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Plot Summary:
An enterprising ex-convict overcomes tragedy by designing his own path to success within a society that failed him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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The Wrong Daughter (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kate and Joe have longed to be parents and are considering in vitro options... when Danica, a child Kate gave up 17 years ago, appears on Facebook. Danica comes to live with them, but she's not their real child. She's an impostor who will do anything, even kill, to get the mother's love she never had.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Sweet Evil (1996)
Plot Summary:
The tale of a yuppie couple unable to conceive and desperate for a child. They enlist the services of Jennifer to act as surrogate mother. Unbeknownst to the couple, Jennifer has an ulterior motive to this union - to exact revenge for a childhood tragedy which has had a deep, malevolent effect on her.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, hot
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Blind Fear (1989)
Plot Summary:
A blind employee at a New England lodge is in danger when a gang of killers arrives to stay at the lodge.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, independent film
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R#J (2021)
Plot Summary:
Told entirely through social media and smartphone screens, this bold adaptation of Romeo and Juliet reinvents the world’s most enduring love story with style and lyricism, with black and brown youth at the heart of it all.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Deadly Daughter Switch (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Brooke discovers that her daughter Hailey isn't actually her biological daughter, their family is thrown into crisis as they realize Hailey was switched at birth with Brookes biological daughter Breanne.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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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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The Grind (2010)
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Night Drive (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Russell picks up an enigmatic young woman through a ride-share app, his boring evening perks up. But all bets are off after they hit a guy with the car in this charming comedy of errors.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: christmas horror
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Ca$h (2010)
Plot Summary:
A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a tumultuous adventure through the streets of Chicago, each are pulled deeper and deeper into a desperate spiral of deception and violence – all in the name of money.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, intelligent, realistic, fast, black comedy, dark comedy
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White Rush (2003)
Plot Summary:
A group of young tourist couples comes across a drug deal gone bad while on vacation.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, cliffhanger, gloomy
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Stray Dolls (2019)
Plot Summary:
Riz is a recent South Asian immigrant who takes a job at a seedy motel in a bid to start over in America. But the motel’s other employees and guests pull her back into a life she preferred to leave behind.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, suspense, dark, social, suspenseful
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Boogie Boy (1998)
Plot Summary:
A man who has just been released from prison vows to start a new life, but is put to the test when an old cellmate appears.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Gang Boys (1994)
Plot Summary:
Linda Blair's gay son gets raped by Nazis, so she tracks down the father, played by Wings Hauser, and helps him deal with his alcoholism, and eventually they kind of fight back.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Mean Season (1985)
Plot Summary:
A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As the killer's calls and clues increase, the reporter is lured into a deadly trap.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, retro, spectacular, scary, psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The House on the Slope (2019)
Plot Summary:
Yamazaki Risako lives with her husband Yoichiro and 3-year-old daughter Fumika. One day, she receives a notification from the court that she has been selected as an alternate member of the jury for a shocking criminal case. The defendant in the case is Ando Mizuho, a full-time housewife who is the same age as Risako. She is on trial for causing the death of her 8-month-old daughter by dropping her into the bathtub. As a mother herself, Risako feels repulsed that Mizuho killed her own child. However, after the trial opens, Mizuho’s circumstances remind Risako of her own past and she soon becomes confused with the chaotic feelings that have lain dormant in her. (Source: jdramas.wordpress.com).
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Murder at the Presidio (2005)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the only homicide committed on the famed San Francisco Military base. A military Criminal Investigations Officer goes beyond his orders to get to the facts behind what appears to be a robbery-motivated killing. What he finds may well unravel his damaged mental health.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic
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Duress (2009)
Plot Summary:
Haunted with nightmares of his wife's recent suicide and struggling to mend the relationship with his only daughter, Richard is caught as a witness to the violence of Abner Solvie. He finds himself at the mercy of a charismatic killer and plagued by his involvement in the city's recent murders. As Abner's new found protégé, Richard is forced to adopt the mind of his sociopathic mentor in order to protect the one he loves. Richard must decide if he's willing to kill in order to keep his daughter alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Columbus Day (2008)
Plot Summary:
A thief tries to fix the damage done during the biggest heist of his career.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
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The First Deadly Sin (1980)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, neo noir, surprise ending, slasher, independent film, detective
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Trespassers (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two dysfunctional couples rent a modern luxury desert home for the weekend hoping to sort out their messed-up lives. Just as they are about to settle in for a fun night, a neighbour turns up at their front door saying she has car trouble. And that's when the murderous trouble really starts. Because without knowing it, the four friends have landed slap-bang in the wrong violent place at precisely the wrong bloody time. Hopefully your nerves of steel will hold for one of the most stylish, atmospheric and terror-filled home invasion horrors of them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, brutal, slasher
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Dead in the Water (2002)
Plot Summary:
Young, rich, and randy Gloria (Dominique Swain) takes the family motorboat for some fun in the sun off the coast of Brazil. Along with her are her longtime boyfriend Danny (Scott Bairstow), his best friend Jeff (Henry Thomas), and the son of an important and infinitely influential client, Marcos (Sebastian DeVicente). It probably wasn't a good idea to take three gorgeous men the same age out on a boat with a bikini-clad beauty who lately has been questioning her relationship with her main squeeze, but it gets even worse than expected. There's tragedy, betrayal, and more tragedy as the faulty value systems of the wealthy brats spin out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspense
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Domestic Disturbance (2001)
Plot Summary:
A divorced father discovers that his 12-year-old son's new stepfather is not what he made himself out to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, depressing, suspense thriller, rough, bleak, serious
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Beeper (2002)
Plot Summary:
Richard Avery, whose young son is kidnapped while they travel in India. Embarking on a desperate quest to rescue him, and with a beeper providing his only lead, Avery seeks help from unlikely sources, including a drug lord and a beautiful but dangerous woman named Julia.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, tense, bleak, realistic
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Pusher (1996)
Plot Summary:
A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, talky, intense, rough, captivating, suspenseful, neo noir, serious, cynical
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The Hitcher (2007)
Plot Summary:
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the young couple with a knife, but Jim succeeds to throw him out of the car on the road. On the next morning, the young couple sees John in another car.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, road movie, suspense, rough, psychological, intense, teen, dark, psychological thriller
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Felon (2008)
Plot Summary:
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: brutal, realistic, tense, emotional, serious, sincere, social, grindhouse, cerebral, rough
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Bound (1996)
Plot Summary:
Corky, a tough female ex con and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caesar.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, erotic, suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tricky, sexual, psychosexual thriller
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Sin City (2005)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 788000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, surreal, dark, bleak, anthology, visual, bloody, visually stunning, brutal
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Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Plot Summary:
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: stylized, neo noir, dark comedy, suspense, talky, non-linear, brutal, cult classic, tense, independent film
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The Queen of Hollywood Blvd (2017)
Plot Summary:
On her 60th birthday, the proud owner of a Los Angeles strip club, finds herself in hot water over a twenty-five year old debt to the mob, leading her on a downward spiral of violence and revenge through the underbelly of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing