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Plot Summary:
Across the Line (2000) is a truthful representation of both hope and corruption, focusing on critical events transpiring at America's border with Mexico and known both to those who live on the "line" (physical and metaphorical) and to those with the courage to cross it. Further it is a fine example of the filmmaker's art, featuring convincing portrayals underpinned by a convincing script and the directorial talent of Martin Spottl.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Nowhere to Run (1989)
Plot Summary:
Rural Texas, 1960 -- An age of good times and innocence, when growing up was supposed to be easy. Six high school seniors know the terrible secret that will make the difference in the biggest election in the county's history. Now they must make the most difficult decision of their lives. They must become adults. Written by Concorde - New Horizons.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Warm Texas Rain (2000)
Plot Summary:
A married ex-Marine gets seduced by the same mysterious woman because of whom he ended up in prison some years ago. Is she the true love of his life, or the biggest mistake he's ever made?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Harvest of Redemption (2005)
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Harvest of Redemption was inspired by a true story which occurred in the Texas Rio Grande Valley in the 1920's. It is a coming of age story about a young Latino's struggle as he grows up and attempts to overcome the resentment incurred after witnessing the brutal murder of his father as a young child. His journey is threaded with the very vivid and real colors of life including love, hate, faith, revenge and ultimately Redemption. Written by Hippo Films.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Action, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Tender Loving Care (1973)
Plot Summary:
Teenage nurses give love therapy. Lots of action when they try to straighten out the corrupt hospital staff.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Brick Dollhouse (1967)
Plot Summary:
Five women explain to the police the events leading up to the murder of their roommate, an exotic dancer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film, cult film
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The Body (1974)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman who lives on an island with her abusive husband, entices a young man into a murder-for-money plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Trinidad and Tobago
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Innuendo (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tuuli grows up in an oppressively religious and abusive family in Finland. To escape from the shadow of her angelic twin sister she travels to Melbourne, Australia. Curious of sexuality, she becomes a nude model for art classes. Her innocent surface reveals sordid cracks as she sets about exerting her twisted version of righteousness.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, Finland, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, independent film
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In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (1986)
Plot Summary:
300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang, and the government hides the dead. Pierre Clémenti’s In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (À l’ombre de la canaille bleue) is an experimental crime film considered to be a landmark of Parisian underground cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Wolf Lake (1979)
Plot Summary:
Canadian film where in ex-marine Steiger, unhinged by the death of his son in Vietnam, terrorizes a young couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sexual Response (1992)
Plot Summary:
A radio call-in host helps people with their relationships, but finds her own marriage lacking. A man approaches her in a bar.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Fate (2003)
Plot Summary:
Serial killers have plagued the American landscape for decades, committing gruesome atrocities, and providing some tough cases for criminal investigators to crack. This thriller follows the travails of two detectives who are on the trail of a bizarre murderer intent on slaughtering his victims, then using them as real-life puppets in a tale that he is trying to tell. The plot holds a key to the whereabouts of the monstrous deviant, but the detectives have to unravel it quickly before more unsuspecting citizens become theater fodder for the unhinged madman.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
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Savage (2011)
Plot Summary:
There was a double homicide on the forgotten Swedish countryside several years ago. Two angry young men beat two young women to death, seemingly without any particular reason. The years passed but the images in our heads did not disappear. We tried to forget it, wrote screenplay after screenplay, but we always came back to those murders, and to telling the story about a part of Sweden that we never read about in newspapers, and that is populated by people whose thoughts and destinies rarely reaches beyond their village.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, mythical
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Ringer (1996)
Plot Summary:
In this thriller, a detective helps save a prostitute from a stalker. The gumshoe's investigation throws them into a world where no one is quite who they seem and where everyone has a shady past. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mirror Images (1992)
Plot Summary:
A pair of beautiful twins gets involved in a murder case with a psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, queer horror, independent film, sexploitation film
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The Seduction of Maxine (2000)
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Maxine Strickland is an up-and-coming sexy film star who is being pursued by a half-crazed fan. When she hires a bodyguard to deal with the problem, she awkwardly learns to put her trust in him quickly because whoever is stalking her is close at hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, erotic
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A Killer Within (2004)
Plot Summary:
Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is turned upside down when he arrives home from work late one night to find his wife brutally murdered and his son unconscious in critical condition at the hospital. Now, fingered as a suspect by the police, Addison must race to find the real killer and prove his innocence before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, mind bending, tense, rough, serious, psychological, bleak, realistic, surprise ending
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Mother Knows Best (1997)
Plot Summary:
A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice. So she goes out and hires a killer to kill her son-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Vengeance (1980)
Plot Summary:
Four hoodlums break into a jeweller's house and brutally murder him, his wife and daughter. On the run they kidnap Jenny, a Senator's grand daughter and her boyfriend, but discover that the two will not be taken easily. In the melee that follows, the gang are blown away one by one, until the final vengeful confrontation between Jenny and the remaining gang member.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher
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Without Evidence (1995)
Plot Summary:
It is based on the true story of Michael Francke, who was the Head of Corrections for the state of Oregon before being murdered. Just before his murder, Francke visits his brother and informs him of a drug ring involving his prison colleagues. When Michael is killed, his brother begins his own investigation into the murder, leading him to more lies and deceit.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spectacular, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter (1992)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to "A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story" in which Betty Broderick is on trial for the murder of her ex-husband and his new wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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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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Dark Secrets (1996)
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Blood Crime (2002)
Plot Summary:
For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. Enraged, Pruitt pummels the man. Once at the ER, however, she changes her mind and names a male nurse as her attacker. But before Pruitt can make amends, he learns that his victim, the son of Sheriff Morgan McKenna, is dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Before He Wakes (1998)
Plot Summary:
Initially cleared of "accidentally" killing her husband, an idyllic wife and mother comes under suspicion when police learn that her first husband also perished under similar circumstances. As the investigation unfolds, it becomes clear that she'll stop at nothing to protect her secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Night of the Hunter (1991)
Plot Summary:
A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Blind Obsession (2001)
Plot Summary:
Police officer Jack Fletcher is injured in a gun battle resulting in the loss of his sight.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Bare Deception (2000)
Plot Summary:
The ratings of a radio sex-talk show are dropping. But after a listener is murdered, the sexy host finds her popularity is rising again. Is she behind the killings, or is it her producer--or someone else?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexploitation film
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Freak Out (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1977, teenager Wayne (Nick Foster) gathers his two friends, female runaway Rhonda (Sarah Ogg) and disco club hopper Tim (David Gobble), for a drug party located in the suburban home of quiet recluse Dean (Brad Jones). But unknown to Tim and Rhonda are the horrible secrets which lie in Dean's basement storage room. Dean is the uncaptured child murderer who uses his basement as a torture dungeon with the help of Wayne and fellow teenager David (Buford Stowers). When the drugs and alcohol mix get higher throughout the night, not even so called friends are safe from the sadistic bloodlust of Dean. Inspired by the true story of notorious serial murderer Dean Corll.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Show of Force (1990)
Plot Summary:
In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sexual Intrigue (2008)
Plot Summary:
A mystery start when all the psychologist's patient are murdered, exactly after each one of them have a session. Who is the killer?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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