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Plot Summary:
A sleazy evangelist stirs up a town against a couple after the woman rejects his advances.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, bizarre, cult film
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Scream of the Butterfly (1965)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman marries a rich man for his money, then embarks on an affair and plans to use her boyfriend to help murder her husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Street Smart (1987)
Plot Summary:
A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, crime drama, crime thriller
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Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965)
Plot Summary:
After housewife Ellen is raped by the janitor she kills him and hits the road. She travels to the Big City where she is repeatedly used and abused. And when she finally finds a safe place to live her landlady's son turns out to be a detective, which threatens her newly found identity and peace of mind.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, slasher, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, surprise ending, psychotronic, sexy
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Fatal Pursuit (1995)
Plot Summary:
A rugged P.I. and a gorgeous insurance investigator search for diamonds stolen in a brutal robbery.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Deadly Hero (1975)
Plot Summary:
Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tendencies and trigger-happy behavior.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Bonnie's Kids (1972)
Plot Summary:
Sisters Myra and Ellie have finally had enough of their miserable, dead-end lives. When their stepfather Charley (the titular "Bonnie" being long dead) tried to rape Myra, Ellie ventilates him with a shotgun, and the pair run off to their wealthy uncle's mansion in El Paso. From that point on, the two undergo a transformation in their personalities, and start to enjoy living their lives on the wild side.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, neo noir, independent film
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Forbidden Games (1995)
Plot Summary:
Michael is a private investigator with special psychic powers allowing him to subconsciously see clues in a case. He is hired to investigate the death of the very wealthy Charles who has a very healthy sum of money going to his wife and daughter. Michael needs to unravel the clues to see if Charles died accidentally or was murdered. There are several characters who may benefit from his death as well as a mistress and a nude modelling agency.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sensual, independent film
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Prostitutes Protective Society (1966)
Plot Summary:
Madame Sue runs a successful Prostitute operation in the heart of NYC, and as it should happen, The Mob wants to get a piece of the action. Still, being the go ahead women they are, they decide to fight back and keep themselves independent of any outsider business influence.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Murder on the Border (2005)
Plot Summary:
Soon after he's assigned to defend an officer who shot a young Hispanic boy crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, attorney Eduardo Martinez learns that his own family is planning to enter the country illegally. But when his client offers to help the family using his corrupt connections in exchange for a guaranteed acquittal, the proposition traps Martinez in a paralyzing conflict of interest. Will he choose to obey the law or listen to his heart?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film
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The Naked Cage (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, sensual, cult classic, independent film, sexploitation film
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The Concrete Jungle (1982)
Plot Summary:
An unfortunate and naive girl is set-up by her boyfriend and convicted of drug smuggling. She is sent to a women's correctional facility where she must constantly struggle to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, soap opera, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film, cult film
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Girls for Rent (1974)
Plot Summary:
A team of girls go on a killing spree across the country.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, fast, independent film, sexploitation film
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Sweet Savior (1971)
Plot Summary:
Sandra Barlow is a 70's girl looking for kicks in the form of sex and drugs. One day, she decides to have an orgy drug party and invite some "freaks" led by Moon to entertain her and her rich friends. Moon has other things in mind as his friends are looking for an orgy of sex and gore.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Midnight Heat (2007)
Plot Summary:
A story of cops, hookers, killers, and pimps; all centered around one sleazy night in the late 1980's. A cocaine addicted homicide detective (Jake Norvell) is brought out of suspension in order to trail a local prostitute (Bianca Queen) who may become the next victim of The Scalper (Nick Foster), a serial killer who preys on the city's hookers. Meanwhile, her burnt out pimp (Brad Jones) attempts to get out of the business while finding it harder to protect his girls from both the killer and from an abusive rival pimp (Buford Stowers).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Savage Seven (1968)
Plot Summary:
Biker gang leader Kisum (Adam Roarke) loves waitress Marcia Little Hawk (Joanna Frank). Her brother Johnnie Little Hawk (Robert Walker, Jr.), the leader of a group of American Indians disapproves. At various times these two groups are adversaries and allies. The two groups join forces but crooked businessmen scheme to have them at each other's throats again. The theme song "Anyone for Tennis" is by Cream. The Iron Butterfly are heard playing their classic "Iron Butterfly Theme." Producer Dick Clark and director Richard Rush made "Psych-Out" earlier in the year.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas (1991)
Plot Summary:
From the "In the Line of Duty" made-for-television movie series, Manhunt in the Dakotas (also known as 'The Twilight Murders') is based on the true story of cop-killer/white supremacist Gordon Kahl.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Malibu High (1979)
Plot Summary:
When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug addiction and prostitution, and ultimately assassinations for a kingpin mob boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, sexy, cult film
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The Black Gestapo (1975)
Plot Summary:
General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's second-in-command Colonel Kojah asks for permission to start a protection squad to take more direct action. Ahmed fears this protection squad will just turn into a vigilante mob, and his prediction soon proves correct. Will Ahmed be able to wrest control back from the power-mad Kojah, or will he be the mob's next victim?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Vengeance (1980)
Plot Summary:
Four hoodlums break into a jeweller's house and brutally murder him, his wife and daughter. On the run they kidnap Jenny, a Senator's grand daughter and her boyfriend, but discover that the two will not be taken easily. In the melee that follows, the gang are blown away one by one, until the final vengeful confrontation between Jenny and the remaining gang member.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
Plot Summary:
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: controversial, grindhouse, rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, realistic, independent film, erotic
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Betrayed (1988)
Plot Summary:
An FBI agent (Debra Winger) falls in love with a white supremacist (Tom Berenger) whose group she infiltrates.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: political, neo noir, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, freeze frame, sentimental, light, sexy
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The Swinging Barmaids (1975)
Plot Summary:
A cop goes after a psycho who is killing cocktail waitresses.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Badge of Honor (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two Narcotics Detectives find themselves in an intense investigation lead by a determined Internal Affairs Detective after a child is wrongfully shot dead in a violent drug bust.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating
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Sketches of a Strangler (1978)
Plot Summary:
An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One victim's sister starts looking for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Black Mama White Mama (1973)
Plot Summary:
When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, realistic, rough, serious, psychotronic, psychological, slasher, cult classic, independent film, exciting
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Targets (1968)
Plot Summary:
A Vietnam veteran quietly plans to go on a mass shooting spree. At the same time, an elderly horror film star prepares to make a public appearance at a drive-in theater.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, scary, tense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir
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Rolling Thunder (1977)
Plot Summary:
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Aided by his loyal friend Johnny Vohden, Rane, now wielding a hook for a hand, sets out on his mission of vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, neo noir, bleak, stylized, harsh, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, road movie
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Anatomy of a Psycho (1961)
Plot Summary:
The crazed brother of a condemned killer sent to the gas chamber swears vengeance on those he holds responsible for his brother's execution.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, psychological, tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic
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Hells Angels on Wheels (1967)
Plot Summary:
At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang “Hell’s Angels” finally accepts him. But he’s shocked when he learns how brutal they are – not even murder is a taboo to them. He gets himself in trouble when the leader’s girlfriend falls in love with him – and he welcomes her approaches.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, sincere, atmospheric, feel good, humorous, serious, realistic, contemplative
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52 Pick-Up (1986)
Plot Summary:
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a video tape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, suspenseful, erotic, serious, realistic, tense, noir, sexy, clever