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Plot Summary:
Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl who'd been murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: steamy, independent film
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Hysteria (1997)
Plot Summary:
Legendary actor Patrick McGoohan turns his famous character from THE PRISONER upside down as the psychiatrist in charge of an insane asylum. He has connected his inmates into a group mind where they share each other's psychoses, dreams and sexuality with all the scary and titillating implications imaginable! Like his highly acclaimed cult classic MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH, director Rene Daalders provocative excursion into sci fi-horror filmmaking looks at first glance like a classic grindhouse movie, but it is up to much more. In addition to its operatic mayhem, HYSTERIA is a mind-expanding reflection on individual vs. group consciousness, power, control, and freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, psychotronic, independent film, psychological
Similar in 81%
The Cool Lakes of Death (1982)
Plot Summary:
Tragic story of a wealthy woman whose sexual desires change her into a prostitute, working the streets of Paris during the 1880s.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Requiem for a Maiden (1992)
Plot Summary:
A fourteen-year-old girl isplaced in an institution for mentally ill instead of a foster-home due to an official mistake. Here she gets a most cruel treatment which is governed by high-handedness of the spineless and perverse nurses. The girl attempts a desperate escape.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Psychout for Murder (1969)
Plot Summary:
Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, poliziottesco, beautiful
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The Killer Next Door (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ronnie Schwann is a 20-something with a comfortable life in a guesthouse behind his mother's home. The two share cigarettes, drugs and too much TV. During the day he works at a halfway home for the mentally ill where he develops an attraction for one of the patients, Sarah. When Sarah wanders through the neighborhood one day, lost and scared, Ronnie Ronnie brings her into his bedroom and plans to seduce her. Things go horribly wrong and Ronnie finds himself forced to cover up his plan. This edgy indie thriller explores Ronnie's 24-hour experience of life, love, death and the strong probability of a very long prison term.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Lithium Conspiracy (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the power of governments behind the events has been replaced by the power of holding companies. Nowadays you don't conquer a country. You buy it. "Short story of long betrayals" is again set in the Republic of Queimada, where in the "Salar de Queimada" (a salt lake) lies 50% of lithium in the whole world. Not surprisingly, there is an international interest in its fate and a breathless fight to seize it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exotic
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The Girl from Trieste (1982)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) being rescued from drowning. He loans her a blanket. Later she returns the blanket and they have sex several times, but she always leaves right afterward, leaving the man to wonder who she is and where she goes. Things become more complicated as he begins to fall in love with her, and after his regular girlfriend (Mimsy Farmer), with whom he has a curiously open relationship, returns. He eventually begins to realize his mysterious new lover may be very much insane.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Shattered Illusions (1998)
Plot Summary:
A Psycho stalks a talk radio personality and her mentally challenged sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Marta (1971)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears a striking resemblance to his missing wife, who may have been murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, psychotronic
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Blackout (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young girl returns to her hometown in search of her father, gradually her childhood memories returns; a childhood with incest and violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Scum of the Earth (1963)
Plot Summary:
A naive and innocent teenage girl is blackmailed into modeling in the nude for a photographer who is in league with a teenage gang whose boss illegally sells photos of teenage girls being abused and degraded.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, stylized, psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Sexual Response (1992)
Plot Summary:
A radio call-in host helps people with their relationships, but finds her own marriage lacking. A man approaches her in a bar.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Fate (2003)
Plot Summary:
Serial killers have plagued the American landscape for decades, committing gruesome atrocities, and providing some tough cases for criminal investigators to crack. This thriller follows the travails of two detectives who are on the trail of a bizarre murderer intent on slaughtering his victims, then using them as real-life puppets in a tale that he is trying to tell. The plot holds a key to the whereabouts of the monstrous deviant, but the detectives have to unravel it quickly before more unsuspecting citizens become theater fodder for the unhinged madman.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The People Next Door (1970)
Plot Summary:
Seventies attempt at exposing the drug problems of suburban youth. Typical middle-class parents Wallach and Harris are horrified to discover that daughter Winters is strung out on LSD. They fight to expose the neighborhood pusher while struggling to understand their now-alien daughter. Based on J.P. Miller's television play.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film, cult film
Similar in 87%
Ringer (1996)
Plot Summary:
In this thriller, a detective helps save a prostitute from a stalker. The gumshoe's investigation throws them into a world where no one is quite who they seem and where everyone has a shady past. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)
Plot Summary:
A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psychiatrist, who disapproves of his theory on the origin of madness. Worse, she resists his advances. As Bonaccorsi is more insecure than he looks, what will become of him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It (1970)
Plot Summary:
After many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his father (who he suspects was actually murdered). He attempts to untangle that mystery while still carrying an unhealthy obsession toward his mother, who committed suicide ten years ago. This obsession then draws in his attractive cousin and takes a sexual turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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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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The Mad Whale (2017)
Plot Summary:
Inmates at a women's mental asylum stage a theatrical production of Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick.'.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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In Hot Blood (1968)
Plot Summary:
Rita, an ill-paid factory worker, is determined to make it as a model in New York City. She's an ordinary girl with an extraordinary body. She learns by watching other models, but she also knows that photographers will insist on gratifying their own pleasure if she's to get the jobs. With a voice-over narration supplying all the commentary, we watch her six-month descent, from first jobs to wild parties, from drug use to seduction. "Pain is their pastime," says the narrator. How far will the degradation take Rita?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Crazy as Hell (2002)
Plot Summary:
A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All this takes a strange turn when a mysterious patient (Satan, he calls himself) enters the Hospital seeking help. Or is it just help that he wants?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, twist ending, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Laguna Heat (1987)
Plot Summary:
Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Cherry Crush (2007)
Plot Summary:
A High school Photographer breaks his own rules and falls in love with his teenage model.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sexy, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychosexual thriller, surprise ending, twisted, sexual
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Brotherly Love (1970)
Plot Summary:
In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also harbors an incestuous yearning for his sister Hilary (Susannah York), who is staying with Sir Charles after a fight with her husband Douglas (Michael Craig). An adaptation of James Kennaway's novel Household Ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Dark Secrets (1996)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Confession (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a small Catholic boarding school an unspeakable act has been committed. When High School student, Luther Scott, confesses to Father Michael Kelly, Kelly is bound silent to the particulars of a grisly murder. Now, framed guilty by the desperate teen, Kelly must decide to keep his silence or throw away everything the priesthood holds sacred.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, detective
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Committed (1991)
Plot Summary:
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, independent film, offbeat, surprise ending
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Samuel Bleak (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, bleak, realistic, suspenseful
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The Pet (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young woman in dire financial straights accepts an offer to be a wealthy aristocrat's human "pet" for six months. Then ruthless modern "pet-nappers" kidnap the woman to sell her on the GSM (Global Slave Market).
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, rough, realistic, sexy, suspense, erotic, serious, sexual
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Bound (2015)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a wealthy real estate mogul falls in love with a younger man, and she is introduced to the world of BDSM. With her newly awakened sexual prowess, she is finally able to take control of her life.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, semi serious, light, suspense, mockbuster, sensual, sexy, tense, serious