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Plot Summary:
A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the creation of a perfect androgynous.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Man Who Was Thursday (2016)
Plot Summary:
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY is inspired by the existentialist novel of the same name by G.K. Chesterton (1908). The novel is considered a metaphysical thriller, and our film could be considered the same, though it also can be thought of in more classical cinematic terms a psychological and supernatural thriller.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary, Italy, Romania
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, surprise ending, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Killers (1996)
Plot Summary:
Odessa and Kyle James were just your average American boys until the night they went upstairs and killed their parents in cold blood... and smiled.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, psychological thriller, psycho film
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The Soft Kill (1994)
Plot Summary:
A Los Angeles gumshoe is framed for the strangulation death of his lover, the wife of an ambitious district attorney.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: raunchy, independent film, detective
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The Devil with Seven Faces (1971)
Plot Summary:
Carroll Baker plays a dual role as translator Julie Harrison and her twin sister Mary. The serpentine plot begins as Julie tells her lawyer Dave Barton (Stephen Boyd) that Mary's life is being threatened in London while Julie herself is being stalked by a mysterious stranger in Amsterdam.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, poliziottesco, eurospy, cult film
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Massage Parlor Murders (1973)
Plot Summary:
A vicious serial killer is stalking the streets of New York City, murdering Times Square massage girls in a variety of brutal ways. It's up to a rogue detective team to solve the case as the body count continues to rise!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Hard Car - Desiderio sfrenato del piacere (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young woman watching accidentally killing an unknown in the offices of her lover. From now on she's on the run, chased by an SUV who seeks her after life. The woman is desperate to escape their fate and experienced a world of humiliation and fear. After being raped she takes her fate into their own hands - the hunted becomes the hunter.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: erotic, surprise ending
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The Summit (2017)
Plot Summary:
At a Latin American Presidents’ Summit in Chile where the region’s alliances and geopolitical strategies are shaped, Hernán Blanco, the president of Argentina, lives a political and family drama. Through his son in law, he’s implicated in a corruption case. On her father’s call, Marina Blanco, attends the Summit to find protection, to earn time and to negotiate a way out. That past once calm and domestic, becomes a menacing element, almost fantastic, seen from the top of public life, seen from the Summit.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, political, art house
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Without Apparent Motive (1971)
Plot Summary:
A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco
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So Sweet... So Perverse (1969)
Plot Summary:
Industrialist Jean is living a jet set life in late sixties Paris. Things are not so well at home with his frigid wife Danielle. He meets their new neighbour, Nicole, and they become lovers. But she has a sadistic ex-boyfriend, Klaus, which keeps showing up. It soon transpires that Danielle and Nicole are conspiring against Jean, Klaus being the hitman hired to murder him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, slasher, cult film
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Plot of Fear (1976)
Plot Summary:
Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo (Michele Placido) interrogates one of the guests, a fashion model (Corninne Clery) who becomes his informant, as well as his lover. Clery reveals that after a “wildlife orgy”one of the hosts tried to jokingly feed one of the prostitutes to a tiger but she got so frightened that she died of heart attack. In his attempt to find a connection between the victims, he investigates a cutting-edge security and surveillance firm whose director (Eli Wallach) has secrets of his own to hide.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, poliziottesco, weird
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The Weapon, The Hour, The Motive (1972)
Plot Summary:
A sexually-promiscuous priest is stabbed to death inside a church.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Terroir (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy wine maker Jonathan Bragg (Keith Carradine) hires Tuscan wine detective (Gaetano Guarino) to discover the source of a mysterious bottle of wine. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Undercover (1995)
Plot Summary:
A female cop goes undercover in a high price whorehouse to find a murderer and discovers she likes the assignment more than she should.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: detective, sexploitation film, cult film
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Personal Shopper (2016)
Plot Summary:
A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, post-horror, psychotronic, tense, captivating, suspenseful, philosophical, gothic
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Nothing Underneath (1985)
Plot Summary:
Thriller in Milan, Italy, where a serial killer uses scissors to assassinate top-models. A Yellowstone park ranger, from Usa, arrives in the city to protect his sister, but she has vanished. The guy will meet a lot of people and will know the (sometimes dangerous) world of international jet-set. But soon the killer will search for him too.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, detective, slasher horror
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is accused of murdering her debauched neighbor after dreaming it. Was she set up, or did she really do it?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychosexual thriller, surprise ending, erotic, psychedelic, suspense, experimental, mondo, sensual
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The Double (1971)
Plot Summary:
A man is shot in an underground car-park by a mysterious bearded man. As he dies he recollects the events that led him to this situation, including adulterous liaisons and jealous envy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir, neurotic, non-linear, crying, detective, freeze frame
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All the Old Knives (2022)
Plot Summary:
When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham is assigned to root out the mole with his former lover and colleague Celia Harrison.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, thrilling, neo noir, independent film, surprise ending, beautiful
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One on Top of the Other (1969)
Plot Summary:
An insurance scam lands a man on death row for murdering his wife. What everyone doesn't know is she really isn't dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, suspenseful, tense, rough, serious, slasher, surprise ending, suspense, grindhouse
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Uncovered (1994)
Plot Summary:
While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery of the deaths around her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, suspense, sexy, crying, independent film, detective
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Mercy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Detective Catherine Palmer (Ellen Barkin) is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie (Peta Wilson), who belongs to an exclusive club of women who engage in secret sessions of bondage and S&M. Matters become even more complicated when Palmer finds herself attracted to Kittrie, leading to a brief lesbian encounter. Palmer soon learns that each victim belonged to this club of prominent, sexually experimental women. In order to catch the killer, Catherine must trust Vickie to guide her through the dangerous and illicit underground.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, erotic, psychological thriller, independent film, tense, realistic, suspenseful, experimental
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The Black Box (2005)
Plot Summary:
An accident survivor wakes from a coma and confronts old, uncomfortable memories.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, realistic, mind twisting, mind bending
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New Best Friend (2002)
Plot Summary:
Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into Hadley's clique where she is introduced to a world of privilege and dangerous thrills. But her attempts to become one of them ultimately land her in the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: intense, stylized, psychological, serious, realistic, teen horror, sexual, crying, erotic, sexy
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Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005)
Plot Summary:
In 1990, as a boy, Giulio was chased through the woods by two women after spying on them practicing witchcraft. Now a young film student in Turin, he watches his neighbors in the flats across from his third floor apartment, especially Sasha when she's naked or arguing with her mother. Giulio's girlfriend is disgusted with his voyeurism, but, after a murder occurs, Giulio is convinced that two relative strangers, just as in Hitchcock and Highsmith's "Strangers in a Train," have agreed to murder each other's bête noir. He follows his suspects, ends up with an intruder and a broken foot, and may be in real danger. Is he more than a peeping Tom?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, creepy, expressionism
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8MM 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
An American diplomat and his fiancée venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in Budapest, Hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspenseful, suspense, sexy, tense, captivating, disturbing, serious, saga, art house
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Snapdragon (1993)
Plot Summary:
An erotic amnesiac lures a police psychologist into a world of lust and danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, realistic, disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, scenic
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In the Cut (2003)
Plot Summary:
Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, a self-determined woman living in New York City--as if to test the limits of her own safety--propels herself into an impossibly risky sexual liaison. Soon she grows increasingly wary about the motives of every man with whom she has contact--and about her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, France, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexual, sexy, erotic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, detective, serious, rough, psychosexual thriller
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Fade to Black (2006)
Plot Summary:
Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, iconic filmmaker Orson Welles (Danny Huston) makes his way to Rome, where he gets pulled into a tangled political plot involving murder and mysterious motives. A beautiful actress (Paz Vega) proves a tempting distraction. But if they want to stay alive, Welles and his young Italian driver (Diego Luna) need to stay focused.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Serbia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, mind bending, freeze frame
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The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Plot Summary:
When the curator of the Louvre is found murdered in the famed museum's hallowed halls, Harvard professor, Robert Langdon and cryptographer, Sophie Neve must untangle a deadly web of deceit involving the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 453000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Malta, France, UK
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, clever, mind bending, serious, entertaining, intellectual, informative, intense
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The Ninth Gate (1999)
Plot Summary:
An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, 'The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 195000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark, satanic, psychological, atmospheric, neo noir, suspenseful, sexy, twist ending, suspense