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Plot Summary:
A young Hacienda-owner abuses women due to his traumatic youth while his mother covers for his sadistic actions. When he 'tames' the daughter of the mansion supervisor and marries her, his young wife soon becomes the dominating person in the family.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Venezuela
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, serious, realistic
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Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009)
Plot Summary:
A fish-market employee who doubles as a contract killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, serious, contemplative, erotic, gloomy, sexual, sexy
Similar in 80%
Magical Girl (2014)
Plot Summary:
A desperate man (Luis Bermejo) blackmails a mentally ill woman (Bárbara Lennie) to buy a dress for his terminally ill daughter (Lucía Pollán).
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, captivating, scary, noir, neo noir, suspense, dark, surreal
Similar in 81%
Gypsy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Andres is a flamenco singer who has just gotten out of prison after being falsely convicted of the murder of Romero, a member of his band. As Andres tries to re-acclimate himself to freedom, he discovers things have not been going his way while he was up the river; his wife Lucia is having an affair with another man, while his bullying father Isidoro is obsessed with getting revenge against Don Manuel, who rules a local crime syndicate known as the Junco Family.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, erotic, sexy, neo noir, weird
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Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at the hands of the administrators of the prison and the prison guards.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: crying, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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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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Sugar Cookies (1973)
Plot Summary:
A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The dead girl's lesbian lover discovers what happened, and plots her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: queer horror, erotic, tense, sexy, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film
Similar in 77%
The Escort (1997)
Plot Summary:
A psycho escort (Shauna O'Brien) sets her sights on a married woman (Landon Hall). Revenge, blackmail and murder follow in this steamy late night thriller. There were several sequels.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, erotic, campy
Similar in 79%
Wild Cactus (1993)
Plot Summary:
A married couple vacationing in the desert are held hostage by a pair of psychopaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film, sexual, sexy
Similar in 79%
School of the Holy Beast (1974)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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Freeze Me (2000)
Plot Summary:
Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later, when one of the rapists arrives and says the others are on their way. He behaves like her long-lost lover and mistreats her again. Chihiro takes revenge, kills him and puts him in a freezer. The other rapists are awaiting a similar fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, cult classic, grindhouse, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Lying in Wait (2001)
Plot Summary:
Young bachelor Babee is looking after his dead mother's estate when married couple Keith and Vera move in. Babee becomes attracted to them by the beautiful Vera and the risk taking Keith. However at a party Vera crashes her car, putting Keith into a coma. When Keith comes out he is in a semi-vegetative state and must rely on Vera to look after him. Keith can't move or speak but reveals to Babee that he can still talk and starts to kill those that wronged him with Babee's help.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, sexy, independent film, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Toxic (2008)
Plot Summary:
The lives of a nightclub owner, a crime boss, a stripper, a bartender, two hitmen, a prostitute and a psychic take a turn for the worse when they are trapped in an escaped mental patient's sinister path of madness and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film, fast
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Her Name Is Carla (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, realistic, crying
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Diary of a Rape (1971)
Plot Summary:
Young Lena is trapped in a complex situation of sex and lies.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, art house, sensual, suspense, erotic
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Villa Captive (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young actress seeking a life away from adult movies moves to Florida insearch of a new identity. Her newfound peace is shattered when local thugsrecognize her.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, scary, serious, realistic, rough
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Cold Comfort (1989)
Plot Summary:
Dolores has everthing she wants for her birthday: a party, 18 glowing candles, and Stephen, the handsome stranger who's more than a guest. He's a prisoner. COLD COMFORT bristles with the suspense, passion and danger of three people caught up in a madman's game.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dark Obsession (1989)
Plot Summary:
Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problems and is paranoid that his wife is cheating on him. After a boozy night at a party, Hugo hits and kills a woman with his car -- and at his friends' urging, keeps driving. When Hugo starts receiving letters from someone who knows about the accident, he begins to suspect that he has been set up.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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In Dark Places (1997)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful woman lures her half brother into a game that may leave her the sole heir to their abusive father's fortune.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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A Sight for Sore Eyes (2003)
Plot Summary:
When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Similar in 78%
Red White & Blue (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman attracts the attention of a psychotic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his ailing mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore, controversial, suspense, neo noir, psychological thriller, bloody
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Moebius (2013)
Plot Summary:
A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son, as the family heads towards horrific destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, semi serious, erotic, controversial, scary, psychological thriller, brutal, dark
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Daniel and Ana (2009)
Plot Summary:
Being kidnapped shatters a brother and sister's harmony, forcing them to confront their desires.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, sincere, erotic, offbeat, controversial, sexual, eros, disturbing, tense
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The King (2005)
Plot Summary:
A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian community church. Pastor Dave tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is his son from a pre-conversion liaison, tells them to have nothing to do with him. But Elvis has already connected with Malerie, the pastor's 16-year old daughter. Elvis embarks on the seduction of Malerie, while Dave examines his conscience and comes to a new conclusion. Can anyone get right with the Lord? Does the Lord hear?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, independent film, tense, clever, contemplative
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The Housemaid (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to a dark consequences. Eun-yi is hired as an au pair for Hae-ra (pregnant with twins) and her rich husband Hoon. Eun-yi's primary task is watching the couple's young daughter, Nami. Eun-yi is eager to connect to Nami, who gradually warms to her. Hoon begins to secretly flirt with Eun-yi, enticing her with glasses of wine and his piano playing, and they eventually begin a sexual relationship. Despite the affair, Eun-yi is still warm and friendly to Hoon's oblivious wife, Hae-ra. She even expresses enthusiasm and delight at the progress of Hae-ra's pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, sexy, sensual, psychosexual thriller, sexual, psychological
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The Taste of Money (2012)
Plot Summary:
In this suspenseful erotic drama, the private male secretary and lover of Madam Baek, a Korean conglomerate's middle-aged matriarch, falls for her more genuine daughter. Meanwhile, Madam Baek's husband has an affair with the Filipino nanny.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, erotic, captivating, suspense, crime drama, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997)
Plot Summary:
A sinister seductress vows to destroy a suburban family.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, suspense, sexual, romantic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The War Zone (1999)
Plot Summary:
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, depressing, heartbreaking, rough, emotional, controversial, atmospheric, brutal, serious
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Stoker (2013)
Plot Summary:
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, gothic, tense, suspense, disturbing, erotic, surreal, visual
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Sister My Sister (1994)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on a true incident in Le Mans, France in 1933 called the Papin murder case, where two sisters brutally murdered their employer and her daughter. The murder shocked the country, and there was much speculation about the sisters, including allegations that they were having an incestous lesbian affair with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, sexy, gothic, depressing, controversial, period piece
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Poison Ivy (1992)
Plot Summary:
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, melancholic, disturbing, realistic