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Plot Summary:
Cyndi Lauper stars as a performing mermaid in a Miami nightclub who ends up on the wrong end of a murder. On the run carrying a locket that people seem to be getting killed for, she runs into an ex-golfer and a wisecracking kid who might just be able to bail her out of this wacky nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Invasion (2012)
Plot Summary:
Joseph is in his mid-sixties and has just lost his beloved wife. Everything in his big old mansion reminds him painfully of the years they spent together. One day several visitors turn up unexpectedly. They seem to be relatives of his deceased wife. In the beginning, the uninvited guests treat Joseph with loving care, but bit by bit the situation begins to change. The visitors slowly, almost unnoticably, become aggressive, even hostile, invaders. They try to get rid of Joseph and take over his house, his world, his thoughts. Is this just the paranoia of an old man or really a ruthless invasion?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Run a Crooked Mile (1969)
Plot Summary:
A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he's had amnesia, is now married, and living in Switzerland. Now remembering the incident he returns to England to try to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Hot Summer Week (1972)
Plot Summary:
Via Amazon: "Two wild teenage girls, Debbie (Kathleen Cody) and Karen (Dianne Hull, FIFTH FLOOR, ALOHA BOBBY AND ROSE) hit the road for some freedom, boys, and unexpected danger in this 1973 drive-in classic! The girls pick up a handsome Vietnam veteran (Michael Ontkean, TWIN PEAKS, SLAP SHOT, MAID TO ORDER) who is still troubled from his time at war, but is trying his best to fit in. They all end up at a hippie encounter session run by John (Ralph Waite, THE WALTONS, THE BODYGUARD) in a peaceful village by the ocean. It's all fun and games until the girls discover that a serial killer is murdering girls.".
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse
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Lulu by Night (1986)
Plot Summary:
German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, neo screwball comedy
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Blind Man's Bluff (1992)
Plot Summary:
A blind professor is accused by the police of killing his neighbor and must clear his name by finding the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story (2020)
Plot Summary:
Stacey Ruth Castor weathered the storm of her first husband's death and managed to find love again with her boss, David. But when David is discovered dead of an apparent suicide, the police suspect some foul play, as David's death mimics that of Stacey's first husband, Michael Wallace, who died in 2000.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, tragic
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What We Did That Night (1999)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con Henry (Rick Schroder) returns to town after being released from prison and contacts his old college frat members about a murder that they committed years earlier. They have to return to move the body to a new location before it is uncovered by recent digging in the area. Now a lot older and bitter about going to prison Henry has planned revenge on his old friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Acting on Impulse (1993)
Plot Summary:
An erotic thriller actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a B-movie producer, leading her to hide out and engage in sexual thrills with a pair of innocents.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, slasher, independent film, detective
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Love and Action in Chicago (1999)
Plot Summary:
Just when covert assassin Eddie Jones (Courtney B. Vance) decides to ditch his dangerous job to settle down with his girlfriend, his superiors convince him to kill a renegade drug cartel hit man -- leading to nothing but trouble. Complicating matters is Eddie's vow of celibacy and the fact that Lois is unaware of his murderous lifestyle. Jason Alexander, Ed Asner, Regina King and Kathleen Turner co-star in this screwball romantic comedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Todos lo hacen (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story follows several couples who return to the hotel where they celebrated their wedding years ago at the invitation of the owner of the accommodation. Some live happily married, others on the contrary are on the verge of divorce. They all have something in common, an enemy. And it is that the owner of the hotel is on the verge of ruin and is willing to get out of that situation no matter what.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Hiding Out (1987)
Plot Summary:
A very successful stock broker is called to court to testify against a mob boss who was into some inside trading. Andrew Morenski must become Max Hauser and go back to high school for protection from the mob.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, romantic, sexy, clever, unusual plot structure, sweet, suspense
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Severance (1988)
Plot Summary:
Ray Ponti is a down and out father, a man trapped by his past and frightened of his future. Cly is a streetwise runaway, waiting tables by day and stripping by night. Both are fighting for existence in the slime-bowl of New York's gutters, where drugs and prostitution are the only currency. Ray is in over the top with the Mafia and Cly is emotionally destroyed by the absence of her father. Severence is a gripping story set against the seedy backdrop of New York City, where broken dreams and empty promises litter the streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (1995)
Plot Summary:
Police sketch artist, Jack, helps blind rape victim Emmy describe her attacker.. a serial rapist and murderer who is now out to get her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Murder at My Door (1996)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet neighborhood, a suburban family is shocked when their son is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a neighbor's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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Fate (2003)
Plot Summary:
Serial killers have plagued the American landscape for decades, committing gruesome atrocities, and providing some tough cases for criminal investigators to crack. This thriller follows the travails of two detectives who are on the trail of a bizarre murderer intent on slaughtering his victims, then using them as real-life puppets in a tale that he is trying to tell. The plot holds a key to the whereabouts of the monstrous deviant, but the detectives have to unravel it quickly before more unsuspecting citizens become theater fodder for the unhinged madman.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Plot Summary:
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, funny, clever, indie film, captivating, offbeat, serious, grim
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The Highwayman (2000)
Plot Summary:
A dark, comedic thriller about fraud, bank robbers and a search for love.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, road movie, dark comedy
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Pendulum (1969)
Plot Summary:
On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Out Cold (1989)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about an angry married couple, a private investigator, and a walk-in freezer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, rough, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, semi serious
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29 Palms (2002)
Plot Summary:
When a bag filled with money goes missing from a casino, the Hitman (Chris O'Donnell) must retrieve it. While he tracks the stash down, the bag changes hands numerous times, finding its way to the Drifter (Jeremy Davies) and the Waitress (Rachael Leigh Cook), among others. As the bag's journey continues, more characters, including the Cop (Michael Rapaport) and the Sheriff (Keith David), get drawn into the winding crime tale, and the search becomes increasingly desperate.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, fast, romantic
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7 Colombian Kilos (2007)
Plot Summary:
The brutal story of betrayal between two partners in the violent business of supplying drugs to Chicago's West Side. Greed and mistrust tear apart their childhood-long friendship.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Deadly Pursuits (1996)
Plot Summary:
A former stripper befriends a young man looking for his father, all the while trying to avoid a hitman for the mob, to whom she is deeply in debt.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Runaway (2005)
Plot Summary:
Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a quiet, rural town, Michael's convinced he can make a better life for both of them. While Dylan stays holed up in a cheap motel all day, Michael works at a convenience store where everything starts to come together for him. But as Michael falls in love with his beautiful co-worker, Carly, his past begin.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Delivered (1998)
Plot Summary:
College dropout Will Sherman works as a pizza delivery boy. One night he delivers a pizza at the house where the guy who ordered pizza was just killed. The murderer, Reed, soon realizes that Will is a witness and begins to follow him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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In the Shadows (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach him to do stunts. While waiting for the word to kill this mentor, Eric discovers the joy of stunt work and of being part of a family. Meanwhile, several people are looking for the dead man's briefcase of money and a cloth bag of illegal drugs that he stole from an undercover FBI agent now desperate to get the borrowed drugs back to the bureau. The stunt coordinator says that 'we dance in the shadows of death.' Can Eric step out into the sun?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Good Chemistry (2008)
Plot Summary:
After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his nightmare only worsens.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Miami Blues (1990)
Plot Summary:
When Fred gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student Susie. Opposing Fred is Sgt Hoke Moseley, a cop who is getting a bit old for the job, especially since the job of cop in 1980's Miami is getting crazier all the time.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, harsh, bloody, witty, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, cult classic
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Living in Peril (1997)
Plot Summary:
The young architect Walter leaves his wife Linda to go to L.A. to draw a mansion for Harrison. On the highway a truck driver almost drives him off the road. Walter calls the truck-company to complain. The driver gets fired. When Walter arrives to the apartment-block where he has rented a flat he meets the choleric landlord William and the others living there. But now the problems starts. The next morning somebody has ruined his drawing and Harrison dislikes what Walter has drawn. But soon everything gets out of hand. Walter gets into more trouble - one morning he finds rats all over his apartment and the next day he finds his beautiful neighbor killed in his bed - and he starts to think that it is the fired truck driver who is out to get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Here and There (2009)
Plot Summary:
Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to make quick cash and ends up in Serbia, where instead of money he finds his soul. At the same time, a young Serbian immigrant, Branko (Trifunović), struggles in an unforgiving New York, desperately trying to bring his girlfriend from Serbia to the United States. Mirijana Karanović plays Branko's mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, cynical
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Homegrown (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they learn that their boss has been murdered. They know enough to run, taking with them enough of the crop to pay them for services rendered. Hooking up with go-between Lucy in the next town, they plot their next move.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, stylized, realistic, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, funny, clever, enigmatic, feel good