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Plot Summary:
Cristiano, Francisco and Gabriel are three good old friends celebrating their entrance in the University. But in a horror night, the fun gets mixed up with violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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School of Fear (1969)
Plot Summary:
A teenager mysteriously disappears from a German boys' school. Also known by the title "School of Fear".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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A Name for Evil (1973)
Plot Summary:
Dissatisfied with the family architectural business, a man and his wife pack up and move out to his great-grandfather's old house in the country. While trying to patch it up, the house starts to make it clear to him that it doesn't want him there, but the local church (with some off-kilter practices of their own) seems to take a shine to him.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Life Imprisonment (1988)
Plot Summary:
The childhood traumas of a solitary young man have a determinative effect on the formation of his personality and sexual behavior and have turned him into a rapist with the angelic face. One day, the young man, Giorgos, confides his secret to a friend and colleague named Toni, who advises him to visit a psychiatrist. At the same time, he encourages him to have a relationship with a colleague of theirs named Kaiti, who seems to be interested in him. But the police, who had been looking looking for the perpetrator all this time, finally appear.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Up Against Them All (2004)
Plot Summary:
A story about the lies, treachery and vengeance of a middle-class family living on the outskirts of São Paulo. Four characters try desperately to change their lives, but are unable to escape their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Amateur Porn Star Killer 2 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Shane Ryan's sequel to the disturbing Amateur Porn Star Killer is a brutal calling card to all those who were enraged by its predecessor (and there were many). Ryan is a force to be reckoned with, and he's not letting up any time soon. The victim here isn't a young girl. This one doesn't just go quietly, either. She fights back. She knows she's in trouble, but she mistakenly thinks she can get away. In other movies, she would escape and somber music would play as the credits creep up the screen. The audience would leave the theatre satisfied that the bad guy got what he deserved. They would go home feeling safe. Ryan doesn't let anyone have such notions. He shows things as they really are. This is what a killer would film. This is how it would look, and if you didn't know any better, you'd swear it was real. (And you still can't be totally sure it's not.).
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, tense, erotic, controversial
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Dirty World (1978)
Plot Summary:
A thriller by Sergio Bergonzelli.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, crying, poliziottesco, erotic, gay cinema, sexploitation film
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You Can't Escape Lithuania (2016)
Plot Summary:
After his star actress, Indre, murders her mother, rich-kid filmmaker Romas plans her escape from Lithuania. His Mexican boyfriend Carlos helps them reluctantly. On the road, Romas begins shooting an improvised experimental film. As events take an unexpected turn, their secrets, memories and emotions make this journey wilder than any film Romas could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Bog of Beasts (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, erotic, political, gloomy
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Confessions of the Sex Slaves (1977)
Plot Summary:
The plot has pretty, middle-class Caucasian girls (college students, runaways etc.) being kidnapped right of the streets of Zurich and Montreal(!), and after being beaten, raped, and hooked on heroin, they are sent to Amsterdam to work as zombified strippers and prostitutes in a nightclub called the Moulin Rouge. A female reporter is investigating the disappearance of one girl and ends up on the trail of the slavers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Amateur Porn Star Killer 3: The Final Chapter (2009)
Plot Summary:
An up-and-coming actress (Regan Reece) is picked up off the streets by a young serial killer, and a night that appears to begin with a good Samaritan's act quickly turns into a game of cat-and-mouse in a field.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, disturbing, controversial, independent film, fake documentary
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The Last Step Down (1971)
Plot Summary:
A naive country girl new to the big city gets involved in the underground sex scene.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Desert Passion (1993)
Plot Summary:
Two show-business women leave Los Angeles for Las Vegas, but phoney state troopers abduct them in the desert and they are taken to a laboratory/prison. Here, males come to experience sexual fantasies, which it is the job of the two girls and other attractive captives to flesh out. The captors force an hypnotic drug upon them to aid their performances. Then a country hitchhiker they met earlier at a gas station decides to rescue the girls.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, rough, suspenseful, sexy, independent film
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Assault! Jack the Ripper (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two restaurant employees begin a sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial, psychotronic, slasher, slasher horror, disgusting
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X: Night of Vengeance (2011)
Plot Summary:
Holly Rowe's retiring, kissing her callgirl life goodbye. She just has to get through her last night on the job. Shay Ryan's a teenage runaway, broke and alone. She just has to get through her first night as a hooker. Then fate throws them together on a job that goes horribly wrong and they're trapped on an out-of-control roller coaster ride, through the twilight zone of sex-for-sale. X is a sizzling adults-only thriller about love, chance, escape and the oldest profession experienced by two women, on a night that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, sensual, realistic, erotic, sexy, controversial, sad, sexual
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Strange Girl in Love (1973)
Plot Summary:
Roza has an affair with her boyfriend's father. Soon after, she is found dead from a fall. Was it suicide, or was she pushed?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence. Bored, troubled and excluded, the boys are unable to accept or even recognise moral boundaries. Their actions move inexorably towards a truly shocking act, that will horrify their sleepy community and expose its deepest, hidden fears.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, brutal, suspense, tense, suspenseful, controversial, transgressive, devastating, crying
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Antonio's Secret (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story about a teenage boy, Antonio, whose emerging gay sexuality alienates him from his friends and family, until his libertine uncle, Jonbert, comes to live with him and his mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, independent film
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Chronically Unfeasible (2000)
Plot Summary:
Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, thought provoking, serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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Lucio Flavio (1977)
Plot Summary:
History of a famous Brazilian bandit of the early seventies and his fight against a death squad.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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99 Women (1969)
Plot Summary:
Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionally hilarious as sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz, spitting tacky dialogue with exuberant venom in a performance so overbearing that it verges on classic. The plot is standard for the genre, as three women (Maria Rohm, Elisa Montes, Luciana Paluzzi) are sentenced to an island prison off the Panamanian coast, only to encounter torture, rape, and lesbianism. When sympathetic Warden Caroll (Maria Schell) replaces Diaz, the prisoners assume that conditions will improve, but their agony only worsens until they decide to escape. Rosalba Neri co-stars, and Herbert Lom runs the corrupt men's prison nearby. 99 Mujeres was heavily censored in various prints, with versions running anywhere between 70 and 108 minutes. Edits running 84, 86, and 94 minutes are most commonly available.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, sensual, cult classic, explicit, independent film, rough
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Prison Girls (1972)
Plot Summary:
Six female prisoners are given a weekend furlough to prepare them for their upcoming parole. While out, they all have miscellaneous sexual experiences, some good, some bad. One returns to her pimp even though he beats her, one overcomes her frigidity, one gets gang raped, two join in a threesome, and one goes back to her criminal lover shortly before the police show up.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sensual, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Wrong Way (1972)
Plot Summary:
Two girls are driving home when their car breaks down in the country. They are kidnapped by a gang of drug-crazed hippies, and repeatedly raped. They escape, but soon run into a death cult who plan to gang-rape the girls, then kill them. Meanwhile, the father of one of the girls gets the police to begin an investigation into their disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, road movie, independent film, cult film
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City of M (2000)
Plot Summary:
After exhausting all legal channels in his search for a job, "M" struggles with the decision of whether or not to enter a life of crime by helping his friends deliver drugs to Miami.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak
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The Chick's Ability (1984)
Plot Summary:
A woman has to choose between being a prostitute or posing nude for a painter, in order to finance an expensive surgery for her son, his only chance to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, explicit, erotic, sexploitation film
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A Scream in the Streets (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two Los Angeles detectives are assigned to track down and arrest a brutal rapist-murderer terrorizing the city. Their job is complicated by the fact that the killer is able to avoid capture because he can pose as a woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Dawn Rapists (1978)
Plot Summary:
Crime drama centering on a gang of rapists, the aftermath of their crimes on the victims and the gang members being brought to justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, crying
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Concrete (2004)
Plot Summary:
A high-school girl is kidnapped by gang lords and held captive for several months. Over this time, she repeatedly beaten, raped, and tortured. On the 25th of November 1988, four youths abducted and held Furuta Junko in the house of one of the captors. Subjected to rape, torture, and humiliation, Junko had no hope of escape as the manhunt was stalled by the captors forcing her to tell her parents that she was ok. For 41 harrowing days, Junko had to endure unimaginable suffering at the hands of these four individuals. Finally, after losing in a game of mahjong solitaire, they beat her with an iron dumbbell and set on fire with lighter fluid. She died later that day from shock. In an attempt to hide their crime they buried her in cement and thus the name 'Concrete Encased High School Murder Case' was born as Japan had to confront the horrors of this crime. The perpetrators disposed the drum in a tract of reclaimed land in Koto, Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, crying
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Baise-moi (2000)
Plot Summary:
Manu has lived a difficult life. Abused and violently raped, she sets off to find herself only to meet Nadine, a prostitute who has encountered one too many injustices in the world. Angry at the world, they embark on a twisted, rage-filled road trip. They choose to have sex when they please and kill when they need. Leaving a trail of mischief and dead bodies in their wake. Generating a media blitz and manhunt, soon everyone is out to capture the young fugitives.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, disturbing, bleak, road movie, sexy, stylized, intense, sensual, brutal
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The Streetwalker (1976)
Plot Summary:
A businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, mad
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Pixote (1980)
Plot Summary:
Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old transvesite hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape where they make their living by the life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: disturbing, depressing, bleak, realistic, rough, atmospheric, serious, political, controversial, hood