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Plot Summary:
After falling victim to a burglar, Nelson, a wealthy businessman, takes a trip to the desert with his wife Margo and lawyer/friend Jack. The trip takes an unexpected turn when Jack helps Nelson over a cliff. Jack and Margo return to the site with the sheriff only to discover Nelson's body is missing, indicating he is still alive. As Nelson struggles to survive against madness and the elements, two separate searches for him are conducted--one by an increasingly suspicious sheriff and the other by the treacherous Margo and Jack.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Killer Image (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Max Oliver learns his photographer brother has been killed, he suspects it was no random murder. And when he finds his brothers' last photos of a powerful senator and a prostitute, Max gets a clear picture of a deadly political cover-up. Seeking to expose his brother's killer, Max enters a murderous game of cat and mouse, stalked by a cold-blooded assassin who has Max dead in his sights.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Baby Doll Murders (1993)
Plot Summary:
A Los Angeles cop tracks a serial killer who leaves a broken baby doll at the site of each grisly crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Sexual Outlaws (1994)
Plot Summary:
Behind their conservative middle-class exterior, a young couple runs a highly successful sex fantasy magazine. Ironically, to spice up their marriage, the wife responds to a fantasy ad submitted to a magazine, but her new penpal is the prime suspect in a brutal murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, erotic, sexploitation film, cult film
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Trapped (1994)
Plot Summary:
A former porn star marries a wealthy criminal defense attorney who enjoys masochistic sex. When the two tire of each other, the husband becomes attracted to his wife's best friend and decides to murder his wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Uncaged (1991)
Plot Summary:
Miki and her younger brother Robby flee their destructive home and find themselves in the towering metropolis, Los Angeles. There, they meet Sharkey, a pimp. Miki becomes infatuated with Sharkey and starts to work for him. Miki finds herself trapped in Sharkey's dominating world and must find a way to escape the nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Guarded Secrets (1997)
Plot Summary:
A lifeguard gets in over his head when he meets a mobster and his beautiful wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Intimate Nights (1998)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Irresistible Impulse (1996)
Plot Summary:
A desperate salesman reluctantly teams up with a beautiful femme fatale to close a big sale. After a hot love affair, she is murdered and her personal assistant blackmails the salesman into a major financial scam, and he falls deeper and deeper into her trap. A steamy hot erotic thriller starring Brandy Sanders and Kathy Shower.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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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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Strike A Pose (1993)
Plot Summary:
A famous fashion photographer and her lover, ace detective Nick Carter, team up to bring the vengeful killer of prominent fashion models to justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Stripteaser II (1997)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - While searching for his kid sister Lisa, who disappeared into the seamy world of Los Angeles strip clubs, streetwise cabbie Rick (Rick Jordan) meets Angie (Stacey Leigh Mobley), a woman forced to dance to pay off the debts her father incurred while gambling. Rick's search for his sister becomes more desperate as he finds out more about the dark world of power and intrigue hidden beneath the city's neon lights. - Rick Jordan, Holly Hollywood, Matt Preston.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic
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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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Body Shot (1994)
Plot Summary:
Paparazzi photographer Mickey Dane is obsessed with elusive pop singer Chelsea, and his attempts to capture her on film often land him in trouble.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Deadly Secret (1994)
Plot Summary:
A real estate tycoon suddenly finds himself the victim of a blackmailer, who knows about his participation in the murder of a girl when he was a college student.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Double Threat (1992)
Plot Summary:
A former movie star, Monica Scott, returns to the big screen along with younger boyfriend, Eric Cline, after a long absence. Monica is very jealous of the attention Eric gives to her body double - Lisa. The plot becomes difficult to follow as it changes between real life and the movie they are making. The jealousy inevitably leads to murder attempts and denials.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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Killer Instinct (1991)
Plot Summary:
An up and coming lawyer gets turned over for a case he'd been working on for a long while. The D.A.'s niece then decides to help the young lawyer by first blackmailing, then eventually plotting the murder of the D.A., all the while seducing the young attorney. It then becomes the attorney job to cover up the murder he believes he committed, while finding out the truth about the D.A.'s "niece".
