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Plot Summary:
Marcia, a sexy bucolic orphan, hitch-hikes to the city to meet up with her sister, who has promised her a job at the roadhouse where she works as a hostess. She has no qualms about sleeping with her driver in order to be safeguarded to her destination. Once she arrives, she discovers that her sister has recently been violently murdered -- in a stangulation by garter belt. Marcia takes her sister's job in order to go undercover in finding the murderer. She thus imperils her own life while making discoveries about her sister's former lifestyle and the seamy antics of the local civic leaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sin by Murder (2004)
Plot Summary:
On the night of their tenth anniversary, corporate lawyer Michael Barnes' wife is brutally murdered. Labelled the prime suspect by Detectives Jack Burns and Amy Cobb, Barnes must try to clear his name before it's too late... Along the way, Barnes' closest friends begin to show their true colors, and with no one left to trust, he finds himself with nothing to lose as he's faced with the toughest decision of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Watcher in the Attic (1976)
Plot Summary:
The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing a customer, and decides he's found his soulmate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, experimental, weird
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The Abusers of Virgin Girls (1983)
Plot Summary:
In São Paulo, the gang of the former pimp Marcus abducts another virgin woman late night. They trade the virgin girls with three wealthy sick old men that pay a little fortune to deflower the girls. Then the gang of sex maniacs kills the women and dumps their bodies in the backwoods. The police know that the gang has abducted sixteen women and they have already found ten bodies, but they do not have any lead to find the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime
Country: Brazil
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Red Roses of Passion (1966)
Plot Summary:
A man-hungry suburban woman feels frustrated since she lives in the home of her prudish aunt and cousin, who interrupt and criticise her amorous liaisons. A co-worker brings her to a tarot-card reader, who introduces her to a club of women who meet occasionally to share an intoxicating brew, tease each other erotically with long-stemmed roses and honour the heathen god Pan. The occultist manages to corrupt the aunt and cousin, and lure the woman into full-fledged membership so she might participate in its climactic ritual.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psycho sexual, ambiguous ending, independent film
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Scramble (2017)
Plot Summary:
When his girlfriend is kidnapped by an underground prostitution ring, a neighborhood loser clashes with a pimp, Asian gangsters, and renegade killers.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime
Country:
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Passing Fancy (2005)
Plot Summary:
"Passing Fancy" is a film about the devastating effects that emotional and sexual abuse reap on the human mind. In this story the abuse leads to drugs, deception, insanity and eventually murder. With few clues to go on, Detective Rodriguez is assigned to the case and charged with the task of bringing a beautiful, murdering seductress to justice. After being sentenced to a life term at a mental institution for the criminally insane, the convicted murderer fights for her freedom while falling in love with the man who put her there.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Escape to Passion (1971)
Plot Summary:
For its lack of bucks 'Escape to Passion' packs a big bang.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Massage Parlor Murders (1973)
Plot Summary:
A vicious serial killer is stalking the streets of New York City, murdering Times Square massage girls in a variety of brutal ways. It's up to a rogue detective team to solve the case as the body count continues to rise!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Dead Eye Dick (1970)
Plot Summary:
A private-eye is on the hunt.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Night Rhythms (1992)
Plot Summary:
Nick, a late night DJ, has sex with a listener that he's invited to the station. The session goes out over the air until something goes wrong. Nick wakes up to find a dead body and himself framed. Nick spends the rest of the movie having sex whilst trying to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, independent film, hot, cult film
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From Hollywood to Deadwood (1988)
Plot Summary:
When actress Lana Dark (Barbara Schock) disappears in the middle of a film shoot, putting an expensive stop to production, the studio hires gumshoes Raymond Savage (Scott Paulin) and Jack Haines (Jim Haynie) to track down the fleeing femme fatale in this thriller. The trail leads to Deadwood, S.D., where Haines and a smitten Savage find Lana restlessly lying low. But knowledge proves dangerous when Savage discovers the scam behind Lana's walkout.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Falsely Accused (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman is falsely accused of murdering her brother, she must catch the real killer to prove her innocence. Along the way she encounters unexpected love, sadness, and hardships, as well as deep insights about the crime, herself, and her destiny.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Dr. Yes: The Hyannis Affair (1983)
Plot Summary:
Soapy mystery involving Britt Ekland,.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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American Fetish (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the son of an alleged killer inherits a "blue movie" that may be the key to solving a 50 year old murder, he finds himself drawn into a forbidden world of sexual obsession. But the closer he gets to the heart of the mystery, the more the past threatens to reach out into the present and reveal terrifying truths that lead him to the brink of madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, disturbing
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Dead Women in Lingerie (1991)
Plot Summary:
A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film
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Mature Woman: Wife-Hunting (2006)
Plot Summary:
Danger lurks around every corner. A psychopathic serial killer is tying up, raping and murdering Tokyo's sexy young women! Kathy is trying to divorce her husband, all the while conducting a hot affair with her divorce attorney, Sean. As she walks through the park one day, she witnesses the killer disposing of the dead body of his latest victim. The killer begins stalking her, throwing her otherwise normal life into a paranoid frenzy.Mr. Pink (Yutaka Ikejima) masterfully directs this suspenseful Pink-Film retelling of Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Psycho Lover (1970)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife, but with a new twist: he will brainwash a patient he is treating into committing the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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Mortal Sins (1989)
Plot Summary:
A PI hired to find a killer is led to a corrupt televangelist.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Demonologist (2019)
Plot Summary:
Detective Damien Seryph investigates a string of murders that connects to a group trying to bring forth the 4 King Demons of Hell. Damien's past connects him to those involved and will force him to become "The Demonologist".
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, scary, bleak, captivating, detective
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The Playbirds (1978)
Plot Summary:
In order to unmask a pathological killer who is targeting the beautiful centrefolds of Playbirds magazine, a sexy policewoman Lucy Sheridan puts her life and reputation on the line by sleeping with millionaire publisher Harry Dougan. The Chief Superintendant and Police Commissioner are keeping a close eye on her, but time is running out fast.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, sensual, cult classic, sex comedy, independent film, cult film
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Where Is the Third King? (1967)
Plot Summary:
A classic criminal story set between Poland and South America.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972)
Plot Summary:
A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency, helped by an ex-con and various parolees.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Crossword Mysteries: Proposing Murder (2019)
Plot Summary:
When an old friend of New York Sentinel Crosswords editor Tess Harper is found murdered on the very day her puzzle includes his proposal of marriage, Tess unofficially teams up with Detective Logan O’Connor to find the killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Crossword Mysteries: Abracadaver (2019)
Plot Summary:
During her birthday celebration, Tess and Logan find themselves swept up in a world that isn't always what it seems when the headlining magician at the Magic Manor winds up dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, entertaining, psychological
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Deadly Games (1982)
Plot Summary:
A town is being terrorized by a masked killer who is murdering women. A young woman is attacked by the killer but escapes. She believes the killer to be either the town's policeman or the manager of the local theater, and she devises a plan to find out which is the actual killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, independent film, erotic drama, weird
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Hitch Hike to Hell (1977)
Plot Summary:
Howard is mild-mannered and slightly simple-minded, with a habit of picking up teenage hitchhikers while driving his delivery routes. Sometimes the girls admit to being runaways, and if they claim to hate their mothers it drives Howard into a violent frenzy; his sister ran away from home years ago and was never heard from again, causing his desperate, addled mother to tighten her hold on him. Howard never remembers raping his victims or strangling them with wire coat hangers, though his boss does notice missed deliveries and late arrivals.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film
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Six Sex Scenes and a Murder (2008)
Plot Summary:
Nick's made poor choices professionally and personally. A man feared and envied by many, he's lived a life seduced by crime, money, beautiful women, and burlesque. Now he wants out and he's got 24 hours to find an exit. He's helped by the love of his life, ex-burlesque dancer, Regan Price and by his brother Tony, owner of The Uptown Bar. (Julie Rubio).
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, neo noir
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Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For (2019)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant crossword puzzle editor (Chabert) finds her life turned upside-down when she is pulled into a police investigation after several of the clues in her recent puzzles are linked to unsolved crimes. Proving her innocence means leaving the comfort of her sheltered world and working with a tough police detective (Elliott), puzzling through clues together in order to crack the case, as the two are fish out of water in each other's worlds.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, psychological, surprise ending
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A martfűi rém (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on real-life events, this psycho-thriller is set in the provincial Hungary of the 1960s, when a series of atrocious murders shock the small town of Martfü. A psychotic killer is on the prowl, who continues to slaughter young women while an innocent man is wrongly accused and sentenced for crimes he could never have committed. A determined detective arrives on the scene and soon becomes obsessed with the case while under pressure from the prosecutor to see a man hang. Stuck in the suffocating social, political and psychological world of socialist Hungary, we soon find ourselves entangled in a web of intricate conspiracy and disturbing drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychological thriller, noir, neo noir, action thriller
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The River Murders (2011)
Plot Summary:
The sins of the past are not forgotten in this chilling suspense thriller. When the first body was discovered, it seemed a coincidence. But now homicide detective Jack Verdon has cause to worry: the victims of a series of brutal sex murders are all his former girlfriends. Suspected by the FBI agent who’s taken over the case and suspended by his captain, Jack must work outside the law if he’s to find the killer, save his future and protect what’s left of his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, realistic