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Cast

Nicole Kidman

Jamie Lee Curtis

Bobby Cannavale

Simon Baker

Scarpetta (2026) TV Show

6.5 123 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to her position as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner, where she investigates a haunting murder with eerie reminders from her first big case decades ago. In 1998, Scarpetta works alongside Detective Pete Marino and FBI Agent Benton Wesley as they investigate a series of brutal stranglings. Based on the best-selling novels by Patricia Cornwell.

Plot: based on novel or book, medical examiner, virginia, procedural, thriller, baffled

Cast

Peter Capaldi

Cush Jumbo

Shaun Dooley

Stephen Campbell Moore

Criminal Record (2024) TV Show

6.5 150 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In the heart of London, an anonymous phone call draws two brilliant detectives—a young woman in the early stages of her career and a well-connected man determined to protect his legacy—into a fight to correct an old miscarriage of justice.

Plot: detective, investigation, aggressive, cold case, thriller

Cast

Leslie Nielsen

Priscilla Presley

George Kennedy

O. J. Simpson

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)

6.5 2.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 83 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.

Plot: police, undercover, parody, sexual humor, sequel, slapstick comedy, spoof, los angeles, ...

Cast

Ai Kobayashi

Koichi Yamadera

Yuji Kishi

Kong Kuwata

Appleseed: Ex Machina (2007)

6.5 239 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan, United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: As members of ESWAT, the elite forces serving Olympus, Deunan and Briaereos are deployed anywhere trouble strikes. Olympus finds itself under a stealth attack - cyborg terrorism, deadly nanotech zealots, and rioting citizens are just some of the threats that Deunan must contend with as she fights to save Olympus!

Plot: cyborg, mecha, cyberpunk, terrorism, based on manga, adult animation, anime

Time: future

Cast

Violett Beane

Lauren Patten

Rahul Kohli

Angela Zhou

Death and Other Details (2024) TV Show

6.5 180 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: How do you solve a murder in a post-fact world? Especially when sailing the Mediterranean on an ocean liner filled with the wealthy and powerful. Everyone on board is hiding something… but is one of them a killer? That’s what the world’s once greatest detective, Rufus Cotesworth, and his protégée, Imogene, aim to discover.

Plot: whodunit, thriller, disrespectful

Cast

Miriam Ingrid

Oliver Dufu00e5ker

Otto Fahlgren

Ulf Stenberg

Beartown (2020) TV Show

6.5 30 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Sweden

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 5

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Hockey is the last beacon of hope for the citizens of Björnstad, so when its junior hockey team makes the national semifinal, the burden of the entire town’s dreams weigh heavily on the shoulders of its teenage superstars. However, the day of the semi-final is also the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatised and the town in turmoil.

Plot: based on novel or book, nordic noir

Cast

Michelle Williams

Bruce Greenwood

Will Patton

Zoe Kazan

Meek's Cutoff (2011)

6.5 304 votes

Genre: History, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

Plot: immigrant, gold, territory, tree, confidence, thirst, language barrier, bible, ...

Cast

Channing Tatum

Jamie Foxx

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Jason Clarke

White House Down (2013)

6.5 5.1K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.

Plot: usa president, the white house, job interview, betrayal, conspiracy, explosion, hostage situation, secret service, ...

Cast

Harrison Ford

Gary Oldman

Glenn Close

Wendy Crewson

Air Force One (1997)

6.5 3.4K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

Plot: vietnam veteran, journalist, usa president, washington dc, usa, airplane, ultimatum, kazakhstan, ...

Cast

Russell Crowe

Caren Pistorius

Gabriel Bateman

Jimmi Simpson

Unhinged (2020)

6.4 2.5K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: Rachel is a divorced single mother whose bad day gets even worse. She's running late to drop her son off at school when she honks her horn impatiently at a fellow driver during rush-hour traffic. After an exchange of words, she soon realizes that the mysterious man is following her and her young son in his truck. A case of road rage quickly escalates, at horrifyingly psychotic proportions, into full-blown terror as Rachel discovers the psychopath's sinister plan for revenge. He is single-mindedly determined to teach her a deadly lesson.

Style: intense

Plot: psychopath, aggression, stalker, murder, arson, single mother, confrontation, divorced, ...

Cast

Dennis Quaid

Matthew Fox

Forest Whitaker

Sigourney Weaver

Vantage Point (2008)

6.4 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, Mexico

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have a perfect view of the kill, but what did they really see? As the minutes leading up to the fatal shot are replayed through the eyes of each eyewitness, the reality of the assassination takes shape.

Plot: sniper, usa president, bomb, media, chaos, kidnapping, terrorism, body double, ...

Place: spain

Cast

Gerard Butler

Aaron Eckhart

Finley Jacobsen

Dylan McDermott

Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

6.4 7.1K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: usa president, washington dc, usa, the white house, secret service, terrorist attack, anxious

Place: north korea

Cast

Bruce Willis

Richard Gere

Sidney Poitier

Diane Venora

The Jackal (1997)

6.4 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.

Plot: showdown, hitman, politics, bratva (russian mafia), fbi, montreal, canada, revenge, ...

Time: cold war

Cast

Alexander Karim

Reine Brynolfsson

Lena Endre

Angunnguaq Larsen

Thin Ice (2020) TV Show

6.4 22 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Sweden

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Story: In Greenland, a climate meeting for the Arctic Council is in the process of agreeing on a new and historic climate agreement that prohibits all environmentally harmful oil drilling in the area when the political advisor to Sweden's Foreign Minister Elsa suddenly disappears during a visit to a research vessel.

Plot: climate change, political activist, greenland, environmental activist, political conflict, thriller

Cast

Sascha Zacharias

Eva Melander

Jakob u00d6hrman

Ardalan Esmaili

Rebecka Martinsson (2017) TV Show

6.4 37 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Germany, Sweden

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Story: Rebecka Martinsson from Kiruna has not really found herself despite her big successes at a law firm in Stockholm. When a friend from her childhood passes away, Rebecka returns to Kiruna where she's drawn into a thrilling hunt for a killer.

Plot: nordic noir

Cast

Charles Esten

Oded Fehr

Brec Bassinger

Joel Johnstone

Grizzly Night (2026)

6.4 61 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: On August 12, 1967, in Montana's Glacier National Park, the unthinkable happened: that same night, nine miles apart, there were not one—but two—fatal grizzly bear attacks.

Plot: based on true story, bear, somber, independent film, horror, thriller, tragic

Cast

Masako Katsuki

Yoshisada Sakaguchi

Toshio Furukawa

Norio Wakamoto

Appleseed (1988)

6.4 89 votes

Genre: Animation, Crime, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Duration: 66 min.

Story: In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.

Plot: utopia, freedom fighter, futuristic, cyberpunk, terrorism, post war, adult animation, anime

Time: future

Cast

Kamal Haasan

Rahul Bose

Andrea Jeremiah

Pooja Kumar

Vishwaroopam (2013)

6.4 104 votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 147 min.

Story: Vishwanathan, a Kathak dance teacher in New York, is happy in his marriage with Nirupama, a nuclear oncologist who married him to pursue higher studies in the USA. Deciding to cut ties with her husband, Nirupama hires a private detective to monitor his activities. To her utter shock, certain truths about her husband are subsequently revealed, setting off a chain of events that will change both of their lives irreversibly.

Plot: new york city, bomb, terrorist plot, army intelligence

Place: india

Cast

Maria Du0119bska

Cezary u0141ukaszewicz

Marta Malikowska

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Monika Krzywkowska

Just One Look (2025) TV Show

6.4 63 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Poland, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When an ominous photo mysteriously surfaces, Greta must confront buried truths — and her hazy memory — to save her husband from his dark secrets.

Plot: based on novel or book, miniseries, thriller

The Madness (2024) TV Show

6.4 185 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After a media pundit stumbles upon a dead body deep in the Poconos woods, he finds himself framed for the murder of a notorious white supremacist.

Plot: pennsylvania, usa, conspiracy, on the run, miniseries, framed for murder, white supremacists, thriller

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