Foreign Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated April 19, 2025
The Monk
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAbandoned as an infant and raised by Capucin monks, Ambrosio becomes a friar himself and also a beloved preacher whose sermons thrill the masses. But Satan decides to test Ambrosio's legendary piety, sending a masked female minion to tempt the monk.
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As Tears Go By
1988 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsHong Kong gangster Ah Wah (Andy Lau) does all he can to keep his friend and fellow mobster Fly (Jackie Cheung) out of trouble, but Fly continues to wind up in hot water. Ah Wah's crime boss has had about as much as he can stand of Fly, but Ah Wah continues to stand by his friend. To complicate matters, Ah Wah begins to fall for his cousin (Maggie Cheung) but can't find the time to start a relationship and keep Fly out of trouble at the same time.
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Loft
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsFive married men split the cost of renting an impressive loft, which they use for secret rendezvous with mistresses and one-night stands. But after discovering a woman's corpse in their apartment, the friends begin to turn against each other. This stylish and engrossing Belgian thriller from director Erik Van Looy stars Bruno Vanden Broucke, Matthias Schoenaerts, Filip Peeters, Koen De Graeve and Koen De Bouw.
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Raavan
2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsWhen he's posted to a provincial town, policeman Dev goes after the local thugs, with dire consequences. Enraged by Dev's attacks, the head of the bandits kidnaps Dev's wife and takes her into the jungle, where their feelings for each other explode.
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Inspector Bellamy
2009 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsFrom renowned French director Claude Chabrol comes this intriguingly low-key police thriller in which vacationing detective Paul Bellamy (Gérard Depardieu) can't keep himself from getting involved when a mystery rears its head on holiday. Of course, his wife (Marie Bunel) is less than thrilled to share her vacation with criminals, and when Bellamy's brother pays an unexpected visit, the family tensions ratchet up as high as the professional ones.
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80 Minutes
2008 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAlex owes an angry creditor $15,000, and if he doesn't pay it back within the next 80 minutes, he's dead. Injected with a time-delayed poison, Alex frantically races all over Berlin looking for money but finds more problems instead.
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Bad Girl Island
2007 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAfter a gorgeous temptress mysteriously appears on an exotic island in the Bermuda triangle, a film producer dreams of her seducing him -- then wakes to a nightmare with his best friend murdered and himself the prime suspect in this sexy thriller.
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Shiva
2006 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsMumbai police recruit Shiva befriends a rebel journalist who is determined to expose the nexus between the police and the underworld. Both incur the wrath of their superiors as well as a former underworld don who is now an influential politician.
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Cash
2007 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWhen the prize is a priceless diamond, a good thief will do just about anything to come out on top. But what if a little murder is added into the equation? Two teams of sticky-fingered swindlers find themselves fighting each other for their lives.
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13B
2009 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsManohar's dream condominium transforms into a house of horrors when a show on his brand-new television starts depicting his demise. A series of strange events plagues Manohar's family, with a remote control hell bent on being just that -- in control.
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The Woman in the Fifth
2011 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWhen Yankee scribe Tom Ricks moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter, he quickly finds the City of Lights to be a special and miserable place. Robbed and broke, Tom slowly climbs out of le gutter with the help of a beautiful and kind new friend.
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Black Heaven
2010 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWhile searching for the owner of a missing mobile phone with his girlfriend, Marion (Pauline Etienne), Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) falls for the mysterious Sam (Louise Bourgoin), who draws him into a dangerous virtual-reality video game, where she provokes unsuspecting victims into killing themselves. Directed by Gilles Marchand, this intense French drama alternates between real-life events and those within the simulated computer world.
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Penumbra
2011 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsAfter overcoming her initial hesitation and renting an apartment to an enigmatic man in Buenos Aires, hard-driving businesswoman Marga discovers her new tenant has bizarre links to the solar eclipse that is currently taking place.
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El Rey de la Montaña
2007 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsTraveling through a remote, mountainous region of Spain, motorists Quim (Leonardo Sbaraglia) and Bea (María Valverde) come under deadly fire from an unseen sniper hiding in the hills. Now on foot, wounded and with precious few places to hide, the pair frantically tries to outwit the shooter and discover the reason they've been targeted. Gonzalo López-Gallego directs this nail-biting thriller co-starring Thomas Riordan.
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Grimm Love
2006 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsIn this shocking thriller based on a true tale, graduate student Katie Armstrong's research into killer and cannibal Oliver Hartwin and his willing victim, Simon Grombeck, leads to a dark journey into the men's twisted deed and tortured psyches.
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Karzzzz
2008 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsWhen mysterious flashbacks reveal that he is the reincarnation of a wealthy man murdered by his greedy wife, rock star Monty Oberoi sets out to get revenge for the decades-old crime. But he discovers that the killer is already a key part of his life.
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Darkness
2009 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsWanting to escape from city life and devote himself to painting, successful musician Marek (Ivan Franek) returns to his rural childhood home -- but once he settles in, he's tormented by increasingly disturbing memories and visions in this spine-chilling thriller. As a relationship with local woman Lucia (Lenka Krobotová) grows, Marek must face the truth about his dark past and the horrible tragedies that took place in the house.
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We Are What We Are
2010 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsWhen his father unexpectedly drops dead, teenage Alfredo (Francisco Barreiro) reluctantly steps up to provide for his mother and siblings in the way that Dad always did: by luring unsuspecting victims home to be ritually killed and eaten. But as a detective (Jorge Zárate) closes in on the cannibal clan, Alfredo finds that he may not have the stomach to fill his father's shoes in this genre-melding tale directed by Jorge Michel Grau.
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Blind Alley
2011 | NR | 2.5 out of 5 StarsRosa finds herself trapped by serial killers in a deserted launderette hidden down a dark alley. After hours of a sadistic game of cat and mouse, she discovers something even more disturbing about her aggressors.
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Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin
1996 | NR | 2.4 out of 5 StarsRamanbhai, the don of Mumbai, lords over most of the underworld criminal activity in the city. But when he attempts to woo a woman, he's met with opposition from her boyfriend, Aditya. Aware of the danger he's in, Aditya must avoid capture.
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