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Plot Summary:
Entrapped in his apartment, Randal, a recent paraplegic, is given a gift of binoculars by his devoted girlfriend, Pam. But Randal is in financial debt to a sadistic loan shark, and when he witnesses a powerful criminal commit a murder while observing his neighbours through binoculars, he initiates a treacherous blackmail scheme.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Touch and Die (1992)
Plot Summary:
Martin Sheen stars as an American newsman in Rome who begins to investigate the appearance of several corpses found throughout Europe with their hands cut off. He soon uncovers not only plots of plutonium theft, but also of nuclear arms deals and dark political schemes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy, USA, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 79%
Deadly Obsession (1988)
Plot Summary:
A psycho college janitor threatens to start killing female students if he isn't given a million dollars.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, independent film
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Any Man’s Death (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a photo-journalist vanishes while covering an African civil war, a roll of film holds the only clues to his disappearance. Following the trail found in the photos, a veteran reporter finds himself in the middle of events as they escalate into war, leaving him with two deadly and disastrous options.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Skip Tracer (1977)
Plot Summary:
A repo man skips town after his life is threatened.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Her Sister's Keeper (2006)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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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 81%
Sweet Murder (1990)
Plot Summary:
A girl is having trouble making the rent, so she advertises for a female roommate. A seemingly sweet and shy girl named Laurie moves in, and proves to be an insane killer!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 78%
In the Eye of the Snake (1990)
Plot Summary:
Marc, a young snake expert, works at a museum in Geneva. He loves snakes, to the point that he owns many and even takes a bath with his huge pet python. He meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Malenka, who is the assistant--and mistress--of an older herpetologist professor. Marc discovers that not only is the "professor" a fraud but also a dangerous psychotic who had at one time seduced Marc's mother, and Marc believes that the longer Malenka stays with him, the greater danger she's in.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Thriller
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic
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Okafor's Law (2016)
Plot Summary:
A slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqué comedy from the director of the smash hit Wives on Strike.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 79%
Mr. Kingstreet's War (1971)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: South Africa
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Layla Fourie (2013)
Plot Summary:
Layla Fourie, a young single-mother in South Africa, receives a job assignment as polygraphist. In the constant presence of mistrust, lies and fear Layla soon becomes a suspect herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, France, Netherlands
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Five Fingers for Marseilles (2017)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years ago, the young 'Five Fingers' fought for the rural town of Marseilles, against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, freedom-fighter-turned-'outlaw' Tau returns to Marseilles, seeking only a peaceful pastoral life. When he finds the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it. Can he free himself from his past? Will the Five Fingers stand again?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: South Africa
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: twisted
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Sleeping with the Devil (1997)
Plot Summary:
Professional nurse Rebecca Dubrovich is swept off her feet by charming millionaire Dick Strang, and the two begin a passionate romance. Only when it is too late does Rebecca discover that Strang has a very dark side.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, suspenseful, sincere
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The Curse of Highway Sheila (2014)
Plot Summary:
The movie explores the mystery and origins of the legendary Highway Sheila. Two reporters who hate each other are forced to work together to find out if there is any truth to Highway Sheila causing numerous accidents on the Higginson Highway. Their investigation takes them on a journey, that involves ghost hunting and banishment, having to deal with an egotistic famous musician, and a record manager who has skeletons in his closet. Caught in their investigation is a friend of theirs who thinks that she may be possessed by the spirit of Highway Sheila.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Savage Encounter (1980)
Plot Summary:
A honeymooning couple take a vacation in a remote country bungalow. Before long, they’re visited by two backwoods psychos. Terror, assault, and rape are inevitable. The U.S. video release from Genesis (released in 1988 under the title DEMON LUST) is missing ten minutes.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Sleeper's Wake (2012)
Plot Summary:
In a secluded cove on the South African coast, a middle-aged writer grieving the deaths of his wife and daughter is drawn into an affair with an alluring teenage girl who is grappling with demons of her own, in this gripping psychological thriller adapted from the award-winning novel by Alistair Morgan. (TIFF).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating, erotic, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Indemnity (2021)
Plot Summary:
An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lullaby (2008)
Plot Summary:
An American mother receives word that her drug addled son has been kidnapped by a drug lord operating in South Africa.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Second Skin (2000)
Plot Summary:
A tough guy named Tommy Gunn, with "kaos" tattooed on his neck, a beautiful blond named Crystal Ball who's struck by a car and can't remember her past, a sadistic scalpel-wielding mobster in Cleveland, a balding schmuck gambling in Las Vegas, a reclusive bookstore owner in a small coastal town who discourages customers, and the hit-and-run driver of the SUV that hits Crystal: what connects them? Sam, the bookstore owner, comes to Crystal's aid after the accident; an affair begins. When she's menaced by Tommy, Sam tries buying him off. As Crystal begins to remember her past, the question arises about Sam's: why is he in hiding?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, South Africa, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, neo noir
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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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Kalushi : The Story of Solomon Mahlangu (2016)
Plot Summary:
Solomon Mahlangu is a Mamelodi township schoolboy-hawker who, after the events of June 16th joins the military wing of the ANC to fight against the brutal oppression of the Apartheid regime and ends up becoming an icon of South Africa's liberation.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 84%
Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
Plot Summary:
A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: christian film, touching, political, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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Safari (2013)
Plot Summary:
Safari is an American, found footage thriller film, set in South African wild, where animals and poachers rule the land. Two worlds collide when Mbali, a young zulu girl, meets an American tourist group who have come to explore and go on safari in South Africa. Things take a wrong turn after the group enter uncharted hunting grounds where they are forced to face the untamed wild.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Avenger (2006)
Plot Summary:
After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private 'specialist' in cases which wouldn't reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard 'Ricky' Edmunds for his pa, influential rich businessman Stephen Edmonds. Ricky for a private Canadian war victims charity in Bosnia and went missing. Dexter discovers Ricky was beaten to pulp and drowned for no other crime then helping street boys from the other side by Zoran Zilic and his Serbian paramilitary 'order'. He offers Steven to 'finish the job' as such war criminals don't go to trial. But deputy CIA director Paul Devereaux cares only for a nuclear arms project he wants to use Zilic for. So CIA troubleshooter Frank McBride is ordered to protect him and handle Dexter.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, political thriller, realistic
Similar in 85%
Saloum (2021)
Plot Summary:
Three mercenaries extracting a druglord out of Guinea-Bissau are forced to hide in the mystical region of Saloum, Senegal.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Senegal, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: supernatural thriller, spooky
Similar in 78%
Impunity (2014)
Plot Summary:
Investigating the gruesome murder of a cabinet minister's daughter, a special investigator and a local police detective find themselves knee-deep in political corruption and conspiracy, in this sizzling noir thriller set in post-apartheid South Africa.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 78%
Half-Caste (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Half-Caste is a Human/Leopard hybrid believed to feast on unsuspecting Travelers, but after Bobby is found soaked in blood, the police think that he murdered his friends. After hearing tell of the half-caste, a half-leopard, half-man said to exist in the wilds of South Africa, four filmmakers set out on safari in search of the mysterious creature. But is the bloodthirsty beast real, or just the stuff of local legend?.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, scary, serious, suspense
Similar in 84%
Fishing Without Nets (2014)
Plot Summary:
In Somalia, principled, young husband and father Abdi turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone is his only connection to all he truly values. Abdi and his fellow pirates hit the high seas and capture a French oil tanker, demanding a hefty ransom. During the long, tedious wait for the cash to arrive, Abdi forges a tentative friendship with one of the hostages. When some of the pirates resort to violence, Abdi must make dramatic choices to determine his course.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Kenya, Somalia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, rough, suspenseful
Similar in 86%
The Cape Town Affair (1967)
Plot Summary:
A color remake of the Sam Fuller film, Pickup on South Street.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, eurospy
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Endangered Species (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jack Halsey takes his wife, their adult kids, and a friend for a dream vacation in Kenya. But as they venture off alone into a wilderness park, their safari van is flipped over by an angry rhino, leaving them injured and desperate. Then, as two of them go in search of rescue, a bloody, vicious encounter with a leopard and a clan of hyenas incites a desperate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Kenya, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological