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Plot Summary:
After a woman is found butchered in her New York apartment, suspicion falls on her estranged husband, an ad executive who has suddenly left town on a cross-country road trip. He takes along a beautiful girl he met in a bar and a drifter he picked up along the way. A cop sets out after the husband, but he's more interested in shaking him down than bringing him back.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, detective, erotic
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Mindfield (1989)
Plot Summary:
When a police detective kills a criminal, this traumatic event triggers a locked memory, he didn't know he had, of him being a subject of a CIA experiment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, independent film, detective
Similar in 84%
Hostile Takeover (1988)
Plot Summary:
A man takes three co-workers hostage while working overtime on Thanksgiving weekend. He has no demands.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 89%
Craze (1974)
Plot Summary:
Jack Palance stars as a demented art dealer & antique-shop owner who performs nightly rituals in honor of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers up human sacrifice. His methods are fairly creative, ranging from impalement, slashing and burning, to scaring people to death with an ooga-booga fright mask. But it's all about to blow up in his face.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, cult film
Similar in 88%
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1991)
Plot Summary:
A hot new model takes the fashion world by storm, but things start to turn ugly when people around her begin turning up dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 89%
Killer Image (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Max Oliver learns his photographer brother has been killed, he suspects it was no random murder. And when he finds his brothers' last photos of a powerful senator and a prostitute, Max gets a clear picture of a deadly political cover-up. Seeking to expose his brother's killer, Max enters a murderous game of cat and mouse, stalked by a cold-blooded assassin who has Max dead in his sights.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Flower and Snake 3: Punishment (1986)
Plot Summary:
When successful business man refuses to save the business of his former business partner, his wife, a private teacher of written arts, and her student are kidnapped. The former business partner plans to execute his revenge by forcing both women into sexual slavery and forcefully train them into becoming SM porn stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, ecchi, sexy
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Red-Blooded American Girl II (1997)
Plot Summary:
College boy Trent is returning home for the holidays when he crosses the path of bad-girl Miya at a truck stop. When he agrees to give her a ride, he becomes part and parcel to all her twisted desires.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
Similar in 87%
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
Similar in 80%
Redball (1999)
Plot Summary:
Redball is a 1999 Australian film. Two detectives are assigned to solve a series of grisly murders of children. However, when their investigation leads them towards someone in their own squad room as the killer, the female detective edges on a total breakdown as she loses faith in her fellow officers. The film explores the decadence and corruption that exists in the police force.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Intimate Nights (1998)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Queen of Sex (1977)
Plot Summary:
Claudine is trying to uncover a mystery involving a bizarre cult involved in some weird sexual rituals.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation 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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Strike A Pose (1993)
Plot Summary:
A famous fashion photographer and her lover, ace detective Nick Carter, team up to bring the vengeful killer of prominent fashion models to justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Midnight Fear (1991)
Plot Summary:
A sheriff tracks down a killer who skinned a woman alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, detective
Similar in 82%
A Passion for Murder (1992)
Plot Summary:
A young woman on the run from a murderous rogue government agent hooks up with a pony-tailed taxi driver who reluctantly agrees to help her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 79%
La Festa (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ten classmates have disappeared on the evening of 3rd March 2011. The boys were in the family home of one of them, Fabio, for a party. But the next morning, none of them was still there. Gone, vanished into thin air. A few months later their parents receive an anonymous DVD, which contains the shooting of what happened the night of the party. They are not just shootings, but something similar to a real movie about that night. Edited, set to music, post-produced. But who shot that video? And why? The truth seems not to be hidden in the content of that video only.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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The Smile of the Fox (1992)
Plot Summary:
Mark, a hitman haunted by his past as a corrupt Miami cop and the death of his wife and son, prepares for his next killing. Gradually he becomes fascinated by the beautiful prostitute who lives in the next apartment and they embark on a passionate affair. Their dreams of a life together are complicated by her pimp being a drugs baron; before they can escape he must die, but things are never that simple.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tragic ending, erotic, hot
Similar in 82%
Cries of Pleasure (1983)
Plot Summary:
A man invites a woman to his house to live with him, just before the arrival of his wife who is coming back from the insane asylum.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, surprise ending, independent film, sexploitation film
Similar in 76%
The Killer Downstairs (2019)
Plot Summary:
Alison Peters has always done everything right but finds her life in turmoil as a lawyer stuck working at a grocery store job. Desperate for cash, she rents her basement on MiCasaSuCasa.com and gets a response from James Brewer who explains that he and his wife have recently split. At work, Alison and her friend Sarah, deal with a boss, Brandon, who's been harassing Alison. When Brandon is murdered, the police are suspicious of her. As romance starts to bloom between Alison and James, more people in her life begin disappearing.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Deadlock: A Passion for Murder (1997)
Plot Summary:
In this erotic thriller, a detective looks into the murder of a pornography magnate.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, detective
Similar in 85%
Disposable (2017)
Plot Summary:
What if a man with a mental condition, living in a fantasy world and detached from all emotional responsibility, is in real life the prime suspect for a series of murders targeting young women? Bill Thompson awakens to reality when forced to confront the truth about himself. Is he really the serial killer behind these murders? Or just the perfect fall guy? But it's not easy to find those answers when you can't differentiate between fact and fiction. Now, Bill must struggle to ground himself in reality and unfold the mystery behind the killings, as the only way to prove his innocence. "DISPOSABLE": the story of a man who must confront the truth about himself in order to save himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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The List (2000)
Plot Summary:
After being arrested for solicitation, a high-class prostitute threatens to make public a list of her best clients and someone resorts to murder to keep the list a secret. Meanwhile, the judge on the case struggles with his dilemma and one cop aims to find the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, realistic, independent film, detective
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Compelling Evidence (1995)
Plot Summary:
Rick Stone is the world's biggest action star but unfortunately, he is also the prime suspect in his wife's death. He must enlist the help of a conniving tabloid reporter named Dana Fields and the trust of his mistress Stephanie to try and clear his name.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film
Similar in 77%
Indiscreet (1998)
Plot Summary:
A case involving adultery, money and murder threatens a private eye's sobriety.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Girl Next Door (1998)
Plot Summary:
There's someone peeping through windows so Arthur has been asked to watch the neighbour's eighteen year old daughter while her parents are away. Soon their mutual attraction develops into something that Arthur later regrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, crying, sexy
Similar in 86%
Watchful Eye (2002)
Plot Summary:
Malibu detective Shannon (Renee Rea) goes undercover in a group house to discover who murdered one of the women living there. Shannon gets caught up in the sex and parties, not knowing that her every action is being secretly broadcast on satellite TV. When she learns of the broadcast, she puts the clues together and figures out that the men living in the house have sex with all the women for all the world to see. And that's when her life becomes slated for cancellation.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, detective, realistic, sexual, sexy
Similar in 83%
Picture Claire (2001)
Plot Summary:
After her Montreal apartment burns down and her possessions are reduced to ash, Claire Beaucage heads to her boyfriend's place in Toronto, only to find that he's missing. Then the police mistake her for Lily Warden, a sinister woman who killed a local gangster and happens to live in the same building as Claire's boyfriend. The police pursue a bewildered Claire while a gang of criminals chases after Lily.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, noir, independent film
Similar in 77%
Stolen Identity 2 (2020)
Plot Summary:
A couple of months have passed since the serial murder case. A new dead body is found in the same area. Detective Manabu Kagaya tries to find the truth. He goes to see serial killer Yoshiharu Urano in prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, slasher, suspenseful, detective
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Bare Witness (2002)
Plot Summary:
Professional killer Gav Reed commits a grave mistake allowing himself to be videotaped (as she always does, for a documentary she hopes to sell to Hollywood about the real nocturnal 'eldest business' there) by Julie Spencer, one of Max 'Slim' Reuter's hookers and porn actresses, whom he had sex with before - and while making a most incriminating call about his murder attempt at a high society campaign party for mayor Garland's electoral challenger Mary Washington, where the bullet is however caught by councilor Frank Constantine, who also survives. Gav's client, businessman Ian Hunter, who was videotaped earlier, has his girl Marina shoot Gav and then Julie, later Slim who. Rough but effective police detective Killian investigates, helped by Julie's friend Carly Marsh, and unravels even more sordid connections.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious, realistic, sexual, sexploitation film
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Deadly Sorority (2017)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Samantha and Kristina go their separate ways when Kristina gets into the hottest sorority on campus. The nightmare begins when Kristina is murdered and Samantha becomes the next target of the campus killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing