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Plot Summary:
Condominium residents are terrified when they learn that two of their neighbors have been brutally raped and that the culprit may be living in their midst. A police manhunt ensues. One officer, who actually lives in the complex, is particularly troubled, for not only do the incidents cause his wife to admit that she was a victim of date rape, he is also the one who had a chance to kill the rapist and didn't.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Dark Crimes (2016)
Plot Summary:
A Polish detective becomes suspicious of a controversial author when the incidents described in his unpublished novel resemble the inner workings of an unsolved murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, melancholic, enigmatic, bleak, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir
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Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave (1997)
Plot Summary:
It is a very hot summer in the city as the well known detectives of the 87th Precinct investigate serial rapes and a mysterious homicide (which do not appear to be connected). The women getting raped appear to be raped by a rapist who has raped them earlier and who was not caught. Detective Eileen Burke, who is working together with detectives Carella, Meyer and Brown, goes undercover and pretends to be one of the women who was raped earlier in order to lure out the rapist. Her boyfriend, Det. Kling, is not happy with her assignment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective
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My Son Is Innocent (1996)
Plot Summary:
After a brutal nighttime attack on a woman alone in her suburban home, police investigators zero in on teenager Eric Sutter. When the victim identifies Sutter as her attacker, the legal system closes in on the boy as friends, neighbors and the media turn against him. Only through the dogged determination of his mother, and her loyal boyfriend does Eric and the victim have a chance for justice to be served.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965)
Plot Summary:
A busboy at a disco has sexual problems related to events in his childhood. He becomes obsessed with a disc jockey at the club.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychosexual thriller, psychotronic, psychological thriller, surreal, cult classic, lgbt cinema, crying, homoerotic, independent film
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Without Her Consent (1990)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based story about the emotional trauma and following legal problems of a young woman who was raped by an acquaintance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Historias violentas (1985)
Plot Summary:
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Many Trials of One Jane Doe (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story about an extraordinary woman, who after a traumatizing rape, refuses to remain a victim. Wendy Crewson stars as Jane Doe (as she must legally be called), a woman who discovers she was the fifth victim of a serial rapist terrorizing a two-block area surrounding her home. When she learns that the police department was aware of this dangerous criminal yet decided not to issue a public warning, she feels that she and all the women in the neighbourhood were offered up as bait. Driven to take action, she investigates not only her own case, but also police procedures with regard to rape and its victims, and is shocked by what she discovers: a legal system that is sexist and uncaring. It is then that she decides to take on the Toronto Police Department. What follows for Jane Doe is a grueling 10-year legal battle, which becomes vicious, all-consuming and personal.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Terror in the Night (1994)
Plot Summary:
A fugitive killer posing as a policeman arrests two campers in the Arizona mountains.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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You Can't Take My Daughter (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman fights to keep her rapist from gaining custody of her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Stalkers (2013)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around a criminal prosecutor who penned the law on stalking in California and is based on the true story of a hot-head cop and polished district attorney who team to bring a stalker obsessed with her former lover to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, emotional
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Grey Lady (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Boston police officer goes to Nantucket to investigate the murder of his partner, but he finds more than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Good Neighbours (2010)
Plot Summary:
Takes place in 1995, the year of the second referendum on the separation of Quebec. In the dead of winter, a serial killer is on the loose in the small Montreal neighborhood of Notre Dame de Grace. The tenants of an old apartment house must figure out who they can trust and who they can't.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, dark comedy, psychological thriller, neo noir, grindhouse
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Murder on the Cape (2017)
Plot Summary:
An out-of-work fisherman has an affair with a fashion writer wintering on the Cape. She returns two years later with his child, and when she is murdered, the fisherman is the prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Caught in His Web (2022)
Plot Summary:
Three women join forces to take back their lives after they become the target of a cyberbully who harasses them and tracks their every move, so they decide to seek help from a detective.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Return to Sender (2015)
Plot Summary:
A nurse living in small town goes on a blind date with a man who is not the person he says he is.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, psychological thriller, powerful
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Wonderland (2003)
Plot Summary:
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes. You're about to experience both versions.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak, detective, independent film, cult classic, twisted, serious
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Secret Obsession (2019)
Plot Summary:
Newlywed Jennifer is brutally attacked at a dark rest stop. While healing from her injuries, she can’t recall anything from her past, including the ordeal. Her husband, Russell , is just thankful she’s alive and eager to get her home. As he reintroduces her to their secluded mountain estate, Detective Page pursues Jennifer’s assailant — his own daughter went missing and was never found. The same fate now awaits Jennifer, unless someone realizes that her loving caretaker is actually her captor.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, captivating, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Apartment 407 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Selling Isobel, a thriller based on true events, featuring the real victim in true life playing the main charter. It's about a woman who got locked in, drugged, held against her will and sold to numerous men for 3 days in an apartment in central London. It's a film about her fight for survival all the way to the gruesome end.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, crime drama, independent film
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Lost Girls (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, emotional, disturbing, compassionate, bleak, dark, perverse, powerful
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The Boston Strangler (1968)
Plot Summary:
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, disturbing, rough, suspense, detective, suspenseful, slasher, psychosexual thriller, retro
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Who Killed Atlanta's Children? (2000)
Plot Summary:
From 1979 to 1981, 29 African-American males, mostly children, were either missing or found murdered in metro Atlanta. The cases plagued the city until 1982, when Wayne Wiiliams was convicted of the murders of two adult men. Authorities then considered the other cases closed. Some of the parents of the slain children were critical of the way the cases were handled and believed there was some sort of cover up. Nearly four years after the conviction of Williams, "Spin" magazine editor Ron Larson and reporter Pat Laughlin come to Atlanta in search of the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere, thought provoking
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The Night Stalker (2016)
Plot Summary:
An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychological horror, psychotronic
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Extreme Justice (1993)
Plot Summary:
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop. Police brutality is not a known term for the division and they will stop at nothing to get the job done, even if it means murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, detective
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Murder in Greenwich (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of Martha Moxley, 15 year old girl murdered in Greenwich in the 1970's, her murder going unsolved for 25 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, novela, talky
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Cop (1988)
Plot Summary:
An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, perverse, cult classic, scary, rough, serious
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The Zodiac (2005)
Plot Summary:
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: rough, psychological, bleak, scary, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, detective, independent film, realistic
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The Frozen Ground (2013)
Plot Summary:
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, factual, atmospheric, detective, intense, serious, enigmatic
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The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story (2023)
Plot Summary:
The TRUE STORY of how Kara Robinson was kidnapped, assaulted and held captive for 18 hours, 15-year-old Kara Robinson plots a daring escape from a serial killer's apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Plot Summary:
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 487000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, rough, clever, serious, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, suspense
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The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
Plot Summary:
The true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killing cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful