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Plot Summary:
A mystery writer and his wife are terrorized by a swinger couple.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Expecting Mercy (2000)
Plot Summary:
A couple on the run find themselves dealing with the hidden cameras that have been installed at the bed-and-breakfast where they choose to hide out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychosexual thriller, independent film, psychological thriller, psycho sexual, psycho film
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Ronde de nuit (1984)
Plot Summary:
With the help of journalist Diane Castelain, Parisian police inspectors Leo Gorce and Gu Arenas are trying to solve the murder of a member of the French Parliament, but some dangerous powerful people try to make sure that doesn't happen.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Saudi Arabia, Aruba, Brazil
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Ultraviolet (1992)
Plot Summary:
A park ranger and his lover have heated encounters with a dangerous man in Death Valley.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psycho sexual, independent film
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Lethal Pursuit (1988)
Plot Summary:
A rock star babe and her hunky honey find themselves targeted by her psychotic ex, whose insane jealously sparks a deadly game of desert cat-and-mouse.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Destination Vegas (1995)
Plot Summary:
When an attorney discovers her client committed murder to close a deal she flees to Las Vegas pursued to two relentless hitmen.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Baja Run (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young Japanese woman and a naive American drug courier witness a L.A. drug-deal-gone-wrong shootout, and flee into Mexico with the drug money while being chased by two hit men.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Deadliest Prey (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to Deadly Prey. Colonel Hogan is still alive and just getting out of prison on parole, some 28 years later. But he has only one thing in mind and that is revenge on Mike Danton. So once again, Hogan puts together a group of mercenaries, has Danton kidnapped, and the games begin. Only this time Hogan is funded by a huge internet company in exchange for broadcasting the hunting of Danton over the internet, worldwide. For Hogan, winning is everything. Proving that there can only be one best and that it is him. What he had not thought of is that he isn’t the only one who had twenty eight years to get pissed off. Because now Mike Danton is pissed off and that means few will survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Prey of the Chameleon (1992)
Plot Summary:
J.D. returns to his hometown many years after leaving Carrie at the altar. After their unhappy reunion, J.D. heads to California, only to soon fall for a woman he helps with her broken down car. Little does he know that this woman is a serial killer who takes on the identity of each of her victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful
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Swingers Massacre (1974)
Plot Summary:
This thriller/drama follows a a suburban lawyer, down a ruinous, blood-covered road. The trouble begins when he tires of life in the slow lane and suggests that he and his wife should join a swinging couple's club and do a little spouse swapping. But then he begins suspecting that the wife is having too much fun with the other swingers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film
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Love Toy (1971)
Plot Summary:
A degenerate gambler, unable to come up with the cash necessary for a high stakes gin rummy game, bets his nubile daughter. And loses. His daughter immediately becomes the delectable property of a hot-to-trot sex fiend and the film promptly becomes a catalog of perversion, wallowing in domination, humiliation, fetishism, voyeurism, masturbation, lesbianism, spanking, bondage, blowjobs, incest, and more.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, psychological thriller
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Lipstick Camera (1994)
Plot Summary:
Ambitious young woman wants to get into TV news. She borrows a small camera from a friend and obtains incriminating pictures that two former East German spies are after.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Raw Justice (1994)
Plot Summary:
The mayor of a small town hires a bounty hunter to find his daughter's killer, but it turns out to be a very dangerous job.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black comedy, erotic, sexy, independent film, detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Detour (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young law student, grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether he should kill his unfaithful step-father.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, South Africa, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, neo noir, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, light, atmospheric, suspense, intense, independent film
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Ballistic (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jesse Gavin is an undercover cop, part of an elite police team and highly skilled in lethal martial arts! She is suspended from the force after a witness that she was supposed to protect is killed. She must now find out what happened and clear up her name.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Gatorbait II: Cajun Justice (1988)
Plot Summary:
A sweet city girl initiated into the rugged ways of the Louisiana swamp by her good-natured Cajun husband "Big T". She ends up putting her newly acquired survival skills to good use when she is kidnapped by Big T's chief rival Leroy and his swarthy, brutish family as part of an ongoing feud.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, sexual, sexploitation film
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Acts of Betrayal (1997)
Plot Summary:
