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Plot Summary:
Sydney Banks learns the hard way that being driven and educated is not the path to success. With the help of Todd Hunter her career takes off. Sydney gets pulled into corporate blackmail and murder. With the help of boyfriend Derek, she begins her own deception.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Confession (2022)
Plot Summary:
Min-ho's adulterous lover Se-hee is murdered in a hotel where only the two of them were present, and Min-ho is immediately singles out as the prime suspect. Insisting on his innocence, Min-ho hires the talented lawyer Shin-ae to defend him, and confesses to her that a car accident on the day before may be connected to Se-hee's murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
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Breach of Conduct (1994)
Plot Summary:
Helen attracts the unwanted attention of the commander of her husband's new army base. Colonel Andrew Case arranges to have Helen's husband travel on base business so that he can force Helen to be his new plaything. Helen fights back.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The Cover Girl Murders (1993)
Plot Summary:
The scene is a remote tropical island, where several top swimsuit models converge for a magazine photo shoot, orchestrated by publisher Lee Majors. The girls are lovely, the scenery gorgeous, the weather couldn't be pleasanter. Only one hitch: one by one, the models fall victim to mysterious fatal accidents. You know by now that these are no accidents.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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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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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969)
Plot Summary:
A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, mad
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Prisoner of Love (1999)
Plot Summary:
Supermodel Naomi Campbell sizzles in this suspense-charged erotic thriller that delves into the dark world of obsession, seduction and crime. When a small time hood makes a hit, beautiful Tracy becomes his unwitting witness... and the object of his desire! His boss orders her dead, but he realizes the only chance to save her life is to abduct her and go into hiding. But will his world close in? Or will she slowly succumb to his burning desire? The suspense will hold you captive.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Visions (1989)
Plot Summary:
A man has troubling visions that lead him to suspect he may be a killer who is murdering hobos around town.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
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The Stepmother 3 (2023)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth Carter will again stop at nothing to find her perfect family.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Gramps (1995)
Plot Summary:
After a long search, lawyer Clarke MacGruder finally locates his long lost father Jack. At first, everything seems fine with his new extended family, until the two set off on a hunting trip, where Jack starts showing a rather violent streak to his nature.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Sharon's Secret (1995)
Plot Summary:
A 16 year old girl is accused of killing her parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Identical (2011)
Plot Summary:
Identical twins are born, one is good and one is evil. They need each-other to exist, but they deeply resent the others existence. They both fall in love with the same woman. A love triangle forms which leads to murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
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My Husband's Worst Mistake (2023)
Plot Summary:
When Amy’s controlling husband Brad learns she had an affair with work colleague Kirk, Brad kills her. Then he turns his attention to Kirk, specifically Kirk’s wife, with a plan to ruin the marriage of the man who “ruined” his.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
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Twisted Twin (2020)
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Tess loves her mom Patricia and the horse ranch she was raised on, but she’s ready for the next chapter. Attending her college orientation weekend, she gets the surprise of a lifetime when she’s approached by Sammy Crain, who happens to be her identical twin sister! After learning the story of how they were separated at birth, Tess is excited to connect with Sammy, but when Sammy’s adoptive parents turn up dead and Tess is mistaken for her sister, she realizes she’s been duped by her twin as part of Sammy’s devious plan to steal Tess’s identity, take the family fortune and get away with murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
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I Am the Abyss (2022)
Plot Summary:
The Man Who Cleans knows you can find a lot of secrets in trash. People tend to lie but their trash never does. The Man Who Cleans thought he was invisible, until he met the Girl with the Purple Hair Lock. Girl with the Purple Hair Lock breaks into his tidy life because only an evil angel can save her now. Meanwhile, the Huntress knows somebody is killing blonds out there. Nobody believes her, but she knows. What she doesn't know, though, is that evil is hiding behind the green door. The truth lies at the bottom of a dark, deep abyss.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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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
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Falling for a Killer (2023)
Plot Summary:
When Assistant DA Darcy Young, is invited to her estranged parents’ country home to meet her sister’s new fiance, Thomas Schure, she’s already dubious at the speed of the whirlwind romance, but as Thomas’s suspicious behavior begins to become increasingly more erratic, Darcy becomes convinced that Thomas is a danger to her entire family.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
