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The Intense Files

Edge-of-your-seat tension and suspense.


These 40 films have been quietly catalogued into a collection the editors call, simply, “Intense.” They are not ranked by box office. They are not sorted by release. They are arranged by something harder to measure — a shared emotional frequency, a kinship of mood. What follows is the reading list. Begin where you like. Read until you find the one that looks back.

  1. 01.
    Blue Blind

    Blue Blind

    2012·Created by Yang Wenjun·10.0

    This drama is the first film and television drama in China to describe the theme of jailbreak. It is called the "Chinese version of jailbreak". The plot mainly tells about a treacherous death game in the war. A perfect escape after a period of death, one to escape. Incoming jailbreakers, a full schedule of "high IQ jailbreak" in black jail.

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  2. 02.
    Jack & Joker: U Steal My Heart!

    Jack & Joker: U Steal My Heart!

    2024·Created by Anan Wong·9.5

    To pay off his family's debt, a gifted taekwondo prodigy becomes the unwitting accomplice of a charismatic, legendary thief.

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  3. 03.
    Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

    Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

    1977·Created by Francis Ford Coppola·9.5

    A seven-hour chronological edit of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, expanded with over an hour of restored scenes to trace the Corleone family’s rise from Vito’s youth in Sicily to Michael’s reign in 1950s America.

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  4. 04.
    Attack on Titan

    Attack on Titan

    2013·9.1

    100 years ago, the last remnants of humanity were forced to retreat behind the towering walls of a fortified city to escape the massive, man-eating Titans that roamed the land outside their fortress. Only the members of the Scouting Legion dared to stray beyond the safety of the walls – but even those brave warriors seldom returned alive. Those within the city clung to the illusion of a peaceful existence until the day that dream was shattered, and their slim chance at survival was reduced to one horrifying choice: kill – or be devoured!

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  5. 05.
    Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

    Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

    2009·9.1

    Disregard for alchemy’s laws ripped half of Edward Elric’s limbs from his body and left his brother Alphonse’s soul clinging to a suit of armor. To restore what was lost, the brothers seek the Philosopher’s Stone. Enemies and allies – the corrupt military, the Homunculi, and foreign alchemists – will alter the Elric brothers course, but their purpose will remain unchanged and their bond unbreakable.

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  6. 06.
    The Spirit of the Ruler

    The Spirit of the Ruler

    2017·9.0

    Captain Puri a skillful sniper with a very firm heart found himself wavering for the first time after meeting his first love again. Dr. Napaschon was working as a volunteer doctor in a village near the border between Burma and Thailand when she along with her best friend got kidnapped by a Burmese rebel troop. His mission is to return Dr. Napaschon back to Thailand. Although his heart always pined for herbut her recent status has changed Dr. Napaschon is now his friend's girlfriend. Nothing is more torturous and hurtful than giving your whole heart away to someone who has no heart left to love you at all. The biggest obstacle for captain Puri is having to be in close proximity to her again. He has been through many missions before but this mission had him thinking hard. How can he restrain his heart? Between love and friendship, what will he choose?

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  7. 07.
    Sherlock

    Sherlock

    2010·Created by Mark Gatiss·9.0

    A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.

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  8. 08.
    The Other Me

    The Other Me

    2019·Created by Sotiris Tsafoulias·8.9

    A series of murders alarm the police authorities, as strange symbolisms are traced to every crime scene. The eccentric professor of criminology Dimitris Lainis is asked to shed some light on the mystery.

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  9. 09.
    Vinland Saga

    Vinland Saga

    2019·8.8

    For a thousand years, the Vikings have made quite a name and reputation for themselves as the strongest families with a thirst for violence. Thorfinn, the son of one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, spends his boyhood in a battlefield enhancing his skills in his adventure to redeem his most-desired revenge after his father was murdered.

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  10. 10.
    Rififi

    Rififi

    2025·Created by Vassilis Risvas·8.8

    "RIFIFI" is inspired by the notorious bank robbery that took place in Athens in 1992. Who carried it out and why? The authorities spoke of organized crime, terrorist groups, and highly educated, ruthless perpetrators. But was it really like that? Through the power of fiction, the new production by COSMOTE TV combines the biggest heist ever committed in Greece with a true story of human tragedy, creating a character-driven series full of emotion and strong elements of humor.

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  11. 11.
    Dark

    Dark

    2017·Created by Baran bo Odar·8.7

    A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.

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  12. 12.
    Peaky Blinders

    Peaky Blinders

    2013·Created by Steven Knight·8.7

    A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

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  13. 13.
    Oz

    Oz

    1997·Created by Tom Fontana·8.7

    The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.

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  14. 14.
    Monster

    Monster

    2004·8.7

    Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.

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  15. 15.
    The Bureau

    The Bureau

    2015·Created by Éric Rochant·8.7

    Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.

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  16. 16.
    Boardwalk Empire

    Boardwalk Empire

    2010·Created by Terence Winter·8.6

    Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.

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  17. 17.
    Mouse

    Mouse

    2021·8.6

    A psychopath's ruthless serial murders have left the entire nation gripped with fear and chaos. A honest and justice-seeking rookie police officer and a veteran detective with tragic past, face against the killer. After the encounter with the psychopath, their lives totally change.

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  18. 18.
    Dexter

    Dexter

    2006·Created by James Manos Jr.·8.6

    Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.

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  19. 19.
    Scavengers Reign

    Scavengers Reign

    2023·Created by Charles Huettner·8.6

    When a deep space freighter is damaged by a solar flare its surviving crew are stranded on a beautiful and unforgiving planet. They begin to learn the true nature of this planet as they try to survive long enough to escape or be rescued.

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  20. 20.
    Agatha Christie's Poirot

    Agatha Christie's Poirot

    1989·8.6

    From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

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  21. 21.
    The X-Files

    The X-Files

    1993·Created by Chris Carter·8.6

    The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

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  22. 22.
    MINDHUNTER

    MINDHUNTER

    2017·Created by Joe Penhall·8.6

    An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.

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  23. 23.
    Happy Valley

    Happy Valley

    2014·Created by Sally Wainwright·8.5

    Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.

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  24. 24.
    Sacred Games

    Sacred Games

    2018·Created by Vikramaditya Motwane·8.5

    A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.

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  25. 25.
    Lord of Mysteries

    Lord of Mysteries

    2025·Created by Cuttlefish That Loves Diving·8.5

    In a Victorian world of steam, dreadnoughts, and occult horrors, Zhou Mingrui awakens as Klein Moretti. He walks a razor’s edge between light and darkness, entangled with warring Churches. This is the legend of unlimited potential…and unspeakable danger.

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  26. 26.
    Mea culpa

    Mea culpa

    1993·Created by Carlos Pinto·8.5

    Anthology series based on real criminal cases, featuring an interview with the actual perpetrator at the end of each episode.

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  27. 27.
    KinnPorsche: The Series

    KinnPorsche: The Series

    2022·Created by Sitthichai Panya·8.5

    Porsche agrees to guard mafia heir Kinn for his family's sake, but fighting off danger soon turns into fighting his own feelings.

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  28. 28.
    Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

    Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

    2016·Created by Lee Eung-bok·8.5

    In his quest for a bride to break his immortal curse, a 939-year-old guardian of souls meets a grim reaper and a sprightly student with a tragic past.

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  29. 29.
    Making a Murderer

    Making a Murderer

    2015·Created by Moira Demos·8.5

    Filmed over 10 years, this real-life thriller follows a DNA exoneree who, while exposing police corruption, becomes a suspect in a grisly new crime.

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  30. 30.
    Hannibal

    Hannibal

    2013·Created by Bryan Fuller·8.5

    Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

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  31. 31.
    Not Me

    Not Me

    2021·Created by Thanutnun Vitsivakun·8.5

    White returns to Thailand after years abroad to find his twin Black in a coma. Disguising himself as Black, he seeks to uncover the truth behind the betrayal.

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  32. 32.
    Flower of Evil

    Flower of Evil

    2020·Created by Yoo Jung-hee·8.5

    Hiding a twisted past, a man maintains his facade as the perfect husband to his detective wife — until she begins investigating a series of murders.

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  33. 33.
    Signal

    Signal

    2016·Created by Kim Eun-hee·8.4

    
Detectives from the present and a detective from the past communicate via walkie-talkie to solve a long-time unsolved case.

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  34. 34.
    The Night Of

    The Night Of

    2016·Created by Richard Price·8.4

    After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.

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    Luther

    Luther

    2010·Created by Neil Cross·8.4

    A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.

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  36. 36.
    Brazil Avenue

    Brazil Avenue

    2012·Created by João Emanuel Carneiro·8.4

    Brazil Avenue is a dynamic, lifelike, and modern telenovela that reveals how unrelenting ambition and inflicted cruelty can change a young girl’s destiny and lead her to seek revenge.

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    ERASED

    ERASED

    2016·8.4

    Satoru Fujinuma is a struggling manga artist who has the ability to turn back time and prevent deaths. When his mother is killed he turns back time to solve the mystery, but ends up back in elementary school, just before the disappearance of his classmate Kayo.

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  38. 38.
    AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

    AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

    2002·8.4

    Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.

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  39. 39.
    24

    24

    2001·Created by Robert Cochran·8.4

    Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.

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  40. 40.
    Taboo

    Taboo

    2017·Created by Steven Knight·8.3

    Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.

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