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Plot Summary:
An ex-con holds a group of people hostage in a topless bar.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Pornografie illegal? (1971)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of two American gangsters who are hiding from the FBI in Hamburg, Germany. When there becomes too hot, they move to Munich. Their erotic adventures include sexy girls, prostitutes and lesbians until they the law finally catches up to them. At the same time, their sadistic buddies [Jimmy & Johnny] in California go on a general crime spree around the countryside, torturing and killing those who get in their way finally ending up with three women imprisoned in an apartment whom they constantly rape and also torture [although one girl in particular doesn't seem to mind].
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Trouble in Mind (1985)
Plot Summary:
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo noir, offbeat, tech noir, postmodern, perverse, cult classic, atmospheric, noir, serious
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Sin by Murder (2004)
Plot Summary:
On the night of their tenth anniversary, corporate lawyer Michael Barnes' wife is brutally murdered. Labelled the prime suspect by Detectives Jack Burns and Amy Cobb, Barnes must try to clear his name before it's too late... Along the way, Barnes' closest friends begin to show their true colors, and with no one left to trust, he finds himself with nothing to lose as he's faced with the toughest decision of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Cronies (2015)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-two-year-old Louis doesn't know whether his childhood friendship with Jack will last beyond today.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Deadly Dancer (1990)
Plot Summary:
A police detective, investigating a string of murders of strippers at a Los Angeles night club, must race against the clock to clear his name when he's wrongfully accused of being the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Crack (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two buddies from the hood are forced to rob a mafia-backed crack house or go to prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Hot Summer Week (1972)
Plot Summary:
Via Amazon: "Two wild teenage girls, Debbie (Kathleen Cody) and Karen (Dianne Hull, FIFTH FLOOR, ALOHA BOBBY AND ROSE) hit the road for some freedom, boys, and unexpected danger in this 1973 drive-in classic! The girls pick up a handsome Vietnam veteran (Michael Ontkean, TWIN PEAKS, SLAP SHOT, MAID TO ORDER) who is still troubled from his time at war, but is trying his best to fit in. They all end up at a hippie encounter session run by John (Ralph Waite, THE WALTONS, THE BODYGUARD) in a peaceful village by the ocean. It's all fun and games until the girls discover that a serial killer is murdering girls.".
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse
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17000 Block (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of Detroit's underworld, 17000 Block tells the story of Buck, a young man trapped in the middle of a street family rivalry - he is coerced, by his unscrupulous Uncle Eddie, to pull a robbery. When the job goes bad Buck finds himself running from the law, and the streets.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven (2011)
Plot Summary:
Las Vegas stripper, Penny Slot (Rena Riffel), sets out on an adventure to become the star dancer on a dance television show. With stars in her eyes, she tries to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but instead finds danger in a town more wicked than Sin City. Romance then leads her down a path towards her dream of stardom, fame, and fortune. But danger lurks at every twist and turn while Penny Slot becomes lured by a dangerous love triangle full of temptation and seduction. Penny's longtime fiancé/boyfriend, James "Jimmy" Smith (Glenn Plummer) warns her that she needs formal technique training if she wants to be taken seriously as a real dancer, so Penny heeds his advice and sets out to take ballet classes and practices her pique turns. But, she must pay the price. And there is a price to pay for success, sacrifices to be made at every imaginable level, and it all comes down to... How bad do you want it?.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sexy, captivating, parody, independent film, sexploitation film, ridiculous
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Uncaged (1991)
Plot Summary:
Miki and her younger brother Robby flee their destructive home and find themselves in the towering metropolis, Los Angeles. There, they meet Sharkey, a pimp. Miki becomes infatuated with Sharkey and starts to work for him. Miki finds herself trapped in Sharkey's dominating world and must find a way to escape the nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Blind Trust (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a woman goes on trial for killing her best friend and boyfriend in the heat of passion, the best criminal defender in town takes her case. When he loses, she goes on the lam to find out who set her up — only to discover that her lawyer is the killer! On her own and way out of her league, she works against the clock to get hard evidence against him — all the while trying to stay a step ahead in order to survive and prove her innocence!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Debutantes (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of two brothers who get involved with a sexy stripper and her boss, the nightclub king of Santiago, as told from three perspectives. Sexy, gritty, emotional.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, erotic
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Dirty O'Neil (1974)
Plot Summary:
A police officer has very little work as there is virtually no crime in his small California town...until three hoodlums appear and rape a young woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, grim, independent film, rough, serious, realistic
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Midnight Tease II (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jennifer Brennan gets a job at a strip club to try and find out who killed her sister. She works with undercover cop John Donnelly and befriends other strippers some of whom also get murdered by a very unhappy murdering murderer.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Exit (1996)
Plot Summary:
An attempted burglary of a strip club goes awry when one of the three burglars kills a man who draws a gun. This results in the trio taking the dancers and the customers hostage. Why the robbers don't go ahead and escape when the shooting occurs is beyond the viewer. Then all the hostages escape and hide in the club's refrigerator which sort of indicates the intelligence of the stick-up men. Unfortunately, the cops outside are no more intelligent as they stand around outside wondering what to do as one of the strippers who was released crawls back into an extremely large venting system for a small club and rescues the hostages with the help of an ex-cop held inside the club.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hit Me (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dan Selig is a bored thirty year-old math wiz who's looking for a way to change his life. His ray of light comes in the form of a curvy blonde named Alicia, who recruits Dan to join her blackjack card counting team for a one night Las Vegas score. Dan accepts the offer and meets Thomas, a Texas cowboy with a violent past. Alicia trains Dan and Thomas in the art of card counting and as the team hits the felt in Sin City, we learn that the perfect crime isn't so perfect. When things go from bad to worse, Dan will find out the hard way that with millions up for grabs, the only question is, who's playing who?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Forbidden Sins (1999)
Plot Summary:
Shannon Tweed stars as the divorced defense attorney who gets caught in a passionate love affair with an accused murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, detective
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Sweater Girls (1978)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenage girls forms a club, The Sweater Girls, to preserve their virginity.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film
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Doble Crossed (2001)
Plot Summary:
Charisse lives in a boarding house owned by Vivian Sales (Rina Reyes) but drops by her grandfather (Eddie Arenas) once in a while. The narrative goes on in this scenario and eventually leaps from drama to action when the lead characters, Charisse and Benito, get entangled with Bunny and the godfather-like character, Dodi (Celso Ad. Castillo).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Confessions of the Sex Slaves (1977)
Plot Summary:
The plot has pretty, middle-class Caucasian girls (college students, runaways etc.) being kidnapped right of the streets of Zurich and Montreal(!), and after being beaten, raped, and hooked on heroin, they are sent to Amsterdam to work as zombified strippers and prostitutes in a nightclub called the Moulin Rouge. A female reporter is investigating the disappearance of one girl and ends up on the trail of the slavers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Solitaire (1996)
Plot Summary:
erotic thriller from 1996.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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On the Border (1998)
Plot Summary:
A dumb as rocks security guard in a Texas border town gets involved in a planned bank heist thanks to the charms of two different femmes fatales.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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American Crude (2008)
Plot Summary:
Quite a bit can happen over the course of a single day in L.A., and when smooth-talking scam artist Johnny decides to throw a bachelor party for his best friend Bill the events of the day take a bizarre turn. As the festivities get underway, the appearance of a transvestite prostitute, a trigger-happy ex-con, and a notorious porn king signal that this isn't going to be a typical night out.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, dark comedy, realistic
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No Way Home (1996)
Plot Summary:
An ex-cons future is threatened by his brother's involvement with drugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, cult classic, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Laser Moon (1993)
Plot Summary:
A radio DJ helps two police detectives hunt down a serial killer who kills women using a surgical laser instrument during every full moon and whom makes taunting phone calls the radio station.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, independent film
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The Thief & the Stripper (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jack just lost his P.I. license and his life is on a downward spiral. He decides to steal a cash briefcase from the local gangsters. He hides in a strip joint owned by a local mob legend Jimmie D and pays a stripper to help him escape. The gangsters find her and want her to lead 'em to him. She is also interested in the case, as well as other local mobsters and dirty cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense
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Steel City (2006)
Plot Summary:
After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county jail. His son PJ, who works washing dishes and cleaning tables in a restaurant, feels lost, without financial support to keep his father's house, and is fired from his job and evicted from his house.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy
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Charlie Valentine (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film chronicles the exploits of the title character, Charlie, played by Raymond J. Barry (Training Day) a career criminal intent on scoring one last big pay day. When his "perfect crime" goes bad, Charlie flees to Los Angeles to hide out with his estranged son, Danny, played by Michael Weatherly. What ensues reveals the true nature of some of the most unsavory of characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Striptease (1996)
Plot Summary:
Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she'll have to take it all off. Erin strips to conquer, but she faces unintended circumstances when a hound dog of a Congressman zeroes in on her and sharpens the shady tools at his fingertips, including blackmail and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, touching, sexual, intense, detective, black comedy, sensual, neo noir, sex comedy
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She's Just a Shadow (2019)
Plot Summary:
A crime family becomes entangled in a vicious gang war while a serial killer cuts a swath through Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing