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Plot Summary:
Ex-cons Victor and Rico have masterminded a foolproof plan to abduct millonaires’ daughter Laura Temming. When she is kidnapped and placed in a remote and soundproofed room, gradually the power relations shift. Exactly who is the perpetrator and who is the real victim?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Expose (1997)
Plot Summary:
An enterprising Senator's daughter realizes she can make money by venturing into the seedy side of politics. With the help of two sexy friends, she sets up a thriving blackmail business videotaping her father's political colleages in compromising positions. When a sadistic lobbyist wants his share of the money... the action really heats up.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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The Giraffe (1998)
Plot Summary:
Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that reaches back into the dark German history of the 1940s.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Suicide Note (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ambitious psych major Molly White is on top of the world as she preps for her grad program entry exams. After celebrating with boyfriend Brady, Molly finds her roommate Emma crying after an incident she had with her boyfriend Adam. The next morning, Molly is shocked to learn that Emma jumped from the roof late that night, leaving a suicide note behind. Refusing to believe that Emma would do such a thing, Molly starts having haunting dreams over Emma’s death. Driven to uncover the truth about what happened to Emma, Molly begins to search for answers positioning herself in harm’s way.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Dance Or Die (1987)
Plot Summary:
Jason is trying to kick cocaine and choreograph a dance concert. Things go from bad from worse when The Turtle gets involved.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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The Sandman (1995)
Plot Summary:
The ambitious young Ina Littmann is an investigative journalist for the TV talk show "Eye in Eye". Her current subject is Henry Kupfer, who wrote a bestseller about a psychopathic killer after he was himself in prison for 8 years for manslaughter. As an entry for the show Ina plans to use a current series of brutal murders among prostitutes. When Ina meets Kupfer, she is despised and fascinated at the same time. Soon she's convinced that Kupfer not only writes about murders, but commits them himself. She smells a smash hit and prepares to prove him guilty on the show.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Angel Blade (2002)
Plot Summary:
An emotionally damaged cop investigating a spree of prostitute killings discovers that the dark side of Las Vegas is decidedly more grim than he ever suspected in director David Heavener's gruesome thriller. When a series of teenaged prostitutes fall to the blade of a murderous madman and authorities are left scratching their heads, Detective Bradley Cooper (Heavener) hits the streets in hopes of taking the killer down. Detective Cooper has problems of his own, though, and upon uncovering what he believes to be the truth behind the ruthless killings, he soon realizes just how deadly knowledge can be.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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The Coming of Sin (1978)
Plot Summary:
A superstitious, illiterate young gypsy servant girl comes to live with a solitary female artist at her country chateau. The girl has recurring nightmares of a naked man on horseback assaulting and abusing her. As the artist takes the girl under her wing, an sensuous relationship develops between them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, suspense, biting, poetic, bizarre, sexploitation film
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The Killer Next Door (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ronnie Schwann is a 20-something with a comfortable life in a guesthouse behind his mother's home. The two share cigarettes, drugs and too much TV. During the day he works at a halfway home for the mentally ill where he develops an attraction for one of the patients, Sarah. When Sarah wanders through the neighborhood one day, lost and scared, Ronnie Ronnie brings her into his bedroom and plans to seduce her. Things go horribly wrong and Ronnie finds himself forced to cover up his plan. This edgy indie thriller explores Ronnie's 24-hour experience of life, love, death and the strong probability of a very long prison term.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Who Killed Buddy Blue? (1995)
Plot Summary:
Detectives Munro and Sanders are assigned to investigate the murder of an adult film star named Buddy Blue. The hunk was actually killed during the shooting of an orgy scene.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Graphic Desires (2022)
Plot Summary:
When reclusive Franklin cheats on his partner with a mysterious girl he meets on a dating app, it becomes the start of a deadly obsession.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Distance (2006)
Plot Summary:
Daniel, a young boxer on the point of winning the title several times, is beaten yet again and commits a robbery that lands him in jail. Guillermo, a self-destructive policeman tormented by his latent homosexuality, blackmails Daniel into committing a murder behind bars. In exchange, Daniel gains his freedom and returns to the only thing he knows how to do: box. But this time the search for pain to relieve the guilt has made his conservative style more aggressive. He remembers the last conversation he had with the man he killed, when he talked about his wife, just another whore in the club he ran, and goes to meet her. Seeing danger in the relationship between the victim's murderer and his widow, Guillermo tries to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, neo noir, crime drama, serious, realistic, sexual
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Escort (2006)
Plot Summary:
An escort girl gets the opportunity to inherit 6 million euros from a wealthy old and sick man by marrying him. Unfortunately things don't always go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Detective and Death (1994)
Plot Summary:
Death never gives back what it takes. Only sometimes change one life for other.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain, Poland, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: detective
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Night Vision (2011)
Plot Summary:
A womanizing reality-TV producer (Spencer) unwittingly sleeps with a mysterious woman (Alison), who turns out to be his own stalker. Alison then kidnaps Spencer and holds him hostage while she humiliates and abuses him, recording every moment on camera for her own twisted reality-TV show.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Justice Unleashed (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a runaway teenager is kidnapped by sex traffickers, her mother, a newly appointed judge, has to find and rescue her before they ship her overseas and sell her into sex slavery.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Follow the Crows (2018)
Plot Summary:
Long after the end of the world people wander the fields and woods that once housed the cities of Britain, in search of food, warmth and anything that may help them survive. One of these survivors is The Man (Max Curtis), haunted by the terrible deeds he did in his youth, he isolates himself from human contact. However, when he finds a Woman (Daniella Faircloth) in need of his help he inadvertently begins a relationship that will teach them both what it is to be human again. Meanwhile, a crazed Killer (Marcus Starr) stalks his victims, picking them off one by one, in a desperate search for vengeance and closure. As he approaches the end of his list the Killer begins to consider what he will do when his task is complete and he has nothing left to live for. A post-apocalyptic thriller, with strong elements of horror and drama, "Follow The Crows" is an unsettling look at a world stripped of technology and society, of humanity and the people whom inhabit this bleak, uncompromising and.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, independent film
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Blackmail (1974)
Plot Summary:
A spoiled rich girl hatches a plot with her hippie friends to "kidnap" her so they can get a large ransom from her wealthy father.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, sexploitation film
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Psycho Game (2006)
Plot Summary:
Javier (Javier Martin) is Spanish and is married to Laura, who is Chilean (Maria Elena Swett). They have a six year old son, living in Chile and enjoy a prosperous economic position. The three are, at last, on vacation in Spain, because Laura seems to have overcome a problem of claustrophobia that prevented him from traveling. The family moved to a camp of Oliva, near the home of the parents of Javier. They meet Ignacio (Fabian Mazzei), a handsome young man, who happens to be a friendly and sociable neighbor. Ignacio is fond of spear fishing and frustrated vocation is music. Laura takes the time to prepare the thesis of Medicine that will have to read to return to Chile.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Thriller
Country: Chile, Spain
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Wrong Babysitter (2017)
Plot Summary:
A recent kidnapping has single mom Susan worried about leaving her daughter Christy at home for an out-of-town trip - until neighbor Teri offers to "babysit," looking in on Christy and spending the night. But Susan rushes home when Christy goes missing, under circumstances reminiscent of her police detective husband's death. Susan will have to open the past wound of her husband's death in order to rescue the only family she has left.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Cut Snake (2014)
Plot Summary:
Young, charismatic, and hardworking, Sparra Farrell seems to be sailing into a happy, respectable life. He has a solid job and an adorable fiancée named Paula, and already owns a modest house in the country outside Melbourne. The only odd thing is that Sparra says precious little about his past — but that past is about to catch up with him, and wrest control of his present.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, neo noir, realistic, captivating, psychological, erotic, psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, queer cinema
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Garbage (2018)
Plot Summary:
Taxi driver Phanishwar is living with a mysterious girl, Nanaam, who he keeps in chains. When a medical student, Rami, a victim of revenge porn leaked online by an ex-boyfriend, seeks refuge in Goa, she stumbles into the strange but placid lives of Phanishwar and Nanaam.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, controversial
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Killer Night Shift (2018)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant woman forced to bedrest, gets the additional help she needs from two home care nurses. Unbeknownst to her, one of them has a vendetta against her husband and is out to steal their baby!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense
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Stealing Candy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Three ex-cons kidnap a famous movie star and force her to film a sex tape live on the internet for a paying audience.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexploitation film
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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
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The Ignorance of Blood (2014)
Plot Summary:
Javier Falcón, Chief of the Sevilla Homicide Division, must solve two different cases in a short time. In the first case he is personally involved. An old friend of his infiltrated an Islamic terrorist cell and now the group is trying to recruit his young son for their cause. The same case hits even closer at home. A war is raging between two clans in the Russian Mafia. When an important mobster tries to defect, he gets killed in a car crash. On the scene, the police find an encrypted USB stick with highly explosive information. Then the son of Falcon’s girlfriend Consuelo is kidnapped. They are contacted by both Mafia clans claiming they have the kid and wanting to get their hands on the information. And both say they will kill him if Falcon doesn’t give them the stick.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic
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Oscura Seduccion (2010)
Plot Summary:
Laura is a successful plastic surgeon who feels her life is somewhat empty. She meets a young nurse and falls in love and experiences sexuality to a extent not known to her. However, In this spiral of desire and seduction both play a dangerous game where no one is who appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, sexy, tense, psychological, captivating, erotic, realistic, sexual
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Nightwatch (1994)
Plot Summary:
In order to finance his law studies, Martin starts as a night watchman in a mortuary. When the victims of a serial killer of prostitutes are deposited there, scary things begin to happen. Therefore and because of a strange bet with his fellow student Jens, the police begins to think he is the murderer. Police detective Wormer wants to help him but Martin is more and more suspected.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, psychological, disturbing, creepy, ironic, slasher, neo noir, psychological thriller
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
Plot Summary:
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspenseful, twist ending, psychological, sexy, suspense, rough, bleak, minimal cast, erotic
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Blind Heat (2001)
Plot Summary:
An industrialist's wife is kidnapped and held for ransom.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic
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Kidnapping Stella (2019)
Plot Summary:
Snatched off the street and held for ransom, a bound and gagged woman uses her limited powers to derail her two masked abductors' carefully laid plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, tense, disturbing, neo noir, crying, minimal cast, hood, dark