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Plot Summary:
A black doctor ex-convict returns to the all-white town he knows as home and discovers a deadly disease threatening the citizens. He must fight prejudice and time if he is to save the town.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
Best tv shows and movies like Stigma (1972):
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Natural Enemies (1979)
Plot Summary:
A man hires hires five hookers to fulfill a final fantasy before killing himself and his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: philosophical, depressing, independent film
Similar in 76%
Nowhere to Run (1989)
Plot Summary:
Rural Texas, 1960 -- An age of good times and innocence, when growing up was supposed to be easy. Six high school seniors know the terrible secret that will make the difference in the biggest election in the county's history. Now they must make the most difficult decision of their lives. They must become adults. Written by Concorde - New Horizons.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 85%
Secrets in Suburbia (2017)
Plot Summary:
After discovering that her three best friends and her husband are plotting to murder her and steal her family fortune, Gloria, an otherwise kind-hearted housewife and mother of two, unfolds and exacts a deadly revenge on all who betrayed her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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An Appointment with Mr. Vield (2017)
Plot Summary:
Samantha Anthony is a teenage girl who has been forced to deal with situations, which have made her wise far beyond her years. She's had to watch her mother spiral out-of-control while addicted to the drug meth. Lost a baby brother to CPS as a result. And blames Mr. Vield for both. As a result, she turns to a rather unusual solution for how to eradicate him from her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Jezebel's Kiss (1990)
Plot Summary:
Someone runs a woman (Katherine Barrese) off a beach road; she sleeps with a developer (Malcolm McDowell), his son and a sheriff to get even.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, independent film, cult 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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Maternal Instincts (1996)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant doctor's life is made hell by the deranged patient to whom she gave a hysterectomy, without the patient's consent.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Wolf Lake (1979)
Plot Summary:
Canadian film where in ex-marine Steiger, unhinged by the death of his son in Vietnam, terrorizes a young couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Scum of the Earth (1963)
Plot Summary:
A naive and innocent teenage girl is blackmailed into modeling in the nude for a photographer who is in league with a teenage gang whose boss illegally sells photos of teenage girls being abused and degraded.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, stylized, psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at the hands of the administrators of the prison and the prison guards.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: crying, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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Fate (2003)
Plot Summary:
Serial killers have plagued the American landscape for decades, committing gruesome atrocities, and providing some tough cases for criminal investigators to crack. This thriller follows the travails of two detectives who are on the trail of a bizarre murderer intent on slaughtering his victims, then using them as real-life puppets in a tale that he is trying to tell. The plot holds a key to the whereabouts of the monstrous deviant, but the detectives have to unravel it quickly before more unsuspecting citizens become theater fodder for the unhinged madman.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Deadly Daphne's Revenge (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young hitchhiker is picked up by four drunken hunters, one of whom rapes her. A tough prosecutor has all four of the men indicted for the crime, which results in a suicide and a murder-for-hire plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Just for the Hell of It (1968)
Plot Summary:
A teenage gang led by the vicious Dexter; his girlfriend Mitzi; and friends Denny and Lummonx; create havoic in a small Florida town by harrassing various people, vandalizing property, well... just for the hell of it. When a former gang member, Doug, tries to prevent their ever increasing violent antics, Denny takes it upon himself and a few loyal members of the gang to target Doug's girlfriend, Jeanne, to make him back off.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Naked Angels (1969)
Plot Summary:
Mother has just got out of prison and wants to get revenge on the biker gang that put him there. He teams up with his old gang "The Angels" and they head to the desert to get even. Soon, Mother's obsession begins to take it's toll on his relationship with his girlfriend, Marlene, and the respect his gang has for him quickly dwindles until he is left alone in the desert to fend for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sexy, psychotronic, independent film, hot
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Toys Are Not for Children (1972)
Plot Summary:
Miserable with her marriage to a toy-store clerk and obsessed with memories of her long-absent father, child-like Jamie learns that toys are not for children when she turns her life around--by becoming a hooker! Playing "daddy's little girl" with dirty old men, she finds true happiness until a friend arranges a special "date" between Jamie and her whore-hungry dad that, to put it mildly, does not go well.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, psychosexual thriller, psycho sexual, independent film
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Retina (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman participates in a medical study. After a series of nightmares and unusual side effects, the line between dreams and reality is blurred. She finds herself on the run from those involved, desperate to uncover the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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Last Call (1991)
Plot Summary:
As a little girl, Cindy had to witness how the shady estate agent Jason Laurence killed her mother. In the 22 years since then, he was never called to account for this crime. So Cindy decides to take vengeance herself.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Night Eyes Four: Fatal Passion (1996)
Plot Summary:
Successful psychologist, Dr. Angela Cross, puts in a new burglar alarm system into her home due to threats she received. Steve Caldwell and Will Griffith install her system and after Will gets shot during a burglary attempt. Jeff and Angela have a hot relationship going until another break-in at her house. Angela has some secrets from her past that could be exposed if the tapes stolen are viewed.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Nor'easter (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young and inexperienced priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest's commitment to church doctrine over the laws of the natural world.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, mumblecore, gloomy
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The Killing Time (1987)
Plot Summary:
After bagging his latest victim, a murderous sociopath (Kiefer Sutherland) decides to steal the dead man's identity and pose as the deputy of a remote coastal town, where the local sheriff (Beau Bridges) and his lover (Camelia Kath) are cooking up a few misdeeds of their own: namely, to kill the mistress's husband (Wayne Rogers) and pin the crime on the fledgling deputy. But in this town of half-truths, nobody's secret is safe.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film, mind bending, eighties
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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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Warning Sign (1985)
Plot Summary:
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, sad, tech noir, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, weird, disaster movie
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What Still Remains (2018)
Plot Summary:
After the loss of her family, a young woman struggles to survive in a world long-since destroyed by disease; but when a lonely traveler offers her a place in his community, she must decide if the promise of a better life is worth the risk of trusting him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, intense, dystopian
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Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997)
Plot Summary:
A sinister seductress vows to destroy a suburban family.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, suspense, sexual, romantic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Virus (2019)
Plot Summary:
A real life account of the deadly Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, and the courageous fight put on by several individuals which helped to contain the epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, offbeat, disaster movie
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Viral (2016)
Plot Summary:
Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a young woman documents her family's new life in quarantine and tries to protect her infected sister.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, bloody, brutal, suspenseful, bleak, scary, psychological thriller, philosophical, political, spooky
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Contracted (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young girl contracts what she thinks is a sexually-transmitted disease - but is actually something much worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing, bleak, serious, rough, controversial, slasher
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Poison Ivy (1992)
Plot Summary:
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, melancholic, disturbing, realistic
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Outbreak (1995)
Plot Summary:
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 136000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, suspense, intense, intellectual, breathtaking, action thriller, terrifying
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Contagion (2011)
Plot Summary:
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 313000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, realistic, thought provoking, disturbing, emotional, exciting, clever