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Plot Summary:
A poor Filipino woman (Assunta de Rossi) tries to take care of her mentally handicapped sister amid the poverty and violence of the shantytown in which they live.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Company of Women (1985)
Plot Summary:
The story is about a privileged young man named Al who kills a teenage girl, Belinda. He seeks a hiding place, and sanctuary is given by Julius, a friend who is a pimp in a whorehouse. While in the whorehouse, Al takes his enjoyment of one prostitute, Cita. One day, a woman named Isabel comes to the brothel and starts to work there. Al falls for the newcomer which angers Cita. Unknown to all, though, Isabel is actually the older sister of the murdered girl and her true intent is to avenge Belinda's death.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Crime
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema
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User (2002)
Plot Summary:
Cathy, a young and innocent freshman, has a crush on senior hunk, Nick, the campus' basketball star. One day, he came to her and asked her to have dinner and drive her home. One thing led to another until she ended up giving her virginity not knowing that he made a bet with his friends. He dumped her right after he got what he wanted without any explanation. Filled with hatred, she seduced Louie, her classmate who had a crush on her, to get back at Nick - and as a favor she would go to bed with him. Things got out of hand and led to a tragic ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
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Red Diaries (2001)
Plot Summary:
The first episode deals about the story of a mistress who is engaged in an extra-curricular activity with her lover's driver. The second story deals about an illicit relationship of a balik-bayan with a seminarian. The third and the most controversial is about the martyr wife of an abusive police officer who allowed his colleagues to molest his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Mr. Mari's Girls (1967)
Plot Summary:
A rich philanthropist uses his wealth to solve young women's problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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The Last Virgin (2003)
Plot Summary:
A priest visits a small seaside town. Miling a former nun who now teaches catechism on the island thinks that father Emman is the priest she sent for. She believes that a priest would help revive the townspeople's faith in God by putting up bars and girly joints.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Saint-Tropez Vice (1987)
Plot Summary:
A police captain's niece is trapped by white slavers.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Nympha (2003)
Plot Summary:
A re-imagination of the Celso Ad Castillo classic, "Nympha" tells the story of an orphan woman named Nympha living in a backward province with a narrow minded aunt who is a religious fanatic.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Animal (2004)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on a rape case that happened to two sisters in Cebu, Visayas, Philippines in late 1990s.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Aside (1999)
Plot Summary:
Rex and Rica are G.I. babies born to American fathers they never knew. Raised by a rich, gay adoptive father, Rex grew up feeling worthless and alone. Rica was brought up by an arrogant aunt who always makes her feel like she's a good for nothing bitch. One day, his foster father is killed, and Rex is accused of the crime. Rica, on the other hand, flees from her cruel aunt. Their paths cross as they both try to escape their predicaments. Crime and passion draw them to each other, and the thrill of it all drives them to yearn for more. But truth has its way of signifying itself: the day comes when they both learn that they have the same father.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 108 min
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Ammajan (1999)
Plot Summary:
Ammajan (English: Dear Mother) is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language film directed by Kazi Hayat and written by Monwar Hossain Dipjol. The film was released in 1999 in Bangladesh. It was produced by Monwar Hossain Dipjol. It is a drama film and superstars Manna, Shabnam Moushumi, Amin Khan, Monwar Hossain Dipjol, Miju Ahmed and more. It is all-time blockbuster Bangladeshi movie and it is one of the highest-grossing films at Bangladesh box-office.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 145 min
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The Father (1971)
Plot Summary:
"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for the deed himself, provided that the landlord supports his wife and children. As there is little difference for the father between ten years in prison or ten years in a foreign country, he regards this to be the best solution.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Judy (1970)
Plot Summary:
A depraved sex killer preys on women of ill repute in the red light district area of Boston, Massachusetts. Hard-nosed maverick private detective Gunner Sloan gets hired by the wealthy Fairchild to find the psycho after the creep attacks Fairchild's daughter Regina.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective
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On the Line (1997)
Plot Summary:
A female police detective tries to track down a gang of teenage bank robbers while dealing with sexual harassment on the job, and her troubled home life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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Forgive Me For Raping You (2010)
Plot Summary:
In this extreme sexploitation horror shocker, a psychotic priest travels through a seemingly idyllic suburban landscape and uses his collar to secure the trust of a series of beautiful young women before subjecting these poor beauties to increasingly sadistic bouts of sexual assault. Director Bill Zebub has trimmed all of the filler from the standard serial killer movie and replaced it with a near constant barrage of depraved sexual horror. "Most serial killer films favor soap opera dialogue and speculation-depictions of the killer doing anything but the vile deeds for which he became famous. This movie shows ONLY the deranged part of the serial killer's story." - Bill Zebub WARNING: This film contains graphic nudity and sexual assault and in intended only for mature audiences.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, disturbing, controversial, independent film, sexploitation film
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Cellblock Sisters: Banished Behind Bars (1995)
Plot Summary:
Sam Connor kidnaps his young daughters, April and May, sells them to strangers, and accidentally kills his wife when she attempts to intervene. Sixteen years later, April is an out of control outlaw who has come into a life of drugs and crime, while May has grown into a straight laced, refined woman. The plot thickens when April avenges her mother's death by killing her father, and May is sent to jail as the prime suspect. Fortunately, Detective Arman, instantly taken with May, fights for her innocence and tries to get her out before she is taken down by other hostile prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Sexy Sisters (1977)
Plot Summary:
Edna keeps her younger sister Millie drugged and chained to her bed. The drugs have made Millie a nymphomaniac who's endless supply of men that Edna providers her cannot satisfy her and seeing her sister unsatisfied gets Edna off. But Edna's main plan from all of this is to inherit her deceased parents' fortune which is supposed to all go to Millie on her 21st birthday, so if she can prove Millie insane she will get the fortune. But when one of the men appears to satisfy Millie, Millie discovers the outside world and the two will try to stop Edna's evil plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, sexploitation film
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Scorpio Nights 2 (1999)
Plot Summary:
Andrew (Albert Martinez) is meticulous almost to the point of obsession. From the way he carries his clothes to the manner he delivers his Physics lectures, Andrew is methodical in everything he does. But his ordered existence is suddenly disrupted when one sexually adventurous student, Valerie (Joyce Jimenez), starts seducing him. Andrew gives in to the temptation, and soon, the two are caught in an explosive relationship that knows no bounds.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Desert Passion (1993)
Plot Summary:
Two show-business women leave Los Angeles for Las Vegas, but phoney state troopers abduct them in the desert and they are taken to a laboratory/prison. Here, males come to experience sexual fantasies, which it is the job of the two girls and other attractive captives to flesh out. The captors force an hypnotic drug upon them to aid their performances. Then a country hitchhiker they met earlier at a gas station decides to rescue the girls.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, rough, suspenseful, sexy, independent film
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Crossroads (2008)
Plot Summary:
Paupahan is a series of stories that show how this words play in the lives of people. The first part is a story of a gay father to his lover son with a friend that had been cheated by her husband. it shows love for his friend, son and the lover of his son. the second story is about a father wanted give everything to his family and understand his mentally challenge wife. And the last is about a girl who do have dreams in becoming a star and the living with her smoker mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Norte, the End of History (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable, when something mysterious and strange starts happening to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 250 min
Plot tags: philosophical, realistic, stylized, atmospheric, serious, slow cinema, contemplative, art house, black and white, cerebral
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The Tillers (2008)
Plot Summary:
The plot of the movie unfolds through the testimonials of three young sisters: Uring, Luray, and Elya, who recount the grisly sexual molestation they experienced from their adoptive father Timo. The title was taken from the sisters' work as stone tillers in a quarry where most residents earn their living. Apart from being an alcoholic and gambler, Timo is a sex pervert.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, touching, suspenseful, sentimental
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Act of Revenge (1989)
Plot Summary:
A dying man gives his lawyer a tape that manipulates her into taking a posthumous revenge on those who made his life Hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Scorpio Nights (1985)
Plot Summary:
In a crowded, multi-appartment house, a young student peeps on his neighbours making love and subsequently develops a steamy affair with the neighbour's wife. The affair slowly becomes an obsession and spins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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The Casino Job (2009)
Plot Summary:
Barry Kaylin is living the dream. Not yet 40, he owns four Las Vegas casinos and lives the life of the bachelor to the fullest. One night, while meeting with two potential business associates, he hires five local dancers to flirt and lounge around his mansion and lagoon pool.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Strange Girl in Love (1973)
Plot Summary:
Roza has an affair with her boyfriend's father. Soon after, she is found dead from a fall. Was it suicide, or was she pushed?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Boulevard (1994)
Plot Summary:
A street prostitute takes in an abused young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, leading to both facing off against the prostitute's dreaded pimp and a relentless police detective out to arrest all of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Massacre for an Orgy (1966)
Plot Summary:
A police officer attempts to shut down an illegal girls-for-drugs operation (American version).
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Luxembourg, France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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The Preppie Murder (1989)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence points to a man she was seen leaving a party with. Now when questioned, he claims that her death was accidental, as a result of rough sex. Now her family doesn't believe this, so they press the district attorney's office to try him for murder, but he has a good lawyer who plays his defense right down to putting the dead girl on trial.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Swinging Barmaids (1975)
Plot Summary:
A cop goes after a psycho who is killing cocktail waitresses.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Beaten (2004)
Plot Summary:
Justina is a fifteen years old girl who lives with her mother and stepfather in Mexico City. In her sexual-awakening, she starts flirting with the only man in her life, her stepfather, causing the accidental murder of her mother and stepfather. Shocked, she runs away from home, crazy, just dressed with her nightgown. Ivan, a police detective who practices torture as daily routine and is reduced to the rank of street cop, looks for her all night long.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir