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Plot Summary:
After she leaves her cheating husband, Susan Reed (Ally Sheedy) embarks on a cross-country road trip where she falls victim to a series of mishaps that land her behind bars in the redneck Macon County Jail. Once inside, she's subjected to endless acts of brutality from the guards and inmates alike. Things go from bad to worse when she's forced to defend herself against a rapist with tragic results. No longer truly "innocent," when the opportunity arises Susan flees with fellow prisoner Coley (David Carradine).
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Oru Kaidhiyin Diary (1985)
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David gets released from prison after long 22 years and he reaches the church to confess. He says to the priest that, he would kill 3 people. The priest informs this to the police. David starts his revenge by killing the DSP and escapes fooling Inspector Shankar. The flashback shows that, David and Rosy were married and had a happy life, but Rosy is raped by the powerful trio of Politician, Doctor and DSP. Rosy commits suicide. The trio easily wins the case by falsely implicating David and he gets sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his wife. He leaves his only son Shankar to his close friend Velappan. Now Shankar is already a police officer when david gets released after 22 years. He then kills Dr.Unnikrishnan. David is supported by Sharadha, the love of Shankar. The climax shows whether David attains his target of killing the politician and thus completing his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags:
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Bonnie's Kids (1972)
Plot Summary:
Sisters Myra and Ellie have finally had enough of their miserable, dead-end lives. When their stepfather Charley (the titular "Bonnie" being long dead) tried to rape Myra, Ellie ventilates him with a shotgun, and the pair run off to their wealthy uncle's mansion in El Paso. From that point on, the two undergo a transformation in their personalities, and start to enjoy living their lives on the wild side.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, neo noir, independent film
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Body Weapon (1999)
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While investigating murder cases involving masked rapists, Officer Ling herself is raped and her husband murdered by the suspects, on their wedding night. Rather than relying on her fellow police officers to solve her case, Ling chooses to use her own body as the weapon to take revenge on her violators.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, sexploitation film, cult film
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If I Die Before I Wake (1998)
Plot Summary:
A suburban family is held hostage and terrorized by three intruders while their sixteen year-old daughter first hides, then exacts her own brand of terror on the assailants.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Naked Vengeance (1985)
Plot Summary:
Carla Harris, a beautiful but not so successful actress from L.A., witnesses how her husband is tragically killed in an attempt to save a woman from her male attacker. She travels to her parents' home in a small town in the mountains to get some rest only to be repeatedly harassed by redneck locals and a teenager. The local sheriff refuses to help and so it all ends up in a gang rape and with Carla's parents shot dead. Carla survives and escapes from the mental hospital to seek bloody revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Furies (2022)
Plot Summary:
Bi, a Vietnamese country girl, survives a brutal childhood and escapes to Saigon. There, she is recruited by the mysterious Mrs. Lin, who trains Bi and her new friends Thanh and Hong in killing and sensuality to take down Hai, a Saigon crime lord.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 109 min
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Buried Alive II (1997)
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A woman inherits a fortune, causing her husband and his lover to plot her demise by poisoning her. The only trouble is it only places her in a deep coma that resembles death. When an accident occurs in the embalmer's office he doesn't complete the embalming process, causing her to be buried alive. Awakening from the grave, she claws her way out and seeks revenge against the two who caused her supposed demise.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, nostalgic
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Acts of Violence (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man named Flyn (Il Lim) is on a mission on killing the men who raped his wife Olivia (Leelee Sobieski). He finds himself living a double life as a killer and a husband. He finds an unexpected friend, a priest (Ron Perlman), as he deals with the gravity of his acts. The story comes to a climactic end when Flyn finds out he is in a battle he has already lost.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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22 Female Kottayam (2012)
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22 Female Kottayam, also known as 22FK, is a 2012 Indian rape and revenge film directed by Aashiq Abu and starring Rima Kallingal and Fahad Fazil in the lead roles. The film deals with the travails of a nurse who was victimised for no fault of hers and who takes revenge on her tormentors in a rather unusual manner. Set and filmed in Bangalore, the film released on April 13, 2012, and received strongly positive reviews from critics. It was also well received at the box-office.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Concrete Romance (2007)
Plot Summary:
A climax of brutality and violence after a young man hits some cars in a rush.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Wild Riders (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two juvenile delinquents break into a luxury house where they rape two women. They settle in the house, sell the valuables and kill a curious neighbour.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Bedroom Eyes II (1989)
Plot Summary:
This sequel to 1986's Bedroom Eyes is the mixture as before, with Wings Hauser replacing the first film's star Kenneth Gilman. Once again, stockbroker Hauser begins succumbing to his chronic voyeurism. And also once again, his obsession gets him mixed up in a murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, surprise ending, independent film
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Dark Tide (1994)
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Brigitte Bako plays Andi, who visits her husband Tim working on a tropical island. Tim is collecting venom from poisonous eels, and his boat crew are mesmerised by his pretty wife. In particular, one of the crew members becomes obsessed with Andi. While Tim is concentrating on his work to the detriment of his marriage, Andi shares an intimate afternoon with the obsessed crewman, but then refuses to continue the affair. This causes the jilted lover to begin a series of escalating violent events that ultimately leads to a deadly showdown with Tim and Andi.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sins of Desire (1993)
Plot Summary:
When a beautiful young girl dies mysteriously after being treated at a sex therapy clinic, her sister Kay (Tanya Roberts), goes undercover to find out who is responsible.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychosexual thriller, erotic, independent film
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Deadbeat (1976)
Plot Summary:
When four degenerate thugs rape and murder a young waitress in part of their rape and murder spree, they are arrested, but get away with though a legal technicality. The brother of one of the rape/murder victims decides to become vigilante and kill the four degenerates by himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film
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I Want to Get Even (1987)
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Cobra — pornographer, abductor, drugs dealer and weapons merchant — and his henchmen abduct and gang rape Irma, a woman who likes rough sex with her strong husband, Rudy. Irma's husband gets her free but in the escape she suffers an accident, and aborts. Irma's husband rapes Cobra's sister in revenge. The gang attacks Rudy, torture him, then drag him tied to a motorcycle until he is bleeding bad, then the Drug Lord beats him some more. Irma the mistreated housewife turns suddenly into the sexy wildcat commando, in tight shorts and boots, sleeveless low cut top, and head bandanna, who happens to have a handy bazooka to terminate the gang with great prejudice. Then she embraces Rudy, who was strong enough to survive the gang. Will he survive the Lady Exterminator?.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Revenge Ride (2020)
Plot Summary:
Maggie becomes a strong and ruthless member of the all-female Dark Moon gang led by the merciless Trigga, and the all-female motorcycle gang look after each other as they patrol the streets in the small town.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Tomboys (2009)
Plot Summary:
Five girls kidnap a serial rapist... to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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The Ladies Club (1985)
Plot Summary:
A raped policewoman forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men whom have committed repeated violations of women, and got away with it through legal technicalities.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, independent film
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A Gun for Jennifer (1997)
Plot Summary:
A woman comes to New York City from Ohio to escape an abusive husband and gets entangled with murderous female vigilantes who prey on abusive men.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, controversial, grindhouse, independent film
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Jackson County Jail (1976)
Plot Summary:
This is a powerful drama about a young woman who stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, road movie, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Chronicle of an Escape (2006)
Plot Summary:
The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads during the 1970s is brought to the screen in this thriller. In 1977, Claudio Tamburrini (Rodrigo de la Serna) was a goalie for a minor-league football team when he was abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he was a terrorist. Over 30,000 people lost their lives at the hands of Argentinean authorities under the military junta that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983, and as he was tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he didn't have, Tamburrini fully expected to become another victim. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo (Nazareno Casero) and Tano (Martin Urruty) were being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dove out a window during a rainstorm.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, disturbing, crime drama, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful
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Act of Vengeance (1974)
Plot Summary:
A group of women who have all been attacked by the same hockey mask wearing rapist, get no help from the police. So they ban together to form a vigilante group called "The Rape Squad", and set about going after the local scum.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Lipstick (1976)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-shamed by the defense and the man is exonerated. But justice will be served.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, action thriller, spooky, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Restitution (2011)
Plot Summary:
A true crime writer investigating a small town murder spree uncovers the devastating truth that changes the town forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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Ms .45 (1981)
Plot Summary:
A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She wanders the New York streets at night in a sexy black dress with her attacker's gun strapped to her garter belt, blowing away any man who tries to pick her up.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: neo noir, disturbing, grindhouse, bloody, controversial, grim, cult classic, tense, bleak, art house
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
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The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 791000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: brutal, non-linear, suspense, atmospheric, action packed, stylized, surreal, visual, visually stunning, tense
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Cape Fear (1991)
Plot Summary:
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 212000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, scary, intense, creepy
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Plot Summary:
An assassin is shot at the altar by her ruthless employer, Bill and other members of their assassination circle – but 'The Bride' lives to plot her vengeance. Setting out for some payback, she makes a death list and hunts down those who wronged her, saving Bill for last.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: bloody, non-linear, tense, suspense, visually appealing, visual, visually stunning, grindhouse, cult classic, action packed