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Plot Summary:
A series of mob style executions are taken care of by a female assassin (super-tough, of course) who sort looks like a mingling of Melanie Griffith in "Body Double" and Brigitte Nielsen in "Beverly Hills Cop II".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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Mindfield (1989)
Plot Summary:
When a police detective kills a criminal, this traumatic event triggers a locked memory, he didn't know he had, of him being a subject of a CIA experiment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, independent film, detective
Similar in 83%
Trapped (1982)
Plot Summary:
A group of college students accidentally see a local redneck kill his wife. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues, with the students trying to escape the area while the killer sets out to eliminate the witnesses who can tie him to the murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, independent film, cult film
Similar in 87%
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1991)
Plot Summary:
A hot new model takes the fashion world by storm, but things start to turn ugly when people around her begin turning up dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 77%
Redball (1999)
Plot Summary:
Redball is a 1999 Australian film. Two detectives are assigned to solve a series of grisly murders of children. However, when their investigation leads them towards someone in their own squad room as the killer, the female detective edges on a total breakdown as she loses faith in her fellow officers. The film explores the decadence and corruption that exists in the police force.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Pure Danger (1996)
Plot Summary:
A paroled short order cook and a waitress go on the run with a bag of diamonds that accidentally falls into their possession, prompting two warring gangs to come after them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy
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Dead Certain (1991)
Plot Summary:
A detective becomes obsessed with bringing a man to justice, whom he is sure is a serial killer and the murderer of a woman with which both men were involved. However, the supposed killer may be as much a victim as the murdered people.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Sins in the Suburbs (2022)
Plot Summary:
Heather, a struggling artist living in a quiet neighborhood, meets her new neighbor: the good-looking photographer Tyler. While at first intrigued, Heather begins to question if Tyler may be involved in reports of a local serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Midnight Fear (1991)
Plot Summary:
A sheriff tracks down a killer who skinned a woman alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, detective
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Deadly Little Secrets (2002)
Plot Summary:
A federal agent and ex-detective attempt to bring a physician with murderous tendencies to justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 78%
Requiem for Murder (1999)
Plot Summary:
A thriller starring Molly Ringwald.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Similar in 77%
Gotham (1988)
Plot Summary:
A New York private eye searches for a socialite who supposedly drowned 10 years before.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, cult classic, atmospheric, noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eighties
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Breaking Point (1994)
Plot Summary:
A retired police detective reluctantly returns to action to stop a serial killer dubbed "The Surgeon".
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: action thriller, independent film, erotic, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, detective, sexy
Similar in 78%
Blindside (1987)
Plot Summary:
Harvey Keitel plays Penfield Gruber, a once great scientist, reduced to managing a sleazy hotel. Gruber monitors the daily comings and goings of his tenants, mainly for his own interest, until underworld figures ask him to spy on a suspected double-crosser. While watching the man, Gruber overhears a murder plot.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Killing Blue (1988)
Plot Summary:
Police Commissioner Alex Glass has been twisted into a sarcastic cynic by the hard luck story that is his life and by his daily contact with the criminals of Berlin's underground. His new assistant, Shirly Mai, is an attractive and conscientious woman who embodies a quality of virtue that her boss gave up a long time ago. They have both been assigned to solve a series of gruesome murders that have been taking place in Berlin's drug and prostitution ganglands. The prime suspect is George Miskowski, a pusher who supplies Berlin's brothels and hookers with cocaine and heroin.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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I Come with the Rain (2009)
Plot Summary:
Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate in Asia the disappearance of his only son, Shitao, whom he has not seen in person since the boy was ten. Now in his 30s, Shitao has gone missing in the Philippines where he had been helping in an orphanage.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Spain, UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, neo noir, atmospheric, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, offbeat, realistic, suspenseful
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The Collector (2002)
Plot Summary:
Une policière, Maud Graham, suit un tueur en série qui agresse des femmes. En même temps, elle héberge un jeune prostitué et un fugueur de 12 ans. L'action se déroule dans la ville et capitale de la province du même nom, Québec.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, neo noir
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Private Eye (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in occupied Korea at the start of the 20th century, where a young student in medicine discovers the murdered body of the son of a government official. Being scared of being accused, he decides to hire Hong Jin-ho (a detective) to help him find the murderer before the police accuse him of the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, surprise ending, suspense, tricky, detective, twisted
Similar in 82%
Play Nice (1992)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is on the loose, and a cop must track him (or her) down.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Striking Poses (1998)
Plot Summary:
When a beautiful paparazzo for a tabloid magazine finds herself pursued by a ruthless stalker, she is determined to emerge from this deadly game alive, and independently wealthy.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, psychological, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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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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Three Men to Destroy (1980)
Plot Summary:
A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Fatal Instinct (1992)
Plot Summary:
A homicide detective (Michael Madsen) falls for a resort owner (Laura Johnson) suspected of slaying a playboy developer.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, erotic, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, detective
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Choke (2001)
Plot Summary:
Henry, an uptight businessman who sometimes acts with questionable ethics, nevertheless rejects Ron, a scam artist who wants a partner. Ron won't let up and finds a lever to blackmail Henry, whose daughter Gina has killed a pedestrian in a hit-and-run car accident. To protect Gina, Henry disposes of Ron, but a murderous sociopath witnesses this crime. Henry and this stranger bond in an odd way, telling stories about their childhoods. Henry makes a deal with the stranger, helping to get rid of the body of one of the stranger's victims. Will this act seal a bargain between the two men and get Henry off the hook, or will the stranger threaten Henry and Gina?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
Similar in 84%
Lady Beware (1987)
Plot Summary:
Young and good looking Katya, a window dresser for a big department store in Pittsburgh, begins a love story with a journalist, Mac Odell. She is however stalked by Jack, a married man who has a fixation with her. Jack makes Katya's life hellish and when the girl tells his wife about him he becomes wild with fury having been exposed and goes to the store to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, erotic, independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, surprise ending
Similar in 89%
Dirty Work (2006)
Plot Summary:
Bad City is the tangled story of three men's lives: Manning, a dirty, disillusioned cop; Julian, king of drugs, thugs and prostitution; and Frank, a ruthless politician who destroys everything in the way of his ambition.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, neo noir
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Intimate Stranger (1991)
Plot Summary:
A policeman (James Russo) guards a barroom singer (Deborah Harry) whose phone-sex sideline has put a killer (Tim Thomerson) on her trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Freeway (1988)
Plot Summary:
A deeply-disturbed priest goes on a murderous night-time rampage across America's highways.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Stone Cold Dead (1979)
Plot Summary:
Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, slasher, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir
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Bare Witness (2002)
Plot Summary:
Professional killer Gav Reed commits a grave mistake allowing himself to be videotaped (as she always does, for a documentary she hopes to sell to Hollywood about the real nocturnal 'eldest business' there) by Julie Spencer, one of Max 'Slim' Reuter's hookers and porn actresses, whom he had sex with before - and while making a most incriminating call about his murder attempt at a high society campaign party for mayor Garland's electoral challenger Mary Washington, where the bullet is however caught by councilor Frank Constantine, who also survives. Gav's client, businessman Ian Hunter, who was videotaped earlier, has his girl Marina shoot Gav and then Julie, later Slim who. Rough but effective police detective Killian investigates, helped by Julie's friend Carly Marsh, and unravels even more sordid connections.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious, realistic, sexual, sexploitation film
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Blowback (2000)
Plot Summary:
Whitman is a psychotic religious killer who was caught by Inspector Morell a former seminarian, whose religious knowledge led to Whitman's capture. Whitman was tried and sentenced to death. However, he was rescued by a secret government group who want to make him an assassin, however, Whitman escapes and decides to get back at the people who tried to stop his mission, the jury, the judge, the district attorney, who's Morrell's ex-wife. Morrell recognizes the killings as Whitman's style but how could it be when he's dead. The man who recruited Whitman posing as an FBI agent claims that they are looking for a copy cat but Morrell finds it hard to believe that it could no one other than Whitman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film