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Plot Summary:
Faye attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan, with an android simulant (SIM). Although SIM Evan appears like human Evan in every way, Faye does not feel the same love for SIM Evan as it does for her. SIM Evan tries to win Faye back while at the same time being on-the-run from a government agent chasing down SIMs who have become “conscious” and could potentially be a threat to humankind.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Red Headed Corpse (1972)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic artist, who may in fact have been driven to murder, seeks inspiration from a mannequin.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, Turkey
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: mind bending, offbeat, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, cult film
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Blank (2022)
Plot Summary:
A desperate writer signs up for a fully A.I. operated retreat to cure her writer's block, but when an unforeseen software glitch occurs, she gets trapped inside her unit with an unstable android and no communication with the outside world.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Scramble (2017)
Plot Summary:
When his girlfriend is kidnapped by an underground prostitution ring, a neighborhood loser clashes with a pimp, Asian gangsters, and renegade killers.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime
Country:
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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The Marker (2017)
Plot Summary:
Noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman's ghost.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, bleak, captivating, neo noir, noir, british noir
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Rage of the Innocents (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young warrior bands with a small group of rebels to wage a guerilla war in order to rescue his love and save his people from certain death.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film
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Dead Eye Dick (1970)
Plot Summary:
A private-eye is on the hunt.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Hungry for You (1996)
Plot Summary:
It's the year 2010, and half of all households receive virtual reality programming. However, someone has discovered how to use the VR receivers to murder men while being seduced into virtual sex with the seductive Viva. The FCC has contracted VR expert Rodney to track down the killer, placing himself on the killer's hit list.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Astral Factor (1978)
Plot Summary:
Demonstrating that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, a convicted strangler studies the paranormal and finds a way to render himself invisible. Once he escapes, he sets out to find and eliminate the five women who testified in his prosecution. A police lieutenant (Robert Foxworth) sets out to safeguard them, and bring the invisible killer to justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Expect to Die (1997)
Plot Summary:
The military has been testing a new Virtual Reality fighting simulator, but testing is abruptly canceled when a soldier loses his life during the action. Its creator, Dr. Vincent MacIntyre, goes underground to continue developing the device, until detective Justin Blake and his partner Stone break into the syndicate to stop them. However, they are too late, and the new simulator is even deadlier than the first!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Trinity (2003)
Plot Summary:
In a remote arctic research station, government agents Brach and Schiller discover the mysterious genetic scientist Dr. Clerval. A psychological chess game ensues. What links Schiller to Clerval's genetics program? What secrets does Brach harbour? And is Clerval really who he says he is?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Robe of Gems (2022)
Plot Summary:
Isabel and her family take possession of her mother’s villa in rural Mexico where they reconnect with their long-time domestic worker Maria. But things have never been the same since Isabel’s mother left. Once so well looked after, the house is now bare and neglected. Isabel and her husband are growing apart, and their children are increasingly worried about them. Maria’s sister’s disappearance has left her family in distress and forced her to engage in criminal activities with Adan, the son of a local policeman. Isabel decides to go on a dangerous quest, neglecting her own children, as well as her housekeeper’s warning that she does not understand how things work in Mexico’s poorer regions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico, Argentina, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: weird
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Verso (2009)
Plot Summary:
Alex appartient à une unité d’élite de la police de Genève. Lorsque Victor, son ancien coéquipier, sort de prison, Alex est rattrapé par son passé. Il a témoigné contre Victor, et craint des représailles. L’ex-flic est engagé comme homme de main d’un puissant chef mafieux. Alex décide de le suivre, sans en référer à ses supérieurs, et entame une longue descente aux enfers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Android Re-Enactment (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ermus Daglek, retired Empathtek engineer, commandeers a defunct factory where he creates androids based on persons from his past and recreates a dinner party where he lost the love of his life - until they malfunction and escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Club V.R. (1996)
Plot Summary:
Apparently, the charming lover, Tam, died during his last virtual reality session at club V.R. The coroner believes he died of heart failure, but detective Drew (Kate Rodger) does not agree. To prove he was murdered, she wears the VR electro-suit and plugs into his virtual reality floppy disks. Upon hearing and watching him, she becomes part of his sessions and he begins to talk to her about his death - and other things.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Big Hurt (1986)
Plot Summary:
A reporter looking into the death of a research scientist finds more deaths connected to the man, including some dubious "suicides". He discovers that the scientist may have been killed to cover up a secret government plot concerning mind-control drugs that have been tested on unknowing civilians, and he becomes involved with the scientist's daughter, who is trying to clear her father's name.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Confidential Informant (2023)
Plot Summary:
During a crack epidemic two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer. Hoping for leads, Moran and Thorton pay off a junkie informant. To provide for his wife and son, Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme. This causes the partners to come under the scrutiny of a suspicious internal affairs agent.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: detective
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Not for Children (2015)
Plot Summary:
"When a senior pathogen scientist (Linnell) working for the CIA goes missing while visiting a colleague in Munich - alarm bells sound across much of Europe. Violence spreads out across the Middle East as the Arab Spring uprising takes hold. M.I.6 agent Frank Reilly (Capstick) is sent to recover British rendition documents from Gaddafi's secret service vault in Libya. With central American drug cartels under pressure from Mexican drug gangs a new trade in African blood diamonds offers them easy cash and new regional control. These stolen African diamonds are the prefect replacement currency to funds terror attacks across Europe and to circumvent the American bank blockade forcing them back to oil credits.A GOD box is stolen from a Russian pathogen lab creating panic within the FSB as fear mounts a terrorist network has obtained the highly contagious H7N7C virus".
