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Plot Summary:
A seductive woman gets involved in relationships with several people. All of the characters play games of deceit with one and other and things get more and more dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, cult film
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Matsumoto Seicho Special: Fingers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fukue Yumiko is a struggling actress who isn't afraid to lie, cheat, or exploit her own sexuality if it means her own success. But as she becomes a big star, one TV reporter decides that it's time someone uncovered her dark past and reveal just how far she was prepared to go for her own fame.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Bodyguard (2005)
Plot Summary:
Attractive uncompromising politician Mona Dengler is investigating the tobacco industry. Tomboyish bodyguard and single mother Johanna Sieber is assigned to protect her. This endangers Johanna's son. Mona unexpectedly falls for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Death Will Have Your Eyes (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who comes to Rome and soon drifts into de facto prostitution in order to survive. She meets a misanthropic doctor and would-be poet, but soon falls in love with another man. Murder ensues and she soon finds herself being blackmailed, sexually and financially, by her husband's shady driver, who saw something he shouldn't have.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Fatal Pursuit (1995)
Plot Summary:
A rugged P.I. and a gorgeous insurance investigator search for diamonds stolen in a brutal robbery.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Tainted Love (1996)
Plot Summary:
A desperate attraction. A beautiful homicide cop goes undercover in the steamy world of modeling to catch a serial killer and becomes enmeshed in a torrid affair with the prime suspect in this erotic thriller starring Lee Anne Beaman and Doug Jeffrey.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Forbidden Games (1995)
Plot Summary:
Michael is a private investigator with special psychic powers allowing him to subconsciously see clues in a case. He is hired to investigate the death of the very wealthy Charles who has a very healthy sum of money going to his wife and daughter. Michael needs to unravel the clues to see if Charles died accidentally or was murdered. There are several characters who may benefit from his death as well as a mistress and a nude modelling agency.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sensual, independent film
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Hell Behind the Bars (1984)
Plot Summary:
A woman murders her boyfriends and steals some diamonds he has smuggled. She gets found out though, and locked in a prison with an evil sadistic lesbian warden. She immediately sets about planning her escape with some of her fellow inmates, but the plans are even more difficult than they seemed when set in motion.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexploitation film
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Prostitutes Protective Society (1966)
Plot Summary:
Madame Sue runs a successful Prostitute operation in the heart of NYC, and as it should happen, The Mob wants to get a piece of the action. Still, being the go ahead women they are, they decide to fight back and keep themselves independent of any outsider business influence.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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The Designated Victim (1971)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy, decadent count convinces a disillusioned playboy that they shall murder one another's relatives, to get away with the perfect crime. The count murders the playboy's unpleasant wife. Now the playboy finds he cannot keep his end of the bargain, while the police finger him for the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, poliziottesco, psychological
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The Author's Crime (1974)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy Countess is warned that if she gives a valuable painting away as first prize in a music competition, the only thing handed out will be death. In rapid succession, the painting is stolen, the Countess murdered, her niece kidnapped, and the police baffled as the killings continue.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Sniper (1977)
Plot Summary:
Lucas is a widower who works as a clockmaker. He has a daughter who lives in a village in northern Spain. One day his daughter go to school as each morning and he opens his shop. Aafter, a neighbor comes running to tell him that his daughter just died as an unfortunate victim of a terrorist attack that has been perpetrated against the car of a minister on official visit. Shattered, Lucas thinks that this is due to serious political tension that is living that part of the country, making a terrible emotionally unbalanced resolution: life threatening to the Head of State.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Marta (1971)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears a striking resemblance to his missing wife, who may have been murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, psychotronic
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Blackheart (1998)
Plot Summary:
Crime - Ray and Annette are a couple who scam, lie and seduce to get wealth from unsuspecting wealthy people. Annette also has a penchant for bisexual encounters and serial murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971)
Plot Summary:
Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: weird
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The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea (2019)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman is miserable in the narrow-minded town she is living, while Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, biblical
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Visions of Passion (2003)
Plot Summary:
She knows your secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Sexual Temptations (2001)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful new FBI recruit Carly Davis gets a chance to prove herself when she's sent to nab international jewel thief Jack Sullivan. Using both her sexual wiles and her tracking expertise, Carly lures Sullivan into her trap. But Sullivan may be on to the novice, who soon begins falling for her captivating quarry.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, surprise ending
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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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Eye for an Eye (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When the best known narco in the area, Antonio Padín, recently released from prison, enters the residence, Mario tries to make Antonio feel at home. Now, Padín´s two sons, Kike and Toño, are in charge of the family business. The failure of an operation will put Kike in jail and cause them to owe a large debt to a Colombian supplier. Toño will turn to the nurse to try to convince his father to assume the debt. But Mario has his own plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense, twist ending, hispanic
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Tick Tock (2000)
Plot Summary:
Stunning trophy wife Rachel Avery is stuck in a cold, loveless marriage with her millionaire husband, Holden. So when Holden goes away on a trip, Rachel hooks up with her close friend Carla, and the two hatch a plan to murder Holden and collect on his vast assets. But the girls don't want to commit the crime themselves, so at a bar they seduce a stranger, Travis Brewer, and convince him to do their bidding.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, tense, sexy, suspenseful, independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic, sexual
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Abduction (1975)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of wealthy businessman is taken hostage by a gang of radical black revolutionaries. While she fears for her life at first, she gradually starts to become sympathetic to her kidnappers' cause, and begins to consider herself to be one of them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Swindled (2004)
Plot Summary:
In a flashback, Ernesto, a young con man, tells us how he got to the edge of a big score: childhood in an orphanage, youthful smash-and-grab burglaries until his partner is caught, then tutelage from Lefty, an aging swindler. After some years of success, they're joined by Federico, the best, a true artist. Things go well until Pilar, a woman from Federico's past, re-enters his life with a proposal to con a golden goose - a swindle that will put them all on easy street. A double-cross may be in the cards. The flashback over, can Ernesto hold his own in the present?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, anamorphic, mind bending, surprise ending
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Question of Luck (1997)
Plot Summary:
In the Spanish neo-noir film Question of Luck Julio (Eduardo Noriega) is at a turning point in his life. His fish farm business has collapsed, and his attractive fiancee, Concha (Leire Berrocal) is pushing Julio to get married. But Julio seems strangely unenthusiastic about marrying into Concha’s affluent family lottery business. Things get complicated when he finds a fortune in jewels.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, sexy, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hot
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Singapore Sling (1999)
Plot Summary:
Extreme passion turns deadly in the high stakes game between two men who love and need the same woman.Former Playboy Playmate Shannon Tweed sizzles as Lisa Blair.When she discovers that her lover's beautiful fiancee Michelle has escaped house arrest in Singapore, an odyssey of insatiable proportions unfolds.But it begins to unravel when Michelle's captor Dr. Li (James Hong) arrives in America to claim what's his, only to find that extreme passion calls for extreme measures.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, surprise ending, neo noir, twist ending
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Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough (2005)
Plot Summary:
Once again set in the oceanfront Florida city of Blue Bay, "Wild Things 3" tells the tale of snobby rich girl Marie Clifton. Although she lives the life of luxury, Marie's distraught over her stepfather not giving her a pair of diamonds, valued at over $4 million, that are entitled to her in her late mother's will. That is, until one of her classmates, the local bad girl Elena Sandoval, accuses her stepfather of rape. Soon, it's deja Vi all over again as Detective Michael Morrison and probation officer Kristen Richards investigate, but as with the first "Wild Things" everything is not what it seems to be, and everybody has secrets to hide.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, suspenseful, twist ending, romantic drama, unpredictable, independent film, realistic, surprise ending, erotic
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Human Desires (1997)
Plot Summary:
Alicia Royale is a fashion mogul who decides to have a large pajama themed party as a promotion for her new line of clothing.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Wild Things 2 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to the hot film Wild Things, Wild Things 2 sees teenage bad girls Maya and Britney go on a sex and killing spree to win millions.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, twist ending, sensual, romantic drama, unpredictable, sexual, erotic
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.45 (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kate and her brutish boyfriend Big Al sell handguns on the streets of New York. She's smart, stylish, and self-confident, but all that leaves her when Al, in a jealous and self-indulgent rage, beats her. Three friends encourage her recovery: Vic, a woman who would like to be Kate's lover; Reilly, who runs with Al but also is attracted to Kate and repulsed by Al's violence; and, Liz, the counselor assigned to Kate from a battered-women's program. Vic and Reilly talk about killing Al, Liz gives pep talks; Kate remains frightened. Will Al's menace and Kate's dependency hold sway?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, sexy, erotic, serious, realistic
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Almost Human (1974)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, grindhouse, action thriller, terrifying, realistic
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The Grifters (1990)
Plot Summary:
A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young lady.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, tense, atmospheric, suspense, intense, serious, bleak, suspenseful, stylized