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Plot Summary:
After many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his father (who he suspects was actually murdered). He attempts to untangle that mystery while still carrying an unhealthy obsession toward his mother, who committed suicide ten years ago. This obsession then draws in his attractive cousin and takes a sexual turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Dress Rehearsal (1967)
Plot Summary:
In La prova generale, Carlo (Carlo Cecchi) interviews with a tape machine and a microphone his young lover while the two wander in the beautiful splendour of a wood on the edge of the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: underground film, independent film
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The Witman Boys (1997)
Plot Summary:
Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, France, Hungary
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Psychout for Murder (1969)
Plot Summary:
Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, poliziottesco, beautiful
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Fatal Passion (1995)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, detective
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The Girl from Trieste (1982)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) being rescued from drowning. He loans her a blanket. Later she returns the blanket and they have sex several times, but she always leaves right afterward, leaving the man to wonder who she is and where she goes. Things become more complicated as he begins to fall in love with her, and after his regular girlfriend (Mimsy Farmer), with whom he has a curiously open relationship, returns. He eventually begins to realize his mysterious new lover may be very much insane.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Devils in Disguise (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two roommates, Leila & Sandy, team up to kill Leila's sadistic boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, dark
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Terroir (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy wine maker Jonathan Bragg (Keith Carradine) hires Tuscan wine detective (Gaetano Guarino) to discover the source of a mysterious bottle of wine. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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The Body (1974)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman who lives on an island with her abusive husband, entices a young man into a murder-for-money plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Trinidad and Tobago
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Tin God (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ethan is a young man searching for meaning in life and he thinks he has found what he is looking for in the new girl, Sasha. But Sasha has a dark side that will be his undoing.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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A Violent Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
Despite the life threat hanging over his head, Stéphane decides to go back to Corsica for the funeral of Christophe, a childhood friend and companion in arms, murdered the day before. On this occasion, the chain of events which made him, the learned petit-bourgeois from Bastia, shift from delinquency to political radicalization and then to clandestinity, comes back to his mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Scandal in Black (1990)
Plot Summary:
Gianni is a political man with a good career waiting for him. Angela is his wife and she fakes an assault and a rape in a cinema. Eva is Gianni's lover and Angela's friend. Gianni and Eva decide to use the pretext of the assault to kill Angela. Later on Angela is blackmailed by a man who was present at her act. In the background there are Rosy, her maid always present, and a puzzling man who appears and disappears and makes strange phone calls.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective, sexploitation film
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11 Days 11 Nights Part 3 (1989)
Plot Summary:
Courtney a young reporter is assigned to report on the story of a young woman who lost her husband in a bizarre voodoo ritual. He decides to take his highly sexed wife Connie on the trip to New Orleans. Connie is drawn into a secret affair with one of the locals. Gradually captivated by his spell she eventually flaunts her affair in front of her husband and finally leaves with her new lover to join the voodoo follower. Torn between contempt for his wife's infidelity and fear for her life Courtney is left to decide their destiny in the highly charged climax.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sensual, sexy, sexploitation film
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Craving Desire (1993)
Plot Summary:
In this erotic thriller (Vittoria Bellevedere) is cast as the stereotypical evil woman who charms innocent men with her physical attractions and then destroys them like a praying mantis munching on her unfortunate mate, head first, just after their sexual union. Unlike the female mantis, this woman slowly ruins the life of the man she has seduced instead of finishing him off immediately - providing fodder for the film, and scenes reminiscent of Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, sexploitation film
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Waves of Lust (1975)
Plot Summary:
A young couple become embroiled with the personal problems of another couple on a yacht moored off Sicily during a turbulent weekend of fun, games, sex games, betrayal, spouse abuse, and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, disgusting
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Solitaire (1996)
Plot Summary:
erotic thriller from 1996.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Saturn Bowling (2022)
Plot Summary:
When their father dies, the ambitious police officer Guillaume offers the management of the bowling alley he inherited to his outcast half-brother Armand. The inheritance is cursed, and the two men wind up in a world of violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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Heart (1999)
Plot Summary:
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, independent film
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Laguna (2001)
Plot Summary:
Raised by an uncle in New York after his parents died in an attack orchestrated by the mafia, Thomas, now an adult, is sent to live in Italy. There, while his tortured past and the death of his parents come back to haunt him, he feels increasingly drawn to Thelma, his uncle's mysterious wife. Soon Thomas will learn the truth about the death of his parents and foment a vengeance of great heights.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Canada, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, suspense, action adventure
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The Isle (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love to Hyun-Shik, who is on the run for the police and rescues him with a fish hook, when he tries to commit suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, enigmatic, sexy, bleak, harsh, controversial, cult classic, atmospheric, sexual, erotic
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The House of Usher (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three years after her lover, Rick Usher, and her best friend, Maddy Usher, had suddenly disappeared from her life without explanation, Jill Masters receives a phone call with news of Maddy's death. Her last wish was for Jill to attend her funeral. Conflicted, Jill returns to the house of Usher, a remote New England enclave. Her love affair with Rick is rekindled as she learns he suffers from the same malady that robbed his twin sister, Maddy, of her sharp mind before taking her life. His affliction is manifested in a rare nerve condition, which renders him hyper-sensitive. Under the watchful eye of the caretaker, Nurse Thatcher, Jill appears to be haunted by the ghost of Maddy, and the secret of the house of Usher is exposed.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, sexy, scary, psychotronic
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Brotherly Love (1970)
Plot Summary:
In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also harbors an incestuous yearning for his sister Hilary (Susannah York), who is staying with Sir Charles after a fight with her husband Douglas (Michael Craig). An adaptation of James Kennaway's novel Household Ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Depraved (1996)
Plot Summary:
Steamy erotic thriller centering on Opella and Dan, a couple whose sexual fantasies get so wild, Dan wants to put a stop to them. When Opella is discovered dead, Dan contacts his brother to help him get rid of the body and cover his tracks, but the past soon comes back to haunt him.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, sexual, sexy
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The Intended (2002)
Plot Summary:
A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, serious, realistic, gloomy, independent film, neo noir
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Love Her Madly (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three men are dangerously obsessed with the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, independent film, mind bending, neo noir
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Close Enemies (2018)
Plot Summary:
Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense, crime drama
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Him (2021)
Plot Summary:
A composer starts doubting and questioning his whole life and its meaning. Isolating himself in his house in Brittany where various important persons (his wife, his mistress, his best friend, his parents, his doctor...) will come and visit him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: horror musical
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Malicious (1995)
Plot Summary:
A mystery woman turns vengeful after a college athlete dumps her following a one-night stand.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, erotic, psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense
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Sliver (1993)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, sensual, psychosexual thriller, serious, exciting, anamorphic
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Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure (1995)
Plot Summary:
TV producer CLAIR ARCHER, charged with the murder of her co-producer, hires top attorney Simon Mitchell to defend her. Though happily married, Simon falls for Clair's seductive wiles and then, in the middle of the trial and the torrid affair, discovers that Clair is guilty. Simon's associate, Lane, finds incriminating evidence against Clair. Simon tries to end the affair. But Clair cleverly sets up Lane so that when Clair kills Simon, Simon's wife suspects Lane -- and shoots her. Clair Archer is judged "not guilty" and walks away free.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, hot, cult film
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Stoker (2013)
Plot Summary:
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, gothic, tense, suspense, disturbing, erotic, surreal, visual