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Plot Summary:
Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, sexual, suspense, southern gothic, erotic, retro, tense
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Truth (2013)
Plot Summary:
A suspenseful, psychological thriller, "Truth" exposes the hidden demons buried deep inside each and every one of us. After a chance encounter over the Internet, Caleb (Sean Paul Lockhart, "Milk", "Judas Kiss", "Chillerama") meets and falls head over heels for Jeremy (Rob Moretti, "Crutch", "An Affirmative Act", "Snapshot"), and soon the line between love and lies blur. Struggling to keep his past a secret, including his mentally ill mother, Caleb slowly succumbs to his darker side. A sudden turn of events finds Jeremy held captive, until Caleb's quest for the truth be revealed. The film also stars Emmy Winner® Blanche Baker, ("16 Candles", "Raw Deal", "Taking Chances").
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, erotic, rough, sexy, realistic, independent film, sexual, surprise ending
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Winter Sleepers (1997)
Plot Summary:
Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, after being in coma for a time, dies. Rene suffers from partial short term memory loss and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who stole his car and Theo - for the man who killed his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexual, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, crying, erotic, road movie, sexy
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The Dying Gaul (2005)
Plot Summary:
A powerful and seductive Hollywood mogul convinces an impoverished West Hollywood writer, whose lover has recently died of AIDS, to sell his autobiographical screenplay for big bucks. The writer, Robert, knows he'll have to make major changes in the script (like changing the sex of the dying lover). During the rewrite, the producer, Jeffrey, takes Robert under his wing, introducing him to his wife Elaine, herself a closet screenwriter. Jeffrey approaches Robert for sex and Elaine approaches Robert out of curiosity about his sex life in grief. The entangled triangle of relationships threatens more than the completion of a film script. Written by.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, melancholic, clever, talky, emotional, absurd, independent film, serious, realistic, cynical
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Boxing Helena (1993)
Plot Summary:
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but an horrific accident leaves her at his mercy. The plot is bizarre and perhaps sick at times, ending abruptly and with a twist.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological, surreal, surprise ending, offbeat, bleak, sexy, mindfuck
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Say Nothing (2001)
Plot Summary:
Housewife Grace Needham (Nastassja Kinski) has a one-night stand with Julian Grant (William Baldwin), who then becomes obsessed with sinking her marriage to husband Matt (Hart Bochner). The twist here is that Julian is a millionaire global powerbroker, and Matt works for him! It's a titanic battle of testosterone as the guys duke it out while Grace simmers angrily.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, tense, realistic, sexual
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Frisk (1995)
Plot Summary:
A first person narrative of a gay serial killer explores violence, sexuality, and imagination.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, independent film, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, black comedy
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Attraction (2000)
Plot Summary:
A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, independent film, sexual, intense, serious, realistic, gloomy, erotic
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Sex and Consequences (2006)
Plot Summary:
When 18-year-old Sam begins a no-strings-attached summer fling with uninhibited older woman Mary, it seems like the perfect relationship. But after Mary begins using him to make her uptight police officer husband John jealous, he becomes an unwilling pawn in a dangerous emotional game. Can Sam avoid John's wrath, or will he pay the ultimate price for giving in to his carnal desires?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, sexy, suspenseful, serious, realistic, sexual, independent film
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Zandalee (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative and egotistical Johhny and becomes enmeshed in a sensual, passionate and destructive affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, suspense, suspenseful, retro, neo noir, controversial
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Bliss (1997)
Plot Summary:
Joseph and Maria are married for six months and Maria still has never had an orgasm with her husband. They begin to visit mysterious doctor Baltazar who teaches them how to reach ecstasy in sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, talky, sexy, sensual, serious, realistic, neurotic, spiritual, emotional
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Masquerade (1988)
Plot Summary:
A recently orphaned millionairess, Olivia, really hates her scheming step-father. Olivia finds love with a young yacht racing captain, Tim, who isn't completely truthful with her. When the two run into a problem the local cop, who happens to be an old friend of Olivia's, seems to be turning a blind eye to incriminating evidence.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, erotic, suspenseful, romantic, psychological, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, noir
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Addicted (2014)
Plot Summary:
A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, serious, realistic, erotic, sexual, captivating, romantic, spiritual, dark
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Sliver (1993)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, sensual, psychosexual thriller, serious, exciting, anamorphic
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Five Times Two (2004)
Plot Summary:
As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles is elsewhere; Gilles and Marion's joyous wedding; and, finally, the fateful moment when they meet as acquaintances at an Italian beach resort, and their love affair begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, enigmatic, non-linear, sensual, stylized, sincere, inspirational, disturbing, tense
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The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
Plot Summary:
Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala. Confronting Victor, Charles tries to adopt an air of indifference, but the conversation ends with the husband bludgeoning the author to death and then calmly disposing of the evidence. When Hélène is questioned about Victor's murder, she discovers on her own that her husband is guilty. Instead of turning him in, Hélène is so thrilled that Charles cares so deeply about her that she is more in love with him than ever before.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, cynical, neo noir, psychological thriller, anthology, cute, twisted
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A Single Man (2009)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day in the life of George Falconer, a British college professor reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will to live as he seeks the console of close friend Charley who is struggling with her own questions about life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 117000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sincere, heartbreaking, emotional, visually appealing, enigmatic, philosophical, sexy, depressing
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Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry to claim her inheritance and sets her sights on Rochester, an Englishman eerily similar to Mason.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, gothic horror, costume drama, sensual, atmospheric, serious, realistic
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One night, a new neighbor catches Diane's eye, and the enigmatic man inspires her to set forth on the path to discovering her own artistry.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, enigmatic, surreal, intense, sexy, serious, romantic, intellectual, stylized, disturbing
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Color of Night (1994)
Plot Summary:
When New York psychiatrist Bill Capa visits Los Angeles to take over his murdered colleague's therapy group, he finds himself embroiled in the thick of a mystery when he bumps into Rose and begins a torrid affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, sexual, sensual, serious, psychosexual thriller
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Asylum (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, erotic, sexy, psychological thriller, dramatic, period piece
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Crimes of Passion (1984)
Plot Summary:
Joanna Crane lives a double life. During the day she works as fashion designer but during the night she is the high class prostitute China Blue. As she is accused for industrial spying, Bobby Grady is hired to shadow her. However, they fall in love. Meanwhile a psychopathic preacher starts stalking her.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, sensual, erotic, disturbing, tense, cult classic, psychosexual thriller, dark comedy, entertaining
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Bitter Moon (1992)
Plot Summary:
An embittered husband, paralyzed and in a wheelchair, buttonholes a complete stranger and begins to tell him the story of his marriage. The stranger would like to escape, but cannot. For one thing he grows fascinated by the story. For another he is mesmerized by the man's wife, who has perfected that trick of looking a man boldly in the eye until, by looking away, he concedes sexual supremacy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, psychological, sexual, breathtaking, clever, controversial, art house, sensual, suspense
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Two Moon Junction (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, melancholic, emotional, psychological, steamy, erotic drama, eros
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Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middle-aged American businessman who lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, sexy, art house, controversial, dark, surreal, cynical, psychological, atmospheric
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One Hour Photo (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sy "the photo guy" Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he's part of their family. When "Uncle" Sy's picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next "has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological thrillers!".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 130000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, intense, creepy, contemplative
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Fatal Attraction (1987)
Plot Summary:
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sexy, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sensual, erotic, psychological, tense, neo noir
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)
Plot Summary:
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, meditative, surreal, sincere, touching, crying, sad, eros, cute
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Original Sin (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, France, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, erotic, suspense, atmospheric, sensual, period piece, psychosexual thriller, suspenseful, exciting
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Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Plot Summary:
When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, finds himself strangely drawn to Ana, and she to him. Though sexually inexperienced, Ana plunges headlong into an affair -- and learns that Christian's true sexual proclivities push the boundaries of pain and pleasure.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 332000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, teen, psychological, controversial, sensual, realistic, disturbing
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Unfaithful (2002)
Plot Summary:
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, suspenseful, sensual, gloomy, psychological, suspense, psychosexual thriller