Best movies like The Tender Hook
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Plot Summary:
The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath, and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, neo noir, sexual
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The Legend of Wolf Lodge (1987)
Plot Summary:
Out of work and driving aimlessly, a man pulls into the "Wolf Lodge" and ends up with a job. When he wakes nightly to the sounds of icy voices and screams he decides he can no longer be an innocent bystander.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, eighties, cult film
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Dangerous Liaisons (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dangerous Liaisons is a Chinese film by Hur Jin-ho based on the novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: China, South Korea, Singapore
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, serious, captivating, emotional, period piece, sensual, gloomy, sexual, costume drama
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Kissed by Winter (2005)
Plot Summary:
Following her son's death, Victoria moves to a small community to work as a doctor at the local clinic. She attempts to forget and move on with her life but finds it impossible when a local boy is found dead in the snow and Victoria must tell the boy's parents. Police quickly explains it as an accident but Victoria finds that there is something strange about the whole affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, enigmatic, disturbing, sexy, twisted, sincere, touching, realistic, contemplative
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Road to Nowhere (2010)
Plot Summary:
A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, neo noir, suspense, surreal, meta, mind bending, realistic
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Love Walked In (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Water and Fire (2013)
Plot Summary:
A pretty young girl falls for an enigmatic, shy man who sweeps her off her feet. She becomes pregnant but is not allowed to tell him. His advisers are adamant. Back home, they have set up a wedding with the daughter of an antagonistic family and marriage will put an end to the blood feud between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, sentimental, sincere, romantic, captivating, realistic, emotional, beautiful
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Wuthering Heights (1985)
Plot Summary:
Rivette's unique take on Bronte's famous novel "Wuthering Heights".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Mortal Passions (1989)
Plot Summary:
A scheming woman (Krista Errickson) seeks to kill her husband to collect the insurance money, and is willing to seduce anyone she can to do it - including her husband's brother.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychosexual thriller, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, tragic ending, sexy, eighties
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Another Life (2001)
Plot Summary:
A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Base on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, romantic, captivating, independent film, historical drama, tense, contemplative
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Tempo (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jenny, a young American woman, moves to Paris and gets involved with Jack, who is seemingly the man of her dreams. However, he has a lot to hide and Jenny quickly gets entangled his dangerous lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, Luxembourg, UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, erotic, independent film
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3 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ram and Janani are high school sweethearts who eventually get married. However, Janani is mystified when Ram commits suicide all of a sudden and she tries to find out the truth behind his death.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: tense, emotional, touching, captivating, psychological, psychological thriller, sentimental, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Angela (2002)
Plot Summary:
True story of an attractive Sicilian mob-wife who participates in her husband's drug-dealing business and falls for her husband's lackey.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, captivating
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Blind (2016)
Plot Summary:
A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, sentimental, uplifting, heartbreaking, disturbing, romantic drama
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Sun Don't Shine (2012)
Plot Summary:
Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, realistic, tense, atmospheric, serious, suspense, road movie, dark, mind bending, stylized
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Cause of Death (2001)
Plot Summary:
A deputy-district attorney, assigned to investigate the murder of the mayor's cousin, finds himself falling for the victim's wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary, sexual, surprise ending, independent film, sexy
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Risk (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three people discover jealousy and larceny are a dangerous combination in this tense drama. John (Bryan Brown) is a veteran insurance investigator who succumbs to temptation and veers towards the wrong side of the law. With the help of novice con man Ben (Tom Long), John hatches a scheme to substantiate false claims by taking a percentage of several questionable claims his firm has settled for a fraction of their usual worth. John and Ben are assisted in their illegal business by Louise (Claudia Karvan), a lawyer with a cocaine problem who is also John's lover. But when Louise becomes involved with Ben and demands a bigger share of the money, their already-shaky confidence game begins to collapse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized, suspense, neo noir
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The Perfect Marriage (2006)
Plot Summary:
A conman persuades his married lover to murder her husband for the inheritance, only for his reckless spending and infidelity to drive her away.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, mind bending
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Rushlights (2013)
Plot Summary:
Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Betrayal (1983)
Plot Summary:
Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the husband's point of view, with the scenes in precise reverse chronological order. Written by Dan Hartung.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, captivating, talky, clever, stylized, non-linear, extraordinary
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Dead On (1994)
Plot Summary:
In an erotic update of "Strangers on a Train", airline pilot Ted Beaumont and his lover, Erin Davenport, scheme to rid themselves of their respective spouses. Ted's wife disappears mysteriously and thinking that all is proceeding well, he plans an elaborate scheme to kill Erin's husband. However all is not as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, independent film, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, psychotronic, creepy
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Dance of the Dragon (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of three people whose lives are pulled into review and assessment when their paths cross. The initial sparks of what could be a new romance plays off against a couple falling out of love, a student and teacher, a father and son, a mother's influence and competing suitors - all explored with sensitivity, delicacy and refined artistry.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, epic
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Often (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ricky (Emraan Hashmi) is a leading fashion photographer, who carries his heart on his sleeve. He's an absolute womanizer. The film begins with Ricky getting a call from Sheena (Udita Goswami), who asks him to meet her in a gym. Once there, the two have a showdown since Ricky had used and dumped Sheena's friend Nisha (Tara Sharma). A heartbroken Nisha had even contemplated attempting suicide. Three years later, Ricky is about to hold an exhibition of his creations when a millionaire walks in and buys the entire lot even before the exhibition has begun. The millionaire, Rajveer aka Raj (Dino Morea), has a pre-condition: Ricky should make Raj's wife Sheena fall in love with him (Ricky). Ricky is perplexed, for he fails to understand why a husband would hire someone to have an affair with his wife. But Raj explains that he wants Sheena to divorce him and this would be possible only if she fell in love with another man.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, suspense, sexual, surprise ending, detective
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The Servant (2010)
Plot Summary:
A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, sex comedy, sexual, sexy, period drama
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The Waiting City (2009)
Plot Summary:
An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected directions, and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, captivating, realistic, tense, serious, gloomy, spiritual
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Costas (1979)
Plot Summary:
Drama directed by Paul Cox.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Picnic (2000)
Plot Summary:
The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, tense
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Cheri (2009)
Plot Summary:
A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the First World War erupted.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, period piece, romantic, costume drama, sincere, humorous, captivating, erotic, offbeat
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G (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the object of his affections.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy, modern day adaptation
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Desire (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, stylized, realistic
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The PyraMMMid (2011)
Plot Summary:
Russia, early 90s. A fictional story inspired by financier Sergey Mavrodi, his securities company "MMM", and the pyramid scheme he ran that left upwards of fifteen million investors with nothing when it crashed.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic