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Plot Summary:
Homicide cop Ray Maldonado has found a third dead hooker in as many days. The realization that he's got a serial killer on his hands hits him. Wanting to stop the string of murders, Maldonado turns to the obvious suspect: Street preacher Jimmy Christmas. Searching for redemption from his past life of crime, Christmas wants the hookers he protects off the streets. But his prayers aren't enough. To hide the darkness of his past. Protect his girls. Fend off the anger of mysterious pimp Anthony and Anthony's lawyer Phillip. Jimmy knows. There will be Hell to pay if he cannot stop the disappearances of Anthony's money-making machines. It could mean his life. Caught in an impossible love with Jimmy, Violet, Anthony's favorite girl, refuses to stop walking the streets unless its on her terms. That means stealing for herself the money Jimmy collects from the other girls. But... Someone has his eyes on Violet. That someone wants Violet dead to satisfy the voices in his head.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Blood Rage (1980)
Plot Summary:
A sexually frustrated young man kills hookers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, independent film
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The Banker (1989)
Plot Summary:
High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Hot Traces of St. Pauli (1971)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Dangerous Pursuit (1990)
Plot Summary:
A woman discovers the next target of a hired assassin and attempts to foil his plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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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
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Assault in Paradise (1977)
Plot Summary:
A Native American travels around a resort town, murdering cops and rich people with a high-powered crossbow, while demanding that the town's richest residents pay him money to stop the killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Dead Women in Lingerie (1991)
Plot Summary:
A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film
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The Pleasure of Killing (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two assassins: Luis, young and impulsive and André, married teacher. Fate lets them cross their lines, evident in the same victim. From the beginning they like each other; and both become addicted to killing synchronously.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Hong Kong Butcher (1985)
Plot Summary:
Based on the life of Hong Kong serial killer Lam Kor-wan. He was arrested in 1982 after murdering four women.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: asian horror
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Streets of Death (1988)
Plot Summary:
Hookers are being killed all over the place, their bodies dumped in various parts of the city. Now, it's up to Officer Kelly Anderson with the help of Detective Grant Jordan to go undercover as a hooker to stop these horrific killings.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, fake documentary
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Aroused (1966)
Plot Summary:
In Manhattan, prostitutes are being murdered by a psycho. A detective is assigned to track him down and bring him in.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, detective, cult film
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Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious reporter gets in their way of two cops assigned to investigate a serial killer who became active around Christmas time.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective
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Wolf Mother (2016)
Plot Summary:
In an attempt to rectify their criminal past, a once successful Hollywood starlet, turn prostitute, and a petty, misogynistic thief, set out together to solve a high profile child abduction case in San Francisco.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic, neo noir, sexual, hot
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The Art of Dying (1991)
Plot Summary:
A cinematographer and his assistant are attracting aspiring young actors and actresses by getting them to try out for their movie. Once filming, the evil cameraman actually kills them. The detective on the case has his hands full trying to help out runaways with stars in their eyes. When some of the people he knows turn up dead, he takes it personally, and as he gets closer to the truth his girlfriend is endangered.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Chosen (2005)
Plot Summary:
A couple of brutal and mysterious murders point to Uppsala University. Johan, a last year student at the police academy, gets involved in the investigation. He enrolls a course at the University in order to, under cover, track down the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Midnight Heat (2007)
Plot Summary:
A story of cops, hookers, killers, and pimps; all centered around one sleazy night in the late 1980's. A cocaine addicted homicide detective (Jake Norvell) is brought out of suspension in order to trail a local prostitute (Bianca Queen) who may become the next victim of The Scalper (Nick Foster), a serial killer who preys on the city's hookers. Meanwhile, her burnt out pimp (Brad Jones) attempts to get out of the business while finding it harder to protect his girls from both the killer and from an abusive rival pimp (Buford Stowers).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Invisible Guardian (2017)
Plot Summary:
When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before. Soon, rumours are flying in the nearby village of Elizondo. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or is it the basajaun, the ‘invisible guardian’ of Basque mythology? Inspector Amaia Salazar leads the investigation, taking her back to the heart of the Basque country where she was born, and where she hoped never to return. Shrouded in mist and surrounded by impenetrable forests, it is a place of unresolved conflicts and a terrible secret from Amaia’s childhood that will come back to haunt her. Faced with the superstitions of the village, Amaia must fight the demons of her past to confront the reality of a serial killer on the loose. But as she is drawn deeper into the investigation, she feels the presence of something darker lurking in the shadows….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, gothic, saga, detective, powerful, twisted, exciting
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Stone Cold Dead (1979)
Plot Summary:
Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, slasher, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir
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The Mean Season (1985)
Plot Summary:
A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As the killer's calls and clues increase, the reporter is lured into a deadly trap.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, retro, spectacular, scary, psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Holy Spider (2022)
Plot Summary:
A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Jordan, Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: dramatic, action thriller, neo noir, iconic
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The Assassin (2007)
Plot Summary:
Assassin John Brown, a heroin-addicted, recent war veteran, is hired to take out a local nightclub owner. When Brown slips, he finds himself on the run from both police and the shadowy corporation that hired him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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Joel (2018)
Plot Summary:
The shocking story of Joel Rifkin, a troubled young man whose hidden fantasies of power and control combined with his obsessive dedication to prostitutes led him to embark on one of the New York area’s most notorious murder sprees, claiming seventeen victims in the late eighties and early nineties.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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X - The eXploited (2018)
Plot Summary:
Would you believe in a policewoman who suffers from such serious panic disorders that she is afraid to get close to any crime scene and has been on permanent office duty for more than a decade? Would you believe a lone mother who is unfit to pay her mortgage and also raise her rebellious teenage daughter? Indeed, no one believes that the troubled ex-detective has discovered a serial murder case. Personal dramas and a murder mystery unfold in present-day Budapest, where demonstrations are part of the pre-election life of a city still trying to cope with the shadows of its historical and recent past. It is a city where nothing seems honest and true, except through the eyes of an emotionally unstable policewoman and her misfit daughter who wants to know who her father truly was.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bad Bizness (2003)
Plot Summary:
After three women get killed, policewoman gets involved in the underworld of drugs and pornographic movies, when she starts investigating the case.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film, rough, hood, sexploitation film
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A Black Veil for Lisa (1968)
Plot Summary:
When a narcotics officer suspects that his beautiful wife, who is a former criminal, is having an affair, he becomes so obsessed with this that he has major problems to manage their work. In the end, his obsession with devastating consequences when he captures the assassin he hunts.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, psychological thriller, independent film
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The First Deadly Sin (1980)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, neo noir, surprise ending, slasher, independent film, detective
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Ryde (2017)
Plot Summary:
Technology brings us closer. Or perhaps it brings strangers, a little too close. But how much can you really trust someone? With a new ride share service, you never know who will be getting in a car with. Or if you'll ever get out.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, slasher
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Missing You (2016)
Plot Summary:
A girl who lost her father to a serial killer, a detective and a killer are intertwined in a chaotic relationship and are met with an unprecedented series of events.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, bloody, detective
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Relentless (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two Los Angeles police detectives, cynical veteran Malloy and cocky rookie Dietz, hunt for a serial killer, an ex-cop named Taylor, whom randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, detective, slasher, neo noir, independent film, rough, serious
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Confessions of a Serial Killer (1985)
Plot Summary:
After being arrested, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his traveling companions, his friend and friend's sister. But the police can't be sure whether to believe him or not until he locates a body and shows them some polaroids. Based on the true story of Henry Lee Lucas.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, psychological, detective, independent film, scary, rough, mind bending, bleak, serious