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Plot Summary:
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, cult film
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Earthquake Bird (2019)
Plot Summary:
Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, bleak, suspense, exciting, psychological thriller, depressing, crime drama, weird
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Hidden Pleasures (1989)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist is brutally raped and takes her revenge in a bizarre game of cat and mouse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Haunting Fear (1990)
Plot Summary:
Victoria can't sleep: she's having bad dreams about being buried alive. Her husband Terry makes her go see Dr. Carlton, who she blames for her father's death. Unable to help her, he asks Dr. Harcourt to try and unlock Victoria's mental block with hypnotism. Meanwhile Terry continues an affair with his secretary, and worries about paying off a huge gambling debt. Terry could pay off his debt and be with his secretary if he could just get his hands on Victoria's money somehow.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Boca (1994)
Plot Summary:
A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Passion of Berenice (1976)
Plot Summary:
Berenice (Navarro) is a woman with a mysterious past. A scar crosses her face and nightmares of fire and horses fill her lonely nights. She maybe killed her husband but nobody can be sure. In the present, Berenice lives with her godmother (Roldán) a money lender so fragile that she's always resting in her bed. The two women live in an almost perpetual seclusion, except on Sundays when they go to the church and to the movies. One day, the godmother's doctor dies and she asks Berenice to go to his velatory. There they meet Rodrigo (Armendáriz Jr.) the doctor's son, a handsome and free-spirited young man for whom Berenice falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: vintage
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Night Rhythms (1992)
Plot Summary:
Nick, a late night DJ, has sex with a listener that he's invited to the station. The session goes out over the air until something goes wrong. Nick wakes up to find a dead body and himself framed. Nick spends the rest of the movie having sex whilst trying to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, independent film, hot, cult film
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Descent Into Hell (1986)
Plot Summary:
The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, french noir
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Up Against Them All (2004)
Plot Summary:
A story about the lies, treachery and vengeance of a middle-class family living on the outskirts of São Paulo. Four characters try desperately to change their lives, but are unable to escape their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Forbidden Games (1995)
Plot Summary:
Michael is a private investigator with special psychic powers allowing him to subconsciously see clues in a case. He is hired to investigate the death of the very wealthy Charles who has a very healthy sum of money going to his wife and daughter. Michael needs to unravel the clues to see if Charles died accidentally or was murdered. There are several characters who may benefit from his death as well as a mistress and a nude modelling agency.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sensual, 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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El violador infernal (1988)
Plot Summary:
A notorious killer dies in the electric chair in a maximum security prison. So great was his evil that Satan offers him a deal. He will get to go back to Earth as long as he sacrifices people to the devil and carves 666 on them somewhere. The guy, of course, accepts and gets reborn in the body of a drug dealer. He begins a trail of carnage that lasts throughout the movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: controversial, neo noir, slasher, slasher horror
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Naked Surrender (2006)
Plot Summary:
Maisie Calloway, a sexy former policewoman, is now the owner of the hip club, Dames. When Ally, a sexy coed she employs confesses to being blackmailed, Maisie is plunged back into the world of investigation. As she unravels the dark erotic secrets around her, she puts her won life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psycho sexual, sexploitation film
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Call of the Blonde Goddess (1977)
Plot Summary:
Susan arrives in Haiti to live with her husband Jack, who lives with a lesbian housekeeper and Olga, a nymphomaniac platinum blonde, introduced to her as Jack's sister. Susan begins to have nightmares about voodoo ceremonies and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, naughty, sensual, perverse, twisted, sexploitation film
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Erotic Boundaries (1997)
Plot Summary:
A married woman seeks the fulfillment she can't find in her marriage by visiting a secret club where participants explore sexual boundaries.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective, sexploitation film
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Illicit Sensations (2000)
Plot Summary:
Robert is a successful architect who sleeps with every woman he meets. His wife Michelle can't stand her husband's infidelity and hires a private investigator to have solid proof of the affairs. But as the private investigator supplies her with the material to ask for a divorce, he and Michelle also start an affair of their own. As Michelle confronts her husband he promises her to be faithful if she remains with him. But the private investigator in love with Michelle and the secretary in love with Robert still have a role to play in this.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, emotional, disturbing, suspenseful
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Susanna (1996)
Plot Summary:
Before her brutal death, Susanna had been engaged to marry Moroccan immigrant Said. Before that, the confused recovering drug-addict had been involved with wine salesman Alex, an arrangement set up by her boss to repay a debt to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, neo noir, multicultural, suspense
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Angel Eyes (1993)
Plot Summary:
Angel is a disturbed teen who becomes obsessed with her nice stepfather Steven. After her mother dies under unusual circumstances, Angel is sent to an institution. Years later, she is let out and tracks down her dear step-dad who now lives with his new girlfriend Michelle. He is technically her only kin so he takes her in, but his girlfriend doesn't like Angel one bit. Angel's obsession with her "dad" is as strong as ever and she fantasizes about seducing him. After spying on him and his girlfriend having passionate sex, she begins playing a deadly game and even tries to seduce his hostile girlfriend. However, Steven has a more immediate and obvious problem - a drug dealer called Johnny Ventura.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent 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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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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Vipers (1998)
Plot Summary:
When Simon, a ruggedly handsome caretaker, takes a job at the lavish estate of world-renowned L.A. plastic surgeon, Dr. Trent Bortz, little does he suspect that he has stumbled into a nest of Vipers. But this ex-martial arts fighter discovers appearances can be truly deceiving.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Love Is a Gun (1994)
Plot Summary:
A model causes an obsessed police photographer to lose his girlfriend and become a murder suspect.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological thriller, independent film, detective, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, erotic
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Inner Sanctum II (1994)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic
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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 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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Death in a French Garden (1985)
Plot Summary:
The wealthy Tombsthays hire a guitar tutor, David Aurphet, for their daughter Vivian. The wife, Julia, begins a passionate affair with David. Edwige, Julia's new neighbour, also takes an interest in David. David is attacked one night on returning home but saved by a mysterious stranger Daniel who reveals himself to be a hired killer. David begins to suspect that his affair is no longer secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, sexy, slasher, anthology, surprise ending, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Carnal Sins (2001)
Plot Summary:
A bride-to-be plans on becoming more uninhibited in bed for her future husband. What she didn't plan on was a steamy affair with an erotica photographer to make her have second thoughts about her fiance. Another soft-core porn movie from Cinemax.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, independent film, sexploitation film
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Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspenseful, twist ending, sexy, tense, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller, surprise ending, psychological thriller
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Panama (2015)
Plot Summary:
A thriller that depicts how digital communication, pornography and vanity obstruct true emotions and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, serious, suspenseful, erotic, art house
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Dressed to Kill (1980)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious, tall, blonde woman, wearing sunglasses murders one of a psychiatrist's patients, and now she's after the prostitute who witnessed it.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, erotic, suspense, scary, sensual, slasher, psychological, tense, suspenseful