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Plot Summary:
Music journalist Andrew Deeley (DAVID GYASI) lives in a high-rise tower block, physically and mentally scarred from a vicious attack. Alone and cut off from the world, he obsesses over Kem (YENNIS CHEUNG), his beautiful Chinese neighbour. When Amy (PIPPA NIXON), a married woman he meets online, witnesses Kem's kidnapping, Deeley is left with no choice but to find Kem himself. Armed with only an Oyster card and a hammer, Deeley spirals into the heart of the Triad underworld as he searches for a woman the world has forgotten.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Jakarta (1988)
Plot Summary:
A CIA agent roams the streets of New York haunted by the death of the beautiful woman he fell in love with while on assignment in Jakarta. When he is kidnapped and drugged, the destination is Jakarta once again where he tries to unravel the mystery that is the city which broke him three years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, independent film
Similar in 84%
Dead of Summer (1970)
Plot Summary:
A woman left alone in Morocco by her architect husband begins to lose her mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Monaco
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending
Similar in 90%
The Queen of Sin (2018)
Plot Summary:
Posy Pinkerton needs to step out of her shell. For this late-20s serial monogamist, life has been smooth sailing. She's got Tom, her doctor fiancé; her burgeoning career as a medical illustrator and a side hobby as a visual artist. But after a chance encounter with Jack, a handsome and worldly businessman, Posy's shell begins to crack. She finds him mysterious and he finds her charming, and for Posy it is an opportunity to try on confidence for size. Posy is reluctant to take it any further than petty flirting, but her cousin Laura, her polar opposite, pushes her for one last fling before settling down with Tom, her one and only. Posy's growing desire to break free allows her to exercise her inner self with Jack, an alter ego she's created called the Queen of Sin. Little does Posy know, as she's being swept up by Jack, she's really making a deal with the devil.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Forbidden Sun (1988)
Plot Summary:
Olympic gymnastics coach Francine Lake and her twelve gorgeous students train on the Island of Crete. The rigors of training preclude most sexual activity with the locals, thus the girls spend their evenings in quiet frustration.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Blade on the Feather (1980)
Plot Summary:
A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer...but both men are more than they claim to be.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
Similar in 83%
The Summit (2017)
Plot Summary:
At a Latin American Presidents’ Summit in Chile where the region’s alliances and geopolitical strategies are shaped, Hernán Blanco, the president of Argentina, lives a political and family drama. Through his son in law, he’s implicated in a corruption case. On her father’s call, Marina Blanco, attends the Summit to find protection, to earn time and to negotiate a way out. That past once calm and domestic, becomes a menacing element, almost fantastic, seen from the top of public life, seen from the Summit.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, political, art house
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The Big Cube (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychotronic, rough, sexy, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, neo noir
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Terroir (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy wine maker Jonathan Bragg (Keith Carradine) hires Tuscan wine detective (Gaetano Guarino) to discover the source of a mysterious bottle of wine. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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The Body (1974)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman who lives on an island with her abusive husband, entices a young man into a murder-for-money plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Trinidad and Tobago
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Prescription for Danger (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ivy Fisher is at the top of her game; A whip-smart, devastatingly attractive upstart business owner. She is your typical thirty something, with a stalled personal life and overactive career. But during a crucial investor meeting, Ivy's body begins to fail her. Plagued with an onset of dizziness and a crippling headache, Ivy crashes. Enter Dr. Mark Ryan - a corrupt doctor ready to feed his desire for power, and Ivy is his perfect subject. This rock-hard business woman is now about to confront her mortality. But much to Ivy's shock, she is about to find out that Dr. Ryan, a person she trusts, has the recipe to finally break her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Apartment (2010)
Plot Summary:
Preeti Sengupta (Tanushree Dutta) is an airhostess living in with her boyfriend Karan Malhotra (Rohit Roy). They share a nice 2BHK apartment in the northern suburbs of Mumbai and are befriended by their elderly neighbor Madhusudan Tanha (Anupam Kher), a struggling poet and lyricist. Tanha is a loner living with his only companion, a Persian cat whom he lovingly calls Shehzadi. Preeti is possessive and has issues with trust. When she mistakenly suspects her boyfriend to be unfaithful, she throws him out of the house but soon realizes she can't afford the payment on the apartment on her own. On the advice of a fellow airhostess, she advertises for a tenant to share her apartment. Enter Neha Bhardwaj (Neetu Chandra), a modest small-town girl asking for accommodation. Very impressed by her simplicity and respectfulness, Preeti believes she has found a perfect roommate. The two girls soon become close - their camaraderie leads them to even become companions.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, remake of american film
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The Other Woman (1992)
Plot Summary:
A ambitious reporter investigating a murder case becomes intrigued with a mysterious woman whom she suspects is having an affair with her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psycho sexual, crying, independent film, tension, suspense
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No Strings Attached (1997)
Plot Summary:
A renowned journalist becomes a suspect in a series of murders after he becomes intimately involved with a mysterious woman. In an attempt to clear his name, he tries to find a connection between his lover and the increasing number of dead bodies.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sensual, sexy, independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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Web of Seduction (1999)
