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Plot Summary:
Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that reaches back into the dark German history of the 1940s.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 103 min
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Expose (1997)
Plot Summary:
An enterprising Senator's daughter realizes she can make money by venturing into the seedy side of politics. With the help of two sexy friends, she sets up a thriving blackmail business videotaping her father's political colleages in compromising positions. When a sadistic lobbyist wants his share of the money... the action really heats up.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
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Midnight Temptations (1995)
Plot Summary:
April is a fashion designer who is in a design contest and is determined to win. Her main competitor is childhood acquaintance Danny.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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The Suspect (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fenton, California is shocked when local lawyer Paul James, a model citizen and house-father considering to stand in municipal elections, is shot in his instantly torched car in front of his home. His second wife Beth is arrested and charged after cash and the murder weapon, Paul's own gun, are found. Insurance investigator Jerry Calhoun, a former cop, on the case because Paul had a life insurance since three weeks, realizes lazy police detective Rhodes's utter incompetence. When Beth escapes, even step-daughter Robin still reports her to the police. Calhoun however makes sure the truth is discovered starting from blackmail and embezzlement Paul was involved in.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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Like a Moth to a Flame (2009)
Plot Summary:
An erotically charged thriller composed of three short films. In Our Darkest Moments mixes wry humor and tense drama as it chronicles the sleazy exploits of a hunky, closeted married man who cruises seedy bookstores and sex dens. He begins an affair with a dangerous teenager, unaware of the disastrous effects it will have on his life. In the Dark, Softly, directed by Joe Rubin, is a love story (of sorts), chronicling a young man's obsession with a local serial killer. And in the final film, In Deep, the police are trying to catch a murderer who preys on lonely men and then offs them with his extraordinarily large appendage. Maybe this killer is more than he seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, homoerotic
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HUSH LITTLE BABY (1994)
Plot Summary:
Eddie's baby girl, Susan, was taken from her arms when she was put into a mental hospital for attempted murder on her baby daughter! Thirty five years down the track Eddie is released and tracks her daughter down. She enters her daughters household and destroys her relationship with her adoptive parents. She is eventually found to be evil, in Susan's eyes and must face a harsh reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
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The Sandman (1995)
Plot Summary:
The ambitious young Ina Littmann is an investigative journalist for the TV talk show "Eye in Eye". Her current subject is Henry Kupfer, who wrote a bestseller about a psychopathic killer after he was himself in prison for 8 years for manslaughter. As an entry for the show Ina plans to use a current series of brutal murders among prostitutes. When Ina meets Kupfer, she is despised and fascinated at the same time. Soon she's convinced that Kupfer not only writes about murders, but commits them himself. She smells a smash hit and prepares to prove him guilty on the show.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
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The Preacher's Mistress (2013)
Plot Summary:
Single mother gets involved with a married preacher and framed for his wife's murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Intimate Nights (1998)
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Who Killed Buddy Blue? (1995)
Plot Summary:
Detectives Munro and Sanders are assigned to investigate the murder of an adult film star named Buddy Blue. The hunk was actually killed during the shooting of an orgy scene.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Graphic Desires (2022)
Plot Summary:
When reclusive Franklin cheats on his partner with a mysterious girl he meets on a dating app, it becomes the start of a deadly obsession.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
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Verso (2009)
Plot Summary:
Alex appartient à une unité d’élite de la police de Genève. Lorsque Victor, son ancien coéquipier, sort de prison, Alex est rattrapé par son passé. Il a témoigné contre Victor, et craint des représailles. L’ex-flic est engagé comme homme de main d’un puissant chef mafieux. Alex décide de le suivre, sans en référer à ses supérieurs, et entame une longue descente aux enfers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
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King of Sorrow (2007)
Plot Summary:
Redemption and damnation share a bed of hope in a love story between a suicidal psychiatrist and a drug addicted homicidal cop. How far can one fall, how bad can one become and still find forgiveness?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
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Venus Flytrap (1987)
Plot Summary:
Three street punks--Turk, his girlfriend BB., and his sidekick Wimp--observe two young affluent kids, Ginger and Danny, shoplifting from a record store. On a lark, the street kids invite themselves along to a party at the home of the yuppies' friends, Rod and Arlene. There the party games turn from strip darts to Russian roulette.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, surprise ending
