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Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:09 |
A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an unexpected pawn. Her accidental discovery of secret recordings creates a rift in the family.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Germany |
Duration | 02:07 |
When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken his tight-knit community.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway |
Duration | 02:27 |
After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Set in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past. Based on Alan Judd's 2001 novel Legacy, the second in the Thoroughgood series after 1981's A Breed Of Heroes (adapted by the BBC in 1994). As the three day week, petrol rationing and industrial strife plunge Britain into a state of emergency, MI6 trainee spy Charles Thoroughgood is asked to reconnect with an old university friend, Russian diplomat Viktor Koslov, with a view to 'turning' him. Viktor has his own agenda, though, and reveals a shocking truth about Charles's own family that threatens to derail him, both personally and professionally. He is catapulted into a dangerous personal odyssey to uncover the truth but finds himself drawn into a lethal KGB plot to mount an attack within the UK. His life is further complicated by a relationship with the wife of another agent, which forces him to realise that betrayal can take many forms.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective |
Country | Poland, France |
Duration | 01:48 |
Pawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern Poland. On his way back from one of regular "business trips", Pawel is shocked to discover his father's picture on the cover of a Polish tabloid newspaper. The headline "traitor" is written next to his name. Zygmunt is a genuine hero of the struggle against totalitarianism and a recognized member of the "Solidarnosc" labor movement of the 80s. But now, Zygmunt is suddenly accused by the paper of having acted as a secret informer called THE MOLE by the communist regime.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective |
Country | Netherlands |
Duration | 01:54 |
Young lawyer Iris discovers that she has an older, autistic half-brother Ray, who is in prison for the atrocious murder of his neighbour and her five-year-old daughter. When she meets Ray he reminds her a lot of her own son Aron, who also is autistic, and she starts to believe that he is innocent.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective, history |
Country | Hong Kong, China |
Duration | 02:00 |
An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his exceptional hearing.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA, Sweden, Norway |
Duration | 02:33 |
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | thriller, drama, family, history |
Country | Germany, France, USA |
Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, adventure, history |
Country | France, Canada, Russia, Germany |
Duration | 01:41 |
1979: Cousins Carole and Jérôme go on an organized trip to Odessa, behind the Iron Curtain. During the day, posing as tourists celebrating their engagement, they visit monuments and museums. In the evening they slip away from the group and meet “refuseniks”, Jews persecuted by the Soviet regime for wanting to leave the country. While Carole is motivated by political commitment and a taste for risk, Jérôme’s motivation is Carole.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, adventure |
Country | Norway, Germany, Sweden, France, Finland |
Pioneer is set in the early '80s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A professional diver, Petter, obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea has the discipline, strength and courage to take on the world's most dangerous mission. But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. Petter is sent on a perilous journey where he loses sight of who's pulling the strings. Gradually he realizes that he is in way over his head and that his life is at stake.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada |
Duration | 02:29 |
In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician – and falls in love with him. Moscow, 1959: Katya (Rebecca Ferguson, Mission Impossible- Rogue Nation, The Girl on the Train, The White Queen), is young, beautiful – and a spy for the Americans. When she and Mischa (Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Emerald City), begin spying on Alexander ( Sam Reid, Anonymous), an idealistic Communist politician, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with him. Her choice between love and duty leads to a nail-biting conclusion that Alexander (Charles Dance, The Imitation Game) can only unravel decades later in 1990s New York. His journey back to the snowbound streets of Moscow uncovers a love triangle and betrayals from those he trusted most.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, military |
Country | USA, West Germany |
Duration | 01:59 |
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. Moreover, it is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind any dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Duration | 03:00 |
A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | Germany, USA |
Duration | 01:41 |
Canadian scientist, Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at a new institute in wintry Dresden in order to contribute to their most important project—a human regeneration gene—that also has the potential to make something miraculous out of a personal tragedy that has haunted him for years.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 01:40 |
Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective |
Country | Sweden |
On a foggy day, Julia's six-year-old son Jens is called missing. Despite a thorough search, the boy is never found. Twenty years later, Julia’s father receives one of the shoes Jens was wearing the day he disappeared. Who sent it? Why? Is the boy still alive? This inexplicable act suddenly awakens a hope in Julia that she might see her son again… or that she could find his body and murderer. As she returns to her father’s island, she hears stories of the mythical Nils Kant – a murderer who once was the terror of the island. He is dead and buried for years, long before Julia’s son disappeared. But Julia’s father uncovers that his death and burial were only a fake. While on his tracks, Julia accepts the help and love of Lennart, a local police inspector. His dark and mysterious past brings him a lot closer to Jens’s disappearance that she might think…
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, France, USA, Japan |
Duration | 02:01 |
Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences
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: 6 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:45 |
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway |
Duration | 02:02 |
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from Germany. After WWII Simon travels to explore his roots - a journey that leads to the basic mysteries of the human life. After the bestselling novel by Marianne Fredriksson.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | Denmark, Germany, Sweden |
Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, history |
Country | USA, Germany, India |
Duration | 02:39 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, France |
Duration | 01:45 |
Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | Sweden, Norway, Finland, Republic of Ireland |
Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and private residences. Call Girl tells the story of how young Iris is recruited from the bottom of society into a ruthless world where power can get you anything.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, military, biography |
Country | USA, France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Hungary |
Duration | 02:07 |
With the Third Reich is at his peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhardt Heydrich – head of the SS, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective |
Country | Germany |
Duration | 01:42 |
During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in an old summer house on a small island. Shortly after Hanna’s 9th birthday, they suddenly lost touch and only meet again unexpectedly 25 years later. Hanna is now married, has a seven-year-old daughter and is the chief resident physician at the hospital where she reunites with Clarissa. Her old friend has been brought to the hospital ER for overdosing on sleeping pills. The two women pick up their friendship where they left off and spontaneously decide to spend a few days on the island, just like in the old days. When Hanna learns that Maria, a playmate of hers from the island’s village, disappeared as a child and was never seen or heard from again, she begins to search in the past. Something horrible must have happened on the island and they must have been involved.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden |
Duration | 02:16 |
A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.
Mark | imdb: 4.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Duration | 01:32 |
It is 1944 and the D-Day invasion has failed, Germany's army have successfully invaded England and the Nazi war-machine is now heading west towards Wales. A group of women in an isolated Welsh village near the English border wake up to discover all of the their husbands have mysteriously vanished. They have headed into the mountains to join the Resistance.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective, military |
Country | Serbia, Croatia, Hungary |
Duration | 01:48 |
The story begins a couple days after the war has ended. A group of Serbian soldiers in charge of clearing the fields from mines discovers a man sealed inside a factory's basement. A mysterious man says he is 'ours', he doesn't feel cold, isn't hungry and only asks for cigarettes. As soon as he is brought along, people start disappearing, and the infighting begins. Who is the mystery man?
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | Turkey |
A successful man leads a happy life with his new girlfriend Ace. One day, however, Sarah, an ambitious former lover, reunites with her job offer, which she cannot refuse. The man who took his beloved Ace with him changed his city to a new job and was soon destroyed by the disappearance of Ace. Ece left a farewell video behind her, but no one heard from Ece. As soon as a person tries to fill the absence of Es with Sarah, he begins to find traces of Es all over the world. Sarah also hears voices throughout the house. They slowly embark on a path full of fear and paranoia ...