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Plot Summary:
A boy brings home his new girlfriend. However, Mom is sure that something isn't right about her, which starts a fight with her son. And then everything takes a deadly turn for the worst.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Cliff (2016)
Plot Summary:
A mass suicide involving members of a cult takes place in the Canary Islands. Gabriel's younger sister, Cordelia, who he hasn't seen for years, was one of the cult followers. Gabriel decides to travel there and find out what happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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Through the Eyes of a Killer (1992)
Plot Summary:
A woman has a brief affair with the contractor who is renovating her apartment and he refuses to accept the end of the relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Deadly Isolation (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a quaint and quiet island community off the coast of Maine, Susan is a young widow suffering from deep grief for the loss of her husband, Ron. Two escaped convicts suffer from their own kind of deep grief at the loss of their diamonds stolen in a heist they participated in the year before, spear-headed by Susan's now late husband. One of the convicts, poses as an old college friend of Ron's enabling him to get close to a still vulnerable Susan and even closer to the diamonds.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Giraffe (1998)
Plot Summary:
Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that reaches back into the dark German history of the 1940s.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Pretty Poison (1996)
Plot Summary:
A clueless cheerleader falls for a mysterious young man who tells her he's a secret agent. But the truth is much simpler and darker.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Dangerous Heart (1994)
Plot Summary:
A cop begins to turn to booze and cocaine during a tough undercover assignment. When a big drug-buy goes sour and the cop ends up with a million in cash, he decides to take off with the money. The drug dealer catches up with him, but he dies before revealing where he stashed the cash. Months later, the drug dealer finds the cop's wife and seduces her, in an effort to find his missing million. In the process, he falls in love with her and alienates his former partners in crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Drop Dead Gorgeous (1991)
Plot Summary:
A hot new model takes the fashion world by storm, but things start to turn ugly when people around her begin turning up dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Stars at Noon (2022)
Plot Summary:
In present-day Nicaragua, a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Panama, USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: crying
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Tall, Dark and Deadly (1995)
Plot Summary:
Maggie falls in love with a very romantic and mysterious man, who makes Maggie's life a hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light
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The Real Deal (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Real Deal.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, semi serious, suspense, cynical, biting
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Ein Sommer auf Lanzarote (2016)
Plot Summary:
German careerist headhunter Juliane Paul, engaged to bureau CEO Kai Lenz, must recruit local engineer Juan Garcia for a Moroccan coast oil project during his home 'finca' holiday on Lanzarote (Canaries), so she goes visit her mother Eva, who runs a pastry bakery there in between environmentalist and naive campaigns. Eva makes her mind the shop but employed baker Diego has a family emergency, so she must find another for a wedding order. Juan, who dropped by to exchange airport-misplaced luggage, generously helps out and gets a crush on her, but she fails to identify herself and disclose her purpose. Private and professional interest seems incompatible, truth time promises to be bitter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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The Wrong Husband (2019)
Plot Summary:
Melanie suspects her husband Derrick is not the man she married. Now she must embark on a quest to find out what's wrong--studying his odd behavior, following his every move, and probing into his past.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Eye of the Storm (1991)
Plot Summary:
At a highway gas station/motel/diner where they live, two young brothers witness their parents murder. The younger brother is blinded in the same incident. Ten years later both brothers are still there and the tragedy may have turned one of them psychotic. When the abusive Gladstone and his young and sexy wife are stranded at the gas station it brings out the worst in everyone.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Fall Into Darkness (1996)
Plot Summary:
In Deerview, Washington, Jerry Price dies in a suspicious accident shortly after a love triangle among local and Californian students there went sour. His flippant sister Ann Price decides to blame his last flirt, immature pianist Sharon McKay. Ann enlists Jerry's athletic roommate Paul Lear to set up Ann as her apparent killer in a staged climbing accident in the woods. Detective Porter is played and outsmarted repeatedly, for Ann's plan proves twisted and her victims fight back, only leading up to further twists.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Exposure (2001)
Plot Summary:
A photographer's life becomes dangerous when one of his models is murdered.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Thriller, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, New Zealand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending, independent film
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A House in the Hills (1993)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring actress gets a housesitting job and finds herself in a cat-and-mouse game with a deadly ex-con.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dark Side of Genius (1994)
Plot Summary:
