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Plot Summary:
On a camping trip, Dora disappears. While friends search for her, Dora's husband Spencer and best friend Lydia discover they are attracted to each other. Their friends notice and become suspicious. The detective, Michelle Tierney is convinced that Spencer and Lydia are guilty as Dora has life insurance worth two million dollars and Spencer is one million dollars in debt. As it turns out, Dora ran away and had been staying with a friend. Upon her return, she becomes suspicious of Spencer and Lydia's affair. Dora confronts Lydia. They argue and Dora falls down a staircase to her death. Spencer and Lydia are prime suspects in conspiring to murder her. Tierney is determined to bring them to justice. She spearheads the filing of a criminal complaint against them. She finds out that Spencer's first wife committed suicide and he might have been responsible. Tierney also shows Lydia pictures of Spencer with another woman and implies he may be using Lydia. Lydia confronts Spencer. He tries to.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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In Pursuit (2000)
Plot Summary:
An attorney is accused of murdering a powerful man after having an affair with his sultry wife.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Thriller, Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, exciting, captivating, melancholic, independent film
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Sandcastles (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young man who dies in an auto accident returns from the dead to meet up with the young woman who tried to save him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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The Very Edge (1963)
Plot Summary:
Tracey Lawrence is assautled in her home and is so affected by the traumatic event she now finds all men totally repulsive, including her husband. Her attitude does not change with time, and to make matters worse her husband has got romantically involved with his secretary. Also, the police still have not tracked down Tracey's attacker and there is no guarantee that she is safe.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: noir, detective, independent film
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Dangerous Heart (1994)
Plot Summary:
A cop begins to turn to booze and cocaine during a tough undercover assignment. When a big drug-buy goes sour and the cop ends up with a million in cash, he decides to take off with the money. The drug dealer catches up with him, but he dies before revealing where he stashed the cash. Months later, the drug dealer finds the cop's wife and seduces her, in an effort to find his missing million. In the process, he falls in love with her and alienates his former partners in crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Love Me Strangely (1971)
Plot Summary:
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Devil Angel (1995)
Plot Summary:
Chi Kit worked in a stock company. One day, the stock market crashed and Chi Kit ran into bankruptcy. He called his girlfriend Siu Suen and told her everything. Siu Suen loved Chi Kit so much that she took all her savings and ran away with him to Singapore to hide away from their debts. Unfortunately, Chi Kit met a wealthy woman with an interesting proposal, and it changed everything.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Model Shop (1969)
Plot Summary:
While trying to raise money to prevent his car from being repossessed, George is attracted to Lola, a Frenchwoman who works in a "model shop" (an establishment which rents out beautiful pin-up models to photographers). George spends his last twelve dollars to photograph her, and discovers that she is as unhappy as he.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, art house, realistic
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Nora Roberts' Angels Fall (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman starts a new life in a small Wyoming mountain town after suffering a traumatic event on the other side of the country - but one day, she witnesses a murder in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, touching, emotional, gloomy, psychological
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Love and Love Not (2022)
Plot Summary:
There are two places Nicky Leandro calls home each reinforcing a particular facet of his personality: the red-blooded New Yorker and the L.A. transplant. Up until now each have done a fine job of compartmentalizing themselves. That is until Lily, an old flame, gets a hold of him right as he's about to head home for the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
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Crime of Crimes (1989)
Plot Summary:
A Latino family new to Los Angeles find itself in trouble when the husband is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. His pregnant wife winds up in the hospital, and his little daughter is kidnapped by a child molester.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hawas (2004)
Plot Summary:
Raj Mittal and his wife Sapna reside in Dubai, where Raj works for a British firm. To make money, he works day and night, leaving Sapna alone. Sapna then embarks on an extramarital affair with a stranger, leading to emotional turmoil and eventually, murder.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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Kill Me Later (2001)
Plot Summary:
Her goldfish dead, her lover exposed as a rat, Shawn Holloway leaves her bank post and goes to the roof intent on suicide. Before she can leap, she's taken hostage by Charlie Anders, a fleeing bank robber. He and his partners have stolen a million in cash and plan to escape to Venezuela. Shawn agrees to cooperate if Charlie promises to kill her once he's in the clear. Parts of the plan go awry, so Charlie has time to try to pierce her bleak manner and self pity, and she has time for reflection. As night falls, their interlude ends: they're each alone, Charlie facing prison as the police close in, and Shawn staring down at a river from atop a high bridge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, tense, serious, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, neo noir, detective, suspenseful
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Retina (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman participates in a medical study. After a series of nightmares and unusual side effects, the line between dreams and reality is blurred. She finds herself on the run from those involved, desperate to uncover the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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Inner Sanctum II (1994)
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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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Cold Heart Canyon (2008)
Plot Summary:
In L.A.'s Laurel Canyon, Karen has a dream that her sister Heather is in danger, but Heather seems safe enough, having just moved to a remote spur of the canyon to distance herself from her ex-husband. She's a writer, and she's soon met several men - Marcus, who helps her the day she moves in, neighbors Daniel and Marisa for whom she cooks dinner, and Michael her landlord who cleans her pool weekly. Daniel warns her away from Marcus even as he makes a play for her and invites her to participate in sexual escapades - some enjoyable, some not. Then it becomes clear that Karen's anxiety dream was prescient. Who can Heather trust, and does she figure it out too late?.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, erotic, realistic, sexual, independent film, light
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Only For One Night (2016)
Plot Summary:
A married womans husband with a perfect life cheats with her sister with extreme consequences befalling them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, emotional, suspense
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Exit in Red (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ed Altman is a psychiatrist who relocates to Palm Springs, Calif., in order to avoid a lawsuit. However, he happens to wander directly into more trouble when he begins an affair with the rich and beautiful Ally Mercer (Annabel Schofield), who has her own reasons for becoming involved with Ed. Soon Ally's other lover, the volatile Nick, is caught in the intrigue, which results in murder, betrayal and numerous shady dealings.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, psychological, independent film, stylized, sexual, surprise ending, sexy
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The Killing Time (1987)
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After bagging his latest victim, a murderous sociopath (Kiefer Sutherland) decides to steal the dead man's identity and pose as the deputy of a remote coastal town, where the local sheriff (Beau Bridges) and his lover (Camelia Kath) are cooking up a few misdeeds of their own: namely, to kill the mistress's husband (Wayne Rogers) and pin the crime on the fledgling deputy. But in this town of half-truths, nobody's secret is safe.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film, mind bending, eighties
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Down in the Valley (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a trip to the beach, a teenage girl named Tobe meets a charismatic stranger named Harlan, who dresses like a cowboy and claims to be a former ranch hand. The pair feel an instant attraction and begin a relationship, but her father, a lawman, is suspicious of her lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
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Plot Summary:
A young woman trapped in an abusive relationship becomes an unwitting participant in an intervention staged by her two closest friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A powerful and seductive Hollywood mogul convinces an impoverished West Hollywood writer, whose lover has recently died of AIDS, to sell his autobiographical screenplay for big bucks. The writer, Robert, knows he'll have to make major changes in the script (like changing the sex of the dying lover). During the rewrite, the producer, Jeffrey, takes Robert under his wing, introducing him to his wife Elaine, herself a closet screenwriter. Jeffrey approaches Robert for sex and Elaine approaches Robert out of curiosity about his sex life in grief. The entangled triangle of relationships threatens more than the completion of a film script. Written by.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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The Perfect Guy (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Plot Summary:
Set in the glamour of the New York and Paris art scenes, gallery owner Brooke Gatwick and her newscaster husband Owen Shore, face temptation, jealousy, twists and mystery when two seductive newcomers enter their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, romantic, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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Shadow Hours (2000)
Plot Summary:
Michael is a recovering addict. Back on the wagon, he's now responsible for a young, beautiful, and pregnant wife. He's working the graveyard shift at a gas station to support his new family, but the job drives him crazy. Then a wealthy stranger, Stuart, enters Michael's life, taking Michael through a tour of the seediest and slimiest parts of L.A. underbelly. Is Stuart leading Michael to hell, or salvation?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, neo noir, rough, psychological thriller
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The Ledge (2011)
Plot Summary:
A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Saudi Arabia, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, emotional, sincere, psychological thriller, inspirational, sexy, sad, suspenseful, surreal
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Zandalee (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative and egotistical Johhny and becomes enmeshed in a sensual, passionate and destructive affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, suspense, suspenseful, retro, neo noir, controversial
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Addicted (2014)
Plot Summary:
A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, serious, realistic, erotic, sexual, captivating, romantic, spiritual, dark
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Final Analysis (1992)
Plot Summary:
Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married to a gangster. She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, psychological, twist ending, enigmatic, suspense, intense
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The Human Stain (2003)
Plot Summary:
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, erotic, sexy, melancholic, talky, intellectual, sincere, serious, clever
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Unfaithful (2002)
Plot Summary:
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, suspenseful, sensual, gloomy, psychological, suspense, psychosexual thriller