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Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | thriller, crime, detective |
Country | France, Belgium, Germany |
Duration | 01:46 |
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a secret organization specializing in kidnapping children.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 02:09 |
A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | Spain, France, Italy, Argentina, Germany |
Duration | 02:01 |
Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Morocco, France |
Duration | 01:35 |
In Cairo, weeks before the 2011 revolution, Police Detective Noredin is working in the infamous Kasr el-Nil Police Station when he is handed the case of a murdered singer. He soon realizes that the investigation concerns the power elite, close to the President’s inner circle.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | Italy, France |
Duration | 01:22 |
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the monk to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè is found dead...
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | Republic of Ireland, France, Denmark |
Duration | 02:11 |
Mike Regan is a successful, self-made man who has it all: a gorgeous wife, a beautiful teenage daughter and a sleek, state-of-the-art “smart home”. But he soon finds himself in a deadly, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse when his I.T. consultant, Ed, starts using his skills to stalk Mike’s daughter and endanger his family, his business, and his life. In a world where there is no privacy, and personal secrets can go viral by the click of a mouse, Mike needs to rely on his old connections to defeat a new kind of nemesis.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA, Canada, France |
Duration | 01:53 |
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | France, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:42 |
In the middle of this amusing thriller is a relationship between two different types of females, one is a well know British author and the other is a sex-crazed French teen. The two get into some relationship trouble while living together in this film of psychological imagery and an erotic exploration of the female body.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | France |
Duration | 02:02 |
The film's plot is based on the Kennedy assassination and subsequent investigation. The film begins with the assassination of President Marc Jarry, who is about to be inaugurated for a second six-year term of office. Henri Volney, state attorney and member of the commission charged with investigating the assassination (based on the Warren Commission) refuses to agree to the commission's final findings. The film portrays the initial controversy about this, as well as Volney and his staff's reopening of the investigation.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective |
Country | France |
The wealthy Tombsthays hire a guitar tutor, David Aurphet, for their daughter Vivian. The wife, Julia, begins a passionate affair with David. Edwige, Julia's new neighbour, also takes an interest in David. David is attacked one night on returning home but saved by a mysterious stranger Daniel who reveals himself to be a hired killer. David begins to suspect that his affair is no longer secret.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective |
Country | France, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:11 |
A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective, military |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 02:28 |
An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also involved in a plot to kill Hitler
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA, Germany, France |
Duration | 02:01 |
Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | Italy, France |
Duration | 01:52 |
Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, crime, detective |
Country | France, Germany, Italy |
In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation directed by Sybille Weber. Years later, a weird mark appears on the boy's chest and Diane and Liu share their dreadful nightmares. Diane is assigned for a three-day job in Germany and she leaves Liu with her friend Sybille. However, while going to the airport, Diane finds Liu hidden in the backseat and startles with an eagle flying toward the windshield, crashing her car. Liu falls into a coma and his digital recorder records the boy speaking in an unknown dialect. When Diane searches the translation and the origins of Liu, she is surrounded by mysterious murders. She discovers that the dialect is from the mystic Mongolian Tseven tribe and that Liu is a powerful Observer; further, he is in danger, threatened by sorcerers that need the boy for their Council of the Stone..
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | France, Luxembourg |
Mika is the wife of celebrated pianist Andre Polonski and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his sixth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned that she was almost switched at birth with Guillaume whilst in hospital. Also a pianist, Jeanne harbors a suspicion that she may be Andre's daughter. Andre undertakes to continue her piano tuition, but, on entering the Polonski family, Jeanne begins to notice the icily controlled Mika behaving strangely. Her suspicions aroused, Jeanne begins the dangerous task of unraveling Mika's dark past of secrets and lies...
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | thriller, crime, detective |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:54 |
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | Italy, Monaco, France |
Giallo thriller about a child killer roaming the streets of Venice. The family of the latest victim begin their own investigation. Soon finding they are in way over their heads, the killer now begins to target those who have discovered too much.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA, Belgium |
Duration | 02:31 |
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | thriller, fantasy, crime, detective |
Country | France, Hong Kong, Republic of Ireland, Spain, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:55 |
Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate in Asia the disappearance of his only son, Shitao, whom he has not seen in person since the boy was ten. Now in his 30s, Shitao has gone missing in the Philippines where he had been helping in an orphanage.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime, detective |
Country | USA, France |
Duration | 01:37 |
A tale of double cross and revenge, centered upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team-Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar -find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max. Presumed dead, the group makes plans to even the score when they're joined by the mysterious Aisha, a beautiful operative with her own agenda. Working together, they must remain deep undercover while tracking the heavily-guarded Max, a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | Sweden, France |
Duration | 04:41 |
Kahina Zadi, 32, a French police officer travels to Kiruna in Sweden to investigate the bestial murder of a French citizen. Together with Anders, a Swedish prosecutor of Sami origin, she begins an investigation. Soon new killings start to happen and the first victim turns out to be the tip of a very dark iceberg. The victims seemingly have nothing in common more than that they are all being killed in a well-planned and vicious manner. In their hunt for the truth, both Kahina and Anders are forced to deal with their own past that they have repressed. A personal journey through a painful past becomes the key to succeed in preventing the violent killings that affects the small mining community of Kiruna.