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Plot Summary:
An engineer moves into a bungalow on the beach next to a widow and her two boys. The older boy has a bit of an Oedipal complex and seems to like his mom. Of course, that means that no other man can come and break up their "happy" family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Moord in extase (1984)
Plot Summary:
De Cock & Vledder investigate the robbery of an armored truck which leads to several murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: detective
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Descent Into Hell (1986)
Plot Summary:
The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, french noir
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976)
Plot Summary:
When a widowed mother falls in love with an American sailor, her troubled young son is pressured by the bullying leader of his clique to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, controversial, disturbing, independent film, contemplative, gloomy
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24 Exposures (2013)
Plot Summary:
Billy is a fetish photographer whose models begin to turn up dead. Michael, a melancholic cop, is tasked with investigating him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: erotic, realistic, suspenseful, tense, sexy, serious, mumblecore, mind bending, gloomy, independent film
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The Missing Woman (2016)
Plot Summary:
An award-winning performer trio and a sophisticated story characterize the thrilling TV thriller "The Missing Woman". From the naive betrayed to the tough revenge angel Corinna Harfouch turns into the lead role. At her side, Ulrich Matthes silently plays a professional killer, who does not look at the cards. Never laying an excuse, is the Dortmund crime scene commissar Jörg Hartmann in the role of a shameless swindler. Because all three want to cash in on the life insurance, begins a game of fraud and extortion, in which also the red light milieu interferes.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Doblin's text to 2015 Berlin to tell the story of 30-year-old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat which crossed the Mediterranean illegally. Without citizenship papers, Francis is drawn into the underbelly of the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Netherlands, France, Canada
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: psychological, epic, captivating, surreal, modern day adaptation
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Bonnie's Kids (1972)
Plot Summary:
Sisters Myra and Ellie have finally had enough of their miserable, dead-end lives. When their stepfather Charley (the titular "Bonnie" being long dead) tried to rape Myra, Ellie ventilates him with a shotgun, and the pair run off to their wealthy uncle's mansion in El Paso. From that point on, the two undergo a transformation in their personalities, and start to enjoy living their lives on the wild side.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, neo noir, independent film
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Swingers Massacre (1974)
Plot Summary:
This thriller/drama follows a a suburban lawyer, down a ruinous, blood-covered road. The trouble begins when he tires of life in the slow lane and suggests that he and his wife should join a swinging couple's club and do a little spouse swapping. But then he begins suspecting that the wife is having too much fun with the other swingers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film
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Because of the Cats (1973)
Plot Summary:
A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple's house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch. Thus begins a dogged investigation by a determined detective who quickly finds that their cult-like solidarity can be a serious obstacle to breaking them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective
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Malibu High (1979)
Plot Summary:
When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug addiction and prostitution, and ultimately assassinations for a kingpin mob boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, sexy, cult film
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Angel Eyes (1993)
Plot Summary:
Angel is a disturbed teen who becomes obsessed with her nice stepfather Steven. After her mother dies under unusual circumstances, Angel is sent to an institution. Years later, she is let out and tracks down her dear step-dad who now lives with his new girlfriend Michelle. He is technically her only kin so he takes her in, but his girlfriend doesn't like Angel one bit. Angel's obsession with her "dad" is as strong as ever and she fantasizes about seducing him. After spying on him and his girlfriend having passionate sex, she begins playing a deadly game and even tries to seduce his hostile girlfriend. However, Steven has a more immediate and obvious problem - a drug dealer called Johnny Ventura.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Killer Looks (1994)
Plot Summary:
A man gets turned on watching his wife with other men as long as she plays by the rules. When she brings home a a new stranger who likes to play his own games, the husband finds his marriage in jeopardy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, cult film
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Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It (1970)
Plot Summary:
After many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his father (who he suspects was actually murdered). He attempts to untangle that mystery while still carrying an unhealthy obsession toward his mother, who committed suicide ten years ago. This obsession then draws in his attractive cousin and takes a sexual turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Victim of Desire (1995)
Plot Summary:
An SEC agent investigating $70M in missing funds and a murdered businessman gets involved with the man's wife.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Blind Valley (2011)
Plot Summary:
Vincent is an ordinary-looking cop in Descharnes province. Ten years ago, he buried a dirty business to save his skin. Stan Wilson, and share their passion for Deborah but also a dark secret. Ten years ago, they suffered a trauma that no child can recover. Wilson wants to forget. Stan wants to speak, without knowing that he then puts in motion a terrible plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Erotic Passion (1981)
Plot Summary:
Since her parents' death, 19-year old Della lives with her aunt Marsha and Andrew, her old husband. One morning Marsha has sex with Alex, her husband's doctor. Right afterwords, Della seduces him at the beach while Marsha watches them from her window. The two women have a fight which results to Della leaving the house. She finds refuge at Maria's (a friend of hers) place but as it appears she is missing and the house is inhabited by Aris and Samantha. Della makes a pass at Aris, managing to infuriate Samantha. In the meanwhile, the local authorities are investigating the murder of Aris' business partner, Steve Brynner. When all trace leads to Aris, Della suggests a swap: She'll travel to Italy to get fake passports for the couple as long as they accept to murder Marsha.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake (2005)
Plot Summary:
14-year old Erik gets sent to live with his older brother, Henry, during the summer as his mother is dying in cancer. Henry starts dating Ewa, who is married to Berra. A few days after Ewa shows up battered and bruised from an altercation with Berra, he is found dead on a nearby parking lot.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, melancholic, teen
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Terror and Black Lace (1986)
Plot Summary:
A psycho with a hair fetish is caught in the act of disposing of a body and the lonely housewife that witnesses it must fight for her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Ciske the Rat (1984)
Plot Summary:
Lovable Amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old Ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the German 1955 title suggests. He is a scamp with a heart of gold. He causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one of the only children to befriend him and is bullied as a result. His mother works in a bar and Ciske helps out often late into the night - his father is at sea and his mother supplements her income with prostitution. Ciske is also a very angry young man and he smoulders with rage at life's injustices.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: epic, cult classic, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy, eighties
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A Letter of Fire (2005)
Plot Summary:
A schoolboy and his friend are caught at school looking at pornography on the computer. Punished, they wrongly believe that the police are going to arrest them so they hide in an abandoned building and as the boys feel cornered, and fearing for their lives, one of them accidentally kills a prostitute with a dagger thinking she was a mugger.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sri Lanka, France
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: sinhala, suspense, disturbing, erotic
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Sensation (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lila a college student discovers a latent ability to see into the past. When a professor hires her for some psychological tests she becomes the target of the killer of the woman she sees in her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Stalked By My Neighbor (2015)
Plot Summary:
A girl and her mother escape to suburban safety after a home invasion scares them out of the city, but they're soon menaced by a sinister figure.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller
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Kept (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dead bodies are piling up, and the leads the two LA homicide cops have point to Barbara, business manager for a successful architectural firm she runs with her husband Lance. The dead men were interns at the firm, and each of them was Barbara's lover (kept in a classy flat she owns and observed via closed-circuit TV by the applauding Lance). Kyle is Barbara's latest intern and lover, and he may be in danger. He also starts to fall in love with Barbara, and the feeling may be mutual. In the background are Erin, Lance and Barbara's myopic administrative assistant, and Tony, Kyle's one-time roommate who also knows Barbara. Can the cops solve this before too many more die?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, touching, bleak, captivating, disturbing
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Butterfly (1981)
Plot Summary:
Orson Welles, as judge Rauch, holds a lengthy trial against Jess Tyler, a caretaker deserted by his wife ten years before, who's accused of improper relations with his daughter Kady. Complications follows when Wash, father of Kady's baby, comes back to take her away.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, neo noir, independent film, tense, sincere, serious, realistic, disturbing, eighties
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Keys to Tulsa (1997)
Plot Summary:
Richter Boudreau is on a bad streak: Languishing in the shadow of his celebrity mother, he loses his job as a film critic for the town paper, and now he's been approached with a dangerous proposition that ultimately leads to blackmail. Richter's friend Ronnie ropes him into a scheme to steal the inheritance of his wife, Vicky.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, melancholic, surreal, stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, sensual, neo noir, independent film
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Human Desires (1997)
Plot Summary:
Alicia Royale is a fashion mogul who decides to have a large pajama themed party as a promotion for her new line of clothing.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Weight of Water (2000)
Plot Summary:
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tricky, tense, suspenseful, suspense, sexual, mystical, atmospheric, serious
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The Teacher (1974)
Plot Summary:
18-year-old Sean's first summer after completing high school is much spent with 28-year-old teacher Diane, who's husband is too often motorcycle-racing instead of with her. Wacko Ralph also has "the hots" for Diane; and it doesn't help that Sean was with Ralph's younger brother, Lou, when Lou died.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, sexy, campy
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The Whistlers (2019)
Plot Summary:
A policeman intent on freeing a crooked businessman from a prison on Gomera, an island in the Canaries. However, he must first learn the difficult local dialect, a language which includes hissing and spitting.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, sitcom, hood, thrilling, neo noir, detective, freeze frame
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Love Strange Love (1982)
Plot Summary:
Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important political changes in Brazil, in 1937. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, weird