False Tension
Some movies create tension simply by plot; others use mechanisms to boost tension implying that their plot is weaker
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- StarsElena LeeveTaneli MäkeläWillehard KoranderThis hospital drama asks a bold question: How far are you ready to go to save your loved one? Are you capable of doing bad things to achieve something good? How far could you bend your morality to save the life of your nearest and dearest?
- CreatorsScott FrankAllan ScottStarsAnya Taylor-JoyChloe PirrieBill CampOrphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA. But child stardom comes at a price.
- StarsJay DobynsGeorge ChristieJulian SherThe Hells Angels are one of, if not the most notorious motorcycle club in history. In this series a former Hells Angels member will reveal the club's secrets. Everything will be told about initiation rites and murder for hire.
- DirectorJames DeMonacoStarsFrank GrilloCarmen EjogoZach GilfordThree groups of people intertwine and are left stranded in the streets on Purge Night, trying to survive the chaos and violence that occurs.
- DirectorShinsuke SatôStarsKazunari NinomiyaKanata HongôKen'ichi MatsuyamaAfter trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanEthan HawkeAlbert FinneyWhen two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife barreling towards a shattering climax.
- DirectorGraham MooreStarsMark RylanceZoey DeutchJohn Gumley-MasonAn expert cutter must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.
- CreatorJ.T. RogersStarsAnsel ElgortKen WatanabeRachel KellerA Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo takes on one of the city's most powerful crime bosses.
- CreatorsGuillaume GrosseNicolas LeborgneDenis RollierStarsStéphane RogerNolwenn KorbellKaou LangoëtMarie, a middle aged business woman, Fanch, a retired man, and Klet, a young criminal, share nothing in their lives. Eventually they end up together and start a voyage on the road all along Brittany that will change their lives forever.
- CreatorAnne BadelStarsSami BouajilaMarie GillainZelie RixhonA couple and their baby are found brutally murdered in their living room. Strangely, the couple's young daughter is left unhurt but has no memory of what happened, leaving a psychiatrist to try and rekindle her memory.
- StarsSophie CadieuxMartin DubreuilCharlotte AubinHow the survivors of a school mass killing including family friends victims and police deal with the aftermath.
- DirectorVenky KudumulaStarsNaga ShauryaRashmika MandannaAchyuth KumarHari (Naga Shaurya)'s fascination is fights and disputes. He is always involved in one or the other fight just for the sake of it. In an interesting scenario, Hari is sent to a village called Tiruppuram where Telugu people, headed by Keshava (Achyuth Kumar) and Tamil people, led by Veera Muththu (Mime Gopi) fight with each other. Hari initially shows interest in the fights, but later he falls for Muththu's daughter Karthika (Rashmika Mandanna). Hari, then realizes that his marriage with Karthika will land in an obstacle and decides to know about the fight that happened between the two groups. What happens then? Forms the story of the movie.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsRooney MaraChanning TatumJude LawA young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
- CreatorPieter Bart KorthuisStarsJoy DelimaMinne KooleChris PetersIn 1980s Amsterdam, a family starts the first-ever phone sex line but being in the business of sexual desires leads them to question their own.
- DirectorWong Ching-PoStarsSammo Kam-Bo HungAndy OnPhilip NgA laborer moves to Shanghai in the hope of becoming rich. But ends up using his kung fu skills to survive.
- StarsQueralt AlbinyanaPaloma NavarroAina JaglaThis dark crime thriller follows Detective Aina Anglada as she begrudgingly works with her new partner, Damia, to find a serial killer before it's too late - following a grisly trail of body parts from the disturbed killer. Meanwhile, within their special police unit, trust is in short supply and the detectives, their commander, and others struggle to work together.
- DirectorBenjamin FieldStarsEd BishopDavid GrahamGerry AndersonA look at the life of Gerry Anderson, the creator of Thunderbirds.
- DirectorJamison BrandiStarsLisa YoungerRae OlivierKaren StrassmanHaunted by a family secret of incest and harboring the news of her dying mother, an estranged woman journeys home to bury her dark past forever.
- CreatorSteven MoffatStarsRose LeslieTheo JamesEverleigh McDonellHenry is an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift, a gene that allows him to travel through time involuntarily. Claire, his wife, finds it difficult to cope with his ability.
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsMel GibsonSigourney WeaverLinda HuntA young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
- StarsAshley WaltersKanoMicheal WardAfter a botched drug shipment, Dushane sends Jamie to Morocco to find a potential leak. Jaq gets revenge on an attacker. The cops move in on Ruben.
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsJon VoightMaximilian SchellMaria SchellFollowing the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.
- StarsPier-Luc FunkMarc-André GrondinSandrine Bisson-"Fragile" tells the story of an improbable meeting, that of Dominic Couture and Félix Bachand, their terribly singular and tragic friendship in a small provincial town, whose mysterious death will create a shockwave in their respective families, revealing in passing hitherto jealously protected secrets, strange liaisons and hidden intentions.
- DirectorMichael WinnerStarsCharles BronsonJan-Michael VincentKeenan WynnAn aging hitman befriends a young man who wants to be a professional killer. Eventually it becomes clear that someone has betrayed them.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsRay MillandMaureen O'SullivanCharles LaughtonA magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.