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Plot Summary:
After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her: to regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with neural patterns of a woman who just died. It works, and Kaylie seems to be OK again. However in her dreams, she lives the last day of her savor - and realizes that she's been killed! Together with her husband she tries to find out what happened.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Electronic Lover (1966)
Plot Summary:
Mike Atkinson plays the Master in this surreal little soft-core film of the late 60's. The Master is a peeping tom who sends his minion to fellow various women around with a video camera, the images being sent back to the Masters lair where he can enjoy it in solitary. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Body to Body (2003)
Plot Summary:
Laura Bartelli is a stripper in a French bar. She retires after a moody landscape architect named Marco Tisserand asks her to abandon her life and share his. However, after her red Volkswagen runs off the road en route to the rendezvous, she ends up scarred and comatose in a hospital. Marco stays at her bedside.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: bleak
Similar in 79%
The Baby Doll Murders (1993)
Plot Summary:
A Los Angeles cop tracks a serial killer who leaves a broken baby doll at the site of each grisly crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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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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Hungry for You (1996)
Plot Summary:
It's the year 2010, and half of all households receive virtual reality programming. However, someone has discovered how to use the VR receivers to murder men while being seduced into virtual sex with the seductive Viva. The FCC has contracted VR expert Rodney to track down the killer, placing himself on the killer's hit list.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Astral Factor (1978)
Plot Summary:
Demonstrating that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, a convicted strangler studies the paranormal and finds a way to render himself invisible. Once he escapes, he sets out to find and eliminate the five women who testified in his prosecution. A police lieutenant (Robert Foxworth) sets out to safeguard them, and bring the invisible killer to justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Dreammaster: The Erotic Invader (1996)
Plot Summary:
On a quest to unravel the mysteries of recurring nightmares, four college grad students experiment on each other, monitoring and attempting to manipulate their dreams. Grant, the most troubled of the quartet, is disturbed by the sensual Devora, an erotic fantasy figure who torments and teases him in the most vivid of dreams. Determined to help him, Grant's friends enter the twilight world of his sleeping mind, only to discover that Devora's curse of eternal pleasure is irresistible.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, crying, independent film, weeping
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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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Who Killed Buddy Blue? (1995)
Plot Summary:
Detectives Munro and Sanders are assigned to investigate the murder of an adult film star named Buddy Blue. The hunk was actually killed during the shooting of an orgy scene.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Starquest II (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sci-fi thriller directed by Fred Gallo.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Run If You Can (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young woman accidentally sees snuff films through a satellite dish aberration and alerts the police, who are already looking for a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Virtual Girl (1998)
Plot Summary:
John Lewis, a programming genius, has it all- a beautiful wife and a child, a lavish home and he's on the brink of making it big after he finishes one last project, a CD-Rom Sex Game called Virtual Girl. However, things get complicated when a woman in a VR simulation becomes “real” and falls in love with the VR system creator.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, serious, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, campy
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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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Click: The Calendar Girl Killer (1990)
Plot Summary:
Click: The Calendar Girl Killer is a thriller that probes the inner sanctum of the mind of a psychotic killer as he uses the world of big fashion photography for his sadistic playground.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, erotic, independent film, cult film
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Killing Obsession (1994)
Plot Summary:
Albert (John Savage) is a psychopath who, after brutally murdering a woman, becomes obsessed with her 11-year-old daughter Annie. Twenty-one years after being sent to prison for his crimes, Albert is freed over the strenuous objections of Dr. Sachs (John Saxon), the psychiatrist who has been overseeing Albert's case all these years. Sachs is convinced that Albert is still a very real threat to the community, and it turns out that he's right; desperate to find Annie, but not knowing what surname she uses today, Albert begins contacting every Annie he can find in the phone book, leaving a bloody trail of murdered women in his path when they turn out not to be the little girl he's looking for.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Body Parts (1991)
Plot Summary:
A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to the surviving two.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, grindhouse, medical horror, cult classic, disturbing, independent film
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Cat in the Cage (1978)
Plot Summary:
A young man returns to his rich family's estate after a stay in a mental hospital. He finds that his father has married his deceased wife's nurse, who is secretly plotting with her lover.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Subliminal Seduction (1996)
Plot Summary:
Darrin Danver is married to Deb. He is a videogames programmer and works for Z-Games when he receives an offer for a job from CTC. He accepts the offer and moves with his wife Deb near Las Vegas. There he discovers that he is paid a lot only to develop the videogame Radical Rat Trap, which is to follow Amazing Mouse Maze. But the great family of CTC uses Videogames Cd-Rom and subliminal messages to try to control minds, his and his wife's.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Naked Souls (1996)
Plot Summary:
Edward is busy trying to unlock the secrets of reading and recording people's thoughts. He is very involved with his work leaving little room for girlfriend Britt. Longstreet comes along and offers Edward a place to do his research and have unlimited funding. There are, however, ulterior motives as Edward is also somehow unlocking the secrets of eternal life.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, bleak, serious, tense, suspense, sexy, independent film, suspenseful, slasher, hot
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Seconds (1966)
Plot Summary:
A secret organisation offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The customer picks out someone they want to be and the organisation surgically alters the customer to look like the intended person, stages the customer's death, gets rid of the intended person and the customer takes on a new life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surreal, philosophical, tense, black and white, cerebral, grim, cult classic, psychedelic, psychological thriller, psychological
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Vanishing Waves (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lucas is a scientist who works near the European experimental project that focus on advanced ‘human neuron research’. The project is to transfer neuron information from one human mind to another. Lukas is chosen to connect his mind with a comatose woman he named Aurora.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Lithuania, France, Belgium
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, serious, futuristic, tense, captivating, thought provoking, offbeat, controversial, deviant
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Goliad Uprising (2012)
Plot Summary:
Shannon Lark stars as Ariel Loner who uses her lovers to achieve her goal of thwarting the one man she hasn't been able to manipulate. Her web of seduction captures the handsome David (Aaron Weisinger) and leads him on a run for their lives as national security forces close in. It isn't until David is finally trapped that he realizes he's been used by the sultry Loner.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: twisted
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Endangered Species (2002)
Plot Summary:
When police are puzzled by several horrific murders, they assume they have a serial killer on their hands. But soon they realise that the unimaginable has happened. A killing machine from another world has arrived on Earth determined to brutally execute human beings. Finding themselves out of their depth they are forced to rely on a mysterious alien hunter that has volunteered his help.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, slasher, rough, serious, fast
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Spontaneous Combustion (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, gothic, tense, medical horror, cult classic, cult horror, independent film, serious, surprise ending
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Liquid Sky (1982)
Plot Summary:
Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, sexy, disturbing, stylized, cult classic, mindfuck, sexual, psychological, mind bending
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The Wasp Woman (1995)
Plot Summary:
Janice Starlin is an aging model who owns a cosmetics company. When a researcher experimenting with wasps brings her a serum that will turn back the aging process, she decides to first try it on herself. The serum works, but it also turns her into a killer wasp woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, remake of cult film
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Crossbreed (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, the President of the New United States of America hires a team of military veterans to retrieve an alien bio-weapon from a top secret research facility orbiting the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Dead Zone (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young man awakens from a six-year coma with the ability to see into peoples futures. This is the first two episodes of the television series.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic
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Altered States (1980)
Plot Summary:
A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychological, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, mind bending, scary, suspense, philosophical, suspenseful
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Brainstorm (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, meditative, futuristic, psychological, philosophical, intense, cyber, tense, serious, cerebral