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Plot Summary:
An insurance scam lands a man on death row for murdering his wife. What everyone doesn't know is she really isn't dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, suspenseful, tense, rough, serious, slasher, surprise ending, suspense, grindhouse
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Best tv shows and movies like One on Top of the Other (1969):
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The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971)
Plot Summary:
A girl is murdered in a park. The man is tried and convicted for the crime but the killings suddenly continue.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, erotic, grindhouse, perverse
Similar in 90%
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is accused of murdering her debauched neighbor after dreaming it. Was she set up, or did she really do it?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychosexual thriller, surprise ending, erotic, psychedelic, suspense, experimental, mondo, sensual
Similar in 78%
Devil's Honey (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young woman abducts a doctor whom she holds responsible for the death of her boyfriend and subjects him to various sexual torture acts.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, erotic, sexual, perverse, independent film, realistic, non-linear, crying
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The Double (1971)
Plot Summary:
A man is shot in an underground car-park by a mysterious bearded man. As he dies he recollects the events that led him to this situation, including adulterous liaisons and jealous envy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir, neurotic, non-linear, crying, detective, freeze frame
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Murder 101 (1991)
Plot Summary:
Charles Lattimore, an author of a book about a famous murder trial, arranges to meet with one of his students one night. When the student is found murdered and Lattimore has no alibi, he suspects he is being framed by the subject of his book.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, crime thriller, suspense thriller, surprise ending, crying, detective
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The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young newlywed couple from America returns to Geneva to visit Marcel's home town. Once there he is informed of his former lover's suicide and in turn is subjected to threats that accuse him of being responsible for her death and further, threaten his new fiancée's life. George Hilton plays a peculiar neighbor with voyeuristic tendencies who has an obsession with Deborah.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological thriller, neo noir, psycho sexual, crying, independent film, freeze frame
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A Quiet Place to Kill (1970)
Plot Summary:
A race-car driver who's down on her luck is invited by her ex-husband's wife to stay at their plush villa. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As it turns out, though, they're not alone in plotting murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, grindhouse, surprise ending, neo noir, twist ending, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame
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A Killer Upstairs (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman investigates when her teenage son is arrested for his married lover's murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending, bleak, serious
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Mercy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Detective Catherine Palmer (Ellen Barkin) is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie (Peta Wilson), who belongs to an exclusive club of women who engage in secret sessions of bondage and S&M. Matters become even more complicated when Palmer finds herself attracted to Kittrie, leading to a brief lesbian encounter. Palmer soon learns that each victim belonged to this club of prominent, sexually experimental women. In order to catch the killer, Catherine must trust Vickie to guide her through the dangerous and illicit underground.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, erotic, psychological thriller, independent film, tense, realistic, suspenseful, experimental
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The Fifth Cord (1971)
Plot Summary:
Luigi Bazzoni (Le Orme) directed this outstanding giallo thriller starring Franco Nero as a hard-drinking newspaperman who gets involved in a string of brutal murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, erotic, scary, tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic
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Play Motel (1979)
Plot Summary:
The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak, disturbing, erotic, sexy, sex comedy, psycho sexual, detective
Similar in 87%
Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971)
Plot Summary:
An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, mind bending, slasher, surreal, grindhouse, gothic, suspense, erotic
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Apartment Zero (1988)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a failing cinema and his mysterious boarder are caught up in the political intrigue of Argentina.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, captivating, cult classic, tense, bleak, independent film, scary, neo noir
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8MM 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
An American diplomat and his fiancée venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in Budapest, Hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspenseful, suspense, sexy, tense, captivating, disturbing, serious, saga, art house
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In the Cut (2003)
Plot Summary:
Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, a self-determined woman living in New York City--as if to test the limits of her own safety--propels herself into an impossibly risky sexual liaison. Soon she grows increasingly wary about the motives of every man with whom she has contact--and about her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, France, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexual, sexy, erotic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, detective, serious, rough, psychosexual thriller
