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Plot Summary:
A young woman in dire financial straights accepts an offer to be a wealthy aristocrat's human "pet" for six months. Then ruthless modern "pet-nappers" kidnap the woman to sell her on the GSM (Global Slave Market).
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, rough, realistic, sexy, suspense, erotic, serious, sexual
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A Gun, a Car, a Blonde (1997)
Plot Summary:
In this homage to film noir, a wheelchair bound (Jim Metzler) paraplegic fantasizes about the new blonde (Andrea Thompson), who moves into the house across from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, realistic, stylized, neo noir, erotic, independent film, offbeat
Similar in 86%
Wild Cactus (1993)
Plot Summary:
A married couple vacationing in the desert are held hostage by a pair of psychopaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film, sexual, sexy
Similar in 89%
Poison Ivy: The Secret Society (2008)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious death of a young college student occurs late one night at a prestigious New England college.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, erotic, sexy, suspense, psychological, sexual, independent film
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Closet Land (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, modern police state.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: minimal cast, erotic, mystical, sexy, art house, sexual, cult classic, intelligent, psychological, bleak
Similar in 77%
Dark Secrets (1996)
Plot Summary:
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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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On the Doll (2007)
Plot Summary:
On The Doll is a story of the victims of child abuse, and the pain it visits upon their later lives. With interweaving stories following victims and victimizers, the film depicts the variety of experiences of abuse.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, erotic, dark, anime, psychological, realistic, disturbing
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Trois 2: Pandora's Box (2002)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in a dull marriage, successful shrink Mia DuBois follows a patient's advice and exposes her wild side at a private underground club, where she meets a handsome stranger and begins an affair that may cost her more than just her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, detective
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Seduction: The Cruel Woman (1985)
Plot Summary:
Wanda is a dominatrix who runs a gallery in a building on the Hamburg waterfront, where audiences pay for the privilege of watching her humiliate her slaves. She is a business woman who smashes sexual stereotypes and social taboos with icy self-possession and an enigmatic smile. As artist she specializes in the staging of elaborate BDSM fantasies and her affairs transgress the usual boundaries of personal and professional life. Along the way she leaves her German lesbian lover, a shoe fetishist, for an American "trainee," and does more than step on the toes of the male performer who has broken the rules of the master-slave relationship by falling in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, controversial, sexual, weird
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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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Strip Search (2004)
Plot Summary:
Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, political, disturbing
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Keyed: A Deadly Game of Sex/Lies/Betrayal (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three lives are intricately linked during a New Years Eve “Key Party” for Swingers: A young newlywed is forced into an open relationship by her star-athlete husband and best friend an ill-fated club owner reunites with old friends to realize the bond they once shared is in jeopardy and a loving father has to reconcile his relationship with his estranged brother to save the life of his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, sexy, serious, psychological, independent film, sexual
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Below Utopia (1997)
Plot Summary:
Daniel returns to his family's mansion for the holidays along with his girlfriend Susanne. His family's seemingly-utopian existence is overshadowed by not only the death of Daniel's brother, but also by Daniel's failure to live up to his brother's potential. However, this quickly becomes inconsequential, as blood-thirsty killers soon show up.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, suspense, erotic, independent film, bleak
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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 Jammed (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young Australian woman reluctantly agrees to help a Chinese mother search for her missing daughter and becomes involved in human trafficking and the sex slave trade.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, psychological, captivating, rough, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Frisk (1995)
Plot Summary:
A first person narrative of a gay serial killer explores violence, sexuality, and imagination.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, independent film, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, black comedy
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Devil in the Flesh (1969)
Plot Summary:
Based on the infamous novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch this fine film follows the perverted passions of a young couple as Severin watches the beautiful Wanda writhing naked amongst furs. His disturbing peeping tomism triggers off a whirlpool of emotions due to a childhood episode which punishes voyeurism with pain.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual
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The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
Plot Summary:
A film by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Edgar Hudson meets Abby, a concert pianist, at a dinner party. Abby is involved with someone else but that doesn't stop the two from acting upon their strong attraction to one another. They start to sneak around but it's not long before they realize they should be together. Soon after Abby breaks up with her boyfriend, she becomes pregnant with Edgar's child - something that was not planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, captivating, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic, sexual, psychological thriller
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Body of Evidence (1992)
Plot Summary:
Sizzingly sexy Madonna leads a star-filled cast in this erotic thriller as a woman accused of killing a wealthy, elderly man through her insatiable sexual prowess.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, suspenseful, suspense, intense, rough, serious, realistic, stylized
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Allyson Is Watching (1997)
Plot Summary:
Innocent, sexy Allyson leaves her boyfriend Peter to go to acting classes in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles she rents a room in an apartment building from the grumpy Mr. Merry next to the resident working girl, Bridget. During the day Allyson struggles with her acting lessons at arrogant Eric Constantine's acting school whilst at night she plays with herself as she watches beautiful, confident Bridget through the keyhole servicing her clients. In class she meets professional photographer Jerry who offers to shoot her a portfolio.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexploitation film
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Tokyo Decadence (1992)
Plot Summary:
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, tense, surreal, sexy, serious, realistic, controversial, psychological, captivating
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When Will I Be Loved (2004)
Plot Summary:
Feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, a young woman begins to explore her sexuality with other people.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sexy, melancholic, talky, stylized, psychosexual thriller, sexual, serious, realistic, erotic, independent film
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Heart of Stone (2001)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman doesn't know if the killer is her lover ... or her husband ... or someone else!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, sexual, erotic
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Bound (2015)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a wealthy real estate mogul falls in love with a younger man, and she is introduced to the world of BDSM. With her newly awakened sexual prowess, she is finally able to take control of her life.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, semi serious, light, suspense, mockbuster, sensual, sexy, tense, serious
Similar in 84%
Sliver (1993)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, sensual, psychosexual thriller, serious, exciting, anamorphic
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Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997)
Plot Summary:
A sinister seductress vows to destroy a suburban family.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, suspense, sexual, romantic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 78%
Caged (2011)
Plot Summary:
After years of suppressing her desires, Stella finds she can no longer ignore her deep-rooted longings. Breaking out of her cage and starting a secret double-life, Stella transforms into a "unicorn", a nickname for single women who indulge in a hedonistic lifestyle, visiting sex clubs and erotic parties, and flourishing with all the new attention. Even as her husband uncovers his Stella's secret life, he can't do much more than give her the freedom that she obviously needs, in the hope it's all just a phase. Then one day she finds herself lying unconscious in a basement cell, with no idea how she arrived there. Days go by when an other woman is brought into her cell. Christine, a woman about the same age. In the following days they reveal their life stories to one other. Christine is convinced that the reason for their captivity lies in Stella's lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 907
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, disturbing, rough, bleak, serious, erotic drama, transgressive, tense, emotional
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Pleasure or Pain (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young designer falls under a man's erotic spell and is drawn into a world of sexual abandon from which she may never return.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, psychological, captivating, suspense, scenic, sensual, erotic drama, crying, serious
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Sexual Intrigue (2008)
Plot Summary:
A mystery start when all the psychologist's patient are murdered, exactly after each one of them have a session. Who is the killer?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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Suspicious River (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young married woman (Parker) sells her body, not just for money, to guests at the motel where she works as a receptionist.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, rough, disturbing, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Plot Summary:
When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, finds himself strangely drawn to Ana, and she to him. Though sexually inexperienced, Ana plunges headlong into an affair -- and learns that Christian's true sexual proclivities push the boundaries of pain and pleasure.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 332000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, teen, psychological, controversial, sensual, realistic, disturbing