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Plot Summary:
Ray Ponti is a down and out father, a man trapped by his past and frightened of his future. Cly is a streetwise runaway, waiting tables by day and stripping by night. Both are fighting for existence in the slime-bowl of New York's gutters, where drugs and prostitution are the only currency. Ray is in over the top with the Mafia and Cly is emotionally destroyed by the absence of her father. Severence is a gripping story set against the seedy backdrop of New York City, where broken dreams and empty promises litter the streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Gypsy Angels (1990)
Plot Summary:
Vanna White is a stripper who falls for a stunt pilot who develops amnesia after a crash.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Her Sister's Keeper (2006)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Clean (2004)
Plot Summary:
A limo driver attempts to outrun his bad habits.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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An Acceptable Loss (2018)
Plot Summary:
Former top U.S. security adviser Elizabeth "Libby" Lamm is threatened by associates from her dark past including Rachel Burke a steely, commanding politician with an unwavering knack for achieving her goals. Colluding with Rachel is Adrian, an unyielding, patriotic chief of staff. Martin harbors another type of obsession with Libby in this story of betrayal and regret.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, tense, suspense, psychological, political, action adventure
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Deadly Dancer (1990)
Plot Summary:
A police detective, investigating a string of murders of strippers at a Los Angeles night club, must race against the clock to clear his name when he's wrongfully accused of being the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Twenty Dollar Star (1990)
Plot Summary:
A successful Hollywood actress by day prowls the streets at night as a sex worker.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Street Girls (1975)
Plot Summary:
When a middle-aged father searches for his dropout daughter, Angel, his quest takes him into the underworld of prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts and thieves. Angel has become a dancer in a topless bar, and her dealer boyfriend is turning her on to heroin.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Midnight Tease II (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jennifer Brennan gets a job at a strip club to try and find out who killed her sister. She works with undercover cop John Donnelly and befriends other strippers some of whom also get murdered by a very unhappy murdering murderer.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Final Judgement (1992)
Plot Summary:
A priest is suspected in the brutal murder of a young stripper. To prove his innocence, he descends into the world of strip clubs and pornography, hoping to catch the killer. The priest is hampered by the police and taunted by the killer. A friend of the stripper tries to help him before another life is claimed.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Exit (1996)
Plot Summary:
An attempted burglary of a strip club goes awry when one of the three burglars kills a man who draws a gun. This results in the trio taking the dancers and the customers hostage. Why the robbers don't go ahead and escape when the shooting occurs is beyond the viewer. Then all the hostages escape and hide in the club's refrigerator which sort of indicates the intelligence of the stick-up men. Unfortunately, the cops outside are no more intelligent as they stand around outside wondering what to do as one of the strippers who was released crawls back into an extremely large venting system for a small club and rescues the hostages with the help of an ex-cop held inside the club.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Stonebrook (1999)
Plot Summary:
Seth Green and Brad Rowe star in this drama as a pair of college students who come up with a plan to cheat an underworld syndicate at their own game. However, their ambition outstrips their street smarts, and they soon find themselves on the wrong end of their own con game.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Separate Ways (2001)
Plot Summary:
A high-school crush some twenty years later, snowballs into stalking psychosis.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Shattered Illusions (1998)
Plot Summary:
A Psycho stalks a talk radio personality and her mentally challenged sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Madonna: A Case of Blood Ambition (1990)
Plot Summary:
A man is convicted of raping and murdering a child and sent to prison. He is shortly afterwards beaten to death by other inmates. His daughter blames the jurors who convicted him for his death, and she hatches a scheme to murder each of the jury members, often seducing them herself first.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Naked Obsession (1990)
Plot Summary:
City-council member Franklin Carlyle is mugged, knocked down and left on an alley. When he recovers, he is befriended by an alcoholic who introduces him to a local strip-bar.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, erotic, independent film, sexual, sexy, cult film
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Road to Paloma (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a brutal injustice occurs on a Native American reservation, a son must find redemption for the actions of his past. Road to Paloma is the beautiful journey of two bikers traveling across America's vast west. While Native American Wolf (Jason Momoa) is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with Cash (Robert Mollohan), a down and out musician who is coping with the end of his marriage. An unlikely friendship develops, as they ride together towards the Teton mountain range, where Wolf will spread his mothers ashes.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, serious, realistic, retro, independent film
