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Plot Summary:
A computer run gang of good doers is out to stop a Palm Springs bad guy played by George Hamilton and they concoct a land deal scam to swindle him out of all his ill gotten goods and land him in jail.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Pom Poms and Payback (2021)
Plot Summary:
After being dumped, a group of high school cheerleaders seek revenge on their boyfriends, only to suspect that their new cheer coach is actually behind all their troubles.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Stricken (1997)
Plot Summary:
In their final semester of school, a group of six college friends get together to pull the ultimate prank on a fellow classmate. The joke goes awry, resulting in a series of tragic events. Can they explain their way out of this one?.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Legend of Jack and Diane (2023)
Plot Summary:
Jack and Diane are forced to leave Indiana after discovering secrets about the death of Diane's mother. When their worst fears are confirmed by the chief of police, Jack and Diane create a "Hit List" and exact revenge on everyone involved.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Secrets in Suburbia (2017)
Plot Summary:
After discovering that her three best friends and her husband are plotting to murder her and steal her family fortune, Gloria, an otherwise kind-hearted housewife and mother of two, unfolds and exacts a deadly revenge on all who betrayed her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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An Appointment with Mr. Vield (2017)
Plot Summary:
Samantha Anthony is a teenage girl who has been forced to deal with situations, which have made her wise far beyond her years. She's had to watch her mother spiral out-of-control while addicted to the drug meth. Lost a baby brother to CPS as a result. And blames Mr. Vield for both. As a result, she turns to a rather unusual solution for how to eradicate him from her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Run for Your Life (1988)
Plot Summary:
Major Charles Forsythe (Carradine) is a Vietnam veteran U.S. Army officer stationed near Rome. He is a brutal, if effective, commander who was "fragged" by his own men in Vietnam. When he is denied promotion because of the number of men injured during his training exercises, he takes out his anger by beating his pregnant wife Sarah (Hutton). She miscarries. On her release from the hospital, Sarah is determined to get back into shape and begins running. She meets Alan Morani (Segal) a former Olympic runner who is a paraplegic as the result of a car accident. Morani offers to coach Sarah to run in the Rome marathon, a race which her husband has won two years in a row. Sarah realizes that winning the race is the best way to avenge the death of her baby and destroy her husband's ego.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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What We Did That Night (1999)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con Henry (Rick Schroder) returns to town after being released from prison and contacts his old college frat members about a murder that they committed years earlier. They have to return to move the body to a new location before it is uncovered by recent digging in the area. Now a lot older and bitter about going to prison Henry has planned revenge on his old friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Stonebrook (1999)
Plot Summary:
Seth Green and Brad Rowe star in this drama as a pair of college students who come up with a plan to cheat an underworld syndicate at their own game. However, their ambition outstrips their street smarts, and they soon find themselves on the wrong end of their own con game.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Terror in the Shadows (1995)
Plot Summary:
Five years ago, Christine went after the baby she gave up for adoption, claiming he'd been stolen, and wound up killing Alex Williams' wife and the baby the Williams' had adopted. Now, Alex has remarried to a woman with a young son and when Christine escapes from a mental institution, she heads straight for Alex, looking for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Torn Apart (2004)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Vicki Westin has no idea that losing a patient is going to wreak complete havoc on her life. But that's exactly what happens: Her deceased patient's grieving father seeks vengeance by kidnapping Vicki's husband and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, neo noir
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Maternal Instincts (1996)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant doctor's life is made hell by the deranged patient to whom she gave a hysterectomy, without the patient's consent.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Betrayal (1974)
Plot Summary:
A lonely widow hires a young woman as her companion. What she doesn't know is that the woman and her boyfriend are extortionists, who are planning on making her their next victim, then killing her when they get her money.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense
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American Skin (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Marine veteran working as a school janitor tries to mend his relationship with his son after a divorce. When his son is killed by a police officer found innocent without standing trial, he takes matters into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Deadly Daphne's Revenge (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young hitchhiker is picked up by four drunken hunters, one of whom rapes her. A tough prosecutor has all four of the men indicted for the crime, which results in a suicide and a murder-for-hire plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Gang Boys (1994)
Plot Summary:
Linda Blair's gay son gets raped by Nazis, so she tracks down the father, played by Wings Hauser, and helps him deal with his alcoholism, and eventually they kind of fight back.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Running Away (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sisters Maggie and Lizzie move in with mom Peg's new husband. Secrets and lies start immediately. Maggie cannot handle what follows and recruits a friend to help her plan to get out of town with her step father's secrets. When Peg discovers that her daughter has run away, she now has to find Maggie fast but must come to terms with the dark secrets that led to Maggie's fleeing and the secrets about her new husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Road to Paloma (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a brutal injustice occurs on a Native American reservation, a son must find redemption for the actions of his past. Road to Paloma is the beautiful journey of two bikers traveling across America's vast west. While Native American Wolf (Jason Momoa) is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with Cash (Robert Mollohan), a down and out musician who is coping with the end of his marriage. An unlikely friendship develops, as they ride together towards the Teton mountain range, where Wolf will spread his mothers ashes.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, serious, realistic, retro, independent film
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Sexual Temptations (2001)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful new FBI recruit Carly Davis gets a chance to prove herself when she's sent to nab international jewel thief Jack Sullivan. Using both her sexual wiles and her tracking expertise, Carly lures Sullivan into her trap. But Sullivan may be on to the novice, who soon begins falling for her captivating quarry.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, surprise ending
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Dangerous Indiscretion (1995)
Plot Summary:
A womanizing executive picks up a divoree and embarks in an affair, only to have his life destroyed by her jealous husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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False Pretenses (2004)
Plot Summary:
Falling victim to a glib con artist named Michael (Stewart Bick), Texas housewife Diane (Peta Wilson) loses all her money, a disaster that drives her husband Randal (Anthony Lemke) to suicide. Unable to get justice through the official channels, Diane mounts her own plan of revenge. This involves assuming a new identity, trading in her blonde tresses for a redheaded "do", moving to a small town, and systematically seducing the man who ruined her life. One of six "no frills" TV movies produced in Canada for the Lifetime cable network at a flat cost of 2 million each,.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Art of Revenge (2003)
Plot Summary:
After Matt Kane leaves his wife Lara after seven years of marriage for the single, fast life that he wanted all his life after getting a promotion at work, she plots revenge against him by hiring an female ex-con and grifter, named Tuesday, to romance and bring him down in a series of encounters and plots while loyalties begin to be tested as to who is plotting against who.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, independent film
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Echoes of Violence (2021)
Plot Summary:
An immigrant travels from Sedona to Los Angeles to seek revenge against the immigration lawyer who ruined her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Pool Boy Nightmare (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Gale as she has a brief affair with pool cleaner Adam, but quickly turns down his continued advances. Insulted at being rejected, Adam starts dating Gale's high school age daughter Becca, using her as an unsuspecting pawn in a twisted game of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dawn Patrol (2014)
Plot Summary:
After the brutal murder of his beloved brother, a small-town surfer seeks revenge against the gang of merciless thugs he holds responsible. However, when another tragedy brings him face to face with the consequences of his actions, he must seek forgiveness from the very people he despises most.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, erotic
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Red (2008)
Plot Summary:
An older, reclusive man's best friend and inspiration for living is his 14-year-old dog named "Red". When three troublesome teens kill the dog for no good reason, the grieving man sets out for justice and redemption by whatever means available to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: emotional, suspense, touching, tense, serious, disturbing, psychological horror, cult classic, realistic, gloomy
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The Moderator (2022)
Plot Summary:
After the murder of her two Scandinavian friends in Morocco, a Russian blogger decides to do her own justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Morocco, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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River Runs Red (2018)
Plot Summary:
When the son of a successful judge is killed by two police officers and the system sets them free, a hardened veteran detective finds some incriminating files on the officers and the judge teams up with another mourning father to take the law into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Bad Influence (1990)
Plot Summary:
Michael, a wimpy young executive, is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in--and then disappears. Later that night, while jogging, Michael runs into the stranger on a pier. He introduces himself as Alex, and the two go out to an under- ground club. Alex wheedles his way into Michael's life and turns it upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, entertaining, psychological, clever, suspenseful, offbeat, visually stunning, rough, serious
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Changing Lanes (2002)
Plot Summary:
A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two complete strangers into vicious adversaries. Their means of destroying each other might be different, but their goals, ultimately, will be the same: Each will systematically try to dismantle the other's life in a reckless effort to reclaim something he has lost.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, harsh, realistic, psychological thriller, tense, clever, suspense, intense, bleak, serious