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Plot Summary:
A Native American travels around a resort town, murdering cops and rich people with a high-powered crossbow, while demanding that the town's richest residents pay him money to stop the killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Subtle Seduction (2008)
Plot Summary:
After Vanessa discovers her boyfriend has been unfaithful she vows to take control of the situation. Using his one weakness to her advantage she quiets him and moves on to her next victim. With each murder she becomes bolder and even a police investigation doesn’t stop her. Will an undercover cop have what it takes to collect the evidence he needs before he becomes her next victim?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Killer Force (1976)
Plot Summary:
Head of company security, Harry Webb, fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at their major mining complex deep in the desert. He quickly manages to become very unpopular, particularly with Claire Chambers, a celebrated cover girl, daughter of the mine administrator. She is visiting the man she loves, Mike Bradley, who is responsible for security at the mine. Nelson, the mine administrator, gives Bradley a curious mission - to steal a diamond. He wants to implicate Bradley in order to bring him into contact with a certain Lewis who is preparing to rob the mine with the aid of a group of mercanaries and a local accessory known as Father Christmas. Webb, not being informed of the deceit, relentlessly pursues Bradley, who is contacted by Lewis. With the mercanaries in the process of penetrating the mine. Bradley reveals himself to be Father Christmas, the organiser of the entire operation.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Switzerland, USA, UK, Ireland, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, action thriller, independent film
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Deadly Weapons (1974)
Plot Summary:
After the mob hits a guy with a list, one of the hoods keeps the list for himself to blackmail the people on it. When the mobsters find out he's a double-crosser, they off him, which angers his busty girlfriend. She goes after them using the only two weapons she has.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, cult classic, action thriller, independent film, cult film
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Dead & Nowhere (2008)
Plot Summary:
Homicide cop Ray Maldonado has found a third dead hooker in as many days. The realization that he's got a serial killer on his hands hits him. Wanting to stop the string of murders, Maldonado turns to the obvious suspect: Street preacher Jimmy Christmas. Searching for redemption from his past life of crime, Christmas wants the hookers he protects off the streets. But his prayers aren't enough. To hide the darkness of his past. Protect his girls. Fend off the anger of mysterious pimp Anthony and Anthony's lawyer Phillip. Jimmy knows. There will be Hell to pay if he cannot stop the disappearances of Anthony's money-making machines. It could mean his life. Caught in an impossible love with Jimmy, Violet, Anthony's favorite girl, refuses to stop walking the streets unless its on her terms. That means stealing for herself the money Jimmy collects from the other girls. But... Someone has his eyes on Violet. That someone wants Violet dead to satisfy the voices in his head.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Mama's Dirty Girls (1974)
Plot Summary:
Mama loves men, but she loves money even more. She's trained her three teenager daughters to meet, marry and murder men for their money. But soon the meet Harold and he got other plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grim, independent film
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Dead Women in Lingerie (1991)
Plot Summary:
A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film
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If I Die Before I Wake (1998)
Plot Summary:
A suburban family is held hostage and terrorized by three intruders while their sixteen year-old daughter first hides, then exacts her own brand of terror on the assailants.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Captive (1986)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of an international tycoon is kidnapped by a trio of abductors who seek to mold her to their lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, detective, tension
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Kidnap Syndicate (1975)
Plot Summary:
After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist (James Mason) seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic (Luc Merenda).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 869
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, crying, psychotronic, detective, cult film
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Pocket Listing (2015)
Plot Summary:
A satirical thriller about L.A.'s real estate roller coaster. Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensues when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly market and sell their Malibu villa.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: twist ending, neo noir, exciting, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, black comedy, twisted, surprise ending, dark comedy
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The Mean Season (1985)
Plot Summary:
A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As the killer's calls and clues increase, the reporter is lured into a deadly trap.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, retro, spectacular, scary, psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Degenerate (2012)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by the images of his own traumatic past, Blair O'Leary (Bobby Field) unknowingly leads his friends down a dark path of destruction. Being a good friend, Marcus (David Yost) lends a helping hand getting Blair, Ralphie (Claude Duhammel), and Kayton (William Lamar) situated in a safe house in the middle of the Arizona desert... but there's a catch. They must pull off a job in order to pay their way. In tight situations friendships can only stretch so far, and what comes around goes around in this twisted tale.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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The Cat (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realize is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 952