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
Plot Summary:
Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, mind bending, grindhouse, creepy, surprise ending, suspense, erotic, psychological thriller, psychedelic, bloody
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Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, psychotronic, erotic, suspense, detective, light, disturbing, creepy, perverse
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What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
Plot Summary:
After several coeds are murdered at a college, a professor (Fabio Testi) who is involved with a student becomes a suspect, along with several other male and female teachers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, grindhouse, suspense, surreal, controversial, deep, creepy, cult classic, dark drama
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Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975)
Plot Summary:
When a fashion model dies during an abortion, a series of murders begins, starting with her doctor. The next victims are connected to the modeling agency where she worked, Albatross, run by a hard edged and jealous bi-sexual, Gisella, married to a Farouk-like dissolute. One suspect is Carlo, a playboy photographer who has a hot temper and refuses to share information with the police. He becomes the lover of Magda, another photographer at the agency, who's probably in danger. The murderer wears a black motorcycle outfit and helmet. Will anyone discover the murderer's identity before the entire agency dies?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, suspense, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, sensual, scary, tense, atmospheric
Similar in 89%
Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Plot Summary:
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that's rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, suspense, disturbing, erotic, surprise ending
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The Weight of Water (2000)
Plot Summary:
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tricky, tense, suspenseful, suspense, sexual, mystical, atmospheric, serious
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Fade to Black (2006)
Plot Summary:
Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, iconic filmmaker Orson Welles (Danny Huston) makes his way to Rome, where he gets pulled into a tangled political plot involving murder and mysterious motives. A beautiful actress (Paz Vega) proves a tempting distraction. But if they want to stay alive, Welles and his young Italian driver (Diego Luna) need to stay focused.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Serbia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, mind bending, freeze frame
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The Bedroom Window (1987)
Plot Summary:
Terry Lambert is sleeping with Sylvia, the wife of his boss. One night, while in Terry's apartment, Sylvia witnesses a man assault a young woman, Denise, on the road below. Not wanting to reveal her affair with Terry, she keeps quiet. Terry instead steps forward, trying to help nab the criminal. However, he never saw the suspect and, when his lies are uncovered, the police begin to suspect his motives.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, neo noir, intense, psychological, realistic, serious, sexy, psychosexual thriller, detective
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Dressed to Kill (1980)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious, tall, blonde woman, wearing sunglasses murders one of a psychiatrist's patients, and now she's after the prostitute who witnessed it.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, erotic, suspense, scary, sensual, slasher, psychological, tense, suspenseful
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Blade of the Ripper (1971)
Plot Summary:
Newly married to an older man, Julie returns to Vienna, where a razor wielding slasher is killing women. Jean, her cruel and sadistic former lover, immediately contacts her, certain that only he can satisfy her strange vice. But she rejects him. She also meets George, the handsome cousin of her friend Carol; both are newly rich, thanks to an uncle's death. Julie's husband Neil is away frequently, so George pours on the charm. Meanwhile, it seems that the slasher is now focused on Julie. Bodies pile up, other murders are barely avoided, and George invites her to go away with him. Can it end happily?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, erotic, sexual, grindhouse, psychological, suspense
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Blood Brides (1970)
Plot Summary:
A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, surreal, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, grindhouse, mind bending, psychedelic
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Basic Instinct (1992)
Plot Summary:
A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 214000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, neo noir, sexual, suspenseful, detective, psychological, surprise ending, suspense, psychological thriller
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The Body (2012)
Plot Summary:
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, suspense, mind blowing, detective, serious, psychological thriller, mind twisting
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Presumed Innocent (1990)
Plot Summary:
Life takes a nasty twist for D.A. Rusty Sabich when the woman he has been romantically involved with is murdered. He is assigned to investigate the case, but is soon charged with the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, suspense, sexy, tricky, enigmatic, talky, intense
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The Invisible Guest (2016)
Plot Summary:
"The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened in a frenetic race against time.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 189000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, twist ending, mind blowing, psychological thriller, mindfuck, detective, suspense thriller, psychotronic