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Plot Summary:
Swarthy Paul Yeager arrives in New Orleans, and promptly gets a job bartending at La Cage du Verre, a show bar where his former girlfriend Jacqueline is a dancer and the moll of its sadistic owner, Marko. He and Jacqueline smuggle diamonds and drugs, with the local police detective in on the take. Even though Paul is ex-CIA, he's not undercover, he just wants to win Jacqueline back. His CIA pals from black ops are on hand hoping to arrest Marko's boss. Detective Montrachet finds out Paul's past and sets up a double cross. Her aims are less clear: to get back with Paul, to stay with Marko, or to run her own scam and scamper away?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Uncaged (1991)
Plot Summary:
Miki and her younger brother Robby flee their destructive home and find themselves in the towering metropolis, Los Angeles. There, they meet Sharkey, a pimp. Miki becomes infatuated with Sharkey and starts to work for him. Miki finds herself trapped in Sharkey's dominating world and must find a way to escape the nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Midnight Tease II (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jennifer Brennan gets a job at a strip club to try and find out who killed her sister. She works with undercover cop John Donnelly and befriends other strippers some of whom also get murdered by a very unhappy murdering murderer.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Final Judgement (1992)
Plot Summary:
A priest is suspected in the brutal murder of a young stripper. To prove his innocence, he descends into the world of strip clubs and pornography, hoping to catch the killer. The priest is hampered by the police and taunted by the killer. A friend of the stripper tries to help him before another life is claimed.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Exit (1996)
Plot Summary:
An attempted burglary of a strip club goes awry when one of the three burglars kills a man who draws a gun. This results in the trio taking the dancers and the customers hostage. Why the robbers don't go ahead and escape when the shooting occurs is beyond the viewer. Then all the hostages escape and hide in the club's refrigerator which sort of indicates the intelligence of the stick-up men. Unfortunately, the cops outside are no more intelligent as they stand around outside wondering what to do as one of the strippers who was released crawls back into an extremely large venting system for a small club and rescues the hostages with the help of an ex-cop held inside the club.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Magenta (1997)
Plot Summary:
Magenta, a precocious teenage girl, will stop at nothing to have her desires met in this thriller by Gregory C. Haynes. Michael seems to have it all, that is, until Magenta, his wife's sister, comes into the picture. When Magenta seduces Michael into an illicit affair, his wife and daughter leave him -- and get killed in a car accident. As Michael tries to piece his life back together, he finds out some dark secrets about his own daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sheer Passion (1998)
Plot Summary:
A lingerie model has been strangled inside a wealthy fashion designer's house, and the designer is the obvious suspect. When the police appear to be dragging their feet on the investigation, private detective Cassandra decides to do her own investigation, posing as a model.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sex comedy, sexual, sensual, independent film
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Dark Side of Genius (1994)
Plot Summary:
Julian Jons is a talented but troubled young artist. He has just been released from an asylum, where he has spent the last seven years for the murder of Anna, his girlfriend/model. Attempting to start painting again, he is pursued by journalist Jennifer Cole, who is intrigued by this complex, brooding man. Against the backdrop of the modern art world, she begins to dig into the past, fully aware that it holds painful memories for Julian, and perhaps danger for herself.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Fatal Past (1994)
Plot Summary:
A mobster's mistress and her bodyguard share a forbidden love and discover they may be doomed by an ominous past life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film
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Sexual Response (1992)
Plot Summary:
A radio call-in host helps people with their relationships, but finds her own marriage lacking. A man approaches her in a bar.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Plot Summary:
First-class fashion model Emanuelle Griffith is missing. Richard Tate knows exactly where she is and plans to keep her there until she knows her place: subordinate to men. But Emannuelle is waiting for her chance to turn his obsession. That one second of passion in which the prisoner becomes the hostage taker.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychosexual thriller, erotic, independent film, cult film
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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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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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Plot Summary:
erotic thriller from 1996.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Last Call (1991)
Plot Summary:
As a little girl, Cindy had to witness how the shady estate agent Jason Laurence killed her mother. In the 22 years since then, he was never called to account for this crime. So Cindy decides to take vengeance herself.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The First 9 1/2 Weeks (1998)
Plot Summary:
An investment banker travels to Louisiana to snag the account of an eccentric millionaire but gets involved with his lusty wife, Mardi Gras, and (possibly) a satanic cult. The events in and around New Orleans change him forever and give a new slant on The American Dream.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Mutual Needs (1997)
Plot Summary:
A man who hires a sexy escort to play his wife at his high school reunion gets more than he bargains for, especially when she takes him for everything he's got.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Playback (1996)
Plot Summary:
Karen --a beautiful, ambitious, ruthless, senior executive-- is determined to take over this merger at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent 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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Plot Summary:
A man is torn between two women and his own violent self, born of child abuse.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychotronic, independent film, hot, cult film
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Illicit Dreams 2 (1997)
Plot Summary:
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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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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, erotic
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Night Eyes Four: Fatal Passion (1996)
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IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Dark Secrets (1996)
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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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Masseuse (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jack is a real scum-bag who is going to marry Kristy. He has a bad habit of sleeping with other women and stealing all of her money. Two weeks before their marriage, Kristy sees Jack having sex with their maid, Rosa. It turns out that he was threatening Rosa into having sex as well as his secretary Diane. When he goes away on business, Kristy, Rosa, and Diane devise a way to get him back for all of the things he has put them through. They also decide to turn his house into a special massage parlor for a few nights so Kristy can try to make some of the money back that Jack stole from her.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sensual, independent film, sexual
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Point of Seduction III: Body Chemistry (1994)
Plot Summary:
Movie producer Alan Clay wants to make a movie about Dr. Claire Archer and her amazing life story (she's been 'forced' to kill two men in self defence). Claire falls for Alan, and Alan cannot resist temptation, so now he's hiding an affair from wife Beth. When the movie writer's investigations uncover new facts in the killings, Claire senses the danger, and responds.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, psychotronic, hot, sexploitation film
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Sensation (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lila a college student discovers a latent ability to see into the past. When a professor hires her for some psychological tests she becomes the target of the killer of the woman she sees in her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Kept (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dead bodies are piling up, and the leads the two LA homicide cops have point to Barbara, business manager for a successful architectural firm she runs with her husband Lance. The dead men were interns at the firm, and each of them was Barbara's lover (kept in a classy flat she owns and observed via closed-circuit TV by the applauding Lance). Kyle is Barbara's latest intern and lover, and he may be in danger. He also starts to fall in love with Barbara, and the feeling may be mutual. In the background are Erin, Lance and Barbara's myopic administrative assistant, and Tony, Kyle's one-time roommate who also knows Barbara. Can the cops solve this before too many more die?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, touching, bleak, captivating, disturbing
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Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure (1995)
Plot Summary:
TV producer CLAIR ARCHER, charged with the murder of her co-producer, hires top attorney Simon Mitchell to defend her. Though happily married, Simon falls for Clair's seductive wiles and then, in the middle of the trial and the torrid affair, discovers that Clair is guilty. Simon's associate, Lane, finds incriminating evidence against Clair. Simon tries to end the affair. But Clair cleverly sets up Lane so that when Clair kills Simon, Simon's wife suspects Lane -- and shoots her. Clair Archer is judged "not guilty" and walks away free.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, hot, cult film