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For Love or Murder (1970)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy, eccentric chemical company owner sends his woman to get an American writer to take a mind control drug, Kemek, to verify its potential. She accomplishes her mission, but falls totally in love with the writer. The chemical magnate, satisfied with the results of the test, rewards her with murder, just as she is about to flee to Naples with her new lover. Her ex-husband and a private detective track the killer behind it all to a remote hideaway to unravel the solution.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Thriller
Country: West Germany, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, rough, serious, realistic
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The Detective and Death (1994)
Plot Summary:
Death never gives back what it takes. Only sometimes change one life for other.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain, Poland, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: detective
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Crimen en familia (1985)
Plot Summary:
A wife and her kids plan the killing of the abusive husband and father. Based on a real crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
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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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Reckless (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ex-cons Victor and Rico have masterminded a foolproof plan to abduct millonaires’ daughter Laura Temming. When she is kidnapped and placed in a remote and soundproofed room, gradually the power relations shift. Exactly who is the perpetrator and who is the real victim?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
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Night Vision (2011)
Plot Summary:
A womanizing reality-TV producer (Spencer) unwittingly sleeps with a mysterious woman (Alison), who turns out to be his own stalker. Alison then kidnaps Spencer and holds him hostage while she humiliates and abuses him, recording every moment on camera for her own twisted reality-TV show.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Rough Mix (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set within the confines of the sleek affluent world of the Singapore music business, wine collectors, high fashion and tai-tai society, retired singer Janielle embarks upon a perilous course of action that results in deadly and unforeseen consequences when she attempts to reignite her career and love life.
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Genere: Thriller
Country: Singapore
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Wrong Woman (1995)
Plot Summary:
A temporary secretary is wrongly accused of killing her boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Identical (2011)
Plot Summary:
Identical twins are born, one is good and one is evil. They need each-other to exist, but they deeply resent the others existence. They both fall in love with the same woman. A love triangle forms which leads to murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
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In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (1986)
Plot Summary:
300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang, and the government hides the dead. Pierre Clémenti’s In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (À l’ombre de la canaille bleue) is an experimental crime film considered to be a landmark of Parisian underground cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Cries of Pleasure (1983)
Plot Summary:
A man invites a woman to his house to live with him, just before the arrival of his wife who is coming back from the insane asylum.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, surprise ending, independent film, sexploitation film
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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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Bedroom Eyes II (1989)
Plot Summary:
This sequel to 1986's Bedroom Eyes is the mixture as before, with Wings Hauser replacing the first film's star Kenneth Gilman. Once again, stockbroker Hauser begins succumbing to his chronic voyeurism. And also once again, his obsession gets him mixed up in a murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, surprise ending, independent film
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Vivid (1999)
Plot Summary:
When a passionate young model convinces her boyfriend, a painter, to take to the canvas to renew their sexual chemistry, their erotic, uninhibited masterpieces command the attention of the art world. Smothered in paint, the couple slip and slide into a new realm of their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Visions (2023)
Plot Summary:
An experienced airline pilot, Estelle leads a perfect life between long-haul flights with her loving, protective husband Guillaume. One day, by chance, in an airport corridor, she crosses paths with Ana, a photographer with whom she had a passionate affair twenty years earlier. Little does Estelle know that this reunion will send her into a nightmarish spiral, turning her life upside down and irrational.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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Impact Point (2008)
Plot Summary:
Pro Beach Volleyball star, Kelly Reyes, faces challenges everyday, fierce competitors, the press, but nothing could prepare her for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary
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Mississippi Murder (2017)
Plot Summary:
An amazing murder mystery taking place in a setting that no one would expect the coast of Mississippi. A young woman tried to live a normal life despite a horrible upbringing. But she will learn her past will haunt her once more.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing