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Plot Summary:
To cover up his infidelities and protect his upcoming marriage, a star advertiser helps free an accused rapist by giving a false alibi and suffers the brutal revenge of the victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, clever, serious, realistic
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The Last Innocent Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
A retired criminal lawyer is persuaded to take on one more case and becomes involved with his client's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, cynical
Similar in 75%
Deadly Breed (1989)
Plot Summary:
The flames of racism burn hot as a murderous band of skinheads wreak havoc on the Los Angeles landscape and only one man can put an end to their explosive evil. Stars Blake Bahner, William Smith, Addison Randall.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 89%
The Child (2012)
Plot Summary:
Simon Sachs, a terminally ill ten year old boy, claims to have been a serial killer in his previous life and apparently he can prove it. He leads a lawyer, Robert Stern to the locations of the bodies, who were killed long before Simon was born. Stern takes on the most compelling and mysterious case of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 941
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, realistic
Similar in 85%
Hitched (2001)
Plot Summary:
After a homemaker discovers that her husband is a philanderer, she imprisons him in their soundproof basement and reports him missing to the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Similar in 78%
The List (2000)
Plot Summary:
After being arrested for solicitation, a high-class prostitute threatens to make public a list of her best clients and someone resorts to murder to keep the list a secret. Meanwhile, the judge on the case struggles with his dilemma and one cop aims to find the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, realistic, independent film, detective
Similar in 83%
The Candidate (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jonas Bechmann, a defense attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But nothing is what it appears to be, and the blackmail links back to his father's death under mysterious circumstances a year and a half earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 89%
White Lie (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young writer has his book stolen by his mentor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
Similar in 88%
Break Up (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy is married to the abusive Frank, but she's building a nest egg so she can leave. For a year, she's been deaf as a result of one of his beatings. One night, he pushes her over the stairwell, and she ends up in the hospital. When a charred body in her husband's car is pulled from a pond, the cops want to talk to her, but she bolts for her sister's, loses her savings pass-book, and then learns someone has emptied her bank account. She's goes on the run, with the same cops on her trail, and eventually realizes Frank may not be dead. Getting back her money, facing Frank, satisfying the police, and finding her freedom may be more than she can handle. Written by.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mystical, neo noir, independent film, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 83%
Zoom Hunting (2010)
Plot Summary:
Yang Ruyi (32), a fashion magazine photographer, lives with her elder sister Yang Ruxing (33), a rational, introverted detective fiction author. Ruyi has inadvertently photographed a couple making madly passionately love. Few days later in a shopping center not far from her home, she finds the woman already married, leading a child and is with a different man. Ruyi shares her secret with Ruxing who is suffering from writer's block. The two sisters begin to observe the couple; gradually Ruxing even writes some of her observations into her novel, without letting Ruyi knows it. Late one night, Ruyi views two people are arguing, but as she picks up her camera to photograph she can only see two vague, dark outlines wrestling one another; Ruyi calls the police but upon arriving, nothing seems out of order. Ruyi is convinced she has mistaken nothing; she enlarges the photo and discovers a third outline looks pretty much like her older sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
The Confidant (2010)
Plot Summary:
The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond and a more intriguing secret. Both young men are on the right path to promising futures, a first round NFL draft pick, and a talented art major on a full scholarship. A complicated web of lies, gambling, murder and a pact between friends sends an innocent friend to prison and the other to fame. After spending eleven years in prison, the innocent comes to collect a debt and is determined to have the life he was promised... by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, bleak, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough, sexy, realistic, independent film
Similar in 84%
From the Inside (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alone in their isolated home where no cars pass and no one lives nearby, Vincent and Tally suffer together in a loveless marriage. But what they don't know is that they are not as alone as they think -- a criminal and his psychotic brother are watching them through binoculars. They stare lustfully at Tally through the windows and plan something horrible for the unhappy couple when night falls.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, independent film
Similar in 81%
Benefit of the Doubt (1993)
Plot Summary:
Twenty two years earlier, Karen helped convict her father, Frank, for the murder of her mother. With his new freedom, thanks to parole, Frank returns home to seek revenge. Having always pleaded his innocence, Frank soon works his way back into Karen's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear (1998)
Plot Summary:
A neglectful mother overhears her husband on the telephone at their workplace talking with their babysitter. She discovers they are having an affair and are going to have a baby. She concocts an evil plan to win back her husband and remove the girl and baby. Two men are hired to kill the girl and hold the son hostage in order for her to play the hero and reclaim her husband. The plan hits a snag when the criminals enter the wrong apartment.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense, ridiculous
Similar in 77%
Tempted (2001)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy man married to a beautiful younger woman puts her fidelity to the test.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia, France, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, sexy, realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic, neo noir, sexual, independent film
Similar in 78%
Payback (1995)
Plot Summary:
Oscar Bonsetter tells a dying prisoner that he will take revenge on the sadistic guard who killed him. In exchange, Oscar is told of a stash of money. Oscar is eventually released from prison but when he goes to get revenge, he gets sidetracked by the now-handicapped guard and his alluring wife, Rose. The tension builds as Oscar becomes more and more attracted to Rose.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, erotic, independent film, sexual, sexy
Similar in 82%
The Art of Murder (1999)
Plot Summary:
An abused wife (Joanna Pacula) turns to another man and becomes the victim of a blackmailer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
Similar in 80%
Playing House (2011)
Plot Summary:
In this taut thriller, newlyweds Jen and Mitch find that three's company and four's a crowd when they ask their friend Danny to move in with them to share expenses. But a sweet situation turns sour when Danny invites a new person into the mix.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, slasher, independent film
Similar in 75%
Layover (2001)
Plot Summary:
An airport affair of a business man turns into a nightmare when it turns out that the woman is married to a dangerous jewelry dealer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, suspense, tense, sexy, independent film
Similar in 83%
Crimes of Passion (2011)
Plot Summary:
Arturo Bolaño is a mediocre insurance salesman who loves women, booze and any short cut he can find to Easy Street. He thinks he's found it with the beautiful Rebeca Solis, the wife of the owner of the hotel where he stays on business. Rebeca wants nothing more than to escape from her husband and after Arturo falls in love, she asks him to help her get rid of him. The plan goes without a hitch but just as they think they are going to get away with murder, they receive an anonymous letter from a witness to the crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, tense, rough, realistic, serious, sexual
Similar in 82%
Naked Lie (1989)
Plot Summary:
They are the perfect, and politically correct, couple. He is a judge, she is a high profile attorney. When she takes on a sensational murder case, the trail leads right to her own front door.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
Similar in 85%
Cover Story (2002)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious magazine editor gets too caught up in a high-stakes sex scandal and is framed for murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Similar in 82%
Nexus (2010)
Plot Summary:
Holly is a struggling singer whose life is torn apart when she loses custody of her daughter, Chloe. When she travels to her soon to be ex-husbands estate in the country, for a weekend visit with Chloe, she is shocked to discover that he is missing. The police are called and the following day, Holly is accused of the murder of her husband. Holly unwittingly finds herself at the center of a small town conspiracy and must harness all her inner strength to save her daughter and clear her name.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film, rough, suspenseful
Similar in 88%
Fatal Call (2012)
Plot Summary:
Leaving his small-town roots to start a new life, Mitch meets the beautiful and seductive Amy at a happy hour and begins a tantalizing romance. Before long, Mitch learns that nothing is as it appears and, unable to trust anyone, finds himself on a nightmarish roller coaster ride, accused of murder and running from the law and a mysterious stranger out to kill him. Surviving by quick thinking and his wits, Mitch must confront both his past and present and find a solution before time runs out!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
Similar in 83%
Telling Lies (2008)
Plot Summary:
The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of disastrous telephone calls chart the certain ruin of young Phil's day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another. Told entirely in animated captions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
Bad Karma (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ray Liotta stars as Jack Malloy, a hardcore career criminal until a near-death experience causes him to turn his world around. But when his former partner Drake is released from prison, he tracks Jack down to blackmail him into one last job. Jack is a new man determined to lead an honest life. Drake is a charming psycho intent on vengeance. Sometimes, old friends can carry some extreme baggage. And for one of them, coming to terms with the past is going to be murder. Vanessa Gray and Andy McPhee co-star in this taut action/drama about good intentions, dark secrets and the harsh consequences of BAD KARMA.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
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A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
After sixteen years of marriage and four children, Betty Broderick's high-powered attorney husband decides to leave her for a younger woman with whom he's been having an affair. Hurt by his betrayal and feeling helpless against his legal expertise, Betty begins a campaign of vandalism and verbal assault. Her rage consumes her and ultimately leads to a terrible and violent act.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, biting, suspense, ridiculous
Similar in 76%
Double Jeopardy (1992)
Plot Summary:
Jack Hart lives with his lawyer wife and yound daughter and enjoys a wonderful life. Jack's old girlfriend, Lisa, comes into town and they have an affair. Lisa kills her current boyfriend in self-defense and Jack witnesses the whole thing. Lisa goes on trial for murder with Jack's wife as her lawyer. As the movie progresses Lisa's devious side becomes known and make for an interesting conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, erotic, neo noir
Similar in 86%
I Know What You Did (1998)
Plot Summary:
A female lawyer who specialises in defending suspected rapists is left traumatised after she herself is assaulted in her own home.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
I Accuse (2003)
Plot Summary:
A chilling tale based on a real event in which a doctor stepped out of line and sexually assaulted a patient when drugged.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
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I'll Never Die Alone (2008)
Plot Summary:
A violent thriller set in the outback of remote La Plata region, I'LL NEVER DIE ALONE (aka NO MORIRE SOLA) is a tough and pounding story of revenge for rape, mercilessly carried out by a group of women intent on pursuing their attackers to the bitter end.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, suspenseful, twisted, realistic, retro, depressing, controversial, serious, splatter