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Plot Summary:
In the Spanish neo-noir film Question of Luck Julio (Eduardo Noriega) is at a turning point in his life. His fish farm business has collapsed, and his attractive fiancee, Concha (Leire Berrocal) is pushing Julio to get married. But Julio seems strangely unenthusiastic about marrying into Concha’s affluent family lottery business. Things get complicated when he finds a fortune in jewels.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, sexy, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hot
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Dream Kiss (1992)
Plot Summary:
The gorgeous Margot supports her aged father by seducing men on trains, slipping them a Mickey Finn (a beso de sueño) and robbing them. One night her victim is a currency smuggler taking 100 million pesetas out of Spain. He's being watched by a cop and by a burned-out alcoholic.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
The Legend of Wolf Lodge (1987)
Plot Summary:
Out of work and driving aimlessly, a man pulls into the "Wolf Lodge" and ends up with a job. When he wakes nightly to the sounds of icy voices and screams he decides he can no longer be an innocent bystander.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, eighties, cult film
Similar in 79%
Gypsy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Andres is a flamenco singer who has just gotten out of prison after being falsely convicted of the murder of Romero, a member of his band. As Andres tries to re-acclimate himself to freedom, he discovers things have not been going his way while he was up the river; his wife Lucia is having an affair with another man, while his bullying father Isidoro is obsessed with getting revenge against Don Manuel, who rules a local crime syndicate known as the Junco Family.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, erotic, sexy, neo noir, weird
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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
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Deviant Obsession (2002)
Plot Summary:
Joan Alton is a lawyer who goes undercover at a strip club to gather clues that might exonerate her lover who has been accused of murder. While the defendant's secrets unveil, she will stop at nothing to catch the real killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, sexual, sexy, sexploitation film, campy
Similar in 90%
Tick Tock (2000)
Plot Summary:
Stunning trophy wife Rachel Avery is stuck in a cold, loveless marriage with her millionaire husband, Holden. So when Holden goes away on a trip, Rachel hooks up with her close friend Carla, and the two hatch a plan to murder Holden and collect on his vast assets. But the girls don't want to commit the crime themselves, so at a bar they seduce a stranger, Travis Brewer, and convince him to do their bidding.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, tense, sexy, suspenseful, independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic, sexual
Similar in 89%
Agnosia (2010)
Plot Summary:
The protagonist is a young woman, Joan Prats suffering from agnosia, a strange, primary visual disease that is one of the neuropsychological disorders of perception. Although her eyes and ears are in perfect condition, her brain is not able to correctly interpret the stimuli it receives. Joan is the only person to know an industrial secret left behind by her late father and becomes the victim of a sinister plan to extract this information. Her captors plan to use her sensory condition to help extract the information that they so desperately want.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, gothic, realistic, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
Similar in 80%
Trapped (2009)
Plot Summary:
The suicide was easy, getting away with everything else could be murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 87%
Hustle (2000)
Plot Summary:
Maya and Tony are a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. Maya seduces businessmen while Tony copies their credit cards. It's a smooth con until one of their victims, Pierce, pulls a gun. Instead of killing them, Pierce offers the desperate couple a chance at the biggest score of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful
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Swindled (2004)
Plot Summary:
In a flashback, Ernesto, a young con man, tells us how he got to the edge of a big score: childhood in an orphanage, youthful smash-and-grab burglaries until his partner is caught, then tutelage from Lefty, an aging swindler. After some years of success, they're joined by Federico, the best, a true artist. Things go well until Pilar, a woman from Federico's past, re-enters his life with a proposal to con a golden goose - a swindle that will put them all on easy street. A double-cross may be in the cards. The flashback over, can Ernesto hold his own in the present?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, anamorphic, mind bending, surprise ending
Similar in 81%
Ten 'til Noon (2006)
Plot Summary:
Between 11:50 and 12:00 noon, a crime is commited. In the same ten minute period, we follow the lives of the ten people, all connected to this crime. As we see each person's point of view, we are propelled closer and closer to the truth of what exactly happened...and why.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, talky, suspense, cynical, non-linear, gloomy
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Man of Violence (1970)
Plot Summary:
Moon (Michael Latimer) is a mercenary who joins forces with two crooked cops in an attempt to steal 90 million dollars in gold from an Arab country decimated by political chaos. Sex, violence and mayhem accompany the group of double-crossing heavies who covet the purloined loot. A bevy of females willingly submit to seduction, and a sadistic homosexual murderer trails Moon and his malevolent gang for the gold in this compelling crime drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 77%
Lying in Wait (2001)
Plot Summary:
Young bachelor Babee is looking after his dead mother's estate when married couple Keith and Vera move in. Babee becomes attracted to them by the beautiful Vera and the risk taking Keith. However at a party Vera crashes her car, putting Keith into a coma. When Keith comes out he is in a semi-vegetative state and must rely on Vera to look after him. Keith can't move or speak but reveals to Babee that he can still talk and starts to kill those that wronged him with Babee's help.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, sexy, independent film, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Loft (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment. In this loft they meet their mistresses and conquests. Everything seems perfect, until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft. The group of friends begin to suspect each other and it soon becomes clear that they know far less about each other than they had initially thought. Dutch remake of the Flemish movie Loft (2008).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, neo noir, twist ending, dread, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Point of Seduction III: Body Chemistry (1994)
