Best movies like Lethal Pursuit
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Plot Summary:
A rock star babe and her hunky honey find themselves targeted by her psychotic ex, whose insane jealously sparks a deadly game of desert cat-and-mouse.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Stuart Bliss (1998)
Plot Summary:
After his frustrated wife abruptly walks out on him, Stuart Bliss, a wizard at inventing campaigns for surplus military materials, believes he's catching the warning of a coming apocalypse. Descending into paranoia, he then begins to perceive every subtle change in his office as a sign of intrusion, imagining that he's being watched and possibly polluted with a contaminated substance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Kid (1990)
Plot Summary:
A young man (the 'Kid') returns to the small town where his parents were murdered when he was a boy. He's there for revenge. Locals Kate and Louie befriend him, much to the annoyance of some of the town folk.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo western
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Kiss of a Killer (1993)
Plot Summary:
A rapist stalks a witness endangered by the secret life she has created to escape her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Crosscut (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Martin Niconi goes across country to get away from a sorry family and associates problems, he finds a secluded area high in the Sierra Mountains area of California to begin life over as a logger. He meets Anna Hennessey and her son Jeff and the romance begins. Anna's brother Max is a logger whose crew includes Martin and he is determined to keep them apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Thrilled to Death (1988)
Plot Summary:
A mystery writer and his wife are terrorized by a swinger couple.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Brute Corps (1971)
Plot Summary:
A hippy couple travelling cross country run foul of a band of mercenaries.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Friends 'Til the End (1997)
Plot Summary:
Heather and Suzanne were childhood friends, both singers, who have always been competing against each other. The insecure Suzanne, who usually lost all the competitions, grows emotionally disturbed and hyper-competitive and carrying a grudge against Heather. The young woman, under a false name, enrolls the same college where Heather goes, with the intention of destroying her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: ridiculous
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Are You Lonesome Tonight (1992)
Plot Summary:
A rich, somewhat priggish society wife who is looking for her missing husband seeks help from a private eye and her husband's call girl. As she searches for answers, she realizes she's running out of people she can trust- including her husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, tension, erotic, suspense
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Sweet Virginia (2017)
Plot Summary:
A former rodeo champ befriends a young man with a propensity for violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, independent film, intellectual
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Ultraviolet (1992)
Plot Summary:
A park ranger and his lover have heated encounters with a dangerous man in Death Valley.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psycho sexual, independent film
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Red Nights (1988)
Plot Summary:
The Story of a Idealistic Young man (Played by Chris Parker), who goes to Los Angeles to become an actor, but is disillusioned and jaded when the cold and realistic violent world of Hollywood shatters then explodes all around him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988)
Plot Summary:
Molly is now a freelance photographer in New York. She runs across a woman at an art show that looks familiar. She goes to L.A. to find out that this woman is in fact, her mother. She also finds out she has a sister. The reunion is short-lived when her mother calls her to tell her that her sister is in danger and later, gets killed in an explosion. Molly must once again, become Angel to try and find her sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: action adventure, serious
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The Grind (2010)
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Streets (1990)
Plot Summary:
Tough drama looks at the plight of a young L.A. prostitute, who shoots heroin to get through the day, sells sex just to survive, and eats roadkill sometimes when there isn't anything else available. Into this futile existence is thrown a psycho killer, who gets off on raping and slaughtering the girls he catches on the streets. Sy is a straight kid from Sanata Barbara, who gets drawn into this scuzzy underworld and tries to rescue the young prostitute from the killer and her existence.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Hunter and the Hunted (2016)
Plot Summary:
An annual hunting trip for four longtime friends turns into a backwoods nightmare when they run into a group of devout locals deep inside the Pacific Northwest. As tension mounts between the two groups, the men become caught in a vicious game of cat and mouse while struggling to deal with their own personal demons and growing distrust among each other in this pulse-pounding action thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Abducted (1986)
Plot Summary:
A mixed-up mountain boy kidnaps a pretty college student.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Tripwire (1989)
Plot Summary:
A band of ruthless international terrorists led by Josef Szabo (David Warner) hijack a speeding railroad train loaded with a full arsenal of powerful military weaponry capable of threatening world peace. The only hero who can stop the terrorists' scheme for world domination is Jack DeForest (Terence Knox). During the battle between good and evil the hero DeForest accidentally kills the son of the Szabo. Seeking revenge Szabo locates DeForest’s family, murders his wife and kidnaps their teenage son thereby turning their fight it into a personal vendetta. So, DeForest must fight not only to save the world, but for his only remaining family.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Forgotten Evil (2017)
Plot Summary:
A woman with amnesia tries to restart her life until the past comes back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense
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Point Doom (2000)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood talent agent's girlfriend thrusts him into a world of strip clubs, drugs and deadly motorcycle gangs.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, neo noir, independent film
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Angels Hard as They Come (1971)
Plot Summary:
A group of crazy bikers meet up with a group of drug-addicted hippies in a small town, but the two roving factions are soon at odds with one another and chaos ensues.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, witty, semi serious, independent film, humorous
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (2000)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood film executive gets blackmailed by a derelict who uses some damaging information to move into his house and take over his perfect life for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending
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Seven Years of Night (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set against the haunting backdrop of a small lake town, this chilling thriller unravels a meticulous revenge set over a period of 7 years, all beginning with the accidental death of an innocent girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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7 Colombian Kilos (2007)
Plot Summary:
The brutal story of betrayal between two partners in the violent business of supplying drugs to Chicago's West Side. Greed and mistrust tear apart their childhood-long friendship.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Midnight Heat (1996)
Plot Summary:
John Gray, a mild-mannered banker, gets hit by a car and loses most of his memory. When he gets out of the hospital, he has flashbacks which do not fit with his current life. After a strange telephone call and a murder attempt on his wife, Gray's wife is murdered which he is forced to go to L.A. in order to solve the crime and piece together his mysterious past.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Action, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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Diplomatic Immunity (1991)
Plot Summary:
A military career man, distraught over the murder of his daughter and the subsequent release of her killer who is protected by 'diplomatic immunity,' resigns from the service to pursue the psychopath. No one will help him - and no one can stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film, cult movie cast
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Road Rage (2000)
Plot Summary:
The highway to hell runs straight through a college campus in this compelling thriller about a killer truck. After helping a pretty co-ed out of a nasty domestic situation, Jim Travis gives the girl a lift home. But once on the road, the situation takes a white-knuckle twist as Jim gets into a frightening duel with a crazy truck driver.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic
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Death Valley (2004)
Plot Summary:
Four friends head to the desert to attend a winter rave. Instead, it turns into the trip to hell when they meet up with a couple of bad locals.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, realistic, independent film, freeze frame
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Best Seller (1987)
Plot Summary:
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, realistic, neo noir, offbeat, detective, independent film
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Monster (2014)
Plot Summary:
Bok-Soon (Kim Go-eun-I) runs a street stall while taking care of her younger sister. Bok-Soon may not be the brightest girl but what she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in uncontrollable rage. She’s infamously known as the “psycho bitch” in her neighborhood. Bok-Soon’s relatively peaceful life with her sister is disrupted when they cross paths with a serial killer named Tae-Soo (Lee Min-ki). Tae-Soo kills Bok-Soon’s sister because she may have stumbled upon the truth of his murderous lifestyle. Bok-Soon’s rage consumes her completely, leading her to plot her revenge on Tae Soo.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, psychological, realistic, psychotronic
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Natural Causes (1994)
Plot Summary:
An American links her mothers death in Bankok to a plot involving Vietnamese refugees.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film