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration:
Plot tags:
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BrainWaves (1982)
Plot Summary:
After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her: to regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with neural patterns of a woman who just died. It works, and Kaylie seems to be OK again. However in her dreams, she lives the last day of her savor - and realizes that she's been killed! Together with her husband she tries to find out what happened.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Sniper (1977)
Plot Summary:
Lucas is a widower who works as a clockmaker. He has a daughter who lives in a village in northern Spain. One day his daughter go to school as each morning and he opens his shop. Aafter, a neighbor comes running to tell him that his daughter just died as an unfortunate victim of a terrorist attack that has been perpetrated against the car of a minister on official visit. Shattered, Lucas thinks that this is due to serious political tension that is living that part of the country, making a terrible emotionally unbalanced resolution: life threatening to the Head of State.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Young Nurses (1973)
Plot Summary:
Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Prototype (2022)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, life-like androids with artificial intelligence have been created to help people with menial household tasks. The prototype, One, created by Roger Marshall and tested by his family, proves to be popular but flawed. Roger has been working on a new model, Two, whose improved features show promise of its super-human abilities. As tensions rise between Roger and wife Shelley, the androids malfunction and the lives of the whole family are soon in danger of Two's sinister plans.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Overdose (2022)
Plot Summary:
Captain Sara Bellaiche, from Toulouse Judiciary Police branch, is investigating a go-fast linked to the murder of two teenagers, an investigation led by Richard Cross, from the Paris Criminal Brigade. Forced to collaborate in order to find the murderer and stop the bloody go-fast, Sara and Richard are both thrown in a breathless race against the clock on the roads of Spain and France.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags:
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Hot Target (1985)
Plot Summary:
Wife of successful NZ businessman is seduced by fellow American after "chance" meeting in park. However, Greg has more than love-making with the beautiful Christine in mind.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, erotic, independent film, cult film
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Kuwait Connection (1973)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious journalist has been transformed into an assassin by the years of war, suffering and destruction he has witnessed around the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Slave Huntress (2007)
Plot Summary:
Traced and sold - that's the future for beautiful women who are prey to Huntress slaves.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, touching, captivating, suspense, erotic, sexy
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Sweet Sexual Awakening (1978)
Plot Summary:
Paul Dellis, a young self-made shipowner, has no time for anything other than high class call girls in a luxurious resort. The girl suppliers are a photographer and owner of a model agency, Werner, and his girlfriend Samantha. A rich woman, Tina, who spends her time at the same resort, fascinated by Paul arranges to visit him taking the place of Samantha. When Samantha is found dead, Tina disappears and all suspicions fall on Paul.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy
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Mind and Machine (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the near future where humanoid robots are common in society, the mob reprograms a female android to think and feel in order to use it as a contract killer. This has dangerous consequences as she develops a relationship with her creator while also slowly becoming a murderous psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: captivating, cyber, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around a man trying to uncover the mysterious death of his girlfriend and save an innocent man from the death chamber in the process, by using his unique power to time travel. However in attempting to do this, he also frees a spiteful serial-killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mind bending, suspense, mindfuck, intense, psychological thriller, talky, dark, slasher, unpredictable, surprise ending
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iBoy (2017)
Plot Summary:
After an accident, Tom wakes from a coma to discover that fragments of his smart phone have been embedded in his head, and worse, that returning to normal teenage life is impossible because he has developed a strange set of super powers.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bleak, exciting, suspenseful, visual, romantic, intellectual, suspense, scenic, perverse
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Code 8 (2019)
Plot Summary:
In Lincoln City, some inhabitants have extraordinary abilities. Most live below the poverty line, under the close surveillance of a heavily militarized police force. Connor, a construction worker with powers, involves with a criminal gang to help his ailing mother. (Based on the short film “Code 8,” 2016.).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, futuristic, tense, enigmatic, philosophical, political, entertaining, surreal, apocalyptic, smart