Julian Jons is a talented but troubled young artist. He has just been released from an asylum, where he has spent the last seven years for the murder of Anna, his girlfriend/model. Attempting to start painting again, he is pursued by journalist Jennifer Cole, who is intrigued by this complex, brooding man. Against the backdrop of the modern art world, she begins to dig into the past, fully aware that it holds painful memories for Julian, and perhaps danger for herself.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Caroline at Midnight (1994)
Plot Summary:
A policeman's wife falls for a reporter who suspects her husband of corruption and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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BitterSweet (1999)
Plot Summary:
In a world filled with love and deception, the truth is always bittersweet.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Triple Crossed (2013)
Plot Summary:
With a tour in Afghanistan behind him, war-torn Chris Jensen struggles to assimilate back to life in California. Drifting and living out of his car, he soon discovers that few are willing to deal with the remnants of a damaged career military man. Chris is self medicating; desperate to silence the echoes from the front lines. When an opportunity finally presents itself, he makes the hard decision to employ his most coveted talents honed in special ops. A job is a job and Chris knows civilian life can be just as cut-throat as time on active duty. But just how close does he have to get to Andrew Warner to secure the kill?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, psychological, sexy, captivating, erotic, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Dig (2022)
Plot Summary:
A widower and his deaf daughter are held hostage and forced to dig under their house, revealing dark secrets from the past.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Treacherous Beauties (1994)
Plot Summary:
A female photographer hears that her brother has been shot dead at a horse rearing farm. She decides to go there herself and uncovers a murky conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Under My Nails (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Puerto Rican salon employee is forced to confront her own erotic desires when she becomes obsessed with the violent sexual tendencies of her new neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hispanic
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Summer School Teachers (1975)
Plot Summary:
A trio of naive, but eager young Midwestern women go to California to teach summer school classes at Regency High School: Perky and willful Conklin T. starts up and coaches an all-female football team, stuffy chemistry teacher Sally Hanson manages to loosen up after she falls hard for a surly juvenile delinquent student, and pert and liberated photography instructor Denise Carter becomes involved with both a two-faced male chauvinist jerk and a more decent and understanding guy.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, sexy, independent film, hot
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Sleeping with Danger (2020)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by Ann Rule’s true crime collection Mortal Danger and Other True Cases. Paul Carter was like a knight in shining armor when he met flight attendant Grace Tanner and swept her into a passionate love affair. But her dream man quickly became her nightmare as his jealous rage ultimately led to a brutal attack. Incredibly, Grace was able to escape and go into hiding. Fearing for her life and the safety of other women Paul might seduce, Grace works with the police to bring Paul to justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Purgatory Flats (2003)
Plot Summary:
Driving drunk, Thomas Reed causes a car crash, fatal for his wife, and gets jailed for 5 years. Yet he feels like punishing himself afterward by moving to Californian small town Purgatory Flats, where he works as a humble barman. Suddenly he witnesses a shooting and volunteers to help the wounded Owen Mecklin, whose brothers Dean and Randy drag him further into their own crime life. Owen's sexy wife Sunny seduces 'Doc'. Local detective Travis McGill gets their trail. But treason proves the gravest luring danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
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Killing Sarai (2019)
Plot Summary:
Victor (William Levy) is one of the world’s most handsome men, but he has a deep secret – he is a cold blooded assassin. Smooth talking and seductive, Victor was raised to do one thing only, which is to kill for money. When he is sent to the home of a brutal drug lord to collect payment for his most recent hit, he encounters the beautiful Sarai (Alicia Sanz), who has been forced to spend the last 9 years of her life with the drug lord.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, touching, captivating, suspense
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Method (2004)
Plot Summary:
The line between fantasy and reality blurs when an actress begins behaving like the 19th-century murderer she is playing.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious, realistic
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I Am Watching You (2016)
Plot Summary:
Writer, Nora Nichols finds inspiration by watching her neighbor Lucas' escapades from her bedroom window. But things take an interesting turn when she realizes he's been watching too.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret (2013)
Plot Summary:
True story based on Jodi Arias, a seductive 28-year-old aspiring photographer found guilty of killing her former lover, Travis Alexander, who was found nude in his home shower with a slit throat, 27 additional stab wounds and a bullet to the head. While investigating the violent killing, Mesa, Arizona police retrieved a digital camera from Alexander’s washing machine, revealing shocking images authorities claim Arias took during their sexual escapades, as well as during and after his murder. While Jodi pled not guilty and contends she killed Alexander in self-defense, police concluded that when he broke off their relationship, she stalked her ex-boyfriend and seduced him one final time before murdering him in cold blood. Her subsequent trial has been grand theater, dominating the cable news networks as she testified in her own defense and offered explicit insight into the sex, lies and obsession that led up to Alexander’s murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, disturbing, psychological, sexy, crime thriller