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Plot Summary:
Wealthy wine maker Jonathan Bragg (Keith Carradine) hires Tuscan wine detective (Gaetano Guarino) to discover the source of a mysterious bottle of wine. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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A Knife for the Ladies (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mutilating knife-killer haunts the small Southwest-desert town of Mescal. Though most victims have been prostitutes, the first was none other than Travis Mescal, the only son of the town's first family. When the Sheriff proves unable to solve the case, the town leaders invite Investigator Burns to unravel the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher, psychotronic, independent film, spaghetti western, slasher horror, wild
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Forbidden Sun (1988)
Plot Summary:
Olympic gymnastics coach Francine Lake and her twelve gorgeous students train on the Island of Crete. The rigors of training preclude most sexual activity with the locals, thus the girls spend their evenings in quiet frustration.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Blade on the Feather (1980)
Plot Summary:
A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer...but both men are more than they claim to be.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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The Summit (2017)
Plot Summary:
At a Latin American Presidents’ Summit in Chile where the region’s alliances and geopolitical strategies are shaped, Hernán Blanco, the president of Argentina, lives a political and family drama. Through his son in law, he’s implicated in a corruption case. On her father’s call, Marina Blanco, attends the Summit to find protection, to earn time and to negotiate a way out. That past once calm and domestic, becomes a menacing element, almost fantastic, seen from the top of public life, seen from the Summit.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, political, art house
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Without Apparent Motive (1971)
Plot Summary:
A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco
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Fatal Passion (1995)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, detective
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Devils in Disguise (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two roommates, Leila & Sandy, team up to kill Leila's sadistic boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, dark
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The Last Letter (2004)
Plot Summary:
As they file into the deliberation room, 11 jurors are ready to convict the defendant of 14 counts of murder, but one holdout forces the others to reevaluate the evidence -- and their own motives -- in this tense courtroom drama. As the jurors sift through the case, more of them start to lean toward an acquittal, but could one of them have a hidden agenda? This thriller starring Yancy Butler and William Forsythe holds plenty of surprises.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, splatter
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Charades (1998)
Plot Summary:
Barry is a down-and-out-guy who takes a job at the shipping department of Technoworks, a high-tech Yuppie company. He gets invited to the house of his boss Quinn, for a weekend afternoon barbecue with some of his boss's friends. The party gets weird, Barry plays a demented version of charades while standing on the picnic table, and the next door neighbor starts screaming racial slurs over the fence. When Jude, the widow of the ex-owner of Technoworks arrives, the plot thickens. Clues to past crimes are revealed, and the real reason for the party is discovered. But not before Barry beats the hell out of a tow-truck driver, screws the boss's wife and wreaks havok with the neighbor. And as the title suggests, before the day is over, we will discover who is the Felon, or perhaps the people at party are all, one way or another, Felons.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Matter of Trust (1998)
Plot Summary:
A prosecutor is building a case against a suspected serial killer. She receives death threats, but ignores them at first. When her husband disappears and someone blackmails her, she turns to her ex, a suspended homicide detective.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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The Body (1974)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman who lives on an island with her abusive husband, entices a young man into a murder-for-money plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Trinidad and Tobago
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Tin God (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ethan is a young man searching for meaning in life and he thinks he has found what he is looking for in the new girl, Sasha. But Sasha has a dark side that will be his undoing.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Dangerous Passions (2003)
Plot Summary:
Police detective Walt Hodges and his lusty girl friend, TV reporter Lorraine Lewis, investigate the murder of a music promoter Floyd Winslow, interviewing his lusty secretary and randy wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: detective, surprise ending, sexploitation film
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The Duelist (2016)
Plot Summary:
Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: romantic, tense, captivating, suspense, art house, exciting, suspenseful, rough, disturbing
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Scandal in Black (1990)
Plot Summary:
Gianni is a political man with a good career waiting for him. Angela is his wife and she fakes an assault and a rape in a cinema. Eva is Gianni's lover and Angela's friend. Gianni and Eva decide to use the pretext of the assault to kill Angela. Later on Angela is blackmailed by a man who was present at her act. In the background there are Rosy, her maid always present, and a puzzling man who appears and disappears and makes strange phone calls.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective, sexploitation film
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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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Desire and Deception (2001)
Plot Summary:
After succumbing to a night of passion with gorgeous Kate Collins, married Eric Roarke discovers the mysterious temptress won't give him up easily. Eric's life spirals out of control as Kate's increasingly possessive behavior threatens his marriage and his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, psycho sexual, detective, sexploitation film
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Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It (1970)
Plot Summary:
After many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his father (who he suspects was actually murdered). He attempts to untangle that mystery while still carrying an unhealthy obsession toward his mother, who committed suicide ten years ago. This obsession then draws in his attractive cousin and takes a sexual turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Saturn Bowling (2022)
Plot Summary:
When their father dies, the ambitious police officer Guillaume offers the management of the bowling alley he inherited to his outcast half-brother Armand. The inheritance is cursed, and the two men wind up in a world of violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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Indecent Behavior (1993)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca Mathis is a sex therapist. One of her patients is found dead. At first it is presumed he died of a heart attack.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, detective, erotic, sexploitation film, hot
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Laguna (2001)
Plot Summary:
Raised by an uncle in New York after his parents died in an attack orchestrated by the mafia, Thomas, now an adult, is sent to live in Italy. There, while his tortured past and the death of his parents come back to haunt him, he feels increasingly drawn to Thelma, his uncle's mysterious wife. Soon Thomas will learn the truth about the death of his parents and foment a vengeance of great heights.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Canada, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, suspense, action adventure
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Everybody Wins (1990)
Plot Summary:
A seemingly good Samaritan hires a private detective to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a Connecticut town and finds the woman isn't everything she is pretending to be either.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Heaven's Prisoners (1996)
Plot Summary:
A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray when his family is viciously threatened.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: stylized, suspense, melancholic, talky, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic
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Backfire (1987)
Plot Summary:
Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a mysterious stranger, Reed, at a local bar, she believes she has found the right person to help her out of her predicament. But Mara worries that Donnie's sister, Jill, is on to her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, neo noir, independent film, surprise ending, tension, twist ending
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Veronica (2017)
Plot Summary:
A female Psychologist who has stopped practicing medicine, decides to take the case of Veronica de la Serna, a young woman whose previous therapist has mysteriously disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, gothic, gothic horror, black and white, suspense
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Criminal Passion (1994)
Plot Summary:
A homicide detective begins a torrid affair with a senator's son who is a suspect in a series of grisly murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, rough, independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, detective
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The Big Sleep (1978)
Plot Summary:
The classic Raymond Chandler tale retold with Mitchum taking over the Bogart role.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, suspense, clever, talky, cult classic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical
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Premature Burial (1962)
Plot Summary:
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, psychological, mind bending, bleak, gothic, atmospheric, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, classic horror
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Dawn Patrol (2014)
Plot Summary:
After the brutal murder of his beloved brother, a small-town surfer seeks revenge against the gang of merciless thugs he holds responsible. However, when another tragedy brings him face to face with the consequences of his actions, he must seek forgiveness from the very people he despises most.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, erotic
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Blow-Up (1966)
Plot Summary:
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he accidentally captures on film the commission of a murder. The fact that he has photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surreal, cerebral, independent film, art house, psychological thriller, stylized, erotic, visual, atmospheric, mind bending