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Plot Summary:
Another serial killer is on the loose.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Final Cut (1989)
Plot Summary:
‘Snuff film’ with a little boy witnessing a real life on-camera murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective
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Prime Suspect (1989)
Plot Summary:
The only witness to a young woman's murder has a nervous breakdown, is institutionalized, and escapes, tracking down the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Blind Target (2000)
Plot Summary:
A popular American novelist, who has written her first non-fiction work about the political infidelities and corruption within the tiny South American country of San Hermoso, returns to that very country as part of a publicity junket prepared by her publishing company. Traveling with her best friend and confidant, she is abducted by a mysterious cartel that proves to be the secret police arm of the government. In order to win her freedom and to save her friend's life, she is forced to commit a murder that would be beneficial to San Hermoso's dictator. Will she be willing to trade a life for a life and pull the trigger to murder her unknown target in cold blood? Will the C.I.A. be able to reach her in time? Will she even survive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Adventure, Thriller, Action
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, erotic, independent film
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Time to Kill (2014)
Plot Summary:
Join Sarah in her final hours, as she hacks and slashes a path all the way back to her dark past! Witness the sexiest strippers this side of Hell, who will do anything to keep you satisfied! Prepare yourself for the final scene, which left audiences breathless!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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The Baby Doll Murders (1993)
Plot Summary:
A Los Angeles cop tracks a serial killer who leaves a broken baby doll at the site of each grisly crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Legal Tender (1991)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful bar owner becomes victimized by a lethal bank fraud plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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The Angel and the Beasts (1978)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young girl parachutes onto a remote, isolated island, and finds herself taken prisoner by a gang of criminals hiding out there.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Austria, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Checkmate (1973)
Plot Summary:
The Federation's Boss must call their best agent out of a bedroom romp with a gentleman because the USA, Russia, Britain and France, are under the menace of an atomic weapon carried by their very own super secret joint satellite.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lust Connection (2005)
Plot Summary:
A married man finds various women in Internet fantasy chats. When his buxom wife dies, he claims one of his lovers surely did it. Is it incidental that his wife's identical twin fully sympathizes with his affairs?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Abducted II: The Reunion (1995)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Pretty Little Dead Girl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Emma, the lucky recipient of a recent heart transplant, sets out to find the identity of her donor only to learn that it was her estranged cousin, who may have been murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Killing Cars (1986)
Plot Summary:
In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells becomes the target of killers. After Ralph Korda has given his patented worldcar to a German automaker for testing, he is confronted by ominous men, eager to get their hands on his patent. Evil Arab petroleum lords also want to stop this threat to the gasoline market any way they can.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Gypsy (1990)
Plot Summary:
An ex-soldier saves wild horses from being slaughtered and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Level (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two bodyguards set out to find their boss's killer before his son starts a mob war.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Baja Run (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young Japanese woman and a naive American drug courier witness a L.A. drug-deal-gone-wrong shootout, and flee into Mexico with the drug money while being chased by two hit men.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Prey of the Chameleon (1992)
Plot Summary:
J.D. returns to his hometown many years after leaving Carrie at the altar. After their unhappy reunion, J.D. heads to California, only to soon fall for a woman he helps with her broken down car. Little does he know that this woman is a serial killer who takes on the identity of each of her victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful
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Beyond Desire (1995)
Plot Summary:
Rita is a sexy call girl in a red Corvette convertible who just met Ray. Ray is an ex-con just released after serving 14 years for a killing he claims he was framed for. When these two get together, sparks fly and temperatures rise. But Ray has a reason not to trust Rita - $1 million has been stashed somewhere in Las Vegas and Ray knows everyone wants it almost as much as they want him dead. When everyone has a hidden agenda, who do you trust?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Unspeakable (1996)
Plot Summary:
When Alice Redmond is required to go deep undercover in an effort to trap number one suspect Darren Metlick, she gets very close to the edge. Her superiors push her past the point of no return because they need additional evidence to make their case air tight. Alice is having an affair with a fellow officer Don Holroyd and his sexual appetite closely resembles that of the hacker, so she has some experience in the dark side.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Angel of Destruction (1994)
Plot Summary:
Undercover cop Jo Alwood is out to avenge her sisters death at the hands of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Ballistic (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jesse Gavin is an undercover cop, part of an elite police team and highly skilled in lethal martial arts! She is suspended from the force after a witness that she was supposed to protect is killed. She must now find out what happened and clear up her name.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Killing Zone (1999)
Plot Summary:
When your in The Syndicate you're in for life. This is the prospect facing Matthew Palmer, a hearless but efficient, deadly but impeccably neat assassin and confirmed Michael Caine fan. But Palmer has found love and wants out, even though he knows that wanting out can make you very quickly dead in London's sinister underworld.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Thriller, Action
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Internecine Project (1974)
Plot Summary:
Former secret agent Robert Elliot (Coburn) will be promoted to government advisor. In order to make sure no-one will ever know about his dirty past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cries of Pleasure (1983)
Plot Summary:
A man invites a woman to his house to live with him, just before the arrival of his wife who is coming back from the insane asylum.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, surprise ending, independent film, sexploitation film
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Dead Reckoning (2020)
Plot Summary:
India Eisley (Underworld Awakening) stars as Tillie Gardner, a girl who's been rocked to her core by the tragic death of her parents in a plane crash a few weeks ago. She copes with the help of local cab driver Niko (K.J. Apa, Riverdale), with whom she began a summer romance on the island of Nantucket. But what she doesn't know is that Marco (Scott Adkins, Doctor Strange), the man who sabotaged her parents' plane, is on his way to Nantucket to set another terrifying scheme into motion. Can she uncover his dark secret and gather her wits to stop him in time? From the director of Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds and Doom comes an intense and tightly wound thriller with twists that will keep you in suspense until the final frame.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspense, disturbing, compassionate
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Guns & Lipstick (1995)
Plot Summary:
A female private investigator's latest client turns up murdered, and she is thrust into a deadly underworld of bi-sexual strippers, a Chinese Godfather with a taste for young girls and the hunt for one very elusive gem.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Angelfist (1993)
Plot Summary:
An assassination in the Philippines is caught on film by kickboxer Christy, which leads to her death at the hands of radicals intent on disrupting peace talks. Her sister Kat, a Los Angeles police officer, comes to Manila to try and bring justice to the people responsible. She enters the kickboxing tournament in order to get closer to the nefarious agents, and begins unravelling the twisted plan while narrowly evading the wrath of the Death Brigades.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, independent film, remake of cult film, cult film
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Raw Target (1995)
Plot Summary:
This high-powered action flick follows kickboxing champion Johnny Rider, who quits the ring after accidentally killing an opponent but is forced to employ his skills again to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of crime boss Rod Sparks (Nicholas Hill). After infiltrating Rod's gang, Johnny is targeted himself by Bill Williams (Ron Hall), a cop seeking revenge for the death of his own brother -- the fighter killed by Johnny.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Facade (1999)
Plot Summary:
It should have been a simple murder. But a botched job, an old flame, and too many loose ends can spell just one thing for businessman Colin Wentworth: chaos!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Gone Dark (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five years ago Jack faked his death. Now his little sister is hunting down his ex-partners who she thinks killed him. On top of that, the company send in the cleaners and everything gets bloody.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Butter (1998)
Plot Summary:
Corrupt record company executives kill a singing sensation with a drug overdose rather than letting her leave their label and join another company. They then frame her cousin/manager for the murder forcing him to go on the run and to try to get the goods on the real killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful