Best movies like The Companion
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Plot Summary:
In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a remote mountain cabin. A friend convinces her to bring along a "companion", a nearly-human android to cook and clean. She settles on a male companion named "Geoffrey." Bored with some of Geoffrey's behavior, she tinkers with his programming -- first his personality, then his sexuality. Real trouble comes when she gives his mind access to "random data.".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tech noir
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Through the Eyes of a Killer (1992)
Plot Summary:
A woman has a brief affair with the contractor who is renovating her apartment and he refuses to accept the end of the relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Pretty Poison (1996)
Plot Summary:
A clueless cheerleader falls for a mysterious young man who tells her he's a secret agent. But the truth is much simpler and darker.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Hungry for You (1996)
Plot Summary:
It's the year 2010, and half of all households receive virtual reality programming. However, someone has discovered how to use the VR receivers to murder men while being seduced into virtual sex with the seductive Viva. The FCC has contracted VR expert Rodney to track down the killer, placing himself on the killer's hit list.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Body Shot (1994)
Plot Summary:
Paparazzi photographer Mickey Dane is obsessed with elusive pop singer Chelsea, and his attempts to capture her on film often land him in trouble.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Love Crimes (1992)
Plot Summary:
A tough female district attorney is investigating a man who picks out women from public places by posing as a famous photographer, then takes pictures of them, then pushes on their submissive tendencies and takes advantage of them physically and financially. The trouble is that none of these women want to press charges, because they feel fulfilled in some way by their encounter. The DA arranges to meet him and finds herself in a similar situation as the other victims, and has to come to grips with her own submissive desires.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychosexual thriller, erotic, neo noir, sensual, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film
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Veronica 2030 (1999)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2030 and two scientists, Felix and Maxine, are about to release their latest creation, Veronica a fully functional pleasure android, out onto the market. Unfortunately, untimely interference from a colleague causes Veronica to be sent back to the year 1998. There she meets Harry Horner and becomes a lingerie model to help his ailing catalogue fetish business. Soon Camilla, Harry's competitor, learns of Veronica and steals her away to make Veronica work for her. Eventually, the two scientists locate Veronica and travel back to 1998 in a bid to rescue her. Harry and the scientists combine forces and rescue Veronica from Camilla's clutches. Veronica makes Harry's business a success and he is able to sell it to and interested buyer. Veronica and Harry have fallen in love and she decides to stay in 1998 along with the two scientists!.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags:
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The Answer (2015)
Plot Summary:
When mailman Bridd Takes his sexy date Charlotte home, they find their boss on the floor with a mail opener stuck in his chest. The assailants are also after Bridd and he has to use all his talents to foil an extra-terrestrial complot.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Killer Instinct (1991)
Plot Summary:
An up and coming lawyer gets turned over for a case he'd been working on for a long while. The D.A.'s niece then decides to help the young lawyer by first blackmailing, then eventually plotting the murder of the D.A., all the while seducing the young attorney. It then becomes the attorney job to cover up the murder he believes he committed, while finding out the truth about the D.A.'s "niece".
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Liquid Dreams (1991)
Plot Summary:
In a slightly future America, a woman goes to the big city to visit with her sister, who is dead in her apartment. In order to find out what happened to her sister, she gets a job working at a dance club, a lower notch in the strip joint circuit. Some of her colleagues begin showing up dead as she uncovers a sinister hierarchy in the strip club management that is harnessing the sexual activity for their own twisted ends.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, independent film, detective, weird, cult film
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Project Shadowchaser III (1995)
Plot Summary:
It has been 25 years since the ore spaceship Siberia was last heard from. Unfortunately, it is now on a collision course with the communications station Comstat 5 which is orbiting Mars. After one successful maneuver to avoid the Siberia, it rams Comstat 5 and the crew soon finds that the Siberia crew is dead and the reason that it has been missing for 25 years. But that reason is trying to destroy them all as it destroyed the Siberia crew.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film
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A House in the Hills (1993)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring actress gets a housesitting job and finds herself in a cat-and-mouse game with a deadly ex-con.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dark Side of Genius (1994)
Plot Summary:
Julian Jons is a talented but troubled young artist. He has just been released from an asylum, where he has spent the last seven years for the murder of Anna, his girlfriend/model. Attempting to start painting again, he is pursued by journalist Jennifer Cole, who is intrigued by this complex, brooding man. Against the backdrop of the modern art world, she begins to dig into the past, fully aware that it holds painful memories for Julian, and perhaps danger for herself.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Caroline at Midnight (1994)
Plot Summary:
A policeman's wife falls for a reporter who suspects her husband of corruption and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Temptation (1994)
Plot Summary:
After five years in prison for insurance fraud the sailor Lanarsky is released. Together with his buddy Bone he gets a job as seamen on board the yacht owned by the wife of his insurance fraud-partner Michael Reddick. Lanarsky has a question to his former partner who he thinks tried to cheat him. But Michael Reddich himself has another insurance plan ready where he will kill everybody on board the yacht, blow it up and then claim the life-insurance for his wife. But Lanarsky and the wife Lee escape and follow Michael to the nearby Cayman Island where the final showdown takes place.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Treacherous Beauties (1994)
Plot Summary:
A female photographer hears that her brother has been shot dead at a horse rearing farm. She decides to go there herself and uncovers a murky conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Tryst (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young man journeys to the estate of rich family in Santa Barbara, California, to visit his mother, who works there as a maid and whom he hasn't seen in many years. He winds up getting involved in adultery and a murder plot and uncovering some long-hidden secrets that no one in the family wants revealed.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, detective
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Bitter Vengeance (1994)
Plot Summary:
Annie marries Jack Westford, a cop when they met. Six years later Jack is now working as a security guard in a bank and feels that he was unfairly fired from the force. He also appears to be no longer interested in Annie and has an affair with another bank employee. Among his duties is delivering old money for disposal. He comes up with a plan to steal the money and run away. Part of his plan is to fake his death and frame Annie. While the police suspect that she killed Jack and knows where the money is, there's also an insurance investigator on her back.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Lady Beware (1987)
Plot Summary:
Young and good looking Katya, a window dresser for a big department store in Pittsburgh, begins a love story with a journalist, Mac Odell. She is however stalked by Jack, a married man who has a fixation with her. Jack makes Katya's life hellish and when the girl tells his wife about him he becomes wild with fury having been exposed and goes to the store to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, erotic, independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, surprise ending
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Dream Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
Kris is a homicide cop with psychic abilities. She works to prove that the prime suspect in her latest case (the much younger husband of the millionaire victim) is innocent. But are her visions true, or planned by someone who knows what she can see?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Purgatory Flats (2003)
Plot Summary:
Driving drunk, Thomas Reed causes a car crash, fatal for his wife, and gets jailed for 5 years. Yet he feels like punishing himself afterward by moving to Californian small town Purgatory Flats, where he works as a humble barman. Suddenly he witnesses a shooting and volunteers to help the wounded Owen Mecklin, whose brothers Dean and Randy drag him further into their own crime life. Owen's sexy wife Sunny seduces 'Doc'. Local detective Travis McGill gets their trail. But treason proves the gravest luring danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
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Naked Souls (1996)
Plot Summary:
Edward is busy trying to unlock the secrets of reading and recording people's thoughts. He is very involved with his work leaving little room for girlfriend Britt. Longstreet comes along and offers Edward a place to do his research and have unlimited funding. There are, however, ulterior motives as Edward is also somehow unlocking the secrets of eternal life.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, bleak, serious, tense, suspense, sexy, independent film, suspenseful, slasher, hot
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I Am Watching You (2016)
Plot Summary:
Writer, Nora Nichols finds inspiration by watching her neighbor Lucas' escapades from her bedroom window. But things take an interesting turn when she realizes he's been watching too.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Black Road (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 2029, a cyborg drifter risks his life to protect a woman from her demented ex. Set in a lawless coastal town after Oregon secedes from the Union.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cyber, futuristic
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A Thousand Kisses Deep (2011)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing an older version of herself committing suicide, Mia (Jodie Whittaker) attempts to rewrite history and thereby avert this tragic fate. She travels back in time, exploring dark secrets and lashing out against handsome Ludwig (Dougray Scott), the root of her problems. Directed by Dana Lustig, this Kafkaesque romantic thriller also stars David Warner, Emilia Fox, Chris Wilson and Allan Corduner.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, captivating, serious, emotional, gloomy, mysterious
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Hologram Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
Five years after the mad terrorist Norman Galagher was sentenced to holographic stasis, he is given a parole hearing. But an equipment failure engineered by his cronies transforms the criminal into a living hologram with god-like powers. Now, stopping him is up to Kurt Decoda, the man who as a police rookie was responsible for arresting Galagher.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, disturbing, tech noir, independent film, scary, bleak
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Cyborg Cop III (1995)
Plot Summary:
A cop tries to stop a scientist's experiments to turn students into cyborg-mercenaries. Contains violence and strong language.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, tech noir, independent film
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Reminiscence (2021)
Plot Summary:
Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client's memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, suspense, thought provoking, psychotronic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting, enigmatic, futuristic
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Cyborg Cop II (1994)
Plot Summary:
A fancy, loner cop loses his partner to a crazed terrorist during a hostage rescue. He settles for the terrorist going to Death Row in jail. What Jack doesn't know is that the terrorist will be taken and turned into a cyborg for the "Anti-Terrorist Group". When the Cyborg "Spartacus" wakes up accidentally, he kills the scientists and their guests, then goes to set things up for a Cyborg Empire. Only Jack and a few friends know how to stop.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 952
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, rough, bleak, futuristic, suspenseful, tech noir, action thriller, independent film
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Futureworld (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving at the park, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, grindhouse, captivating, depressing, tech noir, esoteric
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I, Robot (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 567000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: futuristic, philosophical, suspense, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, clever, entertaining, action packed, suspenseful