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Plot Summary:
Magenta, a precocious teenage girl, will stop at nothing to have her desires met in this thriller by Gregory C. Haynes. Michael seems to have it all, that is, until Magenta, his wife's sister, comes into the picture. When Magenta seduces Michael into an illicit affair, his wife and daughter leave him -- and get killed in a car accident. As Michael tries to piece his life back together, he finds out some dark secrets about his own daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Woman's Nightmare (2018)
Plot Summary:
A mother and wife finds herself haunted by a brief affair she had while separated from her husband. With her scorned lover refusing to give up, she must fight to keep her family and her secret safe.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 82%
The Body (1974)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman who lives on an island with her abusive husband, entices a young man into a murder-for-money plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Trinidad and Tobago
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 87%
Fatal Past (1994)
Plot Summary:
A mobster's mistress and her bodyguard share a forbidden love and discover they may be doomed by an ominous past life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film
Similar in 85%
Scandal in Black (1990)
Plot Summary:
Gianni is a political man with a good career waiting for him. Angela is his wife and she fakes an assault and a rape in a cinema. Eva is Gianni's lover and Angela's friend. Gianni and Eva decide to use the pretext of the assault to kill Angela. Later on Angela is blackmailed by a man who was present at her act. In the background there are Rosy, her maid always present, and a puzzling man who appears and disappears and makes strange phone calls.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective, sexploitation film
Similar in 89%
Private Obsession (1995)
Plot Summary:
First-class fashion model Emanuelle Griffith is missing. Richard Tate knows exactly where she is and plans to keep her there until she knows her place: subordinate to men. But Emannuelle is waiting for her chance to turn his obsession. That one second of passion in which the prisoner becomes the hostage taker.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychosexual thriller, erotic, independent film, cult film
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Mirror Images II (1993)
Plot Summary:
Shannon Whirry stars as Carrie and Terrie, a pair of twins who were separated in youth when their father murdered their mother and was in turn killed by his own bad twin daughter. Now the sweet-natured "good" sister has grown up to marry an abusive louse. Trapped in a sexless relationship, she seeks solace with a therapist (Kristine Kelly), but her problems are about to be compounded when her wicked sister arrives in town, intent on avenging herself on her double for past wrongs. Even the help of a private detective on her side may not be enough when her sister becomes allied with her own husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psycho sexual, detective, tension, independent film, suspense
Similar in 88%
Backwaters (2006)
Plot Summary:
A paralyzed woman goes missing after she and her husband travel to India for specialized medical attention.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing, scary, tense, sentimental, suspense, suspenseful, erotic
Similar in 86%
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
Similar in 88%
Secret Games 3 (1994)
Plot Summary:
A neglected housewife of a busy husband who is a doctor turns to prostitution to pass the time. One of her customers develops an obsession with her and begins stalking her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
Similar in 77%
Fatal Temptation (1988)
Plot Summary:
A woman's husband is blinded in an auto accident, so she hires the other driver as a chauffeur. Then she catches her blind husband with his mistress so she seduces her new chauffeur into murdering him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: cult film
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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
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Playback (1996)
Plot Summary:
Karen --a beautiful, ambitious, ruthless, senior executive-- is determined to take over this merger at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Indecent Behavior III (1995)
Plot Summary:
A sex therapist finds herself forced to cooperate with the police in tracking down a killer who has been targeting other sex therapists by using her as a decoy.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: hot, sexploitation film
Similar in 88%
The Glass Cage (1996)
Plot Summary:
Swarthy Paul Yeager arrives in New Orleans, and promptly gets a job bartending at La Cage du Verre, a show bar where his former girlfriend Jacqueline is a dancer and the moll of its sadistic owner, Marko. He and Jacqueline smuggle diamonds and drugs, with the local police detective in on the take. Even though Paul is ex-CIA, he's not undercover, he just wants to win Jacqueline back. His CIA pals from black ops are on hand hoping to arrest Marko's boss. Detective Montrachet finds out Paul's past and sets up a double cross. Her aims are less clear: to get back with Paul, to stay with Marko, or to run her own scam and scamper away?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 84%
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 81%
Victim of Desire (1995)
Plot Summary:
An SEC agent investigating $70M in missing funds and a murdered businessman gets involved with the man's wife.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Above Suspicion (1995)
Plot Summary:
Dempsey Cain is an honored cop, a loving husband and father, and mentor to his handsome younger brother. Then a drug dealer's bullet paralyzes him for life and Dempsey's world is shattered. Suddenly, his wife and brother seem to care less about him than for each other, and a million-dollar insurance.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, surprise ending, suspense
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Hollywood Sins (2000)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood. Tinseltown. Sin City. A town that's built its reputation on money, power and sex. A typical talent agent, Simon Teller is no different that the rest of the Hollywood elite. He'll do anything to seal a deal. And he and his starlet fiancee, Lacy Lloyd, like to push the envelope of their sexual boundaries. They get off by video-taping their erotic indiscretions with other men and women and watching them together. But eventually Simon picks the wrong woman to fool around with. When Donna, the sultry conniving wife of the agency's CEO, seduces and then black-mails him, he'll have to summon more than the usual tricks to land on his feet.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, melancholic, suspense, disturbing
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Siren's Kiss (1995)
Plot Summary:
A painter has serious creative block. He decides that two nude models living in his house might help. His wife objects, or does she?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 77%
Open Marriage (2017)
Plot Summary:
A couple (Tilky Jones, Nikki Leigh) agree to an open relationship with their friends (Kelly Dowdle, Jason Tobias) but are ill-prepared for the jealousy, heartbreak and betrayal that soon follow.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: light, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
Body of Influence (1993)
Plot Summary:
A successful psychiatrist has his world turned upside-down by the appearance of a mystery woman who cannot recall her own past.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychosexual thriller, sexual, erotic, independent film, sexy, sexploitation film, cult film
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Sensation (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lila a college student discovers a latent ability to see into the past. When a professor hires her for some psychological tests she becomes the target of the killer of the woman she sees in her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
Similar in 81%
A Table for One (1999)
Plot Summary:
A wife, her two-timing husband and a flirting neighbor are unpredictable competitors in a warped game that turns into a life-or-death affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, tension, sexy
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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
Similar in 75%
Kept (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dead bodies are piling up, and the leads the two LA homicide cops have point to Barbara, business manager for a successful architectural firm she runs with her husband Lance. The dead men were interns at the firm, and each of them was Barbara's lover (kept in a classy flat she owns and observed via closed-circuit TV by the applauding Lance). Kyle is Barbara's latest intern and lover, and he may be in danger. He also starts to fall in love with Barbara, and the feeling may be mutual. In the background are Erin, Lance and Barbara's myopic administrative assistant, and Tony, Kyle's one-time roommate who also knows Barbara. Can the cops solve this before too many more die?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, touching, bleak, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 90%
Body of Evidence (1992)
Plot Summary:
Sizzingly sexy Madonna leads a star-filled cast in this erotic thriller as a woman accused of killing a wealthy, elderly man through her insatiable sexual prowess.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, suspenseful, suspense, intense, rough, serious, realistic, stylized
Similar in 77%
Sliver (1993)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, sensual, psychosexual thriller, serious, exciting, anamorphic
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Scorned 2 (1997)
Plot Summary:
Amanda Foley has confusing nightmares and flashbacks that lead her to seek professional help. Nothing can shed light on her repressed memories, until she happens to catch her husband a college professor, having sex with one of his students. Then the past becomes dangerously clear.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, sexy, independent film, detective, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Thy Neighbor's Wife (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the vein of "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" and fraught with mystery and edge-of-your seat suspense, Kari Wuhrer Poison tells the darkly insidious story of the Garrett household and their descent into a hellish world of sexual malice and physical terror! Seeking revenge for her husband's death, Ann ingratiates herself with the Garretts under the guise of a caring housekeeper. Once she gains their trust, Ann begins to wreak havoc upon them. Seduction and malice are her weapons as she attempts to eliminate everyone she believes is responsible.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, erotic, sexy, realistic, surprise ending, hot
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Poison Ivy II (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young and naive college art student becomes obsessed with assuming the identity and personality of a departed coed who used to live in her room, and in so doing causes complications that result in two men, a student and her art professor, lusting after her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, suspense, psychological thriller, sexual, romantic, serious, realistic, independent film