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Plot Summary:
After small town waitress Joey is sexually assaulted after a date with her old friend Mike, she befriends mysterious stranger Regina. Regina introducers her to The Cherry Bombers, an all femme gang including Beatrice, Lily, Sal, Jett, Angie, and Fala. All suffering from past traumas, together they fight a misogynistic society by targeting violent frat boys, a corrupt police force of human traffickers led by Sheriff Morel, and the dangerous alt-right group MFM (Men’s First Movement) headed by Mark Vanderhill. As Joey is drawn further into their chaotic world, Sal’s old flame, Logan County Sheriff Vernon, investigates MFM, leading to a thrilling showdown.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark
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The Last Ride (1991)
Plot Summary:
Micheal Smith is released from prison after serving four long years for a crime that he claims he did not commit. Within a few hours of his release, a man offers Michael a ride in his truck. From that moment on, the madness begins and the past slaps him in the face. The driver makes an attempt on Michael's life but he manages to escape, this time. The madman relentlessly pursues his, killing everyone in his path, and forcing Michael to play his deadly games.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Measure of Revenge (2022)
Plot Summary:
Theater actress Lillian Cooper's son dies mysteriously. When the investigating officer rules the cause of death an accidental overdose, Lillian conducts her own investigation which leads her to an unlikely alliance with her son's former drug dealer. On her quest for answers, Lillian hallucinates some of the iconic characters she's played on stage which serve as her inner voice, urging her to avenge her son's death.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark
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The Spearhead Effect (2017)
Plot Summary:
After exposing police corruption, a journalist is drawn into an underground world of violent vigilantism.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Blind (2004)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - A detective searching for more than his suspect. A locksmith with a disturbing obsession. - Ben Clayton, Stephen Jackon, Amy Chomsky.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, detective
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The Hollywood Beach Murders (1992)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - Two cops are sent cross-country by train (on board the titular Hollywood Beach) to return a suspect in a murder case that's been closed. But a brutal murder that has all the earmarks of the one just solved, along with the presence of a crime boss on board the train, plants a seed of doubt in the cops' minds as to whether the original murderer is still on the loose. Stars Frank Gorshin and Rebecca Holden. Directed by Eric Straton. - Frank Gorshin, Rebecca Holden, David Regal.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Door in the Woods (2019)
Plot Summary:
Redd, Evelyn and their son, Kane, find a strange door, bound in padlocked chains, standing upright in the woods. After installing it in their home, strange occurrences lead Evelyn to discover their town's long history of missing children who were never found. Now, Kane has joined their ranks and Redd and Evelyn must strike a bargain with an evil entity to secure his return.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, demonic
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Private Duty Nurses (1971)
Plot Summary:
A trio of beautiful private-duty nurses that practice more than the medical arts must confront underground drug traffickers, racism and murder in their local hospital.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Last Bid (2016)
Plot Summary:
When two female friends decide to try their hand at a storage locker auction, they unwittingly inherit a locker belonging to a dangerous serial killer. They soon find themselves in a desperate race to uncover the truth about the locker before the killer tracks them down.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Blue Desert (1990)
Plot Summary:
After surviving rape, comic-book artist Lisa Roberts is moving from New York City to small town in Arizona. But there's danger in small towns too.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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The Killer Next Door (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ronnie Schwann is a 20-something with a comfortable life in a guesthouse behind his mother's home. The two share cigarettes, drugs and too much TV. During the day he works at a halfway home for the mentally ill where he develops an attraction for one of the patients, Sarah. When Sarah wanders through the neighborhood one day, lost and scared, Ronnie Ronnie brings her into his bedroom and plans to seduce her. Things go horribly wrong and Ronnie finds himself forced to cover up his plan. This edgy indie thriller explores Ronnie's 24-hour experience of life, love, death and the strong probability of a very long prison term.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Strike A Pose (1993)
Plot Summary:
A famous fashion photographer and her lover, ace detective Nick Carter, team up to bring the vengeful killer of prominent fashion models to justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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The Face of Fear (1990)
Plot Summary:
Graham Harris was once one of the world's foremost mountain climbers, until a fall five years earlier left him with a lame leg, a fear of heights...and a frightening psychic ability in which he can see murders as they are happening.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Badge Of Fear (1997)
Plot Summary:
A policewoman gets involved with the actor she was supposed to protect.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Seven (2019)
Plot Summary:
A police officer is bewildered by conflicting statements about Karthik's identity. Several young women seem to share a mysterious connection with him. An old man claims to know Karthik as Krishnamurthy, who died thirty years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, thrilling
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Caboose (1996)
Plot Summary:
An abandoned caboose becomes a junkie's hideout, a multiple murder has been committed. A police investigation leads nowhere, the crime remains unsolved, and Marceau, a hardened cop, resigns in the aftermath. But his troubles don't end there: someone is stalking him and his life is in danger. To save himself, Marceau recruits Camille, a young woman drummed out of the police academy for her inability to fire a gun. They make a pact: Camille agrees to flush out Marceau's potential murderer and Marceau, in exchange, undertakes to remunerate and train her. Camille plunges into Marceau's seedy underworld and encounters a raft of suspects. As Camille sinks deeper and deeper into this sordid world, she comes to terms with its violence and understands that the line between good and evil is narrow indeed. From this insight she draws the strength that had previously eluded her. Marceau's legacy... But who, exactly, is Marceau?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Revenge on the Highway (1992)
Plot Summary:
At his wedding Claude Sams has an argument with his son about his life-style; in anger Paul leaves. Together with a friend he sets out for Vegas to search a job. While changing a tire on the highway, he's killed by a passing truck. The police believes it's been an accident, but Claude doesn't accept this and frantically searches for a yellow truck and it's crazy driver at all truck stations.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Drifter (1988)
Plot Summary:
A suspensefilled thriller about a successful single woman who, on a deserted road, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker. Once back in the city, "The Drifter" follows her every move. Every attempt to free herself of his harassment fails until the shocking conclusion is revealed!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, tension, suspense
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Crawlspace (2022)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing a brutal murder in a cabin, a man hides in a crawlspace while the killers scour the property for a hidden fortune. As they draw nearer, he must decide if the crawlspace will be his tomb or the battleground in his fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Money Is Money (2017)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three thieves attempting to rob a house are altered by what they see inside.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Terror Trap (2010)
Plot Summary:
Driving to a weekend getaway, a car breakdown strands young couple Don and Nancy (David James Elliot and Heather Marsden) while passing through a small, rural Louisiana town. Finding the couple on the roadside, the towns inhospitable Sheriff Taylor (Jeff Fahey) tells them therell be no one to repair their car before morning. He directs them to a nearby motel for the night run by Carter (Michael Madsen). Checking into the seedy, rundown establishment, Don and Nancy have no way of knowing how this place deals with outsiders. Badge aside, the Sherriff answers to Carter, as do a gang of twisted, masked kidnappers, torturers, and killers. By the time Don and Nancy realize whats happening, its too late to flee. They must fight to survive the night, or be the next victims of the Terror Trap.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, psychotronic
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Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (1992)
Plot Summary:
A man (Rick Worthington) assaults the Alta Vista Hospital taking four women, a man and two babies as hostages. He wants to kill Dr. Garrick, who, according to Worthington, ruined his life sterilizing his wife. He threatens to detonate a bomb. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Hider in the House (1989)
Plot Summary:
A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark, action thriller, psychological, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Watchful Eye (2002)
Plot Summary:
Malibu detective Shannon (Renee Rea) goes undercover in a group house to discover who murdered one of the women living there. Shannon gets caught up in the sex and parties, not knowing that her every action is being secretly broadcast on satellite TV. When she learns of the broadcast, she puts the clues together and figures out that the men living in the house have sex with all the women for all the world to see. And that's when her life becomes slated for cancellation.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, detective, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Missionary Man (2007)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious stranger rolls into town on a unique motorcycle. All he carries is the bible and a desire for justice. Past vengeance collides as Ryder rights an injustice from his past and liberates the small town from a malicious oppressor.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
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The Barber (2014)
Plot Summary:
Eugene is a small town barber, beloved by the local community, but hiding a deadly secret. John is hunting for a serial killer not to expose him but to learn the business! They form a twisted bond and turn the town upside down as Eugene teaches John to kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film
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The Legend of DarkHorse County (2014)
Plot Summary:
As Jon (Shawn Welling / Michael Biehn) and Joy Ford (Tory Tompkins) move into the small town of DarkHorse, mysterious and supernatural occurrences threaten to tear the town apart. Teenage girl abductions and a chain of serial killings force good-ol'-boy Sheriff McElroy (Lee Majors / Larry Wade Carrell), the town's rugged symbol of justice, to use any means necessary to keep his beloved town from tumbling into chaos, and when Joy's nieces (Olivia 'ChaChi' Gonzales and Presley Bishop) are kidnapped, they must race to find the abductor and in turn come face to face with a monster.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Suddenly (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four assassins led by Baron, pose as Secret Service agents to commandeer the house of war-widow ELLEN. Her home is a prime sniper position for their plan to assassinate the President on his visit to the small town of Suddenly. The men fool the local cops except for one, TODD. A washed-up former war hero and deputy who is now the town drunk, Todd served with Ellen’s deceased husband and has developed romantic feelings for her over the years. But she rebuffs his advances. Todd visits the house and is immediately suspicious of Baron, but no one will listen to the ravings of a drunk. Once Todd realizes what is going on, he manages to kill one of Baron’s crew, but is captured. Now he and Ellen must find a way to stop Baron and his men before they kill the President.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, political, suspense, independent film
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Refuge (2013)
Plot Summary:
A post-apocalyptic thriller set in the ruins of a collapsed America, Refuge follows a family’s struggle to survive and rebuild a life in the absence of civilization. In the wake of a catastrophic plague, the family lives a lonely existence, struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy amidst a lawless world of roaming gangs and dwindling resources.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, apocalyptic, independent film, disaster movie
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The Desperate Hour (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman desperately races to save her child after police place her hometown on lockdown due to an active shooter incident.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, inspirational
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InstaPsycho (2020)
Plot Summary:
An unhinged social media super fan frames her best friend for murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark