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Plot Summary:
A defense lawyer goes to find his former client whose late husband's money is missing. He's not the only one who's looking for her, and she has a plan of her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like Dangerous Curves (2000):
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Mercy (1995)
Plot Summary:
A couple of people steal the daughter of a famous lawyer. Now they want money to give her back, but it's not just the money they want. They want revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 80%
Night Rhythms (1992)
Plot Summary:
Nick, a late night DJ, has sex with a listener that he's invited to the station. The session goes out over the air until something goes wrong. Nick wakes up to find a dead body and himself framed. Nick spends the rest of the movie having sex whilst trying to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, independent film, hot, cult film
Similar in 89%
Killer Instinct (1991)
Plot Summary:
An up and coming lawyer gets turned over for a case he'd been working on for a long while. The D.A.'s niece then decides to help the young lawyer by first blackmailing, then eventually plotting the murder of the D.A., all the while seducing the young attorney. It then becomes the attorney job to cover up the murder he believes he committed, while finding out the truth about the D.A.'s "niece".
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 88%
I Know Where Lizzie Is (2016)
Plot Summary:
When 15-year-old Lizzie is kidnapped, her friendly but divorced parents Judith and Martin are devastated. The police can't find the girl but Tracy Spencer comes forward claiming she's a psychic and knows where Lizzie is. Judith is elated, but it soon becomes clear that Tracy has an agenda of her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, clever, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark
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Goodbye and Go with God (2014)
Plot Summary:
A gritty urban thriller inspired by real events, Adios Vaya Con Dios is the authentic story of two friends within the world of Chicago's Latino street gangs. A day of reckoning approaches for Rory, a rising Irish-Mexican street lieutenant for the Olmecs, when his trusted life-long friend Eloy, just released from prison, dives right back into the chaotic crucible of violence and retribution that engulfs their neighborhood. Their friendship and loyalty to each other is tested to the limit.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: art house
Similar in 87%
Mama's Dirty Girls (1974)
Plot Summary:
Mama loves men, but she loves money even more. She's trained her three teenager daughters to meet, marry and murder men for their money. But soon the meet Harold and he got other plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grim, independent film
Similar in 78%
American Dreamer (2018)
Plot Summary:
A down on his luck driver making extra cash chauffeuring a low level drug dealer around town, finds himself in a serious financial bind and decides to kidnap the dealer's child.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, dark, non-linear, neo noir, psychological thriller, psycho film
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If I Die Before I Wake (1998)
Plot Summary:
A suburban family is held hostage and terrorized by three intruders while their sixteen year-old daughter first hides, then exacts her own brand of terror on the assailants.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 84%
Macon County Jail (1997)
Plot Summary:
After she leaves her cheating husband, Susan Reed (Ally Sheedy) embarks on a cross-country road trip where she falls victim to a series of mishaps that land her behind bars in the redneck Macon County Jail. Once inside, she's subjected to endless acts of brutality from the guards and inmates alike. Things go from bad to worse when she's forced to defend herself against a rapist with tragic results. No longer truly "innocent," when the opportunity arises Susan flees with fellow prisoner Coley (David Carradine).
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 77%
The Last Hour (1991)
Plot Summary:
A former cop's ex-wife marries a stockbroker, who it turns out has cheated the Mafia out of a large sum of money. They kidnap the wife to force the husband to pay the money back. The ex-cop has to rescue her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Abducted (2015)
Plot Summary:
When 7-year-old Jocelyn Shaker is mysteriously abducted from a resort in the Colombian rainforest, her rich Columbian stepfather and American mother are accused of being involved.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller
Similar in 79%
Don't Talk to Strangers (1994)
Plot Summary:
Unhappy marriage causes divorce. Brosnan (new husband) and wife attempt to build a new life, and move to a new state. However, the ex-husband follows and the story unfolds from there.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, action thriller, crying, detective
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Final Move (2006)
Plot Summary:
The LA police are baffled: someone is killing people who have been found innocent of violent crimes. At the crime scenes, DNA evidence and clues linked to chess point to a suspect who's dead, recently executed for murders with a similar M.O. The cops call on Dan Marlowe, an ex-cop with psychic gifts, in an asylum after the trauma of the initial investigation. His wife wants him to say no; her brother is his former partner, who leans on Dan to help. Dan's ex-lover, an FBI agent, is also on the case, and behind the scenes is Myron, Dan's chess partner at the asylum. The game turns more deadly when Dan and family become the target. Did the cops initially get the wrong man?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, fast, psychological thriller, psycho film
Similar in 83%
Cash Only (2015)
Plot Summary:
Elvis Martini is in deep shit. His dilapidated Detroit apartment building is about to be foreclosed on by the bank; most of his tenants are behind on rent; he's in big debt to bookies and his daughter's school. He finds some ill-gotten cash in an evicted tenant's apartment and it briefly keeps the wolves at bay, but it brings out a bigger wolf, one that wants his stolen money back. When his daughter is kidnapped by the mysterious menace he's accidentally messed with, Elvis has 24 hours to come up with $25K - cash only.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Albania, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, suspense, harsh, neo noir, hood, twisted
Similar in 79%
A Crooked Somebody (2017)
Plot Summary:
An attention-seeking psychic is kidnapped and tries to use the situation to boost his popularity.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 85%
The Candy Snatchers (1973)
Plot Summary:
An abused autistic boy is the sole witness to the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, grindhouse, depressing, controversial, independent film, scary, psychological, tense, rough, serious
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Miami Hustle (1996)
Plot Summary:
Marsha, a con artist with a conscience, has agreed to take on an unusual scheme in order to pay off a debt to a lawyer who helped out her brother. An elderly millionaire is about to die, and the entire fortune has been willed to a stripper named Jean, who is unaware of the windfall awaiting her. Marsha's task is to get to know Jean well enough that she can impersonate her at the reading of the will and take the inheritance for herself. Taking a job at the same strip club, the pair soon bond, but will Marsha's feelings for her new friend outweigh her need to help pay off her brother's debt?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Wild Card (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young, beautiful wife cheating on her rich, older husband amidst the neon lights of Las Vegas. Four men hired to do a job, but there is a traitor in their midst. Adultery, betrayal, kidnapping and murder lead to the ultimate double cross and no one is innocent in the end. Who will live and who will die... and who is The Wild Card?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 86%
For the Love of Money (2012)
Plot Summary:
Spanning over two decades, "For the Love of Money" follows the true account of an Israeli immigrant who searches for his piece of the American dream.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Armed Response (1986)
Plot Summary:
One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hires two private investigators to exchange ransom money to recover the statuette, but the trade goes down bad and Clay Roth is killed. This angers Roth's brothers and father, all combat veterans, and they go after the people responsible.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: crime drama, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Columbus Day (2008)
Plot Summary:
A thief tries to fix the damage done during the biggest heist of his career.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Similar in 84%
By the Gun (2014)
Plot Summary:
A rising Boston gangster (Ben Barnes) endangers those around him when he starts to make moves without the knowledge of his boss (Harvey Keitel).
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, interesting
Similar in 79%
Throwdown (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young criminal defense attorney struggles with a homicide case that is not as cut and dry as it appears while battling a drinking habit. The story goes beyond the lives of those directly related to the case and shines a much needed spotlight on the horrific world of human trafficking in the United States.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, captivating, tense, action adventure, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Knock Knock (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a devoted husband and father is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Chile, Israel, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, erotic, scary, slasher, tense, dark comedy
Similar in 90%
Seven Days (2007)
Plot Summary:
A successful lawyer who, in order to save her daughter, is pressured into defending the innocence of a man slated to receive the death penalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, action thriller, twisted
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Kiss of Death (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy Kilmartin is an ex-con living in Astoria in the New York City borough of Queens, trying to stay clean and raising a family with his wife Bev. But when his cousin Ronnie causes him to take a fall for driving an illegal transport of stolen cars, a police officer named Calvin Hart is injured and Jimmy lands back in prison. In exchange for an early release, he is asked to help bring down a local crime boss named Little Junior Brown. Jimmy remarries and attempts to renew a relationship with his child. But he is sent undercover by Detective Hart to work with Junior and infiltrate his operations. As soon as Little Junior kills an undercover federal agent with Jimmy watching, the unscrupulous district attorney and the feds further complicate his life. He must take down Junior or face the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, surreal, intense, rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, brutal, hood
Similar in 81%
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 791000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: brutal, non-linear, suspense, atmospheric, action packed, stylized, surreal, visual, visually stunning, tense
Similar in 81%
Fargo (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 711000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, clever, independent film, funny, absurd
Similar in 78%
Cape Fear (1991)
Plot Summary:
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 212000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, scary, intense, creepy
Similar in 81%
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Plot Summary:
An assassin is shot at the altar by her ruthless employer, Bill and other members of their assassination circle – but 'The Bride' lives to plot her vengeance. Setting out for some payback, she makes a death list and hunts down those who wronged her, saving Bill for last.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: bloody, non-linear, tense, suspense, visually appealing, visual, visually stunning, grindhouse, cult classic, action packed