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Plot Summary:
A fugitive killer posing as a policeman arrests two campers in the Arizona mountains.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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All God's Creatures (2011)
Plot Summary:
Creature of habit, Jon Smith, spends his days mindlessly working as a barista in New York City. When night falls, this seeming everyman savagely kills "filthy women" as his social outlet. A chance encounter with Delia, a young prostitute searching for an escape from her troubled past, forces Jon to confront the most terrifying thing he has ever faced in all his dark affairs - himself. All God's Creatures examines the true nature of what it means to be a monster and reveals that love is not only for a chosen few, but for all God's creatures.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological
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Victims (1982)
Plot Summary:
Paulie is falling to pieces. His every encounter with the opposite sex ends in violence, while stirring up memories of his prostitute mother and her brutal pimp and the sexually abusive hooker who molested him as a child.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Missing Pages (2013)
Plot Summary:
8 important executive members of some notable corporations of the country are kidnapped during a recent trial.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, crying
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Everything in Vain (1969)
Plot Summary:
Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Defilers (1965)
Plot Summary:
Two young thugs kidnap a young girl and keep her in the basement of an old warehouse where they forcibly make her their sex slave.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, psychotronic, independent film, weird, cult film
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We the People (1994)
Plot Summary:
Alan and his pregnant wife, Amy, plan to spend a quiet weekend at their isolated vacation home in the woods. They are joined by two other couples, Bill and Sheri and then Charles and Liz. Suddenly they're confronted by two gun-toting killers, Bobby and Red. The three couples try to accomodate the killers' demands but tensions climb and violence erupts.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Flesh Merchant (1993)
Plot Summary:
A team of L.A. detectives hunt down the ringleaders of a sex-slave operation in this thriller.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dead Boyz Can't Fly (1992)
Plot Summary:
Buzz shows his artwork to Norman at the employment agency. Norman laughs in his face. Buzz takes this personally and later returns to the office building with his friends Goose and Jo Jo. They systematically terrorize the people in different offices on the 13th floor, with only a few grizzled Vietnam veterans and a suicidal lawyer to try and stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Liars' Club (1994)
Plot Summary:
The loyalty of a tight group of friends is put to the test when there's a date rape within the circle.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Madonna: A Case of Blood Ambition (1990)
Plot Summary:
A man is convicted of raping and murdering a child and sent to prison. He is shortly afterwards beaten to death by other inmates. His daughter blames the jurors who convicted him for his death, and she hatches a scheme to murder each of the jury members, often seducing them herself first.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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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Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (1995)
Plot Summary:
Police sketch artist, Jack, helps blind rape victim Emmy describe her attacker.. a serial rapist and murderer who is now out to get her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Kissing Place (1990)
Plot Summary:
Every night the boy dreams he is someone else. Someone in danger. A crazy woman is after him. A woman who cannot have a son of her own. A story about a kidnapped boy, who finds out that the people he thought were his parents are his kidnappers. The film is about his escape and search for his home.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Zebra Killer (1974)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real events that shocked San Franisco in the early 70's. Mac portrays the role of The Zebra Killer, a white man who dresses in black makeup and strolls the city of San Francisco stalking, raping and killing young women. Lt. Savage hears that the Killer has killed his girlfriend. Lt. Savage goes everywhere to find and kill the maniac, along with the help of Williams and Robert.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse
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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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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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Tainted (1987)
Plot Summary:
Psychological horror / suspense story centers around Cathy (Shari Shattuck), a young school teacher married to the owner of a crematorium. After she's attacked and nearly raped by her ex-husband, Cathy kills him and attempts to cover up the murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Return to Sender (2015)
Plot Summary:
A nurse living in small town goes on a blind date with a man who is not the person he says he is.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, psychological thriller, powerful
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Fatal Secrets (2009)
Plot Summary:
"BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, seems to have it all - except the right guy in her life. Her friends urge her to "get back out there." But they don't yet know about Scott - a charming man with a secret background whose true colors paint a streak of pain and fear through Julia's life. When Scott's effect on Julia reaches the breaking point, she and her friends take matters into their own hands... and underestimate the consequences. The outcome forces all of them into a desperate situation. Everyone pays the price.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, independent film, dark, suspenseful, teen, gloomy
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Freak Out (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1977, teenager Wayne (Nick Foster) gathers his two friends, female runaway Rhonda (Sarah Ogg) and disco club hopper Tim (David Gobble), for a drug party located in the suburban home of quiet recluse Dean (Brad Jones). But unknown to Tim and Rhonda are the horrible secrets which lie in Dean's basement storage room. Dean is the uncaptured child murderer who uses his basement as a torture dungeon with the help of Wayne and fellow teenager David (Buford Stowers). When the drugs and alcohol mix get higher throughout the night, not even so called friends are safe from the sadistic bloodlust of Dean. Inspired by the true story of notorious serial murderer Dean Corll.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Apartment 407 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Selling Isobel, a thriller based on true events, featuring the real victim in true life playing the main charter. It's about a woman who got locked in, drugged, held against her will and sold to numerous men for 3 days in an apartment in central London. It's a film about her fight for survival all the way to the gruesome end.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, crime drama, independent film
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Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story (2019)
Plot Summary:
High school teacher Mary Stauffer and her eight-year old daughter, Beth are held captive for 53 days by an obsessed former student. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Roberto Succo (2001)
Plot Summary:
'Kurt' claims to be a sales rep. He also claims to be English in spite of his heavy Italian accent. Kurt is an habitual liar and a dangerous driver, at the very least. In the south of France he meets Léa, age 16. Between his increasingly strange dates with Léa, Kurt engages in a number of armed robberies, some successful, some not... The police are perplexed by a series of crimes including disappearances and a murder. They conclude that they are dealing with a madman... After he proposes, Léa breaks up with Kurt. The attempt to find a new girlfriend leads to a shooting by Kurt, now calling himself André. Léa's information identifies Kurt/André as Roberto Succo, psychiatric patient and parental murderer. The police hunt for Roberto covers three countries.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: rough, melancholic, suspenseful, captivating
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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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Happy Face Murders (1999)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric older woman (Ann-Margret) implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young retarded girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she creates details of the murder from clues she picks up from the detectives (Marg Helgenberger, Henry Thomas) on the case. Implicating herself and sentenced to jail, she then recants her testimony. But no one believes her until clues surface from the real killer that he is still out there, has killed before, and will kill again. He signs his messages with Happy Faces.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth Montgomery plays serial killer, churchgoer, and grandmother Blanch Taylor Moore in this, one of her last films before her untimely passing. Childhood memories of her womanizing and abusive father fill Moore with a hidden rage towards all men. Her former boyfriend, first husband and father all died of arsenic poisoning. Now her fiancé, the town's minister, is stricken the same way. Based on the true crime book Preacher's Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore, the film is buoyed by Montgomery's startling performance, and keeps you on the edge of your seat until its final moments.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Freeway Killer (2010)
Plot Summary:
For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer easily avoided police at first. But as police closed in and the killer’s pattern grew more erratic, the only question was how many more will die?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, realistic
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The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
Plot Summary:
The true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killing cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful