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Plot Summary:
Based on a famous play, follows a bedridden wife who overhears a murder plan on her phone. She tries to piece the puzzle together and prevent it.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, eighties
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The Feminine Touch (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jenny Baron (Paige Turco) is a beautiful investigative reporter swept into a deadly conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the government. When she is assigned to get the story of charismatic Presidential candidate Senator Ashton (George Segal), her job is complicated by a string of political assassinations and attempts. After her lover (Dirk Benedict) is killed, things get personal. Jenny finds herself in possession of a computer disk that holds a list of powerful politicians marked for elimination, and the key to the massive web of death and deceit —— and now she's next on the list of targets! Pursued by hitmen and hunted by police, if she survives, she may discover a truth she's not prepared to accept.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Brainstorm (1965)
Plot Summary:
Brainstorm, released in 1965, is a late film noir whose male protagonist at first prevents the suicide of his employer's wife, falls in love with her, and is later driven to crime and insanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, retro, tech noir, scary, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Catacombe (2018)
Plot Summary:
Pro soccer player Jermaine Slagter is entering his last days at his club. Outside of the field his life is falling apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Nightmare Wedding (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sandy's past transgression, with her fiance's best friend Roman, comes back to haunt her when he becomes their best man. Roman is mentally unbalanced and determined to make Sandy his own bride.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Horseplayer (1990)
Plot Summary:
A blonde (Sammi Davis) seduces a quirky liquor-store worker (Brad Dourif) as inspiration for her artist boyfriend (M.K. Harris).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Blind Man's Bluff (1992)
Plot Summary:
A blind professor is accused by the police of killing his neighbor and must clear his name by finding the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Beneficiary (1997)
Plot Summary:
Lust, desire and money motivate a greedy woman to murder her philandering rich husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: detective
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American Dreamer (2018)
Plot Summary:
A down on his luck driver making extra cash chauffeuring a low level drug dealer around town, finds himself in a serious financial bind and decides to kidnap the dealer's child.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, dark, non-linear, neo noir, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Tender Loving Care (1973)
Plot Summary:
Teenage nurses give love therapy. Lots of action when they try to straighten out the corrupt hospital staff.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Midnighters (2017)
Plot Summary:
Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, mumblecore, cult classic, gothic
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Suture (1993)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Vincent (rich) and Clay (poor) meet up for the first time after their father's funeral and remark on how similar they look. But unknown to Clay, who thinks his life is taking a turn for the better, Vince is actually plotting to kill him with a car bomb and pass the corpse off as his own, planning to start a new life elsewhere with his father's inheritance. But Clay survives the blast and has his face, memory and identity restored in hospital... but are they the right ones?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black and white, neo noir, independent film, surreal, psychological, stylized, mindfuck, tense, mind bending, serious
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Call Me (1988)
Plot Summary:
A journalist receives an obscene phonecall that she mistakes for her boyfriend. She then agrees to meet with the caller at a bar, but instead of meeting the boyfriend, she witnesses a murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, surprise ending, erotic, sexy
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She's No Angel (2002)
Plot Summary:
A drama and thriller story of a young woman who has suffered great abuse as a girl and who finds happiness when in a car accident, by mistake, she finds refuge in a false personality. She allows a pair of grieving parents to believe she is their late son's wife. But happiness is not so easy, since the past always comes out and Catherine will have to act to protect the family who has given so much affection.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Trois 3: The Escort (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a hip-hop promoter is bailed out of a hefty debt by a club owner, he becomes one of her call boys and nearly loses his life in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, stylized, erotic, sexual, surprise ending, twist ending
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Too Good to Be True (1988)
Plot Summary:
A self-entitled woman is determined to keep her new man to herself at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Motives 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Vivica A. Fox and Shemar Moore return for this thrilling sequel to Motives that picks up three years after the events of the original film. Innocent convict Emery Simms is serving time for a crime he didn't commit; while most convict's claims of innocence are shoddy at best, Emery has every reason to protest his wrongful incarceration. Meanwhile, in the outside world, Emery's ex-wife (Fox) has married his best friend and the pair is struggling to build a normal life together. When Emery is killed in prison and his brother Donovan (Brian J. White) discovers the truth about what killed his ill-fated sibling, his quest to cut through the complex web of lies and deceit which previously ensnared Emery threatens to bring about deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Art of Revenge (2003)
Plot Summary:
After Matt Kane leaves his wife Lara after seven years of marriage for the single, fast life that he wanted all his life after getting a promotion at work, she plots revenge against him by hiring an female ex-con and grifter, named Tuesday, to romance and bring him down in a series of encounters and plots while loyalties begin to be tested as to who is plotting against who.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, independent film
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Trois 2: Pandora's Box (2002)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in a dull marriage, successful shrink Mia DuBois follows a patient's advice and exposes her wild side at a private underground club, where she meets a handsome stranger and begins an affair that may cost her more than just her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, detective
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Double Cross (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two women jokingly agree to kill each others' husbands. Then one really does and blackmails the other into killing her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Love Her Madly (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three men are dangerously obsessed with the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, independent film, mind bending, neo noir
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Glass Chin (2014)
Plot Summary:
After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a deal with a crooked restaurateur. But quick schemes rarely bring easy pay-offs and as the consequences of his business negotiations unfold, Bud has to make a choice between his integrity and his aspirations.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense
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A Table for One (1999)
Plot Summary:
A wife, her two-timing husband and a flirting neighbor are unpredictable competitors in a warped game that turns into a life-or-death affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, tension, sexy
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River Runs Red (2018)
Plot Summary:
When the son of a successful judge is killed by two police officers and the system sets them free, a hardened veteran detective finds some incriminating files on the officers and the judge teams up with another mourning father to take the law into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Shadow Hours (2000)
Plot Summary:
Michael is a recovering addict. Back on the wagon, he's now responsible for a young, beautiful, and pregnant wife. He's working the graveyard shift at a gas station to support his new family, but the job drives him crazy. Then a wealthy stranger, Stuart, enters Michael's life, taking Michael through a tour of the seediest and slimiest parts of L.A. underbelly. Is Stuart leading Michael to hell, or salvation?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, neo noir, rough, psychological thriller
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Bad Influence (1990)
Plot Summary:
Michael, a wimpy young executive, is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in--and then disappears. Later that night, while jogging, Michael runs into the stranger on a pier. He introduces himself as Alex, and the two go out to an under- ground club. Alex wheedles his way into Michael's life and turns it upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, entertaining, psychological, clever, suspenseful, offbeat, visually stunning, rough, serious
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Play Misty for Me (1971)
Plot Summary:
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, neo noir, tense, slasher, neurotic, psychotronic, mysterious
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Amy Fisher: My Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
This sensational true story of a near fatal attraction left Mary Jo Buttafuoco paralyzed for life and made Amy Fisher America's most infamous teenager. Imprisoned 5-15 years for a crime she confessed to Fisher has nothing to lose by telling how it was-her way, her story. Deception, Promiscuous Sex, and Violence.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Plot Summary:
A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, art house, independent film, atmospheric, cerebral, tense, cynical, crime drama, crime thriller
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Cape Fear (1962)
Plot Summary:
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, black and white, noir, atmospheric, serious
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Single White Female 2: The Psycho (2005)
Plot Summary:
A warped woman takes deadly measures to help a new roommate get rid of her problems.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological thriller, realistic, psychotronic