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Plot Summary:
Antonio dotes on his mute brother and promises him a better life, symbolized by Baton Rouge. He's a gigolo who moves in with Isabel, wealthy and separated from her husband. She has nightmares of rape in her own bed, so Antonio encourages her to consult a psychiatrist; they end up in the office of Ana, a young doctor. As part of the exam, Ana visits Isabel where she catches Antonio pocketing a blank check Isabel has signed. Ana pushes him into an elaborate scheme to blackmail Isabel, making it seem she has killed her husband during a nightmare. All goes smoothly until Antonio sees the body: it's not the man he thought was Isabel's husband. In whose game is he a pawn?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, detective
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The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971)
Plot Summary:
A girl is murdered in a park. The man is tried and convicted for the crime but the killings suddenly continue.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, erotic, grindhouse, perverse
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A Perfect Friend (2006)
Plot Summary:
"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he attacked? Or was his head injury caused in an accident? This is only the first of many mysteries Julien has to resolve. Who is Marl?ne, the beautiful woman who claims to be his girlfriend? Why doesn't his real girlfriend, Anna, return his calls? What made him walk out on his job as a leading investigative reporter? Julien relies on Lucas, his best friend and.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Desire and Deception (2001)
Plot Summary:
After succumbing to a night of passion with gorgeous Kate Collins, married Eric Roarke discovers the mysterious temptress won't give him up easily. Eric's life spirals out of control as Kate's increasingly possessive behavior threatens his marriage and his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, psycho sexual, detective, sexploitation film
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The Wedding Murders (2016)
Plot Summary:
Serial Killer Henry Sparks fall in love with his childhood sweetheart Detective Prospect Jenkins who is after him.
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Genere: Crime, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, captivating, disturbing, independent film, detective, gay cinema
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Deadly Circuit (1983)
Plot Summary:
Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Although he never approaches her directly, he follows her and increasingly feels to be telepathically connected to her, because she reminds him of his daughter he never met. After he led a blind artist, Catherine's truly beloved spouse, into a bus accident, she makes a living by bank robbery with young Betty till Betty gets shot. Alone again, Catherine leads a sad, uneventful life as a waitress, when she meets her follower.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, slasher, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, gloomy, black comedy
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Between Your Legs (1999)
Plot Summary:
Miranda, a sex addict, works for a radio station and is married to a cop. She signs up for therapy in order to deal with her sex addiction. Also in the group is Javier, a sex-phone junkie. The two misfits hit it off and a torid affair ensues. But things get a little complicated when Javier finds out that this phone sex trysts have been secretly taped and being distributed all over Madrid, and that his ex-wife is living with his business partner. Elsewhere, while investigating a murder case, Felix discovers Miranda's affair with Javier.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, serious, eros, surprise ending, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, sexual
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Dead Man's Memories (2003)
Plot Summary:
A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of nefarious connections reflecting, somewhat, his own life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, Portugal
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending, realistic, sexual, neo noir, detective, sexy
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Thesis on a Homicide (2013)
Plot Summary:
Roberto is a specialist in Criminal Law whose life is thrown into chaos when he becomes convinced that Gonzalo, one of his best students, has committed a brutal murder right in front of the Faculty of Law. Determined to uncover the truth he begins a personal investigation that will soon become an obsession.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, suspenseful, tense, mind bending, crime drama, mind blowing, serious, ambiguous ending
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Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, bleak, suspenseful, serious, suspense, noir, art house, crime drama, visual, twisted
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The Fifth Cord (1971)
Plot Summary:
Luigi Bazzoni (Le Orme) directed this outstanding giallo thriller starring Franco Nero as a hard-drinking newspaperman who gets involved in a string of brutal murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, erotic, scary, tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic
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If They Tell You I Fell (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, tense, suspense, erotic, sexual, sexy
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The Two Faces of January (2014)
Plot Summary:
A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who try to flee a foreign country after one of them is caught up in the murder of a private detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, romantic, suspense, atmospheric, talky, intense, realistic, serious, period piece
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Cold Heart (2001)
Plot Summary:
