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Plot Summary:
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Passenger 23 (2018)
Plot Summary:
It's been five years Martin's family vanished without a trace from a cruise ship. Ever since, the police psychologist is tortured by the thought of his wife having committed a murder-suicide, taking their son with her. He is the only one not willing to believe this. Suddenly, a new lead takes him back aboard the very same luxury cruiser, where once again, a mother and her child have vanished. But this time, the girl reappears - holding a teddy bear that used to belong to Martin's son. Martin soon learns that things are handled differently on the open sea. Not to disturb his passengers' enjoyment of the lavish luxuries of their cruise, the rich owner of the cruiser wants to keep the child out of sight and hides her deep under deck in the quarantine bay. Here, Martin tries to get the traumatized girl to talk to him. But even deeper in the dark underbelly of the ship there is something lurking. And all signs point to a serial killer, just waiting to strike again.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, disturbing
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Naakt over de Schutting (1973)
Plot Summary:
Rick, who runs a pinball arcade, lets a room to Penny, a young teacher and karate fan. Penny gets to know Lilly, a singer who has just been hired with her friend Ed to act in a film. But Lilly soon discovers that the movie they are involved in is nothing else but a dirty one. In disgust, she runs away from the set. Shortly afterward, the owner of the film studio is found murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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Hostile Takeover (1988)
Plot Summary:
A man takes three co-workers hostage while working overtime on Thanksgiving weekend. He has no demands.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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Mortal Fear (1994)
Plot Summary:
Based on the provocative best-selling novel, a brilliant scientist finds the hidden link that can save countless lives, but when a crazed killer uses the same information to play God, millions are at risk. Dr. Jennifer Kessler is the one person who stands in the way of ultimate medical disaster. After witnessing one, then dozens of patients at her hospital mysteriously and unexpectedly die, her search for the truth leads her through a bizarre world of intrigue, passion and controversial secret medical research. As Dr. Kessler races against the clock to find a way to stop catastrophe, she finds herself up against an imposing and terrifying conspiracy implicating the entire U.S. insurance and medical system in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Der rote Rausch (1962)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is on the run, after escaping a mental institution. He befriends a woman and her child, but the urge to strangle women with red necklaces still haunts him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Skinheads (1989)
Plot Summary:
A group of students traveling to California are menaced by a vicious group of skin-heads in the Colorado mountains. A WW2 vet living in the mountains comes to their rescue.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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In the Eye of the Snake (1990)
Plot Summary:
Marc, a young snake expert, works at a museum in Geneva. He loves snakes, to the point that he owns many and even takes a bath with his huge pet python. He meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Malenka, who is the assistant--and mistress--of an older herpetologist professor. Marc discovers that not only is the "professor" a fraud but also a dangerous psychotic who had at one time seduced Marc's mother, and Marc believes that the longer Malenka stays with him, the greater danger she's in.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Thriller
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic
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French Silk (1994)
Plot Summary:
Television movie about the murder of a televangelist, and the fashion company owner accused of the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Zombie Walks (1968)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: detective
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Flower and Snake 4: White Uniform Rope Slave (1986)
Plot Summary:
A perverted dentist (and dental assistant) that likes to sleep with his patients, gets obsessed with one in particular who also happens to be a lesbian. He uses everthing he can think of to abuse this woman and her female lover. Ropes/Dental tools/Ice Buckets/Candles/ (the works) and sometimes he sets the mood with something from his classical music record collection.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Abhilasha (1983)
Plot Summary:
Abhilasha movie story was based on an unique point of removing section 302 from Indian penal Code, which sentences death. Struggling lawyer Chiranjeevi, lives with his roommate (allu aravind) and dreams of removing IPC section 302. Reason behind his determination was his father’s death sentence under 302, for adultery, which he didn’t commit.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags:
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Stripteaser II (1997)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - While searching for his kid sister Lisa, who disappeared into the seamy world of Los Angeles strip clubs, streetwise cabbie Rick (Rick Jordan) meets Angie (Stacey Leigh Mobley), a woman forced to dance to pay off the debts her father incurred while gambling. Rick's search for his sister becomes more desperate as he finds out more about the dark world of power and intrigue hidden beneath the city's neon lights. - Rick Jordan, Holly Hollywood, Matt Preston.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic
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The Face of Fear (1990)
Plot Summary:
Graham Harris was once one of the world's foremost mountain climbers, until a fall five years earlier left him with a lame leg, a fear of heights...and a frightening psychic ability in which he can see murders as they are happening.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Uppdraget (1977)
Plot Summary:
Common political thriller. Swedish representative is sent to an imaginary country in South America where a revolution is erupting. His assignment: to organize and mediate a conference between the government and the revolutionaries. Reading it doesn't seem bad, but watching... things just don't work, it is boring most time. Non-charismatic Thomas Hellberg plays an unsympathetic role, a "perfect" match for the hero. And the good supporting cast can't help. A Swedish production, oddly shot in Portugal, aiming the international market.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Double Negative (1980)
Plot Summary:
Michael Taylor, played by Michael Sarrazin, is tormented by his sheer lack of memory concerning the night his wife was found brutally killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, eighties
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The Door with Seven Locks (1962)
Plot Summary:
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Squeaker (1963)
Plot Summary:
Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Penthouse (1989)
Plot Summary:
Dinah St. Clair lives the charmed life as the daughter of a wealthy record producer. Enter Joe Dobson, a friend from Dinah's past that has mental problems. Joe's mother killed herself when he was young. Since then, he has been obsessed with death by falling. Joe breaks out of the mental ward he was in to meet Dinah. Unluckily, Dinah doesn't know about his past and lets him in. He holds her hostage, while the police and her father try to forge a plan to get her out of this sticky situation. Can Dinah be saved while she tries to save Joe?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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I Am the Abyss (2022)
Plot Summary:
The Man Who Cleans knows you can find a lot of secrets in trash. People tend to lie but their trash never does. The Man Who Cleans thought he was invisible, until he met the Girl with the Purple Hair Lock. Girl with the Purple Hair Lock breaks into his tidy life because only an evil angel can save her now. Meanwhile, the Huntress knows somebody is killing blonds out there. Nobody believes her, but she knows. What she doesn't know, though, is that evil is hiding behind the green door. The truth lies at the bottom of a dark, deep abyss.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Rainbow Drive (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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ST: Aka to Shiro no Sôsa File the Movie (2015)
Plot Summary:
The ST team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department consists of eccentric members. Some members do not cooperate with others and others do not reveal themselves in front of others. With Samon as the leader of the ST team and young Inspector Tomohisa tasked with managing the team, the ST (Scientific Task Force) attempt to solve the most difficult of cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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The Hunchback of Soho (1966)
Plot Summary:
A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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High Noon (2009)
Plot Summary:
Baltimore's top hostage negotiator embarks on a relationship with a man who could be her soulmate while racing to resolve a case that threatens her job and her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
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Sweet Poison (1991)
Plot Summary:
A convict on the run from the law kidnaps a couple who are on their way to a funeral. He finds that he got more than he bargained for when he realizes the man's sexy wife is falling for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Unfair: the end (2015)
Plot Summary:
Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this, Natsumi's ex-husband, Kazuo Sato (Teruyuki Kagawa) pays a terrible price. Natsumi goes back to the Investigation #1 of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to take on the organization, but Natsumi becomes involved in a new case. She gets closer to the final enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Broken Trust (1995)
Plot Summary:
Judge Nash is highly regarded for his position and decisions in the courtroom. He's approached by a special agent from a government task force investigating corrupt judges and lawyers, and asked to participate in a sting operation. Initially it's against some people Nash has no trouble believing are corrupt, but as the scope of the sting widens to include some of his friends, he tries to get out. That's when the agent threatens to reveal information that would embarrass Judge Nash if he doesn't continue.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Dark Tide (1994)
Plot Summary:
Brigitte Bako plays Andi, who visits her husband Tim working on a tropical island. Tim is collecting venom from poisonous eels, and his boat crew are mesmerised by his pretty wife. In particular, one of the crew members becomes obsessed with Andi. While Tim is concentrating on his work to the detriment of his marriage, Andi shares an intimate afternoon with the obsessed crewman, but then refuses to continue the affair. This causes the jilted lover to begin a series of escalating violent events that ultimately leads to a deadly showdown with Tim and Andi.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Dogs of Riga (1995)
Plot Summary:
A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia. One of their officers travel to Sweden to to help but when he returns to his home country he is mysteriously murdered. Kurt flies to Riga to find out why and is drawn into complex conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Venom (1981)
Plot Summary:
International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couples child. Their plan comes unstuck when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and the terrorists and several hostages are trapped in the boy's London home.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, cult classic, natural horror, psychotronic, grindhouse, scary, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Venom (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a car breaks down in an isolated desert, a mother and young daughter are relentlessly pursued by a deadly snake.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, exciting, serious, realistic, psychotronic