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Plot Summary:
In La prova generale, Carlo (Carlo Cecchi) interviews with a tape machine and a microphone his young lover while the two wander in the beautiful splendour of a wood on the edge of the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: underground film, independent film
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Morbidness (1972)
Plot Summary:
Newlyweds have decided to spend the honeymoon in the middle of a forest and sheltered in a caravan. Relations between the two start to get confused, especially when she begins to obsess over a nearby house and with eyes that seem to spy on her with lust.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: weird
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A Spiral of Mist (1977)
Plot Summary:
The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Maria Teresa's marriage is contrasted by the passionate Valeria, who is killed during a chase. Is Valeria's husband the murderer? Maria Teresa helps him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
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The Witman Boys (1997)
Plot Summary:
Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, France, Hungary
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Prison 77 (2022)
Plot Summary:
Modelo Prison. Barcelona, 1977. Manuel, a young accountant, imprisoned and awaiting trial for embezzlement, faces a sentence of 6 to 8 years, a disproportionate punishment for the crime committed. Together with his cellmate Pino, he joins forces with COPEL, a collective fighting for the rights of ordinary prisoners and amnesty. A war for freedom breaks out that will bring the Spanish prison system to its knees. If things are changing outside, they’ll have to do the same inside. A tale of friendship, solidarity and freedom, inspired in true events.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: mindfuck
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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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Rebecca's Secret (1997)
Plot Summary:
A detective suspects that the wife and mistress of an abusive man conspired to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Bad Frank (2017)
Plot Summary:
Frank Pierce leads a seemingly normal life, but when a disturbing past reemerges & something precious is taken from him, his mask of sanity loosens & unearths the urge to be violent once again.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
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The Lithium Conspiracy (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the power of governments behind the events has been replaced by the power of holding companies. Nowadays you don't conquer a country. You buy it. "Short story of long betrayals" is again set in the Republic of Queimada, where in the "Salar de Queimada" (a salt lake) lies 50% of lithium in the whole world. Not surprisingly, there is an international interest in its fate and a breathless fight to seize it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exotic
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Temptation (2023)
Plot Summary:
Inez is a young, aspiring journalist who dreams of love and a job at a prestigious publishing house. Once she gets to the paradise of her dreams, problems will start to multiply. What's more, two handsome men will appear at her side. Both mysterious and unpredictable.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min
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The Girl from Trieste (1982)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) being rescued from drowning. He loans her a blanket. Later she returns the blanket and they have sex several times, but she always leaves right afterward, leaving the man to wonder who she is and where she goes. Things become more complicated as he begins to fall in love with her, and after his regular girlfriend (Mimsy Farmer), with whom he has a curiously open relationship, returns. He eventually begins to realize his mysterious new lover may be very much insane.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
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In the Heat of Passion II: Unfaithful (1994)
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When a wheelchair-bound wife dies from an apparent accident, her husband and his adult stepdaughter turn out to be lovers, who conspired to murder her. However, tensions surface when complications arise regarding her inheritance, and soon the husband and stepdaughter are distrusting and plotting against each other. Who is really behind everything?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film
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Bust Out (1973)
Plot Summary:
The Browns take their Catholic high school students on a picnic. As one student sneaks to her boyfriend, two others seduce escaped convicts who rape the fourth. Buxom Mrs. Brown and her husband fall victims to their prudence.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, perverse, independent film
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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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Le salamandre (1969)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the writings of writer Fritz Fanon, who believed that a colonial population could only reach freedom by declaring violence towards their occupiers, Cavallone’s tale sees a white photographer (Erna Schurer) who seduces a black model (the lovely ebony Beryl Cunningham). A doctor then arrives on the scene – Anthony Vernon (Antonio Casale) who took his pseudonym from Jesus Franco stalwart Howard Vernon – and Schurer falls for his charms.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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Scandal in Black (1990)
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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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11 Days 11 Nights Part 3 (1989)
Plot Summary:
Courtney a young reporter is assigned to report on the story of a young woman who lost her husband in a bizarre voodoo ritual. He decides to take his highly sexed wife Connie on the trip to New Orleans. Connie is drawn into a secret affair with one of the locals. Gradually captivated by his spell she eventually flaunts her affair in front of her husband and finally leaves with her new lover to join the voodoo follower. Torn between contempt for his wife's infidelity and fear for her life Courtney is left to decide their destiny in the highly charged climax.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sensual, sexy, sexploitation film
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Danmark (2017)
Plot Summary:
22-year-old Norge lives a careless life as a bachelor in the province. The slacker idyll meets a sudden end when 16-year-old Josephine turns up after a one-night-stand and tells him she’s pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Paul Sanchez Is Back! (2018)
Plot Summary:
The reappearance of notorious criminal Paul Sanchez becomes an obsession for a young police officer who will do anything to catch him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
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Craving Desire (1993)
Plot Summary:
In this erotic thriller (Vittoria Bellevedere) is cast as the stereotypical evil woman who charms innocent men with her physical attractions and then destroys them like a praying mantis munching on her unfortunate mate, head first, just after their sexual union. Unlike the female mantis, this woman slowly ruins the life of the man she has seduced instead of finishing him off immediately - providing fodder for the film, and scenes reminiscent of Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, sexploitation film
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What a Wonderful World (2014)
Plot Summary:
After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Moldova
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Naked Angels (1969)
Plot Summary:
Mother has just got out of prison and wants to get revenge on the biker gang that put him there. He teams up with his old gang "The Angels" and they head to the desert to get even. Soon, Mother's obsession begins to take it's toll on his relationship with his girlfriend, Marlene, and the respect his gang has for him quickly dwindles until he is left alone in the desert to fend for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sexy, psychotronic, independent film, hot
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Shame Shame Shame (1999)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Diary of Seduction (2002)
Plot Summary:
Camille Taylor has just written the hottest, sexiest, and most sensational tell-all book about her life as a high-class call girl…and someone killed her to keep it from being published. Was it one of her powerful clients; or perhaps her politician husband? Private Investigator Malena Powers is faced with the proposition of finding the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It (1970)
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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
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The Longest Night (2019)
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A beautiful woman turns to prostitution. She must surrender her income to the leader of a human trafficking ring, but her daughter’s illness and a drug addiction prevent her from delivering her usual share. An unexpected event will give her the opportunity to stop obeying and take justice into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ecuador, Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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The Seduction of Maxine (2000)
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Maxine Strickland is an up-and-coming sexy film star who is being pursued by a half-crazed fan. When she hires a bodyguard to deal with the problem, she awkwardly learns to put her trust in him quickly because whoever is stalking her is close at hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, erotic
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Dark Secrets (1996)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic
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State's Evidence (2004)
Plot Summary:
When 16 year old Scott Byers decided to bring a camcorder to school, none of his schoolmates ever imagined what was to come. Only Scott's five closest friends and followers have the insight on his master plan. He is on a quest for the ultimate thrill, as he documents the day's events, anticipating the grand finale: Scott plans to commit suicide on camera. His friends become fascinated by his idea and decide to join the action for various reasons; home problems, romance and even boredom. They pull behind their leader and set out to make history. The rush is instantaneous. Emotions run wild. Pressure mounts as shocking details are revealed. The search for the final adventure takes an unexpected turn down a dark road. This journey turns out to be much more than what Scott and his friends had ever anticipated.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, surreal
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Cock Crows at Eleven (1978)
Plot Summary:
Federico is a child-killer running from the law. Wounded, he is taken in by a 12 year old girl named Simona. Their strange love affair is interrupted by Simona's depressed, oversexed mother Vera, who concocts a plan with Federico to kill her wheelchair-bound, reclusive husband. Simona does not take kindly to this new relationship between Federico and Vera.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexual, unusual plot structure, tense, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing, erotic, sexy, controversial, complex
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