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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crying
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Whispers Behind the Wall (2013)
Plot Summary:
Martin leaves his protective parents’ home and comes to Berlin as a law student with high hopes. He finds a tiny, run-down flat in a strange, dark apartment block, from which the previous tenant has disappeared without a trace. Having no luck with social contacts at the university, Martin quickly falls for his mysterious landlady Simone, who lives just next door behind a thin wall. Hoping to find trust and intimacy, Martin loses himself in the house’s disturbing world of sex and violence. Deep in the walls, Martin discovers the true horror of his first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Through Naked Eyes (1983)
Plot Summary:
A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractive woman in that building is checking him out. He strikes up a relationship with her. Soon afterwards a string of serial killings occurs in the neighborhood, and suspicion begins to fall on the musician.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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Expose (1997)
Plot Summary:
An enterprising Senator's daughter realizes she can make money by venturing into the seedy side of politics. With the help of two sexy friends, she sets up a thriving blackmail business videotaping her father's political colleages in compromising positions. When a sadistic lobbyist wants his share of the money... the action really heats up.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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14 Days to Life (1997)
Plot Summary:
Konrad von Seidlitz is a young yuppie lawyer currently celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, daughter of minister of justice Volkerts. As a public relations gag, he hasn't paid his parking fines for two years and now insists on being sentenced to jail for two weeks as punishment. Using his knowledge as a lawyer he makes the best out of his visit in jail still working, still in a splendid mood and not adapting to any rule. Probably a good way to get the desired public attention, but also a good way to make enemies inside the jail-house. One day before Konrad is to be released his booth is searched and two hundred grams of cocaine are found. That's a serious problem even for a brilliant lawyer like Konrad and even if you're innocent.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, thought provoking, serious, realistic
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The Ice Forest (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the harsh snowy landscape of the Italian Alps, a young technician arrives to repair an electric power plant of a village plagued by blackouts. There, he encounters a strange disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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The Sandman (1995)
Plot Summary:
The ambitious young Ina Littmann is an investigative journalist for the TV talk show "Eye in Eye". Her current subject is Henry Kupfer, who wrote a bestseller about a psychopathic killer after he was himself in prison for 8 years for manslaughter. As an entry for the show Ina plans to use a current series of brutal murders among prostitutes. When Ina meets Kupfer, she is despised and fascinated at the same time. Soon she's convinced that Kupfer not only writes about murders, but commits them himself. She smells a smash hit and prepares to prove him guilty on the show.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Expecting Mercy (2000)
Plot Summary:
A couple on the run find themselves dealing with the hidden cameras that have been installed at the bed-and-breakfast where they choose to hide out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychosexual thriller, independent film, psychological thriller, psycho sexual, psycho film
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Don't Go (2018)
Plot Summary:
Devastated by his daughter's death in a terrible accident, Ben becomes convinced that he can bring her back through a recurring dream. But is it just a dream? Or is Ben losing his mind?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Kill Kill Faster Faster (2008)
Plot Summary:
Recently paroled after serving a long stretch for his wife's murder, Joey One-Way aligns himself with a producer who has optioned the play he wrote in prison. As he sets about adapting his work for the big screen, Joey falls for his new pal's ex-con wife, and enters into a doomed affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic, sexy, neo noir, hot
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A Brilliant Disguise (1994)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful and talented woman with highly contrasting multiple personalities draws a hotshot sportswriter into a web of murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Uncaged (1991)
Plot Summary:
Miki and her younger brother Robby flee their destructive home and find themselves in the towering metropolis, Los Angeles. There, they meet Sharkey, a pimp. Miki becomes infatuated with Sharkey and starts to work for him. Miki finds herself trapped in Sharkey's dominating world and must find a way to escape the nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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VooDoo Dawn (1998)
Plot Summary:
In the eerie backdrop of the Lousiana bayou, former inmate Frank sees the opportunity of a lifetime in the form of cursed cash. But this cash has a price of its own. Avenging the death of his brother at the hands of police officer Sam Merchant, Frank, with Jezabelle, form a sadistic plan of vengeance mixing violent rituals and voodoo curses. But Merchant's son A.J. escapes almost certain death. Now, in order to save his family and himself, A.J. is pitted into a deadly standoff with ancient evil. Delve into the underworld of voodoo magic and the occult and pray for your soul.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Naked and Lustful (1974)
Plot Summary:
A corrupt businessman obtains a castle through surreptitious means. He has a series of affairs while his ill wife remains bed-ridden and after her death he marries one of his mistresses. But she was the daughter of the man from whom the castle was stolen and she has her own agenda.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Graphic Desires (2022)
Plot Summary:
When reclusive Franklin cheats on his partner with a mysterious girl he meets on a dating app, it becomes the start of a deadly obsession.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Deadly Secret (1994)
Plot Summary:
A real estate tycoon suddenly finds himself the victim of a blackmailer, who knows about his participation in the murder of a girl when he was a college student.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Venus Flytrap (1987)
Plot Summary:
Three street punks--Turk, his girlfriend BB., and his sidekick Wimp--observe two young affluent kids, Ginger and Danny, shoplifting from a record store. On a lark, the street kids invite themselves along to a party at the home of the yuppies' friends, Rod and Arlene. There the party games turn from strip darts to Russian roulette.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, surprise ending
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The Detective and Death (1994)
Plot Summary:
Death never gives back what it takes. Only sometimes change one life for other.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain, Poland, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: detective
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Night Vision (2011)
Plot Summary:
A womanizing reality-TV producer (Spencer) unwittingly sleeps with a mysterious woman (Alison), who turns out to be his own stalker. Alison then kidnaps Spencer and holds him hostage while she humiliates and abuses him, recording every moment on camera for her own twisted reality-TV show.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Top Model (1987)
Plot Summary:
Nadine is a breathtaking and astonishingly sensual fashion photographer who gets lured into accepting a lingerie photo-shoot in the villa of the mysterious Victor Schneider. After the models and the crew leave the villa, only Nadine and Victor stay behind. As the night shrouds the villa with its thick shadows, Victor offers Nadine a weird proposal. Would she dare to put her own life at stake in a chess game? If he wins, she loses every right over her body and life. If Nadine does, Victor will kill himself. Thus begins a long night of sex, lust, desire, fear and. death.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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The Cool Surface (1993)
Plot Summary:
A writer returns to Hollywood after finishing his novel in the wilderness. Still smarting from his girlfriend's suicide and his publisher's criticisms of his novel, he becomes intrigued by the neighbor couple's abusive relationship.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, neo noir, sexy
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Cut Snake (2014)
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Young, charismatic, and hardworking, Sparra Farrell seems to be sailing into a happy, respectable life. He has a solid job and an adorable fiancée named Paula, and already owns a modest house in the country outside Melbourne. The only odd thing is that Sparra says precious little about his past — but that past is about to catch up with him, and wrest control of his present.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, neo noir, realistic, captivating, psychological, erotic, psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, queer cinema
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Red Heat (1985)
Plot Summary:
East Germans abduct a U.S. coed (Linda Blair) and throw her in a women's prison run by a brutal inmate (Sylvia Kristel).
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Thriller
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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All That Divides Us (2017)
Plot Summary:
A middle-class house in the middle of nowhere. A council estate in Sète. A mother and daughter. Two childhood friends. A vanishing. Blackmail. A clash between two worlds.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Bedroom Eyes II (1989)
Plot Summary:
This sequel to 1986's Bedroom Eyes is the mixture as before, with Wings Hauser replacing the first film's star Kenneth Gilman. Once again, stockbroker Hauser begins succumbing to his chronic voyeurism. And also once again, his obsession gets him mixed up in a murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, surprise ending, independent film
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Scorpio Nights 3 (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young couple's sex acts are witnessed by a young man through a hole. When the wife seduces him, they engage in an illicit affair. Chaos ensues when the husband learns about them.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Virtual Desire (1995)
Plot Summary:
Brad's wife Susan is mysteriously murdered. Brad begins recounting all the affairs he had with women he met on an internet fantasy line. One of those women was the murderer. Who, and why?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, erotic, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, sexual, sexy, sexploitation film
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Vivid (1999)
Plot Summary:
When a passionate young model convinces her boyfriend, a painter, to take to the canvas to renew their sexual chemistry, their erotic, uninhibited masterpieces command the attention of the art world. Smothered in paint, the couple slip and slide into a new realm of their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Carnal Crimes (1991)
Plot Summary:
Although Elise is young and beautiful, her husband is no longer interested in having vanilla sex with her. This leaves her bored, unsatisfied and with problems during public masturbation. Then she meets the mysterious photographer Renny and experiences unknown measures of lust and passion. The affair suddenly becomes deadly danger when she learns that he's suspected of woman slayer.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Raluca (2014)
Plot Summary:
Former cop Filip Marold doesn't want to be reminded of some things from his past. But others remind him... He works as a private detective, sleeps with his secretary and spies on people for money. All up to the moment when he meets seductive Raluca and his life turns upside down. Is it just a coincidence? Fate? Or has someone set a trap? Even in his wildest dreams he wouldn't imagine the things that were about to happen. Things that involve sex, murder, the big reveal and a harsh reminder of that damn past.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, crying