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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
Best tv shows and movies like The Beneficiary (1997):
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Friends 'Til the End (1997)
Plot Summary:
Heather and Suzanne were childhood friends, both singers, who have always been competing against each other. The insecure Suzanne, who usually lost all the competitions, grows emotionally disturbed and hyper-competitive and carrying a grudge against Heather. The young woman, under a false name, enrolls the same college where Heather goes, with the intention of destroying her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: ridiculous
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Psychout for Murder (1969)
Plot Summary:
Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, poliziottesco, beautiful
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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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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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Married People, Single Sex (1995)
Plot Summary:
Early-1990s yuppies reveal, in a documentary style format, details about their marriages and constant thoughts of infidelity and sexual fantasies (with some of each coming to fruition).
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, romantic, hot, cult film
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Deceptions (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a wealthy socialite kills her husband, she claims self-defense. The cop assigned to the case is suspicious but becomes obsessed with the sensual young woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Sexual Response (1992)
Plot Summary:
A radio call-in host helps people with their relationships, but finds her own marriage lacking. A man approaches her in a bar.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Water's Edge (2003)
Plot Summary:
Robert wanted an escape from the big city. He thought a small town by the water's edge would give him a new start. He couldn't have been more wrong. This little town has dirty secrets, and Robert just found the worst of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending
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Indiscreet (1998)
Plot Summary:
A case involving adultery, money and murder threatens a private eye's sobriety.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective
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Body Language (1992)
Plot Summary:
The ambitious Betsy is happy: she gets promoted to a leading management position. Her happiness is spoiled only a little by problems with a boyfriend who feels neglected and an harassing boss. She realizes much too late that her secretary Norma is after her job and step by step tries to ruin her career and private life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The First 9 1/2 Weeks (1998)
Plot Summary:
An investment banker travels to Louisiana to snag the account of an eccentric millionaire but gets involved with his lusty wife, Mardi Gras, and (possibly) a satanic cult. The events in and around New Orleans change him forever and give a new slant on The American Dream.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, sexy, sexual, surprise ending, independent film
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Mirror Images (1992)
Plot Summary:
A pair of beautiful twins gets involved in a murder case with a psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, queer horror, independent film, sexploitation film
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Playback (1996)
Plot Summary:
Karen --a beautiful, ambitious, ruthless, senior executive-- is determined to take over this merger at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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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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Up Against Amanda (2000)
Plot Summary:
After childhood abuse by her step-father and eight years in a juvenile psychiatric lockup, Amanda Lear is released. Her shrink is also her lover, who surreptitiously pays her rent on a nice house for a year. She moves in, takes one look at her neighbor Richard, and dispatches her doctor. To cover her tracks and to begin her seduction, she gets Richard's help with a security system. Soon she's bugging his calls and spying on him with hidden cameras, taking advantage of a rift between Richard and his wife who's in Nashville cutting a record. Amanda will stop at nothing to get Richard's exclusive attention. Will this good neighbor wise up before the hot tub overheats?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, erotic, independent film
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Professional Affair (1995)
Plot Summary:
A drug lord hires a private investigator to track down the culprit who killed his henchman and took a briefcase full of money. One of the suspects is Heather Finch, a madam who seduces the detective and suggests that he swindles the drug lord.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective, neo noir, independent film
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Tick Tock (2000)
Plot Summary:
Stunning trophy wife Rachel Avery is stuck in a cold, loveless marriage with her millionaire husband, Holden. So when Holden goes away on a trip, Rachel hooks up with her close friend Carla, and the two hatch a plan to murder Holden and collect on his vast assets. But the girls don't want to commit the crime themselves, so at a bar they seduce a stranger, Travis Brewer, and convince him to do their bidding.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, tense, sexy, suspenseful, independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic, sexual
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The Temp (1993)
Plot Summary:
A series of mysterious accidents at a food company lead a manager to suspect his impressive new temporary secretary.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, stylized, neo noir, serious, erotic, light, sexy, clever, feel good
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Lady in Waiting (1994)
Plot Summary:
A divorced cop investigating the sadistic murders of high-class prostitutes discovers that the prime suspect is his ex-wife's new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective, hot
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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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Kept (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dead bodies are piling up, and the leads the two LA homicide cops have point to Barbara, business manager for a successful architectural firm she runs with her husband Lance. The dead men were interns at the firm, and each of them was Barbara's lover (kept in a classy flat she owns and observed via closed-circuit TV by the applauding Lance). Kyle is Barbara's latest intern and lover, and he may be in danger. He also starts to fall in love with Barbara, and the feeling may be mutual. In the background are Erin, Lance and Barbara's myopic administrative assistant, and Tony, Kyle's one-time roommate who also knows Barbara. Can the cops solve this before too many more die?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, touching, bleak, captivating, disturbing
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Jade (1995)
Plot Summary:
Someone does a nasty hatchet job on a San Fransisco big noise and the Assistant D.A. takes charge of the investigation. Through a web of blackmail and prostitution involving the Governor, an old lover of the law man emerges as a prime suspect and he has to deal with his personal feelings as well as the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, sexy, suspenseful, rough, psychosexual thriller, neo noir, psychological, noir, sensual
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Body of Evidence (1992)
Plot Summary:
Sizzingly sexy Madonna leads a star-filled cast in this erotic thriller as a woman accused of killing a wealthy, elderly man through her insatiable sexual prowess.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, suspenseful, suspense, intense, rough, serious, realistic, stylized
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Heart of Stone (2001)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman doesn't know if the killer is her lover ... or her husband ... or someone else!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, sexual, erotic
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Scorned 2 (1997)
Plot Summary:
Amanda Foley has confusing nightmares and flashbacks that lead her to seek professional help. Nothing can shed light on her repressed memories, until she happens to catch her husband a college professor, having sex with one of his students. Then the past becomes dangerously clear.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, sexy, independent film, detective, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure (1995)
Plot Summary:
TV producer CLAIR ARCHER, charged with the murder of her co-producer, hires top attorney Simon Mitchell to defend her. Though happily married, Simon falls for Clair's seductive wiles and then, in the middle of the trial and the torrid affair, discovers that Clair is guilty. Simon's associate, Lane, finds incriminating evidence against Clair. Simon tries to end the affair. But Clair cleverly sets up Lane so that when Clair kills Simon, Simon's wife suspects Lane -- and shoots her. Clair Archer is judged "not guilty" and walks away free.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, hot, cult film
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Careful What You Wish For (2015)
Plot Summary:
A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, sexy, psychological thriller, psychological, erotic, romantic, thought provoking, touching
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Final Analysis (1992)
Plot Summary:
Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married to a gangster. She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, psychological, twist ending, enigmatic, suspense, intense
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Disclosure (1994)
Plot Summary:
A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, sexy, tense, psychosexual thriller, intense, sensual, serious, realistic, stylized, psychological