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Plot Summary:
A man returns to his hometown after his father's death and soon enters into an affair with the wife of his old best friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, realistic
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Keep Your Distance (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the perfectly normal town of Louisville, KY, there is a perfectly normal man living the perfect life. David Dailey is a man who has it all: A great career, a community that adores him, and an enduring marriage. But beneath the surface, David's idyllic world is crumbling. He's haunted by a series of mysterious notes that warn of an imminent fall from grace.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, realistic
Similar in 84%
The Dinner Club (2010)
Plot Summary:
Karen (32) and Michel (36) move with their daughter to an exclusive residential area. She soon finds a new close circle of friends: the women of the Dinner Club, and their husbands. But when two of the Club members commit suicide under suspicious circumstances, Karen starts to have second thoughts about her new friends. She has to choose: will she reveal the truth and dish the dirt, or will she protect the interests of the Dinner Club?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, sexual, sexy
Similar in 82%
Do It for Me (1997)
Plot Summary:
Andrés's wealthy father-in-law runs a textile factory; he retires and brings Andrés to Madrid, with wife and son, to run the company. Andrés works long hours, but his wife is bored, and there are tensions at home. When Isabel, a femme fatale, spots Andrés at a party, he's easy prey - but soon, she might be falling for him, perhaps enough to dump her boyfriend Paco, a small-time cocaine dealer. What if Andrés falls for her? What would he sacrifice to have her? And what about his wife; will she fight to keep him?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Cold Heaven (1991)
Plot Summary:
An adulterous woman's faith in God is tested when her husband dies and miraculously comes back to life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, sexual
Similar in 90%
Deadly Betrayal (2003)
Plot Summary:
International reporter Jeff Randal spends half of his time abroad. His wife Donna feels neglected. When their preteen daughter Melinda's hunky teacher Adam Hamilton notices, Donna becomes his hot lover, to her Boston bookstore employer and confident Rosalind Roz's envy. After loosing colleague Lou in Bosnia, traumatized Jeff suddenly stops traveling. Jeff smells a rat. Adam refuses to be dumped and reverts to his youth habit of robbing lovers. Donna finds out but can't tell the adulterous truth. Jeff gets an anonymous video, which starts a vindictive cycle.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, sexy, suspenseful, serious, realistic, sexual, erotic
Similar in 89%
Extramarital (1998)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring writer gets involved in the investigation of her best friend after she is killed while having an affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, slasher, sexy
Similar in 79%
Missionary (2013)
Plot Summary:
A wife and mother starts an affair with a young missionary... with disastrous consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious
Similar in 87%
The Other Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, romantic, romantic drama, bleak, gloomy
Similar in 88%
Backfire (1987)
Plot Summary:
Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a mysterious stranger, Reed, at a local bar, she believes she has found the right person to help her out of her predicament. But Mara worries that Donnie's sister, Jill, is on to her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, neo noir, independent film, surprise ending, tension, twist ending
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Cold Heart (2001)
Plot Summary:
A woman discovers becoming attracted to the wrong man can have deadly consequences in this tense erotic thriller. Linda (Nastassia Kinski) is a woman whose life would seem ideal on the surface: she runs a thriving business and is happily married to Phil (Jeff Fahey), a psychiatrist. But a faint air of discontent has begun to creep into her relationship, and when Phil arranges for Linda to hire Sean (Josh Holloway), one of his patients, as an assistant, she finds herself seriously tempted for the first time. Linda impulsively sleeps with Sean one night, but the next day decides she made a mistake and tries to break off her affair. Sean, however, is not willing to give her up so easily, and his attraction to her soon becomes a dangerous obsession.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, sexy, serious, erotic, disturbing, tense, stylized, sexual, realistic
Similar in 77%
Trois 2: Pandora's Box (2002)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in a dull marriage, successful shrink Mia DuBois follows a patient's advice and exposes her wild side at a private underground club, where she meets a handsome stranger and begins an affair that may cost her more than just her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, detective
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Women of the Night (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three entwined stories of love, lust, danger and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, captivating, independent film, sexy, sexual
Similar in 83%
Blind Terror (2001)
Plot Summary:
After marrying a handsome man she barely knows, a woman experiences threatening calls and violent attacks from a mysterious woman who claims to be her new husband's former lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, surprise ending, psychotronic
Similar in 76%
A Table for One (1999)
Plot Summary:
A wife, her two-timing husband and a flirting neighbor are unpredictable competitors in a warped game that turns into a life-or-death affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, tension, sexy
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Betrayal (1983)
Plot Summary:
Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the husband's point of view, with the scenes in precise reverse chronological order. Written by Dan Hartung.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, captivating, talky, clever, stylized, non-linear, extraordinary
Similar in 83%
Lured Innocence (2000)
Plot Summary:
A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, mind bending, sexual, sexy
Similar in 82%
Mother's Boys (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes, into a murderous plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, realistic, neo noir, dark, independent film, serious
Similar in 84%
Say Nothing (2001)
Plot Summary:
Housewife Grace Needham (Nastassja Kinski) has a one-night stand with Julian Grant (William Baldwin), who then becomes obsessed with sinking her marriage to husband Matt (Hart Bochner). The twist here is that Julian is a millionaire global powerbroker, and Matt works for him! It's a titanic battle of testosterone as the guys duke it out while Grace simmers angrily.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, tense, realistic, sexual
Similar in 78%
Dead On (1994)
Plot Summary:
In an erotic update of "Strangers on a Train", airline pilot Ted Beaumont and his lover, Erin Davenport, scheme to rid themselves of their respective spouses. Ted's wife disappears mysteriously and thinking that all is proceeding well, he plans an elaborate scheme to kill Erin's husband. However all is not as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, independent film, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, psychotronic, creepy
Similar in 88%
Clean Break (2008)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 86%
Man of Her Dreams (1997)
Plot Summary:
After suspecting her husband is playing the field, a nervous woman finds a sympathetic ear in the form of a strange man. The drawback is that her sensitive new-found friend is an obsessive psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
Similar in 89%
Attraction (2000)
Plot Summary:
A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, independent film, sexual, intense, serious, realistic, gloomy, erotic
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Sex and Consequences (2006)
Plot Summary:
When 18-year-old Sam begins a no-strings-attached summer fling with uninhibited older woman Mary, it seems like the perfect relationship. But after Mary begins using him to make her uptight police officer husband John jealous, he becomes an unwilling pawn in a dangerous emotional game. Can Sam avoid John's wrath, or will he pay the ultimate price for giving in to his carnal desires?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, sexy, suspenseful, serious, realistic, sexual, independent film
Similar in 76%
Obsessed (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman claims she had an affair with a married neurosurgeon and stands trial for allegedly harassing him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, tense, bleak, psychological, serious, suspenseful, sexual, mind bending, realistic
Similar in 76%
Impulse (2008)
Plot Summary:
Acting on impulse, Claire Dennison (Willa Ford), enjoys a brief fling with a sexy stranger (a dead ringer for her husband), only to realize that the object of her desire is a crazed, manipulative, and tenacious psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense, mysterious, realistic, sexual, psychotronic, erotic, sexy
Similar in 83%
Dream Lover (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ray is young, charming, successful and the owner of a prosperous architect company. However, he has recently gone trough a very painful divorce. His friends try to cheer him up by showing him the positive sides of being single but for Ray marriage and stability is just too important. But when he meets Lena his gloom is quickly forgotten.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, psychosexual thriller, sexual, erotic, neo noir
Similar in 81%
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
Similar in 78%
Night Eyes (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Beverly Hills home-security guard is seduced by a rock star's wife he monitors by video.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, independent film, sexual, erotic, hot
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Body Chemistry (1990)
Plot Summary:
A research project on sexual response leads two doctors into an affair where their deepest passions and darkest fantasies are revealed.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sensual, psychological, suspenseful, sexual, neo noir, eros, serious, realistic
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Caught (1996)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged couple has a drifter enter their lives. The fish-store owners find that the mysterious young man awakens the couple in ways they didn't expect. Things get tense when the drifter begins an affair with the woman of the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, sexy, captivating, suspenseful, neo noir, sexual