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Plot Summary:
After a drifter is struck by a car the driver offers to take him back from the hospital to her home in order to nurse him back to health...which turns out to be one of the biggest mistakes of her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, independent film, realistic, detective
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A House in the Hills (1993)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring actress gets a housesitting job and finds herself in a cat-and-mouse game with a deadly ex-con.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 80%
BitterSweet (1999)
Plot Summary:
In a world filled with love and deception, the truth is always bittersweet.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Similar in 78%
Betrayal of the Dove (1993)
Plot Summary:
A divorced mother fears for her life after a friend gets her a blind date with a doctor.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 78%
Shelter Island (2003)
Plot Summary:
Ally Sheedy is a retired golfer turned motivational speaker. Patsy Kensit plays her lover and also works with her. There is another girl as well. There are some difficulties at work, a New York firm. So Ally decides she's going to go away for the weekend to some property she owns at Shelter Island. Her lover goes with her. A big storm is coming to the island and the mansion is very isolated from the rest of the island's people. The storm is a perfect set-up for the visitor who just happens to show up, supposedly "stranded" by the storm. This is the Stephen Baldwin character. It seems at first, he is who he says he is. But then he keeps finding excuses to delay leaving, and then finally he attacks Ally Sheedy. He tosses her in a marsh thinking she is dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, realistic
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20 Ft Below: The Darkness Descending (2014)
Plot Summary:
Below the streets of New York is a dark and dangerous world hidden in the shadows of abandoned subway tunnels and miles of forgotten infrastructure. When a young documentary filmmaker goes into these tunnels to uncover the unseen stories of the people living below our feet, she finds out that there is more to be afraid of than the dark. A mysterious figure, living beyond the reach of the law, has declared war on the outside world that threatens to tear apart the fragile underground society living in the tunnels and maybe even the city above it.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fake documentary
Similar in 81%
Dead Cold (1995)
Plot Summary:
When a carjacking leaves L.A. screenwriter Eric recovering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen, wife Alicia nurses him back to health. Four months later, the two depart for a second honeymoon in an idyllic setting in the mountains. They are snuggly ensconced in front of a crackling fire when Cale, a hunter who's ostensibly lost his sense of direction in the snow storm and nearly frozen to death, appears at their cabin door.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir
Similar in 79%
The Contract (1999)
Plot Summary:
Anna has a bad week. Her boss is a pain to her, as is the grocery store clerk. Her friend was bad to her, her husband couldn't take his eyes off a waitress, and her babysitter annoyed her. One night at the local pub, she tells a man about her problems and he says he can solve them if she just signs a paper. The next day, her boss has been brutally murdered. Soon, Anna realizes everybody she knows is in danger, including her family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, independent film, scary, realistic
Similar in 81%
Impact Point (2008)
Plot Summary:
Pro Beach Volleyball star, Kelly Reyes, faces challenges everyday, fierce competitors, the press, but nothing could prepare her for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary
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Hangman (2001)
Plot Summary:
Death by noose. A nasty way to die if you're not dropped from a length, but instead just had the support kicked from beneath you. A series of murders like this is taking place, linked to a net-based game of 'Hangman', the words of which are linked somehow. Detective Roos (LDP) is on the case. He finds himself drawn to Grace Mitchell (Madchen Amick), who is somehow connected to all of the victims. Hangman is a story of pure vengeance, against everyone who burdened the killer's mind.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, independent film, atmospheric, serious, slasher, realistic, mind bending, detective
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Fatal Instinct (1992)
Plot Summary:
A homicide detective (Michael Madsen) falls for a resort owner (Laura Johnson) suspected of slaying a playboy developer.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, erotic, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, detective
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Net Games (2003)
Plot Summary:
The successful publicist Adam Vance of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Japanese client and is needy of sex because his traumatized wife Jennifer Vance was raped one year ago and is totally frigid, refusing to have sex. His close friend and colleague Ray Walters suggests Adam to visit the porn site cyber chat.net, where lonely people have erotic conversation. Adam meets Angel, a luscious woman and hacker while his wife is visiting her rapist in the prison with her therapist as part of her treatment. When Adam decides to finish his virtual affair with Angel, he is chased and blackmailed by the deranged sexy killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir, sexy, tense, psychological, suspense, erotic, sexual
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Layover (2001)
Plot Summary:
An airport affair of a business man turns into a nightmare when it turns out that the woman is married to a dangerous jewelry dealer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, suspense, tense, sexy, independent film
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Oscura Seduccion (2010)
Plot Summary:
Laura is a successful plastic surgeon who feels her life is somewhat empty. She meets a young nurse and falls in love and experiences sexuality to a extent not known to her. However, In this spiral of desire and seduction both play a dangerous game where no one is who appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, sexy, tense, psychological, captivating, erotic, realistic, sexual
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Crimes of Passion (2011)
Plot Summary:
Arturo Bolaño is a mediocre insurance salesman who loves women, booze and any short cut he can find to Easy Street. He thinks he's found it with the beautiful Rebeca Solis, the wife of the owner of the hotel where he stays on business. Rebeca wants nothing more than to escape from her husband and after Arturo falls in love, she asks him to help her get rid of him. The plan goes without a hitch but just as they think they are going to get away with murder, they receive an anonymous letter from a witness to the crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, tense, rough, realistic, serious, sexual
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Intimate Stranger (1991)
Plot Summary:
A policeman (James Russo) guards a barroom singer (Deborah Harry) whose phone-sex sideline has put a killer (Tim Thomerson) on her trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 77%
Freeway (1988)
Plot Summary:
A deeply-disturbed priest goes on a murderous night-time rampage across America's highways.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Outrage: Born in Terror (2009)
Plot Summary:
Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote woods of Northern Georgia...but it's also the scene of her worst childhood trauma. Things get worse when it turns out the lodge is in use by an ex-military sniper, Farragut and his three accomplice, the Loomis brothers, as a hideout who just escaped from a military prison.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, rough, serious, realistic
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The Devil's Dominoes (2008)
Plot Summary:
On their way to a weekend hunting trip in the Ozarks, four friends get in to a car accident, killing the driver of the other car.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Instinct to Kill (2001)
Plot Summary:
Escaped serial killer James Becket, who killed his own father whose expectations he never fulfilled, but now especially targets his wife Theresa 'Tess' and her family, is too good at disguising himself and other deceit for detective Diffs task force. Only one man proves able to fight back in his league: former cop J.T. Dillon, who was already training Tess in self-defense and becomes her lover. Becket decides to find hiding place by kidnapping Diffs wife, and thus enforce a final show-down.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful
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Bare Witness (2002)
Plot Summary:
Professional killer Gav Reed commits a grave mistake allowing himself to be videotaped (as she always does, for a documentary she hopes to sell to Hollywood about the real nocturnal 'eldest business' there) by Julie Spencer, one of Max 'Slim' Reuter's hookers and porn actresses, whom he had sex with before - and while making a most incriminating call about his murder attempt at a high society campaign party for mayor Garland's electoral challenger Mary Washington, where the bullet is however caught by councilor Frank Constantine, who also survives. Gav's client, businessman Ian Hunter, who was videotaped earlier, has his girl Marina shoot Gav and then Julie, later Slim who. Rough but effective police detective Killian investigates, helped by Julie's friend Carly Marsh, and unravels even more sordid connections.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious, realistic, sexual, sexploitation film
Similar in 78%
The Lost Angel (2005)
Plot Summary:
Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
Rough Draft (1998)
Plot Summary:
A struggling freelance writer, while investigating the transvestite night life, stumbles across a serial killer in action. The two then strike up a bizarre partnership to document the killer's motives and handiwork as a possessed detective struggling with his own personal demons tries to solve the crimes.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Similar in 76%
The Cradle Will Fall (2004)
Plot Summary:
The suicide of a pregnant woman begins to look like murder and a county prosecutor is called in to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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Dead Connection (1994)
Plot Summary:
After a series of murders in motel rooms are connected, a cop, Dickson, heads out on the trail to find a serial killer. He discovers that he signs the motel guest-books with the names of boxers, and hence gets a lead on him. However, when he just fails to catch up arrest him, the chase becomes personal.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, neo noir
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Running Red (1999)
Plot Summary:
Gregori is an ex-Soviet Commando haunted by the death of his brother, and trying to forget his old life in the US. However, Gregori realizes after he has already started a family of his own that the past is never far behind. A former superior from his days as a Russkie hired gun orders him to kill some people or watch his new family die. It looks like Gregori doesn't have much of a choice, because he's grown fond of having Angie Everhart for a wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 77%
Below Utopia (1997)
Plot Summary:
Daniel returns to his family's mansion for the holidays along with his girlfriend Susanne. His family's seemingly-utopian existence is overshadowed by not only the death of Daniel's brother, but also by Daniel's failure to live up to his brother's potential. However, this quickly becomes inconsequential, as blood-thirsty killers soon show up.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, suspense, erotic, independent film, bleak
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Fatal Justice (2012)
Plot Summary:
Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the perpetrators is released, Karen decides to go on a murderous trail of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
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
Similar in 84%
Sexual Predator (2001)
Plot Summary:
A female parole officer unwittingly gets involved with a handsome photographer who might be a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, suspenseful, suspense, sexy, tense, serious, realistic, sexual, independent film
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Heart of Stone (2001)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman doesn't know if the killer is her lover ... or her husband ... or someone else!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, sexual, erotic