FBI agents attempt to protect a woman who is testifying against her gangster boy friend. However, an army of assassins are after her in an endless series of shootouts.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Domino (2019)
Plot Summary:
Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using the killer as a pawn to trap other ISIS members.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark, France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, disturbing, neo noir, suspense, perverse
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Deadlock: A Passion for Murder (1997)
Plot Summary:
In this erotic thriller, a detective looks into the murder of a pornography magnate.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, detective
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A Kiss Goodnight (1994)
Plot Summary:
Advertising exec Natalie engages in a passionate, but brief, love affair with a stranger named Kurt. When Natalie returns to her boyfriend, she finds that Kurt isn't so easily dismissed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Dead Reckoning (2020)
Plot Summary:
India Eisley (Underworld Awakening) stars as Tillie Gardner, a girl who's been rocked to her core by the tragic death of her parents in a plane crash a few weeks ago. She copes with the help of local cab driver Niko (K.J. Apa, Riverdale), with whom she began a summer romance on the island of Nantucket. But what she doesn't know is that Marco (Scott Adkins, Doctor Strange), the man who sabotaged her parents' plane, is on his way to Nantucket to set another terrifying scheme into motion. Can she uncover his dark secret and gather her wits to stop him in time? From the director of Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds and Doom comes an intense and tightly wound thriller with twists that will keep you in suspense until the final frame.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspense, disturbing, compassionate
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Fatal Justice (1993)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere near the Texas-Louisiana border, the CIA maintains a force of domestic assassins. So secret is their work that their retirement program is a bullet in the head. Up-and-coming hitwoman, Diana, gets the order to dispatch Mars, a legendary CIA killer who's reached "retirement" age. She stalks him while he's in the bush leading a training exercise for recruits. Her pushy boyfriend Rick, also a CIA operative, insists on coming with her. Behind the scenes, a power play within the agency pits Ted Harmon against section boss George Marshall.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Angelfist (1993)
Plot Summary:
An assassination in the Philippines is caught on film by kickboxer Christy, which leads to her death at the hands of radicals intent on disrupting peace talks. Her sister Kat, a Los Angeles police officer, comes to Manila to try and bring justice to the people responsible. She enters the kickboxing tournament in order to get closer to the nefarious agents, and begins unravelling the twisted plan while narrowly evading the wrath of the Death Brigades.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, independent film, remake of cult film, cult film
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Instinct to Kill (2001)
Plot Summary:
Escaped serial killer James Becket, who killed his own father whose expectations he never fulfilled, but now especially targets his wife Theresa 'Tess' and her family, is too good at disguising himself and other deceit for detective Diffs task force. Only one man proves able to fight back in his league: former cop J.T. Dillon, who was already training Tess in self-defense and becomes her lover. Becket decides to find hiding place by kidnapping Diffs wife, and thus enforce a final show-down.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful
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Lies & Illusions (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a menacing smuggler coolly insists that best-selling author Wes Wilson take a chauffeured backseat ride with him, Wilson's charmed life explodes into a world of violence and espionage, and he learns shocking truths about two women in his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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Gone Dark (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five years ago Jack faked his death. Now his little sister is hunting down his ex-partners who she thinks killed him. On top of that, the company send in the cleaners and everything gets bloody.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Traffik (2018)
Plot Summary:
A couple off for a romantic weekend in the mountains are accosted by a biker gang. Alone in the mountains, Brea and John must defend themselves against the gang, who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sad, rough, feel good, dark, perverse, action adventure, suspense
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The Hit List (2011)
Plot Summary:
A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, captivating, disturbing, neo noir
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Skyscraper (1996)
Plot Summary:
A helicopter charter turns deadly when the pilot finds that she is on a building held by terrorists. It is up to her and her husband to save the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Interrogation (2016)
Plot Summary:
After the FBI receives a threat that endangers the entire city, an interrogator and an I.T. specialist are plunged into a series of mind games with a criminal mastermind, desperately racing against time to uncover the villain's true agenda as they fight to protect thousands of lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Vanquish (2021)
Plot Summary:
Victoria is a young mother trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon forces Victoria to do his bidding by holding her daughter hostage. Now, Victoria must use guns, guts and a motorcycle to take out a series of violent gangsters—or she may never see her child again.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, neo noir, perverse, surprise ending, independent film, detective