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Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective |
Country | Canada |
Jessica and her fiancé Evan just moved from the city into their dream home on a quiet suburban street. Soon after, Jessica catches her seemingly friendly new neighbor, Simon, in a strange lie and can't let her suspicions rest. The danger escalates when Simon lures her inside his home and imprisons Jessica in his secret bunker, meticulously decorated in the idealized style of the 1950's.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | thriller, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | Australia, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Canada |
Duration | 02:04 |
Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he confronts his demons and unravels a mystery 20 years in the making.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, China, USA |
Duration | 01:59 |
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Hungary, USA |
Duration | 02:48 |
In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, two assassins carry out a sinister mission, a teacher battles a fatal illness, and an enigmatic janitor and a curious waitress lead dangerous double lives. Murderous consequences unravel in the dead of night, as their lives intertwine at the hands of a mysterious criminal mastermind who is hell-bent on revenge.
Mark | imdb: 4.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Netherlands |
Duration | 01:53 |
Elizabeth, a voluptuous, shy and unpopular girl, is the object of ridicule at school by the cool in-crowd. Her life spirals downward after the death of her only friend, her grandmother. But she has a crush on a popular boy at school, and a deranged plan to make all her dreams come true!
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Iceland, United Kingdom, Germany |
When his daughter's criminal boyfriend becomes an increasing threat to the family, a father must take action to protect them.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:47 |
1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | thriller, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, France, Germany, USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:42 |
Justice needs to be served at Britain's most notorious young offenders institute.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, fantasy, drama |
Country | Canada, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:55 |
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, Hungary |
At the height of the Spanish Inquisition, high-ranking noblemen begin dropping like flies, with alarming frequency and unexplained violence. But can local 16th-century sheriff Ruy de Mendoza (Christopher Lambert) discern who's responsible when no one wants to cooperate? After all, before Mendoza can even identify the bodies, the crime scenes are mysteriously cleared -- and the villagers pretend the murders never happened.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 02:16 |
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday on Antigua. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:40 |
Lewis is an outwardly ordinary guy, but in reality he is hiding an obsession - revenge - against Cathy. Lewis kidnaps Cathy in broad daylight and takes her to his home, where he locks her in a soundproof cell and attempt to extract a dark secret from her past.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:43 |
London cop and compulsive gambler Harry Clayton is on the verge of losing everything. On the night when his huge debts are to be called in, he meets the enigmatic Eve, who gives him a mysterious bracelet said to endow the wearer with immense luck. Harry's fortunes suddenly begin to shift, but he also soon finds himself sucked into a sinister crime wave sweeping through the city.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | USA |
A young woman newly returned to her hometown becomes the subject of harassment by a man named Blackway, an ex-cop turned violent crime lord who operates with impunity in this small community on the edge of the wilderness. Forsaken by the local townspeople—and advised by the Sheriff to leave town—Lillian decides instead to take a stand against her sociopathic stalker, and enlists the help of ex-logger Lester and his laconic young sidekick.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Hungary, Israel |
Duration | 01:53 |
Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.
Mark | imdb: 4.9 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama |
Country | USA |
St. Agatha is set in the 1950s in small town Georgia. A pregnant con woman named Agatha is on the run and seeks refuge in a convent hidden in deafening isolation. What first starts out as the perfect place to have a child turns into a dark lair where silence is forced. Ghastly secrets are masked, and every bit of will power Agatha has is tested. She soon learns the sick and twisted truth of the convent and the odd people that lurk inside its halls. Agatha must now find a way to discover the unyielding strength needed to escape and save her baby before she’s caged behind these walls forever.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | South Korea |
Duration | 01:35 |
A former serial killer Byung-su gets diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and when a series of murders occur near his town, he worries whether the killings are his doings. Then, he comes across Tae-ju and realizes that he’s the killer. He reports this to the police, only to learn that Tae-ju is one. Byung-su tries to find evidence against Tae-ju, only to raise the young killer’s interest on him and his dear daughter.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:30 |
Two lifelong friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip that descends into a never-ending nightmare as they attempt to cover up a horrific hunting accident.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, musical, music |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:01 |
Set 10 years later, the Phantom has escaped from Paris to New York where he lives amongst the joyrides and freak shows of Coney Island. He has finally found a place for his music to soar, all that is missing is his love Christine Daaé. In a bid to win back her love, the Phantom lures Christine, her husband Raoul, and their young son Gustave from Manhattan, to the glittering and glorious world of Coney Island... they have no idea what lies in store for them... You truly haven’t experienced Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies until you see this spectacular new Australian production, filmed at Melbourne’s iconic Regent Theatre.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:40 |
A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
Mark | imdb: 3.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:31 |
Jerome (Adam Deacon) breaks out of his council estate gang and becomes a successful and famous footballer, but he soon learns that his old life isn't as easy to leave behind as he had hoped when his old gang catch up with him and start demanding regular payments.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | Canada, France |
Duration | 01:43 |
A horror-thriller centered on a woman living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:24 |
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a horrifying chain of events.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama |
Country | Canada, France |
Duration | 01:23 |
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany |
Duration | 02:25 |
Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 01:45 |
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada, USA |
When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | Canada |
The Sublet is a suspense driven psychological thriller about Joanna, a new mom coping with her baby alone in an odd sublet apartment. As her husband neglects her to focus on his career, Joanna questions her sanity as she discovers a violent past to the apartment and suspects that the building may be haunted.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:07 |
A counter-terrorism expert takes a job protecting a young heiress. After an attempted kidnapping puts both of their lives in danger, they must flee.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | USA, 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".
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, drama |
Country | Hungary |
Eszter, 16, is secretly in love with her English teacher, while Peter, also 16, is hopelessly in love with Eszter. One day, the teacher announces that he is leaving the school to move to London. That same day, Eszter receives a farewell e-mail message from him. An online affair begins and spirals into sexual abuse.