Best movies like The Pick-Up
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Plot Summary:
Two mob money couriers, Frankie and Tony, have their latest package of $1 million stolen by two con women, Dana and Marcia, in which the men must find the women to recover the money before they become marked men.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexual, independent film, sexy, cult film
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Clean (2004)
Plot Summary:
A limo driver attempts to outrun his bad habits.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Scream of the Butterfly (1965)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman marries a rich man for his money, then embarks on an affair and plans to use her boyfriend to help murder her husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 86%
Mr. Mari's Girls (1967)
Plot Summary:
A rich philanthropist uses his wealth to solve young women's problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers (1968)
Plot Summary:
Paul, the owner of a topless go-go bar on the Sunset Strip, isn't having a good day. His girlfriend, unbeknownst to him, is planning to rob his club, and his wife is having an affair with the hunky bartender.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic
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Gentlemen Prefer Nature Girls (1963)
Plot Summary:
Anne and Tom, a married nudist couple, work in a real estate office. When the agency's owner discovers that Tom is a nudist, he fires him. Unfortunately, Tom was just ready to close a big real-estate deal with Al Jenkins. Tom goes to his favorite nudist camp to take his mind off his problems and discovers that Al Jenkins is also a member of the nudist camp. Together they come up with a plan to get Tom's wife and their boss to get to the nudist camp so they can close the deal.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film
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In with Thieves (2008)
Plot Summary:
A tough-as-nails burglary crew from the streets, a Cuban cartel, heavy into voodoo, ruthless Albanian gangsters, and a blood diamond deal that erupts into all out violence. This throws the criminal underworld into chaos. Double-crosses and brazen gangland executions entwine everyone in a street war that plays out to an explosive ending.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Deadly Weapons (1974)
Plot Summary:
After the mob hits a guy with a list, one of the hoods keeps the list for himself to blackmail the people on it. When the mobsters find out he's a double-crosser, they off him, which angers his busty girlfriend. She goes after them using the only two weapons she has.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, cult classic, action thriller, independent film, cult film
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The Girl from Pussycat (1969)
Plot Summary:
A nihilistic look at mistreated women.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Midnight Tease II (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jennifer Brennan gets a job at a strip club to try and find out who killed her sister. She works with undercover cop John Donnelly and befriends other strippers some of whom also get murdered by a very unhappy murdering murderer.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Mama's Dirty Girls (1974)
Plot Summary:
Mama loves men, but she loves money even more. She's trained her three teenager daughters to meet, marry and murder men for their money. But soon the meet Harold and he got other plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grim, independent film
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Give Us Tomorrow (1978)
Plot Summary:
Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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La orca (1976)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, and make her write her own ransom letter. She soon discovers that one of her captors is infatuated with her and she will use those feelings to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, hood, poliziottesco, sexy, art house, sexploitation film
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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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Prostitutes Protective Society (1966)
Plot Summary:
Madame Sue runs a successful Prostitute operation in the heart of NYC, and as it should happen, The Mob wants to get a piece of the action. Still, being the go ahead women they are, they decide to fight back and keep themselves independent of any outsider business influence.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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The Brick Dollhouse (1967)
Plot Summary:
Five women explain to the police the events leading up to the murder of their roommate, an exotic dancer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film, cult film
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Chain Gang Women (1971)
Plot Summary:
A shackled murderer (Michael Stearns) and marijuana offender (Robert Lott) escape from a Georgia chain gang.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, tense, rough, realistic, semi serious, independent film, campy, cult film
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Scum of the Earth (1963)
Plot Summary:
A naive and innocent teenage girl is blackmailed into modeling in the nude for a photographer who is in league with a teenage gang whose boss illegally sells photos of teenage girls being abused and degraded.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, stylized, psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Girls for Rent (1974)
Plot Summary:
A team of girls go on a killing spree across the country.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, fast, independent film, sexploitation film
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Kuwait Connection (1973)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious journalist has been transformed into an assassin by the years of war, suffering and destruction he has witnessed around the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
Plot Summary:
A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fairy tale, light, clever, enigmatic
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One Shocking Moment (1965)
Plot Summary:
Hunky businessman Cliff and his sweet wife Mindy move from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Los Angeles, California. They take up residence in an apartment complex where several lovely young ladies also live.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film, weird, cult film
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Too Much Too Often! (1968)
Plot Summary:
When swaggering and conceited teddy boy Mike (played by fleshy-faced BUCK STARR) isn’t combing his wavy hair in a stance reminiscent of The Fonz, he’s latching onto each and every female who crosses his slimy path. The guy is bad news and has everybody fooled, except Mr. Dite (rotund BOB ORAN), an advertising executive and recent recipient of Mike’s services as a whip-wielding sadist. Taking advantage of the weak-willed masochist, Mike blackmails Dite into giving him a cushy job, then takes advantage of his new position by stealing Dite’s clients, seducing Dite’s elegant daughter, Sara (JOANNE CUNNINGHAM), and climbing his way up the social ladder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Black Gestapo (1975)
Plot Summary:
General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's second-in-command Colonel Kojah asks for permission to start a protection squad to take more direct action. Ahmed fears this protection squad will just turn into a vigilante mob, and his prediction soon proves correct. Will Ahmed be able to wrest control back from the power-mad Kojah, or will he be the mob's next victim?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Extreme Vengeance (1990)
Plot Summary:
After ten years in prison, vicious crime boss Mario Blanco is out for revenge. Revenge against the cop that put him away. Revenge at any cost! But David, the officer that sent Blanco to jail has been in hiding since quitting the force after exposing police corruption. Blanco's vengeance knows no bounds, as he goes on a murderous rampage, killing David's son, beating his wife, and raping his daughter. Now it's David's turn to fight back! He wages a one-man war against the syndicate, killing anyone that gets in his way. For the mobster, it's a case of eye for an eye justice. For David, it's EXTREME VENGEANCE.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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Cash Only (2015)
Plot Summary:
Elvis Martini is in deep shit. His dilapidated Detroit apartment building is about to be foreclosed on by the bank; most of his tenants are behind on rent; he's in big debt to bookies and his daughter's school. He finds some ill-gotten cash in an evicted tenant's apartment and it briefly keeps the wolves at bay, but it brings out a bigger wolf, one that wants his stolen money back. When his daughter is kidnapped by the mysterious menace he's accidentally messed with, Elvis has 24 hours to come up with $25K - cash only.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Albania, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, suspense, harsh, neo noir, hood, twisted
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The Thief & the Stripper (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jack just lost his P.I. license and his life is on a downward spiral. He decides to steal a cash briefcase from the local gangsters. He hides in a strip joint owned by a local mob legend Jimmie D and pays a stripper to help him escape. The gangsters find her and want her to lead 'em to him. She is also interested in the case, as well as other local mobsters and dirty cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense
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Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973)
Plot Summary:
Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black cinema
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Reform School Girls (1986)
Plot Summary:
Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, entertaining, cult classic, grindhouse, sexual
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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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Billy Bathgate (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: stylized, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, light, romantic, sexy, unusual plot structure