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: twisted, surprise ending
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The Candy Snatchers (1973)
Plot Summary:
An abused autistic boy is the sole witness to the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, grindhouse, depressing, controversial, independent film, scary, psychological, tense, rough, serious
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Nothing to Lose (2008)
Plot Summary:
Johan has been locked up - wrongly in his opinion - for the murder of his father and little sister. His mother is the only one who can prove his innocence, but he hasn't been able to contact her for years. When he is transferred within the psychiatric prison to the long-stay department, it's the last straw. He decides to escape and to go looking for his mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, realistic, disturbing, road movie
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The Black Panther (1977)
Plot Summary:
A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: offbeat, crying, independent film, poliziottesco, cult film
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[Cargo] (2018)
Plot Summary:
A man wakes trapped inside a cargo container with only a cell phone and is given 24 hours by his kidnappers to raise ten million dollars in ransom or die.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, surprise ending, neo noir, suspense, psychological, captivating, tense, disturbing, minimal cast
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83 Hours 'Til Dawn (1990)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Hostage Tower (1980)
Plot Summary:
Criminal takes hostages on the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: action thriller
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Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes (1974)
Plot Summary:
An epic battle rages lawn on the streets of Harlem between Italian mobsters and black gangsters. The battles are intense, the more each side tries to oust another. Both groups use their best killers. Since it is a brutal gangster transvestites to be careful who kills with his high-heeled shoes.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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The Farmer (1977)
Plot Summary:
Kyle Martin returns as a silver star hero, but realizes running a one man farm is not profitable, and the bank wants to foreclose, despite returning as a hero. Then a gambler Johnny has a car accident near his farm, in which Kyle saves his life, in which Johnny offers him 1,5000 dollars, which still isn't enough to save the farm. Then when Johnny past-post on a horse race for over $50,000, angering local mobster Passini as he and his three henchmen kills Johnny's bodyguard and then blinds Johnny's eyes with acid to "make a example out of him", Johnny asks his girl Betty to ask Kyle to kill Prassini and his men one by one for $50,000, the money he needs to save his farm, which sets the path for revenge. Written by serpent 5.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, cult film, cult movie cast
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Dirty Little Trick (2011)
Plot Summary:
After picking up a beautiful young hitch-hiker, Michael Anderson finds himself living in his worst possible nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, non-linear, independent film
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D-Tox (2002)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole when a major snowstorm cuts off the clinic from the outside world and enables a killer on the inside to get busy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective, cliffhanger, slasher, freeze frame, anamorphic
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Missing You (2016)
Plot Summary:
A girl who lost her father to a serial killer, a detective and a killer are intertwined in a chaotic relationship and are met with an unprecedented series of events.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, bloody, detective
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Relentless (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two Los Angeles police detectives, cynical veteran Malloy and cocky rookie Dietz, hunt for a serial killer, an ex-cop named Taylor, whom randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, detective, slasher, neo noir, independent film, rough, serious
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Ransom (1996)
Plot Summary:
When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, tense, intense, realistic, serious, psychological thriller, mind bending, breathtaking
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The Hitcher (2007)
Plot Summary:
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the young couple with a knife, but Jim succeeds to throw him out of the car on the road. On the next morning, the young couple sees John in another car.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, road movie, suspense, rough, psychological, intense, teen, dark, psychological thriller
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The Equalizer (2014)
Plot Summary:
In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 407000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspense, brutal, tense, stylized, suspenseful, captivating, action packed, action thriller
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Phone Booth (2002)
Plot Summary:
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 282000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious, psychological thriller, surprise ending, rough, twist ending, clever
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Sin City (2005)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 788000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, surreal, dark, bleak, anthology, visual, bloody, visually stunning, brutal