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Plot Summary:
A rich man's wife finds she has a bad prenuptial agreement with an even worse husband. Over drinks with a stranger, she fantasizes about doing her husband in to void the prenupt. The stranger decides to turn her imagination into reality much to the wife's surprise.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, noir, psychosexual thriller, detective, scary, serious, realistic, non-linear
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Hitched (2001)
Plot Summary:
After a homemaker discovers that her husband is a philanderer, she imprisons him in their soundproof basement and reports him missing to the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
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Two Shades of Blue (1999)
Plot Summary:
Susan Price has written a #1 bestseller, a steamy novel about a woman's search for the ultimate sexual experience entitled, "The Dark Side of Judith." When Susan is framed for the murder of her fiance, billionare publisher Jack Reynolds, she eludes authorities by changing her identity and becoming the woman she wrote about in her book, Judith Anderson. To find the real killer, Susan goes undercover as a relay operator for the hearing impaired to contact District Attorney Beth McDaniels who is deaf. While relaying intimate phone conversations between Beth and her boyfriend Calvin, Susan discovers her own dark side when she becomes entangled in this voyeuristic world of deceit, intrigue and murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense, realistic, surprise ending, independent film, erotic, sexual, sexy
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Break Up (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy is married to the abusive Frank, but she's building a nest egg so she can leave. For a year, she's been deaf as a result of one of his beatings. One night, he pushes her over the stairwell, and she ends up in the hospital. When a charred body in her husband's car is pulled from a pond, the cops want to talk to her, but she bolts for her sister's, loses her savings pass-book, and then learns someone has emptied her bank account. She's goes on the run, with the same cops on her trail, and eventually realizes Frank may not be dead. Getting back her money, facing Frank, satisfying the police, and finding her freedom may be more than she can handle. Written by.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mystical, neo noir, independent film, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Second to Die (2002)
Plot Summary:
Erika Eleniak as a woman who plans the murder of her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, intense, tense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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The Confidant (2010)
Plot Summary:
The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond and a more intriguing secret. Both young men are on the right path to promising futures, a first round NFL draft pick, and a talented art major on a full scholarship. A complicated web of lies, gambling, murder and a pact between friends sends an innocent friend to prison and the other to fame. After spending eleven years in prison, the innocent comes to collect a debt and is determined to have the life he was promised... by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, bleak, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough, sexy, realistic, independent film
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Indiscreet (1998)
Plot Summary:
A case involving adultery, money and murder threatens a private eye's sobriety.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Ex (1996)
Plot Summary:
In order to get her husband back, an architect's psycho ex-wife kills everybody she can get her hands on.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, serious, scary, independent film
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Benefit of the Doubt (1993)
Plot Summary:
Twenty two years earlier, Karen helped convict her father, Frank, for the murder of her mother. With his new freedom, thanks to parole, Frank returns home to seek revenge. Having always pleaded his innocence, Frank soon works his way back into Karen's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear (1998)
Plot Summary:
A neglectful mother overhears her husband on the telephone at their workplace talking with their babysitter. She discovers they are having an affair and are going to have a baby. She concocts an evil plan to win back her husband and remove the girl and baby. Two men are hired to kill the girl and hold the son hostage in order for her to play the hero and reclaim her husband. The plan hits a snag when the criminals enter the wrong apartment.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense, ridiculous
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Tough Luck (2003)
Plot Summary:
A tense and intricate web of deceit and betrayal entangles Archie, a wandering grifter who is hired by a traveling carnival owner to murder his beautiful wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, erotic, neo noir, independent film
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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
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Motives (2004)
Plot Summary:
Motive is an edgy thriller that centers around Emery Simms, a highly educated and successful business tycoon who happens to be married to the quintessential wife Constance. Things go dangerously awry when the thrill seeking Emery engages in an adulterous fling with the wildly free-spirited and exotic Allanah. Timing couldn't be any worse when the politics of high society, shady business deals, bad press, and a violent murder collide, they threaten to destroy more than just his shaky marriage. As police probe into his situation, they uncover a labyrinth of deception, agendas and motives, where the stakes are enormous and nothing is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, sexual, sexy
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Tempted (2001)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy man married to a beautiful younger woman puts her fidelity to the test.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia, France, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, sexy, realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic, neo noir, sexual, independent film
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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
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Payback (1995)
Plot Summary:
Oscar Bonsetter tells a dying prisoner that he will take revenge on the sadistic guard who killed him. In exchange, Oscar is told of a stash of money. Oscar is eventually released from prison but when he goes to get revenge, he gets sidetracked by the now-handicapped guard and his alluring wife, Rose. The tension builds as Oscar becomes more and more attracted to Rose.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, erotic, independent film, sexual, sexy
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The Art of Murder (1999)
Plot Summary:
An abused wife (Joanna Pacula) turns to another man and becomes the victim of a blackmailer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Interlocked: Thrilled to Death (1998)
Plot Summary:
A man's life gets wrecked by a woman with whom he had a casual "affair" over the Internet.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy, sensual, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dream Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
Kris is a homicide cop with psychic abilities. She works to prove that the prime suspect in her latest case (the much younger husband of the millionaire victim) is innocent. But are her visions true, or planned by someone who knows what she can see?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Layover (2001)
Plot Summary:
An airport affair of a business man turns into a nightmare when it turns out that the woman is married to a dangerous jewelry dealer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, suspense, tense, sexy, independent film
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Crimes of Passion (2011)
Plot Summary:
Arturo Bolaño is a mediocre insurance salesman who loves women, booze and any short cut he can find to Easy Street. He thinks he's found it with the beautiful Rebeca Solis, the wife of the owner of the hotel where he stays on business. Rebeca wants nothing more than to escape from her husband and after Arturo falls in love, she asks him to help her get rid of him. The plan goes without a hitch but just as they think they are going to get away with murder, they receive an anonymous letter from a witness to the crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, tense, rough, realistic, serious, sexual
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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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Head Above Water (1996)
Plot Summary:
Judge George (Harvey Keitel) brings his young wife, Nathalie (Cameron Diaz), to a remote island for a vacation. But while George accompanies their only neighbor -- Nathalie's childhood friend Lance (Craig Sheffer) -- on a fishing trip, Nathalie spends time with her ex, Kent (Billy Zane). When Kent ends up dead the next morning, Nathalie tries to hide the evidence before her husband gets home. After the body is found, the events of the previous night unravel, with unexpected revelations.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, dark comedy, funny, light, suspense, melancholic, absurd, talky, realistic
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Fatal Call (2012)
Plot Summary:
Leaving his small-town roots to start a new life, Mitch meets the beautiful and seductive Amy at a happy hour and begins a tantalizing romance. Before long, Mitch learns that nothing is as it appears and, unable to trust anyone, finds himself on a nightmarish roller coaster ride, accused of murder and running from the law and a mysterious stranger out to kill him. Surviving by quick thinking and his wits, Mitch must confront both his past and present and find a solution before time runs out!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Mortal Thoughts (1991)
Plot Summary:
A loathsome man ends up dead, but it's not clear who's to blame. If ever a person got what he deserved, it's James Urbanksi, an abusive drunk who steals from his wife, Joyce, and promises her close friend Cynthia Kellogg that she'll be the next target of his rage. At a group outing, James bleeds to death after someone cuts his throat. But because he's such a terrible human being, police aren't sure which of his acquaintances decided to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, clever, tense, suspenseful, talky, stylized, neo noir, detective, noir
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Pretty When You Cry (2001)
Plot Summary:
A wife is caught in a web of sex and violence.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, independent film, gloomy, sexual
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Pacific Heights (1990)
Plot Summary:
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, psychological thriller, scary, suspenseful, suspense, tense, clever, controversial, cult classic
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A Table for One (1999)
Plot Summary:
A wife, her two-timing husband and a flirting neighbor are unpredictable competitors in a warped game that turns into a life-or-death affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, tension, sexy
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Tangled (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, teen horror, tense, slasher, detective, non-linear, surprise ending
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Fatale (2020)
Plot Summary:
A married man is tricked into a murder scheme by a female police detective.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, disturbing, intense, psychological thriller, anamorphic, psychosexual thriller
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Sexual Predator (2001)
Plot Summary:
A female parole officer unwittingly gets involved with a handsome photographer who might be a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, suspenseful, suspense, sexy, tense, serious, realistic, sexual, independent film