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Plot Summary:
A security guard is enticed to scam a businessman for his insurance money by the man's attractive wife. The trouble begins when he discovers that the husband has ties to the mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
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Bad Frank (2017)
Plot Summary:
Frank Pierce leads a seemingly normal life, but when a disturbing past reemerges & something precious is taken from him, his mask of sanity loosens & unearths the urge to be violent once again.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Beneficiary (1997)
Plot Summary:
Lust, desire and money motivate a greedy woman to murder her philandering rich husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: detective
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A Passion to Kill (1994)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist gets involved with his best friend's wife who may be a murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, slasher, independent film, soap opera
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The Flesh Merchant (1993)
Plot Summary:
A team of L.A. detectives hunt down the ringleaders of a sex-slave operation in this thriller.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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In the Heat of Passion II: Unfaithful (1994)
Plot Summary:
When a wheelchair-bound wife dies from an apparent accident, her husband and his adult stepdaughter turn out to be lovers, who conspired to murder her. However, tensions surface when complications arise regarding her inheritance, and soon the husband and stepdaughter are distrusting and plotting against each other. Who is really behind everything?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film
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Boyfriend Killer (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Grieving mother suspects that her son's ex-girlfriend may have been involved in his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, scary, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, exciting
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The Other Wife (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kate is devastated to learn that her husband Billy has been living a double life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful
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The Grief Tourist (2012)
Plot Summary:
JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, serious, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse
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Water's Edge (2003)
Plot Summary:
Robert wanted an escape from the big city. He thought a small town by the water's edge would give him a new start. He couldn't have been more wrong. This little town has dirty secrets, and Robert just found the worst of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending
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Seduced and Betrayed (1995)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful but equally dangerous widow won't take "no" for an answer as she draws a dedicated family man into a world of passion, deceit and betrayal, threatening to destroy him in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological thriller, sexy
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Backwaters (2006)
Plot Summary:
A paralyzed woman goes missing after she and her husband travel to India for specialized medical attention.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing, scary, tense, sentimental, suspense, suspenseful, erotic
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The Nightman (1992)
Plot Summary:
A drifter comes between an aging Southern beauty and her teenaged daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Double Jeopardy (1996)
Plot Summary:
A naive 16 year old waitress falls for a corrupt, married police officer. When she falls pregnant, her lover plots her murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Motives (2004)
Plot Summary:
Motive is an edgy thriller that centers around Emery Simms, a highly educated and successful business tycoon who happens to be married to the quintessential wife Constance. Things go dangerously awry when the thrill seeking Emery engages in an adulterous fling with the wildly free-spirited and exotic Allanah. Timing couldn't be any worse when the politics of high society, shady business deals, bad press, and a violent murder collide, they threaten to destroy more than just his shaky marriage. As police probe into his situation, they uncover a labyrinth of deception, agendas and motives, where the stakes are enormous and nothing is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, sexual, sexy
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Wild Cactus (1993)
Plot Summary:
A married couple vacationing in the desert are held hostage by a pair of psychopaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Night Eyes II (1991)
Plot Summary:
Security expert Will Griffith has been hired to secure the mansion of South American expatriate Hector Mejenes.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychotronic, independent film, hot, sexploitation film, cult film
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Laguna (2001)
Plot Summary:
Raised by an uncle in New York after his parents died in an attack orchestrated by the mafia, Thomas, now an adult, is sent to live in Italy. There, while his tortured past and the death of his parents come back to haunt him, he feels increasingly drawn to Thelma, his uncle's mysterious wife. Soon Thomas will learn the truth about the death of his parents and foment a vengeance of great heights.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Canada, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, suspense, action adventure
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The Florida Connection (1975)
Plot Summary:
Dan Gordon arrives in town on the edge of the Florida Everglades, planning to take part in a drug smuggling operation. He's aided by his friend, Mule Tucker, but runs into opposition from corrupt local cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Face of Evil (1996)
Plot Summary:
On her wedding night, twenty-year-old Darcy Palmer empties her fiancé's bank account and flees to New York City. Along the way, she tries robbing Brianne Dwyer, who's heading to a New England college for her freshman year, and ends up killing her. Darcy assumes Brianne's identity, enrolls in her place at college, and kills anyone who gets in her way. When Darcy becomes interested in her roommate Jeanelle's wealthy widowed father, she poisons Jeanelle so that she's too sick to spend time with him when he visits the campus, and Darcy takes her place. Suspecting her dirty deeds, Jeanelle confronts her roommate, who coolly admits to killing many people and stealing their identities. Then, Darcy attacks... Just in the nick of time, Jeanelle's father rescues her from harm. Darcy escapes but is caught just as she's about to snare her next victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, sexy, surprise ending
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Proof of Lies (2006)
Plot Summary:
A scientist researches the genetic cause of addictive behavior.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, surprise ending
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Mujeres Infieles 4 (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a hotel maid confronts her boss about secret cameras in the rooms, she insists on watching the videos, which reveal more than she imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Devious Nanny (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to protect her family after her husband has an affair with their nanny. As her husband's co-workers are killed, she discovers everything is not what it appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, intense, sexy
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A Show of Force (1990)
Plot Summary:
In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Deadly Illusions (2021)
Plot Summary:
A bestselling female novelist, suffering from writer's block, hires an innocent young woman to watch over her twin children. As the novelist dangerously indulges in her new best seller, the line between the life she's writing and the one she's living becomes blurred.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, sexy, dark, psychological thriller, ambiguous ending, weird
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Amy Fisher: My Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
This sensational true story of a near fatal attraction left Mary Jo Buttafuoco paralyzed for life and made Amy Fisher America's most infamous teenager. Imprisoned 5-15 years for a crime she confessed to Fisher has nothing to lose by telling how it was-her way, her story. Deception, Promiscuous Sex, and Violence.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Heart of Stone (2001)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman doesn't know if the killer is her lover ... or her husband ... or someone else!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, sexual, erotic
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Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure (1995)
Plot Summary:
TV producer CLAIR ARCHER, charged with the murder of her co-producer, hires top attorney Simon Mitchell to defend her. Though happily married, Simon falls for Clair's seductive wiles and then, in the middle of the trial and the torrid affair, discovers that Clair is guilty. Simon's associate, Lane, finds incriminating evidence against Clair. Simon tries to end the affair. But Clair cleverly sets up Lane so that when Clair kills Simon, Simon's wife suspects Lane -- and shoots her. Clair Archer is judged "not guilty" and walks away free.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, hot, cult film
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Thy Neighbor's Wife (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the vein of "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" and fraught with mystery and edge-of-your seat suspense, Kari Wuhrer Poison tells the darkly insidious story of the Garrett household and their descent into a hellish world of sexual malice and physical terror! Seeking revenge for her husband's death, Ann ingratiates herself with the Garretts under the guise of a caring housekeeper. Once she gains their trust, Ann begins to wreak havoc upon them. Seduction and malice are her weapons as she attempts to eliminate everyone she believes is responsible.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, erotic, sexy, realistic, surprise ending, hot
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Careful What You Wish For (2015)
Plot Summary:
A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, sexy, psychological thriller, psychological, erotic, romantic, thought provoking, touching
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Zipper (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sam Ellis is a man on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political future. But what was meant to be a one-time experience with an escort turns into a growing addiction — a new demon threatening to destroy his life, family, and career.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, neo noir, political, scenic, eros, tense, serious