Rapt (2009), One Day in September (1999), Le Doulos (1961), The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987), The War Room (1993), The Uninvited (1944), The Shadow of Violence (2019), Hard-Boiled (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Tense movies.
Storyline: Philandering industrialist Stanislas Graff (Yvan Attal) is kidnapped, with his ransom set at 50 million euros. After his finger is chopped off to prove the abductors' seriousness, his wife, Francoise (Anne Consigny), meets with the board of directors to discuss how to raise the money quickly -- but evidence of Stanislas' adultery and gambling make the company reluctant to pay. As rumors spread that Stanislas staged the kidnapping to take care of his debts, public sentiment turns against him.
Plot Keywords: industrialist, wife, kidnapper, mistress, police officer, executive, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Filmmaker Kevin MacDonald documents terrorism against Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Narrated by Michael Douglas.
Plot Keywords: athlete, police officer, terrorist, tense, chilling, frightening, munich ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A former convict (Serge Reggiani) suspects his best friend (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a burglar with police contacts, of being a stool pigeon.
Plot Keywords: friend, jewel thief, informant, ex-convict, gangster, superintendent, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jobless and desperate, World War I veteran Robert Eliot Burns (Val Kilmer) is arrested for theft and sentenced to work on a prison chain gang. Eager to get away from brutal Warden Hardy (Charles Durning), Burns busts out of jail. Suddenly free, he woos foxy stranger Emily Del Pino Pacheco (Sonia Braga). Soon, though, the romance sours, and, without cover from Emily, Burns is left with nowhere to hide. To his dismay, he might just find himself making a return journey to Hardy's chain gang.
Plot Keywords: criminal, prisoner, prison guard, warden, cellmate, beautiful woman, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Given unprecedented access, documentary filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker Chris Hegedus follow part of the 1992 Clinton campaign for president. During the New Hampshire primary, the campaign hits some stumbling blocks, chief among them the Gennifer Flowers scandal, but nevertheless manages to pull out a second-place finish. From there, strategists George Stephanopoulos and James Carville repair to national campaign headquarters in Little Rock to monitor the remaining duration of the campaign.
Plot Keywords: candidate, strategist, mistress, politician, tense, confident, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While vacationing on the English coast, composer Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) find an an abandoned 18th-century house and decide to buy it. The owner, Commander Beech (Donald Crisp), associates it with the tragic death of his daughter and is willing to part with it despite his granddaughter Stella's (Gail Russell) objection. The Fitzgeralds move in and soon find themselves, with the help of Stella, battling it out with two very prickly ghosts.
Plot Keywords: composer, sister, commander, nurse, daughter, ghost, eerie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A former boxer cares for his autistic son while working as an enforcer for a family of drug dealers in rural Ireland.
Plot Keywords: crime boss, enforcer, father, boxer, brooding, disheartening, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A police officer and an undercover colleague embark on a blood-splattered quest to crush a gun smuggling ring.
Plot Keywords: detective, undercover cop, mobster, smuggler, crew member, hit man, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A quiet Connecticut vacation home is the backdrop for domestic decline. Sensitive son Edmund (Dean Stockwell) returns home from spending time at sea to a family in a state of collapse. His father (Ralph Richardson) is an alcoholic miser. His mother, Mary (Katharine Hepburn), is addicted to morphine. His brother, Jamie (Jason Robards), is aggressive and unstable. As Edmund and his brother clash over how to help their mother, she becomes increasingly concerned about Edmund's worsening health.
Plot Keywords: mother, father, brother, son, maid, dark, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1657 England, Fanny Lye transcends her oppressive marriage to discover a new world of possibilities -- but at a great personal cost. Living a life of Puritan stricture with her husband and young son, Fanny's world is shaken to its core by the unexpected arrival of a young couple closely pursued by a ruthless sheriff and his deputy.
Plot Keywords: family, couple, sheriff, puritan, abusive husband, bleak, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An undercover detective is tormented by the possibility that her actions contributed to a tragedy.
Plot Keywords: journalist, guide, ex-husband, photographer, teen girl, father, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Johnny (Bill Nighy), a long-serving member of MI5, finds a mysterious file after his mentor (Michael Gambon) dies.
Plot Keywords: spy, officer, best friend, boss, suspenseful, cheeky, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Marquis de Sade (Patrick Magee) directs the patients of Charenton mental hospital in a play about the life of Jean-Paul Marat (Ian Richardson).
Plot Keywords: crazy person, writer, mental patient, director, marquis de sade, disturbing, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Residents of an English village unwittingly welcome Nazi soldiers who intend to take over their town.
Plot Keywords: villager, german, german officer, german soldier, thrilling, tense, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A woman fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
Plot Keywords: woman, son, drug addict, volunteer, sick person, uneasy, tense ...
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