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Other Man (1994)
Plot Summary:
Unsatisfied by her boring marriage, Christine begins an affair with a seductive, mysterious stranger named Quinn. But they get carried away with their passion, when lust becomes obsession ... and murder. It seems someone wants to frame Christine who could it be?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Ex Next Door (2019)
Plot Summary:
Katie Gatewood's love for her husband Dan is put to the test when Dan's obsessed ex-girlfriend Louisa moves into the house next door, intending to drive the happy couple apart by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Killing Obsession (1994)
Plot Summary:
Albert (John Savage) is a psychopath who, after brutally murdering a woman, becomes obsessed with her 11-year-old daughter Annie. Twenty-one years after being sent to prison for his crimes, Albert is freed over the strenuous objections of Dr. Sachs (John Saxon), the psychiatrist who has been overseeing Albert's case all these years. Sachs is convinced that Albert is still a very real threat to the community, and it turns out that he's right; desperate to find Annie, but not knowing what surname she uses today, Albert begins contacting every Annie he can find in the phone book, leaving a bloody trail of murdered women in his path when they turn out not to be the little girl he's looking for.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Deadlock: A Passion for Murder (1997)
Plot Summary:
In this erotic thriller, a detective looks into the murder of a pornography magnate.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, detective
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Deep Down (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young musician with a talent for all things electrical spies on his sexy neighbor with a penchant for skinny dipping in the pool in broad daylight and her obviously violent husband. He is so violent that in the opening sequence he murders a man for talking with his mouth full of food. As the soft-core sex film advances, she gets involved sexually with the much younger man, all the while luring him into a trap involving the murder of her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Compelling Evidence (1995)
Plot Summary:
Rick Stone is the world's biggest action star but unfortunately, he is also the prime suspect in his wife's death. He must enlist the help of a conniving tabloid reporter named Dana Fields and the trust of his mistress Stephanie to try and clear his name.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film
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High Heel Homicide (2017)
Plot Summary:
As a string of brutal murders plague the city, two undercover detectives (Brent Harvey and Mia Li) race to solve the mystery and unmask the killer. Their only clues: each victim is a former cop and each has a blood-red letter painted on their body. How many will have to die before the killer spells out their message in blood?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, sexy, erotic, hot
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Indiscreet (1998)
Plot Summary:
A case involving adultery, money and murder threatens a private eye's sobriety.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective
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In the Heat of Passion (1992)
Plot Summary:
A struggling actor lands the part of a rapist in a TV reenactment for a "Crimebusters" segment. He soon meets a beautiful rich woman whom he begins an affair with, even though she is married. Her husband soon finds out and is accidently killed. The two lovers cover up the crime, but the actor begins to wonder if there's more going on than he knows.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, cult film
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Bedroom Eyes II (1989)
Plot Summary:
This sequel to 1986's Bedroom Eyes is the mixture as before, with Wings Hauser replacing the first film's star Kenneth Gilman. Once again, stockbroker Hauser begins succumbing to his chronic voyeurism. And also once again, his obsession gets him mixed up in a murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, surprise ending, independent film
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Bitter Vengeance (1994)
Plot Summary:
Annie marries Jack Westford, a cop when they met. Six years later Jack is now working as a security guard in a bank and feels that he was unfairly fired from the force. He also appears to be no longer interested in Annie and has an affair with another bank employee. Among his duties is delivering old money for disposal. He comes up with a plan to steal the money and run away. Part of his plan is to fake his death and frame Annie. While the police suspect that she killed Jack and knows where the money is, there's also an insurance investigator on her back.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Professional Affair (1995)
Plot Summary:
A drug lord hires a private investigator to track down the culprit who killed his henchman and took a briefcase full of money. One of the suspects is Heather Finch, a madam who seduces the detective and suggests that he swindles the drug lord.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective, neo noir, independent film
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Body of Influence (1993)
Plot Summary:
A successful psychiatrist has his world turned upside-down by the appearance of a mystery woman who cannot recall her own past.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychosexual thriller, sexual, erotic, independent film, sexy, sexploitation film, cult film
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Judicial Consent (1995)
Plot Summary:
Judge Gwen Warwick becomes involved in the murder trial she has been assigned. Her marriage is on the rocks and the murder victim is an old friend, who rumour has it, had an affair with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film