A woman discovers becoming attracted to the wrong man can have deadly consequences in this tense erotic thriller. Linda (Nastassia Kinski) is a woman whose life would seem ideal on the surface: she runs a thriving business and is happily married to Phil (Jeff Fahey), a psychiatrist. But a faint air of discontent has begun to creep into her relationship, and when Phil arranges for Linda to hire Sean (Josh Holloway), one of his patients, as an assistant, she finds herself seriously tempted for the first time. Linda impulsively sleeps with Sean one night, but the next day decides she made a mistake and tries to break off her affair. Sean, however, is not willing to give her up so easily, and his attraction to her soon becomes a dangerous obsession.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, sexy, serious, erotic, disturbing, tense, stylized, sexual, realistic
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Goodbye Lover (1998)
Plot Summary:
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, suspenseful, witty, stylized, detective, erotic, tense, suspense, realistic
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Loft (2008)
Plot Summary:
Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, cynical, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, neo noir, detective, erotic, clever, slasher
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A Private Affair (2002)
Plot Summary:
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing for six months. After interviewing Rachel's family, friends and classmates, Francois is attacked and injured by an anonymous assailant and becomes reluctant to continue his search. But when Rachel's body is found, Francois is drawn deeper into the investigation as he discovers the dead girl's secret life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, detective, deep, realistic, cynical
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Bordertown (2007)
Plot Summary:
The opening titles explain that American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products.Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American news reporter for the "Chicago Sentinel" wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan (Martin Sheen) assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, serious, suspense, captivating, tragic
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Red Lights (2004)
Plot Summary:
A cross-country trip turns out to be a nightmare for a troubled couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, transgressive, psychological, sexual
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China Moon (1994)
Plot Summary:
Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After shooting her husband, Kyle relucantly agrees to help hide the body, but Kyle's partner is showing an unusual flair for finding clues.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, surprise ending, detective, slasher, anamorphic
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American Gigolo (1980)
Plot Summary:
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he's being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, stylized, erotic, suspenseful, sexy, intense, enigmatic, serious, realistic
Similar in 75%
Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspenseful, twist ending, sexy, tense, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller, surprise ending, psychological thriller
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Body Heat (1981)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, sexual, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, detective, tense, surprise ending, intense
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Where the Truth Lies (2005)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, period piece, stylized, erotic, suspense, disturbing, tricky, neo noir, melancholic, talky
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The Loft (2014)
Plot Summary:
For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital affairs -- is a dream come true, until the dead body of an unknown woman turns up. Realizing that her killer must be one of their group, the men are gripped by paranoia as each one suspects another. Friendships are tested, loyalties are questioned, and marriages crumble while fear and suspicion run rampant.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, intense, serious, psychological thriller, twisted
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The Body (2012)
Plot Summary:
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, suspense, mind blowing, detective, serious, psychological thriller, mind twisting
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)
Plot Summary:
Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, dark comedy, art house, romantic, talky, black comedy, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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Tell No One (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, psychological thriller, psychological, suspense, detective, serious, clever, dramatic, neo noir
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Law of Desire (1987)
Plot Summary:
When porn director Pablo reluctantly breaks up with his boyfriend, Juan, he encourages him to stay in touch. Juan moves away to live in a lighthouse and eventually writes his ex, but in the interim Pablo has taken up a psychotic new lover, Antonio (Antonio Banderas). Antonio intercepts their correspondence and flies into a towering rage, terrifying Pablo but inspiring him creatively as he works on a play about his transsexual sister.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surreal, sexy, stylized, atmospheric, talky, humorous, semi serious, erotic, art house, social
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All Good Things (2010)
Plot Summary:
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic, psychological, psychological thriller
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Original Sin (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, France, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, erotic, suspense, atmospheric, sensual, period piece, psychosexual thriller, suspenseful, exciting