Foreign Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated May 19, 2024
New York
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIndian students Samir, Maya and Omar enjoy life in New York City, joining in the college revelry. But when Sept. 11 devastates the country, the friends are targeted for their ethnicity and begin to feel the isolating sting of suspicion.
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Raging Phoenix
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter she's rescued from a gang of Thai thugs who specialize in the trafficking of women, sexy Deu endures a grueling regimen of drunken-style, break dancing-inspired combat training and sets out to get her revenge.
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Outrage
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWriter, director and actor Takeshi "Beat" Kitano returns to his roots in this gripping gangster drama that details the intense rivalry between two powerful yakuza syndicates and the efforts of a small crew to prevent a full-blown war from erupting.
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Shinjuku Incident
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsFleeing mainland China to search for his lost love, Xiu Xiu, an illegal immigrant known as Steelhead travels to Tokyo -- where he reluctantly becomes a yakuza hit man after discovering that Xiu Xiu has married into the mob.
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Darr
1993 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis story centers on a borderline psychotic young man named Rahul who's dangerously obsessed with a college student named Kiran. When Rahul realizes Kiran is engaged to a naval officer, he vows to stop the wedding and possess her once and for all.
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Race
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsRanvir and Rajeev are competitors when it comes to horse racing and everything else, including love. The plot thickens when three women enter their lives and a murder is committed. Now, it's up to a sharp inspector to determine the killer's identity.
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The Recipe
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen television producer Choi Yu-Jin catches wind of a death row inmate who longs to eat a fiery Korean stew known as doenjang jjigae one last time before he dies, he sets out to find the best recipe.
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Johnny Gaddaar
2007 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsA thug double-crosses his partners, planning to make off with a big score -- and the wife of another gang member. Preparing to start a new life abroad, he realizes he must not only outwit his partners, but at some point, he'll have to kill them, too.
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The Man From Beijing
2011 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsHer search for the murderer of her entire family leads Judge Brigitta Roslin to China, where she is confronted with the gruesome machinations of a millionaire businessman. The two-part thriller is based on the best-selling novel by Henning Mankell.
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Dog Eat Dog
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsTwo Colombian hoods, Victor Peñaranda (Marlon Moreno) and Eusebio Benitez (Oscar Borda), find themselves waiting together in a hotel room for instructions on an assignment. Neither realizes that their own mistakes have brought them to this dangerous juncture. Mixing elements of thriller, action and black comedy, this film dishes out a dark lesson in comeuppance and the punishment awaiting those who break the unwritten code among criminals.
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Open City
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsSexy pickpocket Baek Jang-mi is caught at the scene of a crime in Japan and forced to return home to Korea to avoid authorities. She opens a tattoo parlor but has a burning desire to expand the pickpocket organization in Korea, so she forms a gang.
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White
2011 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsGirl group Pink Dolls are largely unknown, overshadowed by other, more popular idols. However, after covering the mysterious song "White" for their second album, they become overnight sensations -- but this brand of fame comes with a sinister price.
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Vettai
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis powerful Tamil action film follows the shared fate of two very different siblings: policeman Thiru and his roguish brother, Guru. When Thiru finds himself outmatched while fighting local gangsters, Guru comes to his aid.
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I'm Not Scared
2003 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsMichele, a 10-year-old boy growing up in a southern Italian village, discovers another youngster, Filippo, chained up in a small hole dug in the yard of an abandoned house. Michele soon learns from watching the news that the boy has been kidnapped.
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Don
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDon, a ruthless crime boss and drug lord, is nabbed and held captive by the authorities, who send his naïve look-alike, Vijay, to infiltrate the man's gang. But Vijay soon realizes he's caught in a double cross.
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Sonatine
1993 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsMob boss Murakawa (Takeshi Kitano) aims to merge his factions of power as he gets closer to middle age. His boss has the perfect assignment for him: to serve as mediator in a town where some of the gang's divisions have become uncooperative with one another. Murakawa fears that he's being forced out of the organization -- and realizes just how right he was when he's suddenly forced into a deadly ambush.
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Moss
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsHae-guk arrives at a remote village to attend his father's funeral and realizes that the townspeople are trying to hide something from him. The town's leader orders the villagers to follow Hae-guk and watch his every move.
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Brother
1997 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDischarged from the army, Danila (Sergei Bodrov Jr.) decides to taste the city life in St. Petersburg, where his older brother has made a profitable life for himself as a mob contract killer. Danila decides to follow in his idol's footsteps and soon finds himself embroiled in a vicious chain of violence. An international smash hit in the shocking style of Quentin Tarantino and Lars von Trier, this brutal cult favorite will leave you reeling.
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The Stool Pigeon
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsHong Kong police investigator Don Lee depends on a variety of shady informants to get his job done, and this nags at his conscience. When he recruits a street racer named Ghost, Lee must navigate a whole new level of the criminal underworld.
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Triple Tap
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen champion sharpshooter Ken Yao happens upon an armored van robbery, he kills four of the five thugs and saves a cop. But it turns out the robbery wasn't what it seemed, and soon Ken finds himself at odds with the cop handling the case.
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Nightfall
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen a master concert pianist is found brutally murdered, young detective George Lam is tasked with ferreting out the killer. Suspicion immediately falls on a recently freed felon who served 20 years for rape and murder.
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The Great Magician
2011 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn the early 1920s, on the streets of Beijing, the nation's most talented performers have gathered to show off their most spectacular skills. The challenge is set: a handsome prize to whoever can reproduce a magic trick called the Eight Immortals.
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Drug War
2012 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen an illegal-drug manufacturer gets arrested after a wild attempt to evade capture, police captain Zhang Lei senses an opportunity. But after convincing the man to betray his own cronies, Zhang wonders if he's not the one being played.
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La Liste
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsFormer cop Michael Lombardi is accused of murder, and only his brother, Roman, is convinced of his innocence. Now the suspicion is moving to Roman when his superiors make an important discovery.
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The Big Picture
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsSuccessful Paris attorney Paul Exben (Romain Duris) has everything going for him, including power, wealth and a picture-perfect family. But the mirror suddenly cracks when Paul discovers that his wife, Sarah, is carrying on an affair with a photographer. After a tragic error closes the door on all that he's achieved, Paul makes a fateful decision to escape, fleeing abroad to try and begin a new life as someone else altogether.
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