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Plot Summary:
Vanessa Gravina is vapidly pretty as the heroine, who changes her hair color and hair style in order to escape an abusive painter husband and start a new life. She fakes her death by motorcar accident off a cliff, and the film heads downward from there, as surely as the vehicle plunges towards the Gothic waves-crashing-on-rocks below, set on the Greek island of Hydra.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Intruder (2016)
Plot Summary:
During one of Oregon's most violent storms, a young cellist seeks solitude and comfort in the safety of her large apartment, but soon realizes she might not be home alone.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic
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Tiny House of Terror (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the tragic disappearance and presumed death of her tech mogul husband, Samantha Hastings decides to escape from her fancy hi-tech house in Silicon Valley and move to a rustic and cozy tiny house, completely isolated from the prying eyes of the public. As she begins to adapt to her new lifestyle, Samantha's serenity is interrupted when she can't shake the feeling that she is being watched... exactly what her husband felt before his disappearance. Strange and unexplained terrors begin to happen in the tiny house until eventually Samantha's sanctuary becomes her prison with no way out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Raw Nerve (1991)
Plot Summary:
A race car driver has visions of the victims of a serial killer before their demise and tries to get a skeptic police detective and an ambitious reporter to help him find the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, detective, cult film, cult movie cast
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The Surrogate (1984)
Plot Summary:
Frank and Lee have marital problems: he's been impotent for 18 months, she alternates between sympathy and criticism. His temper gets the best of him, so he's seeing a psychotherapist who finds the anger and the impotence related. She recommends that Frank and Lee hire a mysterious European woman to lead them through fantasies intended to unlock passion and help them heal. At the same time this is going on, the police are investigating a series of stabbings: as corpses pile up, we wonder if Frank's temper may be behind this; or perhaps it's Eric, a cross-dressing neighbor and friend of Lee's; it may even be the European woman, who keeps popping up with new fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic, independent film
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Death Will Have Your Eyes (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who comes to Rome and soon drifts into de facto prostitution in order to survive. She meets a misanthropic doctor and would-be poet, but soon falls in love with another man. Murder ensues and she soon finds herself being blackmailed, sexually and financially, by her husband's shady driver, who saw something he shouldn't have.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic
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My Blood Runs Cold (1965)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insists upon calling her Barbara. Later, at the Merriday beach house, Julie's Aunt Sarah tells Julie that her great great grandmother was named Barbara, and furthermore, that ancestress had an illegitimate child fathered by one Benjamin Gunther.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult film
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Confessions Of A Call Girl (1998)
Plot Summary:
A call girl marries a politician only to have her secret life cause complications.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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When Passions Collide (1997)
Plot Summary:
When 2 young couples, Lisa and Ryan and Jack and Cindy head for the hills for an intimate weekend at a remote country house, things are looking hot, hot, hot. Unfortunately, while three of them are looking for carnal fun, Ryan is more interested in writing his new book. But the fireworks ignite when the irresistible force of passion confronts the barrier of Ryan's inhibitions. Soon relationships are tested beyond the breaking point and sometimes, the quiet conservative types pack the biggest surprises.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Devils in Disguise (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two roommates, Leila & Sandy, team up to kill Leila's sadistic boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, dark
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Terroir (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy wine maker Jonathan Bragg (Keith Carradine) hires Tuscan wine detective (Gaetano Guarino) to discover the source of a mysterious bottle of wine. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Matter of Trust (1998)
Plot Summary:
A prosecutor is building a case against a suspected serial killer. She receives death threats, but ignores them at first. When her husband disappears and someone blackmails her, she turns to her ex, a suspended homicide detective.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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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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Bizarre (1987)
Plot Summary:
A wife escapes her pressure-filled marriage only to have her husband haunt her literally and figuratively.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Escape Clause (1996)
Plot Summary:
A man finds out that his wife has paid $10,000 to have him killed. Then both the would-be killer and the wife turn up dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious... (1975)
Plot Summary:
Angela is not happy about her daddy's choice for a new wife and does everything she can to destroy her stepmother-to-be.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, slasher, sensual
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Deconstructing Sarah (1994)
Plot Summary:
Thriller about an advertising executive Kelley who leads a double life, looking for men in dive bars at night. However, when she goes missing, it causes her best friend Ticotin to turn detective and infiltrate the seedy underworld to discover what happened.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Naked Obsession (1990)
Plot Summary:
City-council member Franklin Carlyle is mugged, knocked down and left on an alley. When he recovers, he is befriended by an alcoholic who introduces him to a local strip-bar.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, erotic, independent film, sexual, sexy, cult film
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Web of Seduction (1999)
Plot Summary:
In this erotic tale of suspense, seduction, and murder, a cleaning woman finds herself working for two wives who are wealthy, idle, and ignored by their husbands. The maid persuades the two woman to kill each other's spouses and live happily ever after off the proceeds of their hubbies' valuable art collections. However, the plan does not go as expected, and the conspirators find that their own lives are in danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, hot, sexploitation film
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Ringer (1996)
Plot Summary:
In this thriller, a detective helps save a prostitute from a stalker. The gumshoe's investigation throws them into a world where no one is quite who they seem and where everyone has a shady past. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Scoring (1995)
Plot Summary:
Eric Lazlo is doing the musical score for a movie in which the female star tries to kill the male star using a variety of poisons, poisonous insects, poisonous snakes, etc. When Eric starts to see a prostitute, Abbey, he finds his life imitating art.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Secret Games 3 (1994)
Plot Summary:
A neglected housewife of a busy husband who is a doctor turns to prostitution to pass the time. One of her customers develops an obsession with her and begins stalking her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Fatal Temptation (1988)
Plot Summary:
A woman's husband is blinded in an auto accident, so she hires the other driver as a chauffeur. Then she catches her blind husband with his mistress so she seduces her new chauffeur into murdering him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Indecent Behavior III (1995)
Plot Summary:
A sex therapist finds herself forced to cooperate with the police in tracking down a killer who has been targeting other sex therapists by using her as a decoy.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: hot, sexploitation film
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Indecent Behavior (1993)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca Mathis is a sex therapist. One of her patients is found dead. At first it is presumed he died of a heart attack.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, detective, erotic, sexploitation film, hot
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Indecent Behavior II (1994)
Plot Summary:
Reporter Shoshona Reed is about to expose a number of people who have a lot to lose. Unfortunately, her cunning ways of getting stories by blackmailing people gets her killed.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, hot, sexploitation film
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Illicit Dreams 2 (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a man's wife dies, the new executive of his company makes a move. Though they know that sexual relations could cause problems, that does not stop them.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic
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The Seduction of Maxine (2000)
Plot Summary:
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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The Punishment (1973)
Plot Summary:
Britt, deluxe call-girl, is punished by the brothel owner because she was not accomodating enough to a customer. From now on, she must obey to all customers sadistic wishes, or else.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sadistic, sexploitation film
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The Other Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, romantic, romantic drama, bleak, gloomy
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Serenity (2019)
Plot Summary:
Baker Dill is a fishing boat captain leading tours off a tranquil, tropical enclave called Plymouth Island. His quiet life is shattered, however, when his ex-wife Karen tracks him down with a desperate plea for help.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, brutal, visually appealing, philosophical, mind bending