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Plot Summary:
Set in London's world of high class call girls, Amoureux Solitaires tells the story of London based French escort Virginie, and Rupert, a man who rescues trafficked girls.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, serious, captivating, melancholic, suspense
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Most Beautiful Island (2017)
Plot Summary:
Most Beautiful Island is a chilling portrait of an undocumented young woman's struggle for survival as she finds redemption from a tortured past in a dangerous game.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, captivating, melancholic, realistic, psychological thriller, disturbing, weird
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Evil Senses (1986)
Plot Summary:
A contract killer named Manuel who happens to be in possession of some documents that incriminate some people high up within a secret organisation. Naturally, this organisation doesn't want this sort of thing becoming public knowledge so they seek to kill him. He takes refuge at a brothel ran by Nicole; an ex-lover, but it isn't until he happens across an intriguing prostitute named Victoria that he takes an interest in life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
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The Laughing Woman (1969)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful PR woman Maria finds herself trapped in the home of the sinister and troubled Dr Sayer, where she is subjected to a series of increasingly bizarre, terrifying and degradating sex games. Sayer admits that he has murdered several women after the same ordeal, always killing them at the point of orgasm. But all is not what it seems, and this is revealed to be the fantasy of a troubled man. Sayer finds salvation in Maria and falls for her, only for her to turn the tables on him and ultimately reveal that she too is not what she seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, slasher, grindhouse, visual, art deco, tense, rough, serious, captivating
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The Coming of Sin (1978)
Plot Summary:
A superstitious, illiterate young gypsy servant girl comes to live with a solitary female artist at her country chateau. The girl has recurring nightmares of a naked man on horseback assaulting and abusing her. As the artist takes the girl under her wing, an sensuous relationship develops between them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, suspense, biting, poetic, bizarre, sexploitation film
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The Smile of the Fox (1992)
Plot Summary:
Mark, a hitman haunted by his past as a corrupt Miami cop and the death of his wife and son, prepares for his next killing. Gradually he becomes fascinated by the beautiful prostitute who lives in the next apartment and they embark on a passionate affair. Their dreams of a life together are complicated by her pimp being a drugs baron; before they can escape he must die, but things are never that simple.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tragic ending, erotic, hot
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Straight on Till Morning (1972)
Plot Summary:
Brenda moved to London to begin living those intoxicated fantasies that all young women imagine city life to offer. Soon after her arrival she begins a relationship with Peter with whom she is tremendously happy. When she becomes pregnant Peter's behaviour towards her alters as he reveals the most frightening and unpredictable side of his personality. He forces Brenda to listen to a series of recordings, exposing a past of shocking cruelty of sadistic murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, noir, independent film, psychological thriller, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neurotic
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Road Games (2015)
Plot Summary:
When hitchhiker Jack rescues Véronique from a road rage altercation, the twosome decide to travel together for safety’s sake after learning a serial killer is cutting a murderous swathe through the region. Tired and hungry, they decide against their better judgment to take up an offer to stay the night at a mysterious elderly couple’s mansion….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, psychological horror, road movie, twisted
Similar in 81%
The List (2000)
Plot Summary:
After being arrested for solicitation, a high-class prostitute threatens to make public a list of her best clients and someone resorts to murder to keep the list a secret. Meanwhile, the judge on the case struggles with his dilemma and one cop aims to find the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, realistic, independent film, detective
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Seeing Heaven (2010)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young escort, Paul, suffers from trip-like dreams he doesn't understand. These visions are shared by his clients, both scaring and exciting them. Paul is searching for his twin brother, whom he hasn't seen since childhood, and hooks up with enigmatic film director John Baxter. Desired by everyone but lost to himself, Paul is persuaded to make one adult film, which will help him discover himself, and in the process find his twin. But the journey he goes on is a dark one, involving dangerous clients, an unscrupulous rival producer, and unsafe sex. In discovering his true past, Paul is in danger of destroying himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Sleeper's Wake (2012)
Plot Summary:
In a secluded cove on the South African coast, a middle-aged writer grieving the deaths of his wife and daughter is drawn into an affair with an alluring teenage girl who is grappling with demons of her own, in this gripping psychological thriller adapted from the award-winning novel by Alistair Morgan. (TIFF).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating, erotic, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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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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The Truth Is Always Complicated (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a couple is taken hostage in their home by an intruder, a simple home invasion robbery turns into something much more complicated.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, sexy, neo noir, bleak, serious, realistic, independent film
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The Ignorance of Blood (2014)
Plot Summary:
Javier Falcón, Chief of the Sevilla Homicide Division, must solve two different cases in a short time. In the first case he is personally involved. An old friend of his infiltrated an Islamic terrorist cell and now the group is trying to recruit his young son for their cause. The same case hits even closer at home. A war is raging between two clans in the Russian Mafia. When an important mobster tries to defect, he gets killed in a car crash. On the scene, the police find an encrypted USB stick with highly explosive information. Then the son of Falcon’s girlfriend Consuelo is kidnapped. They are contacted by both Mafia clans claiming they have the kid and wanting to get their hands on the information. And both say they will kill him if Falcon doesn’t give them the stick.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic
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Boarding Gate (2007)
Plot Summary:
A sordid and complex series of events unfolds when an ex-prostitute becomes involved with a couple in Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, sexual, psychological, tense, captivating, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, erotic
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Malibu Eyes (2004)
Plot Summary:
A stylish, cat-and-mouse suspense story about a young woman's sexual awakening and self-discovery. Alone on vacation in Crescent Bay, unexpectedly abandoned by both her boyfriend and her parents, HANNAH (Courtney Cole) gets caught up in a web of sexual intrigue and danger, eventually exposing what lies beneath the politics of this quiet, picturesque beach community.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, erotic, sexual
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The Dangerous Sex Date (2001)
Plot Summary:
The librarian of the university Xenia schedules a S&M blind date with the masochist Ghost to satisfy her fantasies and sexual desires. They spend the night in his apartment having kinky sex and on the next morning Ghost is dead with slashed throat. Xenia cleans her evidences and leaves the place, but Ghost's friend Silver investigates the murder of Ghost and finds her files in a CD. Later he discloses that sergeant Ghost was investigating the site SexServices. Silver contacts Xenia and they meet each other, when he finally discloses who the killer is.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, suspense, captivating
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Lady Beware (1987)
Plot Summary:
Young and good looking Katya, a window dresser for a big department store in Pittsburgh, begins a love story with a journalist, Mac Odell. She is however stalked by Jack, a married man who has a fixation with her. Jack makes Katya's life hellish and when the girl tells his wife about him he becomes wild with fury having been exposed and goes to the store to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, erotic, independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, surprise ending
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Oscura Seduccion (2010)
Plot Summary:
Laura is a successful plastic surgeon who feels her life is somewhat empty. She meets a young nurse and falls in love and experiences sexuality to a extent not known to her. However, In this spiral of desire and seduction both play a dangerous game where no one is who appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, sexy, tense, psychological, captivating, erotic, realistic, sexual
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Honour (2014)
Plot Summary:
A story centered on a young woman is targeted by her family for an "honour killing" and the bounty hunter who takes the job.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, realistic
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The Isle (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love to Hyun-Shik, who is on the run for the police and rescues him with a fish hook, when he tries to commit suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, enigmatic, sexy, bleak, harsh, controversial, cult classic, atmospheric, sexual, erotic
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Hate Story (2012)
Plot Summary:
After journalist, Kaavya Krishna exposes corporate corruption orchestrated by tycoon Siddharth Dhanrajgir, she is soon wooed by the businessman into a new job where she slowly falls in love with him culminating in a passionate night of love making. Yet, when Siddharth throws Kaavya to the curb as retribution for her expose, he also has her kidnapped and their baby forcefully aborted. This event sets Kaavya on a mission of vengeance, using her body as a sexual weapon to bring down Siddharth Dhanrajgir's empire, brick by brick.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, sexy, serious, captivating, realistic, erotic, entertaining, sexual, sensual, erotic drama
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Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story (2020)
Plot Summary:
Interweaving stories of four different women involved in the sex industry offers a glimpse into the dark underbelly of Los Angeles and the taboo lifestyle of a sex worker. A teen runaway, single mother and two career escorts interconnect through their own personal journeys filled with loss, betrayal and the struggle to survive. Written by anonymous.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark
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Friend of the Family II (1996)
Plot Summary:
Alex decides to have an affair with a woman named Linda while he is on business in New Orleans. When he returns home to his wife and child, he is surprised to find that his wife has hired the off-kilter homewrecker as a nanny to their baby. Alex must find a way to stay cool and not let his wife know the true identity and intentions of Linda.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, independent film, sexual, cliffhanger
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Bare Witness (2002)
Plot Summary:
Professional killer Gav Reed commits a grave mistake allowing himself to be videotaped (as she always does, for a documentary she hopes to sell to Hollywood about the real nocturnal 'eldest business' there) by Julie Spencer, one of Max 'Slim' Reuter's hookers and porn actresses, whom he had sex with before - and while making a most incriminating call about his murder attempt at a high society campaign party for mayor Garland's electoral challenger Mary Washington, where the bullet is however caught by councilor Frank Constantine, who also survives. Gav's client, businessman Ian Hunter, who was videotaped earlier, has his girl Marina shoot Gav and then Julie, later Slim who. Rough but effective police detective Killian investigates, helped by Julie's friend Carly Marsh, and unravels even more sordid connections.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious, realistic, sexual, sexploitation film
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Last Seen at Angkor (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jeremy Oden returns to Cambodia four years after his fiance disappeared from the streets.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Singapore
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense
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Deviation (2012)
Plot Summary:
Told over one horrifying night, Deviation will take you on a white-knuckle journey into the mind of Frank Norton, a dangerous schizophrenic murderer as he escapes from Broadmoor Hospital and embarks on a murderous rampage across London. But when Frankie takes a hostage, the deadly game of cat-and-mouse truly begins.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, realistic
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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
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Dark Hearts (2014)
Plot Summary:
When struggling artist Colson finds his muse in sultry singer Fran, their daring romance spirals out of control into a dangerous game of deception and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, stylized, captivating, sexual, sexy
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The Boy Next Door (2015)
Plot Summary:
A recently cheated on married woman falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, suspenseful, tense, psychosexual thriller, erotic, suspense, psychological thriller, feel good, sexual
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The Chosen Ones (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sofia, 14 years old, is in love with Ulises. Because of him, in spite of him, she is forced into a prostitution network in Mexico. To set her free, Ulises will have to find another girl to replace her. Adapted from Jorge Volpi’s novel, set in the world of juvenile prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, sexy