Plot Summary:
Movie producer Alan Clay wants to make a movie about Dr. Claire Archer and her amazing life story (she's been 'forced' to kill two men in self defence). Claire falls for Alan, and Alan cannot resist temptation, so now he's hiding an affair from wife Beth. When the movie writer's investigations uncover new facts in the killings, Claire senses the danger, and responds.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, psychotronic, hot, sexploitation film
Similar in 82%
Pretty When You Cry (2001)
Plot Summary:
A wife is caught in a web of sex and violence.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, independent film, gloomy, sexual
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Rushlights (2013)
Plot Summary:
Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 79%
My Daughter's Keeper (1991)
Plot Summary:
An American writer in England takes his children and a newly hired nanny on a trip to South Africa while his wife, a reporter, is on assignment. He has an affair with the nanny, but when he refuses to leave his wife for her, the nanny gets her revenge by kidnapping his children.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, tense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
Similar in 82%
Lured Innocence (2000)
Plot Summary:
A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, mind bending, sexual, sexy
Similar in 83%
Dead On (1994)
Plot Summary:
In an erotic update of "Strangers on a Train", airline pilot Ted Beaumont and his lover, Erin Davenport, scheme to rid themselves of their respective spouses. Ted's wife disappears mysteriously and thinking that all is proceeding well, he plans an elaborate scheme to kill Erin's husband. However all is not as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, independent film, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, psychotronic, creepy
Similar in 76%
Three Way (2004)
Plot Summary:
Lew is a small time loser with a troubled past and a very big secret. Overhearing a couple plan a kidnapping, Lew is tempted to come up with a scheme of his own. He decides to get to the victim first and then blackmail the real criminals. His plan soon spins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, neo noir, surprise ending
Similar in 90%
The Last Seduction II (1999)
Plot Summary:
Femme fatal/con artist Bridget Gregory travels to Barcelona and targets another businessman to scam him of his money while a relentless private investigator tries to track her down.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, neo noir, independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
Similar in 86%
Out of Season (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a young drifter is forced to stay the winter in a small seaside town, he inadvertently becomes the catalyst for deceit, double crossings and murder amongst the locals.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
Bad Company (1995)
Plot Summary:
Nelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of $50,000 in gold. They blackmail him into working for the Grimes Organization, which is set up as a private company for hire, to blackmail prominent individuals. Crowe, working with Margaret Wells (another former Covert Operations operative), blackmails and bribes a State Supreme Court judge, but the deal sours. One of Crowe's co-workers, Tod Stapp, discovers Crowe's current CIA involvement in a plot to overthrow Grimes, and blackmails him to be cut in on the deal. More blackmail occurs as Wells manipulates Crowe to kill Grimes, then the CIA uses that discovery to blackmail Wells into killing Crowe. Who can you trust???.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, clever, psychological, neo noir, stylized, suspense, anamorphic, rough, serious
Similar in 84%
Spanish Judges (2000)
Plot Summary:
A con-artist hires two low-lifes to cover him during a deal, ending with three criminals, two dueling pistols, and one night they'll never forget.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, neo noir
Similar in 84%
Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story (1991)
Plot Summary:
Pamela Smart knows exactly what she wants and is willing to do anything to get it. She is fed up with teaching, and her marriage offers little excitement. Looking for a way out she applies for a job at a local TV station. When her dreams of fame are dashed by rejection, she seduces 15-year-old Billy, one of her students. Pam challenges Billy to prove his love for her by getting rid of her husband. The stakes heat up with a huge insurance policy on her husband's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: clever, serious, realistic, cynical
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Heart of Stone (2001)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman doesn't know if the killer is her lover ... or her husband ... or someone else!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, sexual, erotic
Similar in 75%
Night Eyes (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Beverly Hills home-security guard is seduced by a rock star's wife he monitors by video.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, independent film, sexual, erotic, hot
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The Train: Some Lines Should Never Be Crossed... (2007)
Plot Summary:
Vishal Dixit leads an ordinary life with his wife and daughter but his once idyllic marriage is crumbling. When he meets a beautiful married woman en route to work on the train, it sparks a torrid adulterous affair. Vishal soon finds that an unidentified enemy knows his secret -- and is determined to destroy his life. Can Vishal find a solution, or will he pay the price for his passion?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, tense, remake of american film
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What the Eye Doesn't See (2003)
Plot Summary:
Through out six different and yet parallel stories that take place during the corrupted goverment during the 90s in Peru, Lombardi tells the moral decomposition that ran through all classes and generations of the peruvian society.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending, independent film