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Allegiance (2012)
Plot Summary:
After being granted a questionable transfer that will keep him stateside as his National Guard unit deploys for Iraq, Lieutenant Danny Sefton becomes embroiled in a last minute AWOL attempt by one of his soldiers — forcing him to choose between his loyalties to the fleeing soldier, his unit and his fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Deadly Pursuits (1996)
Plot Summary:
A former stripper befriends a young man looking for his father, all the while trying to avoid a hitman for the mob, to whom she is deeply in debt.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Runaway (2005)
Plot Summary:
Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a quiet, rural town, Michael's convinced he can make a better life for both of them. While Dylan stays holed up in a cheap motel all day, Michael works at a convenience store where everything starts to come together for him. But as Michael falls in love with his beautiful co-worker, Carly, his past begin.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Cash Only (2015)
Plot Summary:
Elvis Martini is in deep shit. His dilapidated Detroit apartment building is about to be foreclosed on by the bank; most of his tenants are behind on rent; he's in big debt to bookies and his daughter's school. He finds some ill-gotten cash in an evicted tenant's apartment and it briefly keeps the wolves at bay, but it brings out a bigger wolf, one that wants his stolen money back. When his daughter is kidnapped by the mysterious menace he's accidentally messed with, Elvis has 24 hours to come up with $25K - cash only.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Albania, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, suspense, harsh, neo noir, hood, twisted
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Malum (2023)
Plot Summary:
A rookie police officer willingly takes the last shift at a newly decommissioned police station in an attempt to uncover the mysterious connection between her father's death and a vicious cult.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Last Word (1995)
Plot Summary:
A journalist with solid mob connections falls for a stripper with a dark past.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Hostile Border (2015)
Plot Summary:
When she’s deported to México, Claudia must choose between reconciling with her estranged father or partnering with a dangerous smuggler to return to the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Stand at Paxton County (2020)
Plot Summary:
A military veteran comes home to find her father harassed by a sheriff intent on confiscating the livestock on their ranch under shady pretenses.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Eyes of an Angel (1991)
Plot Summary:
John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses a wounded Doberman used for fighting, back to health. Duped by underworld types he was working as a courier for, father and daughter leave the dog and flee cross-country to Los Angeles with both canine and mobsters in pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, tension, independent film, suspense
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Negative (2017)
Plot Summary:
Negative is set in the American southwest and follows Natalie, a former British spy who flees Los Angeles for Phoenix after a deal with a cartel goes wrong. She's joined by Hollis, a street photographer who has put his life at risk by taking Natalie's photo at the wrong time and in the wrong place.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, tense
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In Quiet Night (1998)
Plot Summary:
A thriller about a man, Dr Wolcott, who is wrongfully acquitted of charges that he molested his daughter, Dinah. The deputy district attorney, Joey, takes Dinah with her seeking refuge from Dr. Wolcott's molestation.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Good Chemistry (2008)
Plot Summary:
After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his nightmare only worsens.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Nuts (1987)
Plot Summary:
A high-class call girl kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. Not helping matters is that she is very distrustful of everybody, including her court-appointed attorney, and is very disruptive during her court hearings.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, hilarious, psychological thriller, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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Freak Out (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1977, teenager Wayne (Nick Foster) gathers his two friends, female runaway Rhonda (Sarah Ogg) and disco club hopper Tim (David Gobble), for a drug party located in the suburban home of quiet recluse Dean (Brad Jones). But unknown to Tim and Rhonda are the horrible secrets which lie in Dean's basement storage room. Dean is the uncaptured child murderer who uses his basement as a torture dungeon with the help of Wayne and fellow teenager David (Buford Stowers). When the drugs and alcohol mix get higher throughout the night, not even so called friends are safe from the sadistic bloodlust of Dean. Inspired by the true story of notorious serial murderer Dean Corll.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: independent film