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Broken Trust (1995)
Plot Summary:
Judge Nash is highly regarded for his position and decisions in the courtroom. He's approached by a special agent from a government task force investigating corrupt judges and lawyers, and asked to participate in a sting operation. Initially it's against some people Nash has no trouble believing are corrupt, but as the scope of the sting widens to include some of his friends, he tries to get out. That's when the agent threatens to reveal information that would embarrass Judge Nash if he doesn't continue.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Accidental Witness (2006)
Plot Summary:
Victor Sandeman is a senior partner with Brunel Global Securities. He is experiencing major financial problems, ones that can be solved if the planned $100 million merger of the company takes place. However, the company's owner, Raymond Brunel, is against the merger. Thinking that he can overpower the ineffective David Brunel, Raymond's grandson and the company's heir apparent, Victor murders the elderly Raymond (trying to make it look like a death by natural causes) so that he can go ahead with the planned merger. The one glitch in the murder is a possible witness, Christine Sternwald. A paralegal and aspiring lawyer, Christine is just putting her life back together following a sexual assault three years earlier. When Victor and Christine meet shortly after the murder in a fender bender with Victor driving the deceased Raymond's car, Victor is forced to identify himself to her as Raymond Brunel.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, exciting
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The Wrong Cruise (2018)
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When a mother takes her teenage daughter on a cruise for some much needed bonding, the two unexpectedly find themselves falling for a couple of very handsome passengers. However, when they leave the ship for a port excursion, they quickly realize that they've been drawn into a web of deceit. The two manage to escape, but now they find themselves stranded in a foreign country with few resources and two very dangerous men on their trail. Vivica A. Fox, Andres Londono, Sidney Nicole Rogers, Adrian Quinta, and William McNamara star.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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Dig (2022)
Plot Summary:
A widower and his deaf daughter are held hostage and forced to dig under their house, revealing dark secrets from the past.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (1992)
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A man (Rick Worthington) assaults the Alta Vista Hospital taking four women, a man and two babies as hostages. He wants to kill Dr. Garrick, who, according to Worthington, ruined his life sterilizing his wife. He threatens to detonate a bomb. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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The Confidant (2010)
Plot Summary:
The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond and a more intriguing secret. Both young men are on the right path to promising futures, a first round NFL draft pick, and a talented art major on a full scholarship. A complicated web of lies, gambling, murder and a pact between friends sends an innocent friend to prison and the other to fame. After spending eleven years in prison, the innocent comes to collect a debt and is determined to have the life he was promised... by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, bleak, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough, sexy, realistic, independent film
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The Rich Man's Wife (1996)
Plot Summary:
A rich man's wife finds she has a bad prenuptial agreement with an even worse husband. Over drinks with a stranger, she fantasizes about doing her husband in to void the prenupt. The stranger decides to turn her imagination into reality much to the wife's surprise.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, noir, psychosexual thriller, detective, scary, serious, realistic, non-linear
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Indiscreet (1998)
Plot Summary:
A case involving adultery, money and murder threatens a private eye's sobriety.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective
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Paranormal Abduction (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young women suffering memory loss and psychological issues after surviving a brutal attack, tries to piece together the clues surrounding her attack and its similarities to a series of recent murders. During the investigation, she struggles to maintain her sanity as her world gets more surreal and reality starts to unwind around her. Following the clues that lead her down the "rabbit hole" she finds herself fighting to wake up from this nightmare...before she becomes the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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A Fall From Grace (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological thriller, enigmatic, tense, suspense, dark
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Captive (1998)
Plot Summary:
Joe Goodies has just entered an advertising agency after recovering from the death of his girlfriend in a car accident. Ruined by the compensation he has to pay for the accident, he decides, with his new girlfriend, to kidnap the son of the president of the agency and ask for a bailout.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Corrupt (2016)
Plot Summary:
A district attorney asks a forensic accountant (Nicole de Boer) to investigate the murder of a key witness.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Fatale (2020)
Plot Summary:
A married man is tricked into a murder scheme by a female police detective.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, disturbing, intense, psychological thriller, anamorphic, psychosexual thriller