Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrethriller, drama, history
            CountryUSA, Germany, India
            Duration02:39

              During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

              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: 6.6
              Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
              CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
              Duration01:35

              A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genrethriller, drama, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:57

                An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.

                Markimdb: 7.6
                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                Duration01:59

                Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that would bring him far from it - palms start to sweat and a dark psychological match in his head begins.

                Markimdb: 6.7
                Genreaction, thriller
                CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                Duration01:35

                  A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

                  Markimdb: 7.5
                  Genrethriller, drama, detective
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                  Duration01:52

                    After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

                    Markimdb: 7.3
                    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
                    CountryUSA, Germany
                    Duration01:45

                    New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.

                    Markimdb: 6.6
                    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
                    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                    Duration01:59

                    Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.

                    Markimdb: 7.3
                    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
                    CountryUSA, United Kingdom

                    A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to Stephen King's 1977 novel "The Shining". Doctor Sleep is set several decades after the events of the first "Shining".

                    Markimdb: 7.4
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:44

                    A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.

                    Markimdb: 7
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:56

                    John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.

                    Markimdb: 6.4
                    Genreaction, thriller, crime
                    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                    Duration01:42

                    Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.

                    Markimdb: 7.1
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime
                    CountryUSA

                    In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

                    Markimdb: 7.3
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
                    CountryUSA, Germany
                    Duration01:49

                    Aileen Wuornos is an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.

                    Markimdb: 7
                    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime, biography
                    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
                    Duration01:53

                    Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

                    Markimdb: 6.5
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:35

                    Naomi Watts stars as Susan, a single mother of two, working as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands in this imaginative and emotional drama.

                    Markimdb: 6.7
                    Genrethriller, detective
                    CountryRussia, USA, United Kingdom, Cyprus

                    Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, Amy Whitaker, a journalist, creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.

                    Markimdb: 7.9
                    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:58

                    Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

                    Markimdb: 7.6
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime
                    CountrySpain, USA
                    Duration02:00

                    A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

                    Markimdb: 6.4
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:25

                    Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.

                    Markimdb: 6.9
                    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:51

                    Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past actions, Lewis has been arrested for drug possession. With Lewis facing a death sentence, the friends are left with a difficult decision: return to Malaysia and split Lewis' sentence, or let him die.

                    Markimdb: 7.1
                    Genrethriller, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:41

                      Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

                      Markimdb: 7.5
                      Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:43

                        A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...

                        Markimdb: 7.6
                        Genrethriller, drama, crime
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration02:05

                          This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

                          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: 6.7
                          Genrethriller, drama, military, history
                          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
                          Duration02:18

                          When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

                          Markimdb: 7.1
                          Genrethriller, drama, military, biography
                          CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA
                          Duration02:13

                          Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

                          Markimdb: 6.8
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Italy
                          Duration02:11

                          After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.

                          Markimdb: 6.8
                          Genrethriller, drama
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:52

                          A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

                          Genrethriller, drama, crime
                          CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada

                          An ambitious young carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.

                          Markimdb: 6.8
                          Genrethriller, melodrama, crime
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:49

                          A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.

                          Markimdb: 8.1
                          Genrehorror, thriller, adventure
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:04

                          An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.

                          Markimdb: 7.4
                          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:53

                          In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

                          Markimdb: 7
                          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:43

                            The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.

                            Markimdb: 6.7
                            Genrethriller, drama
                            CountryUSA, Japan
                            Duration01:50

                            A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize Peyton's true intentions -- to destroy Claire and replace her in the family. The nail-biting suspense builds quickly in this chilling psychological thriller about deception and bitter revenge.

                            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.




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