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Plot Summary:
Charlie Colquhoun is a journalist whose career is floundering. As a teenager, he fathered a daughter, Tommy, who was committed to foster care as an infant. Seventeen years later, Charlie, Tommy and Charlie's old schoolmate Harris Hill, now a squeaky-clean solicitor, are reunited by a scandal that includes child pornography, blackmail and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Footsteps (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young man called Andrew is forced to endure a bitter encounter with a man known as the Cameraman, who enjoys filming beatings, murders and rapes in an abandoned underpass.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, controversial
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A Very Short Life (2009)
Plot Summary:
"A woman is born to give her body to men; her father or strangers should make no difference." Respectable Police Commissioner Josephine reinvestigates an insignificant murder case of a 11 years old girl. The murderer is the mother of the victim, Becky. Under intense interrogation, Becky refused to admit that she knew all along that her boyfriend was raping her little daughter at home. The harsh interrogation drives Becky into killing herself. What is the truth that the raging Commissioner is trying to find out? What is the seemingly defenseless mother hiding? Or is she acually telling the truth? Is the phrase, "A woman is born to give her body to men." the whole truth?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspense, tense, bleak
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The Black List (1995)
Plot Summary:
At the trial of a judge who was found with a prostitute, a list of clients pops up. It contains the names of some very influential judges and politicians. Then, dead bodies and death threats erupt. Jacques is the trial judge and his own life seems to be in danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Twenty Dollar Star (1990)
Plot Summary:
A successful Hollywood actress by day prowls the streets at night as a sex worker.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Meat (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is awakened to a world of cruelty, shadowy passions and sensuality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: experimental, erotic, surreal, disturbing, psychotronic, controversial
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Street Girls (1975)
Plot Summary:
When a middle-aged father searches for his dropout daughter, Angel, his quest takes him into the underworld of prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts and thieves. Angel has become a dancer in a topless bar, and her dealer boyfriend is turning her on to heroin.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Missing Pages (2013)
Plot Summary:
8 important executive members of some notable corporations of the country are kidnapped during a recent trial.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, crying
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Lola (1986)
Plot Summary:
Lola is a young woman who works in a factory. She lives a violent and tormented love with Mario. To get away from him, Lola moved to Barcelona. There he met Robert, CEO of a major company, with whom she starts a relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense
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Blackout (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young girl returns to her hometown in search of her father, gradually her childhood memories returns; a childhood with incest and violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Days of Wrath (2013)
Plot Summary:
Back in his high school days, Joon-Seok (Joo Sang-Wook) was bullied by Chang-Sik (Yang Dong-Geun). Because of this, Joon-Seok's high school days were like a nightmare. Now, Joon-Seok finds it difficult to live a normal life due to the bullying. Meanwhile, Chang-Sik, who has forgotten what he did to Jeon-Seok, lives a relatively happy life. He is about to marry Ji-Hee (Lee Tae-Im). Joon-Seok will pay him back for all the misery.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Grief Tourist (2012)
Plot Summary:
JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, serious, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse
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Savage (2011)
Plot Summary:
There was a double homicide on the forgotten Swedish countryside several years ago. Two angry young men beat two young women to death, seemingly without any particular reason. The years passed but the images in our heads did not disappear. We tried to forget it, wrote screenplay after screenplay, but we always came back to those murders, and to telling the story about a part of Sweden that we never read about in newspapers, and that is populated by people whose thoughts and destinies rarely reaches beyond their village.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, mythical
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Terror in the Night (1994)
Plot Summary:
A fugitive killer posing as a policeman arrests two campers in the Arizona mountains.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Nobody from Nowhere (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sébastien Nicolas, realtor, leads a dull existence and gets used to disguising himself to take on the appearance of the characters he meets.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, semi serious, psychological, captivating, surprise ending, humorous, realistic, gloomy
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Heart (1999)
Plot Summary:
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, independent film
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (2000)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood film executive gets blackmailed by a derelict who uses some damaging information to move into his house and take over his perfect life for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending
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Trois 3: The Escort (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a hip-hop promoter is bailed out of a hefty debt by a club owner, he becomes one of her call boys and nearly loses his life in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, stylized, erotic, sexual, surprise ending, twist ending
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Cherry Crush (2007)
Plot Summary:
A High school Photographer breaks his own rules and falls in love with his teenage model.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sexy, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychosexual thriller, surprise ending, twisted, sexual
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Freeze Me (2000)
Plot Summary:
Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later, when one of the rapists arrives and says the others are on their way. He behaves like her long-lost lover and mistreats her again. Chihiro takes revenge, kills him and puts him in a freezer. The other rapists are awaiting a similar fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, cult classic, grindhouse, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Her Name Is Carla (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, realistic, crying
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The Falls (2003)
Plot Summary:
In a smoke-filled dive in Buffalo, NY, David Marx tells us his tale of obsession, betrayal, and murder - leading him to an uncertain fate "underneath Niagara Falls." David tells us how his beautiful redheaded ex-girlfriend, Jennifer Barnes, has disappeared and how he ended up the guardian of the 2.5 million dollars that "was supposed to have bought Jen's safety.".
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, surprise ending
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Diary of a Rape (1971)
Plot Summary:
Young Lena is trapped in a complex situation of sex and lies.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, art house, sensual, suspense, erotic
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Felicia's Journey (1999)
Plot Summary:
A solitary middle-aged bachelor and a naive Irish teenager transform one another's lives to arrive at a place of recognition, redemption and wisdom in Atom Egoyan's adaptation of William Trevor's celebrated 1994 novel. Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks a serial killer. Hilditch has murdered several young women, but he has no conscious awareness of the crimes; like Felicia, he doesn't see his true self. Felicia's Journey is a story of innocence lost and regained: Felicia awakens to the world's dangers and duplicities; and Hilditch, who grew up lonely and unloved, comes to realize what was taken from him, and what he himself has taken.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, erotic, sexy, art house, independent film, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Killervision (2014)
Plot Summary:
While watching B grade movies a brain-injured man is tormented by visions of his friends being murdered by a faceless killer. He becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes it's only a matter of time before the killer comes for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, scary, contemplative, slasher
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Nuts (1987)
Plot Summary:
A high-class call girl kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. Not helping matters is that she is very distrustful of everybody, including her court-appointed attorney, and is very disruptive during her court hearings.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, hilarious, psychological thriller, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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I Know What You Did (1998)
Plot Summary:
A female lawyer who specialises in defending suspected rapists is left traumatised after she herself is assaulted in her own home.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Retaliation (2017)
Plot Summary:
An adult victim of childhood sexual abuse confronts the horrors of his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic, crying
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The King (2005)
Plot Summary:
A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian community church. Pastor Dave tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is his son from a pre-conversion liaison, tells them to have nothing to do with him. But Elvis has already connected with Malerie, the pastor's 16-year old daughter. Elvis embarks on the seduction of Malerie, while Dave examines his conscience and comes to a new conclusion. Can anyone get right with the Lord? Does the Lord hear?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, independent film, tense, clever, contemplative
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The Guilty (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young person gets hired to kill someone completely unknown, by someone equally unknown. Or is that true? Nothing is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, suspenseful, surprise ending, crime drama, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film
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Freak Out (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1977, teenager Wayne (Nick Foster) gathers his two friends, female runaway Rhonda (Sarah Ogg) and disco club hopper Tim (David Gobble), for a drug party located in the suburban home of quiet recluse Dean (Brad Jones). But unknown to Tim and Rhonda are the horrible secrets which lie in Dean's basement storage room. Dean is the uncaptured child murderer who uses his basement as a torture dungeon with the help of Wayne and fellow teenager David (Buford Stowers). When the drugs and alcohol mix get higher throughout the night, not even so called friends are safe from the sadistic bloodlust of Dean. Inspired by the true story of notorious serial murderer Dean Corll.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: independent film