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Plot Summary:
Kyle Rivers has joined the Dpt of Defense as an investigator. Her first assignment is to do a background check on Lana Hawking, scientist for a top secret clearance.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
Best tv shows and movies like Motel Blue (1997):
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Double Down (2005)
Plot Summary:
An edgy action thriller set in Las Vegas during a terrorist attack. A genius computer loner takes control of the city and the attack as he fights with his fits of overwhelming depression and obsessions with love and death.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: underground film, independent film, cult film
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Mile High Escorts (2020)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of a co-worker, a young woman working for a private airline learns the owner's secret and becomes the next target.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense
Similar in 78%
The Hollywood Beach Murders (1992)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - Two cops are sent cross-country by train (on board the titular Hollywood Beach) to return a suspect in a murder case that's been closed. But a brutal murder that has all the earmarks of the one just solved, along with the presence of a crime boss on board the train, plants a seed of doubt in the cops' minds as to whether the original murderer is still on the loose. Stars Frank Gorshin and Rebecca Holden. Directed by Eric Straton. - Frank Gorshin, Rebecca Holden, David Regal.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 78%
Closer and Closer (1996)
Plot Summary:
Three years after author Kate Sanders penned a best selling novel about a serial killer, she has become the victim of a twisted tale of art imitating life -- left crippled after fleeing a deadly and psychotic reader, she lives in isolation, connected to the world only through the Internet. But with the release of her sequel, the nightmare begins again.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, suspense
Similar in 77%
The Grand Son (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young man hatches a diabolical plan to cover-up his Grandma's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: dark, dark comedy, crying, detective
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Masseuse 3 (1998)
Plot Summary:
A brothel owner finds herself the target of an assassin.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Guarded Secrets (1997)
Plot Summary:
A lifeguard gets in over his head when he meets a mobster and his beautiful wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Wedding Guest (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding—armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Jay and his hostage end up on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, melancholic, neo noir, erotic, suspense, surprise ending
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Kiss of Death (1997)
Plot Summary:
Possibly the best of all the various films that have used the cliched title 'Kiss of Death'. It stars Vanity as Prince’s purple-head-pleasing protégé.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Body Shot (1994)
Plot Summary:
Paparazzi photographer Mickey Dane is obsessed with elusive pop singer Chelsea, and his attempts to capture her on film often land him in trouble.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Double Threat (1992)
Plot Summary:
A former movie star, Monica Scott, returns to the big screen along with younger boyfriend, Eric Cline, after a long absence. Monica is very jealous of the attention Eric gives to her body double - Lisa. The plot becomes difficult to follow as it changes between real life and the movie they are making. The jealousy inevitably leads to murder attempts and denials.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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A Deadly Affair (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mary (Austin Highsmith) and Charlie's (Alan Powell) marriage had become a little rocky, he forgot their anniversary whilst she almost slept with their friend Trevor (Luke Edwards) whose partner, Susan (Valerie Azlynn), is always working as she is a lawyer. But Mary is becoming suspicious of Charlie when he says he is working late on a property he is renovating and decides to show up there unannounced only to find him dead. With Charlie's sister, Crystal (Lorna Street Dopson), suspecting that Mary might have done it and with police investigating she turns to Susan for legal help.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Venus Flytrap (1987)
Plot Summary:
Three street punks--Turk, his girlfriend BB., and his sidekick Wimp--observe two young affluent kids, Ginger and Danny, shoplifting from a record store. On a lark, the street kids invite themselves along to a party at the home of the yuppies' friends, Rod and Arlene. There the party games turn from strip darts to Russian roulette.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, surprise ending
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Threat of Exposure (2002)
Plot Summary:
A man poses as a hypnotherapist's patient to find the truth about his missing brother.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Out of Control (1998)
Plot Summary:
A woman decides to steal her mobster boyfriend's car and a whole lot of his money, then tries to hide out in a small town. With a cop and a hit man on her tail, she makes friendly with a reformed criminal who will do whatever it takes to protect her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Wicked Temptations (2002)
Plot Summary:
With a name like Sam Sharp, people expect a detective -- not a gorgeous woman. For the most part, Sam's cases are pretty tame, so when she receives a request to track down the sexy young wife of a magazine publisher, it seems easy enough. But when her investigation turns up a corpse at the bottom of the pool, it becomes clear that not everyone is telling the truth -- and that she must use more than just her investigative skills to uncover the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Til Death Do Us Part (2017)
Plot Summary:
Michael and Madison Roland had planned to spend the rest of their lives together, until one day Michael's controlling ways turned their perfect marriage. With the help of her best friend, Madison decides to get away. After adopting a new identity, she meets Alex Stone and learns to love again. All is well, until Michael discovers Madison's whereabouts, and recreate the nightmare she once lived all over again.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, psychosexual thriller, intense
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Killing Obsession (1994)
Plot Summary:
Albert (John Savage) is a psychopath who, after brutally murdering a woman, becomes obsessed with her 11-year-old daughter Annie. Twenty-one years after being sent to prison for his crimes, Albert is freed over the strenuous objections of Dr. Sachs (John Saxon), the psychiatrist who has been overseeing Albert's case all these years. Sachs is convinced that Albert is still a very real threat to the community, and it turns out that he's right; desperate to find Annie, but not knowing what surname she uses today, Albert begins contacting every Annie he can find in the phone book, leaving a bloody trail of murdered women in his path when they turn out not to be the little girl he's looking for.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Killer Body (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Katie Jones, a successful plastic surgeon, becomes entangled in the web of a narcissist patient whose path to perfection threatens to destroy Katie and her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Temptation (1994)
Plot Summary:
After five years in prison for insurance fraud the sailor Lanarsky is released. Together with his buddy Bone he gets a job as seamen on board the yacht owned by the wife of his insurance fraud-partner Michael Reddick. Lanarsky has a question to his former partner who he thinks tried to cheat him. But Michael Reddich himself has another insurance plan ready where he will kill everybody on board the yacht, blow it up and then claim the life-insurance for his wife. But Lanarsky and the wife Lee escape and follow Michael to the nearby Cayman Island where the final showdown takes place.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Second to Die (2002)
Plot Summary:
Erika Eleniak as a woman who plans the murder of her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, intense, tense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Appointment for a Killing (1993)
Plot Summary:
Joyce thought she had made the dream marriage. Her husband, Stan, is a successful, handsome dentist, and Joyce, who grew up in poverty, cannot believe her good fortune. But her charismatic husband has a dark side that is about to engulf and destroy Joyce's entire world.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Running Away (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sisters Maggie and Lizzie move in with mom Peg's new husband. Secrets and lies start immediately. Maggie cannot handle what follows and recruits a friend to help her plan to get out of town with her step father's secrets. When Peg discovers that her daughter has run away, she now has to find Maggie fast but must come to terms with the dark secrets that led to Maggie's fleeing and the secrets about her new husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Home Sweet Home (2012)
Plot Summary:
After going broke, Gwen Stevens is forced to return to her abandoned childhood home hoping to pick up the pieces of her life. Among the relics and memories of her past, she discovers someone is living in the house and they don't want to leave. In the New Mexico desert, miles from safety, Gwen must fight to protect the only thing she has left. Her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, serious, realistic, independent film
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High Heel Homicide (2017)
Plot Summary:
As a string of brutal murders plague the city, two undercover detectives (Brent Harvey and Mia Li) race to solve the mystery and unmask the killer. Their only clues: each victim is a former cop and each has a blood-red letter painted on their body. How many will have to die before the killer spells out their message in blood?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, sexy, erotic, hot
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Paranormal Abduction (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young women suffering memory loss and psychological issues after surviving a brutal attack, tries to piece together the clues surrounding her attack and its similarities to a series of recent murders. During the investigation, she struggles to maintain her sanity as her world gets more surreal and reality starts to unwind around her. Following the clues that lead her down the "rabbit hole" she finds herself fighting to wake up from this nightmare...before she becomes the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Improper Conduct (1994)
Plot Summary:
A woman seeks her own brand of justice when her sister's sexual harassment case is smothered by acts of foul play.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, cult film
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In the Heat of Passion (1992)
Plot Summary:
A struggling actor lands the part of a rapist in a TV reenactment for a "Crimebusters" segment. He soon meets a beautiful rich woman whom he begins an affair with, even though she is married. Her husband soon finds out and is accidently killed. The two lovers cover up the crime, but the actor begins to wonder if there's more going on than he knows.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, cult film
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Virtual Desire (1995)
Plot Summary:
Brad's wife Susan is mysteriously murdered. Brad begins recounting all the affairs he had with women he met on an internet fantasy line. One of those women was the murderer. Who, and why?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, erotic, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, sexual, sexy, sexploitation film
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Lady Beware (1987)
Plot Summary:
Young and good looking Katya, a window dresser for a big department store in Pittsburgh, begins a love story with a journalist, Mac Odell. She is however stalked by Jack, a married man who has a fixation with her. Jack makes Katya's life hellish and when the girl tells his wife about him he becomes wild with fury having been exposed and goes to the store to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, erotic, independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, surprise ending