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Plot Summary:
Ronnie Schwann is a 20-something with a comfortable life in a guesthouse behind his mother's home. The two share cigarettes, drugs and too much TV. During the day he works at a halfway home for the mentally ill where he develops an attraction for one of the patients, Sarah. When Sarah wanders through the neighborhood one day, lost and scared, Ronnie Ronnie brings her into his bedroom and plans to seduce her. Things go horribly wrong and Ronnie finds himself forced to cover up his plan. This edgy indie thriller explores Ronnie's 24-hour experience of life, love, death and the strong probability of a very long prison term.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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
Plot tags:
Similar in 84%
Kidnapped (1987)
Plot Summary:
A sister is kidnapped on her 16th Birthday.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 82%
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
Plot tags:
Similar in 81%
The Stranger Within (1990)
Plot Summary:
A troubled young man mysteriously appears in a rural Minnesota town from which he claims he was abducted 16 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, neo noir, crying
Similar in 78%
Benzersiz (2017)
Plot Summary:
A pharmacist (Cemal Hunal) who lives in an Anatolian city with his mother and daughter had a terrible case in his pharmacy shop while he was on duty with his assistants. He both mentally and physically goes through a trauma. He stays in a coma for months and when he wakes up, things will never be the same again.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Hollywood Beach Murders (1992)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - Two cops are sent cross-country by train (on board the titular Hollywood Beach) to return a suspect in a murder case that's been closed. But a brutal murder that has all the earmarks of the one just solved, along with the presence of a crime boss on board the train, plants a seed of doubt in the cops' minds as to whether the original murderer is still on the loose. Stars Frank Gorshin and Rebecca Holden. Directed by Eric Straton. - Frank Gorshin, Rebecca Holden, David Regal.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 84%
The Last Bid (2016)
Plot Summary:
When two female friends decide to try their hand at a storage locker auction, they unwittingly inherit a locker belonging to a dangerous serial killer. They soon find themselves in a desperate race to uncover the truth about the locker before the killer tracks them down.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 89%
Strike A Pose (1993)
Plot Summary:
A famous fashion photographer and her lover, ace detective Nick Carter, team up to bring the vengeful killer of prominent fashion models to justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
Similar in 89%
Sand Trap (1997)
Plot Summary:
After falling victim to a burglar, Nelson, a wealthy businessman, takes a trip to the desert with his wife Margo and lawyer/friend Jack. The trip takes an unexpected turn when Jack helps Nelson over a cliff. Jack and Margo return to the site with the sheriff only to discover Nelson's body is missing, indicating he is still alive. As Nelson struggles to survive against madness and the elements, two separate searches for him are conducted--one by an increasingly suspicious sheriff and the other by the treacherous Margo and Jack.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 78%
The Face of Fear (1990)
Plot Summary:
Graham Harris was once one of the world's foremost mountain climbers, until a fall five years earlier left him with a lame leg, a fear of heights...and a frightening psychic ability in which he can see murders as they are happening.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
Similar in 83%
The Pass (1998)
Plot Summary:
A businessman with a compulsive gambling problem which has led to his wife leaving him, travels to Reno, Nevada for some gambling therapy which takes a turn when he picks up a psychotic serial killer posing as a hitchhiker.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
Run If You Can (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young woman accidentally sees snuff films through a satellite dish aberration and alerts the police, who are already looking for a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
Similar in 82%
Dimension in Fear (1998)
Plot Summary:
Escaped murderer Cal Lewis wants revenge for those responsible for him being put away. Enroute from Texas to Las Vegas he crosses paths with young TV news reporter Deidre Holland who quickly becomes his target.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense
Similar in 85%
Midnight Fear (1991)
Plot Summary:
A sheriff tracks down a killer who skinned a woman alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, detective
Similar in 89%
Badge Of Fear (1997)
Plot Summary:
A policewoman gets involved with the actor she was supposed to protect.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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
Similar in 76%
Caboose (1996)
Plot Summary:
An abandoned caboose becomes a junkie's hideout, a multiple murder has been committed. A police investigation leads nowhere, the crime remains unsolved, and Marceau, a hardened cop, resigns in the aftermath. But his troubles don't end there: someone is stalking him and his life is in danger. To save himself, Marceau recruits Camille, a young woman drummed out of the police academy for her inability to fire a gun. They make a pact: Camille agrees to flush out Marceau's potential murderer and Marceau, in exchange, undertakes to remunerate and train her. Camille plunges into Marceau's seedy underworld and encounters a raft of suspects. As Camille sinks deeper and deeper into this sordid world, she comes to terms with its violence and understands that the line between good and evil is narrow indeed. From this insight she draws the strength that had previously eluded her. Marceau's legacy... But who, exactly, is Marceau?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir
Similar in 86%
Rainbow Drive (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 77%
Distant Cousins (1993)
Plot Summary:
Kate's husband Richard hasn't seen his cousin Harry for 20 years. So when he comes to stay with his fiancee Connie they are welcomed. But Kate senses her family is at risk when they start behaving suspiciously.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
Michael Carlin, a teacher, has been having an affair with a much younger fellow teacher Carolyn Warmus. When his wife is murdered, the police suspect him due to inconsistencies in his alibi, and no evidence points to anyone else.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (1992)
Plot Summary:
A man (Rick Worthington) assaults the Alta Vista Hospital taking four women, a man and two babies as hostages. He wants to kill Dr. Garrick, who, according to Worthington, ruined his life sterilizing his wife. He threatens to detonate a bomb. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 79%
Stealing Candy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Three ex-cons kidnap a famous movie star and force her to film a sex tape live on the internet for a paying audience.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexploitation film
Similar in 77%
Deep Down (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young musician with a talent for all things electrical spies on his sexy neighbor with a penchant for skinny dipping in the pool in broad daylight and her obviously violent husband. He is so violent that in the opening sequence he murders a man for talking with his mouth full of food. As the soft-core sex film advances, she gets involved sexually with the much younger man, all the while luring him into a trap involving the murder of her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
Similar in 76%
Cat in the Cage (1978)
Plot Summary:
A young man returns to his rich family's estate after a stay in a mental hospital. He finds that his father has married his deceased wife's nurse, who is secretly plotting with her lover.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 86%
Stranger by Night (1994)
Plot Summary:
Detective Bobby Corcoran (Steven Bauer) and his partner, Detective Larson (Michael Parks), are on the hunt for a vicious serial killer in this tense police thriller. As the murderous villain stalks the city streets leaving carnage in his wake, Corcoran begins to experience blackouts and sudden fits of anger. As the detectives pursue the case, they uncover evidence suggesting that one of them may be responsible for the mysterious deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, mystical
Similar in 80%
Sunset Grill (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ryder Hart is a private investigator and former police officer who is down on his luck and drinks too much. His estranged wife Anita runs a bar and restaurant called the Sunset Grill and is romantically involved with a cop who worked with Hart.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 90%
Watchful Eye (2002)
Plot Summary:
Malibu detective Shannon (Renee Rea) goes undercover in a group house to discover who murdered one of the women living there. Shannon gets caught up in the sex and parties, not knowing that her every action is being secretly broadcast on satellite TV. When she learns of the broadcast, she puts the clues together and figures out that the men living in the house have sex with all the women for all the world to see. And that's when her life becomes slated for cancellation.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, detective, realistic, sexual, sexy
Similar in 89%
Final Move (2006)
Plot Summary:
The LA police are baffled: someone is killing people who have been found innocent of violent crimes. At the crime scenes, DNA evidence and clues linked to chess point to a suspect who's dead, recently executed for murders with a similar M.O. The cops call on Dan Marlowe, an ex-cop with psychic gifts, in an asylum after the trauma of the initial investigation. His wife wants him to say no; her brother is his former partner, who leans on Dan to help. Dan's ex-lover, an FBI agent, is also on the case, and behind the scenes is Myron, Dan's chess partner at the asylum. The game turns more deadly when Dan and family become the target. Did the cops initially get the wrong man?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, fast, psychological thriller, psycho film
Similar in 78%
Intimate Stranger (1991)
Plot Summary:
A policeman (James Russo) guards a barroom singer (Deborah Harry) whose phone-sex sideline has put a killer (Tim Thomerson) on her trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Bad Karma (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ray Liotta stars as Jack Malloy, a hardcore career criminal until a near-death experience causes him to turn his world around. But when his former partner Drake is released from prison, he tracks Jack down to blackmail him into one last job. Jack is a new man determined to lead an honest life. Drake is a charming psycho intent on vengeance. Sometimes, old friends can carry some extreme baggage. And for one of them, coming to terms with the past is going to be murder. Vanessa Gray and Andy McPhee co-star in this taut action/drama about good intentions, dark secrets and the harsh consequences of BAD KARMA.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic