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Plot Summary:
A deputy-district attorney, assigned to investigate the murder of the mayor's cousin, finds himself falling for the victim's wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary, sexual, surprise ending, independent film, sexy
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Kinky Killers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Patients of sexy psychiatrist Dr. Jill Kessey and eccentric attorney Alexander Hathaway are being murdered in bloody, satanic rituals. Law enforcement investigations reveal that sex and mutilation are the signatures of a serial killer, who likes to tattoo each of the victims after they are murdered. Lead detective Barry Harper discovers that some beautiful professional women are the prey...or are they doing the preying?.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, slasher, rough, suspenseful, suspense, detective, erotic, mind bending, independent film, scary
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Murder Rap (1988)
Plot Summary:
When a young audio fanatic accidentally records a brutal murder, his pursuit of the killer lures him into a sinister plot of revenge and deceit, Texas style.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, tense, sexy, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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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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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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Naked Lie (1989)
Plot Summary:
They are the perfect, and politically correct, couple. He is a judge, she is a high profile attorney. When she takes on a sensational murder case, the trail leads right to her own front door.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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Road to Nowhere (2010)
Plot Summary:
A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, neo noir, suspense, surreal, meta, mind bending, realistic
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Cover Story (2002)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious magazine editor gets too caught up in a high-stakes sex scandal and is framed for murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
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Exit in Red (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ed Altman is a psychiatrist who relocates to Palm Springs, Calif., in order to avoid a lawsuit. However, he happens to wander directly into more trouble when he begins an affair with the rich and beautiful Ally Mercer (Annabel Schofield), who has her own reasons for becoming involved with Ed. Soon Ally's other lover, the volatile Nick, is caught in the intrigue, which results in murder, betrayal and numerous shady dealings.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, psychological, independent film, stylized, sexual, surprise ending, sexy
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Cries in the Dark (2006)
Plot Summary:
Detective Carrie Macklin and her little sister Elle had always been the closest of friends. But when Elle goes missing after a run-in with a relocated sex offender, it is up to Carrie to find her little sister...who is nine months pregnant. Carrie begins to suspect Elle's husband, Scott, may be involved. Family tensions run high as it's a race against time to find Elle and her baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, detective
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Bloodline (1979)
Plot Summary:
When her father is murdered, a cosmetics heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, independent film, detective, realistic
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And Never Let Her Go (2001)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a woman's suspicious disappearance after ending an affair with a powerful, married attorney.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, realistic
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First Degree (1995)
Plot Summary:
When prominent businessman Andrew Pyne is found shot in a New York alley, one of the NYPD's best, Rick Mallory, suspects a Galeno Mob hit. When he and his partner, Amos Turzo try to question Pyne's widow, Hadley, they are quickly ushered out by her mother-in-law Margeaux. Later when Rick comes back to search Pyne's apartment, he finds material linking the dead man with Endtook, the Galeno's company. The police raid Joe Galeno's house and find the gun that killed Pyne. Joe Galeno is arrested and Rick returns to the Pyne apartment to tell Hadley. She is very distraught, and as Rick comforts her, they become engaged in an ardent affair. Joe Galeno's cousin, Alonzo, is convinced Joe is innocent. He hires Rico Perrini, Rick's former partner, now a private detective, to work on the case. Rico tracks down Pyne's rumored killer, a low-life thug named Tony Fabian, who confesses that Hadley paid him to kill her husband. Rick is now under suspicion and transferred out of homicide. Rick knows.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Trapped (2009)
Plot Summary:
The suicide was easy, getting away with everything else could be murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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The Limit (2004)
Plot Summary:
An elderly woman turns the tables on her kidnapper.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, tense, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful
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The Reckoning (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a detective is called in to investigate the roadside execution of his partner, he discovers at the crime scene a data card from a video camera. The card contains footage shot by two runaway teenagers who are making a documentary about the drug related death of a sibling. The detective retraces the teen's journey and soon begins to uncover a trail of the dead that leads all the way back to police headquarters.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, bleak
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Murder in My House (2006)
Plot Summary:
Before Lauren and her dad, Stran, even settle into their beautiful new house, she learns that it was once the site of a grisly homicide! When her pops, a former prosecutor, becomes obsessed with cracking the case, he's murdered. And it's up to Lauren to pick up the trail of clues to bring the killer to justice — or end up dead like dear old Dad.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, realistic
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Rear Window (1998)
Plot Summary:
Modern remake of Rear Window in which the lead character is paralyzed and lives in a high-tech home filled with assistive technology.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, clever, thrilling, scary, psychological thriller, surprise ending
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Quiet Kill (2004)
Plot Summary:
An attractive married woman and a member of the 'Country Club Tennis Set', is being neglected by her workaholic doctor husband, Jerry (Corbin Bernsen). Lonely and insecure, Amy foolishly falls for the seductive charms of a much younger man, Steve Sterns (Nicholas Celozzi) who is introduced to Amy by her good friend, Sheila. The love affair is very brief, as she realizes that Steve has a dark, sinister and obsessive side to his personality, or is it personalities? Amy tries to break off the relationship, only to find that her adulterous lover has become her stalker. She also fears that Steve is responsible for the numerous brutal murders of local prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, christian film, independent film, detective
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Hidden Agenda (2001)
Plot Summary:
Former government Jason Price (Dolph Lundgren) makes people disappear for a living. But when a top lieutenant for a crime syndicate asks Price to help him drop out of sight, things take a grisly, unexpected turn. A mysterious hit man known as The Cleaner has infiltrated Price's tightly-controlled system, leaving a bloody trail behind. With the help of an enigmatic seductress posing as the mobster's chief assistant, Price methodically works through his network of associates to find out what went wrong, and is plunged headlong into a spiraling gauntlet of half-truths and full-blown lies where nobody is who they appear to be, and everyone has a deadly, hidden agenda.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, rough, captivating, realistic, fast, neo noir
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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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Pendulum (2001)
Plot Summary:
The nature and lure of power: in Dallas, a councilman is on trial for corruption, the D.A. is running for the US Senate, a serial killer is slashing prostitutes, and a professor is murdered. Amanda Reeve is assigned to investigate the law-school killing. She hears rumors that the dead man offered women students good grades in exchange for sex. The trail leads her to two wealthy, beautiful students whose alibi is provided by a librarian. At the same time, the cops close in on the slasher. Meanwhile, Amanda misses her former lover, next in line to become D.A., and a reporter is fired for getting close to the truth about the Senate candidate. Is a cover-up or conspiracy in the works?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense, disturbing, independent film
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The Advocate (2013)
Plot Summary:
A grieving defense attorney gets caught in a twisted game of who-done-it when he takes on the case of a beautiful socialite who is accused of murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, enigmatic, detective, complex
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Her Fatal Flaw (2006)
Plot Summary:
If you think your dating life is hard, check out what happens to poor Laney! Talk about a love hangover: The nice guy this prominent attorney spent last night with winds up being the main suspect in the brutal murder of a Chicago city councilman. If that isn't bad enough, his only alibi is his one-night-stand with Laney. Watch what happens when this talented lawyer puts her career - and her heart - on the line.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, ridiculous
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Physical Evidence (1989)
Plot Summary:
A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link before time runs out.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, tense, realistic, bleak
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The Last Seduction II (1999)
Plot Summary:
Femme fatal/con artist Bridget Gregory travels to Barcelona and targets another businessman to scam him of his money while a relentless private investigator tries to track her down.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, neo noir, independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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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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Spider's Web (2002)
Plot Summary:
A wily businessman plots with a sultry executive to swindle $40 million from his father. But who is conning who?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, stylized, erotic, sexy, psychotronic, sexual
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The Monkey's Mask (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Monkey's Mask is a 2000 thriller film directed by Samantha Lang. It stars Susie Porter and Kelly McGillis. Porter plays a lesbian private detective who falls in love with a suspect (McGillis) in the disappearance of a young woman. The film is based on the verse novel of the same name by Australian poet Dorothy Porter.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, noir, neo noir, clever, serious, contemplative, talky
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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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Pavement (2002)
Plot Summary:
Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this is a serial killer choosing victims at random, but Sam and Buckley discover a pattern involving health personnel who work in neonatal intensive care. Doctors aren't supposed to play god, but someone's decision years before has driven a killer over the brink. Can they find him?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, bleak, realistic