Plot Summary:
In this erotic tale of suspense, seduction, and murder, a cleaning woman finds herself working for two wives who are wealthy, idle, and ignored by their husbands. The maid persuades the two woman to kill each other's spouses and live happily ever after off the proceeds of their hubbies' valuable art collections. However, the plan does not go as expected, and the conspirators find that their own lives are in danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, hot, sexploitation film
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Silent Cry (2002)
Plot Summary:
A single mother's search for her stolen new born baby sends her on a journey through the underworld of London and on a collision course with her past.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 79%
Heaven's Prisoners (1996)
Plot Summary:
A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray when his family is viciously threatened.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: stylized, suspense, melancholic, talky, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic
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Emulsion (2014)
Plot Summary:
EMULSION tells the story of a dejected salesman who is inadvertently drawn into a dangerous blackmail scheme that forces him to fight for control a life he never thought was worth living. Painting a murky film noir world where no one is exactly as they appear, Emulsion follows Dane Allen as he evolves from an utterly forgettable cog into a potent activist who brings the powers that be to their knees. It is a story of discovery, manipulation and the never-ending struggle between complacency and self-actualization.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, noir, captivating, disturbing, historical drama
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Slow Burn (2005)
Plot Summary:
A district attorney (Ray Liotta) is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney (Jolene Blalock) and a cryptic stranger.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, surprise ending
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Book of Blood (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based on the wraparound story penned by Clive Barker in the author's "Books of Blood" collection, the story centers on a paranormal expert who, while investigating a gruesome slaying, finds a house that is at the intersection of "highways" transporting souls to the afterlife.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, demonic, classic horror
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Dead Heart (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's aborigine natives and white settlers are on the verge of erupting. When it's discovered that Kate, the white wife of local schoolteacher Les, has despoiled a sacred site by secretly meeting her aborigine lover, Tony, there, a shocking murder threatens to rip the small town apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tension, bleak, serious, realistic, independent film, suspense
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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Plot Summary:
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, serious, scary, realistic, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
Eye of the Beholder (1999)
Plot Summary:
A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, enigmatic, melancholic, suspenseful, erotic, surreal, neo noir, psychotronic, action drama
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Demonlover (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two corporations compete for illicit 3D manga pornography, sending spies to infiltrate each other's operations.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house, cerebral, intense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, contemplative, stylized
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Nobel's Last Will (2012)
Plot Summary:
While covering the annual Nobel Banquet for tabloid Kvällspressen, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses a spectacular murder right in front of her. Two people are shot, one of them the controversial Laureate in Medicine, Aaron Wiesel. Annika is the key witness and is bound by the police not to disclose anything she has seen. A terrorist group with connections to the Middle East quickly admits responsibility for the murder. International press is all over the story, as are the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir
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Serenity (2019)
Plot Summary:
Baker Dill is a fishing boat captain leading tours off a tranquil, tropical enclave called Plymouth Island. His quiet life is shattered, however, when his ex-wife Karen tracks him down with a desperate plea for help.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, brutal, visually appealing, philosophical, mind bending
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10x10 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Lewis is an outwardly ordinary guy, but in reality he is hiding an obsession - revenge - against Cathy. Lewis kidnaps Cathy in broad daylight and takes her to his home, where he locks her in a soundproof cell and attempt to extract a dark secret from her past.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, rough, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, feel good, brutal
Similar in 75%
Death and the Maiden (1994)
Plot Summary:
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, minimal cast, suspenseful, sexy, disturbing, rough, touching, captivating, clever
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The Voyeurs (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young couple, find themselves becoming interested in the sex life of their neighbors across the street. What starts as an innocent curiosity turns into an unhealthy obsession.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, psychological, sexy, captivating, disturbing, surprise ending, neo noir, interesting, bizarre
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Blow-Up (1966)
Plot Summary:
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he accidentally captures on film the commission of a murder. The fact that he has photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surreal, cerebral, independent film, art house, psychological thriller, stylized, erotic, visual, atmospheric, mind bending
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Plot Summary:
After Dr. Bill Hartford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 366000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: sexual, psychological, sexy, artsy, neo noir, atmospheric, psychological thriller, disturbing, surreal, suspense