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Plot Summary:
A man takes three co-workers hostage while working overtime on Thanksgiving weekend. He has no demands.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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Szaman (2011)
Plot Summary:
No Overview.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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The Manipulator (1971)
Plot Summary:
An insane Hollywood makeup man kidnaps a woman, keeps her prisoner in his warehouse full of props.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, suspense, independent film, cult film
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Mindfield (1989)
Plot Summary:
When a police detective kills a criminal, this traumatic event triggers a locked memory, he didn't know he had, of him being a subject of a CIA experiment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, independent film, detective
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Cross Country (1983)
Plot Summary:
After a woman is found butchered in her New York apartment, suspicion falls on her estranged husband, an ad executive who has suddenly left town on a cross-country road trip. He takes along a beautiful girl he met in a bar and a drifter he picked up along the way. A cop sets out after the husband, but he's more interested in shaking him down than bringing him back.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, detective, erotic
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Naakt over de Schutting (1973)
Plot Summary:
Rick, who runs a pinball arcade, lets a room to Penny, a young teacher and karate fan. Penny gets to know Lilly, a singer who has just been hired with her friend Ed to act in a film. But Lilly soon discovers that the movie they are involved in is nothing else but a dirty one. In disgust, she runs away from the set. Shortly afterward, the owner of the film studio is found murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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Craze (1974)
Plot Summary:
Jack Palance stars as a demented art dealer & antique-shop owner who performs nightly rituals in honor of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers up human sacrifice. His methods are fairly creative, ranging from impalement, slashing and burning, to scaring people to death with an ooga-booga fright mask. But it's all about to blow up in his face.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, cult film
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Expecting Mercy (2000)
Plot Summary:
A couple on the run find themselves dealing with the hidden cameras that have been installed at the bed-and-breakfast where they choose to hide out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychosexual thriller, independent film, psychological thriller, psycho sexual, psycho film
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Hard Drive (1994)
Plot Summary:
Film from James Merendino.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, erotic
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Killer Image (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Max Oliver learns his photographer brother has been killed, he suspects it was no random murder. And when he finds his brothers' last photos of a powerful senator and a prostitute, Max gets a clear picture of a deadly political cover-up. Seeking to expose his brother's killer, Max enters a murderous game of cat and mouse, stalked by a cold-blooded assassin who has Max dead in his sights.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Flower and Snake 3: Punishment (1986)
Plot Summary:
When successful business man refuses to save the business of his former business partner, his wife, a private teacher of written arts, and her student are kidnapped. The former business partner plans to execute his revenge by forcing both women into sexual slavery and forcefully train them into becoming SM porn stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, ecchi, sexy
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Flower and Snake 4: White Uniform Rope Slave (1986)
Plot Summary:
A perverted dentist (and dental assistant) that likes to sleep with his patients, gets obsessed with one in particular who also happens to be a lesbian. He uses everthing he can think of to abuse this woman and her female lover. Ropes/Dental tools/Ice Buckets/Candles/ (the works) and sometimes he sets the mood with something from his classical music record collection.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Double Negative (1980)
Plot Summary:
Michael Taylor, played by Michael Sarrazin, is tormented by his sheer lack of memory concerning the night his wife was found brutally killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, eighties
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Badge Of Fear (1997)
Plot Summary:
A policewoman gets involved with the actor she was supposed to protect.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Penthouse (1989)
Plot Summary:
Dinah St. Clair lives the charmed life as the daughter of a wealthy record producer. Enter Joe Dobson, a friend from Dinah's past that has mental problems. Joe's mother killed herself when he was young. Since then, he has been obsessed with death by falling. Joe breaks out of the mental ward he was in to meet Dinah. Unluckily, Dinah doesn't know about his past and lets him in. He holds her hostage, while the police and her father try to forge a plan to get her out of this sticky situation. Can Dinah be saved while she tries to save Joe?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Night Vision (2011)
Plot Summary:
A womanizing reality-TV producer (Spencer) unwittingly sleeps with a mysterious woman (Alison), who turns out to be his own stalker. Alison then kidnaps Spencer and holds him hostage while she humiliates and abuses him, recording every moment on camera for her own twisted reality-TV show.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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A Passion for Murder (1992)
Plot Summary:
A young woman on the run from a murderous rogue government agent hooks up with a pony-tailed taxi driver who reluctantly agrees to help her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Wrong Number (2001)
Plot Summary:
Greed results in murder in the tumultuous world of Internet stocks.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, detective, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Snake (2006)
Plot Summary:
A ruthless gang led by private detective Joseph Plender is extorting rich people and famous fashion photographer Vincent Mandel seems the next victim. He is married to Hélène, daughter of one of the richest people in Europe, but not quite happily. In fact the marriage is on the brink of a divorce and a judge is deciding who will take the two children. Can Hélène take them to Germany or will they stay with Vincent? Vincent has a lot on his mind and he improvises when model Sofia Kippiani comes to his studio, but his makeup crew doesn't show up. Before he knows it, he is accused of a rape. Things go worse and worse for Vincent, he sees his entire life slipping away and, most importantly, he might lose his children. But why does his former schoolmate Joseph Plender seek contact with Vincent and even solve a nasty problem for him? Does Plender want something more than money?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, detective
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Psycho Game (2006)
Plot Summary:
Javier (Javier Martin) is Spanish and is married to Laura, who is Chilean (Maria Elena Swett). They have a six year old son, living in Chile and enjoy a prosperous economic position. The three are, at last, on vacation in Spain, because Laura seems to have overcome a problem of claustrophobia that prevented him from traveling. The family moved to a camp of Oliva, near the home of the parents of Javier. They meet Ignacio (Fabian Mazzei), a handsome young man, who happens to be a friendly and sociable neighbor. Ignacio is fond of spear fishing and frustrated vocation is music. Laura takes the time to prepare the thesis of Medicine that will have to read to return to Chile.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Thriller
Country: Chile, Spain
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Twisted Love (1995)
Plot Summary:
Janna Riley is the awkward and shy girl nobody ever seems to notice. Not being able to live up to her mother's expectations of popularity, Janna walks through the school hallways alone, though her eyes are always on a certain football player, Bo Callahan. Laughed at and made fun of by the in-crowd, Janna sees her opportunity to become accepted when a fateful motorcycle "accident" lands Bo into her arms and under her doting care. Bo's vulnerable condition enables Janna to kidnap Bo and, in the style of Stephen King's "Misery," the viewer is held captive for every thrilling second.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Rainbow Drive (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Unfair: the end (2015)
Plot Summary:
Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this, Natsumi's ex-husband, Kazuo Sato (Teruyuki Kagawa) pays a terrible price. Natsumi goes back to the Investigation #1 of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to take on the organization, but Natsumi becomes involved in a new case. She gets closer to the final enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Madonna: A Case of Blood Ambition (1990)
Plot Summary:
A man is convicted of raping and murdering a child and sent to prison. He is shortly afterwards beaten to death by other inmates. His daughter blames the jurors who convicted him for his death, and she hatches a scheme to murder each of the jury members, often seducing them herself first.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Break Up (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy is married to the abusive Frank, but she's building a nest egg so she can leave. For a year, she's been deaf as a result of one of his beatings. One night, he pushes her over the stairwell, and she ends up in the hospital. When a charred body in her husband's car is pulled from a pond, the cops want to talk to her, but she bolts for her sister's, loses her savings pass-book, and then learns someone has emptied her bank account. She's goes on the run, with the same cops on her trail, and eventually realizes Frank may not be dead. Getting back her money, facing Frank, satisfying the police, and finding her freedom may be more than she can handle. Written by.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mystical, neo noir, independent film, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Body Language (1992)
Plot Summary:
The ambitious Betsy is happy: she gets promoted to a leading management position. Her happiness is spoiled only a little by problems with a boyfriend who feels neglected and an harassing boss. She realizes much too late that her secretary Norma is after her job and step by step tries to ruin her career and private life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Ex (1996)
Plot Summary:
In order to get her husband back, an architect's psycho ex-wife kills everybody she can get her hands on.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, serious, scary, independent film
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Vivid (1999)
Plot Summary:
When a passionate young model convinces her boyfriend, a painter, to take to the canvas to renew their sexual chemistry, their erotic, uninhibited masterpieces command the attention of the art world. Smothered in paint, the couple slip and slide into a new realm of their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Dangerous Touch (1994)
Plot Summary:
An erotic thriller about a promiscuous radio sex therapist who is dragged into blackmail by a young hustler.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Thunder Point (1998)
Plot Summary:
Former IRA agent Sean Dillon comes to the rescue when a woman discovers a briefcase containing plans that could destroy all of Europe. Dillon's assignment is to protect her until the plans can be properly destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
Plot Summary:
A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto. With a nondescript armored truck, crudely yet somehow elaborately rigged with high explosives (and the President trapped inside), the two terrorists keep the Secret Service at bay until in the end, Assanti is killed and Shatner has to find a way into the truck anyway.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, psychotronic, political, grindhouse, independent film, rough