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Plot Summary:
A divorced mother fears for her life after a friend gets her a blind date with a doctor.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Homage (1995)
Plot Summary:
The young caretaker at the estate of a reclusive woman develops a dangerous obsession with her daughter, a sexy television star. Unexpected twists and turns.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, gothic
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A House in the Hills (1993)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring actress gets a housesitting job and finds herself in a cat-and-mouse game with a deadly ex-con.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Raw Nerve (1999)
Plot Summary:
A cop, who is losing his sanity, lures his girlfriend and his former partner into the dangers of arson, robbery, and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, weeping
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White Rush (2003)
Plot Summary:
A group of young tourist couples comes across a drug deal gone bad while on vacation.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, cliffhanger, gloomy
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Temptation (1994)
Plot Summary:
After five years in prison for insurance fraud the sailor Lanarsky is released. Together with his buddy Bone he gets a job as seamen on board the yacht owned by the wife of his insurance fraud-partner Michael Reddick. Lanarsky has a question to his former partner who he thinks tried to cheat him. But Michael Reddich himself has another insurance plan ready where he will kill everybody on board the yacht, blow it up and then claim the life-insurance for his wife. But Lanarsky and the wife Lee escape and follow Michael to the nearby Cayman Island where the final showdown takes place.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dog Watch (1997)
Plot Summary:
A San Francisco detective (Elliott) goes wild when he discovers his partner dead and the presumed culprit standing over him. After beating the man to death, he comes to his senses and realizes that he has to get rid of the body of the beaten man. Dumping the man in the river, he returns to his partner's body and calls in the death. He is then given a new partner (Morales) and is assigned to investigate the death of a man just pulled from the river causing all the expected problems. However, the investigation does lead to police corruption and his own partner's involvement in drug running.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Stray (2000)
Plot Summary:
After a drifter is struck by a car the driver offers to take him back from the hospital to her home in order to nurse him back to health...which turns out to be one of the biggest mistakes of her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, independent film, realistic, detective
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Hourglass (1995)
Plot Summary:
A business executive gets mixed up with a killer female and her lesbian roommate, who plot to take over his fashion business.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, cult film
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On the Border (1998)
Plot Summary:
A dumb as rocks security guard in a Texas border town gets involved in a planned bank heist thanks to the charms of two different femmes fatales.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dream Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
Kris is a homicide cop with psychic abilities. She works to prove that the prime suspect in her latest case (the much younger husband of the millionaire victim) is innocent. But are her visions true, or planned by someone who knows what she can see?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Kate's Addiction (1999)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic woman becomes dangerously jealous when her best friend begins dating a handsome man. She will stop at nothing to keep the two apart, even if it means destroying their relationship or even murdering one of them.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Dangerous Touch (1994)
Plot Summary:
An erotic thriller about a promiscuous radio sex therapist who is dragged into blackmail by a young hustler.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Dirty Hands (1975)
Plot Summary:
Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes therefore the prime suspect. Where is Louis' body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door? Nothing is what it seems in this highly acclaimed taut thriller.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, clever, serious, erotic, anthology, grim, twisted
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The Harvest (1993)
Plot Summary:
A screenwriter is sent to Mexico to develop a story that can be used to wrap up a movie presently in production. Given a very short time allotment, the writer immerses himself in the seamier side of a Mexican beach resort, but soon finds himself involved in a 'body organ for profit' operation. Drugged, he has one of his own kidneys removed, and then, with a woman he isn't sure he can trust, he sets out to expose the ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, realistic, suspense, independent film, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, psychological
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Ten 'til Noon (2006)
Plot Summary:
Between 11:50 and 12:00 noon, a crime is commited. In the same ten minute period, we follow the lives of the ten people, all connected to this crime. As we see each person's point of view, we are propelled closer and closer to the truth of what exactly happened...and why.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, talky, suspense, cynical, non-linear, gloomy
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Finish Line (2008)
Plot Summary:
Minor league stock car racer Mitch Camponella gets closer to his NASCAR dreams when he's hired as private mechanic to a millionaire importer. But Mitch's ambition comes with a heavy price when he realizes that his new boss is a smuggler who's using Mitch as a pawn in a deadly illegal arms trade.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Friend of the Family II (1996)
Plot Summary:
Alex decides to have an affair with a woman named Linda while he is on business in New Orleans. When he returns home to his wife and child, he is surprised to find that his wife has hired the off-kilter homewrecker as a nanny to their baby. Alex must find a way to stay cool and not let his wife know the true identity and intentions of Linda.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, independent film, sexual, cliffhanger
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Bad Bizness (2003)
Plot Summary:
After three women get killed, policewoman gets involved in the underworld of drugs and pornographic movies, when she starts investigating the case.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film, rough, hood, sexploitation film
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American Crime (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young smalltown reporter, Jessie St. Claire, begins investigating a killer stalking his victims making video tapes. This might just be the career opportunity, which she has hoped for. When she herself becomes a target and suddenly disappears, the case attracts a colleague from the nationally syndicated television show "American Crime" as well. Together with Jessie's camera-man and later joined by her producer he tries to solve the mysterious case. Written by Oliver Heidelbach (IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Pretty When You Cry (2001)
Plot Summary:
A wife is caught in a web of sex and violence.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, independent film, gloomy, sexual
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Sensation (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lila a college student discovers a latent ability to see into the past. When a professor hires her for some psychological tests she becomes the target of the killer of the woman she sees in her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Natural Enemy (1996)
Plot Summary:
William McNamara plays a young man who was given away by his mother at birth, seeking revenge on her for abandoning him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing, weird
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Dead in the Water (2002)
Plot Summary:
Young, rich, and randy Gloria (Dominique Swain) takes the family motorboat for some fun in the sun off the coast of Brazil. Along with her are her longtime boyfriend Danny (Scott Bairstow), his best friend Jeff (Henry Thomas), and the son of an important and infinitely influential client, Marcos (Sebastian DeVicente). It probably wasn't a good idea to take three gorgeous men the same age out on a boat with a bikini-clad beauty who lately has been questioning her relationship with her main squeeze, but it gets even worse than expected. There's tragedy, betrayal, and more tragedy as the faulty value systems of the wealthy brats spin out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspense
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Dead On (1994)
Plot Summary:
In an erotic update of "Strangers on a Train", airline pilot Ted Beaumont and his lover, Erin Davenport, scheme to rid themselves of their respective spouses. Ted's wife disappears mysteriously and thinking that all is proceeding well, he plans an elaborate scheme to kill Erin's husband. However all is not as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, independent film, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, psychotronic, creepy
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Out of Season (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a young drifter is forced to stay the winter in a small seaside town, he inadvertently becomes the catalyst for deceit, double crossings and murder amongst the locals.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Body Language (1995)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer, defending a Mafia boss, falls for a beautiful woman with a sad story to tell. She says she's being abused by her brutal husband and she needs his help.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, surprise ending, erotic, psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Wild Things: Foursome (2010)
Plot Summary:
A murdered hotel millionaire's son finds himself tangled up in a game of seduction and murder after a raunchy night with three beautiful women.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, romantic drama, independent film, ridiculous
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Dark Hearts (2014)
Plot Summary:
When struggling artist Colson finds his muse in sultry singer Fran, their daring romance spirals out of control into a dangerous game of deception and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, stylized, captivating, sexual, sexy
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Malice (1993)
Plot Summary:
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, sexy, clever, neo noir, psychological